'IPL should not be banned... BCCI will take right decisions''

Chandu Borde played Gilchrist and Griffith without a helmet and padding and has lived to tell the tale

Former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi refused to comment on the arrest of S Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila for their involvement in the spot-fixing scandal that hit Indian cricket on Thursday. Instead, he chose to compare the tainted Rajasthan Royals trio with the character that epitomizes evil in Indian mythology. “There many more Duryodhans who are going scot-free and enjoying life," he said, with a hint of his trademark sarcasm. Former Test cricketer and BJP ...

Indian cricket has never lacked for specialist batsmen or bowlers, but since Kapil Dev and his heroics with both bat and ball, the search for an allrounder has usually hit blanks — so much so that it was seen as a curse to be compared to the great ...

The Supreme Court needs to step in and order an independent inquiry into the whole IPL scandal, conflicts of interest between office-holders of the BCCI, team-owners of the IPL and even members and captain of the Indian team, says KC Singh Cricket for those of us born just around Indian independence is a memory of days spent glued to the radio in the 1960s as school children. Today's specialists on television, like Chandu Borde, were heroes battling for Indian honour, whose exploits we imagined ...

In its sixth season, with a week to go for the finals, the Indian Premier League was heading for a ripper finish. The stadiums were spilling over, TV ratings were off the graph, 10-second ads cost more than the starting salaries of IIM grads, there ...

Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Thursday spilled the bigger story on the Sreesanth spot-fixing row saying that the masterminds are sitting abroad. Kumar said: "Police teams were present in all the three matches that were fixed. The recent ...

Not only did the Board of Control not offer basic explanations for key omissions and inclusions when they released India's Champions Trophy squad to the media last week ...

Even as Sachin Tendulkar is in Kolkata to discharge his IPL duties for Mumbai Indians, a special programme has been planned in his home state where 100 young cricketers will be present with former India captain Chandu Borde and former Maharashtra captain ...

ed comments on this article Nitin NaikNitin Naik , TNN | Apr 24, 2013, 12.42 AM IST An anonymous quote reads, "Forty isn't old, if you're a tree." Indeed, forty isn't old even when you're Tendulkar. (TOI Photo) MUMBAI: An anonymous quote reads, ...