BCCI secretary Jay Shah has asserted that the Indian Premier League (IPL) will get 15 extra days of the window, stretching the total period to two and a half months in International Cricket Council (ICC) next Futures Tour Program (FTP) cycle. This comes after the BCCI pocketed more than INR 48,000 crores in the e-auction […]

BCCI President Sourav Ganguly has given assurance to all the state associations that domestic cricket will only be commenced when the situation is safe amid the COVID-19 pandemic but did not specify the timeline for the commencement of the season. Normally domestic commences in August but the pandemic has disturbed the calender and Ganguly has […]

On Saturday, the Indian skipper, Virat Kohli clearly stated that the is not in favor of the “four-day Test” proposed by the ICC as he is not in favor of any alterations which hurt the sanctity of the traditional five-day format. The ICC wants to try out the four-day Test matches during the next FTP cycle […]

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced the Future Tours Programme (FTP) for the much-talked-about World Test Championship, that is scheduled to be played between 2019 and 2021, on Wednesday. Last year, the ICC approved a Test championship comprising of top 9 teams in ICC rankings, playing each other over a two year period. Each […]

Afghanistan will be playing their first cricket Test in Bengaluru in a little over a month’s time and it is already planning a global Twenty20 league. The Afghan announcement comes soon after the International Cricket Council (ICC) decided that all Twenty20 matches between members will have international status. The ICC, after its week-long but less publicised […]

The Indian cricket board had egg on its face when the International Cricket Council (ICC) decided during its quarterly meeting here to convert the Champions Trophy — conceived by the country’s late administrator of the game, Jagmohan Dalmiya in 1998 when he helmed the global body — into a WorldT20. The loss of face is […]

Terming the 50-over Champions Trophy as “too similar to a World Cup”, ICC Chief Executive Dave Richardson on Thursday said the next edition of the tournament, in 2021, will be converted into a World T20. “The Champions Trophy, in a way, was too similar to the World Cup. It was difficult to differentiate,” Richardson told […]

According to the Future Tour Programme (FTP) of Ireland, they will play 16 Tests, 42 ODIs, and 44 T20Is from 2019 to 2023. The FTP also suggests that Australia will tour Ireland before they land in England for the 2019 Ashes. The last time Australia travelled Ireland was in 2015 for an ODI at Stormont. […]

  Sri Lankan Cricket is in hope to reintroduce Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) or a similar T20 masterpiece league from 2019. In their latest Future Tour Program (FTP), the board has left a window of three weeks open for a T20 tournament in August-September. “We have talked about having a tournament like SLPL, but […]