Sudhir Asnani

Former international match officials Amiesh Saheba, Krishna Hariharan and Sudhir Asnani formed a three-member Umpires' Sub-Committee of the BCCI which was announced on Saturday.

SS Shamsuddin has replaced Shavir Tarapore in the Emirates International Panel of Umpires of the International Cricket Council from India.

The BCCI is mulling on calling all the registered umpires for a meeting before the start of the season to discuss and assess their performance of the earlier season.

Seven umpires from across the country, including one from the city, have got call from Indian Premier League (IPL) for Twenty20 tournament to be played in South Africa.

Indore Divisional Cricket Association (IDCA) chairman and BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Sunday said that the good grounds and multiple tournaments have helped more cricket players from state find place in team India.

The one-off Twenty20 match between India 'A' and West Indies 'A', which was originally scheduled at Shimoga, will now be staged at the M Chinnaswamy stadium here on September 21.

ICC Elite Panel member Nitin Menon is among 10 officials grouped in the newly introduced A+ category of BCCI umpires. The others in the A+ category include four international umpires -- Anil Chaudhary, Madangopal Jayaraman, Virender Kumar Sharma and KN Ananthapadmabhanan. Rohan Pandit, Nikhil Patwardhan, Sadashiv Iyer, Ulhas Gandhe and Navdeep Singh Sidhu are also part of the A+ category.

Monday turned out to be a historic day for MP’s cricket. Umpire Nitin Menon from the state became only the third Indian to be inducted in the ICC’s Elite Panel. 36-year-old Nitin is also the youngest umpire in the 12-member elite panel of the cricket’s highest body in the world.

In the mid and late 2000s, Vidarbha Cricket Association hardly had any bench strength in umpiring department. Apart from Suhas Phadkar, Bhupinder Singh Bhatti and Purnachandra Godbole, Vidarbha didn’t have quality umpires. With limited exposure, these three too didn’t officiate at the international level.

Mahanaryaman Scindia, 29, is set to become the youngest-ever president of the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association (MPCA) after a unanimous election. This development arrives as Indore prepares to host ICC Women's World Cup matches in October. Alongside Scindia, other office bearers were elected unopposed, including Sudhir Asnani as secretary and Arundhati Kirkire as joint secretary.