The ‘special relationship’ between the two cricketing nations soured nastily, but sanity will hopefully prevail now Haroon Lorgat has gone
The weakness of the rand and the instability and moral flaccidity of the BCCI make future international matches a prospect full of uncertainties.
India – and money – dictates the game, which is going to bite those who so readily sold out.
The "big three" of India, Australia and England now dominate in the boardroom, but South Africa have to show they are in charge on the cricket field.
Neil Manthorp talks to Cricket South Africa president Chris Nenzani about India, income and in-fighting.
Ehsan Mani has advocated for the legalisation of betting in India, saying it should be better regulated because illegal betting is causing corruption.
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/ 3 February 2012
Proteas looking to have another crack at the Test rank summit.
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/ 15 January 2012
Former India players and the country’s media have slammed the powerful Board of Control for Cricket in India for their crushing defeat to Australia.
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/ 14 December 2011
Cricket great Sunil Gavaskar has said India’s cricket board owes him $1-million for sitting on the governing council of the Indian Premier League.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India dismissed criticism by Shane Warne over the pitch selected for the crunch game his team played this weekend.
India’s cricket board has given suspended IPL boss Lalit Modi more time to reply to allegations of corruption against him dating back to 2008.
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/ 20 January 2010
Pakistan’s sports minister has complained to his Indian counterpart after Pakistani cricketers were snubbed at Tuesday’s IPL auction.
Indian Premier League officials investigating a doping case from the debut season of the Twenty20 competition are declining to release any details.
Cricket faces the threat of the biggest revolt in its history, with elite players ready to call for a breakaway from the International Cricket Council (ICC). Fica, the international players’ union, will demand far-reaching reform of the ICC, the global governing body it considers to be paralysed by the dominance of India’s Board of Control for Cricket.
Political interference in South African cricket has not produced the best team for their tour to India, the Afrikanerbond said on Tuesday in a letter to the Board of Control for Cricket in India. Managing director Jan Bosman said that international standards must apply in the selection of the best team to represent a country.
The chief executive of South Africa’s players’ association on Thursday urged axed fast bowler Andre Nel not to make a decision regarding his future in the heat of the moment. Nel was a controversial omission when South Africa’s squad for three Tests in India next month was announced on Tuesday.
Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh has lashed out at Australian crowds after being cleared of allegations he made monkey gestures and spat toward fans in the tri-series final win against Australia. Harbhajan was cleared after match referee Jeff Crowe was unable to find any video evidence to confirm the claims by spectators and photographers.
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/ 30 January 2008
The exoneration of Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh on racial-abuse charges was heavily criticised in Australia on Wednesday as a blatant demonstration of India’s power in world cricket. Harbhajan pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of abusive language at the appeal in Adelaide and was fined about Aus 000.
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/ 29 January 2008
India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has been cleared of racial-abuse charges at a hearing in Australia, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said on Tuesday. ”He has been cleared — the racial charge has been dropped against him,” BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah said.
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/ 29 January 2008
India will abandon the tour of Australia if spinner Harbhajan Singh is not cleared of racial abuse charges, a top Indian official said on Tuesday. Harbhajan was handed a three-Test ban by match referee Mike Procter after being found guilty of racially abusing Australia’s Andrew Symonds during the acrimonious Sydney Test earlier this month.
India resumed its cricket tour of Australia on Wednesday, arriving in Canberra two days behind schedule after the International Cricket Council brokered a peace settlement. The Indians are in the Australian capital for Thursday’s tour match against an Australian Capital Territory XI.
India’s cricket tour of Australia will go ahead as scheduled despite racism and umpiring rows, the Indian cricket board announced on Tuesday. ”The working committee of the Indian board took note of all relevant circumstances and developments and decided that Indian team’s tour to Australia should continue for the present,” the board said.
India spinner Harbhajan Singh faces a charge of racial abuse against Australian player Andrew Symonds under the International Cricket Council’s code of conduct, the ICC said on Saturday. The citing follows an alleged incident during Friday’s third day of the second Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
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/ 14 November 2007
Former Australian cricket captain Greg Chappell believes he was subjected to a racist attack while coaching India and that the authorities there tried to cover it up. He makes the charge in a documentary about his troubled two-year stint as India coach which is to be shown on national television next week.
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/ 20 October 2007
Unprecedented crowd control measures have been put in place for Australia’s Twenty20 international against India in Mumbai on Saturday after recent incidents of racist behaviour by spectators. Mumbai police have installed nearly a dozen close circuit televisions at the Brabourne stadium to monitor the crowd and spot culprits if there are any.