INDIAN SPINNER Amit Mishra was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend in a city hotel recently and was freed on bail later, police said.
COMMENTING ON THE controversy over Indian cricket team director Ravi Shastri abusing Wankhede Stadium curator Sudhir Naik for the nature of the pitch during the fifth one-dayer against South Africa, BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur said on Monday that the board needs to first look into the details of the incident before taking drastic action against anyone.
EXPRESSING REGRET AT ex-New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns facing trial over match fixing allegations, former India stumper Farokh Engineer on Monday called for life ban for match and spot fixers.
THE SOCIAL MEDIA, FM Radio stations and the vernacular electronic media with their colourful expressions have had a ball after India lost the last match and with it the ODI series 2-3 to South Africa in Mumbai.
AS TEAM INDIA TOOK THE FIELD at the Wankhede Stadium in the fifth and final ODI, 100 Mumbai kids had another reason to be excited as they made their stadium debut with this match as a part of #MyDebutMatch programme initiated jointly by Star Sports and BCCI.
EVEN AS HE INSISTED that Virat Kohli deserves to take over the captaincy in all the formats of the game, former India great Farokh Engineer on Monday called for giving limited overs skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni the opportunity to decide about his future.
THE SECRETARY OF BCCI, Anurag Thakur, said that 3-4 companies, including the eventual winner vivo, were interested in being associated as the title sponsor for the Indian Premier League (IPL).
INDIA MIGHT HAVE lost the One-Day international (ODI) series against South Africa but skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has climbed up two rungs to the sixth place in the latest International Cricket Council (ICC) batsmen rankings released on Monday.
THE BOARD OF CONTROL FOR CRICKET IN INDIA (BCCI) on Sunday gave a fitting farewell to former Indian cricketer Zaheer Khan after the end of the fifth ODI between India and South Africa at the Wankhede stadium, Mumbai.
WHEN THE ONLY TWO pace bowlers in your team are handed a pounding so hard and so forgettable in a deciding game, as a captain you have no choice but to say "it has happened in cricket, it keeps happening.” MS Dhoni's post-match conference after a devastating series defeat to South Africa was a clear indicator of the fact that India are still struggling to produce genuine, wicket-taking fast bowlers.
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