Indian Cricket Team Updates

Virat Kohli went from being the future of Indian cricket, to 'The Now', during the tour of Australia that saw the Delhi lad assume the throne of India's batting mainstay in all formats. By the end of the 78-day tour, Kohli had scored more runs than anyone. He participated in all warm-ups, Tests, ODIs, and T20s; bore the brunt of an angry Indian media on few occasions, and even kept India alive in the tri-series with a heroic effort at Hobart. For someone on his first tour to Australia, he displayed veteran-like proficiency. Though he got dragged into few controversies, none could ever doubt his batting prowess. Along the way, he earned the respect from both dressing rooms, and will be the leading light for India when they return Down Under to defend their World Cup title in 2015. Run machine India's run machine is in no mood to slow down. On Tuesday, playing in his 83rd one-dayer, he became the fastest-ever to score ten hundreds. Even the great Sachin Tendulka...

The Technical Committee and Senior Tournament Committee of the BCCI met at the Cricket Center earlier today. The Technical Committee made the following recommendations: ·          The number of short-pitched deliveries permitted per over in domestic one-day tournaments to be increased from one to two. This will come into force in the inter-state one-day matches, starting 20 February 2012. ·          The Ranji Trophy quarter-finals and semi-finals will be five-day games. ·          The Ranji Trophy points system shall be as follows: Outright win                                                                                     ...

Duleep Trophy squads & Teams announced: Cheteshwar Pujara (West), Natraj Behera (East), Subramaniam Badrinath (South), Amit Mishra (North) and Piyush Chawla (Central) will lead their respective zones in the 2011-12 Duleep Trophy. Squads: West Zone Cheteshwar Pujara (c), Ishwar Chaudhary, Samad Fallah, Dhawal Kulkarni, Rohit Motwani (wk), Kaustubh Pawar, Ambati Rayudu, Suryakumar Yadav, Ankit Bawne, Akshay Darekar, Harshad Khadiwale, Kamlesh Makvana, Abhishek Nayar, Ajinkya Rahane, Balwinder Sandhu. East Zone Natraj Behera (c), Basant Mohanty, Ashok Dinda, Dheeraj Jadhav, Shahbaz Nadeem, Shami Ahmed, Manish Vardhan, Rana Dutta, Ishank Jaggi, Abu Nechim, Shreevats Goswami, (wk), Anustup Majumdar, Bilap Samantray, Gokul Sharma, Subhrajit Roy, Abhilash Mallick. South Zone Subramaniam Badrinath (c), Amit Verma, Stuart Binny, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Abhimanyu Mithun, Pragyan Ojha, Syed Quadri, Robin Uthappa, Jagannathan Kaushik, KP Apanna, Sony Cheruvathur, Yo Mahesh, Ab...

Indian team for the two T20 Internationals and ODI tri-series in Australia Other Useful Links: India - Australia Test Records: http://indian-cricket-team-updates.blogspot.com/2011/12/india-australia-test-records.html IPL 2012 Season 5 Schedule - http://indian-cricket-team-updates.blogspot.com/2012/01/ipl-2012-season-5-schedule-csk-vs-mi.html

Find the list of Top 10 Indian Cricket Team Bowlers based on their ODI Rankings for 2011:   Ranking Point Career Best Player Name 13 785 633 v West Indies, 08/12/2011 19 617 620 v West Indies, 05/12/2011 27 594 738 v West Indies, 29/05/2002 31 570 652 v New Zealand, 25/08/2010 32 565 701 v South Africa, 13/04/2003 38 521 600 v Bangladesh, 19/02/2011 58 472 522 v Sri Lanka, 02/04/2011 67 459 638 v New Zealand, 26/08/2005 82 435 469 v West Indies, 16/06/2011 97 407 417 v West Indies, 05/12/2011

Find the list of Top 10 Indian Batsman based on their ODI Rankings for 2011: Ranking Point Career Best Player Name 3 785 804 v Bangladesh, 19/02/2011 5 759 837 v Australia, 31/10/2009 12 687 787 v New Zealand, 11/01/2003 18 654 723 v New Zealand, 04/12/2010 22 644 887 v Zimbabwe, 13/11/1998 30 607 661 v Sri Lanka, 30/05/2010 32 602 787 v West Indies, 26/06/2009 36 578 583 v West Indies, 05/12/2011 68 488 550 v Ireland, 06/03/2011 85 448 450 v West Indies, 02/12/2011

  Virender Sehwag, widely regarded as modern cricket’s most unfettered and productive batsman, scored an incredible 219 runs off 149 balls – the highest individual innings ever in the ODI format – against the hapless West Indies on an Indore belter. Take a look at the records cricket’s great entertainer broke along the way.     ü   Rahul Sharma became the 193rd player to represent India in ODIs. ü   Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir put on 176 runs for the first wicket – their fifth century opening stand. ü   Virender Sehwag established a string of records during his innings of 219. The highlights: ü   On 45, he made his highest score as India’s captain – beating 44 against Sri Lanka at Cuttack on December 21, 2009. ü   On 82, he established the highest score by an Indian captain against West Indies in India, bettering Mohammad Azharuddin’s 81 at Chennai on October 23, 1994. ü   On 100, he scored his 15th ODI hundred – his secon...

  What The third One-Day International of the five-match series between India and West Indies When December 5, 2011. The game begins at 14:30 pm, IST. The match is a day-night affair Where Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium, Ahmedabad. India won their last ODI match played at this venue, which was the 2011 ICC ODI World Cup quarter-final against Australia. But before that result, India had lost their previous four encounters here. The West Indies, on the other hand, will take hope from the fact that they have won four of the six matches they have played here; three of these wins have come against India. The Teams India’s problems are right at the top of their batting order with Virender Sehwag, Parthiv Patel and Gautam Gambhir all struggling to post big scores. However, with Rohit Sharma having contributed with two half-centuries and Virat Kohli shining with his eighth ODI century in the Vizag ODI, the Indian batting still looks formidable. What has really boosted the ...