KOTLA....SHAME....

As the final and the fifth ODI match between India and Srilanka was abandoned due to dangerous playing conditions and this would be the most embarrassment for the DDCA.From the start itself occasional deliveries reared up and one such delivery hit Dilshan which brought hin in severe pain and needed for an urgent first aid in the field iteslf. The bad condition of the pitch was first reported by the Srilankans when one from Tyagi bounced to very high which was even difficult for Dhoni to hold.Soon they reported this matter to the umpires and later the decision came that the match has been abandoned.The Srilankan innings was at 83/5 as they...

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INDIA IN WORRY....

Indian cricket team will be in a little worried situation tomorrow when the team will be playing against the Srilankans in the fourth match at Eden Gardens-the world's largest cricket stadium until Melbourne cricket ground was renovated . The reason for the Indian worries are Yuvraj Singh has been ruled out following his injury in his little finger.This is apart from the fact thet Dhoni too will not there in the playing eleven as he was banned for 2 matches due to his slow over rate. Eden Gardens has always been known to produce some fantastic cricket moments.Harbhajan's hat-trick,Sachin's controversiel run out as he ran into Shoaib Akthar...

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BREATH TAKING....

This was one of the finest cricket match in ODI I have ever witnessed.Chasing a very huge total of 415 the visitors gave a very tough time to the hosts as they ended up the match just 3 runs before their target. The which was best suited to the batsmen as they scored 825 runs with each side scoring 400 and above.Both India and Srilanka played their best as the openers of both the teams gave a magnificent start with Sehwag scoring 146 of 102 balls as he and Sachin gave the team India a flying start.Later he was awarded the Man Of The Match. In reply Srilankan openers too batted well and Dilshan who scored 160 of 124 balls...

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YUVI CELEBRATES....

It was the local boy Yuvraj Singh who was the birthday boy who came to his home ground to celebrate his 28-th birthday not only with the bat but also with the ball.With his all round performance Yuvi brought India to safe home by leveling the series 1-1. Srilanka batting first scored a massive score of 206/7 in just 20 overs.Once again captain Sangakkara steered the Srilankan score par 200 with his fast half century and put the Indian bowlers under pressure.The rest of the batsmen also supported well and added fuel to the fire. Chasing such a huge score of 207 India openers got off to a good start even though they were ready to...

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T-20 First match:India payed for their laziness...

In the first T-20 Srilanka have one the match by 29 runs.India who helped the Srilankan's to reach a big total was too big for the Indian's to reach the target in the restricted 20 overs.Indian fielders were competing against themselves as each of them dropped their catches and helped the Srilankan batsmen.Sangakkara who brilliantly scored 50 of 20 balls dashed all the Indian bowlers which was well supported by his team mates. In response to the huge total of 215/5 in 20 overs India also started well with Gambhir scoring 50 in just 19 balls which was well supported by Sehwag.But any other batsmen couldn't do well and reached only 186/9 in 20 overs. Kumar Sangakkara was awarded the Man Of The Match for his dashing 78 ru...

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INDIAN TEAM-A BALANCED ONE....

Do you know why the present Indian team is now on the top of the world test ranking?Do you know what is the secret behind India's present fantastic performance? The answer to these questions are as simple as throwing a pebble into a pond .Now the present team is a very balanced one in any of the department.India team is now having the best seven batsmen in the team.Starting from Sehwag,Gambhir,Sachin,Yuvraj,Dhoni,Dravid,Laxman.While coming to the pace attack leading bowlers are with this team Zaheer,Sreesanth,Ishant who can disturb any batting order.And of course the spinners also Harbhajan and Ojha.And also a lot gifted bench players...

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TEAM INDIA....NO:1....

A thrilling win against the Srilanka in Mumbai in the Brabourne stadium takk India to the top of the Test ranking.India come to the no:1 position when India defeated Srilanka for an innings and 24 runs. Virendar Sehwag was awarded the Man Of The Match for fabulous 293 which made India to the driver seat in the beginning of the match itself.He was also awarded the Man Of The Seri...

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INDIA WAY TO NO:1....

On the way to the world's no:1 team in the world of test cricket just one more day and 5 wickets are remaining.Now the current score of Srilankan second innings is274/6.Zaheer-Ojha 2-2 and Harbhajan-Sreesanth 1-1 disturbed the Srilankan innings periodically.With only 4 wickets remaining it has to be seen that how long Srilankan innings will last. India have almost registered their victory in this match.The only obstacle now is the Srilankan captain Kumar Saangakkara who i playing fearlessly at 127* and he is trying his best to save the test match from the hands of India.And it will be interesting to see whether he ill be successful in his attempt...

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DHONI-TOO BIG....

Have you seen the six by Dhoni in which he score his sixth test hundred today in Mumbai test;day 3? He hit that ball out of the ground and that was also an alert to Srilankan's that they are out of the game's control too. Today the biggest upset was Sehwag was not able to complete his third triple century. He got out when he was on 293 by Muralitharan.But then Sachin,Laxman and Dhoni steered India to a huge total of 726/9.Muralitharan totally outplayed today claiming 4 wickets including that of Sehwag and Laxman. It's an uphill task to Srilanka to save this test as two more days are there and India is in a commanding...

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STUNNING SEHWAG....

The fabulous Brabourne stadium today witnessed one of the finest batting ever in the world test matches.Virendar Sehwag blasted 284 runs from just 239 balls took India to a huge total of 443 for 1 on the second day of third test series in Mumbai.India now leads by a score of 50 over Srilanka who scored a decent score of 393 in their first innings.Today India also made a record of scoring the highest runs in a day.Previuos best was 417 in their second innings.Sehwag smashed 40 boundaries and seven huge sixes in his way to the triple century.The Lankan spinners had an embarrassing day with both Muralidaran and Herath conceding over 100 runs in...

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MUMBAI TEST:DAY-1

With a good century from the opener Dilshan,Srilanka was able to make a good score on the first day of the third test in Mumbai.At stumps Srilanka was in a decent score of 366 for 8 with Angelo Mathews (86) and Muralitharan.Ojha got 2 and Sreesanth,Zaheer,Harbhajan got 1 wickets each .A test is being played in this venue after 36 years "BREBOURNE" stadium....

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CENTURY WIN

With their win over Srilanka on Thursday India registered their 100-th win in the international test matches.Scoring a mammoth total of 642 in the first innings India with the help of Sreesanth was able to make follow on the target.Sreesanth who bowled well with a swing was able to pick 5 wickets stumbled the srilankan innings to 229.In their second innings Harbhajan and Ojha spins the Srilankans to 269 and acquired the victory of an innings and 144 runs;the highest against the Srilanka by India.Sreesanth declared the man of the match for his 5 wickets in the first innin...

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THIS TEAM IS REALLY UNPREDICTABLE

It was the team that some days before made a great come back and made the brilliant Australians a bit worried.The same team was horribly managing to make their score board to carry to a hundred run while the team was 32 for 5.Then Praveen Kumar and Ravindra Jadeja managed India to brought a decent score and finally they posted a score of 170 on a good batting wicket in Guwahati. In reply Australians reached the target without any worries and clinched the series for 4-2 with only one match to be played on tomorr...

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THE LEGEND, WE SALUTE YOU....

Yesterday the Aussies team was playing against only the man SACHIN TENDULKAR .On the other hand SACHIN was playing against the 11 member-ed and even then he was able to make the Aussies a lot worried.In his way to the milestone of 175 he also entered in the 17000 club when he scored just 7 runs. Australia batting first set up a target of a mammoth 350 for 5 injust 50 overs at a batting pitch in Hyderabad.The Indian bowlers failed to restrict the Aussies batmen to a low score.The hole in the bowling and fielding areas was clearly visible especially in the slog overs as the Australian batsmen found around 100 runs in the...

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DHONI ROCKS....

A ton from 94 balls by Indian captain Dhoni and the supportive action from Suresh Raina (62) and Gautam Gambhir (76) helped India to make a stunning victory over the mighty Australians which helped the Indian team to level the series 1-1 of the seven One dayer. Winning the toss Australian captain elected to field first without their trump card Brett Lee.Even though they got the early wickets of the Indian top order batsmen with 97-3 Dhoni-Gambhir(118) and Dhoni-Raina(136) helped India to post a mammoth score of 354-7 in 50 overs.In reply any of the Aussies batsmen raised a challenge to the Indian bowlers and were all out for 255...

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FIRST IMPRESSION IS THE BEST IMPRESSION

Thanks to Harbhajan and Praveen Kumar for making the First ODI a thrilling one as it was going to a one-sided match.That match clearly shows that there no depth in the Indian batting line up especially Dravid.Also Yuvraj didn't played the last match due to injury.Winning the toss Indian captain Dhoni elected for bowling.Even though the Indian bowlers were able to get the first wicket early then the Aussies batsmen slowly build up the score card with patnerships which the Indian batsmesn failed to ma...

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AUSTRALIA ARRIVED....

Yesterday Australian team arrived in Mumbai for 7 One-day series which will begin from 25-th of this month(October).The new coach of the Australian team hope that Michael Clarke would get well oon from his aching back injury.While Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh made a come back in the team after their injuries though Dravid was excluded...

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ROBIN AND PRASAD CLEAN BOWLED....

It was great disappoint to me when I heard the news of expulsion of Robin Singh and Venketesh Prasad.Both of them played a major role in the T-20 World Cup 2007 which was won for the first time by the young Indian team.In that tournament I can't never forget the fielding of Indian cricket team.I can powerfully say that Indian team has won that World Cup only because of the team's fielding effort and also the work done by Robin to make the "Lazy Indian Team" into an "Energetic Indian Team".Also with the tips from the former Indian pacer Prasad Indian bowling department rose to new heights.... And now the BCCI forgot all these.... and...

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IT HAPPENS ONLY IN INDIA....

Again BCCI played a risky game here by dropping "THE WALL OF INDIAN CRICKET TEAM"-RAHUL DRAVID.In his last 5 matches he played after his come back he has scored 180 runs with an average of 36 which was the best comparing with any other Indian batsmen in the nearby tournaments.He was the only inform batsmen in the Indian cricket team.The selector's decision astonished all....Here I have to ask the reason for the exclution of Rahul Dravid.Why he was not included?Didn't he played well?Then why.....

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HUGE BLOW TO THE INDIANS

It was a huge blow when I heard of Yuvraj's injury.What happened to this Indian Team?The bad luck is always following the Indian team since the T-20 world cup second edition and now in the form of injuries to the main players. Now just look at the Indian batsmen.Sachin,Gambhir,Dravid,Dhoni.Besides them Raina,Yusuf,Abhishek and Kohli who are trying to make a sure seat in the Indian cricket team.Without considering the first four batsmen can you say that the Indian Team is really strong now?If all the four batsmen got out very early in the innings then can you say that the team can reach a decent score....?All the new substitute batsmen in...

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RECORDS ARE TO BE CHANGED....

With a stunning victory of 6 wickets over Newzland in the Tri-nation series in Srilanka India is now at the top of the ICC ranking for the first time in history since ICC started the ranking on October 2002. Yesterday winning the toss Kiwis captain Vettori selected batting as we all expected.But in return Indian seemers bowled well keeping the line and length well enough and restricted the Newzland batting at 155 in 46.1 overs.After that Indian batsmen performed with the bat also without showing any trouble batting under the lights.Sachin Tendulkar leaded from the front and was awardrd the "Most Stylish Batsman" of the match.Rahul Dravid...

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DRAVID IN, ROHIT OUT....

Yesterday the Indian team for ICC Champions Trophy and for the Tri-nation series in Srilanka was declared. As everyone expected Rohit Sharma who was trying hard to come back in his rythm was excluded and "Mr.Cool" Dravid was included in the Indian squad.After 2 years Dravid was included in the Indian team where he last played was in Nagpur in October 27 against Australia.With Dravid in the middle order hopes are strong for a good Indian total.Dravid with risky wristy shots and and his leaning shot in his toes would definitely help the Indian middle.On the other hand Rohit was troubling to cope with the short pitches were he was tested by the...

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SEHWAG AND ZAHEER UNFIT

It was reported recently that Sehwag and Zaheer may miss the Champions Trophy.Both Sehwag and Zaheer were injured to their shoulders' during the IPL season-2.Even though Sehwag was there in the team for ICC T-20 he was not played and was send back to the country due to his injury in the shoulders.Without Zaheer Indian pace battery will not be full charged,even then we can hope more from Ishant and Harbhajan.We can also hpoe more from the Indian batsmen too....

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JUST ONE MORE STEP

According to latest ranking published by ICC now the Indian team is in the second position with Australia in the third position.The first in the table occupied by the mighty South Africans.SOUTH AFRICA :127INDIA :126AUSTRALIA :117 The above table shows that the Indians are far above the Australians who was in the top position for about 4 years.But the problem is that the Indian Team is not having any tournaments in the nearby period.Even though the Indian team have failed miserably in the T-20 World Cup they are performing well in the one-day and test matches and soon will be able to...

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Thinking of you,DADA....

We can see the touch of God,his majesty everywhere.In football if it was with Diego Maradona,in cricket he would be there in the offside of Sourav Ganguly.Yes Dada,you are gifted,a natural striker of the cricket ball through the pin hole gap in the offside.Someone said"Leader is the one who leads from the front...." and Ganguly purely showed it.It was his risk to make a batsman like Sehwag to open the innings,it was his choice to retain Yuvraj,Harbhajan in his team.It was his mind that made Javagal Srinath to come back to the International cricket after his first retirement.Yes, you were always right.It was Ganguly who taught the Indian team...

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A Great Indian Cricket Fan

As most of the cricket fan I'm also a damn fan of the Indian Cricket team.Here in this blog you can see my views on each of the Indian cricket team's performance whether it may be a One-dayer,Test or a T-20 format.It maybe supportive or a critic.Whatever it may be it's for the betterment of our Indian Cricket team....

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