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2011-09-19T10:22:00.000-07:00

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india vs england only t20

2011-08-31T06:32:00.000-07:00

India vs England T20 Cricket Live Score, Streaming and Highlights

The only T20 International match between India vs England will be played on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at Old Trafford.
The match will start at 18:00 local, 17:00 GMT, 8:30 p.m. India time. See live score.
After a disastrous 4-0 whitewash in the Tests, India found some form and won the practice games in the three low-key county fixtures against Sussex, Kent and Leicestershire. The wins have given a bruised Indian squad the confidence and form ahead of this 5 ODI series.
STAR Cricket TV channel will telecast the series live in India, while the matches will be also shown on national television, Doordarshan. Watch live streaming.
The pitch at the Old Trafford has a reputation of being one of the quickest turfs in world cricket, Interesting to see how the pitch behaves after it was moved a bit for the redevolopement.
After the Test series and the injuries have resulted changes in both the teams. India will be without Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and Ishant Sharma while England will miss their senior players Andrew Strauss, Kevin Pietersen, James Anderson and Jonathan Trott.
Parthiv Patel is all set to open the innings for India, with the two spinners Amit Mishra and R Ashwin also likely to play todays game.

We will upload the highlights of the game here after the game is over. So stay tuned.
The only T20 International match between India vs England will be played on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at Old Trafford.
The match will start at 18:00 local, 17:00 GMT, 8:30 p.m. India time. See live score.
After a disastrous 4-0 whitewash in the Tests, India found some form and won the practice games in the three low-key county fixtures against Sussex, Kent and Leicestershire. The wins have given a bruised Indian squad the confidence and form ahead of this 5 ODI series.
STAR Cricket TV channel will telecast the series live in India, while the matches will be also shown on national television, Doordarshan. Watch live streaming.
The pitch at the Old Trafford has a reputation of being one of the quickest turfs in world cricket, Interesting to see how the pitch behaves after it was moved a bit for the redevolopement.
After the Test series and the injuries have resulted changes in both the teams. India will be without Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and Ishant Sharma while England will miss their senior players Andrew Strauss, Kevin Pietersen, James Anderson and Jonathan Trott.
Parthiv Patel is all set to open the innings for India, with the two spinners Amit Mishra and R Ashwin also likely to play todays game.
We will upload the highlights of the game here after the game is over. So stay tuned.

Bid In Sports

2011-08-24T01:23:00.000-07:00

Sachin Tendulkar’s Bat Get Highest Bid Of 42 Lakh

Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar Bat get highest bid of Rs 42 lakh at a sports Auction. 25 Sportsperson, From which 20 from India & 5 are International Sportsperson donate their items for auction.

The Master Blaster Bat which get bid of Rs 42 lakh is the one from which he had scored an unbeaten 163 against New Zealand at Christchurch last year, his fourth highest one day score.

A batsman remembers every knock he has made. I am no different. I remember the knock in Christchurch. I was happy with the way I played as well as my strike rate.Another reason to feel thrilled is India won the game! When Rahul approached me to donate a piece for Equation, I instantly said yes. As a proud Indian, there are some causes close to my heart. Working towards a society without discrimination is definitely one of them. May The Foundation grow from strength to strength. said Sachin Tendulkar

After Sachin Tendulkar bat the second item which get highest bid is the Rifle of Abhinav Bindra & Rahul Dravid Bat of Rs 20 Lakh.

The rifle used by India’s only individual Olympic gold medallist, shooter Abhinav Bindra, when creating history at the Beijing Games two years ago.

Rahul Dravid bat, with which he had scored a century in each innings in the Kolkata Test of 2005 against Pakistan.

The auction was organized by NGO ‘The Foundation’ founded by actor and ex-rugby international player Rahul Bose in association with Raheja Universal and the proceeds were donated to Bose’s NGO.

The 25 Donors & Their Items-

Anil Kumble: Test Jersey - 10 wickets in an innings, v Pakistan: New Delhi, 1999 & Test cap – 2004 to 2006. 11.5 Lakh

Pankaj Advani: Medal – World Billiards Champion, 2007; Cue-International debut, 2002 Viswanathan Anand: Medal- World Chess (Match) Champion, 2008.

Mahesh Bhupathi: Racquet – Mixed Doubles Champion, Australian Open, 2009. Baichung Bhutia: Jersey – Signed by Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo, Baichung Bhutia and others worn at the International Charity Match for Haiti earthquake, 2010.
Abhinav Bindra: Rifle - World Champion, 2006; World record, Olympic Record.
Rahul Dravid: Bat - Century in each Test innings, v Pakistan: Kolkata, 2005.

Sachin Tendulkar: Bat – 163 v New Zealand: Christchurch, 2009 – Fourth highest one day score.
Sania Mirza: Racquet - Wimbledon, 2010.
Saina Nehwal: Racquet - Singapore Open Super Series, Indonesian Open Super Series, Indian Open Grand Prix, all 2010; Gold Medal – Indian Open, 2010.
Virender Sehwag: Batting gloves - 125 vs New Zealand, 2009-Fastest one-day hundred by an Indian.
Kapil Dev: Bat - Signed by 1983 world cup winning squad. Sunil Gavaskar: Bat – Signed by 1983 world cup winning squad.
Leander Paes: Racquet - Mixed Doubles Champion, Wimbledon 2010.
Viren Rasquinha: Hockey stick – Bronze medal, Asian Games, Busan, 2002; India blazer, Asian Games, Busan, 2002.

Vijay Amritraj: Tennis racquet, Tennis balls. Geet Sethi: World Professional Billiards trophy, 1992; Cue -World Billiards Championship, 2007, World Snooker Championship, 2008.
Prakash Padukone: Silver Medal – Japan Open, 1981.

Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi: Debut India blazer v England, 1961; Retiring India blazer v West Indies, 1975

Ajitpal Singh: Hockey stick - (Exchanged with) Pakistan captain, Islahuddin, World Cup Final, 1975.
Roger Federer (courtesy Globosport): Tennis shoes – Winner, Cincinnati Open 2010.
Diego Forlan: (Courtesy Mahuaa TV): Football, 2010.
Ricky Ponting (Courtesy Dhiraj Malhotra): Gold Medal, World Cup, 2007.
Maria Sharapova (Courtesy Akshay Kulkarni): Racquet, 2010
Shane Warne: (Courtesy Rahul Bose): Retiring Cricket Victoria shirt, 2008.

For more information related to auction & Rahul Bose’s NGO THE FOUNDATION CLICKHERE

Pakistan is Strong Enough to Zimbabwe

2011-08-24T00:54:00.000-07:00

Tells This story of Cricket Team Bravery That They Are Strong Enough To Beat BY 2:1 in this upcoming tour. Hahahahahaha. Pakistan rock on child

Learn the lessons of failure

2011-08-24T00:51:00.000-07:00

Victory brings the warmest glows but the cold light of defeat can bring clarity. The great thing about success is that it is often self-perpetuating, but the trouble is, it can sometimes obscure flaws. If India aren't sick to their stomachs after being handed out a drubbing reminiscent of their dark ages, they don't possibly care enough; but not everything will have been lost if the pain of this defeat spurs the changes essential to prevent a free fall.

It was just as well that Sachin Tendulkar didn't go on to get his 100th hundred at The Oval. It denied India a distraction, a glimmer of feel-good in their hour of misery. Indian cricket doesn't need the blow to be softened at this moment; instead it needs to feel the full impact of this devastating loss, feel the pain, look within and ponder the future with a clear understanding of their failings.

Success highlights strengths but failure often offers better opportunities to learn, for it exposes weaknesses. Those who remain successful for long periods use lessons from failure to their advantage.

India didn't fluke their way to the top of the Test table, or to their World Cup win; indeed, they scrapped every inch, digging into their deepest reserves and drawing on the exceptional skills of a core group of cricketers. They won the World Cup despite the thinness of their bowling attack and despite being the most unathletic team in the tournament. They drew the Test series in South Africa despite not having played a practice game and despite losing the first Test by an innings and some. They managed to beat Australia in a Test by adding nearly 100 runs for the last two wickets in the final innings. In the series before that, they came back after a huge defeat against Sri Lanka. The rescue act was bound go awry some day, and England were too good a team let India come from behind.

The appraisal must begin with honesty. India will do themselves no favours by wishing this away as an aberration. A return to winning ways in one-day cricket or against West Indies at home should change nothing. There has been talk about them not respecting their No. 1 status. The truth, perhaps, is that they backed themselves to overcome the lack of preparation, bench strength and general fitness.

Zaheer Khan turned up with a paunch and without match practice; Tendulkar came off a holiday; Virender Sehwag chose to postpone his shoulder surgery until his team had been knocked out of the IPL, and landed in England after India were two-down; Gautam Gambhir, who played the IPL with an injury, chose to sit out the second Test because of a painful elbow. India delayed calling for an replacement for Zaheer until the second Test. Eventually RP Singh was summoned from Miami, and he arrived looking every inch a man who had been enjoying the good life.

It is one thing for a team to believe it can fight its way out of the worst adversity, another to repeatedly put itself in adversity. India ticked every box for how not to prepare for a big series.

Administrators and players must be honest about where they stand vis a vis Test cricket. The No. 1 spot in the format was attained not by design but through the burning ambition of a small group of Indian cricketers, for whom the Test version remained the pinnacle. The awakening among the administrators came only after the team became No. 1. Hastily a one-day series against Australia was rearranged to accommodate two Tests. Much in the same manner, an additional tour game is now being sought before the Test series in Australia.

Administrators bristle and players shy away when it is suggested that not everything about the IPL is good for Indian cricket. Of course, there is no denying it its place. Crowds love the entertainment, players love the financial security it provides, and administrators love the might the money brings. But the real challenge for India is to keep Test cricket attractive to players, and it won't be achieved by mere sloganeering.

The biggest problem with Twenty20, and particularly with the IPL, is that it provides disproportionate rewards for too little work and limited skills. Who would pass up the chance of earning in six weeks what might otherwise take a couple of years? There is no other reason why even those Indian players who had withdrawn from playing international Twenty20 even before the IPL began, would never consider missing an IPL season.



	Since they dictate terms in most matters, how difficult can it be for the Indian cricket board to draw up a schedule that gives their cricketers the best chance of success in all three forms of the game?

It is up to the Indian board, if it wishes to back its words up with deeds, to provide enough incentives to keep the players interested in Test cricket, which requires far greater toil, not merely on the field but also in preparation. To turn up and deliver four overs of change of pace might not be as simple as it sounds, but weigh that up against maintaining the intensity over 60 overs against international batsmen. Since they drew up the rules of the IPL and possess the cash to call the shots in world cricket, it is not beyond the means of Indian cricket's overlords to make the Test game the most remunerative form.

And since they dictate terms in most matters, how difficult can it be for the Indian cricket board to draw up a schedule that gives their cricketers the best chance of success in all three forms of the game?

If Indian players have looked utterly spent during the English summer, consider this: half the team will drag themselves to the Champions League three days after they complete their one-day assignment in England, then take on England in a five-match one-day series, and cram in a full home series against West Indies before flying out to Australia for four Tests and a one-day triangular.

India's future without their batting greats is too gruesome to contemplate, but the bowling is already in crisis. Zaheer faces an uncertain future, Sreesanth has been a huge disappointment, and that Praveen Kumar, resourceful and skillful as he is, was India's spearhead in England, must say something. The spin front is even more depressing: Harbhajan Singh has continued to slide and not one credible contender is in sight.

One way of looking at the ruins of this tour would be that it cannot get worse, but Indian cricket must brace itself that it's unlikely to get much better in the immediate future. As a Test team India have peaked and descent is inevitable. How well this is managed is to down to the leaders.

The role of the captain and the coach will be vital. It is a test of character for MS Dhoni, who took over an upwardly mobile team and led them to heights never achieved before. But he will be required now to extend himself beyond the field - for players will need to be nurtured and managed. Duncan Fletcher is no stranger to building a team, but he must now demand and be given the powers he needs, and the space to help shape a team not merely capable of winning back the top spot but of holding on to it.

The most important cog in this wheel will be N Srinivasan, the BCCI's president incumbent and widely acknowledged as the most powerful man in Indian cricket. More than anything else Indian cricket needs its priorities sorted and a roadmap set. It is inconceivable that a country so passionate about the game, with so much wealth and so many people, can't produce, by will and planning, another set of winners.

Time to infuse new talent, say former India cricketers

2011-08-24T00:46:00.000-07:00

India's drubbing in the just-concluded Test series in England has signalled the urgent need for youngsters to be blooded into the Test team, according to former India captain Anil Kumble. Kumble said that while it could take time for India to return to their best, players like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina and Yuvraj Singh needed to be given an extended run to allow the rebuilding process to take place.

"They have to be given a long rope," Kumble told AFP. "You may not see India come back to the top in quick time. But we have to ensure that with these youngsters, we remain in the top three and climb to the top spot after a few years."

Arun Lal, the former India batsman, echoed Kumble's view. "You cannot go on with 35 or 38-year-olds till eternity," Lal said. "We need to infuse new talent. What happened in England was in a way good. We needed an awakening."

India's 4-0 loss is the their first whitewash since the three-match series in Australia in 1999-2000, and the first by a four-game margin since the 1967-68 tour of Australia. Since Sourav Ganguly took over the captaincy in 2000, India's overseas record has shown marked improvement - India have won 24 away Tests in the last 11 years as compared to only four between 1980-99.

However, the players responsible for several of these wins have already gone - Anil Kumble and Sourav Ganguly - or are close to retirement, while the likes of Virender Sehwag, Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh, who were part of these wins, have been dogged by injuries recently.

Kapil Dev, another former captain, said several of these players would be hard to replace, making India's task that much harder. "We were fortunate to have such good players all at one time, but they can't go on forever," Dev said. "It won't be easy to replace them."

Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar said, during commentary, that while England were the better side, he had not expected India to cave in so meekly. "Losing is part of the game but for a top-ranked side to lose so badly is inexcusable," he said. "England were magnificent, they were much superior to India and much better prepared. But I did expect India to show more fight than they did in the four Tests."

With the Don Argus-led review of Australian cricket getting a lot of attention over the last week, there has been speculation over whether the BCCI will commission a similar appraisal in the aftermath of the England series. Former captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi said he didn't anticipate too many changes coming into place. "The BCCI is not going to show a great deal of vision," Pataudi said. "Cricket will continue [in India] the way it is, but I sincerely hope that some sense does come in."

Ravi Shastri, another former captain, said it was time to look at different players for the different formats, with an emphasis on Test cricket. "It's time for Indian cricket to identify players who are specifically suited to the different formats of the game," Shastri wrote in the Times of India. "A way has to be found to encourage those cricketers who want to give Test cricket priority. There ought to be superior remuneration or compensation."