Must Win Situation for India against Pakistan to be in the T20 Race

Sunday 30 Sep'12 will be the witness of a war between India & Pakistan but the venue for today is Colombo. India will play against their rivals 8th time in the world cup. It will be the 3rd time in the history of T20 world cups when India and Pakistan are in front of each other. In the past 2 matches, India have beaten Pakistan. India holds a record for 7 consecutive wins against Pakistan but this time Pakistan is the most favourite team to win the world cup. Will India survive its match winning streak or Pakistan give the gift of victory over India.

A target of over 180 can be a fighting total but no one can underestimate any of the teams and they can chase any target on their day. Suspense is still on Sehwag's appearance on this match. No one understands this better than Indian skipper M S Dhoni as India will be out of the tournament if they lose to Pakistan today and Dhoni can't be expecting it. Who knows what would be the result of the exciting battle between the two rivals.........

100 International Centuries for Tendulkar

Mirpur, Bangladesh became the witness of another milestone set in the history of cricket. 2012 Asia cup, the venue was Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur where India was batting against the local cricket team of Bangladesh and Sachin Tendulkar added another the record to his name....100th century in international cricket. Master blaster was looking in nice touch and he did what everyone was hoping from last one year. He became the first cricketer who hit 100 centuries in his international career.

Although Sachin took more than 12 months to hit set this milestone but everyone was delighted when he completed the 100th run on 16th Mar 2012. Tendulkar made 114 from 147 balls on Friday with 12 fours and one six. In total, India set a target of 290 against Bangladesh.

After achieving the 100th international century, Sachin doesn't looks in any mood of retirement just like his friend Rahul Dravid retired from international cricket last week. He wants to continue the game until he is enjoying it. He told, "My belief is that if I feel I can contribute, I am mentally there where I feel I am bringing value to the team then I should be playing. It's a very selfish thought that when you are at the top you should retire". Well done Tendulkar....Bravo..

Indians: World Champions Once Again

Once again history was created but this time in Mumbai. Everyone was waiting for long and the time came after 28 years when Men in Blue repeated the miracle what Kapil Dev did in 1983. Year 2011 is turned out to be the glorious for Indian sports. Indian team won the ICC cricket world cup after beating Sri Lanka by 6 wickets. Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni played the innings of his lifetime. After regular failures in this world cup, he promoted himself to 3rd down and it worked favourably to India.

India was chasing a mammoth total of 275 which was never chased in the world cup final ever before. Earlier Indian opening batsman Gautam Gambhir scored a wonderful 97 when Sachin and Sehwag were lost before 50 runs. That was a real crucial stage of the game and Gambhir played outstanding knock in pressure. Gambhir got the right man for his support there, the name was Virat Kohli. 83 runs partnership between them was the match winning. Later Dhoni and Yuvraj did splendid job by making over 100 runs without losing any chance for the Sri Lankans.

India is champpion.....Well Done India.

Tendulkar broke the 194 record, sets new 200

The man created history again. It was a glorious moment on the 25th Feb when Sachin Tendulkar broke the record of 200 in an innings in the One Day Internationals. After a long period of 15 years, the record of Saeed Anwar was broken by any batsman. 194 was a milestone for any batsman in the ODI matches. They have tried everytime but couldn't reach even close to it. Many batsman including Sachin, Hayden, Ganguly, Ponting, Dhoni, Gilchrist and many other big names tried to reach 194 but they even can't reach 190.

The competition began when an unknown player from Zimbabwe scored 194 not out in an innings. It was really amazing to see a batsman near to the record set 15 years ago by the Pakistani batsman. Sachin has broken all kind of records and set a lot of many other records in the both shows of cricket whether it is ODI or Test matches. But it was a dream for Sachin to break 194 and he did it and what a remarkable fashion...200 not out with 25 fours in an innings..wow...Amazing

Pakistan on backfoot, Sri Lanka stronger side for attack

After six months, Pakistan wake up. It was the incident when terrorists attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore. In that attck incident , 8 people wer killed and other 20 wer badly injured. Finally Pakistani Government has decided to set an investigation team for the cause happened. Pakistan was showing the similar action just in case of the Indian terrorist attack situation.

Pakisatan PM Yousuf Raza Gilani has built a team including Malik which will investigate for the incident. They will report the Sri Lankan government. All this thing happen because of the pressure created on Pakistan. Every cricket playing nation has declared not to play in the Pakistan if Pakistan will not find the fault behind the scenes.

India safe, once again by Laxman

Once again Team India has done it. In the latest New Zealand cricket tour, India was given follow on by the home team. The senior players have proved that they are not the missed players. Just like in 2001 Australian tour to India, Laxman and Dravid proved themselves, again this time bothe players have turned out to be the key players of the running tast match. On the day 4th of the second test match in Wellington, India scored a total of 476 for the loss of 4 wickets.

Laxman is playing on 124 with Yuvraj singh on 54. Earlier Dravid hit a 120 runs partenership with Tendulkar. Finally Team India is in a good position to secure the match and in a winning situation to lift the Test trophy in the New Zealand.

India wrap-up border-gavaskar triangular series, beat Australia

India survived a valiant fightback from Australia to win a thrilling second Commonwealth Bank final by nine runs and claim the series 2-0.

Irfan Pathan took two wickets in the final over with Australia needing 13 to win in Brisbane, after a half-century from James Hopes had inspired the hosts' fightback. Chasing 259 after Sachin Tendulkar posted a classy 91, Australia struggled to recover from the loss of Adam Gilchrist, who scored two in his final international innings, and skipper Ricky Ponting for one.

Matthew Hayden (55) and the middle order provided some resistance to set up a nailbiting finish but the India bowlers skittled the tail to clinch victory. After his brilliant innings of 117 provided the platform for India's victory in Sydney, Tendulkar struck 91 before being superbly caught by Ricky Ponting off the bowling of Michael Clarke. Yuvraj Singh made a quickfire 38 and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni 36, although the tourists would have been disappointed that they did not record a bigger score having been well set at 205 for three with just over 10 overs remaining.

Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat but India struggled to get going initially because of some tight bowling from the Australians. Having been dropped by Ricky Ponting early on, however, Tendulkar soon got into his stride by punching Stuart Clark through mid-on for four before clubbing another off the back foot through the same area. The 'Little Master' was beginning to look in the mood and lifted Mitchell Johnson over the slip cordon to the fence before repeating the dose with a straight drive in the left-arm seamer's following over. Tendulkar brought up a 70-ball half century with a single off Clark before steering another boundary off Johnson.....Read more here