PCA rejects Yuvraj Singh’s claims regarding discrimination in selection

October 1st, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - Four Indian cricketers-Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh are frontrunners at Thursday night's ICC awards ceremony. The sixth LG ICC Awards 2009 will take place at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg.

October 1st, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - Mahendra Singh Dhoni was named captain of both World ODI and Test Team of the year at the International Cricket Council (ICC) Awards here Thursday night. For the second consecutive year Dhoni was selected as the captain of the ODI team that also includes his compatriots Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh.

September 25th, 2009 KARACHI - Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam is confident that his team will beat India at Centurion Saturday and earn a semi-final place in the Champions Trophy. Going by the form, India will be the favourites in the much awaited clash, but Intikhab believes that two major factors will give his side an upper hand -- the absence of flamboyant Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh and the return of Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif.

September 11th, 2009 COLOMBO - The following is the scoreboard of the Compaq Cup One-day International cricket match between India and New Zealand here Friday: New Zealand: Brendon McCullum lbw b Nehra 3 Jesse Ryder lbw b Nehra 0 Martin Guptill c Dravid b Yuvraj Singh 22 Ross Taylor c Dhoni b Singh 11 Grant Elliott c Dhoni b Yuvraj Singh 22 Jacob Oram c & b Sharma 24 Neil Broom c Raina b Yuvraj Singh 21 Daniel Vettori b Sharma 25 Kyle Mills b Singh 6 Ian Butler c Harbhajan Singh b Nehra 6 Shane Bond not out 10 Extras (lb-4, w-1) 5 Total (all out in 46.3 overs) 155 Fall of wickets 1-1 (Ryder, 0.3 overs), 2-4 (McCullum, 2.2), 3-19 (Taylor, 5.5), 4-51 (Guptill, 14.6), 5-66 (Elliott, 20.3), 6-101 (Oram, 28.1), 7-116 (Broom, 32.1), 8-134 (Mills, 37.6), 9-142 (Vettori, 42.3), 10-155 (Butler, 46.3) Bowling Ashish Nehra 8.3 0 24 3 RP Singh 8 2 22 2 (1w) Ishant Sharma 10 2 26 2 Yuvraj Singh 10 0 31 3 Harbhajan Singh 8 0 39 0 Suresh Raina 1 0 4 0 Yusuf Pathan 1 0 5 0 India: Dinesh Karthik lbw b Mills 4 Sachin Tendulkar c Guptill b Vettori 46 Rahul Dravid lbw b Oram 14 Yuvraj Singh c Guptill b Vettori 8 Mahendra Singh Dhoni not out 35 Suresh Raina not out 45 Extras (lb 3, w 1) 4 Total (for four wickets in 40.3 overs) 156 Fall of wickets1-7 (Karthik, 2.3 overs), 2-67 (Dravid, 18.1), 3-71 (Tendulkar, 19.2), 4-84 (Yuvraj Singh, 23.6) Bowling Kyle Mills 5.3 1 25 1 Shane Bond 10 3 30 0 (1w) Ian Butler 4 0 25 0 Daniel Vettori 10 0 33 2 Jacob Oram 7 1 19 1 GD Elliott 2 0 9 0 Martin Guptill 2 0 12 0 Toss: New Zealand, who chose to bat Man of the match: Ashish Nehra (India) Umpires: K. Dharmasena (Sri Lanka) and B.

September 11th, 2009 COLOMBO - India's Ashish Nehra and Yuvraj Singh bowled inspiring spells to pack off New Zealand for 155 runs in their opening One-day International match of the Compaq Cup tri-series cricket here Friday. New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori elected to bat but the batsmen kept losing wickets and the Kiwis were bowled out in 46.3 overs.

September 7th, 2009 Dubai, Sept 7 (IBNS) India has a chance to claim number-one place in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship as the tri-nation series also involving host Sri Lanka and New Zealand begins at the R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo from Tuesday. India trails number-one ranked South Africa by just one ratings point but if it wins all the three matches (including the final), it will gain two ratings points which will put it in number-one position for the first time since the rankings were introduced in October 2002.

August 8th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Cricket Board's newly appointed chief selector Iqbal Qasim has stated that controversial fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar still has a future in international cricket. Qasim said: "The door is not closed on Shoaib Akhtar, he can still play cricket for Pakistan in future, however what he needs to do is to prove to the selection committee that he is fit enough for international cricket." Speaking exclusively to PakPassion.net, he said the reports that the selectors received were that Akhtar was not fit enough to be eligible for selection for the 30 man preliminary squad for the Champions Trophy and they took note of those reports accordingly.

August 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With several sportsperson saying that they have faced no major difficulty in following World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) code, cricketer Yuvraj Singh has strongly defended his teammates' decision to reject the code. Sportspersons from all fields felt that cricketers had over-reacted in not signing the WADA code because they are ingnorant of the controversial 'whereabouts' clause.

August 2nd, 2009 MUMBAI - The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Sunday rejected the controversial anti-doping clause of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that makes it mandatory for players to make themselves available for out of competition tests. BCCI strongly backed the players, saying that the "whereabouts" clause is an "invasion into the privacy of an individual".

August 2nd, 2009 Indian cricket rejects WADA codeMUMBAI, India — World cricket's adoption of the World Anti-Doping Agency agreement has been sidetracked by India's rejection of a clause governing notification of players' whereabouts when they are not competing. Acting on its players' complaints, India's cricket board balked on Sunday at the section of the WADA agreement that requires players to say where they will be for three months in advance to allow random testing when they are not playing.

July 6th, 2009 DUBAI - India's Yuvraj Singh achieved a career-best second position in the Reliance Mobile International Cricket Council's rankings for ODI batsmen released Monday. Yuvraj jumped two places following his good performance against the West Indies that included a century at Kingston.

June 30th, 2009 KARACHI - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Tuesday disbanded the national senior and junior selection committees with immediate effect. The move was on the cards after former chief selector Abdul Qadir resigned midway during the World Twenty20 earlier this month citing differences with the PCB.

June 15th, 2009 LONDON - The Pakistan cricket coach, Intikhab Alam, has rejected former chief selector Abdul Qadir's allegations that he was not given enough room in the team's selection procedures. Alam said he was disappointed, as well as shocked by Qadir's statements, as the team for the ICC Twenty20 World Championship was finalized only after he had given his consent.

June 12th, 2009 LONDON - Yuvraj Singh has been named vice-captain of the Indian cricket team in place of injured Virender Sewhag for the ongoing World Twenty20. Sehwag was ruled out of the championship with a shoulder injury.

June 4th, 2009 LONDON - England's star batsman Kevin Pietersen is impressed by the hitting prowess of Yuvraj Singh and Chris Gayle, whom he has nominated as some of his most feared opponents. Pietersen reckons Windies captain Gayle is one of the most dangerous Twenty20 stars in the world, and adds Andrew Symonds and Brett Lee to that list, as well as fast bowlers Fidel Edwards and Dale Steyn.