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A Test championship could become a opportunity in the near future and the ICC seem to be taking into account the ambition of the cricket playing nations and the FICA for a transform.
Haroon Lorgat ,ICC chief executive stated the same when handing the club over to the Indian captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, as India went to the top of the ICC Test rankings.
Lorgat said a committee of five was formed to find a possible format for a Test championship which would bring about a greater uniform to the number of Tests being played between teams at regular time to verify a better way to find the top team in the world.
It would aim to answer the concerns of FICA that more influence was being brought to bear upon the Twenty20 format, mainly so the IPL, instead of focussing on guarantee a more reasonable Future Tours Programme (FTP) post 2012.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Sunday split its grounds and pitches committee with immediate result following the abandonment of the fifth and final India-Sri Lanka ODI at the Kotla.
Several hours later, in a related improvement, all members of the grounds and pitches committee of the Delhi and Districts Cricket Association (DDCA) — chairman Chetan Chauhan, convenor Sunil Dev and curator Vijay Bahadur Mishra — resigned owning moral task for the pitch failure.
“At a meeting of senior officials of the DDCA, the chairman and members of the grounds and pitches committee of the DDCA, including the keeper, resigned owing moral task after the rejection of the India-Sri Lanka ODI,” DDCA secretary S. P. Bansal said in his speech.
Previously, a statement issued by BCCI secretary N. Srinivasan said: “The BCCI has disbanded its grounds and pitches committee with immediate effect,”
The decision to disband the five-member BCCI committee, headed by Daljit Singh, came hours after the final one-dayer was called off because of a unsafe pitch.
The game was discarded after Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara refused to play on a treacherous pitch.
The visitors were faltered at 83 for five when Thilina Kandamby complained to the on-field umpires about the form of the pitch.
Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly were today offered lifetime golden family passes by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee for their triumph and involvement to Indian cricket.
Presenting the AC-first class passes, Banerjee congratulated the duo for their success in Indian as well as international cricket.
She expects that Tendulkar would bring many more glory for the country.
In a short speech, Tendulkar congratulated the football team which had won the league title for the last five years.
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has said that it will send a letter of complaint to the International Cricket Council (ICC) over the immense suspension handed down to spinner Sulieman Benn, but will not demand against the choice.
Benn was balanced for two one-day internationals after being found responsible of bringing the game into disregard following an ugly mid-pitch argument with Australians Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson during the second day of the third Test in Perth on Thursday. Contact was made between Benn and Johnson after a heated replace of words got out of hand.
Johnson and Haddin appeal guilty and were handed lesser sanctions, losing 10% and 25% of their game fees respectively, despite match referee Chris Broad slamming Haddin for his role as an inflamer of the event.
The West Indies’ ladder was upset about the harshness of the penalty handed down to Benn, surprised why their player was slapped with a ban when the two Australians runaway with just a fine.
A team spokesman established the West Indies would send a letter of complaint to the ICC voicing their dissatisfaction over the difference in the penalties handed down.
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been forbidden by International Cricket Council match umpire Jeff Crowe for sustaining a slow over-rate during the second ODI against Sri Lanka in Nagpur.
Diminutive left-handed batsman Gautam Gambhir
will apparently be the stand-in captain for the next two ODIs to be played in Cuttack on Monday and Kolkata on Thursday, as the forbid is likely to be valuable immediately, which means Dhoni will be back again only for the final ODI in Delhi on Sunday.
The second ODI, which India lost by 3 wickets, finished about 45 minutes after the scheduled finish time because of many discussions between the Indian players during the last stages of the Sri Lankan run chase.
Finally Sri Lanka won the match.
PRETORIA, South Africa England talented Stuart Broad will turn down offers to play in next year profitable Indian Premier League (IPL) in order to be in top form for the 2010 Ashes in Australia, he said on Monday.
Broad, 23, told reporters in Pretoria that playing for England had forever been his boyhood dream and remained his precedence.Broad told a news meeting that,” My dream has always been to play for England, playing at places like Lord’s, and money will not make you happy”
Broad’s England team mate James Anderson has also declared that he will not play in the IPL next year, the England and Wales Cricket Board said on their website (www.ecb.co.uk).
“I certainly want to be a Twenty20 player in the future, but I want to make sure my mind and body are fresh so I can give success against Australia next year,” Broad said.
“I want to play as much as possible for England, that’s what gives me a buzzing, and I won’t put my body in trouble. There’s always a risk of hurt in the IPL and by not going I’ll be able to have a little rest and hopefully build up my performance heading into the worldwide summer.”
Broad did not reveal if he had received offers to play in the IPL which runs from March 12 to April 25.England’s Ashes defence in Australia gets happening in November.England start a four-test series against South Africa at Centurion on Wednesday and Broad said self-belief was high in the team.
“We’re in good form, we’ve won our last two series, and our victory against Australia will stand us in good stead for South Africa.”I’ve taken three ‘five-fors’ in 2009, so I know I can achieve at test level. I’m excited about bowling in South Africa because the pitches are good, there’s a balance between bat and ball, a fair competition.
“I know that when I get into tempo, I just have to think on the basics, land the ball in the right place, worrying the batsmen and making them play. And I feel like I’m in a decent rhythm at the moment,” Broad said.
The Bank of India all-India inter-zone T20 cricket match will be held at Patna from December 14 to 17. The Patna zone of the bank will host the competition for the first time.
The eight nodal zones with 120 players from 46 zones of Bank of India will take part in the tournament, stated the zonal director, Patna zone, P K Bansal. He also stated some Ranji players will also represent different zonal teams, together with Mumbai and Delhi nodal zones.
The tournament would take part in at Patna College and Science College grounds on group basis from December 14 to 16. The final match will be played at the Science College ground on December 17. Bansal stated that for the first time this year a cricket team of Patna nodal zone comprising Bihar and Jharkhand has been chosen to participate in the match.
Replying to a question, Bansal said this year the Bank of India will enlist sportspersons in clerical and officers’ posts from the panel of national and international-level players. For enrollment of sportspersons as officers from the sports allowance, the players must be of national and international reputation in cricket, hockey, table tennis, kabaddi and some other sports, he stated.
The international cricket council is now working for the upcoming Tours Programme. This program is the backbone for the game’s diary for the year 2012 till 2020.
The chairman of ICC Mr. David Morgan stated that at present teams have to play each other twice over a six cycle but that could not be reduced to once.
Conversely the Federation of ICA has to recap its demand of test cricket for the survive. The main issue with the ICC model is that the capacity of cricket is reduced because the window pane has been carved out for champion League and IPL. International cricket will only be able to be planned in 42 of the weeks of the year, rather than 52,” said Tim May, chief executive of Fica.
The argue comes just 24 hours after the Indian board morsel a scheduled three-Test series against South Africa next spring in favour of a seven-match one-day sequence.
Both boards blamed a scheduling pile-up but sources have indicated the decreasing support for Test cricket in the sub-continent, from fans, support and broadcasters, was behind the move, despite the fact the series would have seen the top two teams in the Test rankings go head-to-head.
Last month Fica proposed the introduction of a prepared Test championship which would avoid boards from changing stuff at the last minute.
India has became number one Test team after finishing the match against Sri Lanka with 24 runs in the third and final cricket Test to finalize the series of 2-0.
Zaheer khan got 5-72 as Sri Lanka, trailing by 333 runs in the first innings, were attempt made for 309 in the second knock.
The 2-0 score boosted up India to the top of the official Test ranking with 124 rating points, which is more than the leader South Africa.
Sri Lanka , who lost the second Test by an inning with 144 runs went to fourth place from second place with 115 points, one points behind Australia(116).
More than 10,000 Indian fans cheered Indian Players and support staff. After the fall of the last wicket South African coach Gray Kristen hugged each other.
Sachin Tendulkar, the world’s leading batsman in one-day and test cricket spoke to television after the match .”It is surprising to be the number one Test team,” said Tendulkar, 36, who completed 20 years in worldwide cricket at the start of this series.
“I have been waiting a long time to get to this situation. Not just me, but the entire country waited for it.
“The players have worked very hard over the last 18 months to get there and the coach has handled the team superbly.” Since November 2007, India have won home series against Pakistan, Australia, England and Sri Lanka, won an away series in New Zealand, and drawn at home against South Africa.
The Indians lost two away series in Australia and Sri Lanka in the same time.
“The real tough job starts now to maintain this performance,” said Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Cricket Australia(CA) chief executive James claims that test matches remain famous across the world and it will be unfortunate if individuals starts to evaluate the sport event which happened last week at Gabba.
Australia’s knocked down the West Indies within three days, joined with low mass and television viewers, has made for a smooth feel at the start of summer opposite to the previous three seasons, which characterize South Africa, India and England.
The one-sided match came along with debate over the hope of the game first played in 1877, as some guardian have advocated a two-tier system while others want a world challenge to give Test series greater background.
A collective crowd of 37,000 watched Australia beat the West Indies, and television ratings were down by up to 25 per cent on the parallel match last year between Australia and New Zealand.
Sutherland said on Thursday those figures were “on average to our expectations”, and admitted on tour sides had “a different level of beauty”.
But on the eve of the second Test, in Adelaide starting on Friday, he shielded Test cricket and rejected any suggestion the layout livelihood was under threat in the middle of the Twenty20 boom.
“The diversion of cricket has never been more admired around the globe than it is today,” he said.
“… It’s regrettable if people are going to judge the status of Test cricket or international cricket by the background and by the crowds in audience.
“Test cricket is played in three out of the five days, on weekdays and I think you really need to have a look at the TV viewers which verify the fact that Test cricket is totally here to stay.
“The Australian individuals and lovers of cricket all over the world enjoy the feel of the game and keep on watch it.”
CA has been at the front position of pushing for improvement to Test cricket, by pushing for the introduction of a world championship and continued day-night matches.
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