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Friday, November 30, 2007

2nd Test match - Day 1 Advantage India

India's run-riot with Jaffer on unbeaten 192:

Wasim Jaffer gave a superb exhibition of strokeplay to near his second double-century as India exposed Pakistan's bowling limitations to reach a healthy 352-3 on the opening day of the second Test here on Friday. India won the toss and elected to bat on a flat track at the Eden Gardens.

The 29-year-old Jaffer added 136 for the second wicket with Rahul Dravid (50) and 175 for the next with Sachin Tendulkar (82) to put his team on course for a big total . Dinesh karthik was out early scoring one run in the very secong over of the day.

Sourav Ganguly was batting on 17 when bad light stopped play. Pakistan, grappling with injuries and illness to key players on Thursday, went into the match with four specialist bowlers but their gamble with semi-fit fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar backfired. He bowled four overs in the morning, two in the afternoon and three in the evening without taking a wicket.

Pacemen Mohammad Sami and Sohail Tanvir, and Kaneria were unable to maintain pressure on Jaffer, Tendulkar and Dravid on a first-day pitch having neither pace nor turn. Worse still for Pakistan, they failed to cash in on a chance that came their way when wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal dropped Tendulkar on 28 off Sami in the first over after the tea-break. With the Pakistani attack lacking penetration, Tanvir was asked to bowl left-arm spin in the last session but Jaffer and Tendulkar continued to gather runs with ease.

India's batting was entertaining throughout the day, with Jaffer, Tendulkar and Dravid all making merry. Runs came thick and fast as the hosts scored more than 100 in each session. Dravid shook his head in disbelief when adjudged caught behind off Kaneria by West Indies umpire Billy Doctrove.

Younis Khan is leading the side in place of Shoaib Malik, who failed to recover from an ankle injury sustained while playing football after the first Test in New Delhi on Monday. Malik was replaced with Faisal Iqbal. India lead 1-0 in the three-Test series following their six-wicket victory in the opening match.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Indian Cricket league - Teams

Chandigarh Lions:

Coach - Balwinder Sandhu, Chris Cairns - Captain, Amit Uniyal,Andrew Hall, Bipul Sharma, Chetan Sharma, Darell Tuffey, Dinesh Mongia, Gaurav Gupta, Hamish Marshall, Harpreet Singh, Imran Farhat, Ishan Malhotra, Karanveer Singh, Love Ablish, Manish Sharma, Rajesh Sharma, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Sarabjeet Singh (Wicket Keeper), Sumit Kalia, T P Singh.


Chennai Superstars:

Coach - Michael Bevan, Stuart Law - Captain, Chris Read (Wicket-Keeper), G Vignesh, Hemang Badani, Hemant Kumar, Ian Harvey, Ian Harvey, P.Vivek , R Jesuraj , R Sathish, Russel Arnold, Sanjeev Martin, Shabbir Ahmed, Sriram Sridharan, Syed Mohammed, Tamil Kumaran, Thiru Kumaran, V Devendran, Vasanth Sarvanan.


Delhi Jets:

Coach - Madan Lal, Marvan Atapattu - Captain, Abbas Ali, Abhinav Bali, Abhishek Sharma, Abhishek Tamrakar , Abid Nabi Ahanger, Ali Murtaza , Dale Benkenstein , Dhruv Mahajan , Dishant Yagnik , J P Yadav , Mohnish Mishra , Niall O'Brien, Paul Nixon (Wicket Keeper), Raghav Sachdev , Sachin Dholpure, Shalabh Srivastav, Taufiq Umar, T.Sudindra, Yashpal Singh.


Hyderabad Heroes:

Coach - Moin Khan, Inzamam Ul Haq - Captain, Abdul Razzak , Alfred Absolom , Ambati Raydu , Anirudh Singh , Azhar Mahmood , Baburao Yadav , Bheema Rao , Chris Harris , Ibrahim Khaleel (Wicket Keeper) , Inder Shekar Reddy, Kaushik Reddy, Nicky Boje, PS Niranjan, Shashank Nag, Stuart Binny, Syed Shahbuddin, Vinay Kumar, Zakharia Zuffri.


Kolkata Tigers:

Coach - Daryll Cullinan, Craig McMillan - Captain, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala , Abu Nechim, Ali H Zaidi, Anshu Jain, Boyd Rankin, Darren Maddy , Deep Dasgupta (Wicket-Keeper), Lance Klusener, Mihir Diwakar, Nantie Hayward, Parviz Aziz, Pritam Das, Rajiv Kumar , Rohan Gavaskar, Sayed Akhlakh Ahmed, Shiv Sagar Singh, Subhomoy Das, Sujay Tarafder, Upul Chandana.


Mumbai Champs:

Coach - Sandeep Patil, Brian Lara - Captain, Anupam Sanklecha , Avinash Yadav , Dheeraj Jadhav , Johan van der Wath, Kiran Powar, Mervin Dillon, Nathan Astle , Nikhil Mandale , Pushkaraj Joshi , Rakesh Patel , Ranjeet Kirid, Raviraj Patil, Robin Morris, Shreyas Khanolkar, Sridher Iyer, Subhojit Paul (Wicket-Keeper), Suyash Burkal, Vikram Solanki.

New Twenty20 League ready to roll in India

West Indies batting great Brian Lara leads the star parade at a rebel Twenty20 League that kicks off Friday in India after stirring up a storm with officialdom. The inaugural Indian Cricket League (ICL), fronted by India's own cricketing legend Kapil Dev, will be played at Panchkula, an industrial town on the outskirts of the northern Indian city of Chandigarh.

The BCCI, which refused to provide any of its stadiums for the tournament, has also been accused of sabotage and trying to lure ICL's star players. All the matches of the six-team competition, which will have Tony Greig and Dean Jones among commentators, would be played at the Tau Devi Lal Stadium with the finale scheduled for December 16.

Pakistan grapple with fitness problems

Pakistan's hopes of avoiding their first series loss in India in more than two decades suffered a setback following injuries and illness to key players ahead of Friday's second Test here. Pakistan trail 1-0 in the three-Test series following their six-wicket defeat in the opening match in New Delhi on Monday.

In-form paceman Shoaib Akhtar who was hospitalised here on Tuesday due to a chest infection, making him doubtful for the match. Skipper Shoaib Malik is recovering from an ankle injury, paceman Umar Gul from a back problem and batsman Misbah-ul-Haq from a throat infection.

Pakistan needs to lift their all-round performance, especially batting, in order to ward off a second successive defeat against a confident India in the test match starting on November 30th.

BCCI zeroes in on Gary Kirsten for coach

Gary Kirsten, the former South African opener, is the surprise front-runner to be India's next coach. While the Indian board said Kirsten was interviewed by the coach selection committee on Monday and a formal announcement on the new coach would be made in a week's time, senior officials were saying off the record that the appointment was a formality."It has been finalised," a senior board official told Cricinfo. "We just need some time to complete the formalities."


Kirsten was interviewed in Delhi by the coach selection committee, comprising former captains Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri and S Venkataraghavan, BCCI joint secretary MP Pandove, treasurer N Srinivasan and secretary Niranjan Shah. Anil Kumble, India's test captain, was also present at the meeting. The committee had decided to expedite the process with the intention of appointing a coach before the tour of Australia next month.


Among those who have applied to succeed Chappell are Chandrakant Pandit, the former Indian wicketkeeper and Maharashtra coach, Richard Done, former head of the Queensland Academy of Excellence, Leicestershire coach Tim Boon, Kepler Wessels, the former Australia and South Africa international, Terry Oliver, Queensland's coach, Dave Nosworthy, coach of Canterbury, and former New Zealand captain Martin Crowe. Unlike the media frenzy that surrounded the applications of Graham Ford and John Emburey earlier this year, Kirsten's interview was kept very low profile.

After retirement in March 2004, Kirsten embarked on a coaching career, taking up an assignment as Cricket South Africa's high performance manager, after which he set up the privately-run Gary Kirsten Cricket Academy.

Statistics:

Kirsten, 40, was one of South Africa's leading batsmen, playing 101 Tests scoring 7289 runs at 45.27 and playing 185 ODIs scoring 6798 runs at 40.95.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

India Pak Test Series 2007

Pakistan Test Squad:

Shoaib Malik (Captain), Younis Khan (Vice Captain), Abdur Rehman, Danish Kaneria, Faisal Iqbal, Kamran Akmal (Wicket Keeper), Mohammed Sami, Salman Butt, Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul, Misbah –ul-Haq, Mohammad Yousuf, Sohail Tanvir, Yasir Hammed, Sarfraz Ahmed (Wicket keeper).


Indian Test Squad: (for the Second Test)

Anil Kumble (Captain), M S Dhoni (Vice Captain), Wasim Jaffer, Dinesh Karthik, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Ishant Sharma, R P Singh, Sreesanth, Murali Kartik, Munaf Patel.

Monday, November 26, 2007

1st Test Match - Easy Win for India

India easily scored off the balance 32 remaining runs for the win. They just took In total, India took just 38 balls with Sachin Tendulkar playing an attacking game. India lost only one wicket in the form of Sourav Ganguly. The left hander attempting a hook off Shoaib Akhtar, but was caught at fine leg.

VVS Laxman completed the finishing act with Sachin, He was dominating Shoaib Akhtar's short pitch bowling with lot of command. Tendulkar finished with an unbeaten 56 (from 110 balls with 9 fours).

The Indian Captain Anil Kumble was selected the “Man of the Match” because of contributing in several roles. His Captaincy was superb, with the ball he did his job taking seven wickets and with the bat was involved in a key partnership with VVS Laxman. For Pakistan, the only big positive is the bowling form of Shoaib Akhtar who took all the four wickets to fall in the Indian second innings. He is seriously lacking any support from the other bowlers.

The second test begins on Nov 30th at the magnificent Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
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