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Espn and Starsports, both sports channels, made their name by broadcasting cricket in India as rivals. Then, they merged and produced another channel = starcricket. Now as days, Espn concentrates on football/soccer while starsports handles formula one, tennis and lesser important EPL games. Cricket is left for starcricket, 24 hours.
In year 2010, ESPN-Star combo aka starcricket will be broadcasting various live cricket matches from around the world and here's a list of all of them :-
Pakistan in Australia : 2009 tour continues onto new year with 5 ODI series and a concluding twenty20 International.
West Indies in Australia : is another tour to watch out for. Both Windies and Aussies love ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Mon, 21 September 2009
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Only 10 country play cricket at International level, full time, and each home board has right to chose their own home broadcaster (A TV/sports channel) for all games played on their soil (except ICC tournaments).
Tensports, the UAE based Taj TV owned sports channel, is the official broadcaster of 5 of those 10 cricket playing nation but sadly, they show few cricket series. why? cause Pakistan hasn't been hosting any cricket in last couple of years and Zimbabwean cricket is almost negligible.
We're left with West Indies, South Africa and Srilanka whose boards regularly host cricket series. in following, lets see which cricket series Tensports will show live on their platform this year:-
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Added on Thu, 17 September 2009
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Multi million dollar deals, but very little live cricket to show to their viewers : Nimbus Channel Neo sports's story since its launch in India, has been more of a hope than profitable!
In following, we look at what cricket matches channel neo sports will be showing in year 2008. mind you - nearly all cricket tests & one day internationals telecast by Neosports, are also live on Doordarshan since the most matches are played in India & national broadcaster gets the live feeds..
Anyway, Neosports cricket schedule for year 2008 starts with
South Africa tour of Bangaldesh
in month of February & March where 2 test matches & 3 one day ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 19 February 2008
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Once, Tensports used to be the most wanted. Today, this sports channel is picking bits and pieces as they show International cricket to Indian cricket fans, but none involving Indian team.
Come 2008, Tensports is ready with exclusive rights of 9 cricket series, and 2 tours by Indian team - of Zimbabwe & Srilanka. Ask about what other major cricket series will be shown by Tensports = Asia Cup (ODI tournament between India, Pakistan, Srilanka & Bangladesh) to be played in Pakistan in March 2008 and Australia's tour of Pakistan and West Indies in February & May-July respectively.
Don't see anything more very attractive in Tensports cricket bouquet, but their schedule is as following anyway.
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Added on Sat, 03 November 2007
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He prefers using pen & paper (lucky me as I do too) in the modern world of notebooks ~ yet have chunked out 11 books. His life is very much away from cricket and more into Charity works, but true love don't fade that quickly. do they?
Steve Waugh, the former Australian cricketer can make headlines anyday, but the two Times of India articles I'm talking about (one by Steve himself & other an interview) appeared very quietly on the day of world cup final. 28th April it was, when Steve Waugh made himself available for coaching India. In interview, he said "My name always gets thrown up. but being coach of India is a tough job. Its a ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Fri, 04 May 2007
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Less than 24 hours remain before Pepsi ODI series between India and West Indies starts at Nagpur, yet Cricket lovers are wondering which channel will telecast those matches..
If there is an answer to who will telecast India West Indies series - I'll tell you that. Just read on and try to understand --
Neopsorts was launched quite a few months ago, yet it has reached only 10 millions homes in our country as of now. According to relaible resources - I can confirm you that there was a a bill passed by Indian government some days ago and Neosports - the Nimbus channel which has BCCI broadcasting rights - has to share it's live telecast feeds with ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sat, 20 January 2007
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New opponent. New series... so a new Training camp, at a new venue.
You may feel our Indian boys concentrate more on advertisements and less on their cricket, but that's not the truth. You feel that way because those tv channels shoot those ads so many times at you - that you dream what Mahendra Singh Dhoni is endorsing... Ever realised those advertisements are at higher voice pitch than the live match commentary itself?
9 hours of non-stop same ad video is played on your television on an ODI day, and you have no where to run away but to keep rehearsing it.
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Added on Wed, 17 January 2007
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If you don't want to read the full article, and just want to know how can I help you find the tickets for India vs West Indies 4 ODIs - visit this site. It has got the tickets and if you have money in your pocket - that website is the best answer I have found in 3 hours of Internet searchings.
May be you'll like to read me once you have seen the prices.
Indian cricket team is the most famous bunch-of-boys in cricketing arena, if not at whole World's sporting stage as well, but even then, whenever their is about to be a cricket match played in ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Thu, 11 January 2007
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Ian Chappell believes Australia will always come back as the dominatant team at International level, because their domestic cricket is very strong. Constituted with only 6 domestic teams (New South Wales', Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia), around 100 countries best cricketers first fight for a place in National domestic team and then play against each other time and time again... and then a few more time - taking their level as high as possible.
Their curators prepare high quality sporting pitches - with spin, speed and carry, and only selection cretaria for National team is performace. And thus - Australia will always be a competitive team, and will dominate whenever other International teams fail to match ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 10 January 2007
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All information I can give you about this mysterious Nimbus channel (called Neosports) is that ESPN-star collaboration has got the distribution rights this sports channel. So I guess people who have Dish TV or TATA Sky satellite cable at their homes, will be having this channel.
But people like me - who still are struck with local cable operators - will not be having this rare channel called NeoSports. As I myself is in this problem, I'll do my best to find more information on how to get their channel, but as of now - let me tell you about the matches that Neo-sports will be showing in the coming ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sun, 07 January 2007
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To keep on living, you have to have a reason. And that reason needs to be strong enough to pull you through tough times..
England Ashes team is in toughest time of the Australian tour and the only way they can survive is by believing they can still do what they came for - retain the Ashes.
Adelaide loss never seemed possible. That's the beauty of test matches and test series'. If you can keep your nose not far behind you opponent - your winnings chances will come when no one sees it.
Same is the situation with the series right now. If they can pull off a win at Perth, ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 05 December 2006
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Talent alone is like no talent. You have to work hard at it and also need someone to nurture your gift..
Many of us know within ourselves, but rarely discuss it that highest one day wicket taker - Wasim Akram is the reason behind the success Irfan Pathan has had. It was 2003 tour of Australia when Irfan brust onto the scene, and Wasim Akram started his career as Commentator. With ESPN and star Sports.
What actually happened behind the cameras - I don't know. But Wasim Akram, like any other honest former cricketer - started to work with a new talent from India. Irfan Pathan didn't had the pace of "young" Wasim Akram, neither had the accuracy.
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Added on Sun, 03 December 2006
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Sourav Ganguly has an ego. Sportcenter must have got a good taste of it when he hung up on them during their 3 pm special edition on Indian test team selection today.
Sourav Ganguly is also a lazy man on the field and he isn't good enough to bowl 10 overs regularly in every test Innings.
Sourav Ganguly, in short, is a chapter of Indian cricket which has to be closed before we can look forward to building a World Champion Indian cricket team.
But the reality is we have failed to tackle South African ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Thu, 30 November 2006
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You cannot win a test match by scoring 900 runs when opposition makes 200 and 200 for 9 wickets. But you surely can win a test match by taking 20 wickets for 100 runs having made only 101 yourself.
England have to find batsmen who can make runs consistently but if they can find bowlers who are good enough to bowl out Australia twice - they will win half the battle.
Consider this - Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee, Mathew Hoggard, Steve Harmison, Andrew Flintoff and to an extent, Shane Watson are the six "right right handed" fast bowlers sure to play the first few test matches.
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Added on Fri, 10 November 2006
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I have a job of watching all the cricket which is being played around the world. Wonderful, isn't it? But just as Champions trophy finished, there was nothing for me to do.
I was so bored but now with West Indies vs Pakistan series starting on 11th November and then South Africa series from 19th, I and million other cricket lovers have great days ahead.
What's more, Ashes is there too and if you wish to watch all or some of these International cricket matches on your television, note down the channels and timings.
ESPN Star for India south Africa series :
This will be the third time straight when Espn and ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sat, 11 November 2006
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Note : Following information may be boring for those who doesn't need them.
Channel ESPN presents "Mobile ESPN" :
You may ask - what's new. So many cellular companies are giving cricket scores through SMS, some provide voice score updates as well.
Well yes. But where "Mobile ESPN" are different is that they are covering all three ways of communication - Voice, Video, Text or SMS. Channel ESPN has made agreements with telecom networks - Hutch, Airtel, Idea, BSNL and many more and thus they will be sending video highlights of all cricket matches Indian team plays and ESPN has got the telecast rights.
You can also get Daily news programs like Sportscentre, exclusive interviews, Cricket ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Fri, 10 November 2006
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I wanted West Indies to win that Champions trophy final. Not because I like Caribbean team more than the fighters from Down Under, but because it's human nature to back the odds against and seek the thrills.
I described that final match while highlighting the ego associated with whoever dominates anything in the World (Lion, Roger Federer and Australian cricket team), and there is nothing wrong with it. You can read that article here, but now when I have watched that video of Australian players pushing/asking Mr. Sharad Powar to take a side on stage during distribution ceremony again, I am sure I need to raise this issue..
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Added on Wed, 08 November 2006
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Do you watch Discovery? Ever seen a Lion tracking a prey.... and once it gets the hold - never leaving it.
If that's not possible for you, watch Roger Federer play against any Tennis player these days. And if can't do any of the above two - watch the highlights of Australia vs West Indies final of 2006 Champions trophy.
First 5 overs yielded 49 runs at the rate of 9.8 and no wickets lost. 68% of them were scored by Shivnarine Chanderpaul.
6th, 8th and 10th overs produced wickets for Bracken (who again took the new ball istead of McGrath), ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Mon, 06 November 2006
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Why are you reading this article??
If you are looking for similar criticism of "Our Indian cricket team" that you can see all over Internet right today, then I may not be able to impress you. To me, had India won that Mohali ODI against Australia - that would have been a surprise. The loss wasn't.
The bitter fact is that we India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka don't really have anything else at International stage when it comes to sports and thus, "it's only cricket" that makes us happy. And sad at times. Or may be everytime we play against Australia.
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Added on Mon, 30 October 2006
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My first question is - where are you??
Are you spending at least 2 hours everyday in front of your Television??
Cause if your aren't, you can't call yourself a cricket fan. October 2006 is such great time for cricket fan's that you should ask your girl friend to wait, your office to keep the work pending and delay your sleep.............. for the only reason that not every day is like these days in October.
World Cup is in March 2007 but that's still 5 months away. What ICC and Indian cricket board has in display for you is best of Cricket World Cup - almost 100 days before it. If you are missing any of the ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 17 October 2006
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After 10 months of cricket blogging and having a considerable number of readers, my own friends have started to call me a "cricket reporter". They watch me always busy with my pencil and notebook, always talking about nothing else than cricket and not doing what nearly everyone else of my age does - run behind every second girl.
So their thought about me is not much wrong, other than the name they have generated for me. I am no Cricket reporter. I am an Indian who loves talking to himself. Loves writing. And happen to have cricket as biggest his biggest thrill. You can say I am a student of cricket, and feel like having every single information ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Mon, 09 October 2006
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I should have named my article "Get ready for cricket" as it relates with what we "cricket lovers" will be treated with during the ICC Champions trophy 2006, but I have my reasons. And I'll tell you as we go through. So if you have 2 mins for some serious comments on the mode of Cricket telecast in our country, read on --
Set Max presents Extraa Innings :
And with a difference too. Every other cricket channel in India try to cash in to the fact that more people turn their TV on, as a match is about to start. Whereas most people turn it off when ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Thu, 05 October 2006
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Every other day - A new channel.
And they keep on shifting the cricket telecast rights which surely makes my life tough. If it does to you as well, read on. I'll tell you about another sports channel - called as Neo Sports, this time from Nimbus communications.
Launch date - 1st October, 2006 with the challenger's trophy between India Blue, India Red and India Green. But the problem occurred when there were no signs of Neosports when the actual match started at half past two on that Sunday. Here are the match reviews.
Indian domestic cricket has not flourished ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 03 October 2006
Added on Sun, 01 October 2006
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Following is a review on Pakistan, South Africa and New Zealand team member who compile the squad of Group B in ICC Champions trophy 2006. This is the 2nd part of the series. Here's the first part (India, Australia and England squads).
Group B (Pakistan, South Africa and New Zealand).
Pakistan.
Mohammad Yousuf (Captain),
Younis Khan,(Danger Man)
Abdul Razzaq (v.capt.),
Imran Farhat,
Mohammad Hafeez,(Unknown identity)
Shoaib Mallik,(Dark Horse)
Faisal Iqbal,
Shahid Afridi,
Kamran Akmal,
Rana Naved-ul-Hasan,
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Added on Sun, 01 October 2006
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At times it gets tougher to keep track of which team is having what players in a tournament as big as this one, which will continue for full 36 days.
So what I have done is made a list of Full squad of all the top 8 teams participating in 2006 ICC Champions trophy, written short punchlines about their features, given information on players whom you may not know and tagged five players from each team of 14 players as "The Danger Man", "The Dark Horse", "The Sleeping Giant", "The unknown identity" and "My pick" for the obvious reasons of what the tag means.
I hope it proves interesting to you, or at least updates you with ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sun, 01 October 2006
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Tendulkar was there... so was Yuvraj and so was Raina.
Being a die hard cricket fan, it has always been interesting to me to know more about the upcoming cricketers - the ones who are unknown as yet but we all will be talking about them in days to come.
Following are some cricketers that you may be hearing about very soon. But as of now, they are only tagged as "The future Indian stars".
Ravindra Jadeja :-
If you have the ability to hit sixes which should earn at least 10, if you have the guile to bowl 7-8 ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sat, 30 September 2006
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My title may be tough to understand but read the article and you will understand it completely..
There has been a history of Challenger's trophy being played between India Senior (which mostly comprise with present Indian cricketers), India A and India B - which are comprised of cricketers who are either trying to make a comeback into the national team or are promising youngsters.
The fact of the matter is Indian team is going on a lot of changed these days like domestic matches being telecasted live to our homes (the list), twenty20 coming to India and "Dravid Chappell" combination giving chance after chance to young players whereas not too long ago, players like Javagal Srinath were ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 27 September 2006
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Points table for a cricket tournament is a set of boxes which catches no attention before half the cricket is played. But after that, it becomes the only important thing.... till the things get straight.
What I mean is me writing this article on "Points table for ICC Champions trophy 2006 in India" today seems worth less as of now when the tournament hasn't started itself. And even on 25th of October - the mid day of 36 days Champions trophy in India, the following Points table may not attract so many cricket lovers.
But come 26th of October, I am sure you will be interested in the following... if not today itself. You can ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 27 September 2006
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Money is not everything... it is the only thing.
And that's the reason why with every single cricket tournament, nearly everything that a cricket lover needs to know - changes. New Match time tables, opposition, new venues and new timing for the start of matches to mention a few.
Being a crazy cricket lover turned a cricket blogger, I feel like I have got the answers for nearly everything related to my obsession and would love to help my fellow cricket lovers to find their answers.... the only problem is I don't know what's you question??
So what I have done here is I have compiled a set of information's related to the ICC Champions ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 26 September 2006
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Its been more than more than 15 years since I started to watch cricket and little less than 10 months since I started my cricket blog..... but there has been one thing which still remains static - the channel to watch the cricket matches live.
ICC Champions trophy will be the 7th cricket tournament that I will be covering though my blog and I again feel like starting the coverage with information of channels to live telecast this knock out tournament being played in India in October. I've written about the telecast channels for all the last 6 times, and even though I am not sure how much it helps my readers, I am banking on it will ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sat, 23 September 2006
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DLF Cup in Malaysia has shown such twists that no body expected - Indian team should have beaten West Indies in the first match after scoring 309, but failed. Australia should have beaten India after reducing us to 35 for 5, but failed to Weather god..... and then, Australia were favourite to win against West Indies which the didn't..
Now DLF cup has one last Friday League match remaining - India vs Australia and whoever wins the match, will play West Indies in the finals on Sunday. And that's why, 5 following points come to my mind which I would like to discuss with you --
Logic ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Thu, 21 September 2006
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What's your feeling when I inform you that "If West Indies plays India in the finals of this DLF Cup on Sunday, they get 1 million US dollars"..??
Different feeling are expected but by keeping this special prize into DLF Cup, India cricket board - BCCI has surely diluted the excitement that Indian team has brought by winning the Match 5 triller against West Indies here on Wednesday and kept their hopes of reaching the Finals, alive..
One can say this decision by BCCI to give away US$ 1 million to the team who plays India in the finals is derived by the fact ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 20 September 2006
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Who told you to watch cricket when you can't sustain the pressure of seeing your team get behind in a tournament??
I am sure no body. Its human nature to love something when it comes at a higher price. As DLF Cup has proved to be a tough nut to crack for our Team India so far, I know when our team rises, celebrating wins will be more enjoyable.
I have just come back from a long family trip of 11 days, and didn't get too many chances to watch this tri series carefully. But I feel happy that 3 more matches remain in DLF Cup.... and hopefully each one of them ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 19 September 2006
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Who do you think knows better about "YOU" - You or your opponent??
I am convinced that when it comes to a battle where two fight for the same thing, at the same stage, it's the opposition who always notice you lot closely than you do to yourself. They know your strengths, they know your weaknesses and try to negotiate it with a new game plan.... but are always fearing with what you have that they don't..!!
Being an Indian, I feel I have watches our arch rivals - The Pakistani cricket team, so very closely that I find myself in a situation to tell 7 points about this mysterious team. The team that can beat anyone ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Thu, 07 September 2006
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Before anything, I have to confess that I would have waited to write this article a little bit longer - at least 10 more days before I guide my readers on how and where to by tickets for the Malaysia Tri Series between India, Australia and West Indies, BUT there has been so much of pressure on me from my readers that I have to reveal whatever information I have till date...
I can understand their lack of patience as not every day Malaysia get to host three best Cricketing countries in a Tri-nation series such as this one from 12th of September 2006.
I promise to add more and more options as the Malaysia ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Fri, 25 August 2006
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You ask an Indian cricket lover about what gives him more pleasure - a win against Pakistan or Australia??
And the answer may invariably come as Pakistan because of our inborn rivalry against them but honestly, in today's cricket World, any country who beats Australia feels like the World Champions. And isn't this the rule in Boxing where you beat the World Champion and you get the crown of being the World champion yourself..!!
As I write this, India, West Indies and Australia are about to play in a triangular series in Malaysia where each team will play two ODI's against each team and then top two playing the finals but somehow this series feels like a ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Mon, 21 August 2006
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I was always amazed by Indian selectors when they selected 15 or more players for a cricket series or tournament, even when other teams selected lot less than that. I used to believe that Indian board is so rich that they can afford one or two more men on foreign tours, and then I came to know that it's the responsibility to the host nation to afford the players, not BCCI.
And now we have Australia who have gone two or three steps ahead and selected a squad of 18 member for the Malaysia Tri series which starts from 12th of September. Why exactly is that?? Purely because they need practice games before the ICC Champions ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 22 August 2006
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Most people call that bunch of cricketer's as "Indian cricket team", while some term them as "Our team".. and that is where the difference lies.
The first one sounds as a team that you are backing during a cricket match while other one expresses lot more than that. And when it comes to security of those players, those two terms become even more important.
I am sure family members of all those 15 Indian cricketers will be having difficult nights, but thankfully, this won't be the case with South African families who have decided to leave the Sri Lanka TriSeries which never started.
"I don't know. It is ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Thu, 17 August 2006
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They snatched his captainship without giving him a notice. Even when his last International innings had produced a century. Then they removed him from the cricket team that he thought he owned...
But a long time ago, Sourav Ganguly realised that it was "Indian cricket team", not "Sourav Ganguly's cricket team". And since then, this passionate man has been trying his best to get another chance to prove his worth.. this time just as a player.
He was given a chance on the tour of Pakistan, played the first test match at Lahore but didn't get a chance to bat on a dead pitch. Ganguly was dropped for the second test when Indian think tank wanted to play ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 16 August 2006
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Indian cricket board - BCCI made Rs. 33 crore's last season, which was simply the double of what they had earned the season before. And they are determined to triple it in this new season.
Australia have never won a tournament called "Champions trophy" before, where every top cricket playing nation participates. Thus, they wanted their player to have some International practice before that tournament starts again in October in India..
And West Indies, poor West Indies, have shortage of money. And what's more - they are preparing for World Cup in March 2007. They surely need as much money as they can gather..
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Added on Wed, 16 August 2006
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Australia and England first started what is called as International cricket. So, the first ever International test match was played from 15th March 1877 at Melbourne. Then after nearly 11 years later, South African joined in when they played their first ever Test Match against England at Port Elizabeth from 12th March 1988...
Then, after 51 years of International test matches, West Indies joined by playing their first ever test match against England at Lords from 23rd of June - 1928. Next was New Zealand in 1930 (first ever test against England), THEN it was India who joined International cricket by playing one off test match against England at Lords from 25th of June, 1932...... India lost their ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sun, 13 August 2006
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First, Indian team management had promised to play some International one dayers against West Indies, Australia or Pakistan in US, but none of America's cricket grounds reached ICC's minimum criteria and that plan failed. So bad for all those cricket lovers living in there.
Then, Indian team were supposed to play West Indies in a 5-ODI series at Toronto Canada but West Indies spoiled it all. They had problems with their cricketers and also Toronto cricket officials refused to host the series....
So, the problem still remained : From 29th of August (end of Sri Lanka triseries) to 7th of October ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sat, 12 August 2006
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Somebody said - "You can find anything on Internet".
And after playing the role of a cricket blogger for over 8 months, I believed in it. I thought I knew places to find any information related to Cricket, and then I started to find tickets for upcoming ICC Champions trophy in October 2006 in India.
I was amazed by the number of websites who offered tickets for cricket matches to be played in UK or Australia, or the coming World Cup in 2007, but none of them offered tickets for 2006 Champions trophy...I asked why??
Because it's a tournament of big magnitude but at a wrong time, or because it is scheduled in India. ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 09 August 2006
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The day - 7th August 2006, Monday.
Place - Premadasa cricket stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Match - Sri Lanka vs South Africa, 2nd test, day 4.
The "on air" comment - "The terrorist has got another wicket.."
The culprit - Former Australian middle order batsman (52 tests) and now (was) a well known commentator - Dean Jones.
Now to tell you honestly, I was about to write an article on the best commentators in International cricket right now, and I always wanted to rate Australian - Dean Jones very highly ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 08 August 2006
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There has never been a World Cup of Test match cricket, even when so many bloggers have tried to make a "perfect schedule" for it...
But if somehow that happens, we all know that Australia will start as favourites. And even when we talk about World Cup of One day matches, Australia seems the obvious winner. Isn't it??
But somehow, Australia is a team who have never won the cricket tournament called as Champions trophy (previously as Knock-Out tournament) over a period of three attempts. The history of Champions trophy, where teams have to keep wining in order to stay in the tournament, suggests that Australia have never even reached the Semi-Final of ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Mon, 07 August 2006
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I remember the day when Sachin and Sehwag hit sixes of Shoaib Akhtar in that 2003 World Cup match against Pakistan, and India easily chased down the target of over 270..... Me and my friends got so mad that we went to roam around our Pune city at 12 midnight.. only to find thousands others doing the same.. Enjoying that special win..!!
So what exactly is there in cricket that drives us insane... Answer is the REALITY OF THE SHOW. You can get sick of a movie or a TV serial, because you know within yourself that whatever they are showing is just acting, not real but when ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sun, 06 August 2006
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Why exactly a World cup of any International sport/game is played..??
Some might say - to judge which country's team is best among all, at regular interval of time while others may argue that World Cups are played to present the best possible exhibition of that particular sport. And then, someone else will have some other logic but to me, the second reason is good enough..
World Cup's (of cricket in my case) allows me to watch the best teams from all over the World, fighting for a "single ultimate prize", which takes the level of the sport lot higher than it normally is. There will still be official and unofficial ratings, long after the tournament is ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 02 August 2006
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When you decide to become an active blogger, you somehow make a commitment to your readers that you not only will write interesting articles, but also will provide most important information's to them.... And in my case, being a cricket blogger, I have always felt that I must find all the strange information's related to cricket, specially Indian cricket and make my readers aware of them...
And the information that I have for you here is something you just can't miss. Its about twenty20 cricket matches being shown by Star Sports, the channel who has brought us so many great cricketing drama's. And in the month of August, they will be showing some of the best twenty20 matches ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 01 August 2006
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I am not sure Indian cricket team's selectors has ever selected a squad which was acceptable to whole country. When I was 13-14 years old, I read an article by Sunil Gawaskar where he had selected his World XI team...
He started the article apologising to those whom he had not included in that special imaginary team, and also added that he hated selecting cricket teams as he knew he won't be able to impress one and all.
On 20th July, Indian team for Triangular series in Sri Lanka was announced. It contained a cricketer who already have had plenty of opportunities at the international level and somehow wasted them. This is ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Mon, 24 July 2006
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Recenly we read, heard and saw during the sad episode of Mumbai blast which were connected by "emails". I am a cricket blogger so please don't expect me to write about Mumbai issue. Lets just regret what happened..
But what I have here for you is another email , and there is nothing wrong in discussing about it.
The story :- At 1515hrs India time, an email from sourav87@hotmail.com (former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly's id) was sent to Sanjoy87@hotmail.com (Sourav Ganguly's brother Snehashish Ganguly's id). What that email is still not ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sat, 22 July 2006
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October 2005. Indian team comes back from Zimbabwe and problems between Indian captain Sourav Ganguly and new coach Greg Chappell confuses our nation. And then it became clear that Greg Chappell didn't wanted Ganguly into Indian team, Kiran More joined him and suddenly Rahul Dravid started to perform brilliantly as new Indian captain and also as a batsman.
Result - A new look Indian team was formed which contained at least 8 different faces. More importantly, young faces. The point I am trying to make here is you watch " Miracle", a true story of a coach ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Thu, 20 July 2006
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After a not so small break of 44 days, Indian team will be reaching Sri Lanka for a tri series, which will also include South Africa. South African team will already be there for a two test match series - from 27th of July and 4th of August against Sri Lanka and as Indian team will be the last team to arrive to the island, its easy to say that they will be least habbituated to the conditions..
Having said that, Indian team plays best while playing in sub-continent and Sri Lankan pitches will be no alien for them. This is a very good chance for Mahendra Singh Dhoni who had "not so good" series in West Indies, ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 18 July 2006
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"We were out voted 10-1in the recent ICC meeting in London..!!"
This is what BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah had to say on why exactly twenty20 is coming to India, later than any other country all over the world. The story started in February 2006 when ICC first proposed twenty20 cricket matches to cricket boards of other countries which was first experimented in England. Cricket was born in UK and it spread all over the world with the passing time, but somehow, Youth of England were running away to soccer matches rather than visiting a International test match. The biggest reason was that cricket is a lengthy game, whereas soccer lasted only ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Mon, 17 July 2006
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" Not many of we Indians know or at least don't care about the fact that cricket is run by we people. If you remove Indian viewers from the game of cricket, it will turn into a game that not many people know world wide. "
BCCI knows this fact and that is why they are the richest sport controlling body in the whole world. Not even Real Madrid or Manchester United match what BCCI earns every year. And frankly, I am also trying to cash in with this fact..!!
I am in a community where young boys of my age have to have a career of their own. We have no other choice but to ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Mon, 17 July 2006
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There is still 6113 hrs to go (254 days and 3 quarters of a day to be more understandable) before the 2007 Cricket World Cup starts in Caribbean, but somehow I am tempted to chose our Indian team for that tournament right now..
I am not Indian selector - Kiran More, nor is the time yet to make such a guess, but being a cricket lover, its a very interesting topic to discuss with my fellow lovers of the same game and I know there are people who would like to interrupt me have their say for that special team..
So here we go -
There has been plenty of ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 12 July 2006
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Lets get this straight – It was Indian team who went to South Africa for the first time in 1992, after Proteas came out of the ban which kept them out of International cricket for 20 years, it was Indian team who played 4 test matches instead of 3 against West Indies recently when West Indies cricket board was short of money to prepare for the coming Cricket World Cup.
Now again Indian cricket board has given the green signal to a five one day international series against West Indies in Toronto, Canada in September. Again for the same reason – West Indies needs money and for that they need to play more cricket. ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Mon, 10 July 2006
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I remember walking out on my colonie's ground to play little cricket matches at the earliest hours of every morning, and we all local cricketers wanted to play two 10 or 12 over matches rather than a single 20 or so over match..!! Seems like the same days are coming to International cricket now as on 10th of July, 2006, an International XI, called as World XI played a charity match against the Pakistan side. This was supposed to be a twenty20 cricket match, but due to rain and other commitments of some very high class people, it was made into a "Ten10 cricket match".
I mean 10 ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 11 July 2006
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When you already have World Cup, what is the need of a tournament like Knock out tournament (now called as Champions trophy). That too just 5 months before the World Cup in West Indies..?? This is what critics had said when ICC announced the itinerary for the coming Champions trophy, to be held in India in October. There were also news that Australia and England will be keeping their star cricketers from this tournament to provide then enough rest before the Ashes series in November 2006. I can understand the critics as they have to have something to say about, otherwise there is no identity for them. And as far as English and ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 05 July 2006
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Power plays are now being utilized by cricket captains rather than just doing away with them.. lets find out how..??
It takes just one ball to get the batsman out, but there's always a chance for a bowler to come back on the next ball, or the ball after that. Probably that's why, since the day this rule was made in cricket, everything else has been dominated from a batsman's perspective. Be it the LBW appeal where batsman has the benefit of doubt or the rule that a bowler can't bowl more than one bouncer in ODIs and two in test matches... Even if the batsman is batting way out of his ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 05 July 2006
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Are Tri-series or a Triangular tournaments better than an ODI series between two countries??
My answer will be yes as they allow we viewers to enjoy matches of different flavours, but I leave you to decide your answer yourself. What I have for you here is the schedule of the tri-series that India and South Africa are to play in Sri Lanka. Each team will play each other twice before the final match on 29th August at Premdasa stadium in Colombo.
After winning the test series in West Indies, this tri-series is next on Indian fixture list but it doesn't start ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 04 July 2006
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Somehow my mind remembers Indian captain Rahul Dravid saying that he won't be playing twenty20 cricket matches. He thought test matches were ideally suited to his kind of batting and he had made a "tough change" for One day matches... but now when people are talking about twenty20 matches, he thinks he should make way for a younger player to play for the country..
Having said that, I have discussed this with my friends and they never agreed with me. They were sure that Dravid never made such a statement and the debates went on... Now today - 3rd of July, I have got the news that Dravid will be joining latest sensation - Mahendra Singh Dhoni ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 04 July 2006
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I bet.... Sunny (nick name of Sunil Gawaskar) will make more runs alone than what West Indies openers - Gorden Greenidge and Desmond Haynes will make together..!! The day was 11th of March, the year was 1983 and the better was an English man. His relations with India is not yet known but above is the bet that he openly announced at the Queen's Park Oval cricket ground in Trinidad when that 2nd test match between India and West Indies started. This was the third time Sunil Gawaskar was playing in West Indies, and his debut tour of West Indies in 1971 had won him many a fans... That English man was most probably one of ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Thu, 15 June 2006
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Almost every time, we have the talent somewhere inside us but we ourselves don't know. And many a times, we are forced in some kind of situations where we just have to explore that part of us and we find that we are quite natural to it... isn't it?? Virendra Sehwag is a prime example of that. He first came into Indian team when he was 21 years, 6 months and 10 days old, with just two years of domestic cricket and made his entry as a spinner who used to copy Indian batting master Sachin Tendulkar while batting. Sehwag made 1 run in his first ODI innings against Pakistan at Mohali, and ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 13 June 2006
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Cricket is a game where outside factors effect a lot. It can be a 22 yard pitch which changes from country to country, it can be the weather that no body can control... but there is another factor that effects cricket - the big total of opposition...
Its amazing to see how batsmen plays bad shots when opposition team has made a huge total, even if the pitch is playing in the same manner as it was during their batting. I remember Mumbai crowd booing their most loved child - Sachin Tendulkar and also their latest love - Mahendra Singh Dhoni when they played lose shots and got out when India needed them to be there on ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 13 June 2006
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Would you believe that the sales of TVS Apache bike and Pepsi has gone up considerably since India have started their tour of West Indies..??
Well, its a fact and the only reason for it is that those two commercials zooms into our television sets as soon as an over completes or a wicket goes down or some kind of break happens during India vs West Indies matches these days. Tensports is a sports channel, owned by Taj Tv international and they have worked very smartly to make their mark in in our country India. |
Added on Sun, 11 June 2006
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OK.... lets start today's article with this piece of information - out of 1805 International test matches played in the history of test match cricket till date, only 165 times the team batting first has scored more that 550 runs in the first innings and 108 times they have won the match. 54 out of those matches were drawn, 2 were lost and one was tied..!!
If we go by that statistic, this 1806th test match between India and West Indies at St. Lucia, which happens to be the second test match in the 4 match series between the two countries, India have won half the battle. Read on and I'll explain how.. |
Added on Mon, 12 June 2006
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Day 1.
Consider this – only four batsmen in the history of test match cricket has scored a century before the Lunch Interval on the first day of the test match(three of them were before the second World War, only one after that was Majid Khan of Pakistan) and the fastest century by an Indian in test matches has been off 74 balls by Mohammed Azharuddin....!!
Well, none of these records were broken by Virendra Sehwag on the first day of the St. Lucia test – the second test match between India and West Indies (the list of fastest centuries makers) but I am sure none of the above was more ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sun, 11 June 2006
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Everybody knows what happened on the last few minutes of Day 4 of the first test at Antigua(here's more if you don't) and many might have thought it will be Brain Lara who will be fined because of showing wrong behaviour - to the umpires and also to Dhoni and Mohammad Kaif. But match officials thought otherwise and fined Virendra Sehwag for "excessive appealing"...??
Anyways, 20% of match fees doesn't really bother a highly successful Indian cricketer like Virendra Sehwag and I am sure he will be disappointed but can manage... Now the destination for Indian team is St. Lucia where they will play ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Thu, 08 June 2006
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This was the ground where Brain Lara scored his 375 runs, way back in 1993 and he came back in 2003 to regain his highest individual score in test cricket by any batsman, when Mathew Hayden got past his previous record. Not only Lara scored the first every quadruple century at this ground, he did it again against the same opposition - England. Antigua cricket ground had also seen the fastest century in test match cricket - off 56 balls by Vivian Richards and this is, or rather was the ground where highest fourth innings successful chase in test cricket was achieved - 418 by West Indies against Australia in 2002.
The reason I am using "past tense" for ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 07 June 2006
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Indian cricket team, when they were leaving for West Indies, were repeatedly tipped as our best chance in two of three decades of winning a test series in Caribbean. They started in bright note by winning the first ODI at Trinidad but failed to continue the momentum. And eventually, lost the ODI series in quite a convincing manner...
Now its onto test cricket, and honestly, Indian team failed to make any mark in first two days of this first test at Antigua. They were bowled out for just 241 and then, gave away a lead of 130 runs to the West Indians ( See the West Indian score card), bowled ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Mon, 05 June 2006
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Indian test team for the tour of West Indies.
1. Rahul Dravid (Captain),
2. Virendra Sehwag (vice-captain),
3. Yuvraj Singh,
4. VVS Laxman,
5. Mohammad Kaif,
6. Suresh Raina,
7. Wasim Jaffer,
8. Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Wicket Keeper),
9. Dinesh Karthik (stand-by wicket keeper),
10. Irfan Pathan,
11. Harbhajan Singh,
12. Anil Kumble,
13. Shanthakumaran Sreesanth,
14. Munaf Patel,
15. VRV Singh,
16. Ramesh Powar.
Honestly, I have been making the list of Indian cricket team for at least 10 years now. It was in 1996 World Cup that I came close to the game of cricket, closer ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Thu, 01 June 2006
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The match preview. Indian team is on the tour of West Indies and they will be playing a practice match against Jamaica cricket association on 16th of May. This will be a first class one day match that Indian team has got to get a taste of West Indies pitches, before the first one day international against West Indies team at Jamaica again.. but - The two grounds are different. This practice match for Indian team will be played at Chedwin Park, which is the home ground of the Catherine Cricket club, located 30 km from the city while the first and second ODI series in West Indies, which starts on 18th of May was announced yesterday and lets be assured that - at least 50 to 60% of these players will be representing in the World Cup as well. According to me, seven of this Indian squad for the 2006 tour of West Indies will be unchanged when India goes to west Indies again in March 2007. 1) Rahul Dravid :- He was given the captaincy when Greg Chappell openly raised questions about Sourav Ganguly's place in Team India. Rahul Dravid has been the single cricketer in Indian team who ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sun, 23 April 2006
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The match preview
UAE cricket grounds has been known for batsmen friendly wickets, but 1st ODI of this India vs Pakistan DLF CUP proved to be a total opposite case. The pitch was slow and even the out field was not up to the mark - not in terms of greenery but the ball didn't carried fastly enough to the boundary and batsmen struggled to get full value for their good shots.
You will be surprised to know that this 2nd India vs Pakistan match at Abu Dhabi ground will be played on the same pitch that was used for the first match yesterday. Generally, cricket grounds at neutral venues prepare two of three pitches and match ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 19 April 2006
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The Preview - one day before the match.
Do you know that the first ever one day International between India and Pakistan was played at Quetta on 1st October in the year 1978. And hence the rivalry between these two cricketing nations kick started, as that match was won narrowly by India - by 4 runs.
Since then, there has been 106 ODI's between India and Pakistan and sadly, 63 has been won by Pakistan and only 39 by India with 4 having no result. The only good thing about India vs Pakistan one day matches from an Indian perspective is that we have won all the last four ODIs ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Mon, 17 April 2006
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Out of 78 test matches against West Indies, our Indian cricket team has managed to win just 10 of them. And would you believe, only three have been on West Indies soil. May be you will believe, as West Indies team used to be a great cricketing side and also because our Indian batsmen have always struggled against fast bowling. But...
One cannot rule out the historic victory Indian team managed when they chased down the target of 403 at Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad in 1976 and the record for Highest fourth Innings chase belonged to us before West Indies broke it on 13th May, 2003 when they chased down 418 against Australia. ... .. Read complete article
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Added on Thu, 13 April 2006
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The Preview
England cricket team may complain about the heat they had to counter while playing the test and one day series in India, but they can thank Indian cricket board for one thing - See nearly whole of India. That too free of cost!!
England team started from Nagpur in Maharashtra, traveled to East like Delhi and Faridabad, then to western part of India like Mumbai and Goa, then to South like Kochi, then to North like Guwahati and Jamshedpur and they will be finishing the Indian tour at nearly the centre of India - Indore. Indore is situated in Madhya Read complete article |
Added on Fri, 14 April 2006
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Keenan Cricket Stadium in Jamshedpur is known for its lush green out field, good hard pitch, extremely hot conditions and bad luck for Indian team. And this time Keenan stadium disappointed in none of it. Temperature was hotter than 50 degrees on the cricket field, ground was like a green sleeping bed, pitch was harder than Indians would have wanted and they batted first to make the matter worst.
India had made so many changes in their playing eleven that I feel tough to mention. From the last team that played at Kochi - Dravid, Irfan, Ajit Agarkar and Sreesanth were replaced by ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 12 April 2006
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If you are crazy enough about cricket or wealthy enough, you can't miss this chance. Cricket World Cup is the biggest festival in cricketing world and if, in any how, you have a situation to be there in West Indies in March 2007, read the following..
To buy tickets for the cricket World Cup in West Indies, you have to fill an application seeking tickets for the which perticular matches and few other options. And to fill the application, you have two methods Apply at the centre of ICC Cricket World Cup tickets, like at Shop 16, Pelican Craft Centre on Princess Alice highway in Bridgetown, which comes under Barbados. ... .. Read complete article
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Added on Tue, 11 April 2006
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I have been blogging for 130 days and have welcomed plenty of people looking for tickets of cricket matches but till today, I rarely had any substantial information for them. I always concentrated on finding match related stories and serve them on Internet but now feel that providing crucial information's is also important. Having said that, Cricket is not a game that is very popular all over the world and it shows when one looks for tickets of an International cricket match but never finds them.
So I here by make a point to keep finding websites and other online methods for my readers to help them buy tickets whenever and wherever Team India plays.. and starting ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sun, 09 April 2006
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When it comes to cricket, an average cricket fan like you and me are forced to understand some informations that we would have ignored otherwise. Since Sharad Powar has become the president of BCCI, many things are changing in Indian cricket and one of them is that they have agreed to play 25 one day International matches with countries like Australia, England, West Indies and mostly with Pakistan(15 in all) over the time of coming 5 years...
Zee Sports or Zee Telefilms, owned by Subhash Chandra has won the media rights for all these cricket matches for... hold your breath - 219.15 million dollars, which comes out to be round about Rs. 985 crores...hmm!! So ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Thu, 06 April 2006
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Some worth knowing facts - One day before the match : -
Last time India played at Kochi (against Pakistan on 2nd April 2005), they managed to win the toss and also the match. This always has been the case here at Nehru stadium in Kochi. In just 4 one day matches played at this ground so far, three totals have been over 300 and once has been chased down. In that last one dayer against Pakistan - Sachin Tendulkar took his second five wicket haul and would you believe, his first five wicket haul was also at this ground against Australia, back in April 1998 when ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 05 April 2006
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After losing the Delhi ODI, from a situation were no one thought England will manage to lose so many wickets so soon and hence the match, England players must be down in confidence. The ODI at Faridabad will surely give them a chance to come back as the Faridabad pitch - as far as news so far has come - is not a flat one. Its loose on the top and firm on the inside which means that seam bowlers will have some assistance in the morning - due to the early start of Day ODI's, it can be safely said that it will take turn in later half of the match.... if not before that!!
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Added on Thu, 30 March 2006
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Just before the England's batting was to start at Delhi ODI, a BCCI official came up to announce that India will be playing two one day matches against Pakistan on April 18th and 19th at Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi.
April 18th is Tuesday and 19th is Wednesday, which means that not many people will be able to watch this match if they are Day matches... yes, its not yet confirm that these one day internationals at Abu Dhabi will be day-night matches or just day matches. It will be after a long time that Indian team will be going to a gulf ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 29 March 2006
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One Day before the match
Lets get this straight - England is a struggling one day side while Indian team is playing some very good one day cricket in recent past. Now the one day series of 7 matches start at Delhi and it will be no wrong in saying that England team will be the underdogs (They even lost to RCA XI in the warm-up match at Jaipur) England did very well by winning the third test at Mumbai and leveled the test series but ODI cricket is very different game and England is yet to match the standard that India have achieved in last one year or so...
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Added on Mon, 27 March 2006
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How or where can I buy the tickets for that cricket match between that and that country?? Well... this is a question that nearly half of the cricket lover on Internet are searching for. I am not sure how many of them are actually landing on the websites that can provide the tickets for those specific matches like the upcoming Champions trophy in India, India's tour of west Indies in May - July, the ashes series in Australia that starts on 23rd of November... and not to mention the cricket world cup in 2007 (ICC world cup as it will be called) and will be played in West Indies (Caribbean) from 13th March to 29th April. But one thing I ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Mon, 27 March 2006
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The last one day international that Team India plays against England in India is on 15th of April at Indore. So with all possibilities, the squad for the west Indies tour (Caribbean as it is also called) will be announced in a few days after that..
The bad thing about that squad will be that Indian team won't be having Sachin Tendulkar in the squad.Sachin is out of cricket for 8 weeks because of his sore shoulder and he will be flying to Australia to get the treatment..
As per the schedule of India's tour of west Indies, first one dayers will be played (till 28th of May) and then the test matches.. ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 22 March 2006
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A real eligant right handed batsman from Andra Pradesh called Y Venugopal Rao - Yalaka Venugopal Rao has been in and out of Indian cricket team for 6 or 7 months now. Venugopal Rao made his debut against Srilanka at Dambulla last year in June and since then, he has impressed everyone with his timing of the ball and the ease with which he plays the ball all around the ground.
He along with Suresh Raina were considered as the new batting talents from Indiaby captain Rahul Dravid but some how Suresh Raina managed to gain more popularity than Venugopal Rao, probably because of his fieling abilities.. but let me tell you that venugopal rao, with a height ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 22 March 2006
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One day before the test match
English Camp :-
England's sick list has a new name - Steve Harmison who suffered a shin injury just one day before the 3rd and last test at the Wankhede Stadium - Mumbai, starting 18th of March. And when we look at the record of Mumbai pitch over the years, it may not be as a bigger loss for England team as seamers don't have such a great record here... but one thing is for sure - Virendra Sehwag will be most happy. Hasmison is a tall bowler and always get awkward bounce, which constantly troubled Sehwag. With his ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Fri, 17 March 2006
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It must be very tough for working people to really what a cricket match on television. So when really the highlights come on TV becomes a major query. Well, I am sorry but I don't have the exact time for you..
Sahara One and Doordarshan are showing the matches but I haven't seen anyone showing the Highlights. This is the drawback of BCCI's decision to give rights to channels that aren't really known for telecasting cricket matches.. Anyways, I suggest you Doordarshan at 2200 hrs India time, and also from 0900 hrs in the Morning as in 15 odd years of watching cricket, I have seen Doordarshan showing the ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Thu, 09 March 2006
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Two day before the 2nd test.
Mohali is one of the most beautiful grounds in India and being a home ground for the Punjabi's, it has the reputation of the fastest among all the other grounds in India..
The pitch at Mohali ground seems to help the fast bowlers for the first two days and then becomes a batting paradise. The best things about the Mohali pitch is its bounce. The ball carry well to the keeper, which means a good chance for the fast bowlers and also batsmen can play their stroke. The thing Indians will be interested in the amount of bounce that Anil Kumble can get of the Mohali Pitch. The pitch at Nagpur has ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Thu, 09 March 2006
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Following schedule is the last time India will be playing some cricket in West Indies before the World Cup in March 2007. This schedule of India vs West Indies in 2006 has 5 One day Internationals and Four Test Matches. First the Sechedule was supposed to be of just three test Matches but later, the West Indies cricket board(WICB) and India cricket board (BCCI) decided to go with the previously decided schedule of India's tour of West Indies.
Even I feel this schedule of four test matches is better than three test matches, as additional test match will provide our players to understand the west Indies conditions and prepare better for the World Cup. More over, its always good ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 08 March 2006
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The Highlights of India vs England - Nagpur test match.
Day 1.
For the straight 9th time at Nagpur, the captain winning the toss elected to bat . This time it was Andrew Flintoff luckier than Rahul Dravid and as expected, England played a very good first session. Playing the seam bowlers on Indian pitches was never going to be the problem to them and they made 82 for the loss of 2 wickets. At that stage, the game looked evenly poised..
Debutant Alastair Cook played a very matured innings. He was precise with ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sun, 05 March 2006
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Being a big person, being a known person and being a former cricketer - you also have to be a responsible person. And the things that you say to the media has to be revised a lot of time within you before it comes out..
These days, in Indian cricket - few things are said that is making a lot of waves.. and the recent to join in is the Indian cricket's chief selector - Kiran More. More on Sunday said that all the doors for Sourav Ganguly to come back into the Indian cricket team has been closed and as long as he is in his post, there is no ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sun, 05 March 2006
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As the India vs England series started, I informed my readers about the channels which will be telecasting the matches.. What I missed was the fact that I have as many readers in United States as in India and England. So many of my countrymen live there and even when they have changed quite a bit, cricket still runs in their blood and I felt obliged to find the channel that will show them the live telecast..
So here is the news if you love Indian cricket and live in USA - Nimbus Communications(The company with the production rights of all cricket matches that will be played in India till March 2010) and US broadcaster ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sat, 04 March 2006
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If you are trying to find the interview that Indian cricket coach Greg Chappell gave to Guardian Magazine about Sourav Ganguly some days back, then you have come to the right place...
Greg may have been a great cricket player himself, and even when his performance as the Indian coach is producing pleasing results now, he should be careful of what he says in the media. On first of March, 2006 - the day when India vs England series kicked off, he said yes to an interview with Guardian Magazine and went on to express his feeling like a true Australian - Frank and bold. This is what Read complete article |
Added on Sat, 04 March 2006
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Its always good to first loose and then win.. so that you return home with happier memories. This is what happened in the last tour of Pakistan for our Indian cricket team as they lost the test series by loosing the 3rd test and then, won the ODI series.
Now England cricket team is here in India, but the case is opposite for them.. they first won the Ashes series and then lost on Pakistan's tour. So it will be easy to say that confidence level of our team will be better than the English player... at least they will be in better frame of mind.. and playing on home soil, they must be eager to perform even ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Fri, 24 February 2006
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He wears diamond studs in his ears, he drinks a can of Red bull(an energy drink) each time before going out to bat, and he likes his girlfriend scream his name during love making... Yes ladies and gentlemen, this is Kevin Pietersen for you. A cricketer with an ODI average of 68.30 and test average of 44.93, at the time of writing, of course!!
But it's not the averages that makes him a cricketer to mention on your blog, but its his ability to hit a cricket ball. He has played 8 test matches(16 innings) and 25 one day internationals to hit 19 and 28 sixes respectively, which means he ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 22 February 2006
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It was the last match in this 2006 series, it was on Sunday and above all, it was India vs Pakistan.... but still saw people not as exited about the match as they normally are..
The reason I can think is the lack of resistance from Pakistan... after winning the 1st ODI rather strangely, they lost the 2nd, the 3rd and the 4th match in a very unPakistani manner.. the fighting spirit was missing and but the time for this 5th and last ODI, nearly everyone had a gut feeling that India will again out smart Pakistan...so here is what happened in the 5th ODI ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 21 February 2006
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This is an old post. For the latest of 2nd test match between India and England at Mohali, try this.
England cricket team have come here and they are well under their preparations.. Our Team India will be back from Pakistan soon but I am sure after winning the ODI series in the 4th one dayer at Multan, they will be keeping an eye on what England team is up to.
As a cricket fan, we should also be preparing ourselves to this up coming India vs England series...So here is what you are supposed to know -
England will be playing an unofficial 3 ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Fri, 17 February 2006
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What do we really want when we are watching our Indian team play against Pakistan?? Of course a win, but I have met people who want the match to go interesting and then a win for us..One sided matches don't really please everyone, even when the winning team is the one you are supporting!!
Fourth one day international between India at Pakistan started with not much of speculations, but with lots of anticipation of Pakistan comming back strongly in a series where they are 2-1 down. Things went wrong for them when Shahid Afridi and Umar Gul failed to be fit for the match.. Read complete article |
Added on Thu, 16 February 2006
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What exactly is in cricket that makes it so big in terms of money. No more than 10-15 countries world wide are involved in this game but still it has made its officials one of the richest among its counterparts of other game. A game, which is played for 5 straight days but still manages to make people leave their job and find interest in it...
I am sorry but I can't answer that. What I can tell you is that its getting tougher and tougher for its lovers to keep loving it. Following will be little painful for you but is a truth..
When Indian cricket team went to Pakistan in January 2006, cricket fans ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 14 February 2006
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It should be tough for International players to play two ODI games with just one days' break, but they have no say in the scheduling of the games... So here we are, 3rd ODI between India and Pakistan at Gaddaffi stadium on 13th of February.
Just before the match, the news flashed that Shoaib Akhtar and Harbhajan Singh are out of the series, but a new channel here in India - "Star News" reported something that we should may believe in. The Match referee for the test series was Ranjan Madhugale, but for the ODI series, ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Mon, 13 February 2006
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Having lost the opening one dayer at Peshawar through DuckWorth Lewis system (first one dayer at Peshawar), when 18 runs were needed by Pakistan off 18 balls with just three wickets in hand, India must have thought that they had a chance but just didn't had the luck..
There was a 5 days break between these two ODI matches as "Moharram" came in between, and it gave Indians a lot of time to rethink their game plan and they did it very nicely.. here's is what happened in the second one dayer of this 5 ODI series in Pakistan - the 2006 Hutch Cup.
Injamam won the toss and elected to bat on a pitch ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sat, 11 February 2006
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Being the ordinary person that you and me are, its in our fate to go by the decisions made by other people. Watching the cricket matches live at our home is also a factor that is decided by someone who rarely watches them. And suffered by the ones who want nothing more than just the thrills of this great game of cricket. This is a try of mine to update you with all the information's regarding the up coming series between India and England, starting on 1st of March....
In India, the matches will be live on Doordarshan. Although BCCI is yet to take a final decision on which channel gets the telecast rights ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sun, 12 February 2006
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England will play three Warm-up matches along with three test matches and seven one day international in this tour of India. Here is the full date wise fixtures..
18 - 20 February :- 3 day Warm-up match at Mumbai.
23 - 25 February :- 3 day Warm-up match at Baroda.
01 - 05 March :- First test at Nagpur (Wednesday to Sunday).
09 - 13 March :- Second Test at Mohali (Thrusday to Monday).
18 - 22 March :- Third Test at Mumbai (Saturday to Wednesday).
25th March :- One day Warm-up match at ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sun, 12 February 2006
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England selectors announced their team for the Indian tour way ahead of their time - on 13th of January. At that time, they selected Ashley Giles who was struggling with his hip injury, but now as the tour has come very close, Giles looks to be missing the most part of the series. England has included Monty Panesar and Ian Blackwell as back up. So lets have a look at the complete squad that will be coming on Indian tour..
Test Squad :-
Batsmen - England have selected 5 batsmen in their squad, and most of them made big runs against Australia in the Ashes series. Although quite a few of them struggled in the ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sun, 12 February 2006
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It must be tough to be in office and work while a game of cricket is going on. Specially when our team India is playing and doing well. So here is a try of mine to suggest you the best websites for the live cricket scores, updates and match situations.
Cricinfo.com :-
Merits..
-> This is probably the most popular website to see live scores.
-> It automatically refreshes every 55 seconds.
-> Gives the commentary of what kind of ball that was, how the batsmen played and things like that.
-> The website also provides very good bulletins about the match. Really worth reading if you can't what ... .. Read complete article |
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Do not confuse with Powar or Pawar. The latest all rounder to join Indian cricket team in Pakistan for the ODI series is called Ramesh Rajaram Powar and he certainly is full of "Powar", opps, Power I mean!!
He is an off spinner and a very handy batsman lower down the order. As far as his international cricket is concerned, he has only played two ODI matches, when last time our team were in Pakistan in 2004, and didn't managed to pick up an single wicket, but he has been a very consistent performer in Indian Domestic Cricket. In 7 years ... .. Read complete article |
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Cricket is very tense game and when India Pakistan is concerned, it becomes madness. Some spectators make it personal and do unkind things. Something that that sort happened in this first ODI at Peshawar.
It was Irfan Pathan fielding at deep mid-wicket boundary when someone thew a nut-bolt on him. Pathan looked very sacred as the object might have really surprised him. It hit him at the side of left eye and felt like blood has come out.. which didn't. The game stopped for some time, drinks were called on the field and things moved along..
Then it was around 47th over of the match when young Sreesanth bowled a beamer at Abdul Razzaq. The lights were very ... .. Read complete article |
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Injamam won the toss and called India to bat first. Although the weather was very foggy and Indian's complained about the light, match started at the right time.
India Innings :-
Irfan Pathan's batting : He took 12 ball to make his first run, he accelerated brilliantly to make 65 off 65 balls. The scorecard below may not be able to explain the hit Pathan provided in that innings.He hit 12 fours and a six including a 0 4 4 4 4 1nb 4 1 in Umar Gul's 3rd over. The 13th over of the match.
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This rule has been scrapped from International cricket now. It was supposed to be experimented till the end of 2005 but was scarapped at the end of April 2005 only when all International captain protested against it. The real reason for ending this following Super Sup rule was that it was very confusing for the captains and rarely made a difference in making tactics for an ODI match.
The time ICC made the changes in ODI cricket and converted first 15 over Field restrictions into Power Plays, they also introduced a completely new aspect of substitutes in ODI cricket, called as Super Sub. As you can see in the picture of the Lords cricket ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sun, 05 February 2006
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Yasir Arafat may share his with the Palestinian President, but he is all together a different soul. He is a Pakistani cricketer - an all rounder to be more persice and has a great ability to bowled the batsmen. In fact, Yasir Arafat has equalled the world record of 5 wickets in 6 balls in an over. He was about to reach that feet again in 2000 but the innings folded out so he couldn't. Here is more about that achievement of his.
He is a right arm fast bowler who can bowl really quick at times. He played in under-15 and under-19 Pakistan squad and would you believe - he batted above Kamran Akmal and Shoaib Mallik ... .. Read complete article |
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Yesterday Pakistan selected their team for the first 3 one day Internationals against India, starting 6th of February. Although Injamam is yet to recover completely from his back injury, he is in the team and will be playing if the team needs him. Injamam has called for not playing the matches where he can sit our and blood some young players.
Batsmen -
Injamam-ul-Haq(captain),
Younis Khan(vice-captain),
Mohammad Yousuf,
Salman Butt,
Imran Farhat,
Faisal Iqbal,
All Rounders -
Abdul Razzq,
Shoaib ... .. Read complete article |
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Who exactly is VRV Singh?? If that is the question in your mind then you have come to the right place. He is the fastest bowler in Indian ranks till date although he is yet to make his International debut. He is another India under - 19 product like R P Singh and Suresh Raina and has played 7 Ranji matches for Punjab so far..
His coach - Sukhvinder Bawa describes his boy as - "At times, we had to console him because he would be disappointed if he didn't hit any batsmen on the head.....I always just let him be because of the raw speed he generated. Line and length can come itself with the ... .. Read complete article |
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So finally the good news has come. Doordarshan will be telecasting live the ODI series starting 6th of February. Doordarshan had to pay 16 crores to Tensports and they will carry both the LOGO of Tensports and also the advertisements..
So all in all, it might be a very tough deal for Doordarshan but it rarely matters to we viewers. We just want to want the matches which we were not. Whole test series was haunted as Tensports reaches just 15-20% of India - that too in big cities only. Rural areas, where the real India lives, don't have anything like cable tv and there was no chance to watch the match..
I just hope that the related ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 31 January 2006
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Remember the century Sachin Tendulkar made at Sydney on our last tour to Australia?? After that century, he confessed the he had cut down a particular shot complete from his armoury and that was the reason he made that century..
We all know that he is always in pressure to perform every time he walks to the wicket but is really he in pressure. There was a time when India used to win only when Tendulkar made runs. But those days are gone. Batsmen like Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh, Virendra Sehwag and many ... .. Read complete article |
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Situation:- Pakistan are 518 runs ahead with two more days to play. Also when Indian batting managed only 235 in their first innings!!
I am realistic...I expect miracles!!
This was said by Wayne Dyer, an American psychologist who was brought up as an orphan and is called as "The father of motivation" by his fans. I am sure he is no where related to cricket as nearly every American is, at least he studied life quite a lot and above quotation must be true. And believing him, I still feel that India can win the test from here..
If you look at the series so far, Injamam won the ... .. Read complete article |
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Captain Rahul Dravid, Coach Greg Chappell and selectors seems to be falling for youth against all other factors like experience or come backs. They have made just one change to the team that played against Srilanka towards the end of last year and that is to select a 15 member squad, as only 14 were selected during that home series..
Zaheer Khan is the lone man coming back, unlike Sourav Ganguly or Anil Kumble. It seems like selectors have full faith in youngsters and are committed to give them ample of opportunities to succeed. The ODI series ... .. Read complete article |
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1st ODI :-
Monday - 6th of February - Arab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar.
The first ever ODI on this ground was between India and Pakistan, way back in 1984. This ground has not seen as bigger scores as we all associate with one day cricket matches these days. But the upcoming match will the first after the super sub rule and power play has come into the ODI format of the game and must see some changes in the current record. The highest score at Peshawar is 296 - made by England against Srilanka in 1987, and the lowest being 127 - made by New Read complete article |
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To tell you frankly, I don't have the answer for that. But what I can tell you is that the supreme court hearing will be done today and we can just hope that the judges make a decision in viewers' direction. Even if it will be little wrong.
When the last time, on 10th Januray, they made the decision that Doordarshan can't get the pictures from Tensports, the channel with the telecast rights for the current on going India vs Pakistan series but can only show a one and half hour highlights every match day, they also gave a date of 30th Januray to do the hearing of ODI series. Only hearing, not certain that the decision will come ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Mon, 30 January 2006
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If you are looking for the real video of the days play, I'll suggest you Doordarshan at 10 pm tonight. All I have here are words, which will explain you what exactly you missed if you didn't watch it.. Although it came after 10 boring days of cricket, but finally Day 1 of third test at Karachi showed what India vs pakistan is all about..first it was Irfans' hat-trick. Let me try to explain how it happened - first it was Salman butt, who tried to drive the ball which was swinging from Irfan Pathan. Wasim Akram has really given Irfan the clue of bowling banana swing, which comes into the right handed batsmen and goes away for left handers. ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sun, 29 January 2006
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An Indian playing in England team is nothing new... We have had Vikram Solanki, Ronni Irani who had links with Indian soil but played cricket from England. Nasser Hussain went one step ahead as he captained England team and did it quite well.
The latest to join the list is Monty Panesar - Mudhusen Singh Panesar, who is selected in England's squad to tour India. His family belongs to Ludhiana, Punjab and he will be coming to India with England cricket team later next month. His selection came as Englands' primier spinner - Ashley Giles has not completely recovered from his surgery and they needed a back up. Panesar is a 23 year old "Sikh" - first in his ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sat, 28 January 2006
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With less than 2 days remaining before we all know what exactly is the kind of pitch the curator has made at the National Stadium in Karachi, here is what I am able to find out till now..
The weather in Karachi is as good as it ever has been for making cricket pitches and if we still find a dead pitch, we all know whom to blame. The curator Agha Zahid has said that Karachi has always provided an interesting track and this one will be no different.
I hear that the curator was thinking of getting electric bulbs to dry up the pitch, same as Faisalabad and Lahore but ultimately decided against it as the sun ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Fri, 27 January 2006
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Shoaib Akhtar, arguably the fastest bowler in the world is in doubt for the thrid and final test at National stadium at Karachi, starting on sunday - 29th of January.
It is said that he sustained an ankle injury during the last test at Faisalabad and he is yet to completely recover from that. With the pitch pretending to be favourable to seam bowling, it will be a huge blow to Pakistan.
Inzamam says : "Yes his ankle is bothering him and right now we are not sure if he will be completely fit for the Test but he is very keen to play and take some wickets which is good news." It must be noted that ... .. Read complete article |
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Pakistan has announced their team for the 3rd and final test at Karachi and they have included to faces which will be little unheard by Indian fans. So here is what I have managed to find about Umar Gul and Faisal Iqbal..
Umar Gul :- He is being playing in Pakistan's domestic cricket since 2001 and so far has played 26 first class test matches, taking 130 wickets at 22.31 a piece. Umar Gul(see profile) has also played 5 test matches and 15 ODI's but everyone remembers him for the 5 for 31 that he took against India at Lahore in ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Thu, 26 January 2006
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Would you believe that the first time ever Indian team toured Pakistan, way back in December 1954, all the five test matches were draws. Pakistan batted first in the first test and made 257 runs at the rate of 1.8 runs per over and that was the story of virtually whole series. So we can safely say that making dead pitches and EARNING a draw against us is nothing new to Pakistan. Anyways, I want to restrict this post of mine to the test matches our team has played at Karachi so far, the venue for last test on this 2006 tour..
26th Feb to 1st March - 1955(4 day test match) :- It was the last ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 25 January 2006
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Pakistan have announced their team for the third and final test at National Stadium in Karachi from 29th of January to 2nd February. They have recalled Middle order batsman Faisal Iqbal, who is the nephew of former Pakistani batsmen Javed Miadad, has played 10 test matches to far. He has scored eight centuries this season in Pakistan's home cricket. They have also recalled Umar Gul, the man behind our loss at Lahore in 2004 series. He took 5 for 31 in the first innings and this will be his first test since then. Pakistani selector said that Faisal and Umar are selected on the basis of their recent form in the domestic cricket.
One thing to be noted is ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 25 January 2006
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I am as much eager to know what the Karachi curator is making for the 3rd test match of this series as you are, as draw seems the only result for 2nd test. Although its very unlikely that they won't make a batting paradise again, the curator - Qaiser Mohammad Ali has promised a "craker of a pitch".
The sun is shining brightly in Karachi these days and according to the curator, it will help him make a good wicket, very different from what have seen so far in the series. I just hope he is not lying and has got orders from Pakistani officials to make another dead one!!
But if we look at the past ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 25 January 2006
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Test cricket can be so boring at times that it gets funny. Day 5, 2nd test, India vs Pakistan had nothing that audiances will look forward to, but now I am sure whoever missed it, missed watching Mahendra Singh Dhoni take his keeping pads off and bowl the over of his life..
He bowled medium pacers and although he conceeded 13 runs, he didn't do that bad. As you can see in the picture(if you can take you eyes off his hair), the ball has upright seam and if pitch would not have been as dead as it was, we might have seen his first wicket as well.. He has also bowled 18 balls in Ranji Trophy, as you ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 25 January 2006
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Most probably the last true allrounder to play for India was Manoj Prabhakar. He used to open both batting and bowling for India, Had the ability to play long innings and also to swing the ball. But then, it was quite a bit of match-fixing and little bit of Jayasuriya hitting at Delhi, in 1996 World Cup that forced him out of the team...forever!!
Before that, of course, we produced Kapil Dev. The "Haryana Hurrican" set great records and still remains one of the best allrounder the cricket world has ever seen. But apart from these two, I can't ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 24 January 2006
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I got a chance to watch some cricket on Day 3 of Faisalabad test and Pakistan had just taken the second new ball. The rookie seam bowler, Mohammad Asif, in his debut test match, started sending short pitched balls again and again at Yuvraj Singh and Sachin Tendulkar. He is not a very tall man - about 6 feets but delivers the ball from the best possible height. His main weapon seems to be cutting the ball at seam rather than swinging it..
He bowls at aound 133-135 km/hr, which is not very threatening. When I noticed him on third days play, he didn't had too many expressions on his face as he kept on bowling short balls...probably thats ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 24 January 2006
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Few may say that Indian tailenders made quite a few runs and that's why India took lead in the first innings at Faisalabad, but make no mistake - their aren't many tailenders in Indian batting now a days. We all know what Irfan Pathan is capable off, and when he along with Mahendra Singh Dhoni successfully negotiated the first hour, there was no looking back.
Anil kumble has always given high price for his wickets and Harbhajan Singh can make some very quick runs. And that's why, Kumble handled 60 deliveries from Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 24 January 2006
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Lance Cairns, father of one of the best all-rounders of all time - Chris Cairns, was a medium-fast bowler . The most interesting aspect of his cricket is the first international test match he saw was the first one he played. He was called the rawest of fast bowlers that played the game of cricket. He was also known for his good looks... many times people came to a cricket stadium only to watch Lance carins, not necessarly cricket!! Here is his cricket profile..
And Chris Cairns proved to be the best of son a father can have, as he not only took over his profession but also bettered it. His ability to hit huge sixes was always ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Mon, 23 January 2006
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How can you love someone who hurts you the most..well, this is what Tensports is for me..
I started my cricket blog on 2nd of December last year and till now, I have recieved maximum people wanting to know about Tensports and iits case with Doordarshan. But the actual reason I am after this channel in my blog is that i don't have ita t own place. Being a cricket lover that I am, I have to travel quite far every moring to catch few hrs of India vs Pakistan..
A lot of things have happened in Tensports case and here is all of them, sorted by date. I hope it serves your need..
20th December : ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sun, 22 January 2006
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This boy from Rai Bareilly, Uttar pradesh has surely made a name for himself taking 3 wickets on the first day in Pakistan's first innings of Second test 2006. Right now its lunch time at Faisalabad as I write this, and he has taken another wicket, with 3 more pakistan batsmen remaining. Although he has played 8 one-dayers for India, taking 11 wickets at 22.81 at piece, making your test debut, that too against arch-rivals Pakistan must not have been easy. So let me introduce you to this Lucknow youngster..
Here is his ODI and first class profile, which proves that ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sun, 22 January 2006
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The following is the latest news in India vs Pakistan test series - 2006 and probably a big turn. Pakistan captain Injamam has said this just a few mins back - "I am out of this Test match (2nd test at Faisalabad) and don't see any role for myself. But as regards the third Test, I have my fingers crossed. I am determined to play in this series but I will only know when I see the MRI reports,"
He has developed some muscular pain in left of his back and if this is the only problem he is facing, he will be out of cricket for 5 or 6 days. Which mean 2nd test at ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sun, 22 January 2006
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"When we go into a brand new test match, our first aim is always to win it... Draw can only be a fall back option!!" This is what Steve Waugh used to say when he revived test cricket's falling glory. His matra was to give his bowler's the best possible chance to take wickets by setting fielders at catching positions rather than saving the runs. And that's exactly what our Indian captain Rahul Dravid seems to be doing..
Do you know that out of 379 runs that Pakistan made on the first day of the second test at Faisalabad, 232 were made from boundries. I am not trying to take anything away from Pakistan's batting display and ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Mon, 23 January 2006
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To tell you frankly, I don't have anything against Pakistan but until yesterday, I somehow never managed to develop great respect for a Pakistani...but now this view of mine seems to be changing very rapidly as 2006 test series is into the second test these days.
consider the following -
First test, Day 1 :- Younis Khan and Mohammad yousuf were hitting Indian bowlers all over the park and in between, they tried to steal a single when the score read 184 for 2. They ultimately decided against it and both batsmen ran back to their crease.. and as Younis Khan tried to reach the non-striking end, he came ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Mon, 23 January 2006
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Frankly, watching whole days cricket and ultimately when I see OUR Team India giving away 379 runs and manage only 4 wickets, dishearten me. But it wasn't all that bad as it really sound. Our Indian team did quite well, specially Rudra Pratap Singh( R P Singh). Although he is really young and has played just a handful of matches, he has performed in every single game. Here is the Score Card of day 1.
Looking little back, yesterday Indian Coach Greg chappell had hinted something very similar to where our team stands right now, after Day 1. In this Press Conference, he reminds us that Adelaide match when Australian team where 400 for 5 wickes, with ... .. Read complete article |
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Work is something we have to do and cricket is something we love to watch. These two things were quite tough to mix untill now, but as the technology is growing, we may find some options!! More so when India vs Pakistan series is going on and not many people here in India are having Tensports(the channel with telecast rights) at there home..
You can have India vs Pakistan series on you cell phone if you are a Spice subscriber. They are offering latest scores along with comments from well known cricket commentator Ravi Shastri. They will cost you near about 6 rupees per minute but if you want to save some money, they have some offers ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Thu, 19 January 2006
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Here's is a great news for Indian cricket lovers.. All India Radio, AIR has bagged the rights for the test series and also the one day series, currently going on in Pakistan. They have reportedly spend a $100,000 to get the rights from ARY. I am sure my fellow cricket lovers will be little bit satisfied now as we can listen the second test match between India and Pakistan at Faisalabad's Iqbal stadium on radio, if not see it, because of Tensports and Doordarshan Fight!! Here's the complete story.
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Added on Fri, 20 January 2006
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Isn't this purely bad luck that Doordarshan didn't managed to get the pictures of India vs Pakistan series from Taj Tv, the owners of channel Tensports. Who care what Prasar Bharti did in 2004 and didn't do in 2006, we are not getting to watch the test matches and there is every possibility that ODI series will be no different.
But there's more to the story than just bad luck. Remember the last time our Team India played in Srilanka, the tri-series with West Indies being the third team. That time Tensports had the television rights as ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Wed, 18 January 2006
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No doubt Pakistan made a amazing score, and must have thought that they won half of the test. But then, India who already have two opening batsmen in their squad(Gautam Gambhir and Wasim Jaffer), went with news that Saurav Ganguly will open. And then when the actual moment came, The captain Rahul Dravid joined hands with Vice-captain Virendra Sehwag and are now sitting on the verge of breaking a record that not many expected - HIGHEST OPENING PARTNERSHIP. The record book has P Roy and MH Mankand's partnership of 413 as the highest till date, made for India against New Zealand at chenni in 1955/56. And right now Rahul and Sehwag currently at 403(The Scorecard so far), ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Mon, 16 January 2006
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A very famous newspaper that I read every morning published a Sunday special about Rahul Dravid titled - "Captain Courageous"
The man might have become the captain very recently and is yet to register great wins but has always proved his courage. I remember him bowling his off-spinners in Titan Cup, a tri-series that also included South Africa and Australia in 1996/97, when he was called a slow scorer. Not ideal for ODIs. And then when he established himself, Sourav Ganguly asked him to keep the wickets just before the 2003 World Cup. He did that as well and quite well too. We also saw ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Tue, 17 January 2006
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Everyone said that the weather in Lahore is not appropriate for cricket and it has now come true. Frankly, I don't like weather having a say in cricket. No doubt Pakistan had made a huge total of 679 for 7 declared, I am sure our team would have earned a Draw, if not a win. If their batsmen can make run on that lahore pitch, I am sure our batsmen can do better and have the capability to make 680. And then if the match is drawn, I'll be satisfied.
Anyways, I have no contact with god and I can't fight the weather. So lets just hope the match restarts soon and we see another Sehwag special, who ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Sun, 15 January 2006
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If you are looking for the real TV highlights with bat and ball, action and replays, four and sixes then you better try Doordarshan at 2200hrs. That if you don't have Tensports at your place. Following are just words - explaining what you may not have noticed during the first days play..
All timing are according to IST.
0956 - Injaman wins the toss and expresses his desire to bat first...in some language. Certainly not English!!
1015 - Shoaib Mallik and Salman Butt face the first over from Pathan and hardly leave anything alone, as nearly all openers do in trying to understand the wicket. We notice a bandage over Dhoni's left eye, ... .. Read complete article |
Added on Fri, 13 January 2006
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Doordarshan is not going to show us the test matches in pakistan, starting in round about 18 hours from right now, as I write this. They lost the case in Supreme court and who ever now wants to catch cricket, has to have Tensports at home. Although cable operators are nothing new to our country, having Tensports is not all that easy as it sounds...
When last time our team played in Pakistan, the telecast rights were with Tensports again. But when Doordarshan showed us all the matches(even the test matches), no cable operator went to Taj TV and brought Tensports as it wasn't required. Moreover, since that time, no significant match came live on that channel. Result ... .. Read complete article |
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I was in my tenth standard when I saw eleven names written by a girl, in her rough copy.... To tell you frankly, I wasn't that much interested in watching cricket till that day, although I always considered myself a good all-rounder!!
But that day, I really liked that girl's idea of selecting MY ELEVEN for Indian team and the opposition. And I have been doing if for last 9 years, just one day before every match. Probably this gives me the feeling of being lot closer to my TEAM INDIA then I really am.
So......Lets do it for tomorrow's match and lets see what comes out -
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