India to tour Zimbabwe in June
new delhi: The Indian cricket team will be touring Zimbabwe to play three ODIs and three Twenty20 internationals at the Harare Sports Club next month. The six matches are scheduled to be held over 12 days, starting with the opening one-dayer on June 11 and the last T20 on June 22. “After finalising all the formalities with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), we are pleased to announce the incoming tour scheduled for this June,” Zimbabwe Cricket managing director Wilfred Mukondiwa was quoted as saying in ESPNcricinfo.
Gambhir, Kohli fined
Bengaluru: Kolkata Knight Riders captain Gautam Gambhir was fined 15 percent of his match fees for his despicable conduct that saw him kick a chair during his team’s IPl victory over RCB while rival captain Virat Kohli became poorer by Rs24 lakh due to slow over-rate for second time. Kohli has now paid a total fine of Rs36 lakh having already been fined Rs12 lakh for an earlier offence of slow over-rate and the penalty was doubled as it was the second time. The TV replays showed Gambhir kicking a chair in the dug-out in violent fashion after Suryakumar Yadav hit a boundary, an incident even the commentators were finding it difficult to understand as to why he was so angry when his team was winning.
CAB to use pink ball in league Final
Kolkata: In order to be first among equals, the Cricket Association of Bengal are all set to experiment with ‘Pink ball’ day/night final match at the Eden Gardens in the first division Inter-Club championship. It was confirmed by CAB joint secretary Avishek Dalmiya and the final will be held in June. It is the idea of CAB president Sourav Ganguly, who wants to check out how pink ball day/night game shapes up before he can present his association’s case for the day-night Test match that BCCI is planning against New Zealand.