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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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Winning Padma Vibhushan is dream realised: Tendulkar
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Adelaide (PTI): Sachin Tendulkar may have won countless awards but the master batsman on Saturday said all those trophies pale in comparison to India's second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan.
"I have won many awards and trophies but this is right at the top," Tendulkar said after the third day's play in the ongoing fourth and final Test against Australia.
"... I came to know about it through my wife. I was extremely excited by it but since I was in the middle of the match, it was important to keep my focus on the game," he added.
Tendulkar said being conferred the second highest civilian honour was like a dream realised for him.
"It's truly a great honour to accept this award as this is recognized by the government of India. I have played for so many years and when government of India recognises your effort, gives you the second highest civilian award in the country, it's very, very special," he gushed.
"It means a lot to me to get this award alongside such great personalities. It's truly something which I can only dream of," he said.
The champion batsman also congratulated the other awardees.
"I want to take this opportunity to congratulate other awardees. It's fantastic to be in the same list," he said.
Tendulkar was among five other top sportspersons, including chess Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand, to have been selected for the Padma awards on Friday.
Source : hindu.com
India Win 4th ODI at Gwalior and also Series Win
Thursday, November 15, 2007
At Gwalior Pakistan choose to bat first and set target of 256 for India. India win the day night match with 6 wicket in hand.
After won the toss Pakistan Set the score of 255/6 in 50 overs with contribution of Mohammad Yousuf 99 of 104 balls not out and Younis Khan 68 of 89 balls.
India lose their 1st and 2nd wicket early in mode of Sourav Ganguly and Gautam Gambhir but after that Virendra Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar held the inning to gether and set the winning road for India. Virendra Sehwag run our on 43 and Sachin Tendulkar yet bowled on 97 Captain Dhoni and Vice Captain Yuvraj Singh got India an easy win over Pakistan. India leads series by 3-1 in 5 one day match series.
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Pakistan : 255/6 (50 Overs)
India : 260/4 (46.3 over)
Indian Test Squad For Indian-Pakistan Test Series 2007
- Dinesh Karthik
- Wasim Jaffer
- Rahul Dravid
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Sourav Ganguly
- VVS Laxman
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni
- Anil Kumble
- Harbhajan Singh
- Zaheer Khan
- Sreesanth
- Yuvraj Singh
- RP Singh
- Murali Kartik
The first match of the Test series is to be held at Delhi starting from November 22 -26 and the other in Kolkata from November 30-December 4.
The Indian side will visit Australia for a four Test match series beginning from December 26. For the Australia tour the team will be selected at the end of the second Test against Pakistan and the start of third and concluding Test on December 8- 12.
Gambhir, Afridi caught in war of words
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Kanpur (PTI): After the relative lull in the first two matches, the third India-Pakistan ODI saw some sparks flying in the Green Park Stadium with Gautam Gambhir and Shahid Afridi being the main protagonists.
It all started with a mid-pitch collision with both the players holding each other responsible for the run-in.
Gambhir straight drove Shahid Afridi for a boundary after which the duo were seen engaged in a war of words. As could be made out from reading their lips, expletives were exchanges between the batsman and the bowler. Gambhir took a single to change ends but there was no let up in the verbal duel.
In fact it got worse as a furious Gambhir headed straight to Afridi to give him a piece of his mind, resulting in a eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, which was eventually snapped by umpire Ian Gould's intervention.
Gould took Gambhir aside and told him to control his emotion, while Afridi too was told to mind his business by the umpire at the end of the over.
Incidentally, Gambhir also had a brief altercation with Sohail Tanvir who made a gesture at the left-hander after a fluffed shot.
In the post-match press conference, both the captains, however, sought to play down the incident.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni said people should not read much into it and added, "I think people love to see little aggression of this kind in one day cricket, isn't it?"
His counterpart Shoaib Malik too sought to put a lid on the incident.
"I think at times, aggression spills out. After the incident, I said sorry to Gambhir but these incidents do take place. There was nothing serious about it."
Interestingly, though Shoaib Akhtar's volatile temperament makes him am unpredictable customer in the middle, the 'Rawalpindi Express' was away from the action. The only time he seemed upset was when Sourav Ganguly delayed taking guard, insisting on the right position of the sight-screen.
After his barren first spell of four overs, Shoaib in fact looked out of breath and needed inhaler. Later on, he seemed to have picked up a left foot injury and came off the field to get it treated. Fawad Alam substituted him in the field.
Shoaib took off his boots and got some massages done as well before eventually returning to the field to claim his lone wicket in Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who dragged a slower onto his stumps to be out on 49.
Source : hindu.com
India Pakistan Third ODI at Kanpur: Batsmen Fashion Another Victory
India's batsmen fashioned yet another sizzling batting performance to set up a victory for India after being put in on a difficult pitch in the 3rd ODI at Kanpur.
Given variable bounce and some early moisture thanks to heavy overnight rain, Shoaib Malik must have fancied his team's chances of an easy run chase in the afternoon, once the demons in the wicket had satiated themselves with Indian scalps. Instead, Kamran Akmal dropped Sourav Ganguly first ball, and from then on it was a matter of an experienced Indian opening pair weathering the early storm (albeit a somewhat wayward one - Umar Gul was particularly inconsistent), and the rest of the Indian batting chipping in with a lot of class.
Yuvraj Singh's was a terrific innings on a wicket which he may not have liked very much, while Dhoni came just at the right time and provided crucial impetus. Every plan the batsmen made came off.
The turning point in the Indian innings in my view was the fact the Shahid Afridi went for plenty. On this wicket with unpredictable turn and bounce, he might have proved to be a handful, but he wasn't allowed to settle into a line and length. The left handers in Indian line up made it difficult for him. Even though Sohail Tanvir was demonstrating the virtues of good old fashioned line, length and consistency from the other end, India could afford to play him out because Afridi and then Malik leaked runs.
Shoaib Malik's decision to hold Abdur Rehman back was sound - there were two left handers at the wicket. What he chose to ignore however is that the specialist spinner would probably turn it more than the part time batting all-rounders (this is not always true, but given that neither Malik nor Afridi are great turners of the ball, in this case it was probably significant). Rehman got a wicket in his first over, but by then it was probably too late. Tanvir had been taken out of the attack at the other end, and there was no pressure being built on Dhoni and Yuvraj.
For their part, Dhoni and Yuvraj continued their dominance of Pakistan. Since Dhoni joined the Indian team, he and Yuvraj have been at the wicket together against Pakistan 7 times in ODI's, and their association has yielded 4 century stands. All in all it has yielded 499 runs at a strike rate of 108. Both are amongst the top ODI batsmen of their era.
Dhoni is much underrated as an ODI batsman. He averages 43 in ODI's, while Yuvraj, since Jan 1 2005, averages 45.57 over 79 games. He's reached 50 21 times in 74 innings. Considering the 13 not outs it means that he has reached atleast 50 in ODI's once for every third dismissal. Compare that with Tendulkar's record as opener, which remains the gold standard in ODI cricket - Tendulkar has reached 50 102 times as opener in 283 innings. Considering 19 not outs, it means he's reached at least 50 once for every 2.6 dismissals. Yuvraj is not far behind over the past few years.
This is the standard of the Indian batting. Rahul Dravid, even considering his moderate scores in the recent Australian series (i don't think he was dropped because of that - it was a combination of both his decision to give up the captaincy and his poor scores), averaged 39.91 from Jan 1 2005 till date. Ganguly since his comeback has made 1235 runs at 45.74. Tendulkar, since Jan 1 2005, averages 41. In this year, his batting average is 46.35 (with 1 century and 12 fifties! - these 12 fifties include scores of 99, 93, 99, 94, 99!!). Ironically, the century was made at number 4 in 76 balls, while all the nineties have all been made opening the batting.
Ironically this doesn't give India the win-loss record that they should have. This year alone, Sri Lanka have scored on average 15 runs per 50 over innings less than India, and still produced the same win-loss record. England have scored 25 runs per 50 over innings less than India this year on average, and yet have a win-loss record which is only slightly inferior to India (18-16 to Indias 19-14). India have conceded an average total of 262 in a 50 over innings this year. Only Pakistan (270) is worse. Australia have conceded 253 per innings, but this includes their run of 6 straight defeats just before the world cup where they conceded 335+ to NZ three times. Even the West Indies have conceded on average 10 runs per innings less than India. New Zealand have conceded 16 runs per innings less than India. Part of this has to do with the fielding. Part of it has to do with the consistently ridiculous output of India's pace attack, to which i have alluded many times before (the latest numbers are in my previous post.)
Just two years ago, 1/60 would have gotten Irfan Pathan nervous about his place in the side. His slump began in the West Indies last year and from that time - 18th May 2006 to Jan 31 2007, he took 13 wickets at 39.07 with an economy rate of 5.90. Look at the numbers in my previous post - it makes you wonder about our expectations from our pacemen. Since his comeback, Irfan has taken 10 wickets at 44.10 with an economy rate of 5.38. His economy rate has improved without doubt, but is that enough? Are fast bowlers expected to take wickets?
The "blame BCCI" brigade is probably chomping at the bit by now - but i would caution them against initiating the usual blame game. Can questions be asked of our bowling coach? ODI pace bowling output has infact declined during Venkatesh Prasad's tenure. Is this because ODI cricket has changed? What does Venkatesh Prasad think about these numbers? Can someone please ask the him? Would asking him be more useful than the usual blame the BCCI approach? Is it less cool to ask Venkatesh Prasad a question than it is to blame BCCI?
India need their pace attack to be effective, along with the spin bowling. They need to be able to deliver 50 good overs. If they do that, then the batsmen are good enough to enable India to dramatically improve the win-loss record. Until such time, we'll have to make do with watching our batsmen fail in chases of 290 or more on a regular basis.
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