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A system of graded payments and contracts that will bind a shortlist of players to the Board of Control for Cricket in India but protect those not selected from that list to represent India seems to be on the anvil, according to a recent statement

The Indian captain has been giving interviews to the media claiming how stronger he has emerged after the India-Australia Test series

What is more important for a touring team, batting practice or victory

"These are to inform gentlemen, or others who delight in cricket playing, that a match at cricket of ten gentlemen on each side will be played for £10 a head each game (five being designed) and £20 the odd one." This was a notice of a

The Zimbabwe selectors have covered all options in their nominated squad of 16 to play the First Test match against India and Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo, beginning June 7

Cricket has traditionally been slow to change

Even as the Indian tour of Zimbabwe is just getting underway, I thought I would focus this time on my impressions from the preparatory camp in Bangalore

The news that India and Pakistan will finally meet on the cricket field during the Asian Test Championship in Pakistan in September will be welcome news for cricket lovers all over the world

Not unexpectedly, Indian cricket figures prominently in the Condon report - both in the plus column and the minus column

There is something in sports - call it power or glamour or what you will - that attracts leading political figures to it

Ian Chappell might be dismissive of cricket administrators, but it must be said that at least a few of them have been selfless, hard working and even dynamic individuals who have had nothing but the welfare of the game and the players at heart

As the Indian team gets ready to pack its bags for the Zimbabwean tour, the subject which has been discussed threadbare by the press and public is our poor overseas record in the last 15 years

Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly says he is getting fed up with being repeatedly asked why India does so badly abroad

The National Cricket Academy's second batch commenced training in Bangalore on Tuesday and the twenty probables selected for the enterprise comprise almost exclusively of players aged 19 and less

There are those who believe that Test cricket is supposed to be flashing blades and tremendously fast bowling coupled with great catching

The West Indies have put themselves into an almost impregnable position and with a tremendous opportunity to pull back some pride

I have been touring and following the West Indies cricket team for about six years now, and with the exception of the that first Test match in New Zealand at the turn of the last millennium, when they were 282-1, and yet lost, the West Indies would

The West Indies continue to stumble from farce to funny to fantasy

Vehicle manufacturer DaimlerChrysler confirmed their sponsorship of cricket on the Border for a further three years to March, 2004, at a glittering ceremony at Buffalo Park, headquarters of Border cricket, here last night.