Category: Cricket

Haryana offspinner Ajit Chandila was slapped with a life ban for his involvement in the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal, while Mumbai batsman Hiken Shah was handed a five-year suspension for making a corrupt approach to a fellow player as the BCCI disciplinary committee sealed their fate after a meeting in Mumbai on Monday However, the committee, headed by BCCI president […]

Star Indian batsman Virat Kohli on Sunday became the fastest to register 24 hundreds and pile up 7,000 runs in one-day cricket, surpassing the twin milestones in just his 161st innings. The top-order batsman got the better of the Australian bowling attack at the hallowed turf of the Melbourne Cricket Ground with a run-a-ball knock that was laced with seven […]

Gulam Bodi, former South African spinner, is under investigation after being charged with corruption involving match-fixing, Cricket South Africa (CSA) confirmed on Thursday (January 14). Netwerk24, a South Africa-based news website, had reported Bodi to be the “intermediary” who was the subject of a CSA press release in December 2015, in which, the board said that he had been charged […]

Cricketer Sreesanth takes on a new role with the Hyderabad team in the upcoming season of Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) — he will be their bowling coach and advise actors on how to improve their skills. “They are like my brothers,” he said, “I will be using the CCL platform to play on international grounds and be match-fit whenever the […]

His last three international hundreds have been in losing causes and Indian batsman Rohit Sharma feels that even the best of knocks do not give a player satisfaction if the team ends up on a losing note. Rohit smashed his way to an unbeaten 171 in the first ODI against Australia but the home team comfortably won by five wickets […]

Opener Rohit Sharma made an unbeaten 171 (163 balls) to help India set a stiff target of 310 for hosts Australia at the WACA Ground in Perth on Tuesday. He was ably supported by Virat Kohli (91) and the duo put on a 200-run partnership. Earlier, captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat in the opening […]