The 'Baggy Green' cap won by legendary Don Bradman on the 1948 "Invincibles" Ashes tour has been placed an estimated price of $600,000 to $750,000 by its auctioneer and could well break the auction record.
After uncertainty over whether the two-Test series against England would be held in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror strikes, BCCI cleared doubts by deciding on Chennai and Mohali as the new venues.
The BCCI on Monday described as "too far fetched" media reports that the sub-continent could lose the right to host the 2011 cricket World Cup because of continuous terror attacks, saying the high-profile event was still a long way away.
Bangladesh's Abdur Razzak has been suspended from bowling in international cricket, pending fresh assessment of his action by the International Cricket Council.
Kevin Pietersen and his teammates are set to return to India by Friday to play the two-Test series, the first of which would be shifted from Ahmedabad to Kolkata, according to media reports in London.
Continuous terror attacks in the sub-continent has cast a shadow over the 2011 Cricket World Cup to be jointly hosted by India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh with the International Cricket Council contemplating of keeping a stand-by venue for the mega-event.
Andrew Symonds committed yet another breach of discipline when he skipped a compulsory recovery session with Queensland, six weeks after being sent home for missing a team meeting in Darwin.
Virender Sehwag was facing Pakistan's medium-fast bowler Abdul Razzaq, who was reverse-swinging the ball, and the way the Indian handled him is narrated in an interesting story in Australia's legendary spinner Shane Warne's just released book.- In the wake of the Mumbai terror attack, the Indian cricket team will not be undertaking its scheduled tour to Pakistan, which was due to begin in January 2009. India was scheduled to play three tests and five one dayers in Pakistan.
Pakistan board chief Ejaj Butt has warned that teams like England and Australia would end up splitting the world of cricket if they shun the sub-continent because of the security situation there.
England will return to India to play their two-match Test series as per schedule, but without several senior players including talismanic all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, according to a media report in London.
Australia consolidated its position against New Zealand reaching 241 for three in their first innings after bowling out the visitors for 270 on the second day of the second Test on Saturday.- Former captains Bob Willis and David Gower have joined Ian Botham and Mike Atherton in urging the English team to return to India and play the two-Test series next month.
Sri Lanka spinner Ajantha Mendis captured a career-best 6-29 as the tourists edged Zimbabwe by two wickets to take a 4-0 lead in the five-match one-day series on Friday.- After calling off the ODI series following the Mumbai terror attacks, the England cricket team flew home on Saturday. English officials are saying that a decision to return to India will depend on security assessments.
Former English cricket captain Michael Vaughan now believes in fate. He has no other explanation why he was not in one of the luxury hotels of Mumbai which were attacked by gunmen on Wednesday.
In a bid to salvage the Test series against England, the BCCI on Friday chose Chennai as the venue for the second Test as it promptly responded to England and Wales Cricket Board's request to shift the match from terror-hit Mumbai.
The Mumbai terror attack has added to the uncertainty surrounding India's cricket tour of Pakistan in 2009, the PCB claimed on Friday, saying the future of the series is now entirely in the hands of the two governments.- The Mumbai terror attack has added to the uncertainty surrounding India's cricket tour of Pakistan in 2009, the PCB claimed on Friday, saying the future of the series is now entirely in the hands of the two governments.
England captain Kevin Pietersen has made it clear that his side will not return to India for December's cricket Test series unless their safety is guaranteed.
After abandoning the last two matches of the seven-ODI series against India in the wake of terror attack in Mumbai, the English cricket team on Friday left for Bangalore to catch the connecting flight back to London.
The Mumbai terror attack has brought cricketing super-power India on its knees and it could join Pakistan in the no-go destination list if foreign players refuse to participate in the postponed Champions League Twenty20, said the Australian media.
Suspended Pakistani bowler Mohammad Asif on Thursday cancelled his visit to Mumbai after he was told that hearing of the drugs inquiry tribunal of the Indian Premier League had been put off due to fresh terrorist attacks there.
The remainder of England's one-day cricket series against India was on Thursday scrapped following the error attacks in Mumbai which also prompted the organisers of the $6-million Champions League to postpone the high-profile Twenty20 event.
Junaid Siddique and Mushfiqur Rahim hit half-centuries to lead a spirited Bangladesh batting effort on the first day of the second and final Test against South Africa at Centurion Park on Wednesday.
