T20 World Cup

19/03/2017

And the rise towards one of the best continues for Bangladesh. What a performance going on!!

In 51 test series played before current Sri Lanka series, Bangladesh has won just three. Two at home vs Zimbabwe (2004/05 and 2014/15) and one abroad against West Indies (2009). They had drawn just 5. Overall, they lost 44 test series since 2000/01, their debut in test. Only in two series, both ended in draw, both teams won a test each. Since 2013 there has been a turn around as losses have reduced and since 2015 they have lost only 3 of the 7 test series played. Now, they are on the verge of another positive result.
At Colombo, they are less than 75 runs away from a historic test win.
1. Sri Lanka is set to be their 4th test victim, after Zimbabwe, WI and England.
2. In 17 tests before, SL has won 15 as Ban drew 2.
3. Ban will draw its 6th test series, second one abroad.
4. While Shakib is set to be the Player of the Match with a century and 6 wickets in the test, other seniors like captain Rahim and opener Tamim have played crucial knocks. Complete team effort.

12/02/2017

Congratulations Indian team on winning the T20 World Cup again!
Men in Blue trounce Pakistan to retain T20 Blind World Cup final. They chased 198 runs in only 17.4 overs winning by 9 wickets. Indians lost to Pakistan at group stage, winning all remaining 8 matches of the group. Indians defeated Pakistan in the last T20 World Cup final also. Prakasha Jayaramaiah remained unbeaten on 99, for the second time.

Indian Results
Final: Def Pak by 9 wickets, Pak 197/8, Ind 200/1 (17.4) (Prakash 99*)
Semis: Def Sri Lanka by 10 wickets, SL 174 (19.2), Ind 175/0 (13) (Prakash 115, Ajay Reddy 51)
Round 9: Def Nepal by 152 runs, Ind 289/1, Nepal 137/5 (Ajay Reddy 109, Venkateswara Rao 82*)
Round 8: Def New Zealand by 9 wickets, NZ 136/6, Ind 140/1 (9) (Ajay Reddy 75*, Sukhram Majhi 56*)
Round 7: Def Aus by 128 runs, Ind 272/0, Aus 144 (18.3) (Sunil 163)
Round 6: Def Sri Lanka by 9 wickets, SL 186/8, Ind 187/1 (13.3) (Prakash 99*)
Round 5: Def South Africa by 9 wickets, SA 157/8, Ind 158/1 (13.5) (Farhan 59*, Iqbal Jafar 54*)
Round 4: Def England by 10 wickets, Eng 158 (19.4), Ind 159/0 (11) (Sukhram majhi 67*, Ganesh 78*)
Round 3: Lost to Pak by 7 wickets, Ind 204/5, Pak 2005/3 (15.3 ov) (Prakash 90)
Round 2: Def West Indies by 142 runs, Ind 305/5, WI 163/5 (Sunil 113*, Deepak Malik 80)
Round 1: Def Bangladesh by 129 runs, Ind 279/5, Ban 150/7 (Prakash 96, Ketan Patel 98)

09/02/2017

Kohli wins the toss and elects to bat as India and Bangladesh play 9th test between them in the one-test series at Hyderabad. Kohli and Mushfiqur captained their teams in 2015 too at Fatehullah earning a draw, only the second draw for Bangladesh in last 8 tests where India has won 6 and have been rarely bowled out while Bangladesh has struggled since 2000 till the last test match where they were lucky to have escaped with a draw after follow on. Check their past test records https://goo.gl/qnKPua

Rahane returns to his position as Karun Nair becomes third batsman after Len Hutton and Inzamam to be dropped after hitting a test triple. Bhuvneswar Kumar returns too, Jayant Yadav was not picked as India went with 3 pacers and 2 spinners. Bangladesh went with 2 pacers and 3 spinners.
Ind XI: KL Rahul, Murali Vijay, Pujara, Kohli, Rahane, Saha, Ashwin, Jadeja, Bhuvnewasr Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma

Ban XI: Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Mominul Haque, Mahmudullah, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Sabbir Rahman, Mehedi Hasan Miraz, Taijul Islam, Taskin Ahmed, Kamrul Islam Rabbi

17/01/2017

Steve Smith to Lead Australia in Silver Jubilee (25th) Test series against India. The squad has one debutant and Wade as Wicketkeeper while Indian experience has earned recall for few players. Check the Aussie test squad for 4-test series. https://goo.gl/MgiuBw

04/01/2017

MS Dhoni: World's Biggest Captain is the Only One With All Three Trophies
World record 331 international matches as captain, ahead of many contemporaries and previous legends, Dhoni is the ONLY captain to have led his team to victory in all three ICC Championships.
https://goo.gl/fd2Mte

24/12/2016

Congratulations Indian Team on winning third consecutive Under 19 Asian Championship. In the finals they defeated the hosts Sri Lanka by 34 runs. It was the third Asian Championship after 2012 and 2014. Rahul Dravid is the coach of Indian Under 19 team.

The joint winner of 2012 and Runners up of 2014, Pakistan failed to even qualify for the semifinals.

India defeated Afghanistan, while Sri Lanka defeated Bangladesh in the semifinals.

Indians scored the maximum runs and grabbed maximum wickets too. Rahul Chahar grabbed 10 wickets bowling 31 overs. Yash Thakur took 9 wickets.

Himanshu Rana (283 in 5) and Shubman Gill (252 in 5) were the top two scorers of tournament.

Indian matches in tournament:
Group A Matches:
Ind def Malaysia by 235 runs (Ind 289/8, Malaysia 54)
Ind def Nepal by 6 wickets (Nepal 172/9, Ind 174/4)
Ind def SL by 6 wickets (SL 207, Ind 208/4)

Semifinals: Ind def Afghanistan by 77 runs (Ind 293, Afg 217/7)
Final: India def Sri Lanka by 34 runs (Scores Ind 273/8, SL 239)

22/12/2016

While Ashwin became second Indian after Rahul Dravid (2004) by winning two awards in one ceremony..David Warner and Starc are the only two players to have found a place in both the teams.
The big surprise is absence of ODI captain Virat Kohli from Test team despite being in top 3 ICC ranking as well as aggregating huge runs in all series.

ICC Test Team of the Year 2016 1 David Warner, 2 Alastair Cook (capt), 3 Kane Williamson, 4 Joe Root, 5 Adam Voges, 6 Jonny Bairstow, 7 Ben Stokes, 8 R Ashwin, 9 Rangana Herath, 10 Mitchell Starc, 11 Dale Steyn, 12 Steven Smith

ICC ODI Team of the Year 2016 1 David Warner, 2 Quinton de K**k, 3 Rohit Sharma, 4 Virat Kohli, 5 AB de Villiers, 6 Jos Buttler, 7 Mitchell Marsh, 8 Ravindra Jadeja, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Kagiso Rabada, 11 Sunil Narine, 12 Imran Tahir

19/12/2016

Indian team efforts of Commoner surpassed records of Indian Greats as India reached highest total in 507 tests. Check the records associated with India's 4 700+ test totals. https://goo.gl/4Y7fe4

14/12/2016

Congratulations Smriti Mandhana on being selected in ICC First Women's Team of the Year!

Smriti has scored 701 runs in 23 ODIs with a century (at Hobart) and 5 50s.

This is the first time when ICC announced team of the year for Women's. Based on their performance between September 14, 2015 and September 20, 2016, which included the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 and the ICC Women’s Championship, the players have been selected.

Women's Team of the Year (in batting order): Suzie Bates (New Zealand), Rachel Priest (New Zealand) (wk), Smriti Mandhana (India), Stafanie Taylor (West Indies) (capt), Meg Lanning (Australia), Ellyse Perry (Australia), Heather Knight (England), Deandra Dottin (West Indies), Sune Luus (South Africa), Anya Shrubsole (England), Leigh Kasperek (New Zealand), Kim Garth (12th) (Ireland)

04/12/2016

Ex-Captain Mithali Raj led from front grabbing two awards, as Indian Women's win 6th consecutive title.
https://goo.gl/M9dm4n

29/11/2016

Asian Women’s Twenty20: India Defeats Pakistan, Reaches on Top with third consecutive win.
https://goo.gl/qGX5zp