Form new IPL governing council by December 30: Lodha panel

The Lodha committee has directed a second set of deadlines to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday (August 31) after a meeting in New Delhi. The board has been asked to form a new governing council for the Indian Premier League (IPL), appoint a new management with the new rules and form new committees by December 30.

SG to submit pink balls for testing

The Indian cricket board (BCCI) has opted for the tried and tested Kookaburra pink ball for the ongoing Duleep Trophy but SG, the company which supplies the bulk of balls for domestic and Test matches at home, is ready with its pink samples for testing at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore.

Players' mouths bigger than ability: Jeff Thomson

Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to Thomson," former England captain Mike Brearley wrote this in his book `Return of the Ashes'.Nothing captures the essence of Jeff Thomson more than these words. He was the fastest bowler in the world in the 1970s and formed a lethal partnership with Dennis Lillee.

Plunket Shield gears up for pink-ball trials

While the pink-ball trials have already started in India's domestic cricket, in the ongoing edition of Duleep Trophy, New Zealand too is set to gets its first taste of day-night domestic matches during the 2016-17 season of Plunket Shield. As per the domestic schedule released by New Zealand Cricket (NZC) on Tuesday (August 30), the first-class matches, scheduled from March 6 to March 9, 2017, do not have a confirmed start time, while the rest of the games have a start time of 10:30 AM.

We are encouraged to play our natural games: Chris Woakes

There has been a tectonic shift in England's one-day fortunes since their disappointment at the World Cup 2015 where they were ousted by a spirited Bangladesh. Since they began their revival against New Zealand last year, where they crossed the 400-run mark for the first time and also recorded their highest successful ODI chase, they have won four ODI series out of the six played (with the exclusion of the abandoned Ireland ODI).

Ready to play more Tests in winter: Faf du Plessis

Faf du Plessis, the stand-in South Africa Test skipper, has welcomed the possibility of playing more Tests in the winter following the conclusion of the Test series against New Zealand. Even though Cricket South Africa (CSA) has been reluctant to host Tests during the winter because of the nature of the surfaces, the experiment to play the two-Test series proved to be fairly successful as the home side won the series 1-0.

Shamsi, Adams reprimanded for dissent

The South African A pair of Tabraiz Shamsi and Qaasim Adams have been charged for separate incidents during their Quadrangular One-Day Series match against the National Performance Squad after having breached the ICC's Code of Conduct on Wednesday (August 31).