Jaffer CEAT Cricketer of the Year
http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2009/j...f-the-year.htm
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Jaffer CEAT Cricketer of the Year
http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2009/j...f-the-year.htm
Schedule: ICC Twenty20 Cricket World Cup 2009
http://www.rediff.com/cricket/schedulet20wc.html
http://dinamalar.com/fpnnews.asp?News_id=3065&cls=row4
Kapil serving on honorary capacity in the Indian military!
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...phEDEdKy15xSEQ
Azhar in politics.
India, South Africa to play tri-series in Zimbabwe
http://cricket.rediff.com/report/200...n-zimbabwe.htm
4 ODI mattum aaduradhukku edhukku WI poraanuva? :xQuote:
"Immediately after the conclusion of ICC [Images] Twenty20 [Images] World Cup, the Indian team will be leaving for West Indies [Images] to play four ODIs after which the team will tour Zimbabwe for a tri-series involving India, Zimbabwe and South Africa," the statement said.
Test match viLayAduna ivanunga latchiyarththukku izhukku vandhurungaLA ?
Thalaivar innum West Indies-la mattumdhan century adikkala. So this is a good chance :redjump:
Lord's could host first day-night Test in May 2010
http://content.cricinfo.com/england/...ry/397240.html
Chumma-ve irruka maatanungala! :lol2:Quote:
The change in playing conditions could prompt a change in the players' traditional white kit and the red ball, which will not be easily visible under the floodlights. The ICC cricket committee will discuss the matter when it meets this May. "As this would involve a change to the standard Test playing conditions and the clothing and equipment regulations for Test cricket, it would require our proper consent and the ECB have not approached us yet for any such approval," Dave Richardson, the ICC general manager, told the newspaper
Exactly :xQuote:
Originally Posted by Sanguine Sridhar
PR,
Something has to be done about the extremely annoying sissy nags like "bad light", "bad weather" and sh!te... edhavadhu seyya vendirukke Arjun
Kizhinjidhu, inime Lalit Modi IPL india-la nadathina maadhiri dhaan! Indian Army-ai inime avar eppadi sekkkorittyku koopida mudiyum?Quote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
MS Dhoni and Harbhajan Singh skip Padma Awards Function
Breaking News! In a shocking development, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and ace spinner Harbhjan Singh skipped the Padma Awards function at the Rashtrapati Bhavan yesterday. Dhoni and Harbhajan were supposed to receive the Padma Shri awards. According to reports in a section of media, they were busy in shooting Ads. Veteran sportspersons like Aslam Sher Khan has criticised Dhoni and Harbhajan for "disregarding" the dignity of Padma Awards.
The first batch of awardees were presented with the Padma Awards on March 31. The final batch of awardees included MS Dhoni and Harbhajan Singh. They neither turned up for the event nor informed anyone about their unavailability.
It is not immediately known why they preferred to skip the Padma Awards, which is being given by none other than the President of India at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. They haven't yet issued any statement to explain the absence.
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Idhu unmaiya :roll:
Manny Pacquiao KO's Ricky Hatton...
So easy... :cry: just two rounds..
List of players and officials offered amnesty by the BCCI
June 2, 2009
Listed below are the players who've severed ties with the ICL, and have been offered amnesty by the BCCI. Their names are listed under the states they represent. Further down is the list of officials and support staff
Tamilnadu: Hemang Badani, V Devendran, G Vignesh, Syed Mohammed, R Jesuraj, S Sriram, R Sathish, K Martin Sanjeev, T Kumaran, S Vasanth Saravanan, J Hariesh, D Tamilkumaran, C Hemant Kumar
Jharkhand: Rajiv Kumar
Baroda: Kiran Powar, Rakesh Patel
Bengal: Shiv Sagar Singh, Abhiskek Jhunjhunwala, Subhomoy Das, Sayed Akhlakh Ahamad, Rohan Gavaskar, Subhjit Paul, Deep Dasgupta
Mumbai: Robin Morris, Nikhil Mandale
Railways: Shreyas Khanolkar, Tejinder Pal Singh, P Vivek, J P Yadav, Baburao Yadav, Avinash Yadav
Maharashtra: Suyesh Burkul, Dheeraj Jadhav, Raviraj Patil, Pushkaraj Joshi, Anupam Sanklecha, Ranjeet Khirid
Delhi: Abhinav Bali, Kunal Lal
Jammu and Kashmir: Abid Nabi, Dhruv Mahajan
Madhya Pradesh: T Sudhindra, Mohnish Mishra, Abbas Ali, Sachin Dholpure, Shridhar Iyer, Abhishek Tamrakar, Bhima Rao
Assam: Syed Zakaria Zuffri, Parviz Aziz, Abu Nechim Ahmed, Sujay Tarafder, Pritam Das
Punjab: Dinesh Mongia, Reetinder Sodhi, Karanveer Singh, Harpreet Singh, Sumit Kalia, Love Ablish, Rajesh Sharma, Sarabjeet Singh, Ishan Malhotra, Bipul Sharma, Amit Uniyal
Karnataka: Stuart Binny
Hyderabad: Abdul Azeem Khan, Alfred Absolom, Ibrahim Khaleel, Indra Shekar Reddy, P S Niranjan, Anirudh Singh, Shashank Nag, Ambati Rayudu
Andhra Pradesh: Syed Shahbuddin
Haryana: Gaurav Gupta
Uttar Pradesh: Avinash Yadav, Shalabh Srivastava, Ali Murtaza, Ali Hamid Zaidi
Coaches and Mentors: Sandeep Patil, E A S Prasanna, Madan Lal, Rajesh Kamath, Karsan Ghavri, Pranab Roy, Ashok Malhotra, Rajesh Chauhan, Balwinder Sandhu, Bharath Reddy, Ajit Wadekar
Others Kiran Padhiyar (Video Analyst), K Martin Sanjeev, A T Rajamani Prabhu, Dr Dinesh Vaghela (Umpire), Atul Wassan, A Burrows (Umpire), Suhas Pawar (Trainer), Rajesh Mundhva (Umpire), Chezhian (Umpire), V Satish (Umpire) and S Shyam Sundar
Ussain Bolt has set a new world record for 100M (9:58) :shock: :clap: :bow:
what's even more incredible is that the 2nd fastest time by Tyson Gay (9:71) is one of the fastest times of ALL time and THE fastest time by any US 100M runners..
Just incredible..
:clap: :clap: he shud have got this in last year olympics itself :P
ICC betraying cricket to protect India's interest: Hadlee
http://cricket.rediff.com/report/200...dia-hadlee.htm
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"We are in grave danger of having the decision makers betraying the game of cricket," said Hadlee during a nationwide tour to promote his latest book 'Changing Pace' which summarises his last nine years of cricket research, thought and experience.
"We all know now that Asia, and more particularly India, have a more powerful say (at ICC level) because they generate that much more a higher percentage of revenue, which other countries benefit from.
"So, who protects the game? The decision makers on the ICC have to try and control it so that all the games can co-exist and live together," he was quoted as saying by the Herald Sun.
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If one format of the game like Twenty20 consumes the game as much as it is doing now -- and potentially in the future -- it is destroying the game of cricket as a total concept."
ICC and PCB resolve 2011 World Cup dispute
http://www.cricinfo.com/wc2011/conte...ry/422421.html
adi panijutaanunga :lol2:
What an interview!
I'd have loved to see the Aussies' face captured on camera!Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian McMillan
Johnson and Gambhir scoop top awards
http://www.cricinfo.com/ci-icc/conte...ry/427665.html
Dar is Umpire of the Year
Dhoni leads Test Team of Year
Dhoni leads World ODI Team of the Year
Dhoni named ODI Player of the Year
Dilshan wins Twenty20 award
Gambhir is Test player of the year
Johnson is ICC Cricketer of the Year
New Zealand win Spirit of Cricket award
Porterfield named Associate Player of the Year
Siddle named ICC Emerging Player of the Year
Taylor named Women's Player of the Year
'Greed is killing the game' - Botham
http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/con...ry/435382.html
Do you agree with MCC that Test cricket could be dying?
It didn't look like it was dying this summer with the Ashes, did it? They are playing too much Twenty20 right now. We have just had a Twenty20 World Cup and within a year we're going to have another in the Caribbean. It is greed, greed, greed. That is what will kill the game, the greed of the authorities. Twenty20 has its place but not on the international stage. It is a domestic and franchise sport. I don't want to see the best players in the world standing there and slogging. Twenty20 is bastardising the game.
Murali may quit before 2011 World Cup
http://www.cricinfo.com/indvsl2009/c...ry/437258.html
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"I am 37 years old and I can't bowl as much as those days because I get tired after 15-16 overs. But I will try and play a little bit of one-day cricket - that's only 10 overs to bowl. If I find everything is not going well I might retire from both forms of the game before the World Cup," Murali said. "Everything depends on how much my body can take. In Test cricket it's a little bit harder because I have always been a threat to other sides [but] at the moment it's not looking like that because others are playing me well. I think I made the right decision to retire from Test cricket at the end of the West Indies series next year.
From Cricinfo,
A fanciful story from Michael Henderson on Don. Absolute Gem . "I think I have a beauty. It was told to me by the great Australian batsman, Dean Jones, who positively swore on the head of his daughter it happened, and I have since been told that Merv Hughes also confirms its truth.
The scene is set at a Test match between Australia and the West Indies at Adelaide Oval back in February 1989. These were the days when the Windies were the greatest power the cricketing world had ever seen, the days when they used to select 11 fast bowlers in the team and a 12th man who was a fast bowler just to be on the safe side.
And it was into just such a furnace that the young bowler Mervyn Hughes walked - with bat in hand. Figuring fortune favoured the brave, Hughes wielded the willow like an axeman his axe, and somehow - after snicking fortutiously, connecting full-bloodedly, and missing entirely - he finished the day's play at 72 not out.
The tradition in Test cricket is that the batting side take a few beers into the fielding side's dressing-room afterwards, but not on this evening. Instead, Merv took an ice-box full of bottles, so keen was he to give the men of the Windies the full blow-by-blow account of every run he'd made. So it was that half an hour later, Jones - who himself had contributed 216 - and Hughes and several other Australian players were in the Windies dressing-room, when a sudden hush fell upon the gathering.
They looked to the door and there was Sir Donald Bradman himself, being ushered into the room by several South Australian cricket officials. The Don had expressed a desire to meet this mighty team, and now here he was.
For the next 15 minutes or so, the great man was introduced to the visiting players, with each West Indian standing up well before Sir Donald got to their position on the bench. Then, when their time came, they warmly shook his hand and had a few words.
This all proceeded splendidly until Sir Donald got to the last man on the bench, Patrick Patterson - the fastest bowler in the world at that time. So the story goes, not only did Patterson not stand, he simply squinted quizzically up at the octogenarian. Finally, after some 30 seconds of awkward silence, Patterson stood up, all two metres of pure whip-cord steel of him, and looked down at the diminutive Don.
"You, Don Bradman!?!" he snorted. "You, Don Bradman?!?! I kill you,mun! I bowl at you, I kill you! I split you in two!"
In reply, Sir Donald, with his hands on his hips, gazed squarely back at Patterson and calmly retorted: "You couldn't even get Merv out. You'd have no chance against me, mate!"
how to spoil your name and image in a single week - by tiger the woods.
daily oru news varum pola. clubku vera use irukkunu maram purinchikittruparu :lol2: :lol:
Naloru meni.. pozuthoru figaru.. avar per tiger alla.. :lol:
his mistresses count is increasing every single day. now he's being linked with an adult movie star.. :shock:
i never liked him before, but this is certainly a massive blow/embarassment for a guy who is idolized by lot of kids in the world.
Twenty20 will 'finish' Pakistan cricket - Mohammad Yousuf
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"It [batting failures] used to happen before but now because of Twenty20 cricket no player knows how to stay at the wicket anymore," Yousuf told Cricinfo. "Batsmen are finding it very difficult. I know the format has money, players get it and boards do but if Pakistan hypes up Twenty20 too much, Test and ODI cricket will really go down."
http://www.cricinfo.com/ausvpak09/co...ry/441839.htmlQuote:
"Twenty20 is easy for Pakistanis because they know how to hit, nobody knows how to defend. Until players do not play with discipline and play ball to ball and leave balls they are supposed to we will struggle in ODIs, let alone Tests. If you see a ball, hit it because you have to score. But if you are going to slog all the time what is the point? I could have hit jumping out but unless you get a ball to hit what is the point? That is the point of Test cricket. It is necessary that Pakistanis, the media, the board, the fans realise that we play as little Twenty20 as possible.
"One domestic tournament is enough and a World Cup apart from that, but my belief is that you have to reduce Twenty20 heavily. They shouldn't play it in club cricket - even there you play 20 overs, not 40-over matches. I only have 2-3 years left in my career but I worry Twenty20 will finish Pakistan's cricket."
apparam edhuku ivaru mudhal-la ICL-ku ponaaru? :?
http://sports.in.msn.com/othersports...mentid=3538095
Frustrated Abhinav Bindra contemplating to quit...
http://sports.in.msn.com/cricket/ind...mentid=3554385
Gov officials drop Bindra for not attending trials in India.
http://sports.rediff.com/report/2010...le-topalov.htm
Congratulations Anand :D :clap:
Viswanathan Anand does it again for India... :) :D congrats...
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Congrats Saina Nehwal, win more titles and make India proud :clap:
http://sports.rediff.com/report/2010...ries-crown.htm
:clap: :clap: Saina.. u are a gold medal prospect for India 8-)Quote:
Originally Posted by sathya_1979
Very intersting article by Harsha
Gavaskar v Sehwag
What if two greats of Indian cricket were to bat together? One thing is for sure: they'd do things their way
Harsha Bhogle
August 6, 2010
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I know it isn't possible, but what the hell, we think about it all the time. We try and compare players from different generations, and while that is not just unfair but impossible to do, I have been spending a lot of time (an advantage of being on one flight too many) thinking of what it would be to watch Sunil Gavaskar and Virender Sehwag, the two Indian opening batsmen at either end of my cricket-watching interval, bat together.
For starters, both would enjoy it. Gavaskar has always said that his bread-and-butter shot was the single, and he could take it almost as a ticket to the show at the other end. And Sehwag could see the powerful cocoon Gavaskar built around himself, so single-minded was he in constructing an innings.
But even more fascinating would be to see the difference in style. Gavaskar was the classical old-school batsman, body right behind the line of the ball, bat straight as a well-constructed wall (Rahul Dravid was version 2.0). One of the great joys of watching cricket for us was to see Gavaskar up on his toes, eyes like an assassin's, never wavering from the object of attention, meeting with his bat a ball projected at his throat, letting it dribble meekly down its face, now devoid of any potency, and fall dead by his toes. Gavaskar played some of the most attractive shots you will see - the straight drive was for posterity - but the way he neutralised the venom of a bouncer defined him for me.
To Gavaskar, and indeed to many of his generation, the wicket was a citadel that could not be breached. It had to be protected like a family heirloom. When you were sure it was safe, you played the bold shot. But you were not encouraged to hit in the air, and if you were stumped by a yard trying to hit a six when on 99, you were probably made to stand in a corner.
But when Sehwag does it, it doesn't evoke howls of protest. Sehwag is the warrior who must conquer many lands and only then return home for a meal. If he cannot attack, if the bowler's offering is so compact that shot-making is not an option, only then will he defend. There are no heirlooms any more. If you lose a BlackBerry, you buy another. Or if you think blue looks cool, you buy another. Occasionally in trying to spear the opponent you leave a flank open and pay for it, but that is just one of the hurdles of doing a job.
And so Sehwag, such a product of this generation, must play beside the line rather than classically behind it. The feet provide support to the body but don't have a huge role to play in shot-making. You let the ball draw alongside and then, with the space you now possess, you either slice it to bits or smite it to the boundary. It is an altogether more violent form of batting. If Sehwag got behind the line of the ball, like he sometimes does when it is too straight, he wouldn't have the space or the freedom to play his way.
The Gavaskar approach was maddening to a bowler. Robin Jackman once told me of how Gavaskar didn't let him see the off stump for an entire spell. "He made me bowl where he wanted me to bowl rather than where I wanted to bowl," he said. The Sehwag approach is to put fear in a bowler's mind. "He must know when he is running in that if he bowls a bad ball, Sehwag will hit it for four," he once said. Just as a bowler can induce a tense batsman to play a bad shot, so too can Sehwag force an uncertain bowler to bowl a bad ball.
With Sehwag you have fear and hope, with Gavaskar it was like hitting your head on a rock at the sheer futility of bowling. Gavaskar would never have got stumped on 99, and he wouldn't have tried to hit a six on 195 either. Two different styles you could not hope to see in a lifetime. But at the corresponding points in their career (79 Tests each), a mere 88 runs separate them. The difference in batting average is but 0.68.
Eventually, therefore, it is about doing things as you know best; as two brilliant cricketers 30 years apart have shown.
Saina Nehwal: India's badminton star and 'new woman'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10725584