Peter Manuel

The International Cricket Council has maintained an unchanged list of match officials for the 2026-27 international season. Nitin Menon continues as the sole Indian on the ICC Elite Panel of Umpires, while Javagal Srinath remains the only Indian in the ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees. This decision reflects the consistency and high standards in international officiating.

The ICC has named four women in a strong field of nine umpires to officiate in next month's ICC Women's World Cup Qualifier 2017 in its continued efforts and commitment to the overall growth and development of women's cricket.

Former Services and Mysore state hockey player A Samuel passed away here on Saturday after a brief illness. He was 85.

The 2009 terror attack on the Sri Lankan team's bus in Lahore not only changed his life, but the lives of many others and also the global game of cricket, says Simon Taufel, who was an umpire in that ill-fated match and survived the strike.

One of the most common epithets used to describe Ustad Ghulam Ali Khan is ‘Tansen of the 20th century’. Often called Bade Ghulam Ali Khan to differentiate him from other icons of the same name, the maverick musician was one of the legendary thumri vocalists of all time, who guided the Patiala Gharana, one of the schools of Hindustani classical music, to a new height.