The Cricket Board will pay Mumbai Cricket Association around Rs 23 crore as its "contribution" to the affiliated unit's "cricket development" purposes, in lieu of lease rent for occupying its premises at Cricket Centre inside the Wankhede Stadium complex. Sharad

The Cricket Board today said it has not received any intimation from India's ODI captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni to exclude him from the Sri Lanka-bound squad. The BCCI was reacting to media reports which claimed that Dhoni was set to pull out of the Sri Lanka tour as he was tired of playing n

Following the rift between chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar and Cricket Board over compensation, BCCI today announced a hike in the allowances of selectors. BCCI Finance Committee which met here today decided to hike the allowances of board members and selectors. Board secretary Nir

Refusing to bow to Dilip Vengsarkar's demand to either allow him to write columns or compensate, the Cricket Board today made it clear that the chief selector was free to make his decisions. "BCCI's stand on Vengsarkar remains the same," Board vice president Rajiv Shukla said.

BCCI office bearers will meet in Kolkata, on December 1, where Gary Kirsten's appointment as India's cricket coach could be ratified. "The BCCI office bearers will meet in Kolkata on December 1 where the issue of the new coach will certainly come up. The members would be briefed on al

The Cricket Board today made it clear that it would not look beyond the list of applications when the new Team India coach is picked to accompany the side before it leaves for Australia. BCCI Secretary Niranjan Shah said today that the Board had received 20-22 applications and the coach sel

Determined to ensure that its gag order was not defied, The Cricket Board has sent a reminder to the national selectors asking them not to write columns in newspapers as per its constitutional provisions. "Yes, a message has been sent to the selectors not to write columns," said B

In a gag order, Chief Selector Dilip Vengsarkar has been asked by the BCCI not to interact with the media, a few days after he was banned from writing syndicated columns. Vengsarkar, a former India captain who has often found himself in trouble for his comments in the media on selection ma

As it received an overwhelming response to the offer of franchise for owning cricket teams in the Indian Premier League, the Cricket Board today made it clear that no current player can have a stake in a company owning any of the teams. The BCCI stand came in the wake of media reports that s

BCCI office bearers, headed by President Sharad Pawar, will meet tomorrow in Delhi with the long-pending matter of appointment of a coach for the Indian team topping their agenda. The naming of a coach has been kept pending since the decision of previous incumbent Greg Chappell not to s

Despite a fall in income from the media rights, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has reported overall income of Rs 651.83 crore for the financial year 2006-07. After accounting for an expenditure of Rs 420 crore incurred during the year, the board has managed a healthy surp

Despite its ongoing tussle with the Indian Cricket League, BCCI will not stop payment of past dues to the players who have joined the ICL and all such pending amounts till the 2006-07 season will be cleared. A media release issued to this effect by BCCI's Chief Administrative Officer, Pro

Acutely aware of the perceived challenge to their authority by the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL), which is luring young domestic cricketers into its fold, the bigwigs of the Cricket Board are girding their loins to meet it head-on. Today's late evening meeting of the BCCI's offic

England and Wales Cricket Board Chairman David Morgan is set to take over as next President of the International Cricket Council in 2008, according to BBC. A formal announcement to this effect is expected later in the week as ICC officials are holding a series of meetings here ahead of the

In its bid to prevent fresh controversies, the Cricket Board has given strict instructions to the members of the Indian team, currently on a 80-day tour of the United Kingdom, not to leak happenings in the dressing room and team meetings. A letter, written by BCCI's Chief Administrative Offi

The Indian cricket board is hopeful that a solution would emerge out of today's crucial meeting between the board and the senior players to settle the players' contract issue. "We hope to find a solution to the contract issue. Players have some reservation which will be discussed at th

Refusing to specify any reason for omitting Australian Dav Whatmore from contention for Team India coach's post, the Cricket Board today said it was a collective decision taken by the Search Committee. Asked why Whatmore was ruled out for the post, BCCI Secretary Niranjan Shah said, "

Even as Cricket Board has invited two foreign candidates for discussion before deciding the next coach, former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu today said he favoured an "Indian mind" for the job. "We need an Indian mind for a better coordination with the players," Sidhu to

The Green Park stadium's long drought of international cricket matches may end soon, courtesy the change of guard in Uttar Pradesh in the political sphere. Ther formation of the Bahujan Samaj Party government in the state under Chief Minister Mayawati has raised hopes of once again hosting h

Nimbus today bagged the telecast rights for the four cricket one-day internationals to be played by India in Ireland in June. Nimbus would pay USD 6.05 million per match for the series that is to be played from June 26 to July 1, Cricket Board (BCCI) Vice President Lalit Modi announced her

The Indian cricket team's new manager and coach would be appointed for a tenure of two years, the Cricket Board disclosed on Tuesday. A day after constituting a seven-member panel to pick Greg Chappell's successor, the BCCI said it was yet to zero in on possible candidates for the job but ha

Barely a year after signing a telecast deal with the Cricket Board for a whopping 612 million dollars, Nimbus today issued a notice to the BCCI threatening to pull out of the deal. Nimbus' decision to withdraw from the deal, covering matches in India till 2010 March, comes after the Gove

The new light blue coloured one day clothing for the Indian team unveiled with much fanfare at a five star hotel here with seven World Cup team members sporting it can not be worn by the cricketers during the mega event, the Cricket Board said today. "At the World Cup the players would

The long-awaited Players' Contract will be implemented after the Indian team's return from the March 13-April 28 World Cup in the West Indies. This was the agreement reached between the Cricket Board with Indian captain Rahul Dravid after a meeting was held here today, the BCCI said i