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BCCI Announces Huge 125 Crore Prize Money For Team India Following T20 World Cup Victory

Mumbai, June 30 - Following Team India's triumph in the T20 World Cup final, the Honorary Secretary at the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Jay Shah has announced prize money of INR 125 crores for the team for winning the tournament. ## Jay Shah took to X to announce the massive remuneration for players and coaching staff. "I am pleased to announce prize money of INR 125 Crores for Team India for winning the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024. The team has showcased exceptional talent, determination, and sportsmanship throughout the tournament. Congratulations to all the players, coaches, and support staff for this outstanding achievement!"## I am pleased to announce prize money of INR 125 Crores for Team India for winning the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024. The team has showcased exceptional talent, determination, and sportsmanship throughout the tournament. Congratulations to all the players, coaches, and support… pic.twitter.com/KINRLSexsD— Jay Shah (@JayShah) June 30, 2024 ## Team India, led by captain Rohit Sharma and head coach Rahul Dravid, defeated South Africa in the final of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados on June 29. It was India's second T20 World Cup title and 4th World Cup title overseas (2 ODI World Cup). ## The T20 World Cup win also ended the team drought in the ICC tournament. Before this, the last time India won an ICC trophy was in 2013 when the team won the Champions Trophy after England in the final. After 2013 CT, the team came close to the ICC title on many occasions across formats but couldn't cross the line until the T20 World Cup 2024. ## Stay tuned...

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1406 days ago

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MS Dhoni Refused To Charge Fees For Mentoring Indian Cricket Team In T20I World Cup

Mumbai, October 13 - The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) surprised one and all when it announced that former India world cup winning captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni will be part of the Indian Cricket Team during the ICC T20I World Cup in UAE and Oman as a mentor. ## Dhoni's inclusion as a mentor made the cricket fraternity and fans happy as he has been one of the most loved sportspersons around the world. And now, Dhoni has given another reason to the sports fraternity to be proud of him as he will not be charging any fees for his service to the Indian team. ## Speaking to news agency ANI, BCCI secretary Jay Shah said the legend wouldn't be charging anything for his new role. "MS Dhoni is not charging any honorarium for his services as the mentor of the Indian team for the T20 World Cup", he said.## The 40-year-old Dhoni retired from international cricket last year, his last India game being the 2019 World Cup semi-final, which the team lost to New Zealand. It is believed that Dhoni was brought in for his experience in devising near-perfect white ball strategies. ## However, after retiring from international cricket, MS Dhoni continuing to play for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL. Under his leadership, CSK will be playing its 9th IPL final on October 15. In the previous 8 finals, Dhoni-led CSK to win 3 IPL trophies while on 5 occasions CSK was the runner-up. ## Meanwhile, the T20I World Cup will begin on October 17. Team India will kick start their campaign on October 24 against arch-rivals Pakistan. The final is scheduled to be played on November 14 at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai.## Stay tuned...

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1470 days ago

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ICC Confirms To Bid For Cricket's Inclusion In The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics

Mumbai, August 10, 2021: Cricket has been waiting to be included in Olympics for more than a century now. And now, the wait could see an end in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics as the International Cricket Council (ICC), on Tuesday (August 10), confirmed that it will bid for cricket's inclusion in the games. ## The international cricket body has been making a case for cricket's inclusion in Olympics for a while now and it will also have backing from the richest cricket board BCCI as made clear by Secretary Jay Shah recently. The last time cricket was a part of the Olympics was in 1900, when Great Britain played France. And now, the world's one of the most followed sport, cricket could become a permanent fixture in the games with the ICC hoping to see it included in Brisbane 2032 as well and beyond. ## Earlier, the BCCI was not too keen on cricket's including in the Olympic games as it feared the loss of its autonomy and interference from the Indian Olympic Association (IOC). However, things changed after Jay Shah took charge of the Board. He was recently quoted as the BCCI being on the same page with the ICC on the matter. ## ICC chairman Greg Barclay said, "Firstly on behalf of everyone at the ICC, I would like to congratulate the IOC, Tokyo 2020, and the people of Japan for staging such an incredible Games in such difficult circumstances. It truly was fantastic to watch and captured the imagination of the world and we would love for cricket to be a part of future Games". ## "Our sport is united behind this bid. And we see the Olympics as a part of cricket's long-term future. We have more than a billion fans globally and almost 90 percent of them want to see cricket at the Olympics. Clearly, cricket has a strong and passionate fanbase, particularly in South Asia where 92% of our fans come from, whilst there are also 30 million cricket fans in the USA. The opportunity for those fans to see their heroes competing for an Olympic medal is tantalizing". ## "We believe cricket would be a great addition to the Olympic Games, but we know it won't be easy to secure our inclusion as there are so many other great sports out there wanting to do the same. But we feel now is the time to put our best foot forward and show what a great partnership cricket and the Olympics could be", Barclay added. ## ECB chairman Ian Watmore will lead the ICC Olympic Working Group and he will be joined by the ICC independent director Indra Nooyi, chairman of Zimbabwe Cricket Tavengwa Mukuhlani, ICC Associate member director and vice-president of the Asian Cricket Council Mahinda Vallipuram and chair of USA Cricket Paraag Marathe, who believes the time is ripe for an Olympic bid. ## Stay tuned...

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1473 days ago

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BCCI Announces Case Prizes For Indian Medal Winners At The Tokyo Olympics 2020

Mumbai, August 7, 2021: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced case rewards for the Indian athletes who won medals in the Tokyo Olympics 2020. India won 7 medals including 1 Gold, 2 Silver, and 4 Bronze medals, making it the country's most successful outing in the history of the Olympics games. ## "Our athletes have made the country proud by finishing on the podium at @Tokyo2020. The @BCCI acknowledges their stellar efforts and we are delighted to announce cash prizes for the medallists", BCCI secretary Jay Shah tweeted. ## Our athletes have made the country proud by finishing on the podium at @Tokyo2020. The @BCCI acknowledges their stellar efforts and we are delighted to announce cash prizes for the medallists. pic.twitter.com/1nxST0vURy— Jay Shah (@JayShah) August 7, 2021 #### Jay Shah took announced INR 1 crore to the Gold medal winner, Neeraj Chopra. Chopra becomes the first athlete and the only second individual after Abhinav Bindra to win the Gold medal for India in the Olympics history. He won Gold in the Javelin throw on the final day of the games.## Shah also announced INR 50 lakh each to Mirabai Chanu and Ravi Kumar Dahiya who won Silver medals, INR 25 lakh each for the Bronze medalists, PV Sindhu, Bajrang Punia, and Lovlina Borgohai while INR 1.25 crore to the Indian Men's Hockey team for winning the Bronze medal. ## INR 1 Cr. - 🥇 medallist @Neeraj_chopra150 lakh each - 🥈 medallists @mirabai_chanu & Ravi Kumar Dahiya25 lakh each – 🥉 medallists @Pvsindhu1, @LovlinaBorgohai, @BajrangPunia INR 1.25 Cr. – @TheHockeyIndia men's team @SGanguly99| @ThakurArunS| @ShuklaRajiv— Jay Shah (@JayShah) August 7, 2021 ## Stay tuned...

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1543 days ago

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IPL 2021 Set To Resume In United Arab Emirates

Mumbai, May 29, 2021: The Indian Premier League 2021, which was postponed after the first half due to the covid-19, is all set to resume in the United Arab Emirates, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced Saturday. ## The decision was taken at a Special General Meeting (SGM) held virtually, considering the monsoon season in India in the months of September-October this year. The remaining 31 matches will now be played in UAE, which also had hosted the 2020 IPL behind closed doors. ## The BCCI SGM further authorized the Office Bearers to seek an extension of time from the International Cricket Council (ICC) to take an appropriate call on the hosting of ICC T20 World Cup 2021. The BCCI thinks that it will explore all possibilities to host it in India itself. ## The ICC has slated its meeting on June 1 to decide the fate of the T20I Worl Cup, but the world body may have to defer the decision on moving the October 18-November 15 tournament out of India in view of the BCCI's request. ## Stay tuned...

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1552 days ago

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The Newly Test Inductee Shafali Verma Earns Promotion In India's 2020-21 Women Central Contract List; Veda Krishnamurthy Left Out

Mumbai, May 20, 2021: The 17-year old hard-hitting batter, Shefali, who recently received her maiden India Test call-up for a one-off Test against England, has been promoted from a Grade C to a Grade B central contract in the 2020-21 BCCI India Women contract list. ## Apart from Shafali, batter Punam Raut and spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad have also been promoted from Grade C to Grade B while the likes of Ekta Bisht, Veda Krishnamurthy, Dayalan Hemalatha, and Anuja Patel have been left out from annual contract.## This year, only 19 players have given the BCCI Women contract unlike 22 players in the last year. 17-year-old Richa Ghosh included for the first time and handed Grade C. She is one of six players on a Grade C retainer worth INR 10 lakh. ## All-rounder and limited-overs captain Harmanpreet Kaur, top-order batter Smriti Mandhana, and spinner Poonam Yadav are the three players to have earned a Grade A contract worth INR 50 lakh while the remaining 10 players on Grade B INR 30 lakh retainers. ## India Women contract list - ## Grade A (INR 50 Lakh) - Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Poonam Yadav## Grade B (INR 30 Lakh) - Mithali Raj, Jhulan Goswami, Deepti Sharma, Punam Raut, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Shafali Verma, Radha Yadav, Shikha Pandey, Taniya Bhatia, Jemimah Rodrigues## Grade C (INR 10 Lakh) - Mansi Joshi, Arundhati Reddy, Pooja Vastrakar, Harleen Deol, Priya Punia, Richa Ghosh## Stay tuned...

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1559 days ago

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Team India Retain Top Spot In Annual ICC Test Rankings

Mumbai, May 13, 2021: Indian cricket team under the leadership of Virat Kohli, is continuing to dominate the longest format of the game. In the latest annual ICC Test Rankings, announced on Thursday, India gained one point and finished on top spot with 121 points. ## It is the fifth continuous year when India ends with the top spot. The latest rankings update rates all the Tests played since May 2020 at 100 percent while the Tests played over the course of the previous two years are rated at 50 percent. ## India have registered their second successive Test series win in Australia, after beating the hosts 2-1 earlier this year, and then followed it up with a 3-1 win over England at home to consolidate their position at the top of the rankings. ## Meanwhile, New Zealand, who will against India in the first-ever ICC World Test Championship Final next month in England, are on the second spot with 120 points to their name. England at number three with 109 rating points followed by Australia and Pakistan at number 4 and 5 with 108 and 94 points respectively. ## Stay tuned...

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1562 days ago

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India To Tour Sri Lanka In July For Limited Overs Series, Says BCCI President Sourav Ganguly

Mumbai, May 10, 2021: The BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has hinted that the Indian team will travel to Sri Lanka for the limited-overs series in the month of July. However, the exact window for this series is yet to be known, but Ganguly said it would consist of three ODIs and three T20Is. ## According to the ICC's Future Tours Programme (FTP), India are scheduled to play three T20Is in Sri Lanka in July. India were also due to play three T20Is and three ODIs in Sri Lanka last June, but that tour was canceled due to the pandemic.## If the Sri Lanka tour happens and the FTP were to be followed, India likely to play with a completely different squad excluding several regular players. During the time of the Sri Lanka tour, the first choice Team India will be in England to play the WTC Final against New Zealand and 5-matches Tests series against England starting on August 4. ## Meanwhile, Ganguly denied the possibility of the remainder of IPL 2021 being played in England on either side of India's Test series there, when asked in an interview with Sportstar. "No", Ganguly said. "India is supposed to go to Sri Lanka for three ODIs and five T20Is. There are lots of organizational hazards like 14-day quarantine.## "It [the IPL] can't happen in India [either]. This quarantine is tough to handle. Too early to say how we can find a slot to complete the IPL", he added. ## Not only the IPL but also the ICC T20 World Cup which is supposed to be held in India, starting sometime in mid-October, looking in deep trouble. With the second covid-19 wave is worsening in the country, amid which the IPL's biosecure bubble was breached - it remains a possibility that the T20 World Cup will be shifted.## Stay tuned...

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1586 days ago

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Hardik Pandya And Shubman Gill Among The Gainers As BCCI Announces Annual Contract List

All-rounder Hardik Pandya has been promoted to Grade A (INR 5 Cr) from Grade B (INR 3 Cr) in the annual contract list released by BCCI on Thursday (April 15) for the time period of October 2020-September 2021. Among the top gainers, Shubman Gill and Mohammed Siraj, who played a vital role in the series win down under, have been a Grade C (INR 1 Cr) contract along with Axar Patel, who was handed his Test cap during the recently concluded series against England. ## Shardul Thakur, who made an impact in India's incredible tour Down Under, has also seen a jump and promoted to Grade B from C while Bhuvneshwar Kumar's lengthy injury and India's growing list of fast bowlers has seen him demoted to Grade B from A. The leg-spin duo of Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal have also slipped down the contract pecking order, both getting Grade C from B. Manish Pandey and Kedar Jadhav, the two Grade C white-ball players who are now out of favor, have not been given a contract. ## A total of 28 players have been given annual contracts this time, out of them - Grade A to 10 players, Grade B to 5, and Grade C to 10 while Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and Jasprit Bumrah have retained their A+ contract (INR 7 cr). ## Check out the full list -## Grade A+ (INR 7 Cr) - Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah## Grade A (INR 5 Cr) - Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ajinkya Rahane, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma## Grade B (INR 3 Cr) - Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shardul Thakur, Mayank Agarwal## Grade C (INR 1 Cr) - Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Shubman Gill, Hanuma Vihari, Axar Patel, Shreyas Iyer, Yuzvendra Chahal## Stay tuned...

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1673 days ago

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BCCI Announces India Squad For The First Two Tests Against England

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday (January 19) announced the India squad for the first two home Tests against England. Captain Virat Kohli, all-rounder Hardik Pandya, and fast bowler Ishant Sharma return to the 18-member India squad for the first two Tests which will be played at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. ## Virat Kohli, who had flown back to Mumbai after the first Test against Australia to attend his first child's birth, will be returning to lead the side. Ishant Sharma, who has recovered from his side strain injury and is currently representing Delhi in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, will lead a four-pronged pace attack comprising Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, and Shardul Thakur.## All-rounder Hardik Pandya, who recently lost his father, has got some good news as he has been named to the squad. After playing the white-ball leg Down Under, the 27-year-old was left out from the Test squad to work on his fitness and bowling long spells. ## Some of the prominent names to have missed out in the first two tests due to injuries are Ravindra Jadeja, Hanuma Vihari, Navdeep Saini, Umesh Yadav, and Mohammad Shami are yet to attain full fitness. The only player dropped on the basis of performance is the 21-year-old opener, Prithvi Shaw. The selectors have also opted to leave out T Natarajan, who made an impressive debut in the just-concluded Brisbane Test having stayed on as a net bowler.## Squad - Virat Kohli (C), Rohit Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya (VC), KL Rahul, Hardik, Rishabh Pant (wk), Wriddhiman Saha (wk), R Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ishant Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Shardul Thakur## The All-India Senior Selection Committee has also picked five net bowlers and five players as standbys. Ankit Rajpoot, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Warrier, Krishnappa Gowtham, and Saurabh Kumar are the net bowlers while KS Bharat, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shahbaz Nadeem, Rahul Chahar, and Priyank Panchal has been named as standbys. ## The first of the 4-match Test series will be played from 5 to 9 February while the second test is scheduled from 13 to 17 February. The third and fourth Test will be played at Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad. The third Test will be a day-night test scheduled from 24 to 28 February with the last Test from 4 to 8 March.## Stay tuned...

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1699 days ago

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10 Teams IPL Gets Green Signal From BCCI In Annual General Meeting

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has approved the 10-teams format from the Indian Premier League 2022. The decision of inclusion of two new teams was taken during the board's 89th Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Ahmedabad on Thursday (December 24). ## The decision, agreed in principle, will see the tournament expand into a 10-team event starting from the 2022 season. The IPL Governing Council has been asked to work out the details for the process of inclusion of the two new teams and the structure thereafter.## "Two new teams will be introduced in the 2022 IPL", a Board source told PTI.## In another major development, the Board, in principle, decided to back the ICC's bid for the inclusion of cricket, in the T20 format, in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics "after getting some clarifications from the International Olympic Committee".## Also, it was decided that all first-class players, both men and women, will be suitably compensated even if there are any loss of matches due to the covid-19 pandemic. However, final details on the compensation, which was proposed in the meeting, have to be worked out.## The BCCI plans to get the domestic season underway, after several months' delay, in January with the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 championship.## Stay tuned...

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1729 days ago

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Shikhar Dhawan Gives a Sneak Peek Into Team India's New Jersey

Indian cricket team has not a big fan of changing jerseys as quickly as the other teams, but whenever this happens, it has always been a trend shatter among the fans of men in blue. Among team India's jerseys, their iconic 1992 World Cup jersey remains a big hit to date and has a great recall value among fans even in the modern era. ## Ahead of their first ODI against Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney on November 27, the Virat Kohli-led Men in Blue is set to turn the clock back and go retro, by donning a jersey similar to the one worn in 1992.## Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan gave a sneak peek into the national side's new jersey supporting the sponsors of MPL Sports and BYJU's. "New jersey, renewed motivation. Ready to go", Dhawan wrote while sharing a selfie wearing a new jersey. ## New jersey, renewed motivation. Ready to go. 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/gKG9gS78th— Shikhar Dhawan (@SDhawan25) November 24, 2020 ## Talking about Dhawan's own form, the left-hander is coming from scoring a plethora of runs in the recently-concluded IPL 2020 edition. The Delhi Capitals (DC) opener became the first-ever batsman in the tournament history to slam successive tons. Overall, he finished with 618 runs, at 44.14 and a strike-rate of 144.73, to end as the second-highest run-getter after KL Rahul. ## Dhawan will have an extra responsibility in the limited-overs series in which India will miss the service of vice-captain Rohit Sharma who also ruled out of the first two tests against Australia due to a hamstring injury. ## Stay tuned...