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In June 2012, it was announced that Star TV, by then owned by News Corporation, would acquire ESPN's share in ESPN Star Sports. [4] [5] The sale was completed in January 2013. [6] [7] On 11 March 2013, Star Sports 2, a Hindi-language sports channel, was launched as a sister channel to Star Sports, Star Cricket and ESPN. [8]
The major and defining event in the history of Indian cricket during this period was the Partition of India following full independence from the British Raj in 1947. An early casualty of change was the Bombay Quadrangular tournament, which had been a focal point of Indian cricket for over 50 years. The new India had no place for teams based on ...
The 2012 Indian Premier League spot-fixing case was a controversy which arose during the 2012 Indian Premier League and led to the banning of five cricketers.It started when a Hindi news channel, India TV, aired a sting operation which accused five players of seeking money in exchange for spot-fixing. [1]
India Nickname(s) Men in Blue Association Board of Control for Cricket in India Personnel Test captain Rohit Sharma One Day captain Rohit Sharma T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav Coach Gautam Gambhir History Test status acquired 1931 (94 years ago) (1931) International Cricket Council ICC status Full Member (1926) ICC region ACC ICC Rankings Current Best-ever Test 3rd 1st (1 April 1973) ODI 1st ...
A Test match being played between India and Pakistan at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, India in 2007. This is a list of Indian Test cricketers. A Test match is an international cricket match between two of the leading cricketing nations. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his Test cap.
He is also the highest run scorer of all time in International cricket and the first sportsperson to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award in 2014. [5] The second recipient, MS Dhoni, is the former captain of the Indian national team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2016 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014.
Cricket has a long history in India, having been introduced in the country during British rule. It is the most popular spectator sport in India. [132] India is a cricket powerhouse, having won the ICC ODI World Cup and the ICC T20 World Cup twice. The governing body for this sport in this nation is the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
The 2019–20 Indian cricket season is the ongoing and 126th cricket season since the commencement of first-class cricket in India. The international cricket season started in September 2019 with South Africa's tour of India. The T20I series between the nations was drawn 1−1 while India clean swept the test series 3−0.