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Pune Warriors Withdraw From Indian Premier League After Row With BCCI05 / 22 / 13The scandal-hit Indian Premier League on Tuesday "suffered yet another blow" with the Sahara Group-owned Pune Warriors India "withdrawing from the cash-rich event" due to the Board of Control for Cricket in India's decision to "encash the team's bank guarantee following a prolonged financial di... Tags: Franchises, India |
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ICC Finds No Evidence Of Corruption
The Int'l Cricket Council conceded Friday there was "confusion" in a vote for a place on one of its committees, according to the AP. The election has raised allegations of vote fixing and led the int'l players' association "to formally request an ethics committee investigation." Cricket's gover ...
Indian Officials To Boycott IOC Meeting
A crucial meeting on India’s bid to return to the Olympic fold "was thrown into doubt Thursday when a senior Indian Olympic Association official objected to the IOC inviting a rival faction to the talks," according to C. Rajshekhar Rao of the AP. IOA acting President Vijay Kumar Malhotra, who ...
PCB Elects Zaka Ashraf To Four-Year Term
Pakistan Cricket Board Chair Zaka Ashraf on Wednesday became the country's first elected head of the sport, "winning a four-year term under a new constitution approved earlier this year," according to PAKISTAN TODAY. The Int'l Cricket Council "directed all its members to run their boards democratica ...
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French Open organizers "banned John Tomic from the tournament, following the lead of the ruling body of men's tennis," which Wednesday "banned him indefinitely." The father of Australian Bernard Tomic "is due to appear in court in Madrid next Tuesday on assault charges for allegedly breaking the nos ...
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Teen Golfers Promoting Sport In China
When 14-year-old Chinese golfer Guan Tianlang competed at The Masters, he became "the youngest player to compete in a major championship," according to XINHUA. Weeks later, 12-year-old Ye Wocheng "became the youngest player to compete" in the Volvo China Open, part of the European Tour. China ...
Blatter To Look At Asia World Cup Quota
FIFA President Sepp Blatter called for "more berths for Asian teams at future stagings of the World Cup," and said that the issue "would be addressed at a meeting later this month,'' according to the AFP. Blatter said that more Asian teams "should enter the tournament, at the expense of European and ...
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BCCI Accused Of Exchange Violations
An appellate tribunal is set to hear the Board of Control for Cricket in India's appeal against a Rs 52.24 crore ($10M) fine "levied in February by the Competition Commission of India for irregularities in the grant" of Indian Premier League franchise rights, media rights and sponsorship rights, acc ...
Hockey India Secretary Barred From IOC
Indian Hockey Federation Patron & Chief Advisor K.P.S. Gill on Saturday applauded Indian Olympic Association acting Chief V.K. Malhotra's decision "not to include Hockey India Secretary General Narinder Batra in the four-member delegation" for a meeting with the IOC in Lausanne, Switzerland ...
Sheikh Salman Is AFC President
Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain has been elected the new president of Asian Football Federation "after receiving a two-third majority in the first round of voting," according to Ahmed Rizvi of THE NATIONAL. Sheikh Salman received 33 of the 46 votes, "two more than th ...
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Thai Brands Vie For Cambodia Kit
The Cambodian team for the Southeast Asian Games will don clothing and competitive gear custom made "by one of the two reputed brands from Thailand," Grandsport and Football Thailand, according to H.S. Manjunath of the PHNOM PENH POST. The Thai sports merchandise companies, which consider Cambodia " ...
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