Indian Cricket Team Updates

The last time the two teams met, India made it through to the World Cup final. In Mirpur, the stakes may have been lower, but the contest was as captivating as a one-day encounter can be. Pakistani stamped their authoriy early in the match, with each of their openers scoring a century. But Virat Kohli replied with a knock that can be counted among ODI cricket’s best. Take a look at how India achieved their highest ever run chase, guided by the silken Kohli’s 183-run innings. • This was the first meeting between India and Pakistan in almost a year. The last time these two teams faced each other was on March 30, 2011 at Mohali in the World Cup semi-final. • Misbah-ul-Haq was captaining Pakistan against India after a gap of three years and eight months. Interestingly, Misbah had made his captaincy debut against India in the 2008 Asia Cup. • Shahid Afridi was playing his 200th day-night ODI. He became the fourth player to do so after Ricky Ponting (215), Mahela Jayawardene (213) and...

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...

Brisbane, Feb 21: India need to win their two remaining matches to be in with a chance for a spot in the CB series finals. Analysing their loss to Sri Lanka, stand-in skipper Virender Sehwag reiterated that the batting line-up needed to fulfill the promise while standing by the rotation policy. Excerpts from Sehwag’s post-match press conference: On losing the match I think we didn’t play well, batting, bowling, fielding–whatever. We gave too many runs in the last seven or eight overs so that cost us and again the top-order didn’t fire. The way [Sachin] Tendulkar and [Gautam] Gambhir were batting, I thought they would play some good innings and give us a good start; but we lost three early wickets. In the first 11 overs we were three down for 40-odd runs. Virat [Kohli] and [Suresh] Raina built a partnership [but] they couldn’t take it till the end. At the end Irfan [Pathan] played really well. We came close [to the target]; we didn’t [concede] a bonus point. Hopefully in the co...

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...

  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 Test of the three-match series between India and West Indies When November 22-26, 2011. The game begins at 9:30 am, IST. Where Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. The Wankhede last hosted a Test match in March 2006 when India ended up on the losing side against England. One match before that England defeat, in November 2004, India beat Australia in a game that lasted just about two-and-a-half days, on a wicket where spinners accounted for 29 of the 40 wickets that fell. However, heading into the final Test of this series, the Wankhede wicket is expected to be completely different from that 2004 one. The wicket is expected to offer good pace and bounce, something that will give the pacers on both sides something to cheer about. The Teams Having taken an unassailable 2-0 series lead, India will look to register a series whitewash against the visitors. With Yuvraj Singh having been replaced by Rohit Sharma, much of the discussion in the Indian side will revolve around...