Tag: Icc

Centurion: India skipper Virat Kohli has been fined 25 per cent of his match fee for breaching the Code of Conduct during the third day’s play in the second Test against South Africa, ICC announced on Tuesday. Kohli received one demerit point for breaching Level 1 of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) code of conduct […]

Tauranga (New Zealand): India crushed minnows Papua New Guinea (PNG) by 10 wickets to register their second consecutive win in Group B of the ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup here on Tuesday. Left-arm spinner Anukul Roy finished 5/14 as three-time champions India completed a facile 10-wicket victory which took them closer towards qualification for the Super […]

Dubai: India opener Rohit Sharma has climbed to the fifth spot amongst batsmen in the latest International Cricket Council (ICC) One-Day International (ODI) player rankings released here on Monday. The right-handed batsman has gained two slots and crossed the 800-point mark for the first time after leading India to a 2-1 ODI series victory against […]

New Delhi: The second session of the third and final Test match between India and Sri Lanka was halted for a few minutes after concerns over the poor air quality here on Sunday, forcing the Lankans to wear anti-pollution masks. The visiting Sri Lankan players wore masks while fielding after the lunch session on the […]

Dubai: India skipper Virat Kohli and his female counterpart Mithali Raj on Monday rose to the No.1 spot in their respective ICC One-day International (ODI) rankings for batters. Kohli, who struck two centuries during India’s 2-1 victory in the three-match ODI rubber against New Zealand, has moved back to the top position within 10 days of […]

Dubai: India remained fourth, while England dethroned Australia from the top position in the women’s cricket team rankings for the first time following the annual rankings update, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced on Tuesday. India, who reached the final of the ICC Women’s World Cup, have gained three points to reach 116 points and […]

Dubai: India opener Rohit Sharma took fifth spot while spinner Axar Patel clinched his career-best seventh rank on Monday as the two climbed in the International Cricket Council (ICC) One-Day International (ODI) player rankings, after the recently concluded series victory against Australia. Sharma, who was awarded the man of the match in the fifth and […]

Dubai: Under new rules effective from Thursday, cricket players can be — like in football — ordered off the field if they commit major offences, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced on Tuesday. Threatening to assault an umpire, making inappropriate and deliberate physical contact with an umpire, physically assaulting a player or any other person and […]

Dubai: Sri Lanka have qualified for the 2019 World Cup after the West Indies lost the first One-Day International (ODI) against England at Old Trafford, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has confirmed. “With September 30, 2017, set as the cut-off date for automatic qualification for the ICC’s pinnacle 50-over tournament, the Windies (78 points) now cannot […]

Dubai: India retained their number one position on the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test team rankings following the annual update in which series results from 2013-14 are no longer included and outcomes from the 2015-16 series are weighted at 50 per cent. The Virat Kohli-led side now leads South Africa by six points following the […]

Dubai: International Cricket Council (ICC) Chairman Shashank Manohar on Wednesday agreed to continue till his tenure ends in June next year, the game’s global governing body confirmed here. Manohar, who had resigned in March citing personal reasons, initially agreed to defer his resignation till the annual conference this June this year when the new ICC […]

New Delhi: The fit-again duo of Rohit Sharma and Mohammed Shami was on Monday recalled to the 15-member India squad for next month’s ICC Champions Trophy, as the cricket selectors also reposed their faith on talismanic wicketkeeper-batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s abilities. BCCI’s chairman of selectors M.S.K. Prasad had no hesitations in calling the former India […]

New Delhi: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday announced a 15-member squad led by Virat Kohli for the ICC Champions Trophy, starting June 1 in England. The team has no surprises, with off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and pacer Mohammed Shami making it back to the team, after their respective injury lay […]

Dubai: Inaugural T20 World Champions India dropped six points to slip to the fourth spot in the ICC T20 International rankings in the annual update released here on Tuesday. The Virat Kohli-led side is now on 118 points, three points behind ICC World Twenty20 2009 winner Pakistan, which has joined second-placed England on 121 points […]

Indian skipper Mithali Raj became the leading run-getter in Women's international cricket across formats. She scripted the history during India's successful run-chase against England in the final ODI in Worcester on July 3. She want past former England skipper Charlotte Edwards' tally of 10,273 runs. Raj and Edwards are the only players to scale the 10,000-run mark in women's international cricket. Here's a look at some stats/records held by the talismanic Indian batter