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Sourav Ganguly, the joint secretary of the Cricket Association of Bengal, has become the face of Bengal cricket after Jagmohan Dalmiya’s death. The next Board presidential candidate must find a proposer from the East Zone in order to contest. News from the BCCI is that there will be no interim arrangement in terms of nominating a successor for the late ...

Mohammad Amir: “I’m not worrying over when I will play for Pakistan, instead I am just focussing on my domestic form and then leaving the rest to the selectors.” Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir has said that a return to international cricket is not his current focus and has stressed that domestic cricket will be his top priority in the ...

Chelsea striker Diego Costa has been charged with violent conduct by the Football Association after his side’s 2-0 win over Arsenal on Saturday. Costa, 26, put his hands in the face of Arsenal centre-back Laurent Koscielny prior to clashing with Gunners defender Gabriel, who was sent off. The FA has also charged Gabriel, 24, with improper conduct and both clubs ...

US extradition proceedings against Jack Warner, a former vice-president of football’s world governing body Fifa, are to go ahead after being approved by Trinidad’s attorney general. The US wants to try Mr Warner, 72, a Trinidadian national, on corruption charges. He is accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes. He and 13 other current or former Fifa officials were ...

Japan coach Eddie Jones has warned Scotland that his team want to be more than “one-hit wonders” after their sensational win over South Africa at the World Cup. Karne Hesketh crossed in the final minute to win the World Cup Pool B encounter in Brighton on Saturday. The Brave Blossoms face Scotland on Wednesday in their second match. “We have ...

Barcelona coach Luis Enrique says that Lionel Messi’s penalty issues do not make the blaugrana superstar seem any less of a visitor from another planet. Messi scored twice in Sunday evening’s 4-1 La Liga win at home to Levante — one an expertly dispatched penalty — and set up another as Barca continued their 100 percent start to the new ...

BCB vice-president Mahbubul Anam has said that the board is keen to develop a separate cricket calendar in various divisions © Getty Images Bangladesh cricket could take its first step towards the game’s decentralisation at an administrative level by the end of 2015, vice-president Mahbubul Anam said. The long-awaited regional cricket association is set to be launched as a pilot ...

EVEN as Indian cricket mourns the loss of the most dynamic administrator to have held its reins, the passing away of the ailing Jagmohan Dalmiya has left the dynamics of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in a state of ambiguity. Ideally, the solution to ‘what happens next?’ question on the vacant president’s chair would be a ...

United Arab Emirates (UAE) started their AFC U-16 group-D qualifiers with a 6-1 victory over hosts Bangladesh at Bangabandhu National Stadium on Friday, UNB reports. Abdullah Al Naqbi put UAE ahead in the 12th minute of the match by a sliding right footer from the top of the six yard box off forward Mohmed Al Khamis pass, 1-0. UAE skipper ...

Pakistan Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi said he wants his country’s cricket board to stop pushing for a series against India and concentrate more on persuading other teams to tour Pakistan. Afridi told reporters on Friday in Lahore, “I don’t know why we are pushing for a series against India again and again. I don’t see any reason to play (against ...