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Virat Kohli - The Future Of Indian Cricket?

2011-10-18T23:13:00.000-07:00

Virat Kohli did hit his seventh century is one day international when India beat England by eight wickets. The delhi boy partnered with his delhi mate gautam gambhir for massive partnership.

22 year old virat kohli has appeared in 66 one day international and 7 centuries ,16 half centuries which makes 23 fifty plus innings in 66 one days ,which in turn means he scores 50+ innings in one out of three match....

I remember when I first saw virat kohli it was in under 19 world cup . It was semi final match and virat kohli was captain. I could see aggression as well as composure in the young captain. The way he was motivating his team was worth a watch. At that time thought came to my mind and that thought said boss this guy has in him.He can make it big in national team and has potential to become future captain.

He soon entered Indian cricket team and making his presence felt. His aggression with control , his robust defense , his ability to learn and most importantly his hunger to perform and win games for India , makes him future of Indian cricket!!!!!!!!!

He lead his club team (banglore royal challengers) and proved his worth as batsman and captain for banglore. He is captain material and dhoni , bcci should think on those line for future plans.

Only word of caution I have for virat kohli is that he is still 22. He is soon becoming sorted out man for ad world. He is bachelor with huge woman following and he is dubbed as next super star of Indian cricket. It is not easy to handle all the attention and virat has done good so far , he needs to continue handling all maturely.

So far virat looks on his way to become VIRAT name for Indian cricket in years to come . I wish him all the best and would love to see him doing what he does best , that is keep learning and remain in control amidst all attentions he has started to gain.

Leave Sania Sohaib Alone

2010-04-10T00:08:00.000-07:00

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Today as I woke up my dad was watching sabse tej channel. Now sabse tej had one news to break and that news was that sohaib malik's father's name on ayesha's nikanama-divorce paper while name in invitation card is different. I got sick from this news.

Till there was ayesha's issue , media trying to go tough on sohaib was understandable. When ever an ordinary citizen takes on a celebrity , media tries to make sure that rich and famous dont use their position and take side of powerless ordinary citizen.

But now when dust has settled and ayesha has no issues any more , why is media not leaving sania and sohaib alone. It is their personal matter and nothing to do with lives of Indian or pakistanis.

Sania's marriage is neither going to make lives better for ordinary Indian or Pakistani nor it is going to make their lives worst.

Yes sania is big brand and sohaib is also famous cricketer so curiosity level is there but now its time to leave them alone in their private matter. How would these media people feel is their life in intruded?

There are far more breaking news which are important and which effects lives of people at large rather than being obessed with kartina-salman , sania-sohaib ,hrithik-barbara ,dhoni-laxami or yuvi's love affairs.

Media can moulds brain and kind of news these people are showing is not doing any good to country.

Let's hope that april passes and sania , sohaib make headlines for their sports performance from there after.

T20 world cup schedule-2010

2010-04-08T07:25:00.000-07:00

April 30 17:00 GMT	1st Match, Group B - Sri Lanka v New Zealand Providence Stadium, Guyana
April 30 21:00 GMT	2nd Match, Group D - West Indies v Ireland Providence Stadium, Guyana
May 01 13:30 GMT	3rd Match, Group C - India v Afghanistan Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
May 01 17:30 GMT	4th Match, Group A - Pakistan v Bangladesh Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
May 02 13:30 GMT	5th Match, Group C - India v South Africa Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
May 02 17:30 GMT	6th Match, Group A - Pakistan v Australia Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
May 03 13:30 GMT	7th Match, Group B - Zimbabwe v Sri Lanka Providence Stadium, Guyana
May 03 17:30 GMT	8th Match, Group D - West Indies v England Providence Stadium, Guyana
May 04 13:30 GMT	9th Match, Group B - New Zealand v Zimbabwe Providence Stadium, Guyana
May 04 (D/N) 17:30 GMT	10th Match, Group D - England v Ireland Providence Stadium, Guyana
May 05 13:30 GMT	11th Match, Group A - Australia v Bangladesh Kensington Oval, Barbados
May 05 17:30 GMT	11th Match, Group C - South Africa v Afghanistan Kensington Oval, Barbados
May 06 13:30 GMT	13th Match - A1 v D2 Kensington Oval, Barbados
May 06 17:30 GMT	14th Match - C1 v B2 Kensington Oval, Barbados
May 07 13:30 GMT	15th Match - A2 v C2 Kensington Oval, Barbados
May 07 17:30 GMT	16th Match - B1 v D1 Kensington Oval, Barbados
May 08 13:30 GMT	17th Match - C1 v D2 Kensington Oval, Barbados
May 08 17:30 GMT	18th Match - A1 v B2 Kensington Oval, Barbados
May 09 13:30 GMT	19th Match - C2 v D1 Kensington Oval, Barbados
May 09 17:30 GMT	20th Match - B1 v A2 Kensington Oval, Barbados
May 10 13:30 GMT	21st Match - B2 v D2 Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
May 10 17:30 GMT	22nd Match - A1 v C1 Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
May 11 17:00 GMT	23rd Match - B1 v C2 Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
May 11 21:00 GMT	24th Match - D1 v A2 Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
May 13 15:30 GMT	1st Semi-Final - Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
May 14 15:30 GMT	2nd Semi-Final - Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
May 16 15:30 GMT	The Final - Kensington Oval, Barbados

Sachin Tendulkar : Krishna For Mumbai Indians

2010-04-07T01:46:00.000-07:00

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Sachin ramesh tendulkar has been part of Indian lives since 20 years now. There are lot of things written about him and his batting. Some call him god of cricket , some call him little master and some simply can't imagine Indian team without it.

Such is talent of this man that at age of 37 , he dominiates almost all format of the game. Sachin tendulkar is in form of his life and way he is batting in IPL , he is re writing t-20 rules. Having hit only a six in the tournament he is in top 2 run getters and best part of his performance is that mumbai Indian are on the roll.

Yesterday sachin became ill , possibly wheather took toll on him and he was retired ill. The in form mumbai shattered ,once sachin left and the all powerful team looked like bunch of college mates playing with professional team!!!!!

Sachin tendulkar is like krishna for mumbai Indian team. The basher saurabh tiwari , the destructive pollard , bravo , all in form and greatly skilled flattered once tendulkar was gone.

Never the less , this win of chennai was needed for ipl . Now 3 and 4th position becomes far more interesting.

If kkr wins today it would become much more interesting and highly competitive.

Sania Mirza's Biggest Match

2010-04-05T04:29:00.000-07:00

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She is queen of Indian tennis. Sania Mirza , the role model for many aspiring women of India in sport arena is busy with another type of activities ,these days.

Being experienced in facing conservative mullahs and right wing groups , sania is not experiencing another type of battle , off the court. Mera fiance nirdosh hai type of battle which has kept both Indians and Pakistanis glued to the television. Atleast most of them , judging from the channel coverage.

Ayesha siddiqui , the woman who alleges to be wife of sohaib malik is being interviewed by most of hindi , english , telgu news channel in India and most of urdu , english news channel of pakistan.

She , yesterday filed F.I.R against shohaib and considering this being high profile case , police acted as per books taking away shohaib's passport.

Sania and sohaib did address press today and sania pledge her full support to sohaib and to her responsibility of being Indian by cooperating with Indian Police.

Sania Mirza knew it was not going to be easy to marry pakistani , sports person at first place. She knew she would be slammed by few groups , here and there . She knew opinions would be divided in her country about her decision. Amidst this , she took bold decision of continuing to play for India , which too would raise some eyebrows both in India as well as across the border but she might not have known that along with this obvious issues she would have to deal with ayesha's case too.

But this biggest match of sania has refree in form of Indian Legal System and now matter being in court , it would be upto court to decide.

Sania's biggest match has already seen lot of turns and twist , lets see who has match point , who breaks whose service and who wins the title , in the end.

Sania Mirza Does Aman Ki Asha

2010-03-29T23:18:00.000-07:00

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Queen of Indian Tennis getting married to ex captain and all rounder of pakistan cricket team. Wow . The news that started flowing in pakistan media first and then Indian channel went of breaking news spree. Some approached pakistan news channel , some malik's cousin , some sania's father , some sania's friends. It was rocking day for Indian channel who were excited and shocked at same time.

Excited because sania mirza is most famous female sports person of India and shocked because they were caught sleeping. No one could catch the development .

As Indian Media broke the news ,twitter started buzzing with messages. Some were exicted , some were disappointed , some wanted sania to focus on career than marriage , some wondered how this happened?

Never the less , sania mirza has done aman ki asha. If what sania and malik said is implemented , this is what we would see. India ki beti would become pakistan ki bahu and wont leave tennis. She would represent India in common wealth games and would be playing in olympics in 2012 ,again representing India.

Sohaib Malik , her pakistani to be husband has pledge support in her desire of continuing to represent India.

Wishing them all the best for their future.

India T-20 2010 World Cup Squad

2010-03-26T01:36:00.000-07:00

MS Dhoni
Virender Sehwag
Gautam Gambhir
Harbhajan Singh
Yuvraj Singh
Vinay Kumar
Piyush Chawla
Suresh Raina
Yusuf Pathan
Ravindra Jadeja
Zaheer Khan
Ashish Nehra
Praveen Kumar
Dinesh Karthik
Rohit Sharma.

My Team : WC 2010-T 20

2010-03-24T08:05:00.000-07:00

Bowlers :

1)Zaheer Khan
2)Pravin Kumar
3)Harbhajan Singh

All Rounders

1) Ravindra Jadeja
2) Yosuf Pathan

Batsman

1) Gautam Gambhir
2) Virender Shewag
3) Yuraj Singh
4) M S Dhoni
5) Suresh Raina
6) Virat Kohli

Backup Bowlers

1) R.P.Singh
2) Ishant Sharma

Backup All Rounder

1) Irfan Pathan

Backup Batsman

1) Rohit Sharma

Would have loved to have manish pandey, sourabh tiwary in the team but considering form of virat and raina they must stay whereas rohit must be backup.

Bangladesh : The Next Big Thing In Cricket

2010-03-16T00:25:00.000-07:00

Bangladesh lost test match against England. Bangladesh had lost the series against India too. Now title of the post and bangladesh loosing almost every series doesnot seems to be in synergy. Isn't it?.

Yes bangladesh is loosing but their batsman are performing in every innings. What they need is consistent and cumulative performance from their batsman.

Talking about test match against England , bangladesh scored 296 and 331 in their two innings against bowling attack which is nailed australia and southafrica ,few months back.

Bangladesh's three batsman performed . While iqbal missed ton in first innings , rahmin was unfortunate to miss tons in both innings , junaid came good in second innings scoring a century.

Improvement is there and is not just in one or two matches. Consistently their batsman seems to be performing at top most level. What they now need is cumulative performance and more patience.

Bangladesh has potential to be next big thing in world cricket provided they evolve into more mature side.

Pakistan squad for World Twenty20

2010-03-12T04:13:00.000-08:00

Pakistan squad for World Twenty20

Misbah-ul-Haq
Fawad Alam
Umar Akmal
Salman Butt
Mohammad Hafeez
Khalid Latif
Shahid Afridi
Abdur Razzaq
Yasir Arafat
Hammad Azam
Kamran Akmal
Umar Gul
Mohammad Asif
Moahmmad Aamer
Saeed Ajmal

Reserves :

Shahzaib Hassan
Mohammad Sami
Raza Hasan
Naved Yasin
Sarfraz Ahmed

Thriller Or Made Thriller : First One Day Against Southafrica

2010-02-22T05:23:00.001-08:00

Well in various news website where cricket in played that was common headline :"India Wins Thriller'.

Now for those who didn't watch the match and come to know that match went to the last ball where last wicket got runout and India won by 1 run. Wow..Its a thriller.

But for those who watched entire match and missed out last three overs , it was a shocker than a thriller.

Consider this , you were watching the match and it read 39 runs out of 18 balls with two wickets in hand and an important call comes on your mobile. You got out to talk and when you come back you are shocked to know that in last ball southafrica needs just 3 runs and they still have a wicket in hand!!!!!!!!

For a minute you wont be able to believe your eyes. Isn't it?. Bowling in death has always been problem for India. M S Dhoni has been mentioning it since time immemorial but nothing seems to make difference.

Sreesanth who is deeply inspired from bollywood thinks his job is to go and bang the ball as fast as he can but quiet often than nought he give ample width or bowls short and batsman get what they want. Bowling smartly is art which sreesanth refuses to learn.

Praveen kumar has calm approach which showed in the last over yesterday , yes we missed zaheer and harbhajan but jadeja did splendid job. But time and again our bowling remains far from desirable specially during last 10 overs.

Steyn and parnell had nothing to loose and so they did what they could do best that is going after bowling but our bowlers could have bowled better otherwise we would keep on making such thrillers quite often than nought.

WOW : What A Match..

2010-02-18T02:58:00.000-08:00

Hurray , India has won the second test match , leveled the series and retained No1 ranking. But this was classic match which kept fans wondering about whether India would be able to pull it out or not.

Weather reduced the five day test match to 4 and quarter days. Amla who has been exceptional in this series did held the fort and time was running out. It seemed as if amla would be able to do what paul collingwood did to them. But it was not to be .

Harbhajan singh one of ladlas of this ground like laxman got morkel leg before to make sure that India wins by innings and 58 runs.

The day started with prince and amla not giving wicket to India. Their partnership of 47 runs was trouble for India till harbhajan got prince out. A simple catch to Ishant sharma. AB de Villiers didn't trouble India much and he was trapped leg before by delivery of fellow daredevil amit mishra.

J P Duminy has not be in form in this series and that helped India seal his wicket. Steyln got out soon and hope of India raised. But then what followed was frustrating period with India having to wait for 25 overs to see parnel getting out. Harris did keep company of amla for another six overs. Once he got out , India needed just one wicket to level the series.

Morkel and amla kept on fighting resisting Indian bowling and after another 21 overs and praying that another collingwood doesn't happen finally India got the break through.

Amla stood tall amidst the mess scoring 127 not out.

Series ended 1-1 and southafricans could not conquer their final frontier as smith says.

Two New Teams For IPL

2010-02-17T03:51:00.000-08:00

"Tenders can be collected from BCCI/IPL offices from 21st Feb for the two new teams. The bids will be opened on 8th March 2010 in Mumbai." lalit modi said in his tweet.

According to Modi, Ahembdabad, Nagpur, Kanpur, Dharamshala, Indore, Cuttack, Gwalior, Vishakapatnam are the current cities with stadia that can invite bids.

"Rajkot, Pune, Baroda and Cochin which have new stadia going under construction are also eligible to be bid for,"

Mahmudullah Hits Ton

2010-02-17T03:47:00.000-08:00

He showed what he is capable of in India v/s Bangladesh series. Now continuing his good form in long version of cricket mahmullah slammed ton in newzealand.

Resuming on 87-1, Mahmudullah's 115 and an aggressive 87 from Shakib Al Hasan helped Bangladesh reach 408 in reply to New Zealand's 553 first innings total.

Shakib was controversially dismissed despite the ball appearing not to carry to wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum.

New Zealand lost BJ Watling for one as they closed on 9-1.

Bangladesh had made a disappointing start to the third day as New Zealand ripped through the top order, taking five wickets to leave the tourists on 211-6 at lunch.

But Shakib and Mahmudullah took to spin bowlers Daniel Vettori and Jeetan Patel in the middle session as Bangladesh fought back.

Rain God Blessed India In Wrong Time!!!!!!!

2010-02-17T03:43:00.000-08:00

Barsho re mega mega was what nation sang when it was drought and in typical example of upar waale ke vahan der hai par andher nahi hai , it ran in kolkatta. Alas it rained in wrong time for team India.

With no1 position at stake ,India needed atleast 2 good sessions but wheather had some other plans. India could bowl only 35 overs. The play started late due to wet outfield because of rain yesterday night. Play was stopped twice due to rain and bad light and finally day was called off.

With humidy of 80% rain was always expected . Tomorrow India would have to show urgency and bowl those 7 good balls to stay at the top.

Tomorrow wheather is expected to be better than today.

India ODI Squad For Oneday Against Southafrica

2010-02-16T07:19:00.000-08:00

MS Dhoni (capt)
Sachin Tendulkar
Virender Sehwag
Virat Kohli
Dinesh Karthik
Suresh Raina
Ravindra Jadeja
R Ashwin
Zaheer Khan
Ashish Nehra
Sudeep Tyagi
Praveen Kumar
Abhishek Nayar
Yusuf Pathan
Amit Mishra.

Gambhir have suffered injury and has been ruled out,yuvraj is still to recover from his injury.Ojha not in squad and tamil nadu spinner ashwin gets a chance. Manish pandey too has been ignored. Rest squad is on expected lines.

Very Very Special Laxman & Mr Cool Dhoni Nail Southafrica

2010-02-16T04:17:00.000-08:00

What shewag and tendulkar began , laxman and dhoni finished. 4 tons in single innings made India post its highest total against south africans.

India declared at 643 for six suprassing their previous best of 627 against southafricans.Steyn,Morkel,Parnell,Harris all had to toil hard today with all four giving more than 100 runs each without much success.

The only success they had today was that of amit mishra who did take on southafrican bowling during his cameo of 28 runs. He was dropped twice but finally kallis did held a good catch to see amit mishra getting dismissed. But amit mishra had done his job.

Both laxman and dhoni had their luck in first session. They made most of it by smashing tons. This is laxman's 4 century in his favorite ground eden garden and 15th in the career. Dhoni hit his 4th test century and first against south african. Frequency of dhoni's hundred in increasing which is another good sign for India.

Dhoni and v v s laxman shared record partnership for 8th wicket surpassing previous best of ravi shashtri and kirmani (235). The duo added 259 runs in their partnership and remined unbeaten.

With two days to go , it would be survival game for southafrican with first session being crucial one. Tomorrow is day-2 and India has got good spinning duo as well as backup of shewag ,if needed.

India having lost first test match have to win this to maintain their No-1 spot. While southafricans need just draw to become recapture their crown.

Guru & Shishya Come to party as India Takes Lead

2010-02-15T04:03:00.000-08:00

When shewag gets going nothing can stop him is common saying in world of cricket. Today twice lucky shewag got going and continued from where he had left in nagpur. Forgetting that it is test match he was at one point of time scoring at strike rate of 175!!!!!!!!

Gambhir too looked all set for a big score but shewag's wrong call ran him out. Gambhir's runout did seemed to play on shewag's mind at least for time being.

Vijay came to crease and immediately was welcomed by sheer pace and bounce. He couldnot survive much giving a regular catch to wicker keeper devillers (boucher being injured).

Master joined his disciple and then what followed was marathon partnership at brisk rate. Shewag hit another 150 plus and sachin did hit another hundred. His 47th.

While India was looking set to end day-2 in comfortable position south africa fought back with 3 quick wickets. Shewag falling to Duminy while sachin's wicket was taken by harris. Badrinath was bowled by steyln.

India are placed at 342/5 with v v s still at the crease and dhoni still to come. Morning session tomorrow can prove decisive for the match.

What A Comeback By Bowlers- Day 1 Kolkatta Test

2010-02-14T03:57:00.000-08:00

It looked like repeat of nagpur test. Zaheer Khan started in similar fashion and smith got out in similar fashion. Its always heartening to see stumps being knocked out by a pace bowler. Awesome delivery which sneaks through the defense of batsman and bangs on the target.

But then epic partnership (of more than 200 runs) started between amla and peterson. Amla was as fluent as in nagpur. He was lucky too as safe hands of laxman dropped him when he was in 70s.

Peterson was playing his first test match and was in full flow hitting at brisk rate. Both batsman were scoring comfortabely , at nice rate and it looked like this test match would go nagpur's way.

Amla and peteson both his centuries and were looking set to make most out of it.

Ishant sharma did bowl at his best in post lunch session and was unlucky of not getting wicket in that session. Ishant was simply unplayable and amla survived a close call when ball hit his tigh pad and was caught behind by dhoni.

Soon zaheer was brought back and he struck . Peterson , only 3rd southafrican to make century on debut was caught behind.

After tea Zaheer struck again and well set amla got out scoring 114. Soon harbhajan joined the party dismissing kallis , prince and Duminy. Prince and uminy were dismissed in consecutive deliveries.

Devileries ran himself out adding to more mysery of southafricans. Ishant got well deserved wicket and mishra too chipped in by taking one wicket.

Day-1 ended (266 for nine in 81 overs) with two centuries from southafrica and remarkable comeback by Indian Bowlers.

Ravindra Jadeja Banned From IPL-3

2010-02-13T05:10:00.000-08:00

All rounder ravindra jadeja was banned from playing IPL-3. The governing council made this decision because of jadeja's refusal to renew his contract with rajasthan royals and trying to negotiate with other franchisees.

"The ban was on account of Ravindra Jadeja not signing the renewal contract with the Rajasthan Royals and attempting instead to negotiate a larger financial contract with some of the other IPL franchises, thus resulting in a serious non-adherence to the IPL player guidelines," IPL said in a statement.

Pakistan To Play Cricket In USA

2010-02-12T01:12:00.000-08:00

Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Ijaz Butt said that Pakistan would play a cricket series in the United States during the current year. The opponent team and dates of the matches would be announced later.

Paes felicitated for 11th Grand Slam title

2010-02-12T01:10:00.000-08:00

super bowl 44 highlights saints vs colts

2010-02-12T00:40:00.001-08:00

Frederer's Cute Wife

2010-02-11T05:13:00.000-08:00

Test Over : India Grounded

2010-02-09T03:04:00.000-08:00

First Test Match Between India and Southafrica got over by India suffering defeat by innings. Followed On After Five years , it was not question of would India loose but more question of when?.

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar did give a strong fight scoring his 46th century but it was not enough even to make southafrica bat again.

Vijay showed his inexperience by attempting a shot which was not needed , badrinath who scored fifty in first innings didnt survive enough to reach double figures and dhoni too fall short of his usual fighting spirits.

Harbhajan , Zaheer , Saha did their best scoring in 30s but in the end India was grounded by some classy batting and ruthless bowling.

It is said that when all goes well no one remembers the pillars of strength and when in misery one misses them. Similar thing can be said about India who dearly misses laxman and dravid , the naseerudin and om puri of Indian cricket.

Often forgotten this people are walls of Indian Cricket and without them playing against strong side become nightmare as seen in first test match.

By now media would have gone for kill slamming every one in the team. Lets hope in second test India performs much better.

Cricket in Nepal

2010-02-08T04:13:00.000-08:00

Cricket is always looking to improve its global credentials, and in Nepal the sport looks to be knocking at an open door.

Bordered by cricket superpower India, Nepal is quickly establishing its own cricketing culture. The country's junior teams are already a force in Asia, while the long term ambition is to qualify for a world cup.

Most disgraceful moment in the history of cricket

2010-02-08T04:12:00.001-08:00

Pak T-20 Squad For England

2010-02-08T04:09:00.000-08:00

Imran Nazir
Imran Farhat
Khalid Latif
Umer Akmal
Shoaib Malik (captain)
Fawad Alam
Shahid Afridi
Abdul Razzaq
Sarfraz Ahmad
Umar Gul
Saeed Ajmal
Yasir Arafat
Wahab Riaz
Mohammad Talha.

Akram Joints Inquiry Committee

2010-02-08T04:07:00.000-08:00

After suffering humiliating whitewash against Australia , Pakistan cricket board has formed a inquiry committee to review the whitewash.

Former Pakistan allrounder Wasim Akram has been appointed to the Pakistan Cricket Board’s inquiry committee looking into the national team’s poor performance on its just completed tour of Australia.

Akram replaces ex test batsman and PCB director of cricket development Haroon Rasheed, who resigned from the inquiry committee last week, the PCB said in a statement Monday.

Anti Climax Of Hyped Series?

2010-02-08T04:05:00.000-08:00

It was said to be battle of titans. No 1 Indian Team V/s No 2 South African team fighting for supremacy. But in 3 days it seems to be total anti climax and debate of whether India Deserves to be No1 has began once again.

In perfect pitch southafrican made most of modest Indian attack. Amla fired joining in form kallis to make huge total. India needed to play to its strength in batting but barring shewag and badrinath , Indian batsman failed to withstand the sheer pace of steyn who took 7 wickets. In last tour the same steyn during last tour had humilated India by bundling out India for 76 only.

The same steyn fired again and Indian batting looked ordinary against quality pace bowling. Today India missed services of dravid and laxman dearly.

In second innings India are placed at 66/2 and need a mircale to survive. They have example of laxman-dravid saga to draw inspiration but surviving two days with mere 8 wickets is tough thing to ask for.

Let see how tomorrow unfolds. Who knows there is another laxman-dravid story in making...

Indo-Pak pair enter South Africa Open final

2010-02-06T05:34:00.000-08:00

While hafiz saeed is busy calling jihad against India and bal thackeray is busy slamming shahrukh khan for his invite Pakistanis comment and Indian government is busy with Pakistani counterparts to discuss what to discuss in talks , two individuals are busy playing as a team and reaching south Africa open final.

The third seed Indo-Pak pair of Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi pipped fifth seed American pair of Erico Butorac and Rajeev Ram 7-6(5), 6-4 in the semi-final encounter on Friday.

They next meet winners of the other semi-final between Steve Darcis/Kavier Malisse and Karol Beck/Harel Levy.

The final match will be played on Sunday.

Classy Kallis And Determined Amla Share Honor On First Day

2010-02-06T05:07:00.000-08:00

No dravid , No Laxman , No yuvraj and to make matter worse rohit sharma too got injured. India left with little option took badrinath and saha , both in middle order.

South Africa won the toss and elected to bat. Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma bowled at their best in opening spell. Zaheer surprised prince who got out without opening the account. Zaheer struck again by getting smith bowled and India's time to cheer got overed.

Then came display of batting which kallis and amla are known for. Both shared unbeaten stand of whooping 285 runs putting southafrica is comfortable position with 291/2 at stumps.

Kallis is unstoppable and continuing his good form scored his 34th hundred , where as amla hit his 8th ton .

Tomorrow south africa would consolidate and try to score 500+ score before India gets to bat. India's middle order is inexperienced and gambhir, shewag,dhoni and sachin would have to shoulder responsibility.

Yusuf Pathan Hits Double Ton

2010-02-06T02:13:00.000-08:00

Yusuf pathan is known for his unpredictability. This ruthless batsman might not last for a ball at times but if he does he can turn the tide anytime.

The South Zone came in line of fire of bat of yusuf pathan who single handely turned the match in duleep trophy. Match which was largely dominated by south zone till the last day!!!!!!

Scoring 400 in the first innigs , backed by south captain karthik's solid century , south managed to bowl west out for 251. Again in this innings too yusuf had hit a century.

In second innings south zone manage to score 386 and gave a target of improbable 536 for victory. But when yusuf bats , every target is possible . He made 210 not out of just 190 balls and west zone won by 3 wickets!!!!!!!!

With this performance yusuf is strong contender of making comeback in onedays and t-20.

South Asian Games : India Tops The Table

2010-02-06T02:09:00.001-08:00

India is leading the table with 32 golds, 14 silvers and 9 bronze medals is south asian games. Pakistan is second in medal tally with six golds,15 silver and eight bronze medals.

It is to be noted that a coach of India team had complained about lack of incentives by government for sport persons participating in south asian games.

Inspite of winning so many medals they are not given any monetary incentive and for media it is non event. Motivation is important for players to keep performing and do better in next levels like asia games , common wealth and Olympics.

Aussies Beat World Champions Pak By 2 Runs

2010-02-05T04:11:00.000-08:00

Again let down by its batsman , the present world champions of t-20 , pakistan were not able to make 127 runs in twenty overs. They could make 125/9 before their quota of twenty overs were finished.

Earlier Gul was star for pakistan taking 3 wickets given only 20 runs in 3.4 overs. Other biggest wicket taker was runouts!!!!!!!!. While stand in captain malik took 2 wickets while asif and naved shared 1 wicket each.

For australia david hussey did 30% of scoring with his quick fire 40 of 31 balls which included 1 four and two sixes. His elder brother too contributed with 32 of 26 balls .

For pakistan akmal played at his destructive best scoring 64 of 33 balls hitting two sixes and 7 fours. But he didnt get much support from other batsman.

Afridi Is Cheat : Hair

2010-02-04T00:25:00.000-08:00

Controversial umpire has taken a dig on shahid afridi by calling him serial offender and cheat."Cheat is the only word for him.He has cheated before, he has cheated in this instance -- he pleaded guilty -- and I'm sure he will again. He is no angel. I remember that incident when he deliberately scratched the pitch when he thought everyone was looking the other way,"

McGrath's New GirlFriend

2010-02-03T23:06:00.000-08:00

40 Year old glenn mcgrath has found new love in his life. After sad demise of his wife , mcgrath was chiefly involved in charity work of his wife's ngo.

His agent says the former cricketer is happy for people to know he has a girlfriend.

Austrialian Squad For WestIndies Series

2010-02-03T03:37:00.000-08:00

Ricky Ponting (c)
Michael Clarke
Doug Bollinger
Brad Haddin
Nathan Hauritz
Ryan Harris
James Hopes
Mike Hussey
Mitchell Johnson
Shaun Marsh
Clint McKay
Shane Watson
Cameron White

Now Karachi Champions League

2010-02-03T03:29:00.000-08:00

Remember rashid latif?. Former Pakistani wicketkeeper has tied up with Karachi city administration and has launched a T20 club tournament, winners of which will take home a prize money of 10 million rupees.

The lucrative domestic tournament will feature Pakistan’s international stars such as Shahid Afridi, Younis Khan, Khalid Latif, Fawad Alam, Khurram Manzoor and Sarfraz Ahmed.

“It was an old idea of mine, one that I had been working on,” I am a big follower of English football and I love the history of clubs over there, like Chelsea and Fulham. We have so many old clubs in Karachi and we need to revive that club culture once again here,”- Rashid Latif

India V/s SouthAfrica Schedule

2010-02-02T04:33:00.000-08:00

Date	Match	Venue
Feb 6-10	First Test	Nagpur
Feb 14-18	Second Test	Kolkata
Feb 21	First ODI (D/N)	Jaipur
Feb 24	Second ODI	Kanpur
Feb 27	Third ODI (D/N)	Ahmedabad

IPL-2010 Schedule

2010-02-02T04:29:00.000-08:00

Date	Match	Venue
12th March	Deccan Chargers vs Kolkata Knight Riders	Mumbai
13th March	Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals	Mumbai
13th March	Kings XI Punjab vs Delhi Daredevils	Mohali
14th March	Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers	Kolkata
14th March	Chennai Super Kings vs Deccan Chargers	Chennai
15th March	Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Daredevils	Ahmedabad
16th March	Royal Challengers vs Kings XI Punjab	Bangalore
16th March	Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings	Kolkata
17th March	Delhi Daredevils vs Mumbai Indians	Delhi
18th March	Royal Challengers vs Rajasthan Royals	Bangalore
19th March	Delhi Daredevils vs Chennai Super Kings	Delhi
19th March	Deccan Chargers vs Kings XI Punjab	Nagpur
20th March	Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders	Ahmedabad
20th March	Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers	Mumbai
21st March	Deccan Chargers vs Delhi Daredevils	Nagpur
21st March	Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab	Chennai
22nd March	Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders	Mumbai
23rd March	Royal Challengers vs Chennai Super Kings	Bangalore
24th March	Kings XI Punjab vs Rajasthan Royals	Mohali
25th March	Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings	Mumbai
26th March	Rajasthan Royals vs Deccan Chargers	Ahmedabad
27th March	Kings XI Punjab vs Kolkata Knight Riders	Mohali
27th March	Royal Challengers vs Delhi Daredevils	Bangalore
28th March	Rajasthan Royals vs Chennai Super Kings	Ahmedabad
28th March	Deccan Chargers vs Mumbai Indians	Nagpur
29th March	Delhi Daredevils vs Kolkata Knight Riders	Delhi
30th March	Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab	Mumbai
31st March	Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers	Chennai
31st March	Delhi Daredevils vs Rajasthan Royals	Delhi
1st April	Kolkata Knight Riders vs Deccan Chargers	Kolkata
2nd April	Kings XI Punjab vs Royal Challengers	Mohali
3rd April	Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals	Chennai
3rd April	Mumbai Indians vs Deccan Chargers	Mumbai
4th April	Kolkata Knight Riders vs Kings XI Punjab	Kolkata
4th April	Delhi Daredevils vs Royal Challengers	Delhi
5th April	Deccan Chargers vs Rajasthan Royals	Mumbai
6th April	Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians	Chennai
7th April	Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab	Ahmedabad
7th April	Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils	Kolkata
8th April	Royal Challengers vs Deccan Chargers	Bangalore
9th April	Kings XI Punjab vs Mumbai Indians	Mohali
10th April	Deccan Chargers vs Chennai Super Kings	Mumbai
10th April	Royal Challengers vs Kolkata Knight Riders	Bangalore
11th April	Delhi Daredevils vs Kings XI Punjab	Delhi
11th April	Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians	Ahmedabad
12th April	Deccan Chargers vs Royal Challengers	Mumbai
13th April	Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils	Mumbai
13th April	Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders	Chennai
14th April	Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers	Ahmedabad
15th April	Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Daredevils	Chennai
16th April	Kings XI Punjab vs Deccan Chargers	Dharamsala
17th April	Royal Challengers vs Mumbai Indians	Bangalore
17th April	Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals	Kolkata
18th April	Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings	Dharamsala
18th April	Delhi Daredevils vs Deccan Chargers	Delhi
19th April	Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians	Kolkata
21st April	Semi-Final 1	Bangalore
22nd April	Semi-Final 2	Bangalore
24th April	3rd Place Play-off	Mumbai
25th April	FINAL	Mumbai

Shahid Afridi EATING A CRICKET BALL

2010-02-02T02:55:00.001-08:00

Pak Cricket : From Crisis To Crisis

2010-02-02T02:32:00.001-08:00

There is no element of doubt for all cricket fans , that pakistan cricket team is bundle of talent. Their bowling attack is good with likes of asif , new wonder amer , experienced gul . Good spin attack with ajmal , kaneria and at times malik. They are world champions in t-20 , good one day side and practise deprived test side.

Inspite of being talented pakistan cricket team has found almost impossible to remove their tag of being unpredicable. Their musical chair for captain banega kaun continues after haq left the scene. From shohaib malik to yonuis khan to mohammad yosuf , they are still not finding a long term option. While afridi fits the bill for t-20 and onedays , he found himself frustated enough to chew the ball (good that he didnt eat it) to alter the result of the match.

It didn't alter the result of final one day match but it perhaps might alter result of two t-20 matches which pakistan would play with australia. Their biggest match winner shahid afridi is banned for two matches because of his eat the ball gesture.

Shahid did say sorry but his sab karte hain dialogue has reignited controversy.

Crisis in Pakistan cricket began with their exit in 2007 world cup by getting defeated by ireland. Then death of coach in mysterious circumstances and retirement of haq did form a vaccum. They did get into first t-20 world cup finals under leadership of malik and then 26/11 occured.

India cancelled the tour and srilanka filled in. Younis khan took over as captain but Cousins of 26/11 attacked srilankan team and already concerned over security , world was shocked to view this attack. Pakistan lost world cup host , status and since then pakistan plays very little cricket.

They came back strongly becoming world champions of t-20 but yonuis went on exile and yousuf became captain.

Pakistan had disaterous tour down under , where pakistan was totally down and under pressure afridi did ball tampering.

Pakistan's management has vowed strong actions to revive this talent team. May be yonuis khan would be made captain of test team and shahid afridi would be given charge of t-20 and onedays , provided he enters stadium with his stomatch full!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lets hope that pakistan cricket get revived and doesnot enter another crisis.

Southafrica Is Most Dangerous Opposition For India

2010-02-02T02:22:00.000-08:00

They are facing small crisis with their coach resigning due to dispute with captain. No 2 in the test arena , south african are still best bet to beat India in India.

With likes of smith , kallis in the ranks their main bowler Dale Steyn is ranked no 1 in bowler ratings.

Their last visit to India was successful series were they had leveled the series and India had suffered humiliating loss in second test match.

Out of 10 matches they have played in India , they have won 4 while India too has won 4. Australia on other hand has played 40 out of which they have managed to win 12 matches , loosing 13 , tied one and drawn 14.

	Matches	Won	Lost	Drawn
South Africa in India	10	4	4	2

Dhoni No More No 1-Latest ICC Cricket Ratings

2010-02-01T00:45:00.000-08:00

M S Dhoni after staying no 1 in oneday cricket since long has been de throned of the top stop by ever consistent hussey.

Hussey becomes new no 1 in one day rakings. While dhoni is placed at no 2. Sachin is at no 9 shewag is placed at 6.

Vettori is no one bowler.

ID	Rat.	Name
1	825	M.E.K. Hussey
2	822	M.S. Dhoni
3	749	A.B. de Villiers
4	736	C.H. Gayle
5	733	S. Chanderpaul
6	729	G.C. Smith
7	723	S.R. Tendulkar
8	718	R.T. Ponting
9	702	V. Sehwag
10	701	K.C. Sangakkara

Pak's Disastrous Downunder Tour

2010-01-29T04:57:00.000-08:00

After getting crushed in test series , Pakistan was looking forward for oneday series. Pakistan has not played test matches much in recent years and Australian tour is always tough , so it was understandable that it would be real tough for Pakistan to win series. But they tried , specially the bowlers , they were on verge of winning one of test too but batsman failed and so did hope of winning test match.

In oneday series , Pakistan got boost with shahid afridi and younis khan back in the squad.

They started well posting a competitive total in first match. With kind of bowling attack that Pakistan has total of 270 is as good as 300 on the board. But white's exceptional innings took the game away.

Second oneday was disaster with Pakistan getting all out in just 38 overs scoring 127 only.

Third oneday too Pakistan lost by 40 runs and fourth one day has been total disaster. All out in 142 runs.

The only consistent thing in one day series has been Pakistan's inability to play for 50 overs!!!!!!!!!!

Umar Akmal is silver lining and would be part of team for years to come. Afridi has been explosive but had not been able to win matches , butt,yosuf have been inconsistent and younis khan has been consistently out of touch!!!!!!!!

This tour has been total disaster for Pakistan.

Indian Test Squad For Test Series Against Southafrica

2010-01-28T04:07:00.000-08:00

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain)
Virender Sehwag
Gautam Gambhir
Sachin Tendulkar
VVS Laxman
Murali Vijay
Subramaniam Badrinath
Harbhajan Singh
Zaheer Khan
Amit Mishra
Pragyan Ojha
Ishant Sharma
Sudeep Tyagi
Abhimanyu Mithun
Wriddhiman Saha.

Bangladesh Should Cheer This Series

2010-01-27T04:22:00.000-08:00

Its over.India nailed Bangladesh 2-0 and won the series. Nothing surprising about it. It was all expected , wasn't it? . But Bangladesh has lot of things to cheer about in this series.

They have had great series in which they showed their ability , their zeal and their fighting spirit. Shewag called them weak but they showed lot of character in first innings to bowl India out for 250 odd runs.

Their wicket keeper batsman made well deserved century in second innings , though it wasn't enough but they managed to make more than 300 Runs against India.

In second match iqbal was phenomenal scoring more than 150 runs. M Mahmudullah had terrific series in which he made two 50 plus scores.

Overall the outcome of both matches shows India won convincingly but Bangladesh did give fight in patches.

Their cricket is moving in right direction and with little experience they can soon become a competitive side.

Dravid In ICU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-01-25T05:18:00.000-08:00

Dravid was batting on 111 when he tried to duck under a bouncer from Shahadat but the ball didn't bouce as high as he expected and struck him on the left side of the helmet near the ear guard.

He was immediately rushed to hospital . He has fractured his jaw and have been kept in ICU as precautionary measures.

It would be difficult for him to play this test and is reported to be heading home on tuesday.

White Nails Pak

2010-01-22T05:10:00.000-08:00

Score was competitive and pakistan bowlers provided the start its needed.It was amer who drew the first blood getting watson out. Score 16/1. Another 21 runs and shaun marsh got out putting australia in trouble . Score read 37/2.

With ricky there and michael clarke joining him , rebuilding was the focus.Both put 47 runs together but ricky got out at 27 putting australia in further problems . 84/3 read score when white came in.

White and clarke rebuild the innings and white added 102 runs along with clarke who unfortunately got run out. But white continued making his second hundred before getting out for 105.

Australia won the match by five wickets.

Cricket Pic Of The Day : Mushfiqur Rahim

2010-01-22T00:39:00.001-08:00

Lalit Modi Reacts - Pakistani Cricketers Snubbing Episode

2010-01-22T00:27:00.001-08:00

“There is no conspiracy theory that is going on-- as is being reported in media. The media is biased at times,” said lalit modi.

While shilpa shetty said franchisee don't owe explanation as to why Pakistani players were not taken but she said that reason is understandable in current scenario.

It is to be noted that IPL snub has become a big and major issue . Even India foreign minister had to issue clarification for the same.

Kotla Banned For Year

2010-01-22T00:23:00.000-08:00

As expected kotla was banned for an year but again as expected ICC didn't ban it for world cup match.

"Following the conclusion of a full investigation into the circumstances that led to the abandonment... the ICC confirms that no international cricket will be played at the New Delhi ground until the end of December 2010,"

"As part of its investigation, the ICC received a submission from the BCCI assuring it that no international match is scheduled and therefore no international match will be played at the ground until the end of 2010,"

"Keeping this in mind, the ICC has decided to endorse this action on the part of BCCI as part of its concluding report." - ICC Statement

On World Cup

"Let's not forget, this ground is one of the world's iconic venues and it's imperative it stages matches during what is the game's biggest tournament,"

Afridi Fires Taking Pak To 274

2010-01-21T23:47:00.000-08:00

Shahid afridi did what he does best. Firing all guns his cameo of 48 runs from 26 balls with 5 fours and 3 sixes , afridi saw to it that pakistan has competitive total on the board.

Earlier salman butt and kamran akmal provided solid start with 62 runs partnership before akmal was caught by clarke on watson's bowling. He made 34 runs on 34 balls.

Butt continued his nice form and scored 72 runs before getting out. Come back man yonis scored 46.

While this post is being written australia have already lost watson and are at 17/1 in 4.o overs.

INDIA V/S PAKISTAN IN U-19 Quarters!!!!!!!

2010-01-21T23:17:00.000-08:00

Call it mother of all matches at junior level , India would face pakistan in under 19 quarter finals. India is defending champion while pakistan is in prime form.

India lost to england in league match while pakistan topped group d .

India , Pakistan played in any level is worth a watch.

Positives of First Test V/s Bangladesh For India

2010-01-21T02:09:00.000-08:00

No dhoni , no harbhajan and easy opposition. This was at beginning of first test match against bangladesh. Shewag roared partly with bat but more with mouth. Bangladesh did create panic in Indian ranks on day ,1. It needed master to play like only he can to see India scores aleast above 200!!!!!!!!!!!!!

India won the match and following are positives which India can take from the match :

1) Gautam Gambhir :

If dravid is wall , gambhir is Mr consistent. He has made 9 centuries overall and 5 centuries in last 5 matches. The biggest plus of his consistent form is that 4 centuries out of those 5 has been made in second innings.

2) V.V.S Laxman :

He is saviour of India since many years especially in second innings. He has made more fifities in second innings than first innings and he showed his class is still intact.

3) Ishant Sharma :

Bowler who was considered sensation soon lost his touch and was shown doors in one day. Made comeback in test and having taken 5 wickets in match , he is again in form. The spell in morning of final day was exceptional one.

4) Amit Mishra :

With harbhajan out , mishra was obvious choice. He didnt let down his captain and took 7 wickets in match. His bowl turned and flight given showed his confidence. With ojha and mishra , harbhajan does have to pull his shocks.

5) Sachin Tendulkar :

It neede master to deliver when all failed. Sachin ramesh tendulakar hit another ton and made sure that India had decent first innings score.

Watch : Muhammad Amir Breaking World Batting Record

2010-01-21T02:08:00.000-08:00

Pic Of The Day : Sania Mirza With Cricket Pads

2010-01-21T02:06:00.000-08:00

Pak To Avoid IPL In Future?

2010-01-21T02:03:00.000-08:00

Fumed and angry pakistani players in a team meeting decided to avoid IPL till relations between two nations improve reveals media sources.

T-20 champions had 11 players participating in the auction but with no takers pakistani players have been disappointed and angry.

U-19 Worldcup : India Loose To England

2010-01-21T01:55:00.000-08:00

Defending champion India lost to england by 31 runs. Chasing 247 for victory India were bowled out at 215 with around 4 overs to spare.

India were going steady with 62/1 but aadat se majboor India lost 3 wickets without adding single run and were left 62/4 , from where they were not able to recover.

England allrounder Ben Stokes scored a century and took two wickets. He was made man of the match for his all round performance.

Live IPL -3 On Youtube!!!!!!!!!!

2010-01-20T06:15:00.000-08:00

The mega hit t-20 ipl tournament has one more exclusive rights deal. This time its with giant google. Now all matches of ipl t-20 can be viewed on youtube with youtube.com/ipl.

Under the terms of the agreement Google will have the exclusive online rights for IPL contents and the two bodies would share revenues from sponsorships and advertising.

"There will be delay of five minutes between TV broadcast and live streaming on YouTube in India. Our aim to take IPL globally will be fulfilled by this partnership," Modi said.

IPL : Angry Pakistan Players Reactions

2010-01-19T23:56:00.000-08:00

"They mean to say none of our players are good enough to be in the IPL. I am sorry to say the franchises have taken a decision not based on cricketing sense but on political grounds which is a shame and has hurt the image of the sport," - Tanvir

"They have basically tried to hurt our cricket and image and this is most disappointing because I believe there should be no politics in sports,"- Razzaq

"The way I see it, the IPL and India have made fun of us and our country by treating us this way".

"For me the attitude of the franchises was disappointing. I feel bad for the Indian people who I am sure wanted to see us play in the IPL this year,"- Pakistan's T-20 Captain Afridi

"We got the required clearances from our government. But after that we can't interfere in anybody's work so what we say," - Rameez Raja

"The fact is the IPL is a private enterprise and if their franchises are not willing to take our players what can anyone do. But there is no doubt that our players and Pakistan cricket have been humiliated and insulted at such a big forum in a planned manner,"- Zaheer Abbas

Gautam Gambhir Chasing History

2010-01-19T22:42:00.000-08:00

Gautam Gambhir made 9th century today against bangladesh. With this he has achieved some outstanding records and is chasing history.

-> Gautam Gambhir is first Indian to have made 10 consecutive more than fifty runs. Second only to viv richards
->Gautam Gambhir is first Indian Batsman to make 5 consecutive centuries in test matches. Last 5 test match saw gambhir making a ton in atleast one innings. Other players with 5 centuries are mohd yosuf , kallis . Only batsman who has made 6 consecutive centuries is bradman.

3 Challenges Of India For First Test

2010-01-19T06:11:00.000-08:00

India ended day 3 at 122/1 . India had lead of just one run in first innings. Tommorrow as gambhir takes crease along with mishra , India faces three challenges to meet to win the first test match.

1) Batting Fast Yet Cautious :

Batting fast in not a problem for India but keeping wicket has been as seen in first innings. Bangladesh have shown that they are capable of scoring around 250-300 runs. They dont have much experience but have desire and will to show they are capable of playing test. As test match enters 4th day , India would have to score fast to make sure they give their bolwers enough time. With shewag getting out and dhoni not playing , India needs yuvraj to fire big guns.

2) How Much Is Too Much ? :

Now this is tricky question. What runs would shewag feel comfortable with?. This ordinary side (as per shewag) did bowl India out cheapely and did show some aggressive batting glimpse. Ofcourse test match in not 20-20 , here class works not mere agression but how much is too much is big question.

3) Bad Light :

There are some things which are never in control and one such thing is bad light. India has to consider 3 hour loss in two days due to bad light and this makes equation all more tricky.

IPL 3rd Auction -Final List

2010-01-19T01:44:00.000-08:00

Australian Players

1)Damien Martyn - sold at $100,000
2)Adam Voges - sold at $50,000

Bought by rajasthan royals.

Newzealand Players

1) Shane Bond- sold at $750,000

Bought by kolkatta Knight Riders

Sri Lanka Player

1) Thisara Perera- sold at $50,000

Bought by chennai superkings.

South African

1) Justin Kemp-sold at $1,00,000

Bought by chennai superkings

West Indies Players

1) Keiron Pollard-sold at $7,50,000

Bought By Mumbai Indians

2) Kemar Roach- sold at $7,20,000

Bought by deccan chargers

England Player

1) Eoin Morgan -sold at $2,20,000

Bought by royal challengers bangalore

Indian Player

1) Mohammad Kaif- sold at $2,50,000

Boughty by kings punjab.

U-19 Players

Deccan Chargers bagged Harmeet Singh.
Royal Challengers Bangalore buy Ashok Menaria
Mumbai Indians got Harshal Patel

All three bought at fixed price of Rs 8 lakhs.

IPL Auction List-Unsold Players

2010-01-19T01:26:00.000-08:00

Shahid Afridi (Base Price: $250000)
Brad Haddin ($250000)
Graeme Swann ($250000)
Darren Ganga ($100000)
Shakib Al Hasan ($100000)
Doug Bollinger ($200000)
Tim Bresnan ($100000)
Sohail Tanvir ($200000)
Ramnaresh Sarwan ($100000)
Chamara Silva ($100000)
Kamran Akmal ($100000)
Phillip Hughes ($100000)
Wavell Hinds ($100000)
Lendl Simmons ($100000)
Umar Akmal ($100000)
Upul Tharanga ($100000)
Jonathan Trott ($100000)

Pointing Out Of IPL

2010-01-18T23:29:00.000-08:00

Ricky pointing is out of IPL. Kolkatta knight riders have bought out his contract.

"The Knight Riders wanted international players who would be available for the entire tournament, but Ricky's only available for five of 14 games," Ponting's manager James Henderson said as reported by australian daily

"He had wanted to go there to honour the contract, but they've got a strategy with the auction coming up and they offered to buy out the contract and it's now been resolved amicably."

Bindra Not Included : NRAI's Shocker

2010-01-18T06:11:00.000-08:00

Ace shooter and lone individual Olympics gold medal holder of India, Abinav bindra has been excluded in of the first and second edition of the Shooting World Cup as well.

The NRAI said that Abhinav’s inclusion in the first and second edition was out of question as the squads for the three events have already been approved by the Sports Ministry.

NRAI, however, said that it will accept Bindra’s international scores for inclusion in squad for third and fourth World Cups to be held later this year.

IPL IN USA?

2010-01-18T03:50:00.000-08:00

IPL might host its matches in usa in another 18 months.

"We hope to be able to provide the fans in the US the live experience of the IPL. We will start with a few matches in the US in the next 18 months or so," The Times quoted Modi, as saying.

Great News For Football Fans

2010-01-17T04:08:00.000-08:00

Electronics giant panasonic became jersey sponsers of Indian Football team.The deal is worth Rs 4.75 crore for a period of three years.

"Panasonic has a big presence in international football. Their association with the national team will boost the sport in the country. This is also a crucial juncture for Indian football as we are heading towards the Asian Cup in 2011,"-All India Football Federation (AIFF) President praful patel said.

Its good for football in India which need such boost in nation obessed with cricket.

Pak Facing whitewash

2010-01-17T04:02:00.000-08:00

With 335 more runs to win and 103/4 pakistan has difficult task ahead of saving the match and surving being white washed against australia.

With farhat , yosuf , salman butt and umar akmal already back to pavilion , the onus is now on malik but its next to impossible for pakistan to play 90 overs. The only thing in their favor is rain. Rain washed out 22 overs of today and if it rains tommorrow may be pakistan can avoid another defeat.

Earlier ricky pointing missed another hundred and chance of becoming one of seven batsman to make double hundred and hundred in single match. He made 89 in second innings.

With katich making ton , australia declared at 219/5 giving taunting target of 438 runs for victory.

Tiger Tames Lion - India 213 For 8

2010-01-17T03:56:00.000-08:00

Bangladesh are at top in first test against India. Much famed batting line up of India crumbled against no so experienced bowling line up of bangladesh.

Having put to bat India started well without loosing any wickets in first session. But after lunch the nightmare of India began with shewag mistiming a shot which gave a simple catch to iqbal in bowling of captain Saqibul.

Shahadat then struck twin blows with wicket of gambhir and wall dravid.

Soon it was tu ja mein aata houn type of batting display for India.

Sachin master tendulkar is still fighting with 76 but he has ishant as his company. 300 would itself be a mircale for India is first innings.

With 213/8 at board , lets see how sachin proceeds with the innings.

England Looses Third Test

2010-01-17T03:51:00.000-08:00

After winning first test and saving second test to disappointment of home crowd , england has lost the third test match against south africa. Southafrica with this win leveled the 3 test match series with 1-1.

South Africa won by an innings and 74 runs when England were bowled out for 169 in their second innings in the last over before lunch.

South african's thorn paul collingwood fought a lone battle scoring 171 as england got all out at 169.

But with series level south african have slipped two more points and now are 120 points on icc cricket rating which makes 4 points behind India which is at 124 points.

9th Rank Bangladesh Shocks 1st Ranked India

2010-01-17T00:57:00.000-08:00

Shewag addressed press conference yesterday .He addressed media like he bats. Ruthlessly he dismissed Bangladesh team as ordinary test team which is simply not capable of taking India's 20 wickets!!!!!!

May be he should have waited for just another day to form his opinion. The dream batting line up has been demolished by bangladesh bowlers. Shewag , Gambhir , V V S , Dravid and yuvi are back to pavilion and with dhoni not there India seems to be in big trouble. The master is still there on the crease but cricket is not individual game , he needs some one to stay at crease with him.

154 / 6 in 42 Overs

India Ist innings			Runs
Gautam Gambhir	c M Rahim	b Shahadat	23
Virender Sehwag (c)	c T Iqbal	b Saqibul	52
Rahul Dravid		b Shahadat	4
Sachin Tendulkar	not out		47
VVS Laxman	st M Rahim	b Saqibul	7
Yuvraj Singh	c R Hossain	b Saqibul	12
Dinesh Karthik (wk)	c R Hasan	b Shahadat	0
Amit Mishra	not out		2

India-Pakistan Bhai Bhai In Fielding

2010-01-16T03:48:00.001-08:00

Kumble fairwell Video

2010-01-16T03:39:00.000-08:00

India's Gen Next Cricketers

2010-01-16T03:08:00.000-08:00

Virat Kohli , Suresh Raina , Rohit Sharma , Sudip Tyagi , Yosuf pathan , Irfan are all well known players. Here we are going to talk about five promising cricketers who are going to have good future if given proper oppurtunities.

1) Abhishek Nayar :

He plays for mumbai in first class matches and represents mumbai Indian in IPL.

He is all rounder who bats left handed and bowls medium pace.

Outstanding fielder , abhishek can be very handy in 20-20 and one dayers.

His presence can uplift the fielding department .

2) Murli Vijay

He has played 2 test matches as replacement when shewag was injured and when gambhir was not there. Averaging 53 , vijay looks confident batsman with good stance.

His body language does reflect composure needed by batsman batting higher in the order.

Still young this guy has strong chances of making a great career as batsman for team India.

3) Cheteshwar Pujara :

Outstanding middle order batsman , he has hit triple centuries in first class cricket. Hailed by all biggies of Indian Cricket , this man has great mental strength at such a young age.

With v.v.s , rahul and sachin on their final stages of career , this man is likely to enter test middle orders in couple of years.

Presently he is under d-grade contract of BCCI. With around 3500 runs at average of 56 in first class matches , this man does has great career waiting for him.

Having hit 12 centuries with 302 being highest , he is one of batsman which we need to look out for.

4) Manish Pandey

Destructive. This one word goes with manish pandey. With his batting he can destroy bowling attack.

Manish , in his first Full season for karnataka Ranji team , was the top run scorer in ranji trophy 09/10 season with 882 Runs which includes 4 100's and 5 50's , with a average of 63.00 and a staggering strike rate of 79.74 .

He ignited the finals of ranji trophy by scoring 144 and taking karnataka on verge of victory. Though his side lost by mere six runs , he did make match very exciting.

This man is knocking doors on Indian Selectors and with his kind of performance , selectors would have to take note sooner than expected.

5) Ajinkya Rahane

Right handed batsman he has is one of 11 batsman who have had made 1000 runs in single ranji trophy season.

He averages 69.89 in first-class cricket, which is next only to Donald Bradman & Vijay Merchant.

He is stronge contender when trio greats call off day in test matches.

Cricket Is Only Sports?

2010-01-16T02:54:00.000-08:00

Today India woke up with news of abhinav bindra , sole olympics gold medal winner of India is last olympics stating that he is frustrated with National Rifle Association of India and is thinking of quitting the game. Another examples of sports administration v/s player.

Bindra is not only holiday he has been training abroad since six months for asian games and common wealth game but NRAI wants him to turn up for regular sessions which they over see.

A frustrated Bindra said, "I'm not saying I don't want to be accountable. The present situation has me very upset and does not leave me with much motivation.

"I don't see any chance of future success if I'm not allowed to prepare in a certain way that has worked for me and is what my professional team and I have planned."

This news comes barely after national hockey team refused to play unless their dues are payed.This got solved after many institutes ,corporate came to hockey's rescue. Even demigods from cricket came up with 1 crore Rs as contribution.

India loves cricket. India adores cricket and for most Indians cricket in only sports. Cricket obsessed India , forces companies to pour money in form of ads and that makes cricket a rich sports. When shewag goes in hiding or dhoni is injured its news for all but what about other sports which still live in age where adminstrative authorities are above players. Players are not important. Their mental level fitness , their needs are often ignored and are treated as mere necessity so that sports goes on irrespective of results!!!!!!!!!

In kiran bedi's autobiography she highlights importance of sports. Sports is not just for fun. It indirectly induces lot of things like sportsman ship , attitude of winning, attitude of loosing with head held high , working in team. Sports is important for nation building too. India needs to play more to be more competitive in all areas.

But for our authorities they are supreme and able. Talent is not important in front of their administrative skill (or so called skills).

We are lately doing good in tennis , boxing , shooting , badminton . But players need support more from people which would make authorities work!!!!!!!!...

Ricky Ponting on the Australian-indian student tensions

2010-01-15T03:30:00.000-08:00

Beckham's Jesus tatoo

2010-01-13T02:29:00.000-08:00

Akmal Drops Himself!!!!!!!!

2010-01-13T00:35:00.000-08:00

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced the final eleven for Hobart test series against Australia, Geo News reported Wednesday.

Pakistan has dropped wicket-keeper and vice captain Kamran Akmal and made three other changes ahead of the third Test against Australia in Hobart.

Akmal has been replaced by rookie 'keeper Safraz Ahmed after a bizarre standoff between the vice captain and selectors, with Akmal repeatedly insisting his place in the team was safe.

The gloveman - who dropped four catches as Australia pulled off a miraculous victory at the SCG last week - was forced to 'drop himself' as he is part of Paksitan's four-man selection panel.

Pakistan manager Adbul Raquib said the panel unanimously decided to play Safraz ahead of Akmal.

16/3-Srilanka Shocks India

2010-01-13T00:29:00.000-08:00

India are 27/3 in 6 overs . Playing final of tri series , India needed luck in toss which they didnt have. Having asked to bat first , India needed a great start but consistent gambhir got bowled in first over. The man of moment , kohli too got out for only 2 runs and yuvraj's lack of form continued.

Now it is upto shewag and dhoni to re build the innings and get a good total.

Sanath Jayasuriya Walks The Ramp

2010-01-12T03:26:00.000-08:00

Ponting slips up in the slips

2010-01-12T03:25:00.001-08:00

Ricky Ponting drops an easy catch just before lunch on day three of the first Test against Pakistan.

Too fat? Women tennis players

2010-01-12T03:24:00.000-08:00

Australian tennis coach, Roger Rasheed, queries Casey Dellacqua's fitness on Melbourne radio station 3AW.

India Not Long Term No 1: Ian Chappell

2010-01-12T03:12:00.000-08:00

Chappells always have opinion on Indian Cricket. After famous coach saga of greg chappell , Ian chappel has spoken about Indian Cricket in his interview to cricketinfo.

Abstract of the interview is as follows :

"I don't think great teams are built on opening batting partnerships. But to me, there is a far more important thing, and this is one reason why I don't rate India as a long-term No.1,"

"When I look at the averages and the strike-rates for India in the last 12 months, I don't see two champion bowlers. In fact, I am struggling to find one champion bowler in that line-up.

"They've got some good bowlers. Sure, they have got a very good batting line-up, but the bowling is really not good enough to see them win consistently all around the world,"

"I would have thought it was a greater achievement if they had caught up with Australia, while Australia was still very much a great side, rather than waiting for Australia to come back to the field,"

"That to me has been the disappointing thing. It seems to me that the other teams have almost thrown their hands and said that 'it's hard to beat them, we will just wait for them to fall back and then we will catch them',"

Red Hot Form- Virat Kohli

2010-01-12T03:08:00.000-08:00

Virat kohli is man of the moment. Having got oppurtunity after sachin tendulkar withdrew himself from tri series , virat seems to have grabed oppurtunity with both hands.

In last six innings that he has played he has scored 3 half centuries and 2 centuries.

Amongst the Indian batsmen with 500 runs or more, Kohli's average of 58.23 is the best - 757 in 13 innings

Surely he is in red hot form and should deserve place in team even when tendulkar returns.

From Boy To Man- Virat Kohli

2010-01-11T02:16:00.000-08:00

Latest ICC Test Rankings-9/01/10

2010-01-09T06:04:00.000-08:00

Test Batsman

Rank	Rat.	Name
1	877	G. Gambhir
2	836	D.P.M.D. Jayawardena
3	835	K.C. Sangakkara
4	807	G.C. Smith
5	804	V. Sehwag
6	791	J.H. Kallis
7	789	Mohammad Yousuf
8	765	S. Chanderpaul
9	763	R.L. Taylor
10	762	Younus Khan

Test Bowlers

Rank	Rat.	Name
1	833	D.W. Steyn
2	820	M.G. Johnson
3	792	Mohammad Asif
4	752	M. Muralidaran
5	748	G.P. Swann
6	712	Harbhajan Singh
7	684	J.M. Anderson
8	678	M. Ntini
9	676	S.E. Bond
10	675	S.R. Clark

Allan Donald's Vs England (6-53)

2010-01-09T00:16:00.000-08:00

M.S.Dhoni's Unseen Pic

2010-01-09T00:11:00.000-08:00

The decade in cricket

2010-01-09T00:00:00.000-08:00

Can India Stop Vijayrath Of Srilanka?

2010-01-08T23:46:00.000-08:00

Srilanka is in prime form. Their batsman are among highest run scorers in the series. Their bowlers are bowling well and their fielding is surely better than lousy Indians.

Having not lost single game so far , srilankans would press for one more win tomorrow. While sangakkara is happy man , m s isn't. Indians bowling has been pathetic , since long . With exception of few matches , Indian bowlers have been generous to give runs. Infact if any batsman is out of form and confidence , he should play against Indian Bowling , surely he would regain his form!!!!!!!!!

Indian fielding is below standard and needs to be upgraded , so that it doesnot look like India is playing gully cricket!!!!!!!!!

Only saviour is Indian batting and with gautam , shewag and yuvraj still to fire , India can surely bang on any of these three to score huge runs tommorrow. The only way India can stop vijayrath is by its batting.

Dhoni's Main Worry : Bowlers Failing

2010-01-08T00:09:00.000-08:00

India has lot of experienced bowlers in its line up. Zaheer Khan , Harbhajan Singh , Comeback men ashish nehra and shree santh. With their experience one does expect them to bowl some good overs. Also one cannot expect all four to give over 6 runs an over in a match.But they did exactly opposite of what is expected from them!!!!!

Now if its purely batting pitch one cant blame them But when less experienced bowler jadega give approx 5 runs an over and part time bowler yuvraj give mere 33 runs in his ten overs , taking one wicket , sure one cant blame pitch. Also one cant blame dew also ,since we bowled during day time.

India is having tough time bowling in 7 out of 10 matches. If our batting fails , the chances of winning become minimum. "We have problem bowling in late overs" said dhoni 6 months back and after six months , we still have same problem!!!!!!!!

If giving 8 runs an over is bowling why not play all batsman who can bowl a bit . Even they would end up giving 8 runs!!!!!!!!!!

Shewag/Gauti/Yuvi Failure Is Good For India!!!!!!!!

2010-01-07T22:59:00.000-08:00

Shewag failed , ever consistent gautam gambhir failed and so did main stay of middle order yuvraj. 50/3 read the score. With tendulkar being absent , onus was on dhoni and he had three young players virat kohli , suresh raina and jadeja to do the job with him.

Call it blessing in disguise but failing of shewag , gauti and yuvi yesterday was good for India. Not long before shewag and tendulkar had failed chasing big total and gauti-kohli did the job for India. Yesterday it was dhoni-kohli supported by raina. One name was common in both victories. VIRAT KOHLI. It good to see young man taking responsibility. We all know what gautam , shewag , yuvraj and dhoni can do but we need more match winners and likes of raina , kohli , jadega have potentiality of being match winners.

Its not that these players should fail repeatively , that would be worse for India but occasionally when such things happen its good for India. More players stand up and take responsibility , more freedom of shorts these players would have. Its heartening to see a 20 year old kholi being one of architects of two victories for India.

First Pakistani spinner to take 250 Test wickets- Danish Kaneria

2010-01-07T05:01:00.000-08:00

By dismissing Doug Bollinger in 2nd test match against australia , Danish Kaneria became first pakistani spinner to take 250 wickets.

30-year-old bowler, who belongs to Karachi, is Pakistan’s highest wicket-taker in Test cricket with 250 wickets in 57 tests, followed by former cricketer Abdul Qadir with 236 wickets in 67 Tests.

Aussie's Miracle Turnaround

2010-01-07T04:59:00.000-08:00

Australia has traded a 206 first innings deficit for a 36 run win over Pakistan at the SCG.

Uefa Champions League 2009-2010 theme

2010-01-07T04:56:00.000-08:00

brad haddin unbelievable catch

2010-01-07T04:50:00.000-08:00

Aus Beats Pak To Win Series

2010-01-05T22:19:00.000-08:00

127 all out in first innings. 99 times out of 100 a team would end loosing the test match with this type of first innings score. But aussie pulled out a miracle and won the test!!!!!!!!!

Pakistan needed 176 runs to win the test and had more than one and half day to do that. But it could not deliver the final punch.

Baring umar akmal hardly any one provided any resistant to the bowling. Umar made 49 in total score of 139 all out.

Earlier hussey delivered when it needed most and score 134 not out which gave aussie 176 to defend.