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India one loss away from ouster; testing times Dhoni
India lost the match to West Indies, sorry to Bravo. One man made all the difference. He scored runs when needed at good clip. He put a break on India’s total with four wickets.
Dhoni’s earlier experiment of promoting himself at three might have cost India dear. World cups are not the tournaments to experiment. You [...]
South Africa thrash West Indies; almost confirm berth to Semis
South Africa has brought West Indies back to earth by beating them by good twenty runs. It also almost confirms their birth to semifinals unless they lose to India badly and there is a three-way tie between South Africa and other two teams.
It was a clinical display from SA. They thrashed West Indies bowling to [...]
Retired Australian Players voice against attacks on Indian Students!
Few Australian players have supported the Indian students in the television and other media. One thing to note is all of them are IPL players. Shane Warne, Bret Lee and Adam Gilchrist.
Are these messages or plea has anything to do with IPL? I think so. Bal Thakre urged IPL officials to throw the Australian players [...]
Horrors of third Umpire
Whatever ICC and England do end up in shambles. England is holding ICC twenty20 world cup.
During a match between South Africa and West Indies, a batsman hit the ball and was caught. On field umpires were confused; up they went. Replays showed clearly it was out.
Now horror of horrors, umpire first ruled him out, [...]
Australia shows way again: Rewards team by pay hike!
Australia has been an innovative and leader when it comes to sports, especially cricket. They proved it again.. Australia team has been given pay hike hours after their exit from Twenty20 world cup.
It’s not as if they planned it that way. Trophy or no trophy, they wanted to reward their players for their performances. They [...]
West Indies fined for slow over rate
West Indies have been fined for slow over rate.Why are only Asian and West Indies nations are fined for slow over rate consistently? Why does Rikcy Ponting gets away with it umpteen number of times?
This is something that needs to be taken care. The standards and guidelines should apply for all. Its not first time [...]
Is Dhoni greedy in coming at no three?
Dhoni has been experimenting with the batting order in the last two matches. Was he right in doing so? Not sure. He is coming at number three ahead of Suresh Raina and Yuvraj Singh.
I was surprised to see him. The way he played also did not convince me about his role and the experiment’s [...]
Super Eight Schedule!
We have moved into super eight stage. We have one group consisting of defending champions India, South Africa, England and West Indies who knocked the wind out of Australia.
Other group has Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Ireland.
Group E
Group F
India
Pakistan
South Africa
Sri Lanka
England
New Zealand
West Indies
Ireland
Schedule for the Super Eight.
Date
Time
Venue
Teams
11-Jun
6PM
Trent Bridge
New Zealnd Vs Ireland
11-Jun
10PM [...]
Australia are out of Twenty20 world cup. Follow Bangladesh.
Aussies follow Bangladesh out of Twenty20 world cup. Sri Lanka played a clinical game to defeat them. Ajantha Mendis took 3 wickets for nothing to restrict Australia to 159.
Sangakkara made Jayasuriya open bowling at other end. Relied heavily on spin to contain and take wickets too. His bowlers did a fantastic job. Hardly gave [...]
Bangladesh kicked out off world cup!
Did this team deserve anything other than being beaten by considerable minnows? Ireland beat Bangladesh and sent them packing.
This should send right message to ICC. They should be looking at reconsidering the Bangladesh’s test stature.
Ireland will celebrate and rightly so. Wicket suited their strengths, but they used it to fullest. Bangladesh instead of being [...]