Despite his office bearers breaking their silence and coming to demand his resignation, a defiant cricket control board president N. Srinivasan is no mood to leave his chair for now on his own. The Tamil Nadu businessman who made a hasty visit to Mumbai for the second time in a week once again reiterated his refusal to step aside again.

Frustrated with the spot-fixing scandal and the series of controversies that have plagued the Indian Premier League, the event’s chairman Rajeev Shukla on Wednesday said he was not keen to take up the position again.
Shukla said his tenure was for a one-year period which is renewed every year and he was not willing to take up the high-profile post for a third consecutive term.

Delhi Police on Wednesday arrested four more persons including two bookies and a man said to be a friend of arrested cricketer S. Sreesanth in the spot fixing case.

Coca-Cola India XI rode on Delhi boy Vikas Dixit’s century to beat Sri Lanka Under-17s by 103 runs in the first match of the three-match series at the FTZ grounds in Colombo on Tuesday.

Telefunken Club beat Gush Club by six wickets in the 38th Lala Raghubir Singh hot weather cricket tournament at the Modern School, Barakhamba Road, grounds in the capital on Wednesday.

Board of Control for Cricket in India president N. Srinivasan — already facing calls to step down from a growing number of Board members over the spot-fixing sage and its fallout — took a further hit on Wednesday with the Union sports ministry asking the Tamil Nadu strongman to resign from his post.

The numbers might point against them, but India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said “the team will put up a strong show” in the upcoming Champions Trophy in England.

The name of Team India ODI star Suresh Raina (Chennai Super Kings) has cropped up as one of 10 Uttar Pradesh players under the scanner of UP police.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Tuesday constituted a three-man inquiry commission, that included two retired High Court judges, to look into allegations against Gurunath Meiyappan — son-

Mahendra Singh Dhoni had only a mocking smile for media men who overstepped BCCI diktat that questions not pertaining to Champions Trophy would not be answered by the skipper who was shepherded into t