Month: July 2017

Niranjan Shah has been effectively barred from the July 26 SGM © Getty Images A year after approving the Lodha Committee recommendations and directing the BCCI to implement the same, the Supreme Court has warmed up to the idea of reconsidering a few of the reforms. Although the court did not spell out the specific ones it would re-open for debate, it did indicate that recommendations such as the one-state-one-vote…

‘You can’t get ahead of yourself, you can’t set milestones, you can’t set records for yourself in the future’ – R Ashwin © Associated Press Galle is not a place easy to forget. Not if your Test career, which is now in full flow, underwent a resurgence here. Not if you are coming back to play your 50th Test here. R Ashwin, looking destined to threaten India’s bowling records, will…

End of the road? JP Duminy managed only 17 across two innings at Lord’s © Getty Images JP Duminy has been released from South Africa’s squad for the last two Tests in England. Duminy had been dropped for the second Test at Trent Bridge, which South Africa won by 340 runs to square the series, after managing only 17 runs across two innings in the first at Lord’s. He last…

Mustafizur Rahman missed the 2016-17 BPL season since he was rehabilitating following shoulder surgery © BCB Mustafizur Rahman will be the eighth A-plus category player in the 2017-18 Bangladesh Premier League. The BPL governing council has also announced that a franchise can field up to five overseas players in their XI (minimum three), as was the case in the 2012 and 2013 editions. Mustafizur had missed the BPL’s 2016-17 season…

Hashan Tillakaratne had previously served as national selector, between January 2013 and April 2015 © AFP Hashan Tillakaratne has joined the Sri Lanka team as temporary batting coach, and will be with the side until at least the end of the Test series against India. Sri Lanka have been without a permanent batting coach since Marvan Atapattu was raised to the position of head coach in 2014. “Hashan has been…