CHENNAI: In a bid to promote sports at the grassroots level and enhance revenue generation, the Tamil Nadu Sports Department will set up futsal and box cricket turfs in all 38 districts of the state.

MUMBAI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Roger Binny mourned the demise of former left-arm spinner Dilip Doshi, who passed away at the age of 77 on Monday, and said he was a true artist of spin bowling who inspired a generation of cricketers with his skill and dedication.

MUMBAI: India opener Prithvi Shaw has sought a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) with a wish to leave Mumbai and play for another team in the upcoming 2025/26 domestic cricket season.

DUBAI: After the culmination of the World Test Championship (WTC) 2023-25 cycle with South Africa lifting the mace at iconic Lord's last week, ICC Chair Jay Shah is looking forward to the next instalment of the WTC and wished players all the best ahead of the new cycle.

NEW DELHI: India batter Karun Nair, who is on a comeback trail to the red-ball team after a hiatus of eight years, made a shocking revelation that a prominent Indian cricketer advised him to retire and shift focus entirely to T20 leagues to ensure financial stability.

LONDON: Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has lauded South Africa towering pacer Marco Jansen for his ultra competitive streak and opined that he will be the best all-rounders in Test match cricket in the world in the next couple of years.

NEW DELHI: Delhi cricket has entered a transformative phase with the launch of its first-ever DDCA Women’s T20 Tournament — a landmark initiative spearheaded by Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA) President Rohan Jaitley. Held under his leadership, this tournament marks a historic and empowering step toward nurturing women's cricket at the grassroots level.

CHRISTCHURCH: New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has announced the appointment of Rob Walter as the new head coach of the BlackCaps across all formats for the next three years, effective from mid-June through to the conclusion of the ICC T20 World Cup in New Zealand and Australia in October-November 2028.

BENGALURU: Commenting on the stampede that claimed 11 lives in Bengaluru on Wednesday during the victory celebrations of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) team for lifting the IPL trophy after 18 years, Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara said on Thursday that it was not the government that wanted to bring the players for the victory celebrations to Bengaluru.

NEW DELHI: India vice-captain Smriti Mandhana, who will be captaining Ratnagiri Jets in the inaugural season of the women’s Maharashtra Premier League (MPL), believes the state-level female cricketers stand to gain a new level of professionalism through playing franchise cricket.

NEW DELHI: In a landmark moment for inclusive sports, the Indian Deaf Cricket Team, led by the Indian Deaf Cricket Association (IDCA), has triumphed in the historic 5-match International Deaf Cricket Series 2025 against Trinidad & Tobago. Hosted from May 23 to 29 across iconic venues in Trinidad & Tobago, the series marked a pioneering milestone as the Caribbean nation hosted India’s deaf cricket team for the first time.

NEW DELHI: Former Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews has said that he will retire from Test cricket after playing in the side’s first game of a five-match series against Bangladesh, set to happen in Galle from June 17-21. In 118 Tests, Mathews has amassed 8167 runs at an average of 44.62, while picking 33 wickets.

CHENNAI: Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), the political party launched by Tamil film icon Vijay, is in the process of selecting an election symbol from the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) list of 190 free symbols.

NEW DELHI: A day after he announced his retirement from Test cricket, India's batting stalwart Virat Kohli was on Tuesday spotted in Vrindavan with wife Anushka Sharma in tow. A video of their visit to the holy town where Lord Krishna spent his childhood went viral on social media.

MUMBAI: With the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 set to restart on May 17 and continue till June 3, just a week before the World Test Championship (WTC) final at the Lord's in London, Cricket Australia have left it to the individual players to take a call on whether to return to India to rejoin the world's richest league.

MUMBAI: After T-20, Virat Kohli announced his retirement from Test Cricket on Monday after 14 years of illustrious career. Amidst the big announcement, his wife and actress Anushka Sharma showed her support through an emotional post.

NEW DELHI: Indian cricket stalwart and former captain Virat Kohli on Monday announced his retirement from Test cricket.

NEW DELHI: Gautam Gambhir, the head coach of Indian men's cricket team, and his former teammates Harbhajan Singh and Suresh Raina were at the forefront as the Indian cricket fraternity—past and present—rose in unison to salute the country’s armed forces for Operation Sindoor, a series of precision strikes targeting terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK).

MUMBAI: Singer Rahul Vaidya created a massive stir after he called former Team India skipper Virat Kohli a "Joker". Now, the '‘Bigg Boss 14" contestant has slammed the fans of the cricketer for abusing him and his family.

ISLAMABAD: Several Pakistani YouTubers and former cricketers have voiced deep concerns over a recent ban imposed by Indian authorities, saying it will deliver a major blow to their earnings and online visibility.

NEW DELHI: Bangladesh will be playing two men’s T20Is against UAE at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on May 17 and 19, respectively. This will be Bangladesh’s second bilateral T20I series against the UAE in the last three years.

JAIPUR: After Mumbai Indians (MI) stormed to the top of the points table with a 100-run thrashing of Rajasthan Royals (RR), skipper Hardik Pandya said going back to playing cricket with a simpler approach has worked very well for the side.

NEW DELHI: Former cricketer Shreevats Goswami has urged the BCCI to cut all cricketing ties with Pakistan following the horrific Pahalgam terror attack, that left at least 26 killed and several others injured.

NEW DELHI: India women's vice-captain Smriti Mandhana believes the Women’s Premier League (WPL) is beginning to replicate the same impact that the Indian Premier League (IPL) has had on men’s cricket in the country since its inception on this very day in 2008.

BENGALURU: KL Rahul hailed Tristain Stubbs as ‘one of the best cricketers in the coming years’ after the duo propelled the Delhi Capitals to a six-wicket victory over the Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Thursday.

NEW DELHI: Former Australia Test opener Will Pucovski has retired from all levels of cricket with immediate effect due to concussion.

DHAKA: Bangladesh all-rounder Nasir Hossain, who was banned for two years by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for breaching the Emirates Cricket Board’s anti-corruption code in the 2020-21 Abu Dhabi T10 league, is now back to playing competitive cricket.

DUNEDIN: Northern District have won the Plunket Shield First-Class competition in decisive fashion in Dunedin on Tuesday, for the first time since 2011/12. It is a poetic moment for Neil Wagner, who concludes his domestic career at the same ground he started at back in 2008.

MELBOURNE: Cricket Australia have awarded the Test summer's standout newcomers, Sam Konstas, Beau Webster and Matthew Kuhnemann, with national men's contracts for the 2025-26 season.

NEW DELHI: Former India captain Kapil Dev shared his take on the ongoing debate over players' families travelling with them on long cricket tours, stating that while family presence is important, it should not overshadow the team’s focus.

RAIPUR: Indian cricket team head coach Gautam Gambhir is set to train young cricketers in Chhattisgarh for the first time. A special Cricket Masterclass and Training Camp will be held in April and May, where aspiring players will receive high-level coaching under Gambhir’s guidance.

NEW DELHI: Gujarat Giants’ seam-bowling all-rounder Sayali Satghare reflected on her career, challenges and the evolving landscape of women's cricket on the occasion of International Women’s Day, saying that one has to keep working hard and have that faith in themselves if they really love the sport and wish to make a career out of it.

DUBAI: Australia's star batter Steve Smith has announced his retirement from One-Day Internationals, bringing an end to a remarkable 14-year career in the 50-over format. He will continue to be available for Test and T20I selection.

DUBAI: Almost a decade ago, Dwayne Smith of the West Indies was opening the batting with the legendary batter Sachin Tendulkar for the Mumbai Indians (MI), with the duo also going on to lift the 2013 Champions League Twenty20, a competition which is now defunct.

NEW DELLHI: The Indian Deaf Cricket Association (IDCA) will organise the women's 3rd T20 National Cricket Championship for Deaf 2022 in Mumbai between April 26-to April 29.

When it comes to cricket, there are very few chances that an Indian will not be excited. Probably the most popular game in the country, it not only garners lots of followers, but also yields a lot of nostalgia to past stars and their achievements. However, there is one problem when it comes to Indian matches. Betting of any kind is not legal here. However, the rule does not stand for online betting.

DHAKA: Former Bangladesh all-rounder Mosharraf Hossain, who played five ODIs and scored prolifically in first-class cricket while also taking wickets aplenty with his left-arm spin, passed away following a three-year battle with brain cancer. He was 40.

LONDON: County cricket could see a radical change -- including the 18 sides competing across three formats to crown the overall champion -- as England great Andrew Strauss is planning a major shake-up of domestic cricket following the Test side's Ashes debacle.

NEW DELHI: The registration process for the differently-abled cricket players was set open by the BCCI-appointed Differently-Abled Cricket Committee through the Differently-abled Cricket Council of India (DCCI) nearly a week ago, and till now, nearly 2,600 players have registered themselves.

PUNE: Four-time IPL champions Chennai Super Kings player Ambati Rayudu's 46-run efforts against the Gujarat Titans might have gone in vain at the MCA Stadium here on Sunday night, but the right-hand batter managed to cross the magical figure of 4,000 IPL runs in the thrilling match.

MUMBAI: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) head coach Sanjay Bangar feels that the late spin wizard Shane Warne was one of the few cricketers who had the "flair" to pass on his wisdom to the next generation, adding that all wrist spinners around the world, whoever would have interacted by him, would have been "deeply impacted" by the legendary cricketer's guidance.

LONDON: England cricketing stalwart Anya Shrubsole, who brought down the curtains on her 14-year international career on Thursday, has received effusive praise from the fraternity and beyond, with several of them terming her the very best to have played the game.

NEW DELHI: A few weeks ahead of the 2023 Cricket World Cup, 22 teams comprising of street children from 16 countries will gather in India to participate in Street Child Cricket World Cup (SCCWC 2023) in September next year.

MUMBAI: Former India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh feels that the responsibility of captaincy will only make Gujarat Titans' skipper Hardik Pandya a bettercricketer and person.

SOUTH AFRICA: Two players of the South African cricket team -- Sarel Erwee and Wiaan Mulder -- have tested positive for Covid-19 and will no longer takepart in the remainder of the second Test match against Bangladesh, according to Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Monday.

Now the betting market is oversaturated with a large number of platforms that offer their services in India, including cricket disciplines. However, there are a sufficient number of unscrupulous people who engage in scam activities and steal other people's money from their accounts. Therefore, it is important to choose platforms that are not little known and in demand in the betting platforms market.

DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday has thanked New Zealand Cricket (NZC) for the successful hosting of the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2022.

MELBOURNE: Australia pacers Jhye and Kane Richardson on Thursday were dropped from Cricket Australia's 20-member contract list. Apart from the duo, retired pacer James Pattinson and former Test skipper Tim Paine have been omitted while wicketkeeper-batter Matthew Wade and opener Marcus Harris don't find any mention.

MUMBAI: Punjab Kings (PBKS) wicketkeeper-batter Jitesh Sharma's added incentive to take up cricket at the school level was that it came with the bonus of getting four per cent extra marks.

NEW DELHI: Former India skipper Mamatha Maben thinks that organising more A tours for the India women's team and reintroducing the longer format of the game at the domestic level will benefit the national side in the longer run.

LONDON:Former England cricketer David Lloyd wants Joe Root to take a break from captaincy to concentrate on his batting following another Test series loss, this time against the West Indies. The 75-year-old Lloyd added that England's top order was "a mess", which was forcing Root to move up at No.3 and resulting in his cheap dismissals.

NEW DELHI: Cricket in general was an entertaining sport, but the introduction of IPL in 2008 turned it into a carnival of 'cricketainment'. The entire ecosystem around the game had changed drastically which uplifted as well as created livelihood opportunities for thousands of people.

DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday launched the '100 per cent Cricket Year of Women's Cricket' campaign to coincide with the International Women's Day in order to further promote gender equality and empower women and girls through cricket.

INDIANAPOLIS: Executive director of the Cricket Hall of Fame Michael Chambers has called on the powers at be to allow Cricket Council USA (CCUSA) to run the affairs of American cricket, according to a communication received from .CCUSA.

DHARAMSALA: TwoT20 matches were to be played between India and Sri Lanka on February 26 and 27in Dharamsala, the first match of the three match series was played in Lucknow on the 24th. The Sri Lankan team reached Dharamsala airport at 1 pm today , while the Indian team, which won the first T 20 against Sri Lanka yesterday at Lucknow , reached Dharamsala at 3.30 pm today. Media was not allowed at the airport as Dr K C Sharma SSP Kangra said, “In view of bio bubble protocol of CricketTeams due to Covid 19 all media personnel are requested not to enter inside of outer periphery of the Airport.”

KIEV: With the Russian troops assumed to be moving closer to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, following the frightening invasion on Thursday, Kobus Olivier, a South African serving as the CEO of the Ukraine Cricket Federation, admitted that the situation in the city has been very frightening.

DUBAI: The winner of the 2022 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup, scheduled to be held across six venues in New Zealand from March 4 onwards, will be richer by USD 1.32 million -- double the amount that was awarded to the victors of the 2017 edition in England.

ANTIGUA: India beat England by four wickets to win their fifth ICC Under 19 Men’s Cricket World Cup in the West Indies.

SHARIAH: Sri Lanka join Australia, Barbados, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa in the first major sports event in history to award more medals to women than men

Everyone knows that cricket is the most popular sport in India and with that comes the rise of cricket betting. Aside from sports, India also has a knack for gambling. This is why cricket and gambling go so well together that people of many ages are now participating in this activity.

KINGSTON (JAMACIA): Cricket West Indies (CWI) and Cricket Ireland (CI) have confirmed changes to the match schedule for the ongoing CG Insurance One-Day International Series.

NEW DELHI:Sachin Tendulkar's management firm -- SRT Sports Management Private Limited -- on Saturday confirmed that the legendary cricketer is not part of the upcoming Legends League Cricket (LLC), starting January 20.

NEW DELHI: Australian police are investigating allegations from a former Australian youth cricket player that he was raped by a team official during a 1985 tour to India and Sri Lanka, BBC reported.

DUBAI: India women's team cricketer Smriti Mandhana is among four players who have been nominated for the prestigious Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year 2021 on Friday.

NEW DELHI: Former Indian cricketer Dinesh Mongia on Tuesday joined BJP. Two Congress MLAs Balwinder Singh Laddi, Fateh Jung Singh Bajwa and 13 others also joined the BJP on Tuesday along with cricketer Mongia.

NEW DELHI: Leg-spinner Yasir Shah, who is a key member of Pakistan's Test team, has been named in a case registered at Islamabad's Shalimar police station for allegedly aiding in the rape and harassment of a 14-year-old girl, Geo News reported.

SYDNEY: Former Australian cricketer-turned-commentator Michael Slater has been arrested after he allegedly sent several text messages and made phone calls to the person he was charged with stalking and harassing in October this year.

DHAKA: Two members of the Bangladesh women's cricket team tested positive for the Omicron variant of COVID-19 after returning home from Zimbabwe, the country's health and family welfare minister Zahid Maleque said on Saturday.

SYDNEY:Australian Test skipper Pat Cummins has revealed that Cricket Australia had forced him into 'confession' before handing him the job of leading the side for the Ashes series beginning at the Gabba on December 8.

NEW DELHI: Former Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and England left-arm speedster Harry Gurney has decided to retire from cricket following a shoulder injury.

NEW DELHI: New Zealand all-rounder Colin de Grandhomme says India will have a problem of plenty when they play the World Test Championship (WTC) final against his country in June in England.

The craze of cricket and its variations! Everything about the sport is just wow. This is what makes cricket lovers fond of exploring each and every aspect associated with the game. Starting from the origin of the game to knowing the pros and cons of each form of the sport, they have a keen interest in being aware of everything related to their favourite game. 

MOHALI: With the objective of promoting sports and youth services in the state, the Punjab Secretariat Cricket Club (PSCC), in association with Aryans Group of Colleges, Rajpura, Near Chandigarh organized “Avengers Cup”, T20 open Cricket tournament, Today, where around 16 teams from tricity would be participating.

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Cricket betting syndicates linked with underworld gangs operating primarily in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka allegedly paid "protection money" to disgraced Mumbai crime branch officer, Sachin Vaze, presently being interrogated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) at its Mumbai office. Vaze's aide Naresh Gor, a well known bookie in Mumbai, identified betting syndicates and extorted 'protection money' during cricket season at the behest of former crime branch officer, highly placed sources revealed to IANS.

The Indian Premier League (IPL) and cricket betting always go well together for the many fans of this sport in India. Even if the national sport of India is hockey, cricket is still the most-followed sport by the locals, and when it comes to their favorite time of the year, it has to be the IPL season.

RAIPUR: All-rounder Yusuf Pathan starred with an unbeaten 62 and two wickets as the Sachin Tendulkar-captained India Legends beat Sri Lanka Legends by 14 runs in the final to win the first Road Safety World Series T20 title here on Sunday.

NEW DELHI: Indian skipper Virat Kohli became the first cricketer to hit 100 million followers on Facebook owned photo and video sharing social networking platform Instagram.

NEW DELHI: Member of Parliament and former star cricketer Gautam Gambhir has strongly opposed the idea of resumption of cricket between India and Pakistan until Islamabad stops cross-border terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir.

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's Dhammika Prasad has retired from international cricket. Prasad, 37, last played for Sri Lanka in a Test match against the West Indies in October 2014.

JOHANNESBURG: Former South Africa captain Faf du Plessis on Wednesday announced his retirement from Test cricket, thus ending a nine-year career that started in November 2012. He clarified he is not retiring from ODI cricket yet and focussing on T20s.

SYDNEY:Cricket Australia has announced that the U-19 Male and U-19 Female National Championships will not be held this season.
CA, in a statement, said that the decision to cancel the championships, both slated to begin in April, has been guided by the CA Bio-Security Policy Group and Australian Cricket Medical Group and is backed by all state and territory associations.

MELBOURNE: Former Australian fast-bowler Merv Hughes has been inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame.
An integral part of Australian cricket's return to the top of the Test cricket rankings, Hughes' career spanned 53 Tests and 33 ODIs from 1985-94, taking 212 Test wickets at an average of 28.38.

MELBOURNE: Cricket Australia on Wednesday confirmed that Indian players were subjected to racial abuse by a section of the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) crowd during the third drawn Test of the recently-concluded Border Gavaskar series.

ABU DHABI: Sri Lankan medium-fast bowler Isuru Udana believes India skipper Virat Kohli is the best batsman in white-ball cricket at the moment.
I think the best batsman in whit-ball cricket is Virat Kohli, best bower I'll go for Mitchell Starc and I like Ravindra Jadeja an all-rounder," said Udana.

SYDNEY: Cricket Australia on Monday clarified that they haven't heard anything "formal" from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) about Team India's unwillingness about playing the fourth Test of the ongoing series in Brisbane.

DUBAI: India skipper Virat Kohli was on Monday named the ICC Male Cricketer of The Decade as well as the ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Decade while former India skipper MS Dhoni earned the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade.

NEW DELHI:Australia's Steve Smith has stated though Virat Kohli missing the last three Tests of the upcoming four-match series will be a big loss for Team India, fans and stakeholders will have to understand that the Indian skipper is a human being and has life outside cricket.

AUCKLAND: Corey Anderson has quit international cricket for New Zealand and will play the sport in the US.
The 29-year-old all-rounder, who holds the record for the second fastest hundred in ODIs, will start with Major League T20 Cricket in USA and will likely go on to represent USA in international cricket.

SYDNEY:The three-match ODI series between India and Australia, which will get underway at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday, will also be the first time that men's cricket will see specatators in stadia since March when international cricket had come to a halt following the coronavirus outbreak.

GURUGRAM: The Gurugram Police on Monday arrested two men on charges of alleged online betting on a T20 Indian Premier League (IPL) match between 'Kings XI Punjab' and 'Sunrisers Hyderabad'. However, the third accomplice managed to escape.

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA) has re-opened a special window for online registration for those players who were unable to register earlier in the first phase.

SYDNEY:Cricket Australia chairman Earl Eddings has put doubts over India's upcoming tour to Australia to rest, saying he has got assurance from his Indian counterpart Sourav Ganguly that Virat Kohli's men would travel Down Under for a full-fledged series.

BENGALURU:The Bengaluru police City Crime Branch has arrested two Gujarati businessmen on the charge of involvement in cricket betting rackets through the hawala route and seized Rs 4.5 lakh and two mobile phones from them.

CHANDIGARH:Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday announced that the case of attack and murder involving cricketer Suresh Raina’s kin has been solved with the arrest of three members of an inter-state gang of robber-criminals.

CHANDIGARH: DGP Punjab has set up a Special investigation Team (SIT) to probe the attack on relatives of cricketer Suresh Raina on the orders of Chief Minister Captain Amrinder Singh, who is personally monitoring the case.

BADAUN(Uttar Pradesh):A man was beaten to death, allegedly by the members of the rival faction in the Saidpur area of Badaun district, during a fight over the sharing of offerings at a shrine between the families of two caretakers.

INDIANAPOLIS: As many as 12 undergraduate students with Physical Education as their Major at the Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) attended USA Center for Excellence in Cricket education program this week. All participants, who attended practical field sessions, will be awarded Level 1 Cricket Coaching certificates by the American Cricket Federation.

The ICC World Test Championship has got underway in just the right fashion for India -- a clean-sweep in the West Indies and it looks like a similar demolition of South Africa at home too. India are well up on the championship table and with their next series against Bangladesh, they should reap-in a substantial lead against their rivals.

Former cricketer Gautam Gambhir on Friday joined the BJP in the presence of Union Ministers Arun Jaitley and Ravi Shankar Prasad ahead of the coming Lok Sabha elections.

As India warms up to the biggest Cricket extravaganza; Jio hits another sixer, by launching ‘Jio Cricket Play Along’ – world’s largest LIVE mobile game where participants can plan and win prizes worth crores; and ‘Jio Dhan Dhana Dhan LIVE’ – A first of its kind show, where Cricket meets Comedy.