Scorecard – India beat Australia – 2nd Quarter Final – World Cup 2011

Score – India beat Bangladesh – World Cup 2011 – 1st Match

The first match of the ICC World cup 2011 is being placed in Mirpur between India and Bangladesh – both host countries. India have been the clear favourites to win the tournament and hopefully, they will take the revenge for their last world cup outing against Bangladesh.

Get your email like – MSDHONI@IndianTeam.com

Are you interested in getting an email like MSDHONI@indianteam.com or SachinTendulkar@indianteam.com or GautamGambhir@indianteam.com ? If yes, please leave a comment below alongwith your desired email id and we will advise you of how you can get the same. You also have the possibility of getting an id of your own name. We will auction these [...]

IPL Final and Closing Ceremony Videos

Below is a collective compilation of the best videos of the IPL season 2 final and the closing ceremony including performances by Katrina Kaif and Akon. Also included is the spectacular fireworks display which is probably the best organised for an Indian event. Also see : IPL Scorecard – Deccan Chargers beat Bangalore Royal Challengers [...]

What Bangalore Royal Challengers need to score to quality for semis

In order to secure a semifinal berth, here is what the RCs need to do. If Deccan Chargers bat first and score 50 – Royal Challengers Bangalore need to score 0 100 – Royal Challengers Bangalore need to score at least 32 150 – Royal Challengers Bangalore need to score at least 82 200 – [...]

Indian Team named for Twenty20 World Cup

The Indian Team for next month’s ICC Twenty20 World Championship in England has been declared today. Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni alongwith vice captain Virender Sehwag will lead a 15-member squad to England next month. The 15 member squad includes Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir , Suresh Raina , Yuvraj Singh , Yusuf [...]

India Women’s Cricket Team for ICC Twenty20 World Cup

Indian women’s cricket team will be led by star pacer Jhulan Goswami who also led India in this year’s ODI world cup held in Australia. Amita Sharma has remained Jhulan’s deputy in the team. The team includes Jhulan Goswami (captain), Amita Sharma (vice-captain), Mithali Raj, Anjum Chopra, Rumeli Dhar, Sulakshana Naik (wk), Anagha Deshpande (wk), [...]

England call off India tour

Following a series of terrorist strikes in Mumbai which begain last night, the balance ODIs between India and England have been called off. Even the status of the Test matches hang in balance and a decision will be taken at a later date after evaluating the security situation in Mumbai. The English players have their [...]

India thrash Australia, win series 2-0

In a match filled with controversy and media slamming, Dhoni took his men home convincingly by thrashing the Aussies to a 172 run win and winning the series 2-0. India regained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and truly emerged on top as they won their first test series against the Aussies after 2001. Scorecard – India vs [...]

Paes-Dlouhy enter finals of AIG Open

Top seeds Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy edged towards back-to-back titles as they advanced to the finals of the AIG Open in Tokyo on Saturday. They had earlier won the Thailand Open a few days ago. The Indo-Czech pair beat USA’s Robert Kendrick and Finn Jarkko Nieminen 6-4, 7-6 (4) in an hour and 11 [...]

Joke – Pakistan Cricket Board vs Virgin Airlines

Pakistan Cricket Board refuses Richard Branson’s Virgin  Airlines sponsorship.   Billionaire Virgin Business Group boss, Richard Branson has offered to sponsor the Pakistan cricket team, currently reeling after a string of tournament defeats…. However, the embattled Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has politely refused the generous multi-million-pound offer by the cricket-mad magnate. As one harassed Board official [...]

India end Idea Cup series with humiliation

Many would call today’s match a rain affected game that resulted in India losing, others would call it the sheer brilliance of the Lankan bowlers, but the fact of the matter is that the Indian batting order failed miserably once again as they have done several times in the past. The Indians had the upper [...]

Bhupathi-Knowles lose in the Pilot Pen final

The second seeded Indo-Bahamian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles have been convincingly beaten in the finals of the Pilot Pen men’s doubles tournament by Brazillians Marcelo Melo and Andre Sa, by a score of 5-7, 2-6. The fourth seeded Brazilians, who did not lose even a single set throughout the four matches of [...]

Champions Trophy postponed in Pakistan

Champions Trophy, earlier to be held next month in Pakistan, has been unanimously postponed until October 2009, as per a statement released by the International Cricket Council. Pakistan is said to have retained the right to host the tournament but it was also agreed that if other members expressed issues of safety and security in [...]

Akhil Kumar knocked out in quarters of Beijing Olympics – Boxing

Akhil Kumar has been knocket out of the Beijing Olympics 54kg bantamweight boxing competition. He lost the match 10-3 to Gijan Veaceslav of Rep. of Moldova. The Indian, who had upset Russian world champion Sergey Vodopyanov in the earlier round, was at the receiving end for most of the contest.

India@Beijing Olympics 2008: Boxing – Jitender in QF

21 year-old Jitender Kumar entered the quarter-finals of the boxing competition at the Olympics in Beijing on Saturday by out-playing Uzbek Tulashboy Doniyorov to set up a tough quarter-final with three-time European champion Georgy Balakshin of Russia in 51kg category . The Haryana boxer, who is on his maiden Olympic trip, scored a 13-6 victory [...]

India win AFC Challenge Cup

India beat Tajikistan by 4-1 to win the finals of the AFC Challenge Cup played at the Ambedkar Stadium in New Delhi earlier today. Sunil Chhetri’s hat-trick did the trick as the Indians trashed Tajikistan resulting in direct qualification for the 2011 AFC Asian Cup in Doha. It would be hard to believe but India [...]

India@Beijing Olympics 2008: Sania-Sunitha out

Injured Sania Mirza alongwith half-fit Sunitha Rao showed great courage by taking to the court in the women’s doubles tennis match during the second round of Beijing Olympics 2008 where they played the Russian duo of Svetlana Kuznetsova and Dinara Safina. Although the Indian pair started of very well by taking the first three games, [...]

Indian sport headed in the wrong direction ?

Before starting, I would like to point out that not many people are going to like this article. I do not want to take anything away from India’s first individual gold medalist Abhinav Bindra but would like to point out that India really need to get their act together and plan for the next edition [...]

Abhinav Bindra wins Gold at Beijing Olympics 2008

Source : Rediff.com Abhinav Bindra won India’s first individual gold medal in men’s 10 metre air rifle event of the shooting competition at Beijing Olympics. The gold medal is India’s first since 1980, when the hockey team emerged triumphant in Moscow. Qinan Zhu of China scored 699.7 for second place while Finn Henri Hakkinen faltered [...]