Sehwag continues to be World No1 Test batsman

Sehwag continues to be the World No1 Test batsman.ICC rankings for Test batsman was announced recently and Sehwag held on to his number one spot.Sehwag is leading with 863 points followed by Hashim Amla from South Africa and Jayawardene from Srilanka.
Sachin and Gambhir are the other two Indian batsman who are ranked in the top 10 in the ICC rankings.

India as a team have 124 points and are World No1 Test side followed by South Africa with 10 points and Australia with 119 points.Sachin is currently behind Gambhir in the seventh position with 805 points.

Ganguly KKR captain

Sourav Ganguly has been once again given the captaincy post. Ganguly will lead the KKR tean this season.The quote in one of the famous newspapers was that Ganguly back to helm.Dav Whatmore has been appointed as the the coach for Kolkata Knight Riders. Ganguly has been in and out of this captaincy post and now he is finally back as the captain for the IPL 3. This time SRK was forced to give the captaincy to Ganguly since most of the International players have national duty and so Ganguly will be the one to lead KKR.

The press reporters asked if KKR team have some new strategy to ply fr this season. Ganguly replied that there are no strategies, all that they need to do is go out their and play well in the middle.The results will automatically come in favor of KKR.

Ponting best Ian Chappell

Ian Chappel feels that Ricky Ponting is the best player in the world right now. Ian Chappell said that Ponting is better than India's Sachin Tendulkar.Ponting has performed exceptionally well especially after the Ashes loss to England.Ponting was under severe scrutiny after the loss in the Ashes series but Australia and Ponting silenced the critics with a 6-1 win in the ODI series and then to clinch the Champions Trophy in style.

Ricky Ponting said that he still has some years of cricket left in him. Ponting retired from the T@0 games very recently vut he still feels that he has the capacity and capability to play in ODI's and Tests.

Ashes Australia takes first Day honours

After 1st test of Ashes series where the Aussies almost tasted victory but for thanks to England Tailenders, the visitors are trying to prove a point. This time at Headringley Leeds grounds this Aussies got some pride back in the Fourth Test on the opening day. After winning the toss the England Captain Strauss took the batting. The English innings withstood only 33.5 overs before getting all out for 102.

The successful bowlers were Siddle whitewashing them with 5 wickets for 21 runs and Stuart Clark took 3 in a rapid aggression. Only Mattprior who made 37 runs unbeaten showed some patience.

Ricky Ponting the captain was in a punishing mood played brilliantly for his 78 along with Watson showed excellent timing in contributing 51 of 67 balls. At the end the visitors were 196/4 - Clark on 34 North on 7.

Kambli apologized to Sachin Tendulkar

Vinod Kambli the former Indian Cricketer and long time friend of Sachin, had some golden days in domestic cricket, before he was a big time flop when he played for Indian Cricket. Vinod Kambli I remember playing in the India vs Srilanka semi-finals in 1996 where he cried like small baby when it was exit for Indian from the World Cup. My hunch says that Vinod Kambli might have cried for his own exit from International Cricket rather than the teams exit.

Vinod Kambli recently in a real time show spoke about Sachin it seems, and the reports from the media suggest that Kambli had stated in the interview that Sachin did not stand by me during my tough times and as a friend he could have done more to me. The reports suggest this but Kambli refuted strongly that he did not make these alleged comments.

Vinod Kambli has also apologized to Sachin and told that how is family and he would feel when he hears about this comment. Kambli also added that Sachin is very close to him and he knows what he would have said, but still he feels sad for media creating bogus statements.

India lost to SouthAfrica : Dhoni's effigy burned

India captain M.S.Dhoni who was the savior of team India 2 years ago is getting everything wrong nowadays.The man who had the Midas Touch,now does each and everything which results in chaos.Dhoni who was the linchpin of the Indian team is now happens to be a burden to the same team.Dhoni's own form with the bat is a concern and he has staged a poor show.Dhoni's record in this T20 World Cup with an average less than 15 says it all.No reasons are explanations can be given to India's exit in the T20 World Cup from the Superb Eight Stages without even wining a single game is sickening.

Gary Kirsten has lashed at the BCCI and has given a open statement that too much of Cricket for India is the reason.Most of the players should have skipped the IPL.This has created fatigue in the team and all the players have under performed.

The BCCI or the Indian players are not able to give reason for India's debacle.Jharkand the home town of Dhoni who treated him as hero till now have started burning his effigy.Adding fuel to the fire Sachin and Zaheer have pulled out of the upcoming tour for West Indies which starts at June 26th.

Dinesh Karthik to replace injured Sehwag : IGNITION STARTS

Dinesh Karthik will be the one to replace India's dashing Indian opener Sehwag.Sehwag is nursing a shoulder injury and when he failed to pass the fitness test the BCCI has decided to send Sehwag back home.There is a speculation on Sehwag's exit and the rumor mills is that the rift between Dhoni and Sehwag has got up so worst that Dhoni had decided to send back Sehwag.

Dhoni usually know to be very cool was irked when the media person queried about the conspiracy behind the Sehwag's exit.Reports suggest that Dhoni's face turned pale before he could answer.Team manager had to step in to give an answer,or else is Dhoni becoming the scapegoat for all the media questions.This speculation. has not come to an end.

Dinesh Karthik was mainly selected as the replacement for Sehwag because of his good form in the recent IPL and more over he will be the second wicket keeper in the team.

Myself and my friend had a discussion about this and he suggested me that Sachin would have been a apt person for this , since he is the senior most and he can calm down the team. Sachin may have opted out of T20 but he is a team man and when the team needs him he with surely respond with a yes.

Symonds out of the T20 World Cup

Andrew Symonds has been axed from the Australian T20 squad. He was drunken and he failed to attend the net session.The Austarlain team had seen enough of the 33 year old all rounder and decided to send him back home.Ricky Ponting was very upset and termed that omission of Symond would tilt the balance of the team.He also added that they had no other go becuase such was the behavior of Symonds.

Cameron White has been named as the replacement for Symonds and he is due to fly to England to join the rest of the team.One of the worlds dangerous T20 player gone now Australia mainly depend on Shane Watson to do the role of all rounder.

Australian Squad for T20 World Cup

Australian Team announced the 15 member squad for the T20 World Cup starting next month in Engalnd. Ricky Ponting will lead the side and Michael Clarke will be the vice captain for the side. Inclusion of Brett Lee and Symonds is a big surprise because bot the players have not played competitive cricket for the past one month.The 15 member squad is ...



1) Ricky Ponting (Captain)

2) Michael Clarke (Vice - Captain)

3) David Warner

4) Shane Watson

5) Andrew Symonds

6) Mike Hussey

7) David Hussey

8) Brad Haddin

9) James Hopes

10) Mitchell Johnson

11) Brett Lee

12) Nathan Bracken

13) Peter Siddle

14) Ben Hilfenhaus

15) Nathan Hauritz

Will this Australian team play well.They have dominated other forms of the gam both ODI and Test.Can they do well in this format too.We have to wait and see.

IPL 2009 : Rohit Sharma gets a hatrick against Mumbai Indians

IPL 2009 is getting bigger and better has the league has reached half a down almost all teams are equally placed.Today's match was an important encounter between Mumbai Indians and Deccan Charges.Deccan Charges scored 145 /6 in 20 overs.Rohit Sharma being the top scorer with 38 runs.Mumbai Indians should have easily got to this score.R.P.Singh made some early in roads to remove Sachin and Sanath Jayasuriya.Then a brilliant half century by Dumminy got them back on track for the game

Rohit Sharma was the real star early with the bat then with the ball.He proved to be a lethal weapon by claiming his first hat trick and the second of this IPL to win the game by 19 runs.Yuvraj Singh is the other person to get the hat trick this IPL.Rohit's bowling figures are 2-0-6-4 and for performing with both bat and ball he was obviously declared the man of the match.

India announces the T20 Squad

India names the 15 member T20 World Cup squad for England which is due to start next month.The team captain is undoubtedly M.S.Dhoni (Mahi)who marshaled his men very well to win the T20 World Cup in 2007.The squad does not have Sachin or Dravid in spite of there blazing form in IPL.Sachin has however said that he is not interested in T20 and does not want to disturb the settled team of India.The 15 member squad is...

1) Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain and WicketKeeper)
2) Virender Sehwag (vice-captain)
3) Gautam Gambhir
4) Suresh Raina
5) Yuvraj Singh
6) Yusuf Pathan
7) Irfan Pathan.
8) Harbhajan Singh
9) Zaheer Khan
10) Ishant Sharma
11) R P Singh
12) Praveen Kumar
13) Rohit Sharma
14) Ravindra Jadeja and
15) Pragyan Ojha

I wish this Indian team in behalf of all Indian fans so that they win The World Cup this time also and bring laurels to our country.

Collingwood to lead England in T20 World Cup

Paul Collingwood to lead England in T20 World Cup which is going to start by the next month in England.This decision was a tough one from the England Cricket Board since there was no other player in contention for the job.Andrew Strauss the current captain of ODI and Test is not playing the T20 format neither his considered.This made life hard for the ECB to choose the captain.Finally they had to go with the 32 year old Paul Collingwood has the captain.Will Collingwood lead his team to a victory in this T20 Word Cup.I don't think so.But nothing is predictable in this form of the game.We have to wait and see who is the winner.

Afridi's fastest 100 came off Sachin's bat

Shahid Afridi revealed that his swash-buckling century came with Sachin Tendulkar's bat.Afridi got that century in 37 balls against Srilanka in 1996 which is the worlds fastest century till date.

Sachin did not gift the bat to Afridi.The bat was given to Waqar Younis who in turn gifted to afridi stating that this is the bat of the "Worlds greatest paler and it could be lucky to him".What Waqar thought was right and it proved to be such a lucky bat for Afridi.

India to host more matches in World Cup 2011

It has been officially declared that India will host more matches in this edition of the World Cup.After the terrorist attacks in Pakistan all the matches which was supposed to be held in Pakistan have been canceled.So the venue for all the 49 mathces of the 2011 World Cup are

India will host 29 Matches
SriLanka will host 12 Matches
Bangladesh will host 8 Matches.

There is a talk that the Pakistan players may totally skip the Matches that are to be played in India.But the ICC is not concerned about that and they have declared that Pakistan is not a safe country to play the World Cup.

IPL : Chennai Superb Kings badly needs a win

M.S.Dhoni the captain of Chennai Superb Kings and Stephen Fleming the coach of Stephen Fleming seen a thoughtful discussion as Chennai badly needs a win in the IPL to keep its hopes of making to the next round.Chennai has played 3 matches and won only 1 out of it.Other to matches Chennai did not loose badly.They gave a tough fight but that is not enough to beat the other teams.Will Chennai play well this time under the leadership of Dhoni and reach the semi-finals of th cup at least.We have to wait and see.

Happy birthday Sachin

Sachin Tendulkar the living legend and the God of Cricket turned 36 . As days are getting progressed Sachin turns younger. He has been so supportive to the Indian team.He is such an asset to th eIndian team.

I wish him all success in his life and he should prosper in what ever he does.Sachin you really rock and we need your services more.Thank you Sachin.you are simply the best.Right now Sachin is in South Africa for IPL matches and he celebrated his birthday their with his team mates.

Successful Indian Captain Azhar

Mohammed Azharuddin is undoubtedly is one of India’s greatest finds. One can hardly forget his style of batting like legside flicks, ondrives which make onlookers batting look so easy and also one cannot compete with his fielding skills especially in the gully region. He is so competent in catching, fielding the ball and throwing back to the keeper in a flash ofmoment. The only Indian England in 1984-85 to have scored 3 consecutive hundreds in his first three Test matches against moment.Surely he has an exalted place in the annals of Indian Cricket.

Botha misses IPL due to suspect action

South African off spinner Botha who was the main element for SA 's victory over Australia misses IPL due to his suspect action.He has been already reported for his suspect action.This is the second time he is reported.

One or two IPL teams are interested in picking up Botha.But due to his controversial action they have decided it is better to live Botha.Can Botha prove that he is not guilt of throwing.He has to undergo a test very soon.

ICC celebrates 100 years of Cricket

Cricket has become a famous sports almost in all countries and with the advent of T20 I am sure cricket will soon be added in Olympics. This game of Cricket was started in the year 1909. It has lasted till 2009, and grace for the game has not come down even a bit. This is the biggest achievement for the Sports.

I personally feel there is going to be a everlasting grace for this game. Over the past 100 years there are some legends we have got from this "Game of Cricket". One of the Legend who is still playing today is Sachin.

IPL Match 5 : Chennai Superb Kings win by 92 in runs against Royal Challengers Bangalore

Chennai Superb Kings won the toss and elected to bat.It was power hitting all the way by Hayden and Parthiv Patel.The first wicket of Patel fell only when the score was 106-1.Hayden scored 65 runs of 43 balls and this set the natch for CSK.Then some lusty hitting by Dhoni,Raina and Flintoff of at the end managed CSK to reach 179 in 20 overs.

Chasing this total Bangalore batted hopelessly.They last wickets in heaps.The pattern was to wickets at a time.Kallis who looked threatening went in 20's.Dravid played well but he ran out of partners.Murali bowled very well.So Bangalore could not ace the heat where all out for 87 runs.Thus CSK won the match by 92 runs.The man of the match was Murali for his splendid bowling performance.