Category: India
Mumbai, June 13 (PTI): Concerned over the spate of injuries to its top players, the cricket board is in talks with IT Major Infosys for preparing an exhaustive injury-database but the discussions are at a “very preliminary stage”, BCCI stated today. “Anil Kumble (former India captain and current chairman of the National Cricket Academy) is [...]
Antigua, June 13 (PTI): Even as the Indian cricket coach Duncan Fletcher joins the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Shane Warne in heaping praise on batsman Rohit Sharma, the purists only hope that it’s not again just a case of false dawn. For a batsman of Rohit’s calibre, it is surprising that he has had a [...]
Port of Spain (Trinidad), (PTI): After guiding India to a seven-wicket victory over the West Indies in the second ODI with his match winning 81-run knock, Virat Kohli said the pressure situations bring the best out of the current bunch of Indian players. “The young Indians players want to handle pressure. We want to improve [...]
Port of Spain, June 9 (IANS): Virat Kohli and Parthiv Patel scored half centuries after leg spinner Amit Misra took his career best figures to guide India to a seven-wicket victory over West Indies in a rain-marred second ODI here Wednesday. Kohli (81) and Patel (56) stitched a 120-run second wicket stand as India chased [...]
Port of Spain, June 7(ANI): Indian batsman Rohit Sharma hit an unbeaten half-century to steer his team to a comfortable four-wicket win over West Indies in the opening ODI of the five-match series at Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain. Chasing a target of 215 runs, Sharma struck 68 not out in 75 balls [...]
Dubai, (PTI): India can close the gap on Australia – world number one in ODIs – if they manage a clean sweep against West Indies in the five-match one-day series. Failure to win the series in the Caribbean will, however, dent India’s ambitions. With 121 points, second-placed India trail Australia by eight points. In fact, [...]
Port of Spain, June 5 (IANS) Subramanian Badrinath, who made a successful comeback into the Indian cricket team with a fluent 43-run knock against the West Indies in a T20 tie, asserted that his focus is on maintaining good form and cementing his place in the national side. Badrinath, who was playing his match for [...]
Port of Spain, June 4 (IANS) Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh said Saturday that India have to take one game at a time on their current tour of West Indies. Harbhajan, who picked up two for 25 in the one-off Twenty20 international against the West Indies, said the 16-run win will the boost the confidence of the [...]
Port of Spain, June 4 (IANS) India’s stand-in captain Suresh Raina lauded Subramaniam Badrinath and Rohit Sharma for the team’s 16-run win over the West Indies in the one-off Twenty20 international at the Queen’s Park Oval here Saturday. Twenty20 debutant Subramaniam Badrinath scored a stroke-filled 43 and Sharma made a 23-ball 26 to help India [...]
Port of Spain (Trinidad), (PTI): India’s stand-in cricket captain Suresh Raina has rubbished reports linking him to an alleged bookmaker, saying getting photographed with somebody does not amount to knowing the person. “There are so many people who get clicked with me,” remarked Raina. “I can’t really be knowing about them,” he asserted. The controversy [...]
April 2, 2011: World Cup Finals: India Vs Sri Lanka, Wankhede, Mumbai.
“Be it Imran Khan ( 1992), Aamer Sohail(1996 – Stand in skipper for Wasim Akram), Wasim Akram(1999), Waqar Younis(2003) they just couldn’t go past the finishing line to defeat India in all the World Cup encounters and today Shahid Afridi meted out with same fate – Agony”
“Sachin’s Masterclass, Raina’s six of Lee bowling and Yuvi’s victory cry sent the message that India is set out for a longing journey to realise its dream”
“In walked Yuvraj Singh, the intentions of playing big knock was made pretty clear after he set out by blasting two glorious boundaries one by pulling over the mid wicket and the other was sent through the covers.”
“Both India and England involved in a supreme battle and both deserved to win this match but in any game it’s the only team which wins. The Destiny of this match didn’t wanted to be partial for any team so it chalked out the verdict – It’s a Tie.”
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England made to bite the dust again
When England won the Ashes and followed it with a whitewash against India, the British media went over board and claimed that this team is well poised to dominated the world cricket over the next decade. However as expected the things started to fall apart when they started playing in the sub-continent tracks. They were white washed [...]
Vernon Philander – Are We Seeing a New Champion?
Vernon Philander broke in to the international scene in 2007 in ODIs and T20s as an all rounder, but was dropped after some not so impressive performances. His recent return to the international cricket and that too in test matches is nothing short of phenomenal. His achievements in otherwords are Bradmanesque. Today with his ‘yet another [...]
Pollard Blasts his Second Ton – West Indies Takes Lead
Last year I wrote an article about Pollard ( The Joy of Watching Pollard) on how he makes cricket simple and beautiful. Lot of people did not agree with that and said that he is not a cricketer at all (just like what Michael Holding often says). Today he proved yet again what a player [...]
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