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Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2008

Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2008

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India v Australia, 4th Test: Review

By thedarknight ⋅ November 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

India beat Australia 2-0 and regained the Border Gavaskar Trophy in style and this heralds a new world order in world cricket. Australia are no more the dominant force that they were once. It is now very clear that Ricky Ponting is an ordinary captain who squandered the chance to win a test in Bangalore [...]

I don’t regret Watson incident: Gambhir

By thedarknight ⋅ November 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Gautam Gambhir, the Indian opener, says he does not regret elbowing Shane Watson, an action that earned him a one-Test ban. Gambhir, who missed the final Test of the series India won 2-0, also felt “sledging should be stopped” if the authorities felt what he did was wrong. “No gentleman can hear things that Aussies [...]

India win 4th test, series 2-0

By thedarknight ⋅ November 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

India sealed their first Test series victory over top-ranked Australia in seven years on Monday after Amit Mishra and Harbhajan Singh spun the hosts to a resounding 172-run win in the fourth and final Test. Leg-spinner Mishra and off-spinner Harbhajan shared seven wickets to bowl out Australia for 209 in their second innings with almost [...]

Australia fined for slow over rate

By thedarknight ⋅ November 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The Australia team was fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during its 172-run defeat against India in the fourth and final Test played on Monday. Skipper Ricky Ponting was fined 20 per cent of his match fee while his players will each pay 10 per cent as fine. Chris Broad of the Emirates Elite Panel [...]

India deserved to win: Ponting

By thedarknight ⋅ November 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Australian captain Ricky Ponting on Monday said India deserved to win the Border-Gavaskar trophy because his teammates “weren’t good enough” in the two matches they lost to the hosts. “It’s been a fair result, to tell you the truth,” a candid Ponting said after Australia lost the fourth and final Test by 172 runs to [...]

India v Australia, 4th Test: Australia lose three wickets

By thedarknight ⋅ November 10, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Australia started faltering in their chase of 382 set for a win on the final day against India at Nagpur. They lost Simon Katich early and then Ricky Ponting ran himself out needlessly leaving them stranded at 2 for 37. Ishant then took his second wicket of the morning when he got Michael Clarke out [...]

Ponting slammed for baffling tactics

By thedarknight ⋅ November 10, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Ricky Ponting’s move on the fifth day of the Nagpur Test to employ part timers instead of his regular pacers after the tea interval has come under heavy criticism. The Australian skipper who wanted to step up the slow over-rate to avoid a ban in the next Test match was lambasted by former players and [...]

Aussie media condemns Indian tactics

By thedarknight ⋅ November 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

India’s defensive tactics on the third day of the ongoing fourth Test against Australia came in for scathing criticism from the media Down Under which lambasted the hosts for “killing the game” and showing scant respect for the spectators with their “negative” approach. “Towards the end of the first session the screen reported that ‘of [...]

India v Australia, 4th Test: Aussies bowled out for 355

By thedarknight ⋅ November 8, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

India took a healthy first innings lead of 86 runs on the third day of the fourth test against Australia at Nagpur in the Border Gavaskar Trophy 2008. Live score – India vs Australia – 4th Test Australia started the day at 189 for 2 and lost Katich immediately after he completed his century, trapped [...]

Harbhajan takes 300th wicket

By thedarknight ⋅ November 8, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Harbhajan Singh, with Ricky Ponting’s wicket, became the third Indian bowler and the 22nd in the cricketing world to bag 300 Test wickets, on the second day of the fourth Test against Australia here Friday.The other two in the 300 club are Anil Kumble (619) and Kapil Dev (434). This was the tenth time he [...]

India v Australia, 4th Test: India 311 for 5 at stumps

By thedarknight ⋅ November 7, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Sachin Tendulkar’s 40th test century took India’s score to 311 runs for the loss of five wickets at the close of first day’s play in Nagpur. Tendulkar, riding his luck, got two lives when he was dropped by Mitchell Johnson and Brett Lee off debutant Jason Krejza. He made most of the opportunities and got [...]

Laxman hopes for a great 100th Test

By thedarknight ⋅ November 6, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Indian batsman Venkatsai Laxman on Wednesday said he was hoping for a “special” performance in his 100th Test against Australia, the team he has smashed more centuries past than any other. Laxman has scored six of his 13 hundreds against Australia, including two double-centuries, and is only the second Indian after Sachin Tendulkar to have [...]

Ponting hopes to beat distracted India

By thedarknight ⋅ November 6, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Australia captain Ricky Ponting hopes to exploit a distracted Indian team in the must-win fourth cricket Test following the International Cricket Council’s decision to uphold opener Gautam Gambhir’s one-match ban. Ponting remains uncertain whether the suspension of Gambhir, who elbowed Australian Shane Watson in the chest while attempting a run during the drawn third Test [...]

India v Australia, 4th Test Preview

By thedarknight ⋅ November 5, 2008 ⋅ One comment

India and Australia take on each other in the fourth test beginning November 6th at the newly built Vidarbha Cricket Association on the outskirts of Nagpur city. Australia will only be too happy that a long arduous tour will come to an end soon enough, but they would want to go out on a high, [...]

BCCI miffed with ICC over Gambhir

By thedarknight ⋅ November 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The Indian cricket board appears to be heading for a confrontation with ICC over the one-Test ban on Gautam Gambhir. While the BCCI has rejected the decision of the appeals commissioner, Justice Albie Sachs, to uphold the ban, and issued a strongly worded protest, the ICC has said the “matter is closed”. “The ICC Code [...]

Teams yet to train in new stadium

By thedarknight ⋅ November 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Ganguly was one of two players – Zaheer being the other – who didn’t practice at the old Vidharba Cricket Association on Tuesday because practice facilities aren’t complete at the new Test venue. “Zaheer did a lot of bowling in the last three Tests and Sourav is feeling fatigued with the traveling. They are both [...]

Harbhajan fit to play in Nagpur

By thedarknight ⋅ November 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

A toe injury forced Harbhajan Singh out of the Delhi Test and denied him the opportunity of bowling in tandem with Anil Kumble for one last time, but the offspinner is now “100% fit” and ready to bear the responsibility of being India’s premier slow bowler. Winning the Border-Gavaskar Trophy is the biggest stake for [...]

India v Australia, 3rd Test: Review

By thedarknight ⋅ November 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Both India and Australia would be looking to draw positives from the drawn test at Delhi’s Feroz Shah Kotla. Australia would be very happy that they were able to grind out the Indian bowlers and hold on for a draw. This result would be a great boost for them especially since all their premier batsmen [...]

Anil Kumble retires from international cricket

By thedarknight ⋅ November 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

India skipper Anil Kumble announced his retirement after the third Test against Australia, quitting the game at his favourite Ferozshah Kotla ground. The 38-year-old is Test cricket’s third-highest Test wicket taker with 619 wickets, trailing only Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan and Australia’s retired Shane Warne. “It was a very tough decision, especially when you [...]

India v Australia, 3rd Test: Match ends in draw

By thedarknight ⋅ November 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The third test between India and Australia at Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi ended in a draw as the two sides decided that a result was not probable early in the afternoon session. Scorecard – India vs Australia – 3rd Test Earlier in the day, Gambhir and Dravid started their overnight stay at the crease [...]

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