Srini appears before Committee
Chennai: BCCI President N Srinivasan and his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan have appeared before the Justice Mudgal Committee in connection with the probe into the IPl spot-fixing and betting scandal. It is learnt that former Chennai Super Kings Team Principal Meiyappan handed over a letter to the committee, exercising his right to remain silent. A criminal case is being heard against Meiyappan in the Bombay High Court. The committee has also questioned former India captain Kris Srikkanth and IPl chief executive Sundar Raman and will meet BCCI’s anti-corruption unit chief Ravi Sawani among others over the next few days. So far, the three-man committee has questioned a number of people, including the three Rajasthan Royals players -- S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Sidhharth Trivedi, while they have also met with the officials of Delhi and Mumbai police.
Pujara slips in ICC Test rankings
Dubai: India’s Cheteshwar Pujara slipped a rung to seventh in the batting list but R Ashwin remained steady at fifth in the bowling chart of the latest ICC Test rankings issued on Thursday. Apart from Pujara, Virat Kohli, who struck a hundred on the opening day of the first Test against South Africa yesterday, is the only other Indian in the top-20 of the batting list. He is unchanged at 20th. Among the bowlers, Pragyan Ojha moved up a spot to eighth. Ashwin, meanwhile, continued to hold the top position in the all-rounders’ list. Elsewhere, Australia opener David Warner has moved up three places after stellar performances against England in the Perth Test, which the home side won by 150 runs on Tuesday to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-Test series.
Hafeez stars in Pak’s win vs Sl
Sharjah: Pakistan survived a late order scare from Sri lanka to pull off an exciting 11-run win in the first one-day international here, to go 1-0 up in the five-matchs series. Pakistan’s innings was built around a brilliant 122 from Mohammad Hafeez which saw them post an impressive total of 322-5 in their 50 overs but were made to work hard for their win, finally bowling Sri lanka out in 49.4 overs last night. Besides Hafeez’s 122, Sohaib Maqsood (73) and debutant opener Sharjeel Khan (61) were the main contributors on a flat pitch. Brief Scores: Pakistan: 322/5 (Mohammad Hafeez 122, Sohaib Maqsood 73, Sharjeel Khan 61; Suranga lakmal 2-73) beats Sri lanka: 311 in 49.4 overs (Kusal Perera 64, Dinesh Chandimal 46; Junaid Khan 3-44, Shahid Afridi 2-30) by 11 runs.
High Altitude stadium in Wayanad
Kolkata: After being found guilty of fudging age, 13 cricket coaching centres, including two by former India captain Sourav Ganguly and former Bengal skipper Sambaran Banerjee, were banned by the Cricket Association of Bengal for one-year on Thursday. Cracking down on the menace of age fudging prevalent in age group cricket, the CAB, at its cricket committee meeting, also decided to ban 42 players for two years. “Next time, we will be stricter. A coaching centre will be banned for life time, while a player for 10 years to take part in any CAB organised tournament if found guilty of age fudging. We want to set a precedent to curb the menace,” CAB joint secretary Subir Ganguly said. PNS/Agencies