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: August 3, 2009
Sports Minister M S Gill on Monday opposed the BCCI stance on the “whereabout” clause of the World Anti Doping Agency and said the cricketers should fall in line without cribbing. Dismissing the claim that the clause, which requires players to inform their where abouts three months in advance for out-of-competition testing, was an infringement [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: August 1, 2009
The Indian cricketers are at loggerheads with the International cricket council over signing an anti doping code that says each player will have to reveal their where abouts for one hour every day for over a time period. Players feel that this is a violation of their privacy.India batsman Yuvraj Singh said that they will [...]
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 9, 2009
Sachin Tendulkar is not fit for Twenty20 cricket since he is neither inventive nor fearless, according to former Australia coach John Buchanan. Buchanan does not doubt the Mumbaikar’s greatness in Test and ODI formats but the former Kolkata Knight Riders coach insists Twenty20 is just not Tendulkar’s cup of tea. “Tendulkar has been lauded, and [...]
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
Out-of-favour middle order batsman Mohammad Kaif is quietly hopeful of returning to national colours, banking on his previous international record and impressive current domestic performance. Kaif, more popular for his agile fielding skills, had a horrid run with the bat in 2005-6, but the Uttar Pradesh cricketer refuses to believe it was his form which [...]
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