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BCCI doubles player salaries:Huge pay hikes for Pujara, Jadeja and Vijay:Hike in match fees too.
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India's cricket team have been given a significant pay rise, with the world's richest cricket board (BCCI) announcing on Wednesday that it had doubled salaries for the 2016-17 season and hiked match fees across all three of the game's formats.
According to sources the Indian cricketers were not happy with their pay structure. Some of them who play IPL make...
India vs Australia ended in a draw, but was a true show of grit. With exchange of words between the two teams before the match, the contest was highly anticipated. The match started out cold but heated up towards the end with India nearly winning the game. Australia won the toss and decided to bat first on yet another...
A lot of controversies are created when the Australian Cricket team plays on the Indian soil.
Virat Kohli has alleged that Australian Captain Steven Smith and some other Australian players disrespected the home team physio Patrick Farhart.
Smith has denied the claim that nothing as such happened.
Virat Kohli after the match conference told "They (four-five of them) started taking Patrick's name. I don't know...
Two goals from Messi see Barcelona close gap on leaders Real Madrid
Barcelona beat the fifth-placed side Valencia 4-2 at the Camp Nou. Goals from Messi, Suarez and Andre Gomes were enough to secure victory for the home side while the visiting side had to play the entire second-half with 10 men.
Barcelona fell behind after Eliaquim Mangala scored from a...
Cheteshwar Pujara and Wriddhiman Saha have gone to whole another level to irritate the Australians on the fourth day of the Ranchi Test.
Pujara scored a double century today whereas Saha raised a hundred today. The interesting and amazing day 4 for the seventh wicket has created lots of love to Pujara. And the tweets couldn't stop going gaga over Cheteshwar...
UEFA Champions League quarterfinals draw done, Dortmund draw Monaco, Leicester paired against Atletico
The most successful team of the European competition Real Madrid will face perennial title contenders Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League. The draws for the quarterfinals lineups were done on Friday in Nyon, Switzerland.
The record eleven-time European Champions were drawn against German champions...
Monaco beat Manchester City 3-1 in the second leg of the Round of 16 tie in State Louis II in Monaco to win 6-6 on aggregate based on the away goals rule. The victory took Monaco to the quarterfinals of the Champions League for the second time in three years.
Monaco were playing without their talismanic captain Radamel Falcao
Monaco took...
Two goals in either half enough to take Leicester to the next round.
Leicester City, the reigning champions of premier league, beat Europa League title holders Sevilla at the King Power Stadium in Leicester to march into the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Trailing 1-2 from the first leg, the home side won the reverse fixture 2-0 and thereby 3-2...
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Commonwealth 2022: Durban out, India, Australia, Liverpool and several other countries throw their hats in the ring
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The host for Commonwealth 2022 is open, as Durban backs out. India will likely toss its hat in the ring for hosting the Commonwealth 2022.
Durban backed out from being a host as the South African government failed to give financial guarantees for the event. As there is hardly four years to prepare for the next Commonwealth, the federation is...
Finally,After about a year in banishment noted cricket commentator, Harsha Bhogle is all set to make a comeback with the 10th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). As per recent reports, one of the major intellect for the change in Bhogle's inheritance seems to be the revamp in the top brass of the Board of Control for Cricket...