Indian Players to be sent to SA early

The Board of Control for Cricket in India have decided to send the Indian Cricketers to South Africa for the Test, T20 and ODI series well before the start of the series. This is in an intention so that the players get well to the South African conditions.

What next for India? New Zealand Series

Here is the squad for the Test and One Day series between India and New Zealand.

Preview CL: Chennai Super Kings

PREVIEW: CHENNAI SUPERKINGS IN CL T20 2010

All set to roar at CL T20 2010…

Frankly speaking, Chennai Superkings is reputed to be the most consistent team in the IPL journey so far. It will be much of a surprise if CSK doesn’t continue to pump excitement in our veins in the upcoming mega blockbuster event CL T20 2010 in the rainbow nation. Doug Bollinger, one of the best pacers, roped in by CSK this year, will be playing for Chennai in the Champions League this year and will be a significant asset to the team.

Cricket- a poem



Cricket – The Game Of The Lords

To know the taste of nectar on earth,

We had the gentlemen’s game Cricket’s birth,

Which is filled with enjoyment and mirth.

I start off with the diverse team,

Which make the respective supporters beam.

First comes Team no. one,

India jo hai ek solid tuphaan.

Then comes team Pakistan,

T20 cricket mein hai woh sabse mahaan.

When the Sri Lankans step on,

With the wind the opposition is gone.

Then comes Champion Team Australia,

World cup mein inhone saare teams ko haraa diya.

After them, come the royal English,

Opposite them, the teams always perish.

Then come the Proteas to the pitch,

They send the minnows mercilessly into the ditch.

Team New Zealand plays to fire,

And fulfill their nation’s desire.

You’ll never cease to make shor….

Kyunki yeh dil hamesha maange more….

Sachin Tendulkar-The Living Legend

Sachin Tendulkar’s life can be summed up quite rightly in one sentence. From Tendulkar to Ton-dulkar to End-ulkar to Ton-dulkar again. Such has been his importance to the game that it had be quite an achievement to find an Indian cricketer who says that he has not been inspired by Tendulkar. For the past two decades, Sachin Tendulkar has quite successfully handled the magnanimous task of living upto the expectations of a billion people.

CL T20 changes format

The Ola is going sing again. This time it is to be played in The Rainbow Nation- South Africa. Let it not be a flop like the IPL 3 with match fixings and money machines.

Juan Theron in SA T20 squad

The South African cricket Board has named the T20 squad for the Caribbean tournament starting April 30th. Juan Theron is the only new and uncapped player.

Good signs for South Africa is that Graeme Smith who went back home from IPL suffering an injury will be alright and will lead the team in the Cup.

However, Wayne Parnell and Justin Kemp who got themselves injured in the IPL won’t get a chance to play in the T20 World Cup.

In Parnell’s absence, Juan Theron who impressed everyone by leading the bowling attack of KXIP from the front in IPL and won the match for them has been given a place in the squad.

With the presence of Rory Kleinveldt, the all rounder adds depth to both bowling and batting. He was a part of the Under 19 team and is in fine form now.

The Coach of South Africa told:-

I am delighted that we have Graeme Smith back from injury to lead us in this campaign. At the same time it is sad to lose players of the calibre of Wayne Parnell and Justin Kemp.

Rory Kleinveldt will be a good like-for-like replacement for Parnell. He is capable of opening the bowling or operating at first change and he has also been a regular death bowler for the Cobras which is an important area for us. Rory also gives us some good batting options down the order

Rusty Theron has impressed everybody both with his skills and his temperament both in domestic cricket and in the Indian Premier League. He was a key player for the Warriors in doing the domestic limited overs double.

South Africa are placed with India and Afghanisthan in the Cup.

SQUAD:-

Graeme Smith (capt), Jacques Kallis, Loots Bosman, Johan Botha, Mark Boucher, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Herschelle Gibbs, Rory Kleinveldt, Charl Langeveldt, Albie Morkel, Morne Morkel, Dale Steyn, Juan Theron, Roelof van der Merwe

T20 WC squad: India

Just when one third of the Indian Premier League is completed, Kris Srikkanth and co decided the final 15 players for the twenty twenty world Cup which will take place in West Indies starting April 29th.

It was a tough job to pick the 15 as there are many good players in the 30 man probables.

Young Pacer Ishant Sharma who was part of last year World Cup has been dropped giving a chance to Vinay Kumar.

But, some good performers till now in the IPL- Robin Uthappa, Saurabh Tiwary, Murali Karthik, Amit Mishra, Virat Kohli have not been considered.

The team is placed in group C along with the South Africans and Afghanisthan. Key players will be Virender Sehwag and Zaheer Khan who were missed in World Cup 2008.

Squad:

MS Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Piyush Chawla, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Vinay Kumar, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ravindra Jadeja, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Rohit Sharma, Dinesh Karthik, Yusuf Pathan.

Sach says no T20 for India

Some big bucks and Cricket Pundits want Sachin Tendulkar’s name on the T20 World Cup squad, beginning next month, but there are good reasons why he won’t figure in the line-up.

No.1 Cricketer in the World and Most Popular Cricketing figure is not there in the list of 30 Probables for T20 WC.

Even, the selectors and BCCI wants him to play the T20 format for India, The Maestro is firm that he does not wants to play International T20 Cricket.

The Master just played 2 international T20s for India- the first T20 for India in late 2006 against South Africans and in Australia in 2008.

Tendulkar never played another T20 for India after that and announced his T20 retirement.

He is currently playing the IPL in great fashion and leading the team on a high.

Clearly thats because he wants to concentrate on Test Cricket and One Dayers of which he is No.1 Batsman, highest run getters, more and more…..

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