The Indian Cricket board has decided to move the Supreme Court challenging the Calcutta High Court's directive to initiate criminal proceedings against six top officials for filing false affidavits in the Jagmohan Dalmiya expulsion case.

Since Wednesday's sensational development, BCCI officials, including former chief Sharad Pawar, were busy in consulting lawyers.

Speaking on this, Rajiv Shukla, (Chairman - BCCI Finance Committee) said, “It was an ex parte order and the BCCI officials were not given an opportunity to put across their case. We have decided to move the Supreme Court in this matter.”

Sydney, Nov 15 : Australian all rounder Andrew Symonds scored a brisk 45 of 35 balls in his comeback match, but couldn’t prevent his side’s 64-run loss to the Australian Cricket Association All Stars in a Twenty20 charity fundraiser at the Gabba.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Symonds hit two sixes and a four in his entertaining knock for his team, but that was not enough to reach the All Stars’ 203 for four.

Importantly, the Queenslander, dumped from the Australian squad after missing a team meeting to go fishing, top-scored for them before he skied one to Simon Katich off Dan Marsh.

At Sardar Patel Stadium, Lahore Badshahs defeated Hyderabad Heroes in the first final of the Indian Cricket League’s 20s tournament. Chasing a target of 171, Badshahs survived a middle-order collapse before reaching the target in 19.1 overs in the best-of-three finals. 

Imran Nazir started beautifully with two sixes and three fours in 10 balls to amass 28 runs in two overs before getting out at the hands of Justin Kemp at mid-on on Abdul Razzaq delivery in the next over. 

Rajkot, Nov. 14 : India thrashed England by 158 runs in the first of seven one-day internationals held here on Friday.

Chasing a mammoth target of 388 runs, England were bowled out for 229 runs in 37.4 overs, losing wickets at regular intervals. Only skipper Kevin Pietersen shone with the bat, scoring a 56-ball 63 with seven fours and two sixes. It was his 20th ODI fifty.

Fast bowler Zaheer Khan wrecked the England batting line-up by taking 3/26 off seven overs. He was ably supported by Munaf Patel and R P Singh who took a wicket each.

Sydney, Nov. 14 : A majority of cricket fans have welcomed the announcement of Andrew Symonds'' recall to the Test team, but don’t know why he was sacked by his teammates.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Symonds was sacked for many other reasons, and not just because he opted to go fishing when he was supposed to attend a team meeting in Darwin ahead of the series against Bangladesh.

Karachi, Nov 14 : Amid signals emerging from India that it might not send its cricket team to Pakistan to play a series early next year due to “security reasons”, the PCB has said that it was willing to host the series at a neutral offshore venue.

The series, including ODIs, Tests and a Twenty20 game, is scheduled for January 4 to February 19.