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.

Usain Bolt runs fourth fastest 200m in history

Usain Bolt ran the fourth fastest 200m in history despite of very tough conditions.It was very windy and heavy rain had lashed Lausanne,but nothing stopped the 22 year old Jamaican Usain Bolt.Bolt was very happy for his success,but he said that he is not yet ready and there are some technical aspects that he needs to work on.

The record time in which Bolt completed the race was 19.59sec.Under such winding conditions this is a great achievement and he looks to set the World Championships event in Berlin on fire.This event starts next month and he is hoping to peak in that event.

Usain Bolt feels that he still has to improve a few notches if he has thoughts of becoming the No1 and he has stiff competition from Tyson Gay who has clocked a better tin ethan Usian Bolt.

Saina Nehwal wins Indonesian Open title

Saina Nehwal has brought laurels to the country.She looks to be a complete player.She was outplayed in the first set and she got only 12 points but in the second and third set she bounced back to win the title.Wang her opponent is ranked as World No 3 was totally shocked by this defeat admitted that Saina Nehwal looks to be a very complete player.

Saina Nehwal is just 19 years and she is already making big rounds in the Badminton circuit.India's badminton authorities are very happy by this victory and they announced a prize money of 200,000 rupees as reward for her.

Padukone had a word of praise for Saina Nehwal.The laurels and accolades should not drive her away from her focus and hard work.If she can concentrate on her game she will surely become No1 in the near future, considering her age there is a lot of chances for this to happen

French Open 2009 :Maria Sharapova beats Nadia Pedrova in Paris

Maria Sharapova stormed her way to beat the 11th seed Nadia Pedrova to reach the third round of the French Open. Since she was in a major lay-off due her injury she was considered as the under-dog for this match.Maria Sharapova surprised everyone and proved her critics wrong with a 6-2 1-6 8-6 victory over her opponent.

Maria Sharapova played some ruthless tennis in the first set to take the set with a 6-2 win. The injured right hand shoulder became a big problem for her in the second round.She just managed to take 1 game and lost the set 1-6.The third set was a fierce and hard fought battle in which Maria Sharapova won the set and clinched the match.

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.

Australia pull out from Davis Cup

Australian team has pulled out of th Davis Cup which was scheduled to be held in Chennai from May 8 to May 10th.The main reason for this could be the security concern that is prevailing in India.IPL which was to be scheduled in Indian mainly moved outside India because of security concerns.Is IPL showing a wrong signal to all other country people that India is not a safe place.We have to wait and see how all other countries behave and what opinion they have about India and other Asian countries.

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.

Nadal crowned King of Monte Carlo five times in a row

Rafael Nadal became the first man to win the Monte Carlo Masters five times in a row.He defaeted Novak Djokovic to win the title.Now he can be seriously called the "King of Clay court".

Nadal was defending his title against Novak Djokovic.The match started and Nadal clinched the first set in style and won th set with 6-3.Novak Djokovic played some fierce shots to win the second set 6-2.Nadal the champion of clay increased his skills and clinched the third set and the match in style.

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.

ICC T20 Cricket World Cup 2009 schedule

The groups for the ICC Cricket World Cup 200p has been released.From the group stages India are the likely team to move to the next level with ease.There are totally 4 groups with 3 teams in each group.One team will go out of each group and then they will again form two groups.

Group A : India , Bangladesh and Ireland

Group B : Pakistan, England and Netherlands

Group C : Australia,SriLanka and West Indies

Group D : NewZealand,South Africa and Scotland

NEXT LEVEL

SUPER EIGHT STAGES

Group E : A1, B2, C1, D2

Group F : B1, A2, C2, D1

SEMI FINALS

First Match : E1 vs F2

Second Match : F1 vs E2

FINALS

The winners of these two matches will clash for the title

Then two teams will be select from each group and you will have the semi-finals and then the finals.Any prediction who will win this time.Post you prediction as a comment.My automatic choice is India ( King of T20 game)