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‘It’s a real honour’: Harry Brook named England white ball captain
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‘It’s a real honour’: Harry Brook named England white ball captain

Harry Brook, who recently pulled out of the 2025 Indian Premier League to concentrate on his country’s matches, was on Monday appointed England’s white-ball captain, replacing Jos Buttler, who had stepped down after the Three Lions’ disastrous Champions Trophy campaign. The 26-year-old made his debut in 2022 and has been a key part of England’s white-ball set-up since, spending the past year as the vice-captain in both ODIs and T20Is. He also led England in the ODI series against Australia last September in Buttler’s absence. “It’s a real honour to be named England’s white-ball captain. Ever since I was a kid playing cricket at Burley in Wharfedale, I dreamed of representing Yorkshire, playing for England, and maybe one day leading the team. To now be given that chance means a great deal ...
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ICC Women’s ODI World Cup: Here’s why BCCI has chosen smaller venues for the marquee event in 2025
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ICC Women’s ODI World Cup: Here’s why BCCI has chosen smaller venues for the marquee event in 2025

Rotation policy has been cited as the main reason for the shortlisted ICC Women’s World Cup 2025 venues being smaller centers around India, The cities that host matches during the ODI World Cup this year won’t be alloted matches during the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup that the country will co-host next year, a source in the Board of Control for Cricket in India told The Indian Express. It is understood that the Indian board has shortlisted Guwahati, Visakhapatnam, Mullanpur, Indore, and Thiruvananthapuram to host the Women’s World Cup, which is scheduled to start from September last week. Official schedule has not been announced yet. The BCCI has been receiving criticism for choosing relatively obscure venues to host a marquee ICC tournament like the Women’s World Cup 2025. “As the BCCI is goin...
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SA Test in Delhi: Avg AQI in November 300 plus, BCCI says ‘pollution doesn’t happen every year
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SA Test in Delhi: Avg AQI in November 300 plus, BCCI says ‘pollution doesn’t happen every year

NOVEMBER IS when Delhi’s air is the most toxic, earning the city the ignominy of being the world’s most polluted national capital – for the sixth straight year, according to the World Air Quality Report for 2024 released last month. Yet, the Indian cricket board has gone ahead and slotted the opening Test of the series against South Africa for November 14 to 18 this year in Delhi, with Devajit Saikia, secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), saying, “Pollution doesn’t happen every year”.The Delhi Test takes place three weeks after Diwali, around the time the city’s Air Quality Index spikes annually. Over the last five years, the average AQI for the month has been over 328, pushing the capital consistently in the ‘very poor’ air category. But the BCCI insists they fact...
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Cricket needs reform, but players’ body doesn’t inspire confidence
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Cricket needs reform, but players’ body doesn’t inspire confidence

Everybody has a plan to make cricket more equitable, bring in more money, have more rational calendars, comprehensible points systems and so on. The International Cricket Council, sadly, isn’t one with such plans. Some years ago, the Woolf Report put forward ideas which were heartily ignored. Now the World Cricketers’ Association (WCA), a body with little power since India doesn’t recognise it, has published a report it claims can bring in an additional $240 million annually. This players’ body (originally called FICA or Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations) has identified four areas that require urgent solution in a recent paper entitled Protecting History, Embracing Change: A Unified Coherent Global Future.These range from scheduling (which it says is “chaotic, incons...
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IPL 2025: BCCI lifts saliva ban after captains approve
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IPL 2025: BCCI lifts saliva ban after captains approve

Representational image of an IPL player tossing the ball during net practice | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy The BCCI on Thursday (March 20, 2025) lifted the ban on use of saliva on the ball in the upcoming Indian Premier League after majority of captains agreed to its proposal. The decision was taken at the captains' meeting in Mumbai.IPL 2025 schedule: Full list of match dates, timing and venue "The saliva ban has been lifted. Majority of captains were in favour of the move," a top BCCI official told PTI. The International Cricket Council (ICC) had banned the age-old practice of applying saliva to shine the ball as a precautionary measure during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the world body made the ban perma...
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BCCI announce Rs 58 crore cash prize for India’s Champions Trophy 2025 winning team
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BCCI announce Rs 58 crore cash prize for India’s Champions Trophy 2025 winning team

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday announced a whopping cash reward of INR 58 Crore for the Rohit Sharma-led Indian unit following their triumph at the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. “Under the able and astute leadership of Captain Rohit Sharma, India dominated the tournament, registering four commanding victories en route to the final. The team began their campaign with a solid six-wicket win over Bangladesh, then secured a convincing six-wicket triumph against Pakistan. They continued their momentum with a 44-run victory over New Zealand before ultimately overcoming Australia by four wickets in the semi-final,” a statement released by the BCCI read. India trumped New Zealand by four wickets in the final held on March 9 in Dubai, with captain Sharma leading a tricky...
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Hyderabad Cricket Assocation to appoint sub-committee to address Telangana Cricket Association’s concerns
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Hyderabad Cricket Assocation to appoint sub-committee to address Telangana Cricket Association’s concerns

The Bombay High Court had directed the BCCI to resolve the issues between TCA and HCA. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO: AFP The Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) announced that it will appoint a sub-committee to understand and address the concerns of the Telangana Cricket Association (TCA). HCA’s Apex Council, in a press release on Thursday, said that a seven-member team will be formed in compliance with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) order dated July 11, 2021.This comes after the Bombay High Court directed the BCCI to resolve the issues between TCA and HCA earlier this week. “We do not understand the role of the BCCI in all this. You passed an order in July 2021 and today we are in March 2025, y...
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Bombay High Court directs BCCI to resolve dispute between TCA and HCA
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Bombay High Court directs BCCI to resolve dispute between TCA and HCA

Representative image - Bombay High Court | Photo Credit: VIVEK BENDRE The Bombay High Court has directed the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to resolve the issues between the Telangana Cricket Association (TCA) and the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA).In July 2021, after BCCI denied associate membership to TCA, it urged HCA to collaborate with TCA to help the growth and development of cricket in Telangana. However, with no progress on the issue, a division bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Dr. Neela Gokhale asked the central cricket body to ensure there was a ‘logical end’ to the issue.“We do not understand the role of the BCCI in all this. You passed an order in July 2021 and today we ar...
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Cricket needs reform, but players’ body doesn’t inspire confidence
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BCCI joint secretary to be elected on March 1

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will elect its new joint secretary during a Special General Meeting (SGM) at its headquarter here on March 1. The post has been lying vacant since Devajit Saikia was elevated as the secretary last month.The BCCI on Friday emailed the single-point agenda for the SGM to all its affiliates. Just like the last month’s AGM — where Saiki and Prabhtej Singh Bhatia were unanimously elected as secretary and treasurer, respectively — the March 1 election is also set to be a formality.With Ashish Shelar — the former treasurer having resigned due to his induction in the Maharashtra cabinet — and Jay Shah — the former secretary having taken over as the International Cricket Council chair — a candidate from the west zone is set to be roped in as the join...
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IPL is leader of franchise cricket and we can only learn from them: Graeme Smith
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IPL is leader of franchise cricket and we can only learn from them: Graeme Smith

Former South Africa cricket captain and SA20 League Commissioner Graeme Smith during an interview with PTI in Johannesburg. | Photo Credit: PTI SA20 commissioner Graeme Smith has pledged to make it the second best league in the world after admitting that the IPL remains the leader of franchise cricket, from where they can "only learn" to get better. The third season of SA20 is currently underway across venues in South Africa. "BCCI and IPL have been amazing in supporting us and guiding us in every decision we have made. IPL is the leader in franchise cricket by far and we can only learn from them," Smith told PTI Bhasha in an exclusive interview in Johannesburg. IPL veteran Dinesh Karthik this year became the ...
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Cricket needs reform, but players’ body doesn’t inspire confidence
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Wives are easy targets, they distract from the real failings

At the turn of the century, England cricketer Darren Gough said that international cricket had become a single man’s game. Since then tours may have got shorter, but tournaments have increased, and careers have expanded. The work-life balance remains skewed. To rephrase something an Indian CEO said recently, how long can you stare at a cricket bat on a weekend? Sport and family life have an uneasy relationship. ‘Cricket widow’ is part of the game’s lexicon. As the sport makes greater demands on players, enlightened administrators permit a semblance of family life while on tour. Gambhir’s view Indian coach Gautam Gambhir has conveyed to the Board of Control for Cricket in India that the presence of wives on tour was a reason for the poor showing in Australia. This is an effe...
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BCCI issues curbs on personal staff, family travel, endorsement shoots during tours for centrally-contracted cricketers; violators may face IPL ban
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BCCI issues curbs on personal staff, family travel, endorsement shoots during tours for centrally-contracted cricketers; violators may face IPL ban

Days after the BCCI conducted a review meeting to assess the debacle Down Under, it has sent 10 guidelines to India’s centrally-contracted players. Among these guidelines, accessed by The Indian Express, participation in domestic tournaments is mandatory for selection and tops the list followed by rules for family travel, baggage allowance, and restrictions on personal staff, ad shoots and a ban on players returning home if matches end early. To underline the severity of these guidelines, the BCCI has stated that any player who doesn’t comply with it may face disciplinary action which includes sanctions from playing tournaments conducted by the board including the Indian Premier League and deduction in annual contract and match fee. Exceptions if any must be pre-approved by the head coach ...
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