IPL10 Player Auction Delayed

IPL 2017 auctions which were previously scheduled to be held on February 4, 2017 have been delayed following the Supreme Court of India's decision to dismantle BCCI house at the beginning of the year. The delay is being blamed on the Court's indecision to appoint a committee of administrators to run the IPL.

2017 player auctions are likely to be held in third week of February © BCCI

However, with a four-member committee of administrators taking charge on Monday, the air will now be cleared quickly. The committee of administrators met with the BCCI management team to discuss the immediate decisions that need to be taken concerning IPL.

Lawyer bats for Andre Russell, maintains he is a clean athlete

Following a one year ban imposed on West Indies allrounder Andre Russell by anti-doping panel in Kingston, Jamaica for violating whereabouts clause, Russell's lawyer Patrick Foster has called his client as innocent and described him as a clean athlete. 

A three-member tribunal comprising Hugh Faulkner, Dr Marjorie Vassell and Dixeth Palmer, a former Jamaica cricketer, found Russell guilty of being negligent in filing his whereabouts on three separate occasions within a 12-month period in 2015. That - under the World Anti-Doping Agency rules - amounted to a failed dope test.