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When Mahendra Singh Dhoni was starting out as an India player, he had a favour to ask of the media. Please don’t rush to my parents’ house every time I score some runs, he pleaded. It is difficult to say which comes first, the public’s obsessive interest in a player or the media’s creation of…
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Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: PTI The BCCI has made a significant change to the playing conditions ahead of the 2026-27 domestic season, and now the bowler will be suspended for the remainder of the match for bowling deliberate front foot no balls or non-landing deliveries. As per the existing rules,…
Devajit Saikia, BCCI Secretary. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Mumbai The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will undertake a comprehensive review of the national team’s recent white-ball setbacks, with a meeting involving the game’s key decision-makers scheduled towards the end of July after the conclusion of India’s ongoing tour to England….
Prasidh Krishna will be replacing Mohammed Siraj for the upcoming tours of Ireland and England. | Photo Credit: PTI Mohammed Siraj has been rested as part of workload management, with Prasidh Krishna named as his replacement for Ireland and England tours, the BCCI said on Tuesday (June 9, 2026). The BCCI described the move as…
File photo of Hardik Pandya and Rohit Sharma. | Photo Credit: AP Star all-rounder Hardik Pandya and senior batter Rohit Sharma have been cleared by the Sports Science team of BCCI’s Centre of Excellence to participate in the upcoming three-match ODI series against Afghanistan starting on Sunday (June 14, 2026) in Dharamsala. Both Pandya and…
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File photo of Hardik Pandya. | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji Star all-rounder Hardik Pandya is fully fit and has been cleared by the Sports Science team of BCCI’s Centre of Excellence to participate in the upcoming three-match ODI series against Afghanistan starting on Sunday (June 14/, 2026) in Dharamsala. The 32-year-old Pandya, who missed quite…
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The CIC said BCCI is a private autonomous body registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act and was not established by the Constitution, Parliament, State legislature or through a government notification. File. | Photo Credit: PTI The Central Information Commission on Monday (May 18, 2026) said the Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI) in…
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Last weekend, the Indian Super League (ISL), the highest league in Indian football, kicked off after months of uncertainty. The disruption, which compelled some clubs to halt their operations and consigned the players and coaches to a state of desperation, emanated from the absence of a commercial partner for the league once the Master Rights…
With the passing of Inderjit Singh Bindra, a link with a revolution in cricket that shifted the power base from England to India has been severed. For so long has India’s influence lasted and so profound has its impact been that it’s easy to forget their ascendancy is less than four decades old. In the mid-1980s, N.K.P. Salve, Bindra and Jagmohan Dalmiya proposed that…
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For so long has the Board of Control for Cricket in India been the bully of international cricket, it shouldn’t be a surprise that it is equally the bully of domestic cricket too. By asking the Kolkata Knight Riders to sack Bangladesh’s Mustafizur Rahman after he had been picked for the IPL, the BCCI showed it was more concerned with…
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