The ICC executive committee met on Monday, April 4, a couple of days after the end of the World Cup to decide on the future of the World Cup cricket and decided that there will only be ten teams that will play in the tournament. What adds fuel to fire is that the ten teams will go through no qua

Mohammad Amir and Salman Butt have said that the punishment meted out to them for the spot-fixing controversy was far too stringent. The two cricketers were banned from playing cricket for five years each apart from the five years that Mohammad Asif was handed over as well. While Amir was not given

The apex cricket body of the world, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has finally decided to adopt a modified version of the anti-doping code. This will also contain the changed version of the 'whereabouts' clause, which will satisfy the demands of some of the cricket boards who had raised

It has been announced that the 2009 edition of the Champions Trophy will have its prize money increased from around $1m last time, to $4m this time around. The last Champions Trophy was played in India in 2006, and was hosted by Mohali, Mumbai, Jaipur and Ahmedabad. This time around, South Afr

The ICC has rejected the claims of Pakistan to allow any neutral venue to host the matches that had been previously allocated to Pakistan for the 2011 World Cup. These 14 matches will now be shared by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Earlier this year, in the month of April, the ICC had decide

India's concerns over the fitness of their strike bowler, Zaheer Khan, suffered yet another jolt after skipper MS Dhoni declared that he wont be playing in either of the warm-up games. Additionally, opener Virender Sehwag too, looks all set to miss out on the opening warm-up on the 1st of June

South Africa has called left-arm spinner Paul Harris in their squad for the remaining two Tests against India after facing a 123-run defeat in the first Test at the Wanderers Stadium on Monday. Harris, 28, played for English county Warwickshire this year as a Kolpak player, which meant r

Left-arm Chinaman bowler Paul Adams was today named in the South African squad for the first Test against India starting in Johannesburg from December 15. Adams joins Nicky Boje, who will be the other spinner, in the 15-member squad. "We have selected a 15-man squad that includes t