A Voice of the Unheard Wednesday, September 23, 2026
MUMBAI: Sri Lankan umpire Maurice Winston is wondering if Nadir Shah’s ten-year ban can be revoked by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), why can’t he be exonerated early when he was also banned (3 years) for the same reason in July 2013. Speaking exclusively over telephone from Colombo, Winston, who will be 53 on Friday,...
MUMBAI: Do all present-day international cricketers know the terminology of the game they play ? Not sure, but Virat Kohli, the captain of the India’s Test team is “unaware” about the definition of a boundary. “I cannot hit big sixes, so I focus on boundaries”, Kohli, now playing in Asia Cup, said in a press-conference...
MUMBAI: Former BCCI and ICC president Jagmohan Dalmiya’s daughter Vaishali is likely to contest the forthcoming elections in West Bengal. This was revealed by her brother Avishek Dalmiya, who is the honorary joint secretary of the Cricket Association of Bengal. Speaking exclusively at the Wankhede Stadium where Jagmohan Dalmiya’s son had come with CAB’s president...
CHRISTCHURCH: New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum on Saturday smashed the fastest ever Test ton in his final international match. McCullum reached three figures in 54 balls here, bettering the previous mark of 56 deliveries held by Viv Richards and Misbah-ul-Haq, the Guardian reported.. He marched to the milestone in 79 minutes on day one of...
MUMBAI: Sri Lankan team won the first Twenty20 match (Pune) under Graham Ford’s “second innings” (he had coached Sri Lankan team for two years, beginning 2012) as coach but could not keep the momentum in the remaining two games. The coach hopes the team would learn ahead of the ICC World20-20 scheduled to be played...
MUMBAI: New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum, while playing his 100th Test match was dismissed for a duck (c. Warner b. Hazzlwood) against Australia at Basin Reserve on Friday. He, however, is not the only “unlucky” skipper. The list includes, Mark Taylor and Alan Border (Australia), Stephen Fleming (New Zealand), Dilip Vengsarkar (India), and Cook (England)....
MUMBAI: Sri Lanka’s 22-year-old new right-hand medium fast bowler Kasun Rajith, who made a sensational international debut by grabbing the top two wickets in his very first over at Pune on Tuesday is happy for the prize wicket of Rohit Sharma. Speaking exclusively from Ranchi, where the team reached late in the evening on Wednesday,...
MUMBAI: There were 23 dogs present at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune, and guarded the Day/Night Twenty20 match between India and Sri Lanka on Tuesday. This was revealed by Kishor Nawal, whose Mumbai-based firm (Third Eye Dog Security) was by the Maharashtra State Cricket Association. “There was not a single untoward incident happened....
MUMBAI: Team India’s (ODI and Twenty20) captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has sent a legal notice to the accusers, who have alleged him to be the match-fixer. Quoting Sunil Dev, who was a manager of the Indian team on England tour in 2014, the Sun Star (Hindi Daily) alleged that Indian captain had fixed the Test...
NEW DELHI: The match-fixing allegations are not a new thing in cricket and this time India ODI skipper MS Dhoni seem to have found himself in the middle of a recent expose. In a startling revelation, DDCA secretary and then Team India manager Sunil Dev claimed that India-England fourth Test played in Manchester in 2014...