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 11, 2009
Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s wait to become a graduate prolongs after the Indian skipper missed his B.Com Part One examination this year due to international commitments. The prestigious St Xavier’s College has denied to give the promotion to Dhoni, who had taken admission to the institution last year and was entitled to flexi-attendance. “He did not [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: July 6, 2009
India made amends for their World Twenty20 debacle, winning the one-day international series against West Indies 2-1 after torrential rains washed out the fourth and final ODI at the Beausejour Stadium on Sunday. The match started an hour late following heavy rains just after India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to [...]
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: June 30, 2009
Harbhajan, who first captured the cricket world’s imagination with his sterling performance against Steve Waugh’s Australia in 2002, feels there was nothing extra-ordinary about him but an open mind to go about his job as per the team’s requirements. “I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart and [...]
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 27, 2009
Yuvraj Singh hit a rollicking 131-run knock as India pipped West Indies by 20 runs in the thrilling first cricket one-day international to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series on Friday. Leaving behind their pathetic show in the World Twenty20, Indian batsmen came firing on all cylinders as they trampled the West Indies [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: June 23, 2009
Three cricketers selected in the Indian squad for the four-match ODI series in the West Indies are yet to depart for the Caribbean because of transit visa problems. Mumbai’s Abhishek Nayar and Tamil Nadu’s Murali Vijay and Subramaniam Badrinath are the three players who are waiting for their UK transit visas to proceed for the [...]
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