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Jun 05 2009

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Wish the Best of Luck in Your Own Style to Team India!

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Hey friends, I am creating this post for you people to wish a warm Best of Luck to the Team India. As you all are aware that 12 cricket playing nations India, Bangladesh, Ireland, Pakistan, England, Netherlands, Australia, Sri Lanka, West Indies, New Zealand, South Africa, and Sctland are going to fight for the World Cup in the Twenty 20 cricket format which is beginning today at England.

As you all are aware that Team India is the defending champions and other 11 countries are going to challenge them for the trophy. India is placed along with Bangladesh and Ireland in the Group A, while Pakistan, England and Netherlands are placed together in Group B. The most toughest group of the tournament is the Group C which contains Australia, Sri Lanka and West Indies, while the Group D is containing New Zealand, South Africa and Scotland.

At the moment Team India is looking highly capable of retaining the Title. The team at the moment is a bunch of some highly talented youngsters along with some multi talented guys and captained by the Mr. Cool M. S. Dhoni. If you look at the top order then dashing opener Virender Sehwag is there with much talented Gautam Gambhir. This opening pair is the best of all the teams which are playing there. If you give an eye on the middle order then you can truly find India as the World Champions. Middle order of team India is having the firepower in the form of the King of Six Yuvraj Singh, most attacking batsman Suresh Raina, very dependable Rohit Sharma and the skipper himself. Along with them the team has the superb all rounders like Yusuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja and Irfan Pathan. Now if you see the bowling attack then it too have the balance which is very much required for a World Champions team, the seam attack department is there in the hand of Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, highest wicket taker in the IPL 2009 Rudra Pratap Singh and much reliable Praveen Kumar, and then the spin attack is there in the hand of Harbhajan Singh and Pragyan Ojha. Remember the team has two batsman who can bowl brilliantly at crucial time, I am talking about Yuvraj Singh and Rohit Sharma, Both has shown their talents in the IPL 2009 by taking the hat-trick in the tournament. Yuvraj Singh took 2 hat-tricks while Rohit Sharma took 1. Now if your team is having these type of players how can you assume them not to retain the trophy. Only thing which can damage the performance of the team India is the overconfidence, which they will have to take care of.

So friends, here is the space where you can wish the best of luck to your favorite Team India especially in your own style. You can post the comment here and this will show them how much you love them and how much you care about the world champions.

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Jun 02 2009

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Can India be able to retain the World Champions Title?

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The big question of the moment is about the performance of the Indian cricket team in the upcoming Twenty 20 World Championship. It is a well known fact that India is the winner team of the 2007 Twenty 20 world cup, and they are looking as the most eligible contender for the 2009 title at the moment.

I am the biggest fan of the Indian cricket team, but still I have a doubt. I am feeling that there is something which this present team is missing. My doubt is getting more strength after seeing the defeat of the Indian team in the practice match against New Zealand. This practice match was played between India and New Zealand at Lord’s, London, on tomorrow 1st of June 2009.

Team India won the toss in the match and asked Kiwis to bat first, with the help of some brilliant knock by McCullum and Taylor Kiwis made 170 runs for 7 wickets in the 20 overs. Although the first wicket partnership between Gambhir and Rohit Sharma was of 42 runs that too in only 5 overs, but once Gambhir became out, wickets of Team India fell regularly and then despite the briliiant knock of 45 by Raina and unbeaten 41 by Ravindra Jadeja, Team india fell short of 9 runs.

Although it was a practice match and the power hitter like yuvraj Singh did not bat in the match, also India gave rest to the dashing opener Virendra Sehwag, still the defeat is causing concern in the mind of the followers. It is also true that Team India will not face many problem in going to the next round as they are in a safe group. Indian team has got the place in Group A along with the weak teams like Bangladesh and Ireland, so they won’t have to worry so much, but this format of cricket is very unpredictable and Bangladesh is a team which has a few times defeated us at a crucial moment.

Another matter of concern for me is the sideeffects of Indian Premiere League. Many international players like Rickey Ponting ignored IPL, but almost all Indian players from the present team were a part of around a month long tournament. Hence, almost all of them are feeling tired. Another big concern is the injury of Zaheer Khan, which is again the outcome of the IPL. Although Indian skipper MS Dhoni is saying that these issues are not going to affect the performance of the Indian team, and even Sachin Tendulkar is having the feeling that India will retain the championship.

So let’s wait and watch how Team India is going to fair in the Twenty 20 World Cup 2009.

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Feb 25 2009

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Team India lost the First Twenty20 against New Zealand!

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Nothing went in the favor of the Indian Team and they failed to capitalize the superb start given by Virender Sehwag. Team India first lost the toss and forced to bat on the moisture pitch. Although Indian skipper Dhoni insisted that he was looking for batting first, because it was the strength of the Indian team.

So India started the innings with Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir. They two provided the superb start for the team. Sehwag hit 3 sixes in three consecutive balls which he faced. They scored 19 runs in the very first over, which was a record for any team in Twenty 20 Internationals. But suddenly Team India lost the wicket of Gauti at the last ball of second over. It was a blow to the Indian team by O’Brian.

Raina joined the ground with Sehwag, and we thought that this pair will build up a bit of partnership, but O’Brian provided the much awaited break through to the Kiwis, in the form of the wicket of Virender Sehwag. He dismissed Sehwag in the very first ball of the fourth over. Then in the sixth over Rohit Sharma departs in the ball of Butler. Following them Yuvraj and skipper Dhoni the two powerful striker of Indian team fell cheaply and this brought Team India to a total of 61 for the loss of 5 wickets in 7.5 Overs.

After them it was Yusuf Pathan who hit 3 consecutive six in the ball of McCullam but Oram took his brilliant catch at the boundaries and this caused the sixth wicket fell of India. Irfan Pathan too fell cheaply while the score was 101 in 13.3 over’s.

It was the turn of Bhajji and Raina then and they brought India to a respectable total of 162 for the loss of 8 wickets. Harbhajan Singh became out on the last ball of the inning.

Kiwis too started badly and only 2 runs was scored by them in the very first over of Zaheer, in which there was one wide too. Then in the first ball of the second over Ishant Sharma dismissed Ryder, the dangerous opener of New Zealand. Thus Kiwis score reached to 2 runs for the loss of one wicket.

Guptill was the man who bring India to the back foot and he made a quick 41 runs in just 28 balls, he hit 4 boundaries and 3 six. He fell at the score of 56 in 6.4 over’s. He was dismissed by Bhajji in his very first over. After this Taylor made a fantastic 31 runs in 28 balls, in which he made one boundary and 3 six. He fell at the score of 106, in 13.2 over’s. It was the last moment of joy for the team India. Taylor was dismissed by Zaheer Khan, the main strike bowler of Team India. He did the splendid job but then he was not able to take any more wickets.

Finally it was McCullam and Oram who wrapped up the match with 7 balls left. Kiwis defeated the World Champions by 7 wickets but still Team India has a chance to level the series, the second match is scheduled on 27th February.

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Feb 24 2009

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Can India be able to create History after 41 years!

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We are waiting for a victory in New Zealand from last 41 years, every time whenever Team India visited New Zealand they faced the defeat. Can the Dhoni brigade be able to make history this time?

Tons of expectations are following the current Indian team, but as the conditions in New Zealand is not at all favorable to the teams of the subcontinent. The bouncy pitch and fast wind all these things are against the subcontinent batsman, as they have practiced on a slow pitch and they are having the history of failure on bouncy pitch.

So the Team India under the captanicy of Mahender Singh Dhoni can be able to tackle the fast balls and bouncy pitch. One of the most eagerly awaited cricket series in New Zealand over the last few seasons gets underway tomorrow with the first of two Twenty20 internationals.

The second Twenty20 is scheduled on 27th February. Then there are five One Day Internationals between the two country. After the ODI series three test matches are also scheduled between the two countries. When last time Team India visited New Zealand, Kiwis defeated India in both the format of the game.

This time Team India is with some of the great in form players like Sehwag, Gambhir, Raina, Yuvraj, and the skipper Dhoni himself. In bowling department too India is having Zaheer, Ishant, and Harbhajan, and this is the second half of the summer - which is generally warmer and relatively free of rain, so the conditions can favor Team India a bit too.

So the war is beginning from tomorrow and you can check the Latest Cricket News and live Cricket Updates from these sites.

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Feb 03 2009

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Way to Out Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar!

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If you too want to know the way how you can dismiss master blaster Sachin Tendulkar in a cricket match, then let me tell you the easiest way to give him out. It is quite ordinary to make him out in any match. Talk to the umpires and tell them to give the LBW decision against him, even if the ball was going out, up or anywhere.

How to Out Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar

This is becoming the trend of the dismissal of the master blaster in recent time. Every country in which he is touring with team India is making the plan against him in the same way. They ask the umpires to give him Leg before Out for a marginal possibility too.

I know it is not true, but we Indians are truly unhappy with the growing mistakes made by umpires against the master blaster. I don’t know if it is the pressure of any sort under which they give the decision against Sachin, but it is true that mostly he was given out on a ball which is either going to the leg side of the leg stump or going up from the bells or touched the bat first.

During the ongoing series against Sri Lanka Sachin got dismissed three times in the same way, in all the three One Day Internationals. The ball was either going out side the leg stump or going up to the stumps height but the decision was against him. Even in the second ODI Yuvraj Singh too faced the similar sort of decision although it was clear even from the naked eye that the ball hit his bat first and then touched his pad.

It is really unfortunate for any player to get the out decision while he was not. It is Sachin Tendulkar who got the maximum number of wrong outs. When he tours Australia then too he got the wrong dismissals and now in Sri Lanka too. The three consecutive wrong LBW decisions is telling that some type of conspiracy is behind all these. These types of decisions can eat the career of any new player, though it is Sachin Tendulkar so three consecutive dismissals for less than ten runs will not cost him much, but if there were some new player in place of him then he was sure to be out from the playing eleven in the next match.

I don’t know the stance of ICC on these issues but they are supposed to take actions against the culprits in the game of cricket but I never heard that they take any action against the umpires. Most of the spectators visit the stadium by purchasing costly tickets just to watch the batting of the giants like Sachin, Jayasuriya etc. but if they miss the inning by these players due to some human mistake then it is one sort of cheat with them. I would like to listen the comments of our readers on this issue.

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Jan 27 2009

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India will Play First One Day International after two months!

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Team India is visiting Sri Lanka for a short tour of five One Day Internationals and a Twenty Twenty match. They are scheduled to play the first ODI against Lanka in Dambulla on 28th January 2009. The match is scheduled at 10 AM local time.

Team India is playing limited over cricket match after a gap of around two months. It was the 26th November 2008, when India were playing against England team, and the same time a few terrorists attacked in Mumbai, thus England team returned back to the England without playing the last two One Day Internationals.

Though, in that series India defeated England by a margin of 5-0. Before that India defeated Sri Lanka in Lanka by a margin of 3-2.

On the other hand, Sri Lanka recently played in Bangladesh and then in Pakistan, and only lost the first match against Pakistan. Other than that match they won the 6 matches.

So the two team are almost equivalent and both the skippers are considering it as the toughest series. With the strong batting line up like Sachin, Sehwag, Gambhir, Yuvraj, and Dhoni Team India is looking a bit stronger than Lankan team, on the other hand with M factors and with the absence of Harbhajan Singh Sri Lankan team is looking much stroger from the bowling point of view.

Both Mendis and Murali are running on a superb form and the absence of the senior off-spinner Bhajji Team India is looking a bit weak. Although, Sehwag and Gambhir has said that they are ready to face Mendis this time and they will perform well against them. One thing is sure that this series is going to create some excitement.

Please visit www.cricnews.in for more updates on First ODI between India and Sri Lanka, and also visit www.cricketupdates.in for the Live Updates of first ODI between India and Sri Lanka in Dambulla.

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Dec 15 2008

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Team India won the first test against England!

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Team India won the first test against England. When Indian skipper lost the toss and then the top order of Indian team failed in the first inning and India faced a trail of 75 runs in the first inning, no one was thinking that India can even win this match. Not even at the time when England declared their second inning just before tea on Day Four, thus England gave India a mammoth target of 387 in the last inning.

The previous examples of the targets met by Indian Team in the sub continent were not a good symbol in the second inning, and the results of at the tea of Day Four was clearly indicating one option of the England’s victory and second one of a draw, which too was looking so dim in the conditions there at Chennai. It was not at all easy to bat on the breaking pitch on Day Four and Fifth.

Four people Sachin, Yuvraj, Sehwag, and Gambhir rewrite the history today for India and thus the Dhoni brigade made the history of a famous victory against England by chasing the fourth highest total in the test history. The foundation was made by Virender Sehwag on Yesterday. His blistering knock of 83 in just 68 balls was a match winning inning and turned the match towards India.

The match has once again proved the importance of the captaincy of MS Dhoni. This victory is the fourth consecutive victory under his captaincy and thus he has a 100% record so far. The 41st test century of Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar was superb and he dedicated his century to the people who lost their life during Mumbai Attack.

The match also provided the much needed platform to Yuvraj Singh to show his strength in Test matches too. He was called to replace Dada and his not out 85 was a good reply to those critics who are blaming him for his inconsistency in tests. After all he too failed in the first inning.

One thing which hurts me is the form of Rahul Dravid. I don’t know what has happened to the best batsman of the Indian team. Once he was known as The Wall and Mr. Reliable but these days his performance is certainly going through some bad patch. I would be happy to see him making some big inning for India. Let’s see what is going to happen with him.

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Nov 24 2008

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Is everything ok with Irfan Pathan and Dhoni?

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Big question at the moment of every Indian cricket lover is the same. Is everything ok with Irfan Pathan and the skipper of Indian team Mahender Singh Dhoni. A report from a news channel recently caused this havoc a few days back, that there is a rift in between the skipper and the national selectors.

Irfan Pathan and Dhoni

Irfan Pathan and Dhoni

Skipper MS Dhoni offered his resignation a few days back on the issue of selection of Irfan Pathan in the team in place of Rudra Pratap Singh. Every cricket lover in India is worried about this question and they are praying to the God that it should not be true.

Although Team India has won the Hero Honda Cup against England last night only, cause they have taken a lead of 4-0 in the series and now a few players will sure to get the chance on the next three matches who are not in the present playing eleven. This type of the news of rift can only cause the demoralization of the players rather than doing any thing good for India.

People are aware from the fact that MS Dhoni and RP Singh are close friends, but Dhoni should also remember this thing that he is the captain of the Indian National team. He should not bring his friendships in between the selection procedure. We can understand that this might be a rumor of the media but if it is true then Dhoni should take a look at this, because this will hurt his image only.

If he was backing Yuvraj Singh during the day of the bad form, then too it was your friendship with him, but as Yuvraj regained his form and that too in a terrific way then no one will put the finger on you, but if you are supporting some one who is not performing well then every one is going to put finger on you.

We wishes Team India a good luck for the coming remaining three ODI matches of the Hero Honda Cup, while we would like to congratulate them too for defeating them by a margin of 4-0.


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Nov 02 2008

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Indian Skipper of Test Team Anil Kumble announced retirement!

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One more senior player left the team at a time when team was facing criticism from all side. Anil Kumble, popularly known as Jumbo, the number one wicket tacker for Indian team in cricket history and number three till today, has announced the retirement from test cricket with immediate effect. He is not going to play in the fourth test match between India and Australia in Nagpur.

Kumble and Saurav Ganguly

Kumble and Saurav Ganguly



In his absense Mahender Singh Dhoni, the ODI skipper of Team India will lead the team. The desicion of retirement came as a shock to the lovers of Kumble. He was facing criticism from all side due to his lack of performance in the on going Border Gavaskar Trophy.

Saurav Ganguly, one more former Indian skipper and great south-paw batsman has already announced his retirement from the cricket. Nagpur test is going to be his last appearence. The desicion of Kumble’s retirement was once again due to the pressure created by some sections of media on these senior players. It is true that new people are coming ahead with good performance, but still the way in which these senior players are forced to announce retirement is not good.

Dada, and then Kumble, both were served Indian team from last 15-20 years. There contribution to the team’s present status can never be justified by a few bad performances. But some section of media never allowed them to settle down. I am really feeling bad about the way in which these giants are saying bye to international cricket.

In his career, Kumble played in 132 test matches while he took 619 test wickets. He led the country in 14 test matches. He was behind Muralitharan (756) and Shane Warne (708), in case of number of test wickets is concerned.

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Oct 21 2008

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7 lime lights of the second cricket test between India and Australia!

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As we all know that Team India won in the second cricket test match in Border-Gavaskar trophy. They defeated Australia the number 1 team in test cricket by a huge margin of 320 runs. We are here by preparing a list of seven lime lights of the test match.

  1. 12K runs by Sachin: The master blaster of Indian cricket, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar made 88 runs in the first inning of India and he became the highest run getter in the history of test cricket. Also check the 10 glorifying moments of his career! He crossed the land mark made by Brian Lara of West Indies. At the end of the match he has more than 12,000 runs in his bag.
  2. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly

    Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly

  3. 7K runs by Ganguly: He was once considered as the best captain of India. A bit of politics in cricket and Greig Chappel caused him his place in the team. Finally he get the place in the team but became so frustrated that he decided to quit the cricket after this series. And in this series his bat is talking with all those people who were criticizing him earlier. He made a superb century in the first inning and due to that he made more than 7000 runs in test cricket. It was not a small feet, but still he decided not to revert back his decision of quitting cricket. I News India salutes the “Dada”, we always supported him during his bad phase too.
  4. Maya of Dhoni and a different Bhajji

    Maya of Dhoni and a different Bhajji

  5. Maya of Dhoni: He is the guy who has changed the form of Indian cricket, he brought it from the aged person to the younger ones. Under his captaincy India won the T 20 world cup one year back and after that whichever match he captained gave India something to cheer about. He is a bit lucky too, considered by a huge section in India. We still remember the match against South Africa in this year, in which he got the captaincy due to the sickness of the regular skipper Anil Kumble and India won that match. Even today India won the match in which he was the captain. This is the Maya of Dhoni. The two attacking half centuries are superb and those gave him the Man of the Match.
  6. The best Indian opening pair of Viru and Gauti

    The best Indian opening pair of Viru and Gauti

  7. Opening pair of India: Viru and Gauti, the opening pair of India is these days considered as the best ever opening pair for India. These two have played lots of cricket together and they love to play together. In One Days too they are being considered as the best and now in test too. The 182 runs stand between these two in the second inning of this test was really brilliant, while the pitch was offering help to the bowlers. Sehwag though failed to convert 90 into 100, but Gambhir get the second test century of his life.
  8. Superb Ishant Sharma

    Superb Ishant Sharma

  9. Superb Ishant Sharma: This school guy has troubled one of the best batsman of the world, Rickey Ponting. He made the hat-trick of dismissing him in test cricket. He is doing the same thing which Bhajji did in the previous tours of Australia in India. Since his debut in the national team from the January of this year he is continuously creating problem for Rickey Ponting. During this match he dismissed Ponting in both the innings and that caused problem to Aussies, while they are also facing the failure of Mathew Hayden in the series.
  10. A different looking Bhajji: We still remember the slap controversy in IPL 2008. That incident has changed our main bowler Harbhajan Singh. He is looking more polite and attacking on the field after that. Yesterday he dismissed the top three batsman on Aussies and that caused them the match. He was not so much successful in the drawn first test match, while he devastated the Aussies second inning. The fall of the batsman like Hayden, Katich and Hussey caused them the match. Now he is one short to the 300 test wickets.
  11. Amit Mishra a good beginning

    Amit Mishra a good beginning

  12. Amazing Amit Mishra: He was not in news before this match and he performed brilliantly in the match. He took 5 wickets in the very first inning of his life and that is also against the number 1 team of world. That was superb, and awesome. Indian team management will have to face a bit more problem now in choosing the playing 11. Whom will they remove, Kumble, Mishra or Bhajji?

It was a team effort and other than these guys Zaheer Khan too did well, along with good contribution from all the players of the team, especially Rahul Dravid. So overall it was a all OK match for team India and now they are looking ahead to defeat Aussies in the series. Best of luck to team India. We would be happy to see the comments of our readers on this match. Also you can take a look at the Cricket Updates for the match reports.

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