When Sachin Tendulkar first visited rainbow nation after its re-induction in to the game, Graeme Smith was just 11 overs old. His desire to play cricket got wings only after watching the batting maestro playing when he was a child. Smith terms Sachin Tendulkar as he great ambassador of the game.
When BCCI started appointing foreign coaches for team India, it has created ripples among cricket fraternities. They felt it was an insult to cricketing brains includes former cricketers and other prominent coaches in India. But there is no doubt that appointing coaches did improve the quality of the cricket being played.
Middle-order batsman Subramanium Badrinath, wicket-keeper batsman Wriddhiman Saha, Medium fast bowlers, Sudeep Tyagi and Abhimanyu Mithun has come in to the Indian squad for the first test against South Africa to be held in Nagpur on February 6th.
The emergence of ODI in cricket has changed the way of test matches being played those days. Most of the test matches played before the emergence of ODI was very slow in scoring rate and always favored a draw. But after the limited over one day international was introduced, the approaches of test matches were changed dramatically. Tests matches were no longer boredom and even more than four runs maintained per over.
India thrashed Sri Lankans by an inning and 144 runs, thus ended the dream of Sri Lankans to clinch the series, which they have not done for nearly three decades. They beaten Sri Lankans comprehensively in he second test in Kanpur to take 1-0 lead in the three match series.
India has reached the 3rd position in ICC rankings following their 4-2 home series defeat against the mighty Australians. India had all the advantages to win the series and reach the top spot. Indian team is one of the toughest teams to beat on home ground. Moreover, Australian side was affected by injuries as most of the key players returned home. It was a thin Australian team packed with inexperienced youngsters. But Australians fought bravely to reaffirm their number one position in ICC rankings.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni praised Ishant Sharma on his good bowling performance against Australia in the first ODI in Vadodara. Ishant Sharma took 3 wickets of Tim Paine, Michael Clarke and Brett Lee for 50 runs. Ishant Sharma started his career with a lot of promise with pace, which was rare to see in Indian bowling wings. Till last tour of Australia in 2008, he was using his pace and height to greater extends by producing lethal spells to India. But after that he was not seen in good form and erred in his line, length and pace.
World no.1 Australians has won no.2 Indians by 4 runs in a humdinger of a match. Harbhajan Singh and Praveen Kumar have shared record 84 run partnership for the eighth wicket, almost took India to the glimpse of the victory. But Australian professionalism came all the way through and fetched them a somewhat a deserved victory.
Australian team is upbeat after winning Champions Trophy consecutively for the second time, when they are playing seven one-day internationals against Indians in their homeland. But as Australian team took flight to India, Australian skipper Ricky Ponting fears that Indians are tough to beat in their country.
World cup 2011 organizing body in India had a meeting on 14-10-09 and concluded once again that the finals of the world cup 2011 would be hosted in Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium. India is hosting the world cup 2011 along with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
