Tendulkar all set for 400th ODI

Here’s another record in his 18-year-old career, Sachin Tendulkar will play his 400th one-day international at the Reliance Cricket Stadium in Vadodara on Thursday. Only Jayasuriya from Sri Lanka has played over 400 matches (401 to be precise). He has scored 15,563 runs in his 399 ODIs to date. He has a world record of [...]

Aggressive cricket misinterpreted – says Ponting

Ricky Ponting feels some of India’s cricketers have “misinterpreted what aggressive cricket means” during the ongoing one-day series. His comments come in the wake of Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s revelations about Australia’s cricketers using “harsh words” in the third one-dayer in Hyderabad. “Both teams can still play aggressively, but when the Australian team speaks about playing [...]

Dhoni accuses Ponting of using abusive words

India captain Mahendra Dhoni has accused his Australian counterpart Ricky Ponting of using “harsh” language during Friday’s one-day international even though both teams had been told to improve their behaviour. Dhoni told reporters he had complained to the umpire about certain words Ponting and a couple of other Australian players had used while he was [...]

Ganguly named ‘Best Captain’ in 75 years

Sourav Ganguly beat some of the biggest names in Indian cricket when he was named ‘Best Captain’ in 75 years of Test cricket at the 10th Castrol Awards for Cricketing Excellence at Kochi.A wonderful evening in the backwaters of ‘God’s Own Country’ Tuesday honoured eleven former captains for their service to the game. Besides Ganguly, [...]

Photo gallery from the finals of the Twenty20 World Cup

Aussies praise Dhoni

Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s leadership qualities have earned him kudos from Australian Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist, who say it’s a great achievement for him to win the Twenty20 World Cup in such a short span of time as captain. “He has done a pretty good job for the team,” Ponting, Australian captain, said about Dhoni. [...]

Dream comeback for Pathan

IRFAN PATHAN made a dream come back to Indian team by virtue of his brilliant performance consistently in the tournament. He could not have got a better platform to prove his worth in the team .Once he was considered as the most talented all-rounder in India after Kapil Dev. But Irfan Pathan has seen it [...]

Final statements of inaugural T20 world cup

                                    “It’s one of the things I will treasure for the rest of my life .I want to thank the boys for putting up this performance and for responding the way they did .We are young team and nobody expected us to win and the way we played the final we deserve celebration. It would [...]

Million dollar cup

Undoubtedly, the fire in the belly was for clinching the victory in the shortest version of this game. But it has rewarded the boys with dream come true awards as BCCI chief Sharrad Pawar has declared $2 million  for the young  boys in blue .As they clinched the cup in  a nail biting  encounter against [...]

Gambhir in full flow

Gautam Gambhir was a man with mission at the Wanderers on Monday  in the T20  world cup final  .When  he came to open the inning he was without his Delhi mate Virender Sehwag ,who missed to be a part of the  thriller because of groin injury .Gambhir opened the proceedings with  debutant Yousuf Pathan who [...]

India became the first champion of T20 world cup

  India became the first champion of T20 world cup by registering a victory over arch rival Pakistan in a thrilling world cup final at Johannesburg. What could be better match than this match India versus   Pakistan in the final of   world cup ending as a heart stopper. But the way to victory was not [...]

India win the World Twenty20 Championship Cup

India clinched the inaugural Twenty20 cricket World Cup after a thrilling five-run victory over arch-rivals Pakistan in the final in Johannesburg on Monday. In a match that saw fortunes fluctuate till the dying moments, the young Indian team scored 157 for five and then held its nerve to dismiss Pakistan for 152 with just three [...]

India meet giant Australia today in semifinal

Its has been a stunning and full of zest, enthusiasm and full cylinders of energy that is being blasted in South Africa by young Indians .They beat England and South Africa on successive days to top the pool and upsetting South African mission  to clinch the title. But today they have a real big test [...]

Team for first 3 ODI’s against Australia

TODAY ,was a big day for team India as they got a new captain and also the team squad was selected for first three ODI’s against Australia starting at the end of this month. Undoubtedly it was a mix announcement as it gave set back to some players and dream come for some others. While [...]

” MAHI-WAY” All The Way

AFTER being selected for T20 captain, Mahender Singh Dhoni was promoted to country’s real hot seat as skipper of team India. The selectors named him skipper for the next 12 ODI’s against Australia and  Pakistan ,starting end of this month. Dhoni just like a different icon recognized with milk and motorcycles, long hair and helicopter [...]

Paes enters mixed doubles final, Sania exits

Leander Paes and Meghann Shaughnessy fought back from a set down to beat Liezel Huber of USA and Jamie Murray of Britain and storm into the finals of the mixed doubles competition of US Open in New York. The Indo-US pair came through a gruelling semi-final encounter to score a 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5), 10-5 [...]

India win Nehru Cup

India striker NP Pradeep celebrates after scoring the winning goal against Syria in the ONGC Nehru Cup football tournament at the Ambedkar stadium in New Delhi on Wednesday. Pradeep’s 43rd minute strike gave the hosts a deserved 1-0 victory over Syria in the final.

Did India learn from the 2nd defeat in England

I believe that India lost to England in the 3rd match due to 3 reasons : a) Fielding not good enough – If you saw England, they must have saved at least 30-40 runs by good fielding. Not only this, they took 3 excellent catches (apart from the the ordinary ones). The idea of this [...]

Sania, Bhupathi in finals of Pilot Pen Classic

Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza fought their way to the doubles finals of their respective events at the Pilot Pen Classic in New Haven, USA. Though it was a straight-set victory for Bhupathi and his Serbian partner Nenad Zimonjic, the going was not easy for the top seeds who managed a 7-5, 7-6 (2) win [...]

India level series 1-1 against England

Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid’s smashing half-centuries helped India score a nine-run victory over England in the second one-day international, at the County Ground in Bristol, on Friday. Batting first, India put up a huge 329 for 7 in their 50 overs and in reply England finished nine runs short, at 320 for 8, in [...]