Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Mumbai snatched the victory on the last ball
Mumbai Indians hold their nerve and won an exciting match against TT by 1 wicket.TT gave the target of 99 runs in 20 overs and MI just reached their somehow,Ravi Rampaul took three wickets in the match and he brought his team back in the game.All his effort gone in vain when Ramdin missed the run out chance on the last ball of the match and TT lost by 1 wicket.
Harbhajan Singh after the match said "I thought we were very poor. I would say TT played better then us, but we will take the win. They fought really well. Our batting was very poor. We needed to take only the singles and it was an easy target. We were very good with our bowling and fielding. We cannot bat like this if we are to progress into the deeper rounds. We do not deserve to win if we are to continue playing like this. Darren Ganga: The result is disappointing. The guys are shattered. The batting was very poor, we fought in the field. Unfortunately it was not good enough. We have three more matches to play. This match will give us a lot of confidence. We were playing for the super over. Ramdin just failed to hit the stumps. We will go to Chennai with confidence and hope to do well."
Mumbai are now on top of Group A with 4 points. Heart-break though for the exciting boys from the Carribean Islands. This is just their 2nd ever loss in the history of CL T20. At the end of a rivetting T20 match at the M Chinnaswamy stadium, it was not bat or ball that decided the winner, but it was just one moment of madness that cost TT the game.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Thrilling last ball win for WARRIORS
Champions League T20 started with a thrilling match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Warriors.Warriors won the toss and elected to field first,Chris Gayle thrashed two sixes and two fours in his 23runs inning.AB de Villiers and Virat Kohli took the charge after the early loss of their both the openers,both got out after a good start in early thirties.Saurabh Tiwary and Kaif contributed 28 and 26 and RCB finished at 172 in their 20 overs.Theron took 4 for 29 and helped Warriors to stop RCB from scoring a huge total.
Warriors started their innings very well and scored 57 runs in their first 6 over powerplay.RCB bowlers took the charge and took 4wkts for 82 runs in 12 overs.Ashwell Prince and Johan Botha comeback is not wasted as they score 74 and 42 respectively and took their team to a great victory.Prince who scored 74 including 6fours and 3sixes was declared man of the match.
Player of the match : Ashwell Prince
Friday, September 16, 2011
LG ICC AWARDS
PLAYER | AWARDS |
| ALEEM DAR |
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| RYAN TEN DOESCHATE |
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| TIM SOUTHEE |
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| M S DHONI |
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| KUMAR SANGAKKARA |
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| KUMAR SANGAKARA |
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| ALASTAIR COOK |
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| JONATHAN TROTT |
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| STAFANIE TAYLOR |
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| DEVENDRA BISHOO |
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Indian Cricket Team in deep trouble due to players injuries.
INDIAN PLAYERS PRESENT INJURIES
PLAYER | INJURY |
| GAUTAM GAMBHIR |
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| VIRENDER SEHWAG |
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| M.S. DHONI |
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| CHETESWAR PUJARA |
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| SACHIN TENDULKAR |
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| PRAVEEN KUMAR |
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| ISHANT SHARMA |
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| YUVRAJ SINGH |
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| ROHIT SHARMA |
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| ZAHEER KHAN |
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| HARBHAJAN SINGH |
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Friday, September 09, 2011
SRI LANKA in deep trouble in 2nd test at Kandy
After a great performance in the first test against Sri Lanka and winning the match by 125 runs at Galle, Australia dominated the first two days in 2nd test at Kandy.Australian bowlers looked in good rhythm and only a fighting half century by Angelo Mathews helped Sri Lanka to put a score of 174 in their first innings.Ryan Harris took 3/38,Lyon,Johnson and Copeland took 2wkts each
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Australian Batsman look in sublime touch and they were 264/3 at the end of second day.Shaun Marsh and Hussey made half centuries and remain not out on second day.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
ICC TEST TEAM OF THE YEAR 2011
ICC TEST TEAM OF THE YEAR 2011
- Alastair Cook(Eng)
- Hashim Amla(SA)
- Jonathan Trott(Eng)
- Sachin Tendulkar(Ind)
- Kumar Sangakkara(SL wk/captain)
- AB de Villiers(SA)
- Jacques Kallis(SA)
- Stuart Broad(Eng)
- Graeme Swann(Eng)
- Dale Steyn(SA)
- James Anderson(Eng)
- Zaheer Khan(12th man)
- Clive Lloyd(Chairman)
- Paul Adams
- Zaheer Abbas
- Danny Morrison
- Mike Gatting
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
England whitewashed India and win series by 4-0
Wow....what a great game of cricket!!!
Cricket is a great leveler.Nobody had ever thought that England beat India so convincingly in the test series.England became the new world champion of tests by taking No.1 position in test rankings.Dravid 'The Wall' made three centuries in the series but all gone in vain.
In the fourth test at The Oval England beat India by an inning and 8 runs.Sachin Tendulkar made 91 runs with some glorious hits and Amit Mishra contributed with a great knock of 84 runs.Swann finally look in good rhythm and took six Indian wickets including Sehwag,Dravid and Gambhir.
Stuart Broad took 25wkts at an average of 13.84,James Anderson also supported him well by taking 21wkts in the series.Kevin Pietersen and Ian Bell both made over 500 runs in the series including one double century by each player.Rahul Dravid,star for Indian team,made 461runs in the series at an average of above 75 including three centuries.
Player of the Match: Ian Bell
Player of the Series: Stuart Broad,Rahul Dravid
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Struggle continued for Indian team against England
England dominated the fourth test at the Oval and scored a huge total of 591/6 against India,this was third time when England scored more than 500 in this series.England inning was dominated by Ian Bell and Kevin Pietersen.Ian Bell scored his highest score in test cricket 235 surpassing his previous best of 199 runs against South Africa.Ian Bell brilliant double-century at the Oval makes this test venue with the most 200 plus score.England team scored three double centuries in the series,it levels the previous record of three double centuries by England in 1938 against Australia.Kevin Pietersen contributed 175 runs and Bell and Kevin put up a partnership of more than 350 runs.
Sehwag and Dravid opened for India,Dravid replaced injured Gambhir and he scored his 35th test century,third in the series.All batsman got failed against England pace and spin attack.Indian team just got 4wkts in hand with a mountain to climb ahead.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Tharanga and Malinga helped SL to win comfortably against Australia
Upul Tharanga fourth century in this year and Malinga 5 wicket-hall helped Sri-lanka to take a comfortable 78runs win over Australia.Sri Lankan batsman after their disastrous performance in first two ODI looked in good touch in third ODI and scored 286/9 in 50 overs.Australia won the toss and elected to field but this time Dilshan and Tharanga was able to provide Sri Lanka a brilliant opening stand of 139 runs.Dilshan scored a half century and got out on Bollinger bowling who took 42/4 in the match.Sangakkara made quick fire 49runs in just 37balls including 2sixes.Upul Tharanga provide stability to the Sri Lankan inning and he scored 111runs in 139ballls Sri Lanka collapsed in the slog overs and lost 7wkts in just 66 runs.
Australia got the target of 287 runs.They hadn't started well and lost both their openers in 7 overs.Michael Hussey made a good half century but that was not enough for a win for Australia.Malinga took 28/5 including inform batsman Watson,Clarke and Hussey.In the end,Sri Lanka won comfortably by 78runs.
Player Of the Match:Upul Tharanga.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
India's biggest defeats in Test cricket
England became the "King Of Tests" after a emphatic win over India
England became the new champion in the test cricket and occupied No.1 position in ICC Test rankings after defeating India by an inning and 242 runs. England outplayed India in every department of cricket.India never look in hunt of saving the test match.England dominated all the sessions of the test match,Cook,Morgan and Anderson helped England to get the second largest win over India.
Alastair Cook scored his highest score in test cricket 294 and missed triple-hundred just by six runs.This was his second double hundred,first versus India.His marathon inning included 33fours in 545balls and he was involved in double hundred partnership with Morgan who scored a ton and got out on 104 on the bowling of Suresh Raina.Bresnan also scored a quick fire fifty helping England to pass 700 runs.
Indian batsman once again failed against Anderson,Broad and Bresnan.Sehwag got out on duck and registered a king pair in his test record.Anderson took 4wkts in his first spell including three top order batsman of the strong batting line-up of India.India got all-out on 244, thanks to MS Dhoni 74*,Sachin 40 and Praveen 40 otherwise at one time it looked that India would be unable to score 150.
After this victory England lead the four match series 3-0 and also secured No.1 in ICC TEST RANKINGS.
Player of the match:Alastair Cook
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Enlgland desperate to take No.1 spot in Test rankings
Indian batsman once again failed to perform in the seaming and swinging condition of England in the third test at Edgbaston, Birmingham.Sehwag playing for the first time on this tour got out on the first ball , Gambhir and Dravid provide some stability to the Indian inning but Bresnan and Broad had some different ideas for the Indian batsman.England bowlers utilised the condition very well and Broad and Bresnan both took 4wkts each and helped England in wrapping up Indian innings under 225.MS Dhoni played an excellent knock of 77runs and involved in good partnership with Praveen Kumar.At one stage India were 111/7 but Dhoni and Kumar took India to a respectable total of 224runs.
England started well,both Cook and Strauss looked in good touch.Strauss completed his half century and at stumps day1 England were 84/0.
Australia cameback strongly after losing T20 series
Australia won the first ODI against Sri Lanka played at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium by 7 wickets and open their account in the 5match series with 1-0.Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat first,middle order collapsed after a good solid start by Dilshan and Tharnaga.At one stage,they were at 117 for the lost of 7 wkts but thanks to Randiv and Kulasekara for their valuable effort at the lower order.Sri Lanka gave a target of 192 to the Australians.Mitchell Johnson bowled brilliantly and took 31/6 and helped Australia to wrap up Sri Lanka at a score of 191.
Shane Watson played a quick fire knock of 69 runs in just 49 bowls including 5fours and 6sixes.Ponting and Clarke showed good form and both hit half centuries.Australia won comfortably by 7wkts with 71 balls to spare.
Player of the Match -Mitchell Johnson
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Mendis helped Sri Lanka to win series
Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat first,Mahela Jayawardene 86 runs inning helped Lanka to reach a respectable total of 157 runs.Lee and Hastings took 3wkts each and stopped SL to get a huge total.Shane Watson started the Australian inning in a sparkling manner and he scored 57runs in just 24balls including 6 fours and 5 sixes.Ajanta Mendis,player of the match, plucked 16/6 and helped SL to grasp the two match T20 series 2-0.Mendis 16/6 was his personal best figure in T20 cricket and also it became the best figure in T20 cricket.
Saturday, August 06, 2011
Dravid returns to ODI team,injured Bhajji and Yuvraj left out
Indian team selector made a shocking decision of inclusion of Dravid in 16-man squad for 1 T20 and 5 ODI against England.Dravid scored over 10000 runs at an average of nearly 40.00 in 339 matches.He was last appeared in an ODI match against South Africa in Champions Trophy in 2009.He was the best batsman from India in the first two test and it could be the reason for selecting him.Yuvraj and Harbhajan was left out because of injury.Rohit Sharma and Parthiv Patel are included in the team and Yusuf Pathan was left out.Indian team squad is:
- M S Dhoni (capt and wk)
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Gautam Gambhir
- Virender Sehwag
- Rahul Dravid
- Suresh Raina
- Virat Kohli
- Rohit Sharma
- Parthiv Patel (wk)
- Amit Mishra
- R Ashwin
- Zaheer Khan
- Ishant Sharma
- Praveen Kumar
- Munaf Patel
- Vinay Kumar
Zimbabwe got vital lead against Bangladesh
Zimbabwe got a lead of 83 runs against Bangladesh in the first test at Harare.Bangladesh batsman failed to capitalised on good start and three of their batsman,Nafees,Ashraful and Shakib Al Hasan,got out after scoring half centuries.Vitori was the pick of the bowlers and he took 66/4 in his debut match.Bangladesh got all-out after scoring 287runs.Zimbabwe got good start in their second innings and they were 69/0 but they lost 4 wickets in just 22 runs which send them to backfoot and they were 92/4 at stumps on day 3.
Friday, August 05, 2011
Zimbabwe failed to capitalise after good start
Zimbabwe scored a good total against the Bangladesh in the first test at Harare.Earlier Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bowl first against inexperienced and young side of Zimbabwe.Ervine,Jarvis,Mavoyo and Vitori from Zimbabwe made their test debut.Masakadza scored a ccentury and he was well supported by Sibanda and Taylor,both of them scored a half century.At one time,they were 304/2 but they lost their whole side under 375 and posted a total of 370 all out.Rubel and Shakib took three wickets each and helped Bangladesh to wrap up the Zimbabwe innings.Bangladesh had a poor start and they lost their openers Tamim Iqbal and Imrul Kayes very early in the innings,both of them got out against the good bowling og debutant Vitori.Bangladesh made 107/3 at stumps on Day 2.
Sehwag and Gambhir failed in the practice match
Sehwag and Gambhir failed in practice match against the Northamptonshire.India won the toss and M S Dhoni elected to bat first but soon Sehwag departed after scoring 8 runs,Gambhir joined him after making 18 runs.Sehwag was playing after a long time and his return after injury will be very much helpful for Indian team.Abhinav Mukund continued his good form and scored century 113 runs and engaged in a very good partnership with VVS Laxman. Raina and captain Dhoni failed again and got out cheaply.India after 90 overs were 327/7,thanks to Laxman and Mukund for their valiant efforts.
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Bowling Facts
Most wickets in a test career
- Muttiah Muralitharan(SL) - 800 wkts
- Shane Warne(AUS) - 708 wkts
- Anil Kumble(IND) - 619 wkts
- Jim laker(ENG) - 53/10
- Anil Kumble(IND) - 74/10
- George Lohmann(ENG) - 28/9
- Jim Laker(ENG) - 90/19
- SF Barnes(ENG) - 159/17
- Narendra hirwani(IND) - 136/16
- SF Barnes(ENG) - 536/49
- Jim Laker(ENG) - 442/46
- Clarrie Grimmet(AUS) - 642/54
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
England thrashed India by 319 runs
England played an outstanding cricket on day four of Trent Bridge and dominated India in every department of the game.Bresnan played an outstanding inning of 90 runs,Prior and Broad also contributed to the massive total of 544 runs.India never looked in the hunt of winning the match as they lost Dravid,Laxman and Mukund in first 15 overs.Raina and Yuvraj also got out cheaply and only player who look comfortable was Sachin Tendulkar,he scored very well compiled half century but that was not enough for the team to win the match.Bresnan was outstanding on the day and he took five wicket-hall after a quick fire ninety runs.India lost the match by 319 runs and now the number one place in test ranking of India is in danger.
Man of the match-STUART BROAD
Boycott said that India played like Bangladesh team in the Trent Bridge test.India have some good news after the second test,Zaheer Khan and Sehwag joined Indian team after the second test and they will probably play in the third test.
Man of the match-STUART BROAD
Boycott said that India played like Bangladesh team in the Trent Bridge test.India have some good news after the second test,Zaheer Khan and Sehwag joined Indian team after the second test and they will probably play in the third test.
Monday, August 01, 2011
Day 3 Trent Bridge Test:Bell hundred helps England to dominate India
Ian Bell hits a century after the early loss of captain.Ian Bell promoted to third number and he played absolutely brilliant.Pietersen,Morgan and Prior made half centuries.Indian bowlers look completely off-colour and conceded more than fifty boundaries.
Dhoni showed great gamesmanship and withdraw his appeal after bizarre run-out of Bell just before tea.All in all,England completely dominated India in all aspects of the game.England finished the day three on 441 for 6.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Day 2 Trent Bridge Test:Dravid and Broad at their best
What a fascinating day of test cricket!!
India consolidate in the morning session,Laxman made a well compiled half century and Dravid "The Wall",great servant to the Indian Cricket, made his 34th century.He played some glorious shots all around the wicket.This was his second century in the test series and he involved in two good partnerships with Laxman and Yuvraj.
Yuvraj playing for the first time in the series catched the opportunity with both hands and made a half century.Yuvraj looked in good touch and ball is just traveling at a speed of knots when he played some glorious cover-drives and sweep shots but then came the "Broad Storm".
Stuart Broad first dismissed well-set Yuvraj and then took a hat-trick to dismissDhoni,Harbhajan Singh and Praveen Kumar.Dravid was dismissed in the very next over and Indian team took a lead of important 62 runs.
Once again Sachin Tendulkar failed to perform in his 100th test overseas and after that it was Broad show in Trent Bridge.Broad took 5 wicket -hall finishing with 6 for 46 and completely changed the game in favour of England.England finished at a score of 24 for 1,Cook dismissed by Ishant very early in the inning and thus stopping the host side to take early advantage in the second inning.
India consolidate in the morning session,Laxman made a well compiled half century and Dravid "The Wall",great servant to the Indian Cricket, made his 34th century.He played some glorious shots all around the wicket.This was his second century in the test series and he involved in two good partnerships with Laxman and Yuvraj.
Yuvraj playing for the first time in the series catched the opportunity with both hands and made a half century.Yuvraj looked in good touch and ball is just traveling at a speed of knots when he played some glorious cover-drives and sweep shots but then came the "Broad Storm".
Stuart Broad first dismissed well-set Yuvraj and then took a hat-trick to dismissDhoni,Harbhajan Singh and Praveen Kumar.Dravid was dismissed in the very next over and Indian team took a lead of important 62 runs.
Once again Sachin Tendulkar failed to perform in his 100th test overseas and after that it was Broad show in Trent Bridge.Broad took 5 wicket -hall finishing with 6 for 46 and completely changed the game in favour of England.England finished at a score of 24 for 1,Cook dismissed by Ishant very early in the inning and thus stopping the host side to take early advantage in the second inning.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Cricket Records
Most runs in Test career:
Most runs in Test series:
- Sachin Tendulkar(IND) - 14738 runs
- Rahul Dravid (IND) - 12460 runs
- Ricky Ponting(AUS) - 12363 runs
- Brian Lara(WI) - 400*
- Mathew Hayden(AUS) - 380
- Brian Lara(WI) - 375
Most runs in Test series:
- Don Bradman(AUS) - 974 runs
- Wally hammond(ENG) - 905 runs
- Mark Taylor(AUS) - 839 runs
- Grame Gooch(ENG) - 456 runs
- Mark Taylor(AUS) - 426 runs
- Brian Lara(WI) - 400 runs
Day 1 Trent Bridge Test: India lost the early advantage
M S Dhoni once again winning the toss and electing to bowl first to give their bowlers advantage of overcast condition.India made two changes Sreesanth in for Zaheer Khan and Yuvraj get a chance in playing eleven in place of injured Gambhir,England also made a change playing with Bresnan in place of Tremlett.Indian bowlers taking the full advantage of the seaming wicket and created problems for the host.England batsman didn't look in good touch and they were 124-8 at one time.All rounder Stuart Broad continued his good form and played a handy inning of 64runs in just 66 balls,Swann also contributed 28 runs in the England score of 221 all out,both put up a partnership of 73 runs for the tenth wicket.Praveen, Ishant and Sreesanth took three wickets each and wrapped up host side below 250.
India didn't start well and lost Mukund on the first ball of their inning,he got out on the bowling of James Anderson.VVS Laxman and Dravid negotiated the remaining over with their solid defence.India made 24 runs for the loss of 1 wicket at end of day one.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has confirmed that Zaheer Khan will miss the second Test against England at Trent Bridge starting tomorrow.The left-arm seamer suffered a hamstring strain during India's defeat in the first test.He will be replaced by either Sreesanth or Munaf Patel.
Chris Tremlett and James Anderson will be high on confidence after their fabulous showing to restrict the strong Indian batting line up to a total of less than 300 in both innings.
WATCH OUT FOR
Sachin Tendulkar - With his 100th ton in international cricket on the brink, it is time for the little genius to step forward and take guard. He was oddly constrained just before his dismissal in both the innings and will have to avoid getting into that shell especially against Tremlett.
Chris Tremlett and James Anderson will be high on confidence after their fabulous showing to restrict the strong Indian batting line up to a total of less than 300 in both innings.
WATCH OUT FOR
Sachin Tendulkar - With his 100th ton in international cricket on the brink, it is time for the little genius to step forward and take guard. He was oddly constrained just before his dismissal in both the innings and will have to avoid getting into that shell especially against Tremlett.
CRICKET GREATS
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| SHANE WARNE(AUS) |
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| GLEN McGRATH(AUS) |
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| RAHUL DRAVID(IND) |
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| INZAMAM-UL-HAQ(PAK) |
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| RICKY PONTING(AUS) |
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| IMRAN KHAN(PAK) |
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| SUNIL GAVASKAR(IND) |
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| WASIM AKRAM(PAK) |
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| JAVED MIADAD(PAK) |
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| IMRAN KHAN(PAK) |
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| BRIAN LARA(WI) |
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| ANIL KUMBLE(IND) |
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| WAQAR YOUNIS(PAK) |
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| MUTTIAH MURALITHARAN(SL) |
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| SIR DON BRADMAN(AUS) |
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| SACHIN TENDULKAR(IND) |
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| STEVE WAUGH(AUS) |
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| ZAHEER ABBAS(PAK) |
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Amazing Facts
- In 1868, when Australia first toured England under Charles Lawrence to play cricket, each player was wearing a different coloured cap so that the spectators could identify them.
- The first Test match began on 15 March 1877 and had a timeless format with four balls per over. It ended on 19 March 1877 with Australia winning by 45 runs.
- England’s Alfred Shaw was the bowler to bowl the first delivery in a Test match.
- Allen Hill was the first player to hold a catch in Test cricket.
- Australia’s Charles Bannerman faced the first delivery in a Test match.
- Australia’s Charles Bannerman was the first Test centurion.
- W.Newing became the first substitute fielder in Test cricket.
- South Africans were the first to introduce TV run outs.
- in 1978,Graham Yallop became the first man to wear a helmet.
- Sachin Tendulkar was the first player to be judged by the third umpire in a Test match.
- Sourav Ganguly is the only cricketer who had won four successive Man of the Match awards in ODI.
- Mohammed Azharruddin is the only player in the history of Test cricket to score a century in each of his first three tests.
- India is the only international team to be dismissed twice in a single day of test match cricket
- Sunil Gavaskar has featured in a record 52 century partnerships.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Milestones achieved in Lord's test
- The Lord's Test was the 2000th test in the history of Test Cricket.It was India's 100th test against England.
- For the first time, India had played 100 Tests against one nation.India won 19 tests out of 100 tests played between them.
- Sachin Tendulkar has never scored a fifty in four tests at Lord's Cricket Ground.
- Kevin Pietersen became the 12th batsman for England to reach the milestone of 6000 runs in test cricket.
- Harbhajan Singh took more than 42 wickets against England in tests,most by any off-break Indian bowler.
- Dhoni establishes a record for most catches by an Indian wicket-keeper in tests.
India v England 1st Test Day 3:India lost the historic test
India once again started the away series with a lost against England by 196 runs in the first test.Indian players were not able to handle the swing bowling of England pace bowlers.James Anderson,hero of the day,took five wickets with his exceptional swing bowling.Tremlett and Broad gave good support to Anderson.England pace bowlers utilised the condition to its fullest and dismissed half the Indian side very early.Laxman and Suresh Raina made a fighting half century but that was not enough to save the test.
Dhoni said that they could have played better but the fortune was not with him.All was going wrong for him,Dravid had to do opening,Gambhir came at different number also Sachin viral fever added more pressure to the "Captain Cool" Dhoni.Dhoni was happy with the performance of Praveen and Ishant in the match but he added that they had to work hard in the absence of Zaheer Khan.
England team will remian unchange while some major changes can be seen in the Indian team in the second test at Trent Bridge in Nottingham.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
India v England 1st Test Day 3:England capitalised after early wickets
England lost their both openers at the score of 54 and now its time for some good bowling by Ishant Sharma.He dismissed both the inform batsman Pietersen and Trott and also took the wicket of Bell.
England lost their half the side at the score of 62.
Now its turn of Matt Prior and Stuart Broad to show their batting skills,once again Broad with a quick fire half century proved that he is a good all-rounder.Matt Prior came up with a great century of unbeaten 103 runs.Indian bowlers failed to take wickets and to stop the run flow.
England set a daunting task of 458 runs for the visitor at Lord's.Indian team troubles doesn't seem to be get over as Sachin and Zaheer are not fit and Gambhir got injured during the play.In the absence of Gambhir,Dravid came to open the innings with Mukund.After Mukund departed Laxman played some glorious shots including three fours in an over of Tremlett.India didn't lose any more wicket and at stumps day four they were at 80/1 still needed 378 runs on the last day of Lord's test.
India v England 1st Test Day 3:Dravid fighting century helped India to avoid follow-on
Morning Session:
Mukund and Gambhir started well in the morning session at Lord's and took India's score to pass half century.Gambhir was first to go on Broad's inswinging delievery that took Gambhir by surprise.Next to go was Abhinav Mukund,a promising opener,after a well made forty-nine and then arrived GOD AT LORD'S,Sachin Tendulkar,thousands of fans greeted him with a loud cheer .All were waiting for his 100th century,he started well and hit some glorious shots.
Afternoon Session:
Dravid and Tendulkar after lunch looked in aggressive mood and made fifty runs in just eight overs.Tendulkar departed after well made thirty four and soon Raina joined him in the pavillion.Dravid and Dhoni had a good partnership and as Dhoni got out it seemed that India couldn't be able to avoid follow-on.
Evening Session:
India was able to avoid follow-on,thanks to Rahul Dravid fabulous thirty-third unbeaten ton of 103.It was the most satisfying and fulfilling for him said Dravid.
Tremlett and Broad helped England to get a lead of 188 runs and once again"The Wall" helped India to get out of trouble.
England made a steady start in their second innings and made 5/0 till stumps on Day 3
Saturday, July 23, 2011
India v England 1st Test Day 2: Pietersen double century helps England take control at Lord's
The second day of the first Test between England and India belonged to Kevin Pietersen, as his double century powered England to a very commanding position. kevin pietersen
The hard work that he did on the first day paid off here and he was at his commanding best in the latter half of his innings. He was involved in two hundred partnerships on the second day, with Ian Bell and Matt Prior, adding to the 98 that he added with Jonathan Trott. England eventually declared at 474/8 and the Indian openers played out a nervous six overs to end the day on 17/0.
The rains stayed away from Lord’s and that wasn’t a good thing for India. It was announced that Zaheer Khan wouldn’t bowl the whole day and India were in for a very long day, with just three bowlers around. Praveen Kumar was the lone shining light for India and finished with his first five wicket haul. He was excellent with his swing and made the batsman play and miss numerous times. However, he wasn’t given a helping hand on the other end and Pietersen made them pay the price.
Trott managed to add just 12 runs to his overnight score of 58, and was the first of five wickets that fell off Praveen Kumar. Bell joined Pietersen and by that time Pietersen was starting to look good. Ishant Sharma and Harbhajan Singh were very disappointing and were scored off with relative ease by all the English batsmen. MS Dhoni took the matter into his own hands and came to bowl. However, the Indian captain’s swing had no bite and did not harm the English batsmen.
Praveen got two breakthroughs in the same over when he dismissed Bell and Eoin Morgan and it looked as if India were back into the game. However, Prior joined Pietersen and began to counter attack. This was Pietersen’s slowest century but it was easy to understand why he was in a cautious mood. This was also his first century in England after a span of three years, and it was also a statement to those critics who questioned his place in the side last season.
Praveen once again got a double breakthrough when England were on 390, and this managed to unleash Pietersen. Graeme Swann gave him company and the pair added 61 for the eighth wicket. Pietersen eventually completed his double century by scoring 16 runs off four balls off Suresh Raina.
India have another tough day tomorrow and it is in the hands of its batsmen to save this game.
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