Hindustan Times

Monday, March 23, 2009

Smacked out of India, Indian Premier League may land in England or South Africa

After weeks of lobbying to browbeat the government, the Indian Premier League took the logical option of moving its second season out of the country .

The Hindustan Times had reported on Sunday that the IPL had decided to shift base out of India.

The decision to move the T20 tournament was taken at an emergency meeting of the BCCI working committee in Mumbai.

The firming up of the new venue is expected on Monday , with South Africa and England emerging as the two front runners.

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Labels: BCCI, Indian Premier League, IPL chairman Lalit Modi, South Africa, T20 tournament

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Board of Control for Cricket in India, Indian Cricket League ready to play ball

In a dramatic turnaround in policy, a Tuesday meeting of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in Dubai saw the president of the all-powerful BCCI — it is estimated that 70 to 80 per cent of global cricket revenue either originates in India or is because of the India market — announce that it was ready to talk to the group it had banned, the Indian Cricket League (ICL).

The ban prevents players like Pakistan’s Imran Farhat and Rana Naved from turning out for their country Rohan Gavaskar and 90 other Indians cannot play for their state or country either.

Till now, the BCCI has been unwilling to have any dialogue with the ICL, banning its players, suspending pensions to former players and stopping ICL access to official cricket grounds.

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Labels: ban, BCCI, cricket grounds, former players, ICC, ICL, ICL access, ICL business head Himanshu Mody, India market, Pakistan Cricket Team, Pakistan’s Imran Farhat, Rana Naved, tournament

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Board of Control for Cricket in India was on 25-year ‘tax holiday’

It was a 25-year-old lapse that few outside the cricket board’s inner circle knew of.

According to documents available with Hindustan Times, the Board of Control for Cricket in India, one of the richest sport bodies in the world, did not file returns on income 1980-81 onwards.

Over the last three years, the BCCI treasurer’s office has had its hands full.

N. Srinivasan’s first job, when he took over as treasurer in 2005, was to try and regularise the registration of documents to the Registrar of Societies Act.

A top BCCI source confirmed the contents of the treasurer’s report that will be presented at the board’s 79th Annual General Meeting in Mumbai on September 27. “Yes, the returns were not filed since 1981, but they have now been regularised,” he told HT, declining to be identified because the report is yet to be presented.

The board, through its auditors, undertook the arduous task of collating the necessary documents pertaining to that 25-year period and filed them with the registrar in 2007.

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Labels: BCCI, Board treasurer N. Srinivasan, cricket board, documents, income, Mumbai, Registrar of Societies Act, tax holiday

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Rich Indian cricket board got richer, earned Rs 1,000 crore

Market Conditions may be grim and global giants may be declaring bankruptcy but one organisation is , celebrating a bumper year. In fact, the best year in its 79-year history .

The income of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) this year has crossed Rs 1,000 crore, well in excess of earlier estimates. Board treasurer N. Srinivasan will make a formal announcement at the BCCI annual general meeting on September 27 and 28.

The board’s income in 2007-08 was Rs 1000.41 crore, up a strong 46 per cent from Rs 651.83 crore in 2006-07. It’s a significant improvement from the board’s own forecast for the year, which was Rs 862.30 crore.

What pushed the figure up was the increase in income from the sale of media rights, up to Rs 559.31 crore from the previous year’s Rs 313.62 crore. But it’s not just television rights — every other source of income saw a mammoth rise.

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Labels: BCCI, Board treasurer N. Srinivasan, Commonwealth Games, giants, income, Indian Cricket Board, International cricketers, media rights, rich, television rights

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Skipper Dhoni may skip Lanka Test

Mahendra Singh Dhoni could be the first Indian cricketer to pull out of a tour citing fatigue. The India ODI skipper, it was learnt late on Monday, had conveyed this to the BCCI.

Earlier, asked whether he would opt out of the Sri Lanka tour, where the first of the three-Test series begins on July 23, Dhoni said: "You will get to know it in the next couple of days."

Make what you will of that but remember Dhoni had a similar answer to the question after India were annihilated by Sri Lanka in Sunday's Asia Cup final in Karachi. Also remember that he had, during the Asia Cup, raised the issue of international cricket's gruelling schedule.

On Monday, he also appreciated an earlier statement from the BCCI that a player could rest when he felt the need for it. "In the sub-continent we have a full year of cricket and there's no off-season. It's tough for cricketers. When we want rest we should get it," he said. "The BCCI has said we can take rest whenever we want which, I think, is a very good policy" he said.

The birthday boy - he turned 27 on Monday said he was "100 per cent ht". Playing non-stop since India's ODI series against South Africa in June 2007, it is possible that Dhoni would opt out of the Tests and take over for the five ODIs, beginning August 18.

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Labels: Asian Cup, BCCI, Birthday, cricketer, Indian cricket team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, ODi, South Africa, Sri Lanka

Thursday, March 27, 2008

BCCI invokes spirit of Cricket at Indian Premier League

Don't be surprised if you see Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds being far more respectful to each other during the forthcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) than they were in Australia.

Bhajji and Symmo haven't struck up a sudden friendship. But they will have no choice but to behave because the BCCI has taken the business of sledging to heart. It has invoked the Spirit of Cricket for the IPL.

The Spirit of Cricket is the doctrine enshrined by Sir Colin Cowdrey and Lord Ted Dextel: ex-England skippers and MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) members, in the 1990s in the laws of the game.

The Indian cricket board, campaigning for the eradication of sledging and abusive player behaviour, will ask the players to take a spoken oath that will bind them to playing by the spirit of the game and not just its laws.

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Labels: Andrew symonds, BCCI, cricket, harbhajan singh, Indian cricket team, IPL player auction, Marylebone Cricket Club

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Hayden escapes, cricket in prison

Depending on how you look at it, the latest farce in India's Australian summer appears either blatantly unfair or plain ridiculous.

In a tinderbox atmosphere that had gone to within an inch of the tour being called off, Matthew Hayden - 36-year-old veteran of 94 Tests played over 14 years - launches an outrageous, offensive, and completely unprovoked attack on Harbhajan Singh, calling him "an obnoxious weed" on a radio show. Cricket Australia promises the BCCI that it would take up the matter strongly and after a pointless, three-hour hearing, lets Hayden off with a mere reprimand - not even a token fine.

A little after 11 pm local time in Melbourne, CA spokesman Philip Pope said, "The charge was laid by CA CEO James Sutherland, and Code of Conduct Commissioner Ron Beazley found Hayden guilty He upheld the charge and issued a reprimand." Section 9 of CA's Code of Behaviour deals with "detrimental public comment" and prohibits a players and officials from "making any public/media comment which is detrimental to the interests of the game".

Hayden said he had made a "light comment" in a "jocular" interview. "I maintain my innocence. My intention was not to denigrate cricket or anyone. But in the spirit of cricket, I respect and accept the decision." There was no mention of an apology to Harbhajan.

There was also no mention, from either Hayden or CA, of the big batsman poking fun at Ishant Sharma's youth, mimicking his accent,

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Labels: BCCI, CA's Code of Behaviour, detrimental public comment, harbhajan singh

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Kirsten set to be next coach

FORMER South Africa opener Gary Kirsten is set to take over as India's next coach later this winter, over seven months after Greg Chappell left the post.

Kirsten, who secretly met top BCCI officials, the coach selection panel (comprising former cap tains Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri and S. Venkataraghavan) and Test skipper Anil Kumble on Monday night in New Delhi, has been offered a two-year contract. "We have offered him a copy of the contract," said BCCI Chief Administrative Officer Ratnakar Shetty "He . will let us know whether he's joining us or not latest by December 3." The South African seemed quite comfortable with the way things had worked out. "The inter view went well, but I haven't signed anything yet," said Kirsten.

HIS SCORECARD ¦ The former South African opener has played 101 Tests and 185 ODIs. He made his debut against Australia in Melbourne in 1993. He has a Test average of 45.27 and an aggregate of 7,289 runs. ¦ He was South Africa's batting coach after his retirement in 2004...

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Article taken from the issue:28 November, 2007

Labels: BCCI, coach, cricket, gary Kirsten, India, Indian cricket team, South Africa

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