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The primary focal point of the BCCI's 93rd Annual General Meeting, to be held here on Sunday, will be to elect two representatives of India to the ICC meetings, as finding a successor to incumbent secretary Jay Shah is not on agenda. The meeting assumes importance because the International Cricket Council has scheduled a conclave in Dubai at the end of the upcoming Women's T20 World Cup in the UAE.
The IPL Governing Council meeting is scheduled to convene on Saturday evening for the BCCI's 93rd Annual General Meeting, to be held on Sunday. The primary point of interest will be the decision pertaining to the retention rule. It has been learnt that the board, after considering multiple suggestions from team owners, could be settling for five retention and one Right to Match option per team ahead of the IPL 2025 auction.
Rain and a wet outfield have played spoilsport in the second Test between India and Bangladesh at Green Park Stadium, with the weather threatening to derail India's quest for a spot in the World Test Championship (WTC) final. Only 35 overs were bowled on Day 1 as Bangladesh struggled to 107/3, with Indian pacer Akash Deep impressing by picking up two crucial wickets. The second day was washed out without a ball being bowled.
Bangladesh 'Super Fan' Tiger Robi was required to be taken to a nearby hospital from Kanpur's Green Park Stadium during the second Test match between India and Bangladesh. Robi, who had to be carried to hospital by medical and security personnel, had alleged that he had been beaten up inside the stadium, before later denying it. A police officer later confirmed that there had been no assault, but a case of heat exhaustion. Now, further details have been revealed regarding Robi's case, with reports that he suffers from tuberculosis.
India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja continues to reach new heights in Test cricket. Of late, he has registered a record that none of the other players have managed to achieve so far in the 147-year history of cricket. Jadeja has become the first-ever player to score 2000 plus runs and scalp over 200 wickets in a winning cause in a Test match. He achieved the feat during India's first Test vs Bangladesh at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. The next player who could equal this record of Jadeja is Ravichandran Ashwin. The star all-rounder has scored 1943 runs and taken 369 wickets in a winning cause in Test cricket.
:The relentless Brisbane Lions cast aside the Sydney Swans by 60 points in the Australian Football League (AFL) grand final on Saturday to hold aloft the premiership cup in front of 100,013 people at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Australia spinner Adam Zampa overtook former pacer Nathan Bracken to become Australia's eighth-highest wicket-taker in ODIs on Saturday. Zampa made this upward movement in the charts during the fourth ODI against England at Lord's. In the match, Zampa was somewhat the only positive for Australian bowling, taking two wickets for 66 runs in eight overs at an ecomomy rate of 8.25. He got crucial wickets of half-centurions Ben Duckett and Harry Brook.
Ravichandran Ashwin on Friday scripted history by becoming the Indian bowler to take most wickets in Asia. He achieved the feat after dismissing Bangladesh captain Najmul Hossain Shanto on Day 1 of the second Test in Kanpur. Ashwin now has 420 wickets in the Asian continent, one more than former India captain Anil Kumble. He is now only second to Muttiah Muralitharan (612) in the all-time list of bowlers with most wickets in Asia.