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  • 21 Dec

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    India give indication of their Cricket World Cup squad

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    India gave their first indication of what their squad for the Cricket World Cup could be when they named a full-strength squad for the ODIs for South Africa.

    This will include the likes of Sachin tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag at the top three, Zaheer Khan to lead the bowling attack, apart from the likes of Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli and Yuvraj in the middle-order.

    Yusuf Pathan also makes it to the squad, though it will be interesting to see how he plays on those hard, bouncy tracks where the ball will be banged into his chest, while the spinning department will consist of Harbhajan Singh, R Ashwin and rather surprisingly Piyush Chawla. That could meant that Ojha may not play in the Cricket World Cup either.

    The pace bowling consists of Zaheer, Ashish Nehra and Praveen Kumar as expected, apart from Sreesanth and Munaf Patel, one of whom should make it to the World Cup as well.

  • 16 Dec

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    Sri Lanka will be favourites to win World Cup

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    It is difficult to call the favourites in the Cricket World Cup 2011, but it must be said that there has been only one team in the history of World Cup cricket to have won the tournament while hosting it. Sri Lanka. And one gets the feeling that they could be the team to watch out for.

    Sri Lanka loves their home tracks. On most occasions they fill up their playing eleven with a barrage of spin bowlers – one or two main guys and the rest of them are their part-time ones who can bowl their quota of six or seven overs on a regular.

    And that is enough to make things difficult for the opposition what with the run-scoring becoming difficult in the middle-overs and sometimes, leading to collapses as well.

    This means that the sides will need to be very wary of the Sri Lankan side, who may even end up being the toppers of the group. What will be interesting is that if Sri Lanka don’t play India, they will play their quarter-finals and semi-finals at home as well – making it difficult for the opposition. This is why one gets the feeling that they will be favourites to win it.

  • 13 Dec

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    Will Ponting captain Australia in the World Cup?

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    It will be interesting to see who the captain will be for Australia in the 2011 edition of the World Cup. The reason one thinks it could get interesting is because of the fact that it looks highly likely that the side may end up losing the Ashes.

    Now, if they do lose the Ashes, and the chances of that look bright, it will only mean that the side would have lost three Ashes under Ricky Ponting. The captain will be a disgruntled man and the faith that the team, selectors and the fans would have in him would erode gently.

    This will mean that there is a good chance that the selectors may look around for the role.

    Whether they will actually go on to give it to someone else needs to be seen given the importance of the tournament and the fact that Michael Clarke doesn’t seem too ready now. It could also mean that Ponting may have to retire from the game, something that most captains do in Australia.

    The best part will come if the Aussies lose the WACA Test – which will mean they don’t win the Ashes for sure. The question then is whether he will give up on the captaincy then?

  • 07 Oct

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    Sachin Tendulkar wins ICC award for best player, should he retire after 2011 WC?

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    Even the worst of the Sachin Tendulkar critic will agree that the 2009-10 season was one of the better ones for the maestro. What most fans would know is that the season was great in many ways for India and Tendulkar was at the forefront of the resurrection.

    However, what worries me now is that the things are fast moving into that mode where the dependence on Tendulkar for winning the matches is increasing. Gautam Gambhir has lost his form in recent times and ever since his IPL outbursts, he has remained more and more injured.

    Sehwag is obviously there but with the middle-order performing only if they have had a good start, life will definitely become difficult if and when Tendulkar decides to retire from the game. And that cannot be too far away given that the 2011 edition of the World Cup is what Tendulkar had said would he had looked at.

    The question then is, if Tendulkar is in good form, will he want to end his career immediately after the World Cup 2011? What do you think?

  • 03 Jun

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    You can now buy the World Cup tickets online. Cricket World Cup I mean!

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    So, the audiences can now start booking their tickets for the World Cup online. No, not the soccer world cup which starts within a week from now, the cricket world cup which will begin from February, next year.

    The organising committee of the World Cup has released 5% of the tickets for the World Cup, which is around 100,000 tickets for the tournament. These tickets include all the 13 venues on display and have been priced pretty economically, given that the previous tournament had seen empty stadiums in the West Indies.

    One of the stands in a ground in Sri Lanka, Hambantota, has tickets priced at INR 10, which is probably a grass embankment without a stand.

    The President-in-waiting of the ICC, and former BCCI President, Sharad Pawar, said, “The prices confirm the promise we made that the tickets would be affordable and accessible.”

    The tickets can be purchased from http://www.icccwc2011.kyazoonga.com/tickets/index, and the same will be delivered not before November or December. However, given the craze for the tournament, there is a good chance that the tickets may be lapped up pretty quickly by the audiences. So, do book them now!

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