Sharda Ugra

Sportswriter

Drowned out by the hype machine

A lot has gone wrong with the IPL but as its seventh season begins, the league will brush everything aside and cheer like nothing is amiss

15-Apr-2014•Sharda Ugra

ESPNcricinfo Awards 2013 Test batting winner: Shikhar takes the stage

One of the most incandescent debuts of the year came from a player who was on his way towards becoming a domestic workhorse

14-Mar-2014•Sharda Ugra

Tarak Sinha's 40-year labour of love

Four decades ago, one man set up a cricket club in Delhi that has since passed into the realm of legend

14-Mar-2014•Sharda Ugra

Grim legal tussle expected at Board meeting

A grim legal tussle between three of the most powerful cricket boards and three of their unexpectedly stubborn adversaries is set play itself out when the ICC's Board of directors meets in Singapore on Saturday

07-Feb-2014•Sharda Ugra

PCB, CSA, SLC and BCB against proposals - Zaka Ashraf

PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf has said that the boards of Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are in opposition to the revamp of administrative and financial structures of the ICC

28-Jan-2014•Sharda Ugra

Big Three offer redraft to ICC as lobbying intensifies

Cricket's formally-united Big Threewill present the seven other Full Member nations with a set of re-drafted "resolutions" around their radical "position paper" at an ICC executive meeting in Dubai

27-Jan-2014•Sharda Ugra

And then there were three

The only two cricket boards in the world who could together call BCCI's bluff and rally support chose instead to get on board with India's programme

25-Jan-2014•Sharda Ugra

No knowledge of draft proposals, says Associate representative

One member of the ICC's Finance & Commercial Affairs committee has said he was not privy to any details about the F&CA working group's draft proposal that recommends radical overhaul of world cricket administration

19-Jan-2014•Sharda Ugra

Big three eye bigger slice of ICC revenue pie

A new ICC proposal has recommended the introduction of a new revenue stream for Full Members to be earned from ICC's gross revenues and distributed to members through a graded percentage share

18-Jan-2014•Sharda Ugra and Abhishek Purohit

Big Three could control revamped ICC

The ICC is to consider a comprehensive structural overhaul of world cricket administration that will effectively cede most executive decision-making to the BCCI, Cricket Australia and the ECB

17-Jan-2014•Sharda Ugra

FTP may become bilateral arrangement

The nature of the ICC's Future Tours Programme (FTP), the schedule for top-level international cricket, is set to undergo a sweeping change if proposals from a Financial & Commercial Affairs "working group position paper" are approved

17-Jan-2014•Sharda Ugra

Look, Junior's written a book

The story of India's U-19 World Cup-winning captain, Unmukt Chand, gives you an insight into what it takes for young boys in the country to become successful international sportsmen

20-Dec-2013•Sharda Ugra

Tendulkar's perfect balance

While the team, the country and the sport changed around him, Tendulkar remained constant

18-Dec-2013•Sharda Ugra

'I don't believe you need power to contribute'

Cricket administration, particularly in India, has been under scrutiny over the last few years. Anil Kumble, who was the president of the Karnataka state association, talks about the challenges officials face in professionalising the set-up

16-Dec-2013•Interview by Sharda Ugra

A Madiba sighting

A reporter on tour at the 2003 World Cup remembers seeing the great man up close

06-Dec-2013•Sharda Ugra

Tendulkar's perfect balance

While the team, the country and the sport changed around him, Tendulkar remained constant

18-Nov-2013•Sharda Ugra

Make sports cheating a criminal offence - Dravid

A law against sports fraud that offers real consequences of "jail time" could well be the deterrent for athletes in the fight against corruption in sports, former India captain Rahul Dravid has said

12-Nov-2013•Sharda Ugra

IPL probe panel to meet Mumbai Police

The three-man probe committee appointed by India's Supreme Court to investigate the IPL 2013 corruption and spot-fixing scandal will meet Mumbai Police joint-commissioner Himanshu Roy and the BCCI's anti-corruption unit in Mumbai on November 5 and 6

02-Nov-2013•Sharda Ugra

Have an opinion? Think again

One of the requirements for a BCCI commentator is the willingness to avoid a list of taboo subjects, including Indian selection, DRS or administrative matters

13-Oct-2013•Sharda Ugra

A titanic goodbye

For seekers of excellence like Tendulkar, accepting the march of time must be tougher than we can imagine

11-Oct-2013•Sharda Ugra

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