Very Very Special Laxman

This bomb-shell from the Deccan has been one of the best player that the Indian side has had ever since. He is mainly known for his stroke play and leg glance. One of his favorite rivals who he would love to play against are the Aussies. We cannot forget any of the innings that he played against this Kangaroos.

ICC World Cup 2011

With less than a year to go for the World Cup, India prepares to host the World Cup in a superb fashion. There are renovations seen in many stadiums. Here are the schedules:-

Date and Time	Match	Weather
2011
Sat Feb 19	1st match – India v Bangladesh Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	N/A
2011
Sun Feb 20	3rd match – Sri Lanka v Canada Hambantota International Cricket Stadium	N/A
Sun Feb 20	2nd match – Kenya v New Zealand MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai	N/A
Mon Feb 21	4th match – Australia v Zimbabwe Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad	N/A
Tue Feb 22	5th match – England v Netherlands Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur	N/A
Wed Feb 23	6th match – Kenya v Pakistan Hambantota International Cricket Stadium	N/A
Thu Feb 24	7th match – South Africa v West Indies Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	N/A
Fri Feb 25	9th match – Bangladesh v Ireland Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	N/A
Fri Feb 25	8th match – Australia v New Zealand Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur	N/A
Sat Feb 26	10th match – Pakistan v Sri Lanka R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	N/A
Sun Feb 27	11th match – India v England Eden Gardens, Kolkata	N/A
Mon Feb 28	12th match – Netherlands v West Indies Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	N/A
Mon Feb 28	13th match – Canada v Zimbabwe Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur	N/A
Tue Mar 1	14th match – Kenya v Sri Lanka R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	N/A
Wed Mar 2	15th match – England v Ireland M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	N/A
Thu Mar 3	17th match – Canada v Pakistan R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	N/A
Thu Mar 3	16th match – Netherlands v South Africa Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh	N/A
Fri Mar 4	19th match – Bangladesh v West Indies Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	N/A
Fri Mar 4	18th match – New Zealand v Zimbabwe Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad	N/A
Sat Mar 5	20th match – Australia v Sri Lanka R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	N/A
Sun Mar 6	21st match – India v Ireland M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	N/A
Sun Mar 6	22nd match – England v South Africa MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai	N/A
Mon Mar 7	23rd match – Canada v Kenya Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	N/A
Tue Mar 8	24th match – New Zealand v Pakistan Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	N/A
Wed Mar 9	25th match – India v Netherlands Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	N/A
Thu Mar 10	26th match – Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	N/A
Fri Mar 11	28th match – Bangladesh v England Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong	N/A
Fri Mar 11	27th match – Ireland v West Indies Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh	N/A
Sat Mar 12	29th match – India v South Africa Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur	N/A
Sun Mar 13	30th match – Canada v New Zealand Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	N/A
Sun Mar 13	31st match – Australia v Kenya M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	N/A
Mon Mar 14	33rd match – Bangladesh v Netherlands Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong	N/A
Mon Mar 14	32nd match – Pakistan v Zimbabwe Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	N/A
Tue Mar 15	34th match – Ireland v South Africa Eden Gardens, Kolkata	N/A
Wed Mar 16	35th match – Australia v Canada M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	N/A
Thu Mar 17	36th match – England v West Indies MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai	N/A
Fri Mar 18	37th match – New Zealand v Sri Lanka Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	N/A
Fri Mar 18	38th match – Ireland v Netherlands Eden Gardens, Kolkata	N/A
Sat Mar 19	40th match – Bangladesh v South Africa Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	N/A
Sat Mar 19	39th match – Australia v Pakistan R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	N/A
Sun Mar 20	41st match – Kenya v Zimbabwe Eden Gardens, Kolkata	N/A
Sun Mar 20	42nd match – India v West Indies MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai	N/A
Wed Mar 23	Quarter Final – TBC v TBC Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	N/A
Thu Mar 24	Quarter Final – TBC v TBC R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	N/A
Fri Mar 25	Quarter Final – TBC v TBC Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	N/A
Sat Mar 26	Quarter Final – TBC v TBC Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad	N/A
Tue Mar 29	Semi Final – TBC v TBC R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	N/A
Wed Mar 30	Semi Final – TBC v TBC Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh	N/A
Sat Apr 2	Final – TBC v TBC Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	N/A

Maxertainment 3: KKR stun last year runners up RCB

Sourav Ganguly-led Kolkata Knight Riders registered their second consecutive victory after they beat the Bangalore Royal Challengers by 7 wickets at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Sunday. With this win they have now defeated the two finalists of the IPL season 2. Knight Riders made a blazing start of their innings in order to chase down the modest target set by Bangalore Royal Challengers. Openers Manoj Tiwary and Brad Hodge gave a tremendous start to the Knight Riders. Together they put up the opening stand of 101 runs.

Tiwary, after making his maiden IPL half-century, got out to van der Merwe’s delivery. Brad Hodge also became the victim of van der Merwe after scoring 50. Sourav who had failed to get any score on the board last time looked good today and his 6 off a Del Steyn delivery reminded his golden days. He was unlucky to get out while trying to hit the winning shot.

The Challengers, after a disastrous start, managed to set the target of 136 to Kolkata Knight Riders. Earlier, Knight Riders captain Sourav Ganguly won the toss and elected to field first against the Bangalore Royal Challengers at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Sunday.

Charles Langeveldt and Angelo Mathews soon justified Ganguly’s decision and got the two quick wickets of SP Goswami and Manish Pandey. Goswami was caught by Ishant Sharma, while Pandey was bowled by Mathews.

After the two quick wickets, the Bangalore was looking to consolidate the innings but Murali Kartik gave them another jolt when he got the wicket of Virat Kohli. He was caught by Angelo Mathews. All eyes were on Rahul Dravid after the devastating start, but he too disappointed everyone and became the second victim of Angelo Mathews.

Robin Uthappa, who was trying to have a good partnership with Kallis, walked down the track and went for the lofted big hit but ended up nicking it behind the wicket, Mathews was the bowler.

RE van der Merwe was caught by Hodge and Mathews picked up his fourth wicket. However, Jacques Kallis remained not out on 65.

Preview: KKR vs RCB

Preview: KKR vs RCB

Kolkata Knight Riders VS Royal Challengers Bangalore

Venue: EDEN GARDENS, KOLKATA

Date: 14^th March, 2010

Time: 3pm

Kolkata Knight Riders
With ‘Miracle-Coach’ Dav Whatmore at the helm and Bengal’s dearest Dada running affairs on the pitch, the Knight Riders would want to put last season’s horrendous run behind them and start afresh. After winning the 1^st game, they will try to prove that the win was not just a fluke. Sourav who failed to score in the last match will try to shut the crtics’ mouths. Owais Shah and Angelo Mathews need to keep up the form they showed in the match against DC. Bowling seems to have improved thanks to the tips and tricks of the legendary Wasim Akram. Team’s bowling comprises of pace batteries like Ishant and Langaveldt and if they hold up, we may see a resurgence of the Dark Knights.
KEY PLAYERS: Sourav Ganguly, Angelo Mathews, Ishant Sharma, Charl langaveldt

Royal Challengers Bangalore

This year, Bangalore boast of a very strong team indeed, with fantastic hitters of the likes of Ross Taylor, Cameron White, Kevin Pietersen and new signing Eoin Morgan, and the dependability of South Africans Jacques Kallis and Mark Boucher. They also possess possibly the best of the local batting talent, in dynamic and ambitious youngsters Virat Kohli, Manish Pandey and Robin Uthappa, apart from stalwart Rahul Dravid. Skipper Anil Kumble leads the bowling attack that also boasts of the likes of test No.1 Dale Steyn. On paper they look strong enough to do an encore of last year’s final appearance. With an inspiring captain at the helm, one cannot rule out them going all the way.

KEY PLAYER: Jacques Kallis, Manish Pandey, Dale Steyn, Anil Kumble

SQUADS:

RCB: Jacques Kallis, Manish Pandey, Srivats Goswami, Vinay Kumar, Bhuvanesh Kumar, K P Appanna, Eoin Morgan, Akhil Balachandra, A Mithun, Steven Smith, Virat Kohli, Praveen Kumar, Robin Uthappa, Mark Boucher, Dale Steyn, Dillon Du Preez, Cameron White, Ross Taylor, Kevin Pietersen, Roelof van der Merwe, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, S Sriram

KKR: Sourav Ganguly(C), Brendon McCullum, Chris Gayle, Brad Hodge, Owais Shah, Manoj Tiwari, Rohan Gavaskar, Chirag Pathak, Cheteswar Pujara, Harshad Khadiwale, Wriddhiman Shah, Angelo Matthews, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Ganapati Vignesh, Ajit Agarkar, Varun Aron, Iqbal Abdulla, Eklakh Ahmed, Ashoke Dinda, Ajantha Mendis, Charl Langeveldt, Murali Karthik, Ishant Sharma

World Championship of Cricket starts from February 6th

The Board of Control for Cricket in India has confirmed the South African tour of India and the venues has been fixed.

The South African team will be in India for about 25 days as they play 2 Tests and three ODIs.

The venues for Tests and Nagpur’s VCA Stadium and Kolkata’ Eden Gardens.

The One day games will be played at Jaipur, Kanpur and Ahmadabad.

It is to be noted that all venues are in North India.Two of the three one days will be played under lights.

Feb 6–10
09:30 IST

Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium,
Nagpur

1st Test

India v South Africa

(South Africa in India, 2 Test Series, 2010)

Feb 14–18

09:30 IST

Eden Gardens,
Kolkata

2nd Test

India v South Africa
(South Africa in India, 2 Test Series, 2010)

Feb 21
14:30 IST

Sawai Mansingh Stadium,
Jaipur

1st ODI

India v South Africa
(South Africa in India, 3 ODI Series, 2010)

Feb 24
09:00 IST

Green Park,
Kanpur

2nd ODI

India v South Africa
(South Africa in India, 3 ODI Series, 2010)

Feb 27
14:30 IST

Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium,
Motera – Ahmedabad

3rd ODI

India v South Africa
(South Africa in India, 3 ODI Series, 2010)

For a must win match Lanka pose India 316 as the target

With India winning 2–1, it was a must win match for The Islanders so they came in with many changes and high spirit. It was a different start as Dilshan and Tharanga kept quiet until the 6th over. In the 9th over, Dilshan pulled Nehra’s bouncer which was brilliantly caught by Virat Kohli.

As Dilshan departed for only 9, Ishant Sharma was introduced. The flow of boundaries started when Jayasuriya and Tharanga scored 20 runs of Ishant’s 1st over. Jayasuriya was in fine knock but it ended when Zaheer Khan struck him for 15 of 15 balls.

The Captain himself came in to bat today at No.4. Tharanga and Sanga were scoring runs in a brisk pace not allowing the bowlers to settle. It was a fine batting from both as Tharanga scored 100 and Sangakkara with a 50. But the 126 run parnership ended when The Lankan Skipper tried to attempt a cheeky shot but deceived but the spin of Harbhajan and stumped by Karthik for 60 runs.

The Experience Mahela came in as Kumar departed. Runs were coming very good in both ends. As they put on a 36 run partnership, The batting powerplay was chosen and Zaheer Khan was introduced. But in his first ball he struck the Tharanga’s timber and made him to depart for 118.

This time as Tharanga departed there was a surprise in wait for the Indians when Thisara Perera was sent in. No one thought he would play so well. But he blistered fours and six as he went on to score 31 of 14 and was caught out bowled by Nehra with a beautiflu catch in sqaure leg by Jadeja.

Jayawardane too was run out with a athletic performance by Nehra for a direct hit. Then with interruptions of light failure match started and Lanka managed to score 316 for the loss of 6 wickets.

The most shameful part for Indian cricket as the lights went of in the middle. This happened in IPL too. Its real shame which wasted 15–20 minutes.

No sale of tickets for Kolkata ODI

After about 34 months The “Mecca of Cricket” or commonly called the Eden Gardens got to host an ODI in its jam packed stadium. Everybody in Kolkata would expect to go and watch it. But unfortunately for the spectators in the stadium there is no tickets. I’m not joking its true.

The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) could incur a loss of up to Rs.2.5 crore from gate sales as there will not be any single priced ticket during the fourth ODI tomorrow.

“Our collection from the gate sales could have gone up to Rs.2.5 crore had there been a full house. And normally, we get full house in ODIs at the Eden. Moreover, with Eden getting an ODI after more than 34 months, the spectator interest would have been at its peak,” said a CAB source.

The coliseum of cricket last hosted an ODI between the islanders i.e the Lankans and The Men in Blue on Feb 8,2007 but unfortunately the match was washed out. It then hosted an India-Pakistan test in Nov 2007.

The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) could incur a loss of up to Rs.2.5 crore from gate sales as there will not be a single priced ticket

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during the fourth India-Sri Lanka One-dayer at the Eden Gardens on Dec 24.