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AUSTRALIA'S forgotten men of cricket , including Mitchell Johnson, cashed in with six-figure deals at last night's Indian Premier League auction.

Sahara India Parivar have announced they are withdrawing their sponsorship of the Indian team and the IPL franchise Sahara Pune Warriors

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Sahara Group has pulled out of its sponsorship deal with the Indian cricket board and the Pune franchise of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the diversified business conglomerate said on Saturday. Citing instances where it has been denied “natural justice” in IPL, Sahara said in a statement: “We really feel such one-sided emotional relationship cannot be dragged (out) any …

India's national cricket team lost its major sponsor Sahara India after an 11-year association. Sahara India announced Saturday it will end its sponsorship of the national team and would also give up its ownership of Indian Premier League team Pune Warriors. The sponsorship contract was not due to expire until next year but Sahara said it will only stay on for a few months while the Board of…

* Sahara ends sponsorship deal with BCCI * Withdraws IPL team (Adds BCCI comments) NEW DELHI, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Sahara Group has pulledout of its sponsorship deal with the Indian cricket board andthe Pune franchise of the Indian Premier League (IPL), thediversified business conglomerate said on Saturday. Citing instances where it has been denied “natural justice”in IPL, Sahara said in a …

Sahara Group has pulled out of its sponsorship deal with the Indian cricket board and the Kochi franchise of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the diversified business conglomerate said on Saturday.

After India’s twin debacles in England and Australia, Makarand Waingankar in The Hindu asks if there are any solutions in sight to improve Indian cricket. The Talent Resource Development Wing (TRDW) which was successful at one time in fast-tracking Indian players, was inexplicably scrapped. The BCCI must appoint a fact finding committee under Ganguly. As he is still playing, he will know the ground realities and can decide better. He should be allowed to choose his committee members and present his report of solutions in two months. Asking seniors to…

N Srinivasan, the BCCI president, has said that the Indian board does not have any reservations against technology as such, but reiterated its scepticism of the Decision Review System

The Indian cricket team should use businessman Jack Welch’s strategy of phasing out of the deadwoods from a company, Vijay Tagore writes in DNA. He says that while the BCCI is essentially now a big corporate house, its functioning is retrograde. A defeat of this magnitude calls for not only a review, but a revamp of the system. However, history tells us that the BCCI is loath to such an initiative. Its petulance, one understands, has something to do with history. The last such review, following India’s premature exit from…

All the discourse after India’s dismal tours of England and Australia has been about a structural overhaul of Indian cricket, Siddhartha Vaidyanathan says on his blog, but, while that is a worthy aspiration, it is unlikely to happen. He says India needs to focus on goals for the next four or five years, and work on those. India go through four Tests with almost no change in personnel. Do the captain and coach think Rohit Sharma is fit for Test cricket? Is he part of their medium-term vision? Wasn’t it…