CHENNAI/MUMBAI: The IPL fixing scandal has reached the doorstep of Indian cricket’s powerful boss and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) owner N Srinivasan’s family — quite literally.

A day after The Times of India broke the story about the police investigating Srinivasan’s son-in-law and CSK CEO Gurunath Meiyappan’s phone conversations [...]

MUMBAI: The sponsors of the Indian Premier League are increasingly getting restive as they find that the rub-off from the betting-fixing tainted league is proving to be negative for their brands. Some of them are even thinking of pulling out.

IPL title sponsor PepsiCo, which bought the rights for close to Rs [...]

CHENNAI/MUMBAI: The IPL fixing scandal has reached the doorstep of Indian cricket’s powerful boss and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) owner N Srinivasan’s family — quite literally.

A day after The Times of India broke the story about the police investigating Srinivasan’s son-in-law and CSK CEO Gurunath Meiyappan’s phone conversations [...]

These are the worst of times and the best of times for Rahul Dravid. An old-world cricket man, who has forever had to reinvent himself to fit in with constantly-changing demands, Dravid could have finally found his calling in this highly-manufactured, mostly-irrelevant world of the T20 league.

This must be the [...]

MUMBAI: Talk about an umpire being declared out. On Thursday, the International Cricket Council (ICC) sacked Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf from the Champions Trophy scheduled in England next month. The sacking of the ICC’s elite panel umpire comes a day after TOI quoted Mumbai police sources as saying [...]

NEW DELHI: Chennai Super Kings CEO Gurunath Meiyappan, whose link in the IPL spot-fixing scandal is being probed, on Thursday sought more time to appear before Mumbai Police.

Meiyappan was not found at his Chennai residence when a three-member team of Mumbai Police raided his house on [...]

LEEDS: England captain Alastair Cook believes Headingley will be far from the bowling-friendly ground of old when the second Test against New Zealand starts at Yorkshire’s headquarters on Friday.

England shot out the Black Caps for just 68 in their second innings at Lord’s last week to set-up a 170-run win [...]

CHENNAI: BCCI chief N Srinivasan and his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan are not in their houses. Meiyappan was not in his Cenotaph Road residence when the Mumbai crime branch police team reached there.

Sources said the Mumbai police have served a summons for Gurunath to appear before them for interrogation, but [...]

NEW DELHI: Sports Minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday said he has been forced to hang his head in shame due to the IPL spot-fixing scandal, which is becoming bigger and murkier with each passing day, insisting that a deterrent law could have prevented the credibility crisis that cricket is facing [...]

NEW DELHI: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”.

“I would not lie it was a very tough phase for [...]