Indian news round-up

Press Trust of India (PTI) quoting the Pakistan newspaper Dawn reported on Saturday that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) are set to lose around 15 million dollars inclusive of 4.5 million dollars from TV rights in case of India's withdrawal from the proposed winter tour of Pakistan.

Quoting a PCB official, PTI said that the BCCI earned 80 million dollars during the Pakistan tour to India but with the winter series in doubt, the PCB might not be in a position to earn some money. Moreover, the agency said that the PCB would suffer an estimated 60 million dollars loss if the ICC's ten-year itinerary was approved and the cricketing relations between the two countries didn't improve.

Quoting the source, the agency said that the ICC officials have been informally told by the PCB that the board would suffer huge financial losses if they have been drawn to host India three times. The source added that the board is willing to tour India anytime which would ultimately end up as a huge financial success for the BCCI. The source further said that the PCB will agree to the 10-year itinerary only if ICC guarantees India fulfilling its commitments to tour Pakistan, failing which the BCCI or the ICC will have to compensate the PCB.

The Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association (MPCA) has named former Indian wicketkeeper Chandrakanth Pandit as the captain of the 16-member state Ranji squad for the forthcoming season. Devendra Bundela will be the vice captain. Madhya Pradesh are slated to take on Railways in their first match at Delhi from October 30 to November 2.

The team: CS Pandit (captain), D Bundela, AR Khurasiya, JP Yadav, Abbas Ali, N Patwardhan, HS Sodhi, ND Hirwani, M Majithia, S Pandey, S Lahore, AS Srivastava (wicketkeeper), M Mishra, Y Golwalkar, K Seth and Gurusharan Singh. Coach: DK Nilosey; Manager: S Gulrez Ali.

The Haryana Cricket Association (HCA) has named Parinder Sharma as the captain of the State Ranji team for the forthcoming season. Announcing the team in Rothak, the HCA secretary, Ranbir Singh Mahindera, said that the right arm medium pacer Nitin Aggarwal and leg spinner Amit Mishra from the state Under-19 team have also been included in the team along with Rajan Gupta and Atul Sekhawat.

The team: Parinder Sharma (captain) Jasvir Singh, Sanjay Dalal, Rajesh Puri, Ajay Ratra (wicketkeeper), Pankaj Thakur, Vineet Jain, Feroze Ghyas, Jitender Singh, Atul Sekhawat, Nitin Aggarwal, Amit Mishra, Padamanjit Sehrawat and Rajan Gupta.

The Rajasthan Cricket Association has appointed Gagan Khoda as the skipper of the Rajasthan Ranji team. Rajasthan are slated to kick off their campaign against Uttar Pradesh at the KL Saini Stadium in Jaipur from October 30 to November 2.

The team: GK Khoda (captain), PK Krishnakumar, RB Jhalani (wicketkeeper), N Doru, AS Jain, RJ Kanwat, Saket Bhatia, DP Singh, Jaikumar, M Aslam, VA Saxena, Pramod Yadav, KJ Choudhary, Shamsher Singh, Sanjeev Sharma, AM Dave and Kuldeep Sharma.