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  • 30 Aug

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    Bell run-out sparks controversy

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    The Ian Bell run-out controversy will be one that will be remembered for time to come and the reason for it is simple. For long, the Indians have been expected to accept decisions on the grounds of sportsmanship even as the team at the other end, has made merry.

    It had happened on the tour of Australia in the Sydney Test when one decision after another went against the Indian team and they could only helplessly look on.

    There was a stumping decision that went against India, and there was a caught behind that also went against India before Ganguly was given out caught off one bounce.

    So, I don’t understand what was MS Dhoni expecting to gain out of the decision to recall Ian Bell. If winning a sportsmanship award was the issue, he can easily do that in the IPL’s Fairplay award but with a number one ranking at stake, it was something that he should have kept in mind.

    Besides, Bell was clearly out and it should have remained that way.

     

  • 02 Apr

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    India wins the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011

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    Mahendra Singh Dhoni impressive (91 not out) and Gautam Gambhir  smashing 97 innings  lead India to their second Cricket World Cuptriumph after thrashing Sri Lanka by six wickets to win the ICC World Cup 2011 at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai here on Saturday.

    Man of the Match: Mahendra Singh Dhoni

    Chasing 275 for a win, India made 277 for four wickets in 48.2 overs and brings the ICC World Cup World Trophy, 2011 for the Nation (India) – Today!s

    Thanks to captain Dhoni, who made a remarkable scores that includes two sixes and eight fours in his 79-ball innings and raced to fifty in just 52 balls. Dhoni scored a 109 innings along with partner Gambhir in the fourth wickets, which is considered to be the highest run chase for India in World Cup finals, for the challenging 275-run target.

    Though, Gambhir was bit disappointed as he was about to reach to score a hundred  in the World Cup final but meanwhile Lankan all-rounder Thisara Parera clean bowled him in the 42nd over.

    However, Sachin Tendulkar also could stay long as he and Virendra Sehwag had to leave the ground after Sri Lankan pacer Lasith Malinga dismissed them. Though, Sachin Tendulkar was moving smoothly as he hit two fours in his 14-ball in 18 innings before Malinga stopped him in the seventh over.

    Initially, Sri Lanka’s captain Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and elected to bat against India.  However, Jayawardene played on a remarkable note as he score unbeaten 88-ball 103 as he hit 13 fours and raced to his hundred in just 84 balls

    For India, Zaheer Khan and Yuvraj Singh took two wickets each to stop Sri Lanka innings before Jayawardene started dominating the proceedings with Nuwan Kulasekara 32.

    Finally, the cricket fever of world cup is over with its all sensations till 2015. Congrats to India.

    Winner of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 – Team INDIA

    Cricket World Cup 2011 Team India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Munaf Patel.


  • 30 Mar

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    India beat Pakistan, enters World Cup final

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    India Won 2nd Semi Final of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 by 29 Runs against Pakistan on 30 March at Mohali

    Man of the Match: Sachin Tendulkar

    Score Board : 1st Innings IND: 260/9 (50) RR: 5.20 l 2nd Innings PAK: 231/10 (49.5) RR: 4.63

    Image Courtesy : Rediff.com

    India has won by 29 runs in the second semi final of ICC World Cup 2011 against Pakistan today in the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali.

    It’s a great victory for team India as they now entered into the grand finale of ICC World Cup 2011. The final match is going to be held on April 2 against Sri Lanka at the Wankhede Stadium situated at Mumbai in India.

    Opting to bat first, India’s opening batsman Virendra Sehwag played brilliantly as he managed to deliver 38 runs from 32 balls which include 9 super boundaries. Man of the match – Sachin tendulkar again attached a feature on his cap with his half century covering 85 runs with 11 boundaries.

    However, captian Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Gautam Gambhir gave brilliant innings that added good run score to the board. Though, this time Yuvraj Singh could get chance to show his skills as he was get clean bowled by Riaz in the first ball itself. Thanks to Raina, who scored 36 run to add a brilliant innings for India. Thus, India made a target of 261 runs for Pakisthan.

    For India, Harbhajan Singh becomes the hero with his superb bowling as he took the two important wickets of Umar Akmal and Shahid Afridi and all indian bowlers picked up two wickets.

    From the side of Pakistan, the notable performer was Misbahul Haq who scored a half century and Mohammad Hafeez made  43 runs innings as compared to other team member of Pakistani players in today’s match.

    India reached the Third time in ICC Cricket World Cup’s before this India played Final in 1983 and 2003 and won in 1983 against West Indies and loose in 2003 against Australia.

     

    Brief score:

    India: 260 for nine in 50 overs (Sachin Tendulkar 85, Virender Sehwag 38, Wahab Riaz 5/46).

    Pakistan: 231 all out in 49.5 overs (Misbah-ul-Haq 56; Mohammad Hafeez 43; Ashish Nehra 2/33, Munaf Patel 2/40, Harbhajan Singh 2/43, Yuvraj Singh 2/57).

     

  • 30 Mar

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    Sri Lankan bowling wins them semi-final against New Zealand

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    New Zealand fought hard but in the end, were no match for the firepower of Sri Lanka. The batting was much better but in the end, it was the Sri Lankan bowling that made all the difference.

    The problem that the Kiwis faced from the word go on a sticky Colombo track was that they could not score quickly enough. Not for a moment did it look like they would get to 260 an even towards the end of the innings when the acceleration could have come in, Sri Lanka bowled really well.

    So, now it is two games in a row that Lankan have bowled much better than any other side in the competition. They will be facing India or Pakistan in the cricket world cup final and the sense that one gets is that they will prefer the batting of Pakistan – which has struggled in the competition so far.

    However, for that, Pakistan will first need to beat India in the semi-final of the tournament and that could be the difficult part.

  • 24 Mar

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    India kicked out Australia, enters semi final in the ICC World Cup Cricket 2011

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    ICC World Cup 2011

    India vs Australia, 2nd Quarter-Final, Ahmedabad – 24th March, 2011.

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    Match Details

    Match Result: India won by 5 wickets

    Scorecard:INDIA 261/5 (47.4 Ovs) l AUSTRALIA 260/6 (50.0 Ovs)

    Yuvraj Singh: 57 (65) l Brett Lee* 8.4-1-45-1

    Suresh Raina :34 (28) l Mitchell Johnson 8-0-41-0

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    Man of the Match: Yuvraj Singh

    India smashed the defending champions Australia with a thrilling five-wicket victory and sealed their name into the semi finals to meet arch rivals Pakistan in Mohali.

    Chasing a modest 260 runs target, Yuvraj Singh delivered his blistering batting performance along with the partner Suresh Raina gave India a much deserving win against Australia in the 2nd quarter final match of ICC World Cup Cricket 2011 held at Ahmadabad here on Thurshday.

    Man of the match – Yuvraj Sing delivered (57 not out) which includes eight fours along with the winning boundary, in his 65-ball whereas Raina hit a six and couple of fours in his 28-balls.

    After winning the toss, Australia started off their batting first and posted a total run score of about 260 for 6 in 50 overs. However, openers Shane Watson and Brad Haddin  gave Australia a steady start against India. The duo added 40 runs for the first wicket.

    Chasing a modest 261-run target, India started off on a good note, but Sehwag (15) had to leave the ground in the ninth over. Though, Sehwag and Tendulkar kept their spirit alive as they both added 44 runs for the first wicket.

    Initially, it was quite difficult for India to stay on the ground as they lost Dhoni, Gambhir and Kohli in quick succession. Captain Dhoni was taken by a Lee delivery as he was  trying to hit the ball past point while Gambhir got out while  trying to take a single off Hussey’s ball whereas Kohli was caught by Clarke at midwicket.

    However, Sachin delivered a superb half century and added yet another feather to his cap. Though, this is Sachin’s 18000 runs in ODIs as he hits seven solid boundaries in today’s match maintaining an average run rate of about 5 per over.

    India will now meet with arch rivals Pakistan for the Semi Finals at Mohali which is going to be held in Chandigarh on 30th March.

    Teams:
    India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, R Ashwin, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel

    Australia: Ricky Ponting (c), Brad Haddin, Shane Watson, Michael Clarke, Cameron White, Mike Hussey, David Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee, Jason Krejza, Shaun Tait.

  • 23 Mar

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    Pakistan beat WI to book Semis Berth

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    Man of the Match : Hafeez

    West Indies won the toss and decided to bat first against Pakistan in the first quarter-final of the ICC World Cup at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium in Mirpur on Wednesday.

    Shahid Afridi picks up his fourth wicket, as West Indies is dismissed for 112.

    Afridi has cleans up Ravi Rampaul (0) to ensure West Indies manage to play just 43.3 overs of their stipulated quota.

    Hafeez: I thank God and the people back home. I have been working hard over the last couple of weeks and it has worked for me. The plan was made a couple of days ago, I also bowled with the new ball in the nets and I tried to bowl as straight as possible. The form has come in the right time and I would look to continue my batting performance. We made things very simple, not thinking far ahead, and that’s the key for our success. We will again take it, one game at a time.Hafeez is the Man of the Match for taking 2 wickets and for scoring a fifty.

    Sahid Afridi: This has been a great performance, it is the best gift that I can give to the fans back home and to those who have travelled all the way. Each game, we make plans against the opposition and we stuck to our plans like always. The openers played really well today and took us home. I am trying my best to stick to a proper line and length. These were proper conditions for a spinner. I had promised the fans that we can make it to the semi-finals and we should take it game by game. Every team will come harder and we need to make plans for the next game. Against Australia, we tried Rehman and today we wanted to try Hafeez.

    West Indies:
    Darren Sammy (captain), Devon Smith, Chris Gayle, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Darren Bravo, Kieron Pollard, Devon Thomas, Devendra Bishoo, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach
    Pakistan:
    Shahid Afridi (captain), Mohammad Hafeez, Kamran Akmal, Asad Shafiq, Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Umar Akmal, Abdul Razzaq, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz, Saeed Ajmal.

  • 19 Mar

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    Shouldn’t Akhtar have waited till the end of the Cricket World Cup?

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    The big question that seems to be haunting many of the fans is whether Shoaib Akhtar made the right decision by announcing the retirement in the middle of the Cricket World Cup 2011.

    The reason for this is that the Pakistanis have not been as good as they would have wanted their bowling to be. The reason for that is that they have conceded far too many runs in the tournament and Akhtar, to an extent, has been responsible.

    Now, with Akhtar announcing the retirement it could mean that Afridi may need to pick him up or could face his and the ire of some of the fans. This could dampen the spirits of the side. Dropping him seemed to be the way that they would like to go, given that Wahab Riaz has done well in the limited opportunities that he has got.

    Riaz also provides an option to bowl left-handed, which means that there could be an issue within the side thanks to the decision.

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