Posted by: devilkarthik on: August 3, 2009
India is in a strong position to grab the top slot of ICC ODI ranking chart during the Sri Lanka tri-series next month as Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s side is now just one point behind South Africa at second place after the annual rankings update on Sunday. Dhoni’s team jumped ahead of Australia, who are third [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: July 29, 2009
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni continued to top the ODI batsmen ranking while his deputy Yuvraj Singh has managed to clung on to his second position in the ICC ODI players ranking issued on Wednesday. Dhoni held on to his numero uno status with 828 rating points while Yuvraj, who had achieved his career best [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: July 25, 2009
Gautam Gambhir’s stay at the top of the ICC Test batsmen ranking lasted just 10 days as Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara grabbed the coveted position from the Indian opener on Saturday. Gambhir had replaced Pakistani run-machine Mohammad Yousuf as the number one Test batsmen on July 15 but Sangakkara’s match-saving 130 run innings in [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: July 8, 2009
Pakistan senior batsman Mohammad Yousuf, who returned to international cricket with a cracking century against Sri Lanka in the first Test, zoomed to the number one spot in the latest ICC Test Rankings. After snapping his ties with the rebel Indian Cricket League, Yousuf marked his return to the national team in style, hitting a [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: July 4, 2009
Mahendra Singh Dhoni played a captain’s knock as India battled inclement weather to defeat West Indies by six wickets via the Duckworth-Lewis method and take an unassailable 2-1 lead in the four-match ODI series at the Beausejour Stadium, here on Friday. Needing 11 runs off the last over after the target was revised to 159 [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: July 3, 2009
Barring a couple of individual performances, the Indians have generally been a pale shadow of themselves in the first two matches of the four-match series and Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s team has a daunting task to put it across the hosts. With the series locked 1-1, both the teams will go all out for a victory [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: July 2, 2009
Gautam Gambhir is country’s highest ranked Test batsman at number three and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, at sixth, is the highest placed Indian bowler in the latest ICC rankings issued on Thursday. Gambhir, the Delhi left-hander with 847 rating points, is the only Indian to figure in the top 10 batsmen’s chart, followed by Sachin Tendulkar [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: June 30, 2009
West Indian pacer Ravi Rampaul, who wrecked India’s batting with a career-best four-wicket haul to script his team’s thumping win in the second ODI, says the rash shots played by the visiting batsmen helped his performance. “I was getting a little swing with the ball so I was just waiting for them to play the [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: June 29, 2009
Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s defiant 95 went in vain as India suffered a humiliating eight-wicket defeat at the hands of an inspired West Indies in the lopsided second One-Day International on Sunday. After dismissing the visitors for a modest 188 in 48.2 overs, the Caribbean team rode on openers Chris Gayle (64) and Runako Morton (85) [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: June 28, 2009
Having survived a scare in the opening match, India go into the second one-dayer against the West Indies on today, fully aware that they need to maintain their intensity right through the game to take an invincible 2-0 lead. The Indians just about managed a narrow 20-run victory in the first match on Friday and [...]
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