The BCCI has confirmed that they will make a one-time benefit payment to certain former national and domestic players, amounting to approximately Rs 70 crore ($13,050,000 approx), in recognition of their services to Indian cricket
The Champions League Twenty20 is set to have a team from Pakistan for the first time. The BCCI has said it will recommend to the tournament’s governing council that it had no objection to Pakistani participation
Former skipper Arjuna Ranatunga, who is on a mission to rescue Sri Lankan cricket, has lashed out at his cricket board as well as the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for harming the game through the Indian Premier League.
N Srinivasan has said the BCCI’s new deal with Star TV proves the “underlying strength of Indian cricket”
The BCCI’s broadcast rights deal with Star demonstrates that the value of cricket will not diminish, board president N Srinivasan tells Swetha Kannan, in Business Line. He also talks about developing infrastructure in India, encouraging rural academies and ‘a sea change happening structurally in the BCCI’. “About 70% of the income [from the TV rights deal] will be distributed to the States for developing infrastructure. With New Zealand, England and Australia slated to visit India, we need new stadia. A modern stadium today costs anywhere between Rs 100 crore and…
The BCCI president N Srinivasan has announced a “one-time benefit” scheme for Indian cricketers from the proceeds of the play-off games of this year’s IPL
NKP Salve, who had been the president of the BCCI when India won the World Cup in 1983, has died aged 91 in New Delhi
The BCCI has received at least four bids for the broadcast, internet and mobile rights to cricket in India for the period July 2012 – March 2018, ESPNcricinfo has learned
Aakash Chopra, in his blog for Cricketnext, writes that certain first-class grounds in India have such pathetic facilities that a player risks a serious injury if he tries to dive on the outfield. The facilities in the dressing-room are another story. He adds that those grounds that don’t come under the BCCI’s direct funding are the worst-affected. While teams like Services and Railways don’t receive the funds from the BCCI, it cannot be taken as an excuse for sub-standard facilities. Sadly, this malaise isn’t limited to these two associations, for…
A transcript of Rahul Dravid’s speech, made at the function organised by the BCCI to felicitate him in Mumbai on Tuesday
