Tuesday, February 14, 2012
India tie with SL in last ball thriller
Another thriller in Adelaide as Dhoni takes India to the finish line but not past it against Sri Lanka.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
IPL auction 2012: Chennai Super Kings bags Ravindra Jadeja for nearly 10 crores
India and Baroda all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja on Saturday expectedly turned out to be the biggest draw for the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises, but it was the India Cements owned Chennai Super Kings that succeeded in bagging him for a whopping two million dollars (approximately Rs.9.72 crore) in the players' auction for the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League here.
The 23-year-old, whose base price was 100,000 dollars, went to Chennai after the tie-breaker clause was invoked when two teams-CSK and Deccan Chargers-bid the maximum (USD two million) for the Saurashtra player.
The 23-year-old, whose base price was 100,000 dollars, went to Chennai after the tie-breaker clause was invoked when two teams-CSK and Deccan Chargers-bid the maximum (USD two million) for the Saurashtra player.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Australian media digs up Monkeygate to tarnish Tendulkar's image
The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is Sachin Tendulkar's favourite venue, looking at his staggering average here of 221, and there can't be a more perfect stage for him to hit his 100th hundred than the 100th Test here, starting Tuesday.
The SCG was the centre of a major controversy in 2008 in the last Test between the two sides, which notoriously come to be known as Monkeygate, and Australian media has dug it up to tarnish Tendulkar's image by linking him to it just when he is looking to get to his greatest milestone here.
The two principal actors of the 2008 Monkeygate -- Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh and Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds -- are not playing in the series, but Tendulkar's role in the incident is being dissected. The batting maestro was a key witness for Harbahajan when his appeal against the three-match ban on charges of racial abuse led to the downgrading of the punishment from a three-match ban to a fine of 50 percent of his match fees.
Several Australian players testified against Harbhajan, but Tendulkar's deposition is believed to have saved him as the two were at the crease when Harbhajan allegedly called Symonds a monkey. Three years later, Symonds went on to share the dressing room with Harbhajan as teammates of Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
The Daily Telegraph reported that at least one Australian lost respect for Tendulkar since he felt he gave completely different accounts of the incident.
In his autobiography True Colours, Adam Gilchrist, who retired at the end of that 2007-08 season, was furious and described Tendulkar's deposition as a 'joke'.
'Tendulkar, who'd said at the first hearing that he hadn't been able to hear what Harbhajan had said - and he was a fair way away, up the other end, so I'm certain he was telling the truth - now supported Harbhajan's version that he hadn't called Symo a 'monkey' but instead a Hindi term of abuse that might sound like 'monkey' to Australian ears,' Gilchrist wrote.
'The Indians got him off the hook when they, of all people, should have been treating the matter of racial vilification with the utmost seriousness.'
Mike Hussey is confident that such a furore will not erupt again.
'That was a long time ago and obviously the personnel in the teams have changed quite a lot, particularly in our team, maybe not so much in the Indian team,' Hussey said at the SCG.
'I think that's gone, that's in the past. The players that were involved in all the controversy have moved on. I think it's well in the past and certainly not been spoken about in our dressing room at all,' he said.
The SCG was the centre of a major controversy in 2008 in the last Test between the two sides, which notoriously come to be known as Monkeygate, and Australian media has dug it up to tarnish Tendulkar's image by linking him to it just when he is looking to get to his greatest milestone here.
The two principal actors of the 2008 Monkeygate -- Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh and Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds -- are not playing in the series, but Tendulkar's role in the incident is being dissected. The batting maestro was a key witness for Harbahajan when his appeal against the three-match ban on charges of racial abuse led to the downgrading of the punishment from a three-match ban to a fine of 50 percent of his match fees.
Several Australian players testified against Harbhajan, but Tendulkar's deposition is believed to have saved him as the two were at the crease when Harbhajan allegedly called Symonds a monkey. Three years later, Symonds went on to share the dressing room with Harbhajan as teammates of Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
The Daily Telegraph reported that at least one Australian lost respect for Tendulkar since he felt he gave completely different accounts of the incident.
In his autobiography True Colours, Adam Gilchrist, who retired at the end of that 2007-08 season, was furious and described Tendulkar's deposition as a 'joke'.
'Tendulkar, who'd said at the first hearing that he hadn't been able to hear what Harbhajan had said - and he was a fair way away, up the other end, so I'm certain he was telling the truth - now supported Harbhajan's version that he hadn't called Symo a 'monkey' but instead a Hindi term of abuse that might sound like 'monkey' to Australian ears,' Gilchrist wrote.
'The Indians got him off the hook when they, of all people, should have been treating the matter of racial vilification with the utmost seriousness.'
Mike Hussey is confident that such a furore will not erupt again.
'That was a long time ago and obviously the personnel in the teams have changed quite a lot, particularly in our team, maybe not so much in the Indian team,' Hussey said at the SCG.
'I think that's gone, that's in the past. The players that were involved in all the controversy have moved on. I think it's well in the past and certainly not been spoken about in our dressing room at all,' he said.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Sehwag breaks Sachin’s record in massive win
Virender Sehwag (breaks ODI batting record of 200+ not out set by Sachin Tendulkar. he made 219 runs which the Ever highest Individual Score in an ODI Cricket. Playing in the 4th ODI against West indies, Sehwag Stormed to his double centruy in just 140 Balls and broke the record of Little Master (Sachin Tendulkar) which was created a 1 and half year ago in February 2010.
Congratulation to Virender Sehwag for his knock of 219. His highest was 175 earlier.
Sachin Tendulkar stepped on a plane on Thursday as the proud owner the highest individual score in 50-over cricket but will land on Australian soil to find that he has been robbed of the record by his one-time protege Virender Sehwag.
Sehwag has come a long way since his early days when he was called a "Tendulkar-clone" and the 33-year-old struck a blazing 219 against West Indies to surpass his mentor in his 240th one-day international.
Tendulkar, who hit 200 not out against South Africa in Gwalior in February 2010, was among the first batch of Indian cricketers to leave for the team's Australia tour.
Monday, December 5, 2011
No Sachin for last two West Indies ODIs
Tendulkar, who last played in an ODI in the final of the World Cup on April 2, 2011, will instead depart early for Australia with a few other members of the Test squad on Thursday.
Reports during the weekend had indicated that Tendulkar may play in the ODIs in Indore and Chennai on December 8 and 11 respectively after being rested for the first three matches.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Tendulkar might play last two ODIs of West Indies series - The Times of India
His 100th international century eagerly awaited across the nation, veteran Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar is likely to play the last two one-dayers against the West Indies. Tendulkar, who failed to reach the milestone despite coming close at least twice during the Test series, might be selected for the last two matches of the ongoing ODI series when national selectors meet on Monday.
Tendulkar had been rested from the squad for the first three matches but sources say the 38-year-old wants to play the remaining two matches of the series scheduled on December 8 and 11 in Indore and Chennai respectively.
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