India Vs South Africa Test Series draw as 1-1

Indian Cricket team made the test series draw against South Africa after completing the fifth day of the third test for 166 runs.

The toss winning Indian side asked South Africa to bat first. In the first Innings, South Africa scored the considerable 362 runs which includes Kallis century. Kallis scored hefty 161 out of 291 balls and made their side comfortable for the first innings. Indian bowlers took the wickets at regular intervals. Sree santh took five wickets and Zaheer khan took 3 wickets.

India who had started their first innings scored 364 for all out. Sachin who hit his 51st century has brought the India score to 364 which paved the way for the India to cross the follow on mark. Dale Steyn took five wickets for the team South Africa.

South Africa who started their second innings on the fourth day scored 341 and set the difficult target of 340. Kallis, though he got injured scored 109 combined with the partnership Mark Boucher.

India who started their second innings, from the starting itself, India tried to draw the series. Sehwag, who was not performing well this series was out initially but later Dravid and Gambhir slowly played their innings. Later India was 166 for 3 wickets and the series was draw for 1-1.

ICC Dream team 2010 includes Sachin and Sehwag

ICC, The International Cricket Council conducted an online poll to show the 40th anniversary of ODI cricket. ICC have decided to shortlist the dream team in 2010.

Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar has been included in the ICC dream team in 2010. The master blaster has been included in the side for opening slot.

ICC put forward many categories to vote for the players in their website. Sachin, Sehwag and Ganguly are placed in the top order where as Kumble and Harbhajan are in the Spinners list. Kapil Dev is nominated for the All-Rounder category.

There were no players nominated from Indian side for middle order batsman or the fast bowlers. Adding to this Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the lone Indian in the category of Wicket Keepers.

According to the website of the ICC, it is asking for picking up the dream team of 48 shortlisted cricket players and to select the best match ever in the list of ten memorable matches. The poll will be conducted till January 2 of 2011.

Sachin and Dhoni commands base price of Rs 1.84 cr at IPL’s January auction

The bidding price will start at Rs 1.84 crores for Sachin and MS Dhoni for this IPL season 4 IPL player auction. Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh will also included in the same band price for this auction.

The BCCI released some set of price bands for the players and send a list to all state associations for their notifications.

Nearly 62 Indian Cricketers will be geared up for this IPL Fourth Edition auction to be held on January 2011. Indian Team Captain, Dhoni and Master Blaster Sachin are valued at Rs 1.84 crores for this season.

The second bracket is that of Rs 1.3 crore where Twenty20 specialist Yusuf Pathan finds a place alongside speedster Zaheer Khan and the talented Suresh Raina.

And mostly, Sachin and MS Dhoni will be retained by their respective franchisees Mumbai Indians and Super Kings respectively for the next IPL season. Former Captain Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman have been priced at the rate of Rs 92 lakh.

Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Robin Uthappa, Praveen Kumar, Irfan Pathan are also placed in the 92 lakh band. The fourth bracket is of Rs 46 lakh and the fifth and final bracket is of Rs 23 lakh. The other players Wridhamaan Saha, Murali Vijay, etc will come under fourth and fifth bracket, sources said.

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!!!

GAUTAM GAMBIR HOLDS UP NO 1 SPOT

The Indian opener Gautam Gambir has beccome the first Indian batsman in over four years to head the batting rankings after a double failure by Mohammad Yousuf which dropped him out of the top three of the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings. Mohammed Yousuf returned to the No 1 spot last week with a century in the first test which took place in galle,but managed to score only 10 and 6 in the second test and ude to that he has dropped four places to the fifth position in the latest ranking which was released after the colombo test. Pakistan skipper Younis khan was able to retain his No 2 spot but by conceding 12 points with the scores of 0 and 82.

Gautam gambir's 847 points is relatively low for the No 1 spot in modern days because usually batsman score up to 900 points to retain the first place.Gautam is lucky may be because of the lack of form by the top order bataman.Gambir is the Indian batsman after Rahul Dravid to top the chart. Sachin Tendulkaris the other Indian batsman in the last 15 years who has topped the batting chart.Both the test and and ODI ranking are headed by the Indian batsman with Indian Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni leading in the ODI and Yuvraj Singh who bagged the Second Spot.