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Bangalore Royal Challengers v Deccan Chargers, at cape town

2009-04-22T08:35:00.000-07:00

Bangalore Royal Challengers v Deccan Chargers

Deccan Chargers won the toss and won the match.

Deccan Chargers - 184 for 6 wickets from 20 overs

Y Venugopal Rao* - 9 from 13 balls
FH Edwards* - 3 from 2 balls

DB Ravi Teja - 8 from 5 balls
RG Sharma - 52 from 30 balls
SB Styris - 14 from 8 balls
AC Gilchrist - 71 from 45 balls
VVS Laxman - 5 from 10 balls
HH Gibbs - 13 from 7 balls

Bangalore Royal Challengers - 160 for 8 from 20 overs

R Dravid - 48 from 27 balls
V Kohli - 50 from 32 balls

Player of the match AC Gilchrist (Deccan Chargers)

Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals at Durban

2009-04-21T11:24:00.000-07:00

Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals at Durban

Match abandoned due to rain.

Kings XI Punjab v Kolkata Knight Riders at Durban

2009-04-21T11:18:00.000-07:00

Kings XI Punjab v Kolkata Knight Riders at Durban

Kolkata Knight Riders won by 11 runs (D/L method)

Kings XI Punjab 158 for 6 wickets

Yuvraj Singh - 38 from 28 balls
I Pathan - 32 from 17 balls

Kolkata Knight Riders 79 for 1 from 9.2 overs

C Gayle - 44 from 26

Player of the match CH Gayle (Kolkata Knight Riders)

Bangalore Royal Challengers v Chennai Super Kings at Port Elizabeth

2009-04-20T08:00:00.000-07:00

Bangalore Royal Challengers v Chennai Super Kings at Port Elizabeth

Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat first.
Chennai Won the match against Bangalore

Chennai Super Kings - 179/5 for 20 overs

A Flintoff* - 22 from 13 balls
A Morkel - 5 from 3 balls

S Raina - 28 from 29 balls
M Dhoni - 15 from 11 balls
ML Hayden - 65 from 35 balls
PA Patel - 30 from 26 balls.

Bangalore Royal Challengers - 87/10 for 15.2 overs

J Kallis - 24 from 19 balls

Player of the match M Muralitharan (Chennai Super Kings)

Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders at Cape Town

2009-04-20T07:57:00.000-07:00

Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders at Cape Town

Kolkata Knight Riders - 101 for 10 wickets
B Hodge scored 31 from 34 balls

Deccan Chargers - 104 for 2 wickets
HH Gibbs - 43 from 26 balls

Player of the match RP Singh (Deccan Chargers)

Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab at Cape Town

2009-04-20T07:53:00.000-07:00

Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab at Cape Town

Kings XI Punjab - 104 for 7 wickets
K Goel scored 38 from 21 balls

Delhi Daredevils
V Sehwag 38 from 16 balls

Player of the match DL Vettori (Delhi Daredevils)

Bangalore Royal Challengers v Rajasthan Royals at Cape Town

2009-04-20T07:49:00.000-07:00

Bangalore Royal Challengers v Rajasthan Royals at Cape Town

Bangalore Royal Challengers - 133 for 8 wickets
Rahul Dravid has scored 66 from 48 balls

Rajasthan Royals - 58 for 10 wicketes

Player of the match R Dravid (Bangalore Royal Challengers)

IPL Match in South africa - Chennai Super Kings Vs Mumbai Indians

2009-04-20T07:40:00.000-07:00

IPL match has been started in South Africa. First match Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians at Cape Town - Apr 18, 2009

Mumbai Indians won by 19 runs.
Mumbai - 165 for 7 wickets
Sachin has scored 59 runs from 49 balls and he was the player of the match.

Chennai Super Kings - 146 for 7 wickets
Hayden made 44 from 35 balls

IPL Season II - Schedule

2009-04-07T05:13:00.000-07:00

IPL Season II - Schedule, teams and players, in South Africa

Date	Teams	Venue	Time (IST)
Saturday,18-Apr-09	Mumbai Indians & Chennai Super Kings	Cape Town	4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday,18-Apr-09	Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore	Cape Town	8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Sunday,19-Apr-09	Delhi Daredevils & Kings XI Punjab	Cape Town	4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

IPL Player Register

2009-04-07T05:10:00.000-07:00

DLF Indian Premier League Schedule - 2009

2009-04-07T05:03:00.000-07:00

India Vs Newzealand 2009

2009-03-11T02:57:00.000-07:00

India went to Newzealand tour for the cricket. There was two twenty-twenty match but India failed in both. So India played five one day match very aggresively. But in five day match, the first day went to draw due to rain. Then India Successfully won the 2nd and 3rd day match by the excellent century of our Indian Cricket King Sachin. Now, the 4th day match has won by India with Schewag 125 Not out, Gambir Not out. And finally India Won the series......
India won the match by 3 out of 5 series.

This is record break for india after 5o years in New zealand.

Sachin New Record

2009-01-08T03:10:00.000-08:00

1. Highest Run scorer in the ODI
2. Most number of hundreds in the ODI 41
3. Most number of nineties in the ODI
4. Most number of man of the matches(56) in the ODI's
5. Most number of man of the series(14) in ODI's
6. Best average for man of the matches in ODI's
7. First Cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI
8. First Cricketer to pass 15000 run in the ODI
9. He is the highest run scorer in the world cup (1,796 at an average of 59..87 as on 20 March 2007)
10. Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup
11. Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs in the 1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87..16
12. Most number of runs in the 2003 world cup 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket World Cup
13. He was Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
14. Most number of Fifties in ODI's 87
15. Appeared in Most Number of ODI's 407
16. He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.
17. Most number of 100's in test's 38
18. He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so
19. He is thus far the only cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honor
20. In 2003, Wisden rated Tendulkar as d No. 1 and Richards at No. 2 in all time Greatest ODI player
21. In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman.
22. he was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli,
23. Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts
24. In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first overseas born player to represent Yorkshire
25. Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Padma Shri by Indian government. He is the only Indian cricketer to get all of them.
26. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODI's 7 times
27. Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI's most by any batsman
28. He is the highest earning cricketer in the world
29. He has the least percentage of the man of the matches awards won when team looses a match.. Out of his 56 man of the match awards only 5 times India has lost.
30. Tendulkar most number man of match awards(10) against Australia
31. In August of 2003, Sachin Tendulkar was voted as the "Greatest Sportsman" of the country in the sport personalities category in the Best of India poll conducted by Zee News.
32. In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.
33. In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year
34. The current India Poised campaign run by The Times of India has nominated him as the Face of New India next to the likes of Amartya Sen and Mahatma Gandhi among others.
35. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in international cricket
36. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 75 centuries in international cricket:79 centuries
37. Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+ Twenty20s) , as of 30 June 2007 he had accumulated almost 26,000 runs overall.
38. Is second on the most number of runs in test cricket just after Brian Lara
39. Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the maximum number of runs scored by the opening partnership. They have put together 6,271 runs in 128 matches
40. The 20 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav Ganguly is a world record
41. Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid hold the world record for the highest partnership in ODI matches when they scored 331 runs against New Zealand in 1999
42. Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid
43. Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998
44. Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (41 Centuries and 87 Fifties)(as of 18th Nov, 2007)
45. the only player ever to cross the 13,000-14,000 and 15,000 run marks IN ODI.
46. Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999).
47. The score of 186* is listed the fifth highest score recorded in ODI matches
48. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations.
49. Sachin was the fastest to reach 10,000 runs taking 259 innings and has the highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs
50. Most number of Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds
51. Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185
52. On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the second youngest debutant in the world
53. When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the second youngest to score a century
54. Tendulkar's record of five test centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record
55. Tendulkar holds the current record (217 against NZ in 1999/00 Season) for the highest score in Test cricket by an Indian when captaining the side
56. Tendulkar has scored centuries against all test playing nations.[7] He was the third batman to achieve the distinction after Steve Waugh and Gary Kirsten
57. Tendulkar has 4 seasons in test cricket with 1000 or more runs - 2002 (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs) and 1997 (1000 runs).[6] Gavaskar is the only other Indian with four seasons of 1000+ runs
58. He is second most number of seasons with over 1000 runs in world.
59. On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past Brian Lara's (5736) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home
60. Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings
61. Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches
62. Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara.
63. Tendulkar is fourth on the list of players with most Test caps. Steve Waugh (168 Tests), Allan Border (158 Tests), Shane Warne (145 Tests) have appeared in more games than Tendulkar
64. Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches(144) for India (Kapil Dev is second with 131 Test appearances) .
65. First to 25,000 international runs
66. Tendulkar's 25,016 runs in international cricket include 14,537 runs in ODI's, 10,469 Tests runs and 10 runs in the lone Twenty20 that India has played.
67. On December 10, 2005, Tendulkar made his 35th century in Tests at Delhi against Sri Lanka. He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 centuries to become the man with the most number of hundreds in Test cricket.
68. Tendulkar is the only player who has 150 wkts and more than 15000 runs in ODI
69. Tendulkar is the only player who has 40 wkts and more than 11000 runs in Tests
70. Only batsman to have 100 hundreds in the first class cricket

Indain Cricket Team 2008

2008-12-30T01:34:00.000-08:00

Indian Cricket Team 2008

Ms Dhoni
Sachin Tendulkar
Yuvraj Singh
Virendar Sehwag
Dinesh Karthik
Robin Uthappa
Gautam Gambhir
Suresh Raina
Rohit Sharma
Irfan Pathan
Praveen Kumar
Munaf Patel
Ishant Sharma
Sreesanth
Harbhajan Singh
Piyush Chawla
Manoj Tiwary

Sachin Success

2008-12-29T22:36:00.000-08:00

The Cricket King Sachin Tendulkar has crossed several milestones in his cricket life history. Noone cant beats his adventures in cricket. He is an miracle man with full of power and confident. His life in cricket is from 15 years old.

Truimph

Sachin is the only Indian Cricketer who has got Rajiv gandhi Khel Ratna.
Highest sporting honor in 1997-98
Sachin scored 119 runs against England in1990
He has played 142 test matches and secured 37 test centuries.
Break Record of Inzamam-ul-Haq's highest test fifty.
Awarded Man of the Math for 11 times in Test Matches.
Fisrt Indian Cricketer to cross the 11000 runs in International Cricket Ranking.
Second Indian Batsman after Sunil Gavaskar in Test matches
He Scored first century against Australia in Srilanka in 1994.
He scored 673 runs in 11 matches in World Cup 2003
Top scorer is ODI with 15962.
Only one cricketer secured 15000 runs in ODI cricket is the great Sachin Tendulkar.
He reached his 15000 runs in 387th match which is against South Africa.
41 ODI centuries in 407 matches.
Only century holder in Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy.
Sachin has taken 41 wickets in 137 test and 152 wickets in 388 ODIs.
He has taken 5 wickets against Australia at Kochi in the year 1997-98 series

These are the some of the milestones of the great champion Sachin Ttendulkar. But his success continues ......... and has no end..

Dhoni Biography

2008-12-29T16:18:00.000-08:00

Dhoni Biography

Full name: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Date.Of.Birth: 7th July, 1981
Place of Birth: Ranchi, Bihar
Nickname: Mahi

Cricket Information

Role: Captain of the Indian ODI and Twenty20 team and Vice captain of the Test team
Batting style: Right hand batsman
Bowling style: Right arm medium
Field position: Wicketkeeper
Clubs played: Jharkhand

Ganguly Success

2008-12-29T02:52:00.001-08:00

The Rocking hero in cricket is Ganguly who is called as "Calcutta dada" by his fans. His bating speciality is left handed and an extreme right handed bowler. Though he made its first contribution in 1992 but his power was noticed in India’s 1996 tour of England. There he secured centuries in double innings, so he became a third cricketer after Lawrence Rowe and Alvin Kalicharan. In 1999 World Cup cricket he scored 183 against Srilanka at tauntan who revealed the highest score by an Indian World Cup Cricket. He Balance his records in both in test and one-day cricket: 11 centuries in tests and 22 in one day match. He has crossed 9,000 runs in one dayesrs. He concentrate more in international level than in domestic cricket, so he scored 7 ODI centuries in the year 2000. The best and powerful pair with Ganguly is Sachin Tendulkar. They together have scored 5621 runs. In Cricket partnership is more important which will bring them an eventable luck.

Role as Captain

As a captain in Indian Cricket Team, he plays a vital role in team who transforms the vibrant with an excellent team spirit. He is the only Indian Captian to win both the One Day and Test Series in Pakistan Soil. That Great credit goes only to him. Without god grace nobody can come up to this top level. Ganguly is very religious that is the major benefit to him win.

Triumph

Crossed 10000 runs in ODI Cricket.
Highest score by an Indian in World Cup
Ganguly led India all the way to the World Cup final in 2003

Dhoni Success

2008-12-29T00:18:00.001-08:00

Dhoni made his first contribution for Jharkhand in 2000 when he was eighteen year old. In Deodhar Trophy and Duleep Trophy he gave his best performance which tends to notice by the national team selectors in 2004.

Dhani was not best in the first match. His performance came out only in fifth match which was palyed against Paksitan in Visakhapatnam. He scored 148 runs in 123 balls with 15 boundaries and 4 sixes. That was the first Man of the Match award for him.

Truimph

Record Break in 31st october at Jaipur against srilanka as highest 183 runs scorer.

Number one ranking in current ICC cricket

As of April 2006 his batting average is over 50

Dhoni is one of the highest strike rates in the world of 103 runs for 100 balls.

Dhoni's career bating average stands at 52.76 in ODI series against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi

Dhoni has won the Man of the Match in World Cup 20-20 championship against Australia in chandigarh.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been voted as the MTV Youth Icon for the year 2006

Yuvaraj Biography

2008-11-20T04:17:00.002-08:00

Name: Yuvraj Singh
Date Of Birth: December 12, 1981, Chandigarh
Major teams: India, Punjab, Yorkshire
Batting style: Left-hand bat
Bowling style: Slow left-arm orthodox

Ganguly Biography

2008-11-20T04:17:00.001-08:00

Full Name: Sourav Chandidas Ganguly
Date Of Birth: July 8, 1972, Kolkata, Bengal
Major teams: India, Bengal, Glamorgan, Lancashire
Batting style: Left-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm medium

Sachin Tendulkar

2008-11-20T04:15:00.001-08:00

Name: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Date Of Birth: 24-04-1974
Nick Name: The Master Blaster, The Little Champion, The Bombay Bomber
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Off Break, Leg Break, Right Arm Medium, Leg Break Googly

Bangladesh Vs Srilanka Asia cup

2008-06-30T14:54:00.000-07:00

Sri Lanka 332/8
Bangladesh 174/10

Sanath Jayasuriya joins with Sangakkara leads the Sri lankan team to win against Bangladesh team. Srilankan team enters into finals of Asia cup 2008

Gambhir and Raina lead the Indian team Asia cup 2008

2008-06-28T16:14:00.000-07:00

Ist Innings Score

283 for 6 in 50 overs
Tamim Iqbal 55, Alok Kapali 115

IInd Innings Score

284 for 3 in 43.2 overs

Gautham Gambhir 90, Suresh Raina 116

Bangladeshian opening batsman Tamim Iqbal played very well and he took 55 runs from 67 balls (7 fours) and middle order batsman Alok kapali's maider century in one day international. Indian opening batsman Gambhir missed his fifth century opportunity for just 10 runs and man in the form Suresh raina lead the Indian team to win in 6 ODI in Asia cup 2008.

Yuvraj singh's 6 massive sixes in T20 world cup 2008

2008-06-27T14:06:00.000-07:00

India beat pakistan, Asia cup 2008

2008-06-26T12:38:00.000-07:00

Ist Inning Score: 299/4 (50 overs)

Soaib Malik 125(119) retired hurt
Younish Khan 59(60)

IInd Inning Score: 301/4 (42.1)

Virender Sehwag 119(95)
Suresh Raina 84 (69)
Yuvraj Singh 48 (47)

Virender Sehwag organize the Indian team to marvelous victory against Pakistan and he made 5 sixes and 15 fours.

Australia tour of India (4 Test match Series) Schedule

2008-06-25T13:07:00.000-07:00

Thu 2 Oct – Sun 5 Oct (09:30 AM) Tour Match – Australia v TBC TBC

Thu 9 Oct – Mon 13 Oct (09:30 AM) 1st Test - India v Australia M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Fri 17 Oct - Tue 21 Oct (09:30 AM) 2nd Test - India v Australia Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

Tue 28 Oct - Sat 1 Nov (09:30 AM) 3rd Test - India v Australia Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

Wed 5 Nov - Sun 9 Nov (09:30 AM) 4th Test - India v Australia Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

Dhoni and Raina lifts India to massive score 374

2008-06-25T12:20:00.000-07:00

India won the match against Hong kong

Ist Innings Match Summary

India– 374/4 in 50 Overs

M.S.Dhoni– 109(n.o.) S.Raina – 101 Virendra Sehwag 78 runs
Najeeb Amar– 10-0-40-2

II Innings Match Summary

Hong Kong 118/10

M.S.Dhoni (109 runs off 99 balls) and Suresh Raina (101 runs off 68 balls) superb century liftsIndia to make up massive total in their first game of Asia cup, Hong Kong.

Bangladesh bowler Najeeb amar performed very well and he took 2 wickets and he conceived only 40 runs , 10 overs.