Modi's Letter to ICC about ‘corrupt’ players

Ex-Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi reportedly sent a confidential letter to the International Cricket Council (ICC) revealing the names of some top international cricketers who were involved in corruption in the IPL T20 tournament.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Sunday confirmed receiving the letter from Modi. The letter ts dated June 2013 in which Modi has claimed that certain players received illegal payments equal to the amount of Rs 20 crores each from an Indian real estate businessperson. ICC CEO David Richardson has received the names of the so called alleged players and the bookie and has promised that ICC will look after into the matter.

“The players are in close contact with real estate tycoon (name withheld). He is also a big punter and also book maker. I had banned him from bidding for any IPL teams… Reliable sources have informed me that he has paid in cash and kind (flats) to the above three in tune of 20 cr each,” Modi said in the letter.

“The ICC confirms that Mr Modi’s confidential e-mail, which was received in June 2013, and which has recently been published on Twitter, was provided to the ACSU at the time. The ACSU handled that information in accordance with its standard operating procedures, which included sharing it with the BCCI’s anti-corruption unit,” the ICC statement read.

The letter is almost two years old, but has been revealed to public only now. ICC has assured the BCCI that it would carry out investigations since the players involved in the case are all internationals.

The news first came out from Twitter when one of the social-media website users with the handle @shyamswami158 posted an image of the letter in a tweet sent to Modi, asking,"Whadya hav to say about this @LalitKModi ? Wat was @ICC response ..... This is shocking!!!!" Modi's response to the tweet from @shyamswami158 was: "Ask @Icc @Bcci @Ipl why ask me. This is highly confidential. You should not be tweeting this". Later, ICC confirmed about the letter.

Sachin Tendulkar voted best Test player of 21st century

In an online poll conducted by Cricket Australia’s website, India's legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has been voted as the 'Test player of the 21st century.' The poll was conducted by the website cricket.com.au, which is the official website of Cricket Australia to list out best 100 Test players since 2000.

The former Indian cricket player Sachin Tendulkar received the higher number of votes in the poll to become the best test player of 21st Century. Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara held the second position in the list receiving second highest number of votes. Third position has been occupied by the former Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist.

Sachin Tendulkar is certainly one of the best cricketers of all-time and now, this online poll has crowned him as the best Test player of this century.

"Tendulkar, the Little Master who remains an iconic figure in the sport, was a runaway winner, while batting giants Ricky Ponting and Jacques Kallis were separated on countback, with the Australian just edging out his Protean counterpart," the website said.

The survey was taken by over 16,000 cricket fans and Sachin managed to get 23 per cent of votes to top the list while Sangakkara got 14 per cent votes to be at the second position. The top 10 Test players list includes only one Indian (Sachin Tendlukar), four Australian, three South African and two Sri Lankan cricketers.

Sachin Tendulkar currently holds the record for the highest number of runs scored in both ODI and Test cricket formats as well as the only player to have hit 100 international centuries.

Zaheer Abbas is the new ICC President

Former Pakistan captain Zaheer Abbas has been appointed as the new president of the International Cricket Council (ICC). Abbas has replaced Bangladesh's Mustafa Kamal as the ICC president. Zaheer Abbas has joined his duties and thanked the ICC Board for giving him the opportunity.

"I feel truly honoured and humbled to be appointed as the president of the governing body of our great game," said Abbas.

The ICC chairman, Narayanaswami Srinivasan said: “Zaheer is clearly an iconic cricketer who always played the game with skill, flair and in the true spirit. He is a worthy ambassador of our great game.”

Zaheer Abbas has been a former player of Pakistan and Gloucestershire teams and has many records in his name. Zaheer has scored 5,062 runs in 78 Tests, around 2,500 in 62 ODIs and more than 34,000 runs in his cricket career. He also made 108 centuries and is the only Asian batsman with 100 first-class centuries.

Zaheer also played in the 1975, 1979 and 1983 ICC Cricket World Cups. He also played as a captain of Pakistan Cricket team in 14 Tests and 13 ODIs.

The International Cricket Council also accepted the Serbia Cricket Federation (SCF) as the 58th Affiliate Member of the ICC.

12 Deserving Players who never won a World Cup

We all know about the teams and players who ever won a World Cup, but do we know about the players who never won a World cup even if they deserved one. Here is the list of 12 players who actually deserved to win a World Cup in their career but were disappointed

You can get here, ICC World Cup Score 2015

1. Saeed Anwar

ODIs 247
Runs 8824
Highest 194

2. Saurav Ganguly



ODIs 311
Runs 11363
Highest 183

3. Brian Lara



ODIs 299
Runs 10405
Highest 169

4. Jacques Kallis



ODIs 328
Runs 11579
Highest 139

5. Martin Crowe

ODIs 143
Runs 4704
Highest 107*

6. Rahul Dravid



ODIs 344
Runs 10889
Highest 153

7. Ian Botham



ODIs 116
Runs 2113
Highest 79
Wickets 145

8. Anil Kumble



ODIs 271
Runs 938
Wickets 337
Highest 6/12

9. Waqar Younis



ODIs 262
Runs 969
Wickets 416
Highest 7/36

10. Allan Donald



ODIs 164
Runs 95
Wickets 272
Highest 6/23

11. Curtly Ambrose



ODIs 176
Runs 639
Wickets 225
Highest 5/17

12. Jonty Rhodes



ODIs 245
Runs 5935

Highest 121