Our Correspondent Hyderabad: In a welcome development for cricket lovers, Hyderabad is set to host two international matches during Team India’s 2026–27 home season, bringing renewed excitement to the city’s sporting landscape. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has shortlisted the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Uppal as one of the…
Bengaluru: Royal Challengers Bengaluru players will train wearing jersey No.11 during match days in the upcoming IPL and the franchise also plans to mark 11 permanent seats in honour of the fans who died in a tragic stampede outside the M Chinnaswamy Stadium here last year. The fans had lost their lives here on June…
New Delhi: Reigning world champions India will play two T20 Internationals in Ireland on June 26 and June 28 respectively, the BCCI said on Saturday about the games that will precede their white-ball assignment in England. Both matches will be held at Belfast, where the Indian team will play for the first time since 2007….
New Delhi: The ODI World Cup is still a year away but India’s 20-odd probables have already been earmarked and the five national selectors will keep an eye on these players during the IPL starting March 28, a top BCCI source told PTI on Friday. The Ajit Agarakar-led panel comprises SS Das, RP Singh, Ajay…
Melbourne: Four leading Australian pacers, including Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood, are set to miss the start of the upcoming Indian Premier League season later this month, dealing an early setback to their respective franchises. According to a report in cricket.com.au, Starc, Cummins and Hazlewood will miss at least the start of IPL…
New Delhi: Ai+ Smartphone today announced as the Official Smartphone Partner for 2 leading teams – Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders for the upcoming T20 season. The partnership places Ai+ Smartphone at the centre of one of India’s most powerful and biggest cultural platforms, connecting the brand directly with millions of passionate cricket fans…
Lucknow: Kuldeep Yadav’s grand reception at Hotel Centrum on March 17 followed his intimate Mussoorie wedding and became one of Uttar Pradesh’s biggest social events this year. Cricket icons such as Gautam Gambhir, Ravindra Jadeja, Rishabh Pant, Shikhar Dhawan, and Yashasvi Jaiswal attended, alongside BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla. Guests were welcomed with floral showers, and…
New Delhi: It was her matter-of-fact query that drove him to slog hard for a national call-up. And now that Suryakumar Yadav is a World Cup-winning captain, he can’t praise his “brutally honest” wife Devisha enough for shaping the man he has become. It was in 2018 when Devisha asked Suryakumar a simple question: “If…
– Flags ₹600+ Crore Systemic Irregularities Overall in the last decade as part of the rotten system in HCA. Hyderabad: The Telangana Cricket Association (TCA) has demanded a comprehensive Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the controversial Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA)–Visakha agreement, terming it a “classic case of opaque dealings, backdated arrangements, and institutional…
Special Correspondent In Indian public life, certain scandals refuse to die. Decades may pass, governments may change, and files may gather dust—but the questions remain. The Bofors gun deal is one such political ghost that has haunted the Congress party for nearly four decades. Now, a fresh controversy emerging from the cricketing corridors of Hyderabad…
