Indian Cricket Team Updates

Statistical Highlights from the one-off T20 between India and Australia: # India's six-wicket triumph is their 25th in 46 T20Is - winning % 56.66 (Lost 19,Tied one and no-result one). ( Also Read:  Report: India vs Australia Star Sports T20 Cup 2013 ) # Under Mahendra Singh Dhoni's captaincy, India have won 21 and lost 19 out of 42 T20Is played (Tied one and NR 1) - winning % 52.43. (Also Read:  Vinay Kumar: Variations helped me a lot ) # Both India and Australia have won four games each against other in T20Is. # India's 202 for four is their highest total vs Australia in T20Is - their third total of 200 or more in T20Is - the highest being 218 for four vs England at Durban on September 19, 2007. # India have won all three games when they have posted a total of 200 or more in T20Is. # Australia (201/7) have recorded their highest total vs India in T20Is - their sixth total of 200 or more. # The aforesaid total is the fourth highest by any te...

Aaron Finch attacked the Indian bowlers to set the hosts a formidable target, which Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni conquered by milking the Australian bowlers with two balls to spare. However, even as the batsmen stole the show in Rajkot, one bowler put up a determined performance to restrain Australia to quite an extent. ( Also Read:  Report: India vs Australia Star Sports T20 Cup 2013 ) Finishing with figures of 4-0-26-3 pacer Vinay Kumar helped chain down the Australians who were galloping to a mammoth total. He claimed the crucial wickets of the dangerous Shane Watson and Australia captain George Bailey and later halted Finch’s blitzkrieg as well.  ( Also  Read:  Stats: India vs Australia Star Sports T20 Cup 2013 ) While speaking to  bcci.tv  after the win in the tour opener, the pacer said that he learnt from MS Dhoni to keep his cool under trying and high pressure situations, which stood him in good stead today.   Excerpts from his intervie...

Yuvraj Singh is back! Those gorgeous heaves over mid-wicket while down on one knee, that fit, athletic body and that fire in the eyes – it seemed like Yuvraj Singh had turned back time 10 years. He marked his comeback into the Indian team with an incredible 77 off 35 balls to seal an unlikely win for India in the only T20I against Australia in Rajkot.  ( Also  Read:  Stats: India vs Australia Star Sports T20 Cup 2013 ) Chasing a mammoth 202, India had gotten into jail by losing wickets at regular intervals. Then came the saviours – Yuvraj and MS Dhoni – and rescued the team with an unbeaten 102-run partnership off 51 balls for the fifth wicket. As a result, India won by six wickets with two balls to spare.  ( Also  Read:  Vinay Kumar: Variations helped me a lot ) India’s chase began on a jittery note, losing Rohit Sharma in the second over. Clint McKay bowled full outside off-stump and got it to seam away. Sharma wet for a wild waft and handed a sim...

Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Wednesday conceded that comeback-man Yuvraj Singh will be under some pressure during the upcoming ODI series against Australia but said the team would insulate him from any "undue" stress by keeping things "normal" in the dressing room. (Also Read:  All New Kit For India During Australia Series ) Yuvraj would be eager to prove a point after being recalled to the squad following a string of good scores for India A against the West Indies A and a solid display for India Blue in the Challenger Series. (Also Read:  India vs Australia Star Sports T20 Cup 2013: Preview ) Dhoni said the 31-year-old, who beat a rare germ cell cancer last year, will perform well if he manages to keep his mind off pressure and expectations. (Also Read:  Rohit Sharma: We can't get complacent against Aussies ) "We are trying to keep it as normal as possible...if it becomes like a comeback scenario, I think there is a kind of pressu...

The Indian cricket team will kick off the new season in a brand new limited-overs kit, which was unveiled today by BCCI's official apparel partner Nike ahead of the series against Australia starting here on Thursday. (Also Read:  India vs Australia Star Sports T20 Cup 2013: Preview ) Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said the new kit has been developed with inputs from the cricketers. "This particular jersey, a lot of feedback came from the players as to what they actually wanted in their jersey and I hope it has been incorporated," Dhoni said at the launch on the eve of the one off Twenty20 match against Australia. (Also Read:  Rohit Sharma: We can't get complacent against Aussies ) "It makes us look good, which is a good thing apart from playing good cricket. We will try it in this series and the coming next series and the actual feedback will go to Nike in couple of months," he added. (Also Read:  Yuvraj Singh will come back strong: MS...

What The one-off Twenty20 International between India and Australia When Thursday, October 10, 2013 Where Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Kandheri, Rajkot: After making its international debut with the ODI between India and England in January 2013, this venue will now host its first T20I.   (Also Read:  All New Kit For India During Australia Series ) The Teams India This might be the beginning of a new international season for Team India but most of the players in the squad have already warmed up in the recently concluded CLT20. Those who did not play in the T20 league are coming with a handful of domestic games under their belt; expect them to hit the ground running. The batting paradise at Rajkot’s new cricket venue will allow the prolific Indian batting line-up to strut its stuff in the format tailor-made for the willow wielders.   (Also Read:  Yuvraj Singh will come back strong: MS Dhoni ) While the top six batsmen more or ...