Despite India’s draw versus Pakistan in the second Test, the trio of Wasim Jaffer, Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly can take heart from the fact that the Kolkata run-feast has pushed them up in the ICC players rankings. Thanks to his double century in the first innings and a half century in the second, Jaffer jumped 17 places to 23rd, his career-best rating.

Ganguly, who notched up his maiden Test ton at his home ground and missed a half century in the second innings, also moved up four places to 24th, while Tendulkar climbed a rung to be 17th in the list.

CCI suspends Dungarpur

Mumbai: Former Board of Control for Cricket in India president Raj Singh Dungarpur has been suspended from the Cricket Club of India for two years by the club’s executive committee.

“Yes, he’s been suspended for two years,” informed a CCI source, who added that the action taken yesterday against one of Indian cricket’s best known administrators is with immediate effect. Dungarpur had been accused by the new managing committee headed by president I M Kadri of financial irregularities when he was the club president and an enquiry was launched to go into the transactions during his tenure at the helm for more than a decade.

BCCI’s no to Stanford

New Delhi: Already staked up with a packed calendar, the BCCI has declined an invitation for the US$ 5 million match against the Super Star team slated for June next year.

The match was originally the grand finale of the Stanford 20/20 tournament, where India by virtue of being winners of the inaugural World Twenty20 were scheduled to play a one-off match against a team comprising of the best performers from their domestic Stanford 20/20 in the West Indies. In September, Stanford 20/20 had extended an invitation to the winners of the ICC World Twenty20 Championship and the ICC had left the decision on the respective country’s board.

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