World Cup squad for Indian Cricket team 2011

After much speculations, BCCI declared the 15 member Indian Squad for the mega cricket event World Cup 2011. World Cup 2011 beginning from February 19, 2011.

The team has Seven Batsman, one all-rounder, four pace bowlers and three unique spinners. Winning Captain of India Dhoni has been retained as Captain for the World Cup event and Virender Sehwag positioned as Vice Captain for the Indian team.

All rounder job is given to Yusuf Pathan and Dhoni is the only Wicket keeper in the squad are some of the highlights of the team.

Pacers as expected Zaheer Khan, current performer Munaf Patel, Praveen Kumar got their position in the squad. Nehra overcomes Sreesanth and get into the team squad.

Little master Sachin, Young and dynamic Suresh Raina, powerful Yuvraj and Kohli were others placed on the batsman side.

Harbhajan, R. Ashwin and Piyush Chawla form the spinners' trio in the team squad.

Rohit Sharma, an all rounder, Spinner Pragyan Ojha, and pacer Sreesanth failed to find their place in the squad.

The selection panel, lead by chief Selector K. Srikanth chose the best 15 out of 30 probables at the meeting held at Chennai. Dhoni and Coach Gary Kirsten accompanied them through Tele Conferencing.

The 15-member team is:

* MS Dhoni (C)
* Sachin Tendulkar
* Virender Sehwag
* Gautam Gambhir
* Yuvraj Singh
* Suresh Raina
* Virat Kohli
* Yusuf Pathan (all-rounder)
* Zaheer Khan
* Ashish Nehra
* Munaf Patel
* Praveen Kumar
* Harbhajan Singh
* R. Ashwin
* Piyush Chawla

All the best for the Team India.

India win Asia Cup beating Srilanka

India won the Asia cup 2010 by crushing Srilanka for a mammoth score defeat of 81 runs. India lifted this Asia cup after the much long period of 15 years. Yes, 15 years back, India bagged the Asia cup held at Sharjah in 1995.

Srilanka being in good form, made India restrict to 268 for 6 wickets in 50 overs. Off this, Dinesh Karthik, the batsman who replaces Virendhar Sehwag as Sehwag was injured, have made a brillant strike and took 66 runs off 84 runs. Skipper Dhoni scored 38 off 52 balls and Rohit Sharma later came up with vital knocks helps India to put a competitive score. Rohit scored a decent 41 runs.

Defending 268 runs, the home team entered the field with lot of confidence as they were already beaten India in the previous league match of Asia Cup. But Indian seam bowlers crushed their confidence and at one stage, the Srilankan Score was 51 runs for five wickets. Off this Zaheer Khan bagged two wickets, Praveen took 1 wicket. Nehra, one among his best performance, bagged 4 wickets which was crucial wickets for India.

Man of the match award was given to Dinesh Karthik for his wonderful performace on the field. India can have this Asia Cup win as their warm up for the forth coming World cup 2011.

Hats off India!!!

Tendulkar hits first double ton in ODI

Awesome and Fantastic Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar once again reached the Milestone after he reached his double ton in the 2nd ODI against South Africa at Gwalior on Wednesday. This Milestone was really amazing and wonderful. He has the ability to provide joy and unite to the most diverse and secular country like India on earth which leaves people with different sorts of reactions and emotions.

Sachin's 200 run made him to broke the previous record of 194 runs held jointly by Pakistan's Saeed Anwar and Zimbabwe's Charles Coventry. Charles scored 194 against Bangladesh, one of the weakest bowling teams in top class cricket.

A man in his 20th year of cricket getting a double hundred is a special moment. In the end he was running those singles and doubles for the partner at the other end, unlike Saeed Anwar who ran his last 90 runs with a runner.It shows Tendulkar’s commitment. Truly, this was a once-in-a-lifetime innings.

Sachin hits this 200 run remark against the strong South Africa cricket team. Moreover South Africa is strong ion Bowling. The team key player Dale Steyn is rated to be No 1 in the world bowling rankings. But he give up 89 runs in ten overs, in which there was no wicket. Tendulkar scored 37 runs from 31 balls from the balls of Steyn.

Sachin 200 runs made India to seal the series win against South Africa. India won the match by the huge score of 153 runs difference which was once again by this Master Blaster.

After he sets world record of doubl ton, Sachin quotes to reporters!

“I don’t think any record is unbreakable,” Tendulkar told the media. “Records are made to be broken.”

Marvelous Sachin, go Ahead!!!

India Wins match against South Africa by One run

South Africa's thrilling and fantastic play made the Indians kept under threat of losing the first ODI held at Jaipur. Thought the match was on the side of Indians, 65 run ninth wicket partership between Waynell parnell(49 off 47 balls) and Dale steyn(35 off 19 balls) became the turning point of the match but Indian skipper somehow managed and bring his team eked out a nail bitting one-run victory. India lead by 1-0 up in the three match series.

South Africa chases a difficulty but achievable score of 299 but they were all out for 297 when Dhoni caught the ball from the fielder Sreesanth and made Parnell run out in the last ball of the innings.

Captain Dhoni made a right decision by choosing Parveen Kumar. The last over was very crucial.Parveen Kumar managed to keep South Africans under control in the last over. He also managed to get one wicket. With just three runs needed from a ball to win the match, it was the final run-out of Parnell by Dhoni that at last gave India the thrilling 1-wicket victory.

Ravindra Jadeja who made a spectacular performance in the match was given the man of the match title.

DRAVID AMONG PROBABLES

Rahul Dravid who has been known has the wall of indian cricket has been the surprise inclusion in the 30 member squad which has been picked for the champions trophy which is scheduled to be held in september this year,along with hime players like sehwag, sachin tendulkar and zaheer khan have also been added.Rahul dravid has played his last one Day International in October 2007. His average is about 39.49 from 333 games with a strike rate of 71.22 and the most important thing to be noted is that he is the third player to score 10,000 runs in ODI.


Rahul Dravid's inclusion follows the recent struggle of indian batsmen who struggled to play the bouncers.Players like raina,Yousuf pathan,Rohith Sharma,Gambir struggled to play the bouncers which were bowled by the fast bowlers of West Indies and England.Rahul Dravid played a key role for the victory of Royal Challengers banglore scoring 271 runs with a strike rate of 115.81.Among the players who failed to make a place in the indian team are Irfan Pathan and sreesanth.