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Poor Indian Batting Performance Continues

2012-01-15T18:10:00.001+05:30

It is said that when calamities strike, they strike from all directions. Indian team, trapped deep inside tornado, must have realized by now that this is the darkest hour of their cricketing life. If they have not realized, well, God help them! Perth debacle takes the tally to the straight 7th Test Match loss for India away from home. While the only match they won at home was against very weak

India vs Australia Boxing Day test match

2012-01-01T16:37:00.000+05:30

When India and Australia meet down under, one can rest assured that it's gonna be mouth-watering cricket. The boxing day test match between India and Australia was a perfect showpiece of how interesting test matches can get. The balance of pendulum kept swinging in the direction of both teams - almost every day. On first day, both teams looked balanced, on second day, India looked on top with

Cricket Rules - dimensions of ground

2011-12-18T16:35:00.001+05:30

Highest individual scores in ODIs Above list of 13 highest top scorers in ODI format is quite interesting one. It has great batsmen, tremendous strike rates, involvement of test playing nations (well, almost). And now, gradually, shift your attention to the right most column-‘Ground’. What do you see? 9 out of 13 scores are in Indian subcontinent - 5 out of those 9 are in India itself! Now,

Virender Sehwag Double Century

2011-12-10T13:46:00.003+05:30

Ever since Sehwag stared opening the innings in ODI matches, we looked at him as potentially the only Indian to score double ton in ODI for India. He did it. But it wasn't as much a surprise for me that Sehwag did it, the only surprise was that he was the second Indian (and in World too) to do it! In a way this was a much expected record from him. Though I was lucky enough to view 'the shot'

And The Empire India begins...

2011-04-03T13:16:00.001+05:30

Cometh the hour, cometh the Champion! Mission Accomplished Rome wasn't built in a day, neither was Team India. The process that was started around 10 years back, under Captaincy of Sourav Ganguly, has reached its peak under the Leadership of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The process saw its lowest point at 2007 world cup when Team India thrashed out in league matches. Come 2011 and I can say with

India beat Pakistan, yet again..!

2011-03-31T09:05:00.001+05:30

Let's go to Mumbai..! Nothing satisfies Indians more than beating their old rivals Pakistan. Add to it the situation- World Cup semifinal, presence of the top political leaders from both countries, business tycoons, bollywood starts and the most important entire subcontinent which counts more than 140 crore population expecting only their team to win..! Mohali was turned into battle field

Quarter to Semifinals

2011-03-22T20:46:00.001+05:30

5 days or merely over 100 hours from now and we will be discussing about semifinals. But in those 100-plus-hours, action we are going to encounter is enormous. No team can afford to put a foot wrong. If they do- simply put- their world-cup 2011 will be over. That is why Yuvraj said ‘this is what you play for- your moment of life!’ As imagined, before the start of world cup, all small teams are

Cricket Lovers’ turns 1…!

2011-03-14T00:01:00.098+05:30

Hurrayyyhhh…!!! What a hot and happening past one year for Cricket Lovers it’s been! It saw 200 being made in an ODI innings, IPL and Champion League entertaining cricketing communities like never before, Australia loosing to England in precious Ashes series and then counter attacking England to win ODI series, India squaring Test series against South Africans and fighting hard for the most

Cricket World Cup 2011 Updates: Tie, Upsets, Hat-trick, Records.

2011-03-03T16:23:00.010+05:30

We are now towards the end of the First round of the World Cup and already we have seen many exciting games of cricket, few upsets and crowed and cricketing fans are really enjoying the tournament. Every team is trying their best to reach at the quarter finals and that too grab the top two positions in the group. The reason being, if you are in top two, then in the quarter finals, you are

Game Changer Rules like Power Play, UDRS, Free hit in ODI Cricket!

2011-02-21T18:32:00.006+05:30

This is the time when Test cricket is played like One day cricket and One day cricket is immensely influenced by Twenty 20 cricket. With the incredible popularity of the Twenty 20 format of the game, it was a great need to make changes in the format of ODI cricket too. The aim before ICC was to make ODI games more exciting and attract more audience towards game. Keeping this in mind, few rules

World Cup - the Number Game.

2011-02-14T18:05:00.009+05:30

Hello Friends, It's a World Cup euphoria every where among cricketing fans and every one is busy in predicting their favorite teams to Win the World Cup 2011. I thought, it will be helpful for you, if you just go through what happened in the past 9 World Cups; and therefore in this article, i am presenting important achievements and statistics related to past World Cups. World Cup tournament is

World Cup 2011 Favorites!

2011-02-07T13:29:00.005+05:30

Hello Friends, World Cup 2011 - This is 10th World Cup Cricket Tournament in the history of ODI cricket and 14 teams are participating in this event; which comes only ones in Four years. This time, the tournament is been hosted by sub-continent countries viz. India, Sri Lanka & Bangladesh. Sub-continent batting pitches are very Flat where batsmen can score lots of runs and you will find good

IPL - 4 Teams After Auction

2011-01-11T18:01:00.001+05:30

Hi Guys, I think IPL season 4 is going to be very exciting as two new teams have joined the event from this season, viz. Pune Warriors and Kochi. Now there will be 10 teams playing IPL season 4. Recently Auctions for IPL - 4 are over and most of the players will be playing for a different franchise as compared to last three seasons. Few franchises have retained their best players, like Sachin

Golden Century on Centurion!!!!

2010-12-20T12:37:00.001+05:30

S - Simply A - Amazing C - Cricketing H - Hero of I - Indian N - Native Congratulations to the God of cricket on scoring 50th Ton of Test Cricket!! The milestone nobody has achieved in the past and very few might achieve in the future. ( Pointing is on 39, Kallis is on 38) What can you say or write about this greatest of the great cricketer! Again he came to the bat when India was in

Some funny tweets about Laxman

2010-10-06T13:10:00.001+05:30

#Flash: Home Ministry has issued advisory for all people named Laxman against traveling to Australia #I wont be surprised if Laxman is made honorary Australian citizen: better to have him on your side than a constant thorn in the flesh... #I hereby declare that I am starting proceedings to find Laxman Janmabhoomi so we can build a Laxman temple. #Last week belonged to Ram. This week belongs

VVS Done it for India Again!!

2010-10-05T17:52:00.003+05:30

India Vs Australia Test Matches, its been always a very exciting battle since a decade, but this was the most thrilling one amongst the matches ever played and finally India won the match with 1 wicket, thanks to the brilliant innings by Very Very Special VVS Laxman on the 5th day with 73 not out in just 79 balls. Laxman, who was injured with back pain, came to the bat when game was well

Shame shame..!!!

2010-08-18T22:22:00.000+05:30

What am I supposed to write over the stupid incident that happened on the field of cricket? It's a shame for entire cricketing world and rather it is a crime on the cricketing ground, if found as done deliberately. You must have understood the subject of this post. In simple terms, Sehwag was denied a hundred by Sri Lankans because of their ill-minded-game-strategy which has no essence of game

Time for Tests in flood lights?

2010-07-08T09:02:00.000+05:30

Consider yourself. You have bought a Cricket Match ticket. You enter the stadium in the evening and suddenly see the players in white jersey and maybe pink ball. And suppose the score board says 3rd day of Test Match between India and Australia... You will get a shock, right??? But this will be no longer a dream!!! The crowd for the Test Cricket is decreasing, thanks to the faster versions of

Asia won, next is World to win..!

2010-06-25T00:28:00.001+05:30

It took 15 years for Indian Cricket Team to claim the Asia Cup again. The last time we celebrated the Asia Cup win was way back in 1995 at Sharjah. Since then, India lost to Sri Lanka on last 3 occasions when the team reached the finals ie.- 1998, 2004, 2008. But Asia Cup 2010 is thankfully exception to the poor record of the team in the finals. This can be regarded as the most significant

The rivarly

2010-06-20T09:57:00.001+05:30

It is more than Lights Camera and Action, this is better than any suspense story, it is raises the pressure on heart than any other live action, the contest is more thrilling than the Ashes. Yes, when it is India vs Pakistan encounter, it is more than just a game- it is war on ground with ball and bat as weapons and intensified exchanges of words as the mind games..! The two teams had met around

LBW: Howzz Daat...?

2010-06-11T18:00:00.003+05:30

Leg Before Wicket aka LBW is one of the most complicated rules of the cricket. Normally we cannot guess whether the LBW appeal will be accepted (given out) or rejected (given not-out). One of my relatives recently asked me if I know this rule and then I decided to share it with you all as well. The rule is complicated as I told you but I have tried to make it as simple and easy to understand as

Life is like Cricket

2010-06-04T20:00:00.006+05:30

A few days ago, my school mate who lives in a metro city now, came back to our town. He said to me, "yaar, chotya cityt bore hotay re..." (It is boring to be in small city). I said, "pan tu tar ethech rahat hotas aani teva tula nahi bore vatale" (You were living here a few years ago, you did not feel the same then..!). The conversation then shifted to more interesting subjects as you can imagine,

WIDE BALL wide ball

2010-05-25T20:29:00.002+05:30

I have been following cricket for around 2 decades and I came across various rules of cricket. Few were easy to understand, few were not. But one thing, I am not able to understand is the differences between the wide balls! That's the subject of this post, in fact a question to all of you regarding this. Why there is difference in lengths of wide balls? Now, let me elaborate the question a bit

Downs and downs..!

2010-05-14T12:24:00.001+05:30

"There are ups and downs in sports...", "That was not our day...", "It is uncertain...", "Wins and losses are part of game..."-- All this is true but up to certain extent. Though I am not a critic of Indian Cricket Team, I cannot resists myself from doing that . And, when the coach of a team criticizes his own players, you got to believe that many things are going wrong..! And yes, winning

Super Raina!

2010-05-03T21:28:00.001+05:30

Suresh Super Raina will be the correct name for Raina these days. He is batting superb. Importantly, he is able to carry the form he had shown in IPL to ICC World T20. Raina played the winning knock against the South Africa (SA). But it wasn't all easy in the start as it may look in the score card! Raina came almost in first over. The pitch was bouncy. The ball was new- hard. It was swinging.