motera is the biggest and best
ahmedabad: BJP president Amit Shah, who heads the Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA), said that the Motera stadium in Ahmedabad is likely to be made the world's biggest in terms of crowd capacity. “We have been making attempts to make Motera world's best and state-of-the art stadium. For which the design and the project is ready. But due to the recent polls it has been postponed,” Shah said during a cricket practice ground inauguration function here.
younis challenges PCB
karachi:Upset at being dropped from the ODI side, Pakistan's senior batsman and former captain Younis Khan today lambasted the national selectors and said they should be held accountable if they fail to build a new team for the World Cup in February next year. A visibly angry Younis, who was dropped from the one-day squad for the series against Australia, told reporters that he was willing to step aside from the national team for the next six months. .
atwal tied 18th
Ibaraki Prefecture:Arjun Atwal dropped a costly double bogey on par-4 17th to slip to tied 18th on a very tight leaderboard at the end of the second round of the 150 million Yen (approximately $ 1.5 million) Asia-Pacific Open Golf Championship Diamond Cup. Atwal, who was nicely placed at three-under when he came to the 17th tee, dropped two shots and went to one-under after a card of one over 72 on the second day.
units to get less share of bcci
New Delhi:There is bad news for the affiliated units of the BCCI as they will be gettinga lesser share of the pie due to cut in sponsorship and media rights money. According to a source the affiliated units will have a decrease in share of money by approximately Rs14 crore. last year, most of the affiliated units got something to the tune of Rs32 to Rs34 crore from the BCCI depending upon number of international matches hosted and other variables. There will be decrease in share for the associations as they will be getting between Rs18-Rs20 crore. The good news was income receipts from IPl has increased by Rs278 crore while there has also been a rise in Cl T20 income receipts from Rs279 crore to Rs 327 crore.