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Dhoni to be awarded Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna

India’s One-day and Twenty20 cricket captain MS Dhoni will be awarded the country’s highest sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award.
He becomes only the second cricketer after Sachin Tendulkar to be given the honour. Tendulkar won the award in 1997-98.
Dhoni led India’s Twenty20 team to a memorable win at the World Cup in South […]

Former Test player Ashok Mankad passes away

Former Test player Ashok Mankad passed away at the age of 61 in his sleep in Mumbai on Friday morning.
Mankad played 22 Tests for India with six half-centuries to his name. He started as a middle-order batsman, making his debut against New Zealand in 1969. Later, he started opening the innings. His 97 against Bill […]

Ganguly, Yuvraj & Gambhir honoured

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly’s comeback to international cricket last year was rewarded when the southpaw bagged the Best Asian Cricketer and the Best Batsman of the year honours at the Castrol Asian Cricket Awards held here.
Indian players, currently participating in the ongoing Asia Cup and on a high after their win over Pakistan on […]

BCCI plans big bash for ’83 heroes

Going back on its earlier stand, the BCCI will be felicitating the 1983 World Cup winning team on 22nd June in New Delhi. Three days after this ceremony, Kapil Dev and rest of the winning team would revisit Lord’s, where they had scripted the most memorable chapter in the history of Indian […]

Gary Kirsten to coach Indian Cricket Team

India’s eight-month wait for a new coach could end with Gary Kirsten, the former South African opener and one of the most prolific scorers in world cricket before he hanged his willow in 2004.
The 40-year-old Kirsten is the front runner to take on the job, left vacant by Greg Chappell, after he met with the […]

Tendulkar becomes 2nd highest run scorer

Tendulkar finished unbeaten on 56 as India registered victory over Pakistan in the first Test at the Ferozshah Kotla in Delhi.
During this knock, the Indian batting ace also surpassed former Australia skipper Allan Border’s aggregate of 11,174 runs when he scored 24 in the second innings on the fourth evening. He is now behind […]

ANIL joins exclusive club

Anil Kumble , on Monday, became only the seventh Indian to start his captaincy stint with a win.
The accompanying table has the details:

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INDIA jumps to 4th in ICC ranking

India may have lost to Pakistan in Jaipur on Sunday but it still finished the series with a 3-2 success and that has been enough to lift it into fourth position in the LG ICC ODI Championship table.
Pakistan, meanwhile, which occupied that fourth spot ahead of the series, has now dropped to sixth place, overtaken […]

INDIA wins series after 24 years

India’s wait for a one-day series triumph over Pakistan on home soil ended on Thursday night after 24 years when they thrashed their arch-rivals by six wickets to take an invincible 3-1 lead in the five-match series.
Chasing a competitive 256 for victory, the Indians overhauled the target comfortably with 21 balls to spare, in a […]

MCC to use pink balls

The colour of balls used in the English one-day game could change from white to pink if trials by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), guardians of the laws of cricket, prove successful.
“Paint tends to flake off white balls and we have asked Kookaburra to produce a batch of pink ones because these show up so […]

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 41 […]

Sachin Tendulkar’s milestones

Master blaster SACHIN TENDULKAR made another milestone in his career while playing fourth ODI against Australia at Chandigarh here, today. When he took 2 runs of Symonds to complete his fifty , he got the record of highest numbers of fifties to his name with 84 surpassing Pakistan’s […]

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, late […]

“BANG- BANG” Yuvraj Singh

Breathtaking shots by Yuvraj Singh (58 off 16) lead India to win against England at Durban in a do-or – die match.
Yuvraj set the new world record for hitting six 6’s in an over in T20 format of cricket and made history which will be remembered for a long time . He came […]

World Record for Kumble

When Anil Kumble had Andrew Strauss snapped by Rahul Dravid, his 150th catch, on the opening day of Lord’s Test, the leg spinner achieved a world record of different type against his name.

This was the tenth time Kumble was dismissing a batsman in his nineties - most by any bowler in Test annals. He was […]

India set a world record in cricket test history

Tendulkar on completing his 37th test hundred
Indians created history when their top 4 batsmen - Karthik, Jaffer, Dravid and Tendulkar, scored a century each during the 2nd test against Bangladesh.
Jaffer retired hurt at 138, Dravid was out on 129, Karthik was out on 129 and Tendulkar was still playing at 122 when India declared […]

Remembering World Cup 1983

Want to listen to Kapil Dev’s interview after winning the World Cup in 1983, click here (in hindi).

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Today reminds us of the 1983 world cup

Today at the World Cup 2007, while Sri Lanka plays Australia, the situation is same as that of India in 1983 when we played defending world champions West Indies, considered to be a much stronger team.

If Sri Lanka does not lose openers early, it is their game. They tend to lose their confidence and control […]