New Delhi: The 2013 ICC Champions Trophy will receive a grand farewell after all with the perceived threat of a pull-out by the game's most powerful cricket board, and in effect the 50-over world champions, having dissipated. Hard-pressed for promotion in what is its final run, the ICC Champions Trophy will have a stately exit with all decks cleared for India to take up the challenge of adding another limited-overs crown to their trophy cabinet.
With just three weeks to go before the marquee tournament kicks off with an India-South Africa game at Cardiff, CNN-IBN has learnt that the prospect of hosting a major tournament of this nature, without the Indian team has set fear in the men who run the game globally. With the BCCI distinctly unhappy with prolonged media scrutiny into Laxman Sivaramakrishnan's recent appointment as a players' representative on the ICC cricket, CNN-IBN has learnt that the possibility of an Ethics Officer probe being ordered by the ICC is next to none.
Highly placed sources close to the development told CNN-IBN that the BCCI engaged in extensive discussions with the game's governing body over the weekend, as they sought to douse the fire created by Federation of International Cricketers Associations (FICA) CEO Tim May, who accused the voting procedure to have been tampered with and also alleged that captains were influenced by their respective boards while voting.
The ICC, in an official release on May 9 had admitted receiving a "written request
06:08 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: India have no plans to pull out of next month's Champions Trophy over a rumbling controversy surrounding a former Indian player's election to an International Cricket Council (ICC) panel, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said on Monday. The BCCI has been accused of using its clout to get former India spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan elected to the ICC Cricket Committee. Sivaramakrishnan beat Australian Tim May...
09:57 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: Even as the controversy over Laxman Sivaramakrishnan's appointment to the ICC Cricket Committee raged on, the BCCI on Monday received support from its Asian allies Sri Lanka and Pakistan who claimed allegations of the Indian Cricket Board forcing a re-vote were baseless. The furore over the appointment seemed to have created a rift in the cricket world with the Asian countries throwing their weight behind BCCI, which is...
04:30 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: While the Federation of International Cricketers' Association (FICA) has called for a probe by the ICC into the election of Laxman Sivaramakrishnan to the cricket committee, its chief executive Tim May has spelt out he will not seek re-election even if the voting and election process is found to be unconstitutional in the inquiry. Speaking to CNN-IBN, May also reiterated that FICA has evidence of certain boards trying...
10:19 AM, May 11, 2013
Mohali: The severe bashing they received from Chennai Super Kings had an impact on them but Sunrisers Hyderabad are determined to not repeat their mistakes in the remainder of the tournament, Hyderabad mentor VVS Laxman said on Friday. "You have to be really positive, definitely you get really hurt when you lose in such a manner, which we did. There is no doubt that we were very disappointed about the...
07:44 PM, May 10, 2013
Karachi: The election of Zaka Ashraf as chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board has been challenged in the Sindh and Lahore High Courts a day after the PCB announced him as the first elected head of the board. In Karachi Pakistan's former captain, Rashid Latif filed a petition through his lawyer challenging Ashraf's election and the new constitution of the board while the heads of the regional cricket associations of...
07:51 AM, May 10, 2013
Dubai: The ICC on Thursday clarified its stand on the recent appointment of Laxman Sivaramakrishnan as the players' representative in its Cricket Committee, saying a re-vote was conducted due to confusion over the first voting process. Sivaramakrishnan, who is employed by the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) as a commentator, replaced Tim May on the ICC cricket committee, an appointment that attracted criticism from various quarters. "In January this year, because...
07:53 PM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: Preferring not to say it in as many words, former Australian spinner and FICA boss Tim May on Tuesday made a veiled reference to his ouster from the ICC's Cricket Committee, saying he is more interested in the apex body "policing" and maintaining its stated "governance". There have been allegations that the BCCI forced some of the captains of the member boards to vote in favour of former...
08:12 PM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: Revealing BCCI's another arm-twisting move, a report in Australia's The Daily Telegraph on Tuesday said that the Indian board's president N Srinivasan used power tactics to get Laxman Sivaramakrishnan on the ICC Cricket Committee by "threatening countries to ensure that the majority of Test captains voted against Tim May". Sivaramakrishnan replaced May on the influential cricket committee for a three-year term on Monday. May has a history of...
09:08 AM, May 07, 2013
CNN-IBN sports editor Gaurav Kalra spoke to Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, the former India legspinner who was appointed as a players' representative in the ICC Cricket Committee on Monday. Here are excerpts from the interview. Gaurav: You must be quite pleased to be on such an influential committee of the ICC? Siva: Thank you very much; I think it's a great privilege and honour to be representing India. And being a part...
09:03 PM, May 06, 2013
Dubai: In an appointment that was backed by the BCCI, former India leg-spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan Monday replaced Tim May as a players' representative on the ICC Cricket Committee. "... Sivaramakrishnan is one of the two Current Player representatives [replacing Tim May]. The other Current Player representative is former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara, who has been on the committee since 2007," the ICC said in a statement here today. "Sangakkara...
12:48 PM, May 06, 2013
Coimbatore: A lab assistant in a local private college today allegedly threw acid on two staff injuring them and two girl students, and later tried to commit suicide by consuming cyanide, police said. Police said Muthusamy (47) threw acid on Ravisankar and Laxmansamy this afternoon over some personal dispute. Some acid also fell on two girl students. Both the victims were admitted to different private hospitals while the two girls...
03:46 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Sunrisers Hyderabad mentor VVS Laxman on Thursday said he is not really worried about his batsmen's unimpressive performance ahead of the clash with Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League here at the Ferozeshah Kotla on Friday. The Sunrisers, newcomers this season, failed to make an impact with the bat in the first two of their three matches, despite winning them. They managed 126 and 130 in home...
08:27 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Satara: After being on the run for a fortnight, noted Marathi author and Padma Shri awardee Laxman Mane, booked in half a dozen separate rape cases, on Monday surrendered before the police here in western Maharashtra. Mane, who has rejected sexual assault charges levelled against him, went to Satara tehsil police station at around 4.00 pm and was arrested. "Mane surrendered in Satara rural police station. He has been arrested,"...
11:36 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Hyderabad: Retired Indian Test batsman VVS Laxman says mentoring IPL team Sunrisers Hyderabad and doing commentary are his ways of giving something back to the game of cricket which gave him everything. "I am experiencing various things. It is great to be contributing back to the game. Because, cricket gave me everything. With the wealth of experience I have got, I want to share with the concerned people, Laxman said....
11:12 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Famous singer Baba Sehgal is all set to act in India's first historical periodical drama 'Rudrama Devi'. ...
09:27 PM, Apr 02, 2013
A manhunt has been launched to trace leading Marathi writer Laxman Mane, who has been booked for raping three Dalit women working at a school he runs, police said on Tuesday. Mane's family meanwhile dismissed the charges. ...
01:05 AM, Mar 27, 2013
A look back at the Mohali Test of 2010, when VVS Laxman, Ishant Sharma and Pragyan Ojha kept a rampaging Australia at bay and helped India pull off a sensational victory. ...
01:09 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Sunrisers have already roped in Tom Moody as coach and Kris Srikkanth as their mentor, while VVS Laxman is their mentor-ambassador. ...
03:42 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Both of Vijay's Test centuries have resulted into 300-plus partnerships while Pujara's conversion rate of hundreds remains outstanding. ...
09:25 PM, Mar 04, 2013
