The Indian Premier League (IPL) has called for bidding for the theatrical rights to IPL matches for the next 10 years.
The winning bidder can broadcast IPL matches in cinema halls, in bars, restaurants, buses, hospitals and in a host of public places.
The bidder can run advertisements between overs and other breaks in the game. However, they are restrained from telecasting matches in the town or city where an IPL match is taking place.
Sources indicate that multiplexes and media companies are showing eagerness unlike last year.
A 12-year-old has scored 439 runs in a school cricket tournament in Mumbai.
According to the Times of India, Sarfaraz Khan faced 421 balls and hit 12 sixes and 56 boundaries for his Springfield Rizvi school against a hapless Indian Education Society in a three-day Harris Shield match on Wednesday.
Keen followers of cricket will recollect that it was in this tournament in 1988 Tendulkar, made 329 during a 664-run partnership with Vinod Kambli, who also went on to play international cricket.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India's decision to ban the Service's team for the entire Ranji Trophy season has brought out the expected reaction.
The Indian Express reports that
The Services team later apologised to the BCCI for the “administrative slip up” and sought new dates — it transpires that the team acted on an alert put out by the Military Intelligence after a security assessment, not corroborated by other intelligence agencies, warned of a militant plan to mingle with spectators and disrupt the match at the Sher-e-Kashmir stadium in Srinagar.
The apology confirms my long standing view that Indian cricket is in the 'right hands'.:)
According to Times Online:
So strongly do they feel after their treatment — or lack of it — at the recent World Twenty20 in England that they are even talking about forming their own trade union.
Several months after the tournament ended, some of the 25 scorers claim they are still waiting to be paid their £93 match fee and others found that they had to queue with temporary catering staff for accreditation to get into the Brit Oval.
Their desire for recognition has resulted in a paper that will go before David Richardson, the general manager of the ICC, to consider their complaints.
Bangladesh cricket team is having a golden run. Having overcome a second string- nay a third string West Indian cricket team, they are all set to thrash Zimbabwe in an ODI series.
In fact they took an unbeaten 3-1 lead in their ODI series in a quaint match where only 93 runs were scored.
Bangladesh skittle Zimbabwe for just 44, the fifth lowest total scored by any team in an ODI and then quickly rattled off the required runs for the loss of four wickets.
This perhaps could hurt Stanford more than anything else.
The Telegraph quoted Jacqui Quinn-Leandro, the chairman of the Caribbean country’s National Honours Committee, as saying that the nation voted unanimously to revoke his title for "embarrassing the nation" by running the scheme out of his Antigua-based offshore bank.
Now will Antigua return the money received from him for development back to those affected by his Ponzi scheme.
The change to the 12th man's role allows for an extra batting or bowling option and also gives rise to the opportunity to remove a cumbersome fielder from play, as is the case in rugby or soccer. The new rules also do away with extending the hours of play for matches affected by rain, but instead reduces the number of overs accordingly, which should make for more exciting viewing.
The question before us is will these changes revive spectator interest and if so can it be replicated in International one day matches.
Following on with our avowed policy of bringing cricket related ‘views’ to our readers, we present cricket WAG Jessica Bratich ‘undone’ - girlfriend of Australian cricketer Mitchell Johnson. 
We also wish our readers a ‘Happy Diwali’.
Next month Steve Harmison will be crowned a “North East legend” for his contributions to cricket.
One can easily understand Steve Harmison’s immense contribution to cricket when one realizes he is following on in the footsteps of Alan Shearer and Malcolm Macdonald.
For the record, Steve Harmison has been a part of two Ashes winning England teams, has represented England in 63 Tests and has taken 266 wickets. His contribution to England’s recent Ashes win was noteworthy for the sheer lack of success.
He was also a part of the England Ashes team that was drubbed 5-0 in Australia.
As they say, this is really the stuff for the legends.
As expected, Younus Khan met Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ijaz Butt to discuss his resignation.
As you all know Younus Khan, resigned claiming he was hurt over the match-fixing allegations.
The beauty of this resignation drama was that he made it clear as soon as he submitted his resignation that it was up to the PCB to accept or reject his resignation.
By putting the onus on PCB, Younus Khan knew that he will get some advantage to bargain and expectedly the spineless PCB has complied.
Now it is just a matter giving Younus Khan his pound of flesh for 
him to get over his feeling of hurt.
Virender Sehwag replaced Rahul Dravid for the first two games of the seven-match one-day series against
Munaf Patel deservedly found a place in the squad, while Virat Kohli mysteriously retains his place, making one speculate whether he is the Ajith Agarkar of the future.
Expectedly, Yuvraj Singh finds his way back into the team, even though there is an uncertainty surrounding his fitness.
Similarly, Ishanth Sharma is retained in the squad, probably with the intention of grinding his talent to dust.
Overall an ideal squad for Dhoni to whine about.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Sachin Tendulkar
Gautam Gambhir
Virender Sehwag
Suresh Raina
Yuvraj Singh
Virat Kohli
Harbhajan Singh
Sudeep Tyagi
Munaf Patel
Amit Mishra
Praveen Kumar
Ishant Sharma
Ravindra Jadeja
Ashish Nehra.
Why has
Bhutan Government released four stamps based on the game of cricket in commemoration of a century of monarchy. Prized at 5 ngultrum (Rs 5) three of them feature Roger Binny with
The Bhutan Government honored Roger Binny for his contribution to the growth of cricket in
Cricket
The ODI squad is:
Ricky Ponting
Michael Hussey
Doug Bollinger
Nathan Hauritz
Jon Holland
Ben Hilfenhaus
James Hopes
Mitchell Johnson
Brett Lee
Shaun Marsh
Tim Paine
Peter Siddle
Adam Voges
Shane Watson
Cameron White
The series starts on Oct 25, 2009, with a day and night match at Jaipur.
Lalit Modi, Chairman of the Champions League Twenty20's governing council, believes the tournament will result in the "rapid growth" of club cricket around the world.
Modi also said there was a strong chance the Champions League would be taken to non-cricket playing countries as a means to expand the game's reach and get other countries to embrace cricket.
The mere fact that Modi is speculating on expanding the scope of Champions League Twenty20 in an already crowded cricketing calendar is sure to set off alarm bells among the traditionalists.
Has the WI Cricket turned the corner?
Judging by Dwayne Bravo’s views it appears that players like Chris Gayle, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and other first choice cricketers have had enough with their tussle with WICB.
He revealed that all of West Indies' star players would make themselves available for the summer tour to
This declaration is particularly heartening to cricket fans as the West Indies are scheduled to play three Test matches, five one-day internationals and two Twenty20 encounters against
The addition of these stars will not only make the cricket test series interesting but it will also show a way for WICB to chart the future of
Now the question is will the WICB show magnanimity and include the cricketers into the team or will they misinterpret it as victory and continue to ruin
The NSW Twenty20 teams are without 3 of their superstars.
Nathan Bracken, Brad Haddin are injured. Michael Clarke ruled himself out of the Twenty20 Champions League much earlier, so his injury does not mar their chances.
However, Simon Kaitich believes that Brett Lee, Stuart Clark, Phil Hughes, David Warner along with paceman Aaron Bird and Stephen Smith are enough to win the $US2.5 million inaugural Twenty20 Champions League.
To the reader the NSW Blues appear formidable, but can they win the tournament?
The Victoria Bushrangers Twenty20 Champions League campaign starts against
Victoria Bushrangers are one of the 12 teams participating in the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League. The Airtel Twenty20 Champions League is an offshoot of the wildly popular Twenty20 IPL tournament.
