Cricket

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has signed off on the introduction of a Test Challenge competition which will grant associate members the chance to play Test cricket - the marquee format of the game.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has confirmed that the 2014 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will return to India on May 2, following the opening exchanges of the Twenty20 tournament in the United Arab Emirates.

Indian cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar has been appointed as the interim head of the Board of Control for Cricket in India after the country’s Supreme Court forced N. Srinivasan to step down as president of the governing body.

India’s Supreme Court has proposed that former India cricket captain Sunil Gavaskar temporarily replaces the under-pressure N. Srinivasan as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), adding that the Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals should not compete in the 2014 Indian Premier League (IPL) amid the spot-fixing and betting scandal engulfing the competition.

India’s Supreme Court has called on N. Srinivasan, the head of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), to step down from his role to enable an investigation to take place into illegal betting during last year’s Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament.

The Bangladeshi government has requested that businesses, shopping malls and markets close after 8pm local time in a bid to avoid power outages during the country’s staging of the World Twenty20 cricket tournament.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will not expand the Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament over the next eight years, according to Wally Edwards, the chairman of the Cricket Australia national governing body.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced that the 2014 Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 competition will open in the United Arab Emirates, with the prospect of further games being staged in Bangladesh.

The Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) has been shelved for the second consecutive year after the Twenty20 cricket tournament failed to attract sufficient commercial interest.

The first half of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket tournament will be staged outside India after the country’s government said that it cannot provide security for the event owing to a clash with the general election.

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Delhi Daredevils ownership group GMR Sports has warned Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises stand to lose around 40 per cent of their annual revenues if the Twenty20 cricket tournament is moved outside India, while Cricket South Africa has maintained it is yet to be contacted over potentially hosting the event.

Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Ranjib Biswal has admitted that the 2014 edition of the Twenty20 cricket competition could return to South Africa amid security concerns arising from a clash with the country’s general election.

The Pakistan government has moved to dismiss the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and its chairman Zaka Ashraf, just weeks after he was reinstated to the position.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) Board has approved a series of wide-ranging reforms relating to the governance, competition and financial models of cricket’s global governing body, with the Pakistan Cricket Board and Sri Lanka Cricket the only full members to abstain from Saturday’s vote.

The Cricket South Africa (CSA) governing body has rejected reports that it is seeking an agreement with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to return its chief executive Haroon Lorgat to a powerful role in the world game in exchange for backing reform proposals for the International Cricket Council (ICC) put forward by the sport’s three main boards.