Virender Sehwag ,the best captain that the Indian cricket captain neverhad

Virender Sehwag Indian cricketer
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Virender (Virendra) Sehwag is the best cricket captain that the Indian cricket team never had

Virender or Virendra Sehwag is the inspirational captain of the Delhi Daredevils Twenty20 cricket team in the IPL.

Sehwag probably realizes that having an incredible cricket talent is often a liability as people start questioning his attitude and his style of batting as soon as he fails in a couple of innings

As a result, Sehwag , who has a sharp cricketing brain , a never-say-die attitude and an ability to get along with his teammate is never considered for the captaincy role

Not having Sehwag as captain is a great loss for Indian cricket

Sehwag is easily the best Indian test opening batsman after Sunil Gavaskar, and given his cool demeanour will not mind never being the captain of the Indian cricket team. But the Indian cricket team would have missed having this cool technician as the Indian cricket team 's captain

Sehwag ,with his earthy commonsense and great team building skills, would have been a great Indian cricket captain

The wide smiles of the Delhi Daredevils cricket team when they see Sehwag, demonstrate the trust Sehwag 's teammates have in their captain

What do you need from a cricket captain? Someone you could trust, someone who could motivate you when you are down and someone who truly cares about the Indian cricket team and wants it to succeed

Sehwag, as his stint with the Delhi Daredevils cricket team shows, satisfies all the above criteria, and should be given the mantle of captaincy of the Indian cricket team before his retirement

Ricky Ponting| A disaster for Australian cricket

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Ricky Ponting and the damage he has done to Australian cricket

Ricky Ponting is recently back to Harbhajan bashing,but that doesnt exonerate his disastrous influence on Australian cricket

Ricky Ponting admits to "minor errors" during the India Vs Australia Sydney cricket test series

Apart from violating the spirit of the game, creating a new era of verbal abuse,encouraging his fellow cricketers to act like a pack of wild dogs and generally denigrating Australian cricket, Ricky Ponting hasnt done anything wrong.

One wonders what damage Ricky Ponting would do to world cricket when he is guilty of "major errors"

Ricky Ponting is representative of all thats wrong with world cricket, with players like Symonds,Harbhajan, Hayden and Ricky Ponting damaging this noble game,which was played by people like the Don

Sachin Tendulkar is 35 today-What the world thinks of Sachin Tendulkar

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Sachin Tendulkar - what people are saying about Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar turns 35 today and a good way to appreciate what Sachin has achieved for Indian cricket is to read what other cricketers,mostly his opponents have said about him

"Sachin Tendulkar was destined to be a great" -Barry Richards.

"Sachin Tendulkar is 99.5 percent perfect. I'd pay to see him" - Viv Richards.

"Don't bowl Sachin Tendulkarbad balls, he hits the good ones for fours - Michael Kasprowicz.

"It's scary, where the hell do we bowl to Sachin" -Allan Border

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"There is no shame being beaten by such a great player as Sachin Tendulkar. We didn't lose to
Team India. We Lost to Sachin Tendulkar" -Steve Waugh.

"If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard" - Dennis Lillee.

"I'd like to see Sachin go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you he'd do okay" -Greg Chappell.

"Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he played in my time" - Wasim Akram.

"The pressure on me is nothing as compared to Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin,
like God, must never fail. The crowd always expects him (Sachin Tendulkar) to succeed and it
is too much pressure on him" -Mark Waugh

"Everybody gets 15 minutes of fame. But if there's one person I've admired over a 15-year of period, it's definitely Sachin." - Brian Lara

"I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player" -Shane Warne.

"I saw Sachin Tendulkar playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two... his compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed to gel" -Sir Donald Bradman.

"In an over I can bowl six different balls. But then Sachin looks at me with a sort of gentle arrogance down the pitch as if to say 'Can you bowl m another one?'" - Adam Hollioke

Sachin Tendulkar is cricket's God? Barry Richards.

You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and Sachin Tendulkar walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it arounad like it's a toothpick? -Brett Lee

You have to decide for yourself whether you're bowling well or not. Sachin Tendulkar's going to hit you for fours and sixes anyway? -Micheal Kasprowicz

Technically, you can't fault Sachin. Seam or spin, fast or slow ? nothing is a problem? -Geoffrey Boycott.

Sachin Tendulkar's life seems to be a stillness in a frantic world... [When he goes out to bat], it is beyond chaos - it is a frantic appeal by a nation to one man. The people see him as a God... ? Mathew Hayden, on Sachin Tendulkar.

I (Embarrassed laugh) am a normal person who plays cricket. I am nothing more than that? Sachin Tendulkar, on being told of above quote.

"The fact of the matter is that India still need Sachin in a big way. All this talk of the youngsters taking over is very foolish. The reason why Tendulkar is so important for the team is because of his ability to inspire others and make them perform under pressure" - In the "Times of India" of the infamous "End"ulkar fame

"Sachin has everything a top batsman needs. Tendulkar is a classic example of a player being so good that his age is an irrelevance" Akram says in his autobiography titled "Wasim". He also stated a number of examples when he and his team were frustrated by Tendulkar's batting prowess.

David Boon "Technically Sachin Tendulkar stands out as the best because of his ability to increase the pace at will"

Ted Dexter: (who chaired the panel, the Coopers & Lybrand award as the International Test player of the year)
"This year Tendulkar has been the batsman nobody wanted to bowl at. He took Shane Warne apart in India, which illustrates his genius."

M. L. Jaisimha "The more I see of Sachin Tendulkar the more confused I'm getting to which is his best knock."

Cricket Historian Vasant Raiji "I have always felt C. K. Nayadu was the best. I now think Sachin has the honour of being the most outstanding batsman of all time."

Mike Selvey
"Tendulkar is the supreme right hander on the planet, a focussed technician who offers a counterpoint to Brian Lara's more eye catching destruction."

Jeff Thompson "Sachin is an attacker. He has much more power than Sunny. He wants to be the one to set the pace. He has to be on top. That's the buzz about him."

Asif Iqbal: (after India won at Sharjah)
"He has given a new dimension to batting. Such dominance can break the heart of the best of bowlers. I was never tired of watching this wonderful batsman."

Peter Roebuck "Sometime back I had written a piece that said that Sachin's the master and Lara a genius with his head high up somewhere. That's it."

Steve Waugh "You take Don Bradman away and he is next up I reckon."

"It was one of the greatest innings I have ever seen. There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don''.

"When it comes to judging the best among these fabulous band of batsmen, my vote goes to Tendulkar. He has an uncanny ability to come out on top under different circumstances and under different conditions, whether it is Test cricket or one day internationals. And more importantly, he has done this so young. "
Allan Border: (after India won the Coca-Cola cup in Sharjah)
"Hell, if he stayed, even at 11 an over he would have got it."

Greg Chappell , who successfully destroyed India's chances in the last World cup says "He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed the ability to treat bowlers all over the world with contempt and can destroy any attack with utmost ease. "

Tony Greig "He is cool, has magnificent temperament, and is so mature you tend to forget his age. I can't think of any other example of a player who has so dominated the world before the age of 25."

Paul Strang "What we (Zimbabwe) need is 10 Tendulkars."

Australian Media "The most exciting batsman of his time because he finds the right balance between reason and passion, technique and power, nerves and placement and judgement that applies to all tastes."

Malcolm Speed,ICC cricket,Mickey Arthur so hypocritical!

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Malcolm Speed and Mickey Arthur shoot themselves in the foot

Malcolm Speed , the ICC and the South Africa cricket coach Mickey Arthur are incredibly hypocritical.

Reports suggest that on the basis of Mickey Arthur's protest, the ICC, led by Malcolm Speed, has asked the BCCI for an explanation for the spinning track prepared for the Kanpur cricket test match , which ended in three days

Mickey Arthur, the South African cricket coach, is simply not grateful for the "South African cricket pitch" provided at Ahmedabad

Why is Mickey Arthur, the South African cricket coach and the ICC not asking for an explanation for the pitch for the Ahmedabad test match which also ended in three days

The fast and green Ahmedabad cricket match was simply a gift given by the pitch curators to the South African cricket team, but Mickey Arthur is simple not grateful

No country will be as stupid as to provide a cricket pitch that is favorable to the opposing cricket team, but the pitch curators at Ahmedabad managed to do just that

The Ahmedabad cricket pitch was tailor made for the South African cricket team's fast bowlers and not surprisingly, the South African cricket easily won the Ahmedabad cricket test

Is the ICC ask forl a spinning track to be prepared at the Centurion Park or at Perth?

The ICC's comments on the pitch for the Kanpur cricket test sparks of such hypocricy- has Malcolm Speed's ICC or Mickey Arthur ever asked the Australian cricket board for an explanation for the fast cricket pitch at Perth or Centurion Park?

Why should a spinning track be unfriendly, but a green top like Perth be fair?The ICC, led by Malcolm Speed,is plain stupid and biased

The ICC should be dismantled as soon as possible- the ICC 's decisions are really biased against the subcontinent

The Oval fiasco and the reinstatement of Darrell Hair is another slap in the face for the subcontinent, and it is high time the Asian cricket boards support each other in the face of such blatant bias against them

Malcolm Speed, the ICC and Mickey Arthur should refrain from stupid statements that display jealousy about the BCCI 's monetary influence over world cricket

Robin Uthappa: Australians are sore losers"

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Robin Uthappa has called the Australians "sore losers"

In yet another interesting interview, Robin Uthappa has given interesting insights on the Australian cricketers and the Australian cricket media.

In a move that is assured to ruffle the Australian media 's "thin", he has called the Australians "sore losers"

Robin Uthappa says that Australian media coverage of the CB cricket series finals was so very weird

Robin Uthappa uses the Australian cricket media's coverage of the CB cricket series finals to make his point- The Australian cricketers were beaten squarely by the Indian cricket team but the Australian cricket media only covered the cricket series results sparsely in a couple of short notes

The Australian cricket media instead focused on Harbhajan Singh again and his alleged bad behavior

Robin Uthappa suggests that the Australian cricket media was only interested in raking up unnecessary controversies and was not even sporting enough to acknowledge the fair defeat of the Australian cricket team

Robin Uthappa suggests that he and his fellow young cricketers dont believe in taking the abuse of the Australian cricket players

Any international cricketer would acnowledged the tremendous abusive behavior of the Australian cricket team, dirty comments about the players' immediate family are always on the cards when the Australian cricketers are around

Robin Uthappa suggests that he and his younger colleagues are not prepared to take the nonsense talked by the Australian players without hitting back and letting the Australian cricketers get a taste of their own medicine

Mahendra Singh Dhoni even recently underscored this when he said that his cricket team "learnt" a lot about sledging without being punished from the Australian cricket team

What Robin Uthappa did not mention was that the Australian cricket media should probably be commended for supporting their own team so well, but did the Australian cricket media go too far this time?

Sourav Ganguly was missed in CB one day series in Australia

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Sourav Ganguly was missed by the Indian cricket team during the CB one day cricket series in Australia

Sourav Ganguly was really missed by the Indian cricket team in the CB cricket series. Surprised?

There is so much said about the youngsters in the Indian cricket team being responsible for the Indian cricket team's win- but did the young Indian cricket batsmen do better than Sourav 'Dada' Ganguly?

The answer is a resounding "No"- Sourav Ganguly had a batting average of over 60 in one day international cricket matches over the last year of so- but all the Indian cricket batsmen in the CB series barring Mahendra Singh Dhoni had averages of less than 50.

The only batsman who came good in the CB finals was Sourav Ganguly's erstwhile senior partner, Sachin Tendulkar

In the absence of Sourav Ganguly, there were only two opening partnerships greater than 50- both of the partnerships had the greatest one day international "senior" batsman in the world- "Senior" Sachin Tendulkar play a major role

Sourav Ganguly was unfairly dropped from the Indian cricket team and his replacements are simply not good enough

Sourav Ganguly was treated badly by the Indian cricket selectors and Mahendra Singh Dhoni- We seem to be getting back to the bad old days, when the whims and fancies of selectors and Indian cricket captains decided the composition of the Indian cricket team

Sourav Ganguly's absence underscores that Youth is not important, only performance should the criteria for selection

Sachin Tendulkar said it best when he said that the seniors still have a role to play and the Indian cricket team should be selected based on performance rather than whims, fancies and age

Sourav Ganguly is a better fielder than a lot of "young" players in the Indian cricket team

Sourav Ganguly is a better fielder than at least Suresh Raina and Munaf Patel,who let a lot of balls slip under their feet-

Sourav Ganguly is supposedly a bad fielder and thats the reason he was dropped- but compared to the leaden footed "young" fielders in the CB cricket series such as Munaf Patel and Suresh Raina, Sourav Ganguly is definitely better

Sourav Ganguly could also have contributed with the ball in the CB cricket series

Sourav Ganguly is definitely an asset to any Indian cricket team - he would have been a valuable all-rounder in the Indian cricket team, and allowed the Indian skipper to even play an additional batsman

Sachin Tendulkar did bail out Dhoni's "youngsters", but the Indian cricket selectors should realize their mistake, and reinstate Sourav "Dada" Ganguly in the Indian cricket team

Sydney Morning Herald media coverage of India Vs Australia cricketseries:One sided and sickening

Harbhajan Singh begins his exuberant celebrations after removing Ricky Ponting, Australia v India, 2nd Test, Sydney, 4th day, January 5, 2008
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The Australian media coverage of the India Vs Australia one day international CommonWealth Bank cricket series (CB cricket series) is hopelessly one-sided and biased

The Australian media especially, the Sydney Morning Herald,has been incredibly disappointing.

Its one thing to support the Australian home team,but to run fake campaigns,denigrate the opposition players and cast a blind eye to the doings of the Australian cricket payers is simply not done, at least by a leading national newspaper

Sydney Morning Herald is abusing the power of the media

By its one-sided reporting,the Sydney Morning Herald has been abusing its power. In this one-sided article about the first final of the India Vs Australia CommonWealth Bank cricket series, the hopelessly biased article talks about Harbhajan Singh 's alleged behavior, but fails to mention the abusive and racist remarks by the Sydney cricket crowd

The Sydney spectators abused Harbhajan Singh by making racist comments about Harbhajan Singh 's Sikh religion and this was not even mentioned in the article

The abusive words used by Hayden, Ponting, Symonds and the rest of the Australian cricket team were ignored

In the cricket article, there is some mention about Pathan and Harbhajan walking down to Hayden and making some comments, but the dirty, abusive comments used by Hayden,Symonda and the rest of the Australian cricket team are not even mentioned

My biggest fear- Soon, the Indian, Pakistan,Sri Lanka,Bangladesh,South African and West Indian cricket media would follow the example of the Australian cricket media

There is no barrier to entry for nastiness in media- what if the rest of the world cricket media behaved in the same despicable manner as the Sydney Morning Herald?

The good old days of the cricket columnist is now being abused by these so-called cricket writers who are bringing decency in the cricket game to its knees

Steve Bucknor,man of the match in India Vs Australia Sydney cricket test.2007

Steve Bucknor already awarded the "man of the match" trophy for Sydney cricket test?

In a breaking news, it has been reported that Steve Bucknor has been already awarded the man of the match trophy for the Sydney cricket test (see insert photo of Steve Bucknor receiving the trophy).

Steve Bucknor has created another record in test cricket history to receive the man of the match trophy even before the test match has been completed.

In fact, Steve Bucknor apparently received the man of the match trophy on the very first day of the Sydney cricket test! It is highly unlikely that this Steve Bucknor record will ever be beaten- Bradman's record of three triple centuries could be beaten someday but definitely not Steve Bucknor's record

Steve Bucknor the first cricket test umpire to be awarded the man of the match trophy in Sydney cricket test,2007

Steve Bucknor has apparently created a world record in test cricket history by becoming the first umpire in test cricket to be awarded the man of the match trophy,hitherto confined to test cricket players.

Steve Bucknor has so far turned out an amazing cricket performance and is definitely the person on the cricket field most influencing the outcome of the Sydney test,2007

Andrew Symonds rapped on his knuckles by the Aussie captain,Ponting, says it was Steve Bucknor's fault,mate

Apparently Symonds was playing slighly slow at some point in his innings in the Sydney cricket test and Ricky Ponting asked him to lose his wicket so that Brett Lee and
Johnson could score some fast runs, but try as he might, Steve Bucknor ensured that Andrew Symonds couldn't get out. An embarrased Andrew Symonds apparently told his captain that
with Steve Bucknor around, "It wasn't my fault,mate , I tried to lose my wicket"

Steve Bucknor and his incredible achievement has ensured that he is feared by every cricket opposition in the world, and not only batsmen but also aggressive bowlers quake when they hear that Steve Bucknor is part of the ICC Elite Umpiring Panel

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Please read the above post in jest - I respect all cricket umpires,including Steve Bucknor. and appreciate the great and tough job that they do on the cricket field. I just feel that having the cricket technology but not using it is stupid

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Gary Kirsten as Indian cricket coach- insult for Indian cricket coaches

Gary Kirsten 's selection as Indian cricket coach is an insult to indigenous Indian cricket coaches

Gary Kirsten has been selected as the Indian cricket coach. This is nothing short of an open insult to all the coaches of Indian cricket

There is incredible coaching talent in India and it is a sad mockery of Indian cricket that people like Gary Kirsten are selected and great coaches like Sandeep Patil and Achrekar are in the wilderness

Gary Kirsten has no cricket coaching experience

Gary Kirsten has no cricket coaching experience and has been selected as the Indian cricket coach but renowned coaches like Sandeep Patil who successfully coached the Kenyan cricket team to the World cup cricket semifinals are repeatedly ignored

The BCCI obviously likes Gary Kirsten for his "lack of experience"!

Gary Kirsten has made a lot of derogatory remarks about India and its culture

Gary Kirsten 's remarks indicate that he will never integrate into the Indian cricket team or understand the Indian cricket culture. Gary Kirsten has subjected the Indian secondary towns to great criticism and this will obviously not go well with most of the Indian cricket team , who come from small Indian towns

I can bet that Gary Kirsten 's tenure will be short and will do as much damage to Indian cricket as Greg Chappell 's tenure as Indian cricket coach

Greg Chappell 's big mouth blabbers more

Greg Chappell continues with his hypocritical ways and his ability to talk crap

Greg Chappell has an expert ability to be political and hypocritical

In a recent outburst, Greg Chappell spewed more venom on his latest victims , the Indian "senior" players. Greg Chappell blamed the BCCI's selection of the "senior" players the main cause of India's defeat at the World cup cricket tournament 2007

In fact, Greg Chappell says he was sure that the Indian cricket team would lose even before the team left for the cricket World cup.So much for Greg Chappell's man management skills!

Greg Chappell also poured more venom on the "Indian cultural mindset" by saying that Saurav Ganguly expected a lot in return for recommending a snake like Greg Chappell

Despite Saurav Ganguly great leadership capabilities and people management capabilities, Saurav Ganguly obviously had to pay the price for recommending a snake like Greg Chappell to be Indian cricket coach and doing the Indian cricket world such as disfavor

Greg Chappell is sure of one thing, it is never Greg Chappell 's fault

Greg Chappell is never at fault, it is always someone else's fault for this so-called "guru". Sometimes, Greg Chappell finds the BCCI as the villain, at times it is the Indian selection panel and nowadays the flavor of the month is the Indian senior cricket players

Greg Chappell is so un-Australian in nature

Its absolutely wrong to classify Greg Chappell as personifying the "Australian way of playing cricket". The Australian way of playing cricket is to be open, honest and blunt in all talk and taking every decision.

"Blaming others all the time" is only the Chappell way, not the Australian way!

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Rahul Dravid destined for cricket oblivion?Was Rahul Dravid treatedwell by Indian cricket board?

Rahul Dravid has been dropped from the Indian cricket team for the first two matches of the India Vs Pakistan one day international cricket series

Rahul Dravid has been summarily "rested" by Dilip Vengsarkar 's Indian cricket selection board

Rahul Dravid 's dropping is a bizarre decision reeking of a witchhunt against the Indian cricketing legends in the search for "young" talent. Dilip Vengsarkar 's selection board committee has committed the mistake of a lifetime by dropping such as seasoned campaigner as Rahul Dravid in a crucial India Vs Pakistan cricket series

Rahul Dravid case suggests that in Indian cricket, "rested" usually means being dropped from the Indian cricket team indefinitely

Rahul Dravid has lived in the system of Indian cricket long enough to know that "rested" is a euphemism for being summarily dropped from the Indian cricket team for an indefinite period of time

Rahul Dravid 's case illustrates how Indian cricket continuously dishonours and denigrates its cricketing legends without even a proper sendoff, but employs euphemisms to prevent public indignation for the brutal dropping from the Indian national cricket team

Rahul Dravid may be in bad form but he is desperately needed in a crunch India Vs Pakistan cricket series

Rahul Dravid is a cool calculated cricketer who plays cricket using his determination and mental strength. Dropping a player like Rahul Dravid from the Indian cricket team for the India Vs Pakistan cricket series is nothing but hara-kiri

It was a crime and an insult to Indian cricket to "rest" Rahul Dravid from the Indian cricket team

The question on everyone's mind after Rahul Dravid was "rested"- Who will be rested next, Sachin Tendulkar or Saurav Ganguly?

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Sachin Tendulkar fights a losing battle in India Vs Australia fifth oneday international

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Sachin Tendulkar played a classy knock ,but the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series seems destined to go Australia's way

Barring Sachin Tendulkar, the Indian cricket team played a poor game of cricket in the fifth India Vs Australia cricket ODI at Vododara.
Despite Sachin Tendulkar's fighting knock of 47, the Indian cricket team was bowled out for just 148 runs in the India Vs Australia ODI cricket match

Gilchrist made a mockery of the Indian cricket score, by slamming four sixes en route to a good score of 77 runs, but Sachin Tendulkar had provided the early magic by some amazing straight drives

Sachin Tendulkar was out to the best ball bowled in the India Vs Australia ODI cricket series

Sachin Tendulkar was out to an incredible ball by Brett Lee,probably the best ball in the ongoing India Vs Australia ODI cricket series. Brett Lee came back for his second spell, and bowled a peach of a delivery that drew Sachin Tendulkar to the front foot and seamed away at 150 mph to give an easy catch to Adam Gilchrist

With Sachin Tendulkar's dismissal, the last resistance of the Indian cricket team in this India Vs Australia cricket match faded away and the Indian cricket team folded up for 148 runs

India Vs Australia 5th ODI match summary - If Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly do not provide a great start for India,the Indian cricket team is a disaster

Michael Clarke ends Indian cricket bowlers' celebrations in India VsAustralia one day international cricket match at Bangalore

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Michael Clarke hit a masterly knock to get the Indian cricket bowlers back to reality

Michael Clarke has always thrived on wickets on the subcontinent and he once again proved his mastery of Indian cricket pitches with a superlative century in the first India Vs Australia one day international cricket match at Bangalore

Unlike other Australian batsmen, Michael Clarke uses his feet beautifully against the spinners and played a great knock of 130 runs to get the Australian cricket team in a winning position in the first one day international cricket match at Bangalore

Michael Clarke's hundred has probably helped bring the Indian cricket bowlers to accept the reality of Indian cricket pitches

The Indian cricket bowlers were made to realize that Indian cricket pitches are very much different from the South African cricket pitches. The Indian cricket bowlers were treated like spinners on the sublime Bangalore track by Michael Clarke as the Australian cricket team rattled up a huge score

The Indian cricket bowlers should be thankful for the wakeup call caused by Michael Clarke's innings as the Indian cricket team were lucky to end up with a draw after the tremendous Australian onslaught which was only matched by the stormy thunderstorm

Michael Clarke has reminded the Indian cricket bowlers that line and length matter on bland Indian pitches

The Indian cricket bowlers, led by Sreesanth, RP Singh and Zaheer Khan were erratic and that helped Michael Clarke start the Indian one day international cricket series on a very bright note.

Lets hope that the Indian bowlers wake up to bowl better in the remaining india Vs Australia one day internationals, else this India Vs Australia one day cricket series will end up being a one side affair

India Vs Australia one day international cricket series predictions

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Predictions for the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series-GameCricket.com predicts Australian win

The India Vs Australia one day international cricket series is about to start and its time for GameCricket.com's predictions for the India Vs Australia cricket series

Our statistical simulations for the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series suggest that the Australian cricket team will win the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series by a score of 4-3

GameCricket.com predicts a win for the Australian cricket team in the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series

Sure,Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Indian cricket team is on a high after winning the Twenty20 cricket World cup, but the Australian cricket team of course has incredible talent and experience in one day international cricket matches to post a win for the Australian cricket team in the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series

Sachin Tendulkar holds the key for the Indian cricket team in the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series

Sachin Tendulkar will decide the outcome of the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series. This sounds like a chiche, even after almost twenty years of cricket by Sachin Tendulkar, but the Indian cricket team has evolved around Sachin and will continue to evolve around Sachin till he retires

Sachin Tendulkar was not a member of the World cup winning Indian Twenty20 cricket team in South Africa, and Sachin Tendulkar will be eager to prove a point to his detractors in the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series

The Australian cricket team's level of rustiness offers a good chance for the Indian cricket team to pull off an upset in the India Vs Australia one day cricket series

The Australian cricket team seems to be rusty after their long layoff and this could prove to be a great chance for the Indian cricket team in the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series

In summary, the Australian cricket team are the favorites to win the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series, but the Indian cricket team could cause an upset if Sachin Tendulkar displays his brilliance and the Australian cricket team do not recover from their rustiness

Mahendra Singh Dhoni faces bigger challenge in India Vs Australia oneday international cricket series

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni faces a bigger challenge against the Australian cricket team in the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series

Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his Indian teammates successfully won the Twenty20 cricket World cup. Along the way, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his Indian cricketers won the crucial India Vs Australia Twenty20 cricket match in the Twenty20 cricket World cup semifinals

Mahendra Singh Dhoni may find the Australian cricket team in the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series to be a different team in the one day international cricket series format

The Australian cricket team may be new to the Twenty20 cricket format but the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series provides a chance for the Australian cricket team to prove themselves to be masters of the one day internationals format

Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his merry band of cricketers have the advantage of having the experience of Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid in the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series

The experience of Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid will be a huge advantage for Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his merry band of cricketers in the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series

Apart from his immense talent,Sachin Tendulkar brings to the table, a great understanding of the cricket game and this will be invaluable for Mahendra Singh Dhoni and the Indian cricket team In the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series

For example, while batting first,within a few overs Sachin Tendulkar typically will decide on the target score and convey it to Mahendra Singh Dhoni,the Indian cricket team's captain. This kind of perception is invaluable for Mahendra SIngh Dhoni and the Indian cricket team in the India Vs Australia cricket one day international series

The Australian cricket team appear rusty at the start of the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series,and this is the best chance for Mahendra Singh Dhoni and the Indian cricket team

Mahendra Singh Dhoni and the Indian cricket team should exploit the rustiness of the Australian cricket team at the start of the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series

The Australian cricket team also are missing Ricky Ponting for the first few matches of the India Vs Australia one day international cricket series and it is a great opportunity for Dhoni and the Indian cricket team to grab the initiative

Hoping for an amazing India Vs Australia one day international cricket series

The cricket astrologer is right again,predicts winner of India Vs England cricket test series

The cricket astrologer successfully predicts the results of the India Vs England cricket test series

The cricket astrologer's predictions of the India Vs England cricket test series have come true. Its time to crow!

People often wonder how our predictions at this cricket astrologer portal often have a tendency of being right- the reason is that our cricket astrologer portal relies on statistical simulation of actual cricket one on one encounters in order to successfully predict cricket match results

Sachin Tendulkar,Sachin Tendulkar is not a match winner anymore?

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Sachin Tendulkar was, is and will be a match winner for the Indian cricket team

Sachin Tendulkar is God. I am obviously a die hard Sachin Tendulkar cricket fan, and get amazed by Sachin Tendulkar's ability to take criticism from the cricket fans of his own country

Sachin Tendulkar is a victim of the "argumentative Indian"

Sachin Tendulkar scored a match winning knock of 91 runs against the England cricket team and was undone only by Simon Taufel, the umpire. Despite this match winning knock by Sachin Tendulkar, sections of the Indian media, and armchair enthusiasts in India criticize Sachin for his "slow" knock of 91

Sachin Tendulkar was criticized earlier by Ian Chappell

At the height of Sachin Tendulkar's dispute with Greg Chappell, Ian Chappell suggested that Sachin Tendulkar should retire, citing Sachin Tendulkar's knock of 241 not out against the Australian cricket team as being "too careful".

Sachin Tendulkar has endured a lot of such criticism in his test career but Ian Chappell's reasoning for Sachin's retirement was the most stupid

Only the opposing international cricket teams must be eagerly awaiting Sachin Tendulkar's retirement

Teams such as the England cricket team, the Australian cricket team and the Sri Lankan cricket team must be hoping that Sachin Tendulkar retires soon, but criticism from the Indian cricket fan is stupid

Monty Panesar,how Sachin Tendulkar should play Monty Panesar

Monty Panesar should be treated with disdain by Sachin Tendulkar

Monty Panesar has been treated with great respect by the Indian cricket team,especially Sachin Tendulkar in the first India Vs England cricket test at Lords

On a more sarcastic note, the Indian cricket batsmen such as Sachin Tendulkar seem to be treating Monty Panesar, the way Indian culture asks them to treat a fellow Indian in a foreign land

Monty Panesar should be treated with absolutely no respect by Sachin Tendulkar and the rest of the Indian cricket team and Sachin Tendulkar needs to hit Monty Panesar out of the attack as soon as possible

Monty Panesar was thrashed by Gilchrist and Sachin Tendulkar should do the same to Monty Panesar

Monty Panesar was hit for 24 runs in a single over by Adam Gilchrist,including three huge sixes past midwicket. Sachin Tendulkar should watch this video of Monty Panesar being demolished by Adam Gilchrist and take inspiration from it

Sachin Tendulkar played the same way against stalwarts like Glenn Mcgrath and Shane Warne, all that Sachin Tendulkar needs to do is to play Monty Panesar thinking Monty Panesar is just another club bowler!

Monty Panesar Vs Sachin Tendulkar cricket video and incredible celebration

Monty Panesar Vs Sachin Tendulkar video of an incredible celebration by Monty Panesar

Monty Panesar dismissed Sachin Tendulkar in the Lords first Test between the Indian and England cricket teams. Monty Panesar bowled another of his "Once in a blue moon" arm balls to get Sachin Tendulkar out "lbw" again.

Monty Panesar may have Sachin Tendulkar as his "bunny"

Monty Panesar may claim Sachin Tendulkar as his bunny. Sachin Tendulkar does appear extremely uncomfortable against Monty Panesar's left arm spin. Monty Panesar typically bowls an incredible line to Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar is of course giving Monty Panesar more respect than Monty deserves from a batsman with 37 centuries to his name.Sachin Tendulkar's best option to counter Monty Panesar is to give Monty Panesar the Adam Gilchrist treatment.

Sachin Tendulkar needs to take Monty Panesar to the cleaners in order to avoid seeing Monty Panesar's incredible celebration again

Indian cricket team may win the India Vs England cricket test series

India Vs England test cricket series predictions, India will win

The India Vs England test cricket series is interestingly poised, with the Indian cricket team,narrowly managing a draw in the first test match against the England cricket team

We have done our usual cricket statistical simulator analysis, featuring potential India Vs England cricket test scenarios and have concluded the following points about the India Vs England cricket test series

• The Indian cricket team may win the India Vs England cricket test series 1-0
  


• Monty Panesar will get at least one five wicket haul in the India Vs England cricket test series


• Sachin Tendulkar will definitely get at least two fifties in the India Vs England cricket test series


• The Indian cricket batsmen will perform progressively better and the Indian cricket bowlers will perform progressively worse in the India Vs England cricket test series

Surprised by our predictions for the India Vs England cricket test series, you will be amazed when our predictions come true again!

Cricket astrologer strikes again, perfectly predicts draw in India Vs England test match

The cricket astrologer strikes again, correctly predicts results of India Vs England test match

GameCricket.com had predicted a draw in the India Vs England first cricket test yesterday. As predicted,the Indian cricket team barely escaped with a draw in the India Vs England first cricket test, thanks to the English weather, Laxman and above all Dhoni

India Vs England cricket test series, now interestingly poised

The India Vs England cricket test series is now wide open, with India having a really good chance of even winning the India Vs England cricket test series. With Dravid and Tendulkar set to make at least one big score in the India Vs England cricket series, India still have a chance of winning the cricket test series

India Vs England 1st Test, 5th day,Lords Weather

India Vs England 1st cricket Test, 5th day,Lords Weather

The India Vs England first cricket test at Lords is excitingly poised with the Indian cricket team at 136 for 3 wickets chasing a mammoth cricket score of 380 runs

GameCricket.com's predictions for the first India Vs England cricket test on the eve of the last day of the test match

The most likely scenario for the India Vs England first cricket test is a drawn cricket match(50%) , the second likely scenario is a win for the England cricket team (35%)and the least likely scenario for the India Vs England first test match is a win for the Indian cricket team(15%)

Here is the Lords weather forecast for the fifth day of the first cricket test between India and England

London Weather Forecast, United Kingdom

The England cricket team will have to brave the infamous English weather in order to register a win against India in the first test of the India Vs England test cricket series

Dhoni dropped from Indian cricket team?

Dhoni being dropped from Indian cricket team?

Rumors suggest that Mahendra Singh Dhoni will be dropped from the Indian cricket team. Dhoni will be replaced by Dinesh Karthik, who is currently in the team as a specialist batsman

The argument suggests that Dhoni is not a good wicketkeeper,especially in English conditions and Dinesh Kartik can do a better job at keeping for the Indian cricket team

Why cannot Dhoni play as a specialist middle order batsman

Dhoni is currently being treated as an also-ran in the race for the much coveted middle order position. After Sachin Tendulkar, the immediate choices for the Indian cricket's middle order positions are Saurav Ganguly,Laxman and Yuvraj Singh. But typically, the Indian cricket team management seems to think that a strokeplayer like Dhoni can come in only at number 7 and not earlier

Dhoni dropped?Have the Indian cricket team management not heard of Kevin Pieterson?

Pieterson is as unorthodox as Dhoni and plays for the England cricket team at number four and very often intimidates the opposing cricket team. By playing predominatly off the front foot, Pieterson often damages the confidence of the opposing cricket team by scoring at over a run a ball.

Lets hope logic prevails and Dhoni is not dropped from the Indian cricket team for the first cricket test against the England cricket team

Inzamam treated badly by Pakistan cricket board

Inzamam Ul Haq should be treated better by the Pakistan cricket board

Inzamam Ul Haq has not been selected as one of the contracted players of the year by the Pakistan cricket board. Inzamam has been treated badly by the Pakistan cricket establishment again and this was the last nail in the coffin for Inzamam

Why cant Inzamam at least be given a hero's farewell by the Pakistan cricket board for his services to cricket?

Inzamam Ul Haq is being made a scapegoat for the Pakistan cricket team's world cup cricket debacle

Inzamam was of course the captain for the Pakistan cricket team in the cricket World cup. But, Inzamam was not the only cause for Pakistan's ignominious exit from the cricket World cup

Inzamam's past contributions to the Pakistan cricket team have been very conveniently forgotten. Very often, Inzamam was the only cricketer to stand up to the opposition in international one day and test cricket matches

Inzamam's treatment shows that Asian cricket teams do not know how to honour their heroes

Inzamam is but the latest cricket hero to be dump by an Asian cricket establishment. Right from the days of Gundappa Vishwanath, to Mohinder Amarnath, Indian and Pakistan cricket heroes have been unceremoniously dumped after a bad performance, without even standing up to applaud their past achievements

Inzamam should have perhaps learnt from Sunil Gavaskar and Imran Khan who probably understood this phenomenon best, and retired after an extraordinary cricket performance

Like Inzamam,Sachin Tendulkar is perhaps still at his best, but should he retire now to protect his post cricket career and reputation?

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Geoff Lawson,Pakistan cricket board makes another coaching mistake

Geoff Lawson selected by Pakistan cricket board as Pakistan cricket coach

Geoff Lawson is the only cricket coach that the Pakistan cricket board could find to fill the void left by Woolmer's death

Geoff Lawson? Hey, wait a minute, Geoff Lawson has no coaching experience and does not even qualify as a cricket coach

Geoff Lawson's appointment tells us how stupid Indian and Pakistan cricket boards are to appoint foreign coaches

Geoff Lawson is now the Pakistan cricket coach. We are talking about the Pakistan cricket team not the Scotland cricket team,for God's sake

Pakistan has a rich cricket tradition spanning across decades,so it is amazing that the Pakistan cricket board could not find any one former Pakistan player, leave alone a coach for the Pakistan cricket team.

Selecting people like Geoff Lawson is an insult to former Pakistan and Indian cricketers and coaches

Indian and Pakistan cricket boards seem to have a low opinion of former cricketers of their own countries as cricket coaches.What is scary is that the Indian and Pakistan cricket boards do not seem to learn from the Greg Chappell and the Woolmer debacles when the cultures of the coach and the players just did not match

By selecting Geoff Lawson, the Pakistan cricket board have really lowered the bar

Based on Geoff Lawson's selection as Pakistan cricket coach, trust the Indian cricket board to compete by coming up with another weird selection for the post of Indian cricket coach. Who will the Indian cricket board select this time? Thomson?

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Sachin Tendulkar,curious tale of Sachin and the Sensex

Sachin Tendulkar hits 15000 runs in one day cricket and the Sensex hits 15000

Sachin Tendulkar's prolific run scoring has thrown up another interesting statistic. There is a weird correlation between the Indian Sensex and Sachin Tendulkar's run aggregate in one day International cricket matches

Sachin Tendulkar's arrival heralded the Indian economic reforms

Coincidentally,Sachin Tendulkar's arrival in the Indian cricket team also saw the launch of the Indian economic reforms.

As an article in the Times of India by Abhishek Raghunath points out,Sachin Tendulkar had leaped ahead of the Sensex in terms of his run aggregate early in his career, but the Indian Sensex has caught on

Sachin Vs the Indian Sensex , the statistics

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  When Sachin Tendulkar scored just 200 runs in ODI cricket matches, the Sensex was at 4000 points
  


• Sachin Tendulkar then went into a rampage at Sharjah vs the Australian cricket team and later against Sri Lanka. Soon enough by February 1997, Sachin Tendulkar had clearly beaten the Sensex


• By 2006, Sachin Tendulkar was above 13000 runs in one day international cricket matches,but the Sensex was starting to move up quickly and soon touched 9000 points


• Today, Sachin Tendulkar and the Indian Sensex are almost at par,at 15000

Will Sachin Tendulkar overtake the Indian Sensex again

Millions of Sachin Tendulkar fans including yours truly, are hoping that Sachin uses the current England cricket series to leap past the Sensex again

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India Vs South Africa live one day cricket series in Ireland,Win for South Africa predicted

The India Vs South Africa live one day cricket series should see an win for the South African cricket team

The India Vs South Africa one day international cricket matches are underway in Ireland.

We,at GameCricket.com, predict a win for the South Africa cricket team in the India Vs South Africa one day international cricket matches

The windy,seaming conditions for the India Vs South Africa live one day international cricket series should favor the South African cricket team

The South African cricket team should win the India Vs South Africa live one day international cricket matches. The hostility of the South African bowling attack will be exacerbated by the presence of the harsh windy weather and a pitch expected to favor seam bowling

The South African pace bowlers such Ntini and Steyn could be expected to exploit the seaming conditions for the India Vs South Africa live one day international cricket series in Ireland

The Indian cricket team for the India Vs South Africa one day international seems tentative and appears to be going through the motions

The frequent calls for the Indian senior cricketers to be sacked and adverse publicity after the World cup cricket debacle seem to have a detrimental effect on the Indian cricket team. The Indian cricketers such as Saurav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar seem to be careful and tentative and not in a position to play their natural game

The GameCricket.com solution for the Indian cricket team in the India Vs South Africa one day international cricket test series,play the natural game

On pure statistics and past one-on-one encounters, the Indian cricket team is actually a better cricket team than the South African cricket team, as seen in statistical simulations of one day international cricket matches.

If the the Indian cricketers play their natural cricket game like the champions they really are,the Indian cricket team may still have a good chance against the South African cricket team

Indian cricketers,peer into the mirror and see a roaring lion rather than a puny cat

Why Graham Ford refused to be Indian cricket coach?

Graham Ford has refused BCCI's offer to be Indian cricket coach

Graham Ford is definitely one of the world's most intelligent cricket coaches. In fact, by refusing BCCI's offer to become the Indian cricket coach, Graham Ford has reaffirmed his stature as one of cricket's best thinkers

The Indian cricket team coach's position is an invitation to a cesspool

Graham Ford obviously realized that the Indian cricket coach's positions is a dangerous one, with the pressures of the Indian media, the huge expectations from the Indian cricket loving public and the interference from the cricket board, the BCCI

Even Greg Chappell was successful in the position of Indian cricket coach for some time, despite his obvious shortcomings,but soon sunk deep inside the quagmire

The Indian cricket team needs a cricket manager, not a cricket coach

As Kapil Dev pointed out many times, the Indian cricket team needs a cricket manager and not a cricket coach. Ye, BCCI gurus, at least now, heed the words of Kapil Dev, India's most astute cricket hand, and appoint a cricket manager who will only motivate but not attempt to coach

Graham Ford has smartly evaded the offer to be Indian cricket coach, but who will be the next victim of the BCCI?

3 Secret reasons why Ford was selected as Indian cricket coach

Why Ford was selected as Indian cricket coach

The secret is out, Ford has been selected as the Indian cricket coach. Have you wondered why Ford was selected as Indian cricket coach?

Here are some of Ford's qualifications which made him the best candidate for the post of Indian cricket coach

Ford's candidature for Indian cricket coach

Ford is not a citizen of India. This is the most important criterion to select Ford as the Indian cricket coach

Ford has good experience of match fixing. I will not say more, but the Indian cricket board, BCCI,obviously thinks that Ford's experience in match fixing in Cronjegate will help his tenure in the Indian cricket team

Ford has not played test or one day international cricket.This is another important criteria which has resulted in Ford being selected as Indian cricket coach. The Indian cricket board is cunning enough to realize that a person like Ford who has not played International cricket has not had the opportunity made any major blunders in his cricketing career

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The Indian cricket board has thus made an intelligent decision by selecting Ford as the Indian cricket coach since Ford met all the preconditions needed to be the Indian cricket coach

Men In White ,by Mukul Kesavan is a great cricket book

Men In White, is a really cool cricket book written by Mukul Kesavan

I started reading Mukul Kesavan's Men In White with a lot of trepidation. Most cricket books are written by cricketers (read ghost writers) and lack the basic elements of good writing and humor.But Mukul Kesavan's Men in White really surprised me by being written brilliantly with some of the best metaphors I have ever read

My favorite metaphor from Mukul Kesavan's Men In White book

• "GR Vishwanath looked like a sawn off dacoit and played like a wristy angel"

I first read Mukul Kesavan's Men in White and then started reading his blog

I just read read an article from Mukul Kesavan's blog on Why we root for Sri Lanka and really enjoyed it. Mukul seems to be one cricket writer whom I really like

In summary, I would really recommend that you read Mukul Kesavan's Men in White book about the characters that make world cricket

Monty Panesar,is Monty Panesar just an also ran?

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Is Monty Panesar just destined for also-ran status?

Monty Panesar belongs to that amazing breed of left arm spin bowlers, who believe in wearing down the batsmen with their impeccable line and length

Monty Panesar's hero undoubtedly in the great Bishan Singh Bedi who bowled untiringly for the Indian cricket team for ages.

Bishen Singh Bedi was the classic left arm spinner, being hit for six was an opportunity for Bishen Singh Bedi. All he would do is to drop the next ball a fraction short, so that the batsman would get caught at mid-on

Monty Panesar should see the modern attacking cricket game as an opportunity

Monty Panesar should not be discomfited by the modern way of playing test cricket which includes scoring at almost four runs per over. In fact, Monty Panesar should emulate his mentor Bedi, and see the attacking batting styles of current batsmen as a great opportunity to either toss the ball a fraction more, or bowl a slightly faster ball

Monty can use the traditional left arm spinner's repertoire of varying spin, flight and length and will find that the modern cricket game is just fantastic for spin bowlers

Monty Panesar should resist the temptation to bowl flat to attacking batsmen

Monty Panesar should learn from the Harbhajan Singh story. Harbhajan Singh, another protege of Bishan Singh Bedi, took the wrong route by bowling flatter after being hammered a few times and now has his career in tatters

Monty Panesar should learn from Harbhajan Singh's experience and ensure that he does not attempt to take the easy route of bowling flat and terminate his career by being just another ordinary spin bowler

Monty Panesar has a great future ahead , as long as he keeps to the basics of traditional left arm spin bowling

Sachin Tendulkar has the last laugh

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Sachin Tendulkar always has the last laugh in Indian cricket

Sachin Tendulkar has scored two consecutive test centuries against the Bangladesh cricket team and hopefully quelled the anti Sachin Tendulkar brigade for some time. Sachin Tendulkar proved once again that he is after all one of the greatest test cricketers of his generation

Sachin Tendulkar's centuries against Bangladesh- Please dont say that it was only Bangladesh

Sachin Tendulkar does not care about the opposition or any specious arguments by the so called cricket experts.

Why is it that Sachin Tendulkar is criticized whether or not he scores against the Bangladesh cricket team. When Sachin Tendulkar failed in the World cup one dayer against the Bangladesh cricket team, the cricket critics said that Sachin failed against the Bangladesh cricket minnows.

When Sachin Tendulkar has scored two consecutive centuries against the Bangladesh cricket team, the argument is going to be that Sachin Tendulkar is taking advantage of playing minnows like the Bangladesh cricket team to further his records

What is Sachin Tendulkar supposed to do?Maybe next time Sachin Tendulkar should hit a century in one test and get bowled for zero in the second test so that he satisfies both kinds of cricket critics!

Sachin Tendulkar's test cricket centuries mean that it is time for Ian Chappell to eat his words

Ian Chappell's arguments for Sachin Tendulkar's retirement were weird in the first place. Ian Chappell felt that Sachin Tendulkar needed to retire from Indian test cricket simply because Sachin was not longer the best in the cricket world.

Sachin Tendulkar may still not be the best in international cricket yet, but he is surely an important asset to the Indian cricket team

Sachin Tendulkar teaches you to bat

Sachin Tendulkar's straight drive is a sign that there is a God

If you ever doubted that God exists, you should see Sachin Tendulkar's straight drives. Sachin Tendulkar's straight drives are made in .. heaven

Check out Sachin Tendulkar's great straight drive against Wasim Akram

Sachin Tendulkar unleashes an amazing straight drive off Wasim Akram's bowling. Indian cricket's other great,Anil Kumble can see that he has been lucky to witness a great shot by Sachin Tendulkar

Mahendra Singh Dhoni- The next Sachin Tendulkar?

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni-Mahendra Singh Dhoni has the ability to be a truly great

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is already the best Indian wicketkeeper batsman ever. Mahendra Singh Dhoni could
turn it around and become one of India's great batsmen ever

Mahendra Singh Dhoni needs to bat at number 3

The only reason Mahendra Singh Dhoni is batting at number 7 is that wicketkeepers usually bat at number 7. :-)
Its stupid that Mahendra Singh Dhoni, a match winner is batting late in the batting order. The earlier self-styled "Guru" coach of the
Indian cricket team,Mr. Greg Chappell, was really underutilizing Dhoni's potential

If Mahendra Singh Dhoni is really among the top ten batsmen in the world, Dhoni should bat up the order,at number 3.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni needs the support of the Indian cricket captain and coach

Players with raw talent like Mahendra Singh Dhoni need the support of the Indian cricket coach and captain.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been underutilized so far in his career and needs to be given ample opportunities so that he can play
to his potential

Mahendra Singh Dhoni's greatest worry- satisfying the expectations of the Indian cricket fan

The Indian cricket fan expects Mahendra Singh Dhoni to hit a century in every match and a six of every ball.

As Sachin Tendulkar has found out,much to his chagrin, one failure in an important match can wipe off all of Mahendra Singh Dhoni's greatest
achievements

Its easier for Mahendra Singh Dhoni to play Brett Lee than satisfy the Indian cricket fan

India Vs Bangladesh live cricket series

India Vs Bangladesh live one day cricket series in Bangladesh Predictions

The Indian cricket team is on its way to Bangladesh to play in the India Vs Bangladesh cricket series. Rahul Dravid is leading the Indian cricket team devoid of Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly for the one day cricket series

Its stupid to drop Sachin Tendulkar for the India Vs Bangladesh one day crickets series

It is definitely a crazy decision to drop Sachin Tendulkar for the India Vs Bangladesh cricket series. The BCCI is plain stupid to not include Sachin Tendulkar for the India Vs Bangladesh one day cricket series- I dont mind superstars being dropped, but to drop Sachin Tendulkar without a proper replacement is dumb

Is there anybody in India apart from Sachin Tendulkar who can bowl ten overs of spin or seam bowling in almost every cricket match and also average 44 runs at almost a run a ball?

The selection of the Indian cricket team for the India Vs Bangladesh cricket series proves that the Pawar led BCCI is far worse than Dalmiya's BCCI

Under Pawar, the BCCI seems to be focused on killing the proverbial golden goose.The Indian cricket fan is slowly losing its appetite for Indian cricket

While the lack of public interest for the India Vs Bangladesh cricket series is a good sign for sports like soccer and hockey in India, it is sad that Indian cricket which successfully challenged the Australian cricket team in India and Australia has been reduced to this state

Hooray,for Greg Chappell for messing the Indian cricket team so much that a India Vs Bangladesh cricket series seems interesting

Talk about Greg Chappell's contribution to world cricket that even a India Vs Bangladesh cricket series in now interesting and possibly a close contest.

India Vs Bangladesh cricket series - Prediction- India should win but barely

The Indian cricket team should win the India Vs Bangladesh one day cricket series. The Bangladesh cricket pitches are typically very slow and traditionally do not aid fast bowlers like Moshrafe Mortaza and this is good news for the Indian cricket team in the India Vs Bangladesh cricket series

In summary, the Indian cricket team should barely win the India Vs Bangladesh cricket series, but it wont be easy without Sachin Tendulkar

Mashrafe Mortaza - The next great fast bowler?

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Mashrafe Mortaza could be the next great fast bowler in international cricket

Mashrafe Mortaza typifies the spirit of the Bangladesh cricket team. Mashrafe Mortaza is Bangladesh cricket's speedster on par with the best of the world's fast bowlers on one day and an average class bowler on another.

Mashrafe Mortaza will prize his hostile opening spell against the Indian cricket team

Mashrafe Mortaza's opening spell against the Indian cricket team set the tone for the spirited performance of the Bangladesh cricket team in the World cup cricket series.2007 in the Caribbean

Mashrafe Mortaza bowled a powerful spell and had Uthappa and Ganguly on the backfoot and struggling right from the first over and this lifted the spirit of the Bangladesh cricket team who began to believe that they could win against the Indian cricket team

Mashrafe Mortaza has a good chance against the Indian cricket team in the Indian cricket team's Bangladesh tour

Mashrafe Mortaza may find it difficult to bowl extremely hostile spells in the slower pitches of Bangladesh. The Indian tour of Bangladesh is a good opportunity for Mashrafe Mortaza to cement his place in the Bangladesh cricket team and learn to bowl well on slower unresponsive pitches

Mashrafe Mortaza and Mohammed Asif form the hope for the Asian subcontinent's revival

Send Greg Chappell to Sri Lanka

Send Greg Chappell to Sri Lanka-The Australian cricket solution

The Australian cricket think-tank is in a serious quandary. The Sri Lankan cricket team is getting better and can seriously challenge the Australian cricket team soon

Coach Buchanan comes up with a great idea. "Hey, lets play the Greg Chappell trick again- This time on the Sri Lankan cricket team"

The Greg Chappell trick- how the Indian cricket team was vanquished

The Indian cricket team under Saurav Ganguly was almost threatening to eject the Australian cricket team from the top spot. The Indian cricket team actually tied the India Vs Australia cricket series in Australia 1-1, and Australia had to struggle with the help of Parthiv Patel and the umpires to save the last test

That's when Buchanan figured out the first phase of the Greg Chappell trick- Send Greg Chappell as coach to the Indian cricket team

This information was leaked to us by sources close to the former Indian coach

Sri Lankan cricket win in World cup predicted two months ago

GameCricket.com predicted a win for Sri Lankan cricket in the cricket World cup two months back

Its time to crow, even if the Sri Lankan cricket team does not win the cricket World cup,2007. The very fact that the Sri Lankan cricket team has proved successfully that the Sri Lankans are among the two best cricket teams in the cricket
world proved that our statistical cricket results prediction system works

How does GameCricket.com always predict cricket match results successfully?

GameCricket.com uses a statistical technique based on one on one encounters in international cricket matches to predict the results of cricket matches. Statistics never lies and therein lies the secret of our cricket match predictor algorithms

Our most successful predictions in this cricket World cup- We predicted that the Indian cricket team could lose to the Bangladesh cricket team

Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand World cup cricket 2007-Sri Lanka win

Sri Lanka vs New Zealand World cup cricket 2007-Slow pitch leads to Sri Lanka win

The Sri Lankan cricket team have won the World cup 2007 seminfinals Vs New Zealand to deservedly reach the finals. The key factors that led to a win for Sri Lankan cricket over New Zealand in the World cup semi-finals

• The Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand Jamaica World cup cricket semifinals had a slow pitch that aided spinners. The so-called pitch pundits for the Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand World cup cricket seminfinals were absolutely wrong as the pitch aided spinners rather than pacers


• Muralitharan made the pitch look like a minefield during the Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand cricket match


• The Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand semifinals will be remembered for Jayewardene's incredible match winning knock-True captains lead from the front!


• Upul Tharanga,who surprised everyone in the Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand World cup 2007 semifinals,by returning to form at the crucial time


• The Sri Lankan captain and selectors for sticking to a long term plan for creating a world class cricket team. Despite failures in the Sri Lankan cricket team, which in one series, even lost 1-6 to the Indian cricket team, the Sri Lankan cricket selectors persisted with a consistent batting lineup and a long term plan

Three cheers for the Sri Lankan cricket team for beating New Zealand in the Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand World cup cricket 2007 semifinals

World cup cricket 2007 predictions

World cup cricket 2007 predictions of all subsequent matches on GameCricket.com

On popular demand, we will be publishing the predictions of all subsequent World cup cricket matches on GameCricket.com

As many of you will be aware, we successfully predicted the Indian cricket team's loss to the Bangladesh cricket team in India's inaugural world cup 2007 cricket match

Here's to more successful cricket predictions

Sachin Tendulkar should play the 2011 cricket World cup

Sachin Tendulkar should play the 2011 cricket World cup

Sachin Tendulkar has been the mainstay of the Indian cricket team for the last seventeen years. Emotionally, it hurts me when people,instigated by self-styled cricket Gurus and their various siblings,ask for Sachin Tendulkar's retirement

Sachin Tendulkar has given up so much for Indian cricket that the Indian cricket fans are just not being fair

Sachin Tendulkar is still Indian one day cricket's best player

Despite Sachin Tendulkar's past achievements,I would be the first to agree that Sachin Tendulkar should retire from Indian cricket, if there is a better player in India to replace him

The point is that there is no Indian cricket player as good as Sachin Tendulkar in the country.Arguably, Rahul Dravid is a better batsman than Sachin Tendulkar but Rahul Dravid's recent one day international cricket record is quite poor

Also,Sachin Tendulkar bowls ten overs of his medley of off spin,leg spin and medium pace in every one day international cricket match. Sachin Tendulkar, the spinner, is often a better bowler than even Anil Kumble on a turning track

In summary,for Sachin Tendulkar to be replaced, Indian cricket needs a cricketer who bats at a one day international cricket average of 43 and bowls during the opposition's slog overs

Sachin Tendulkar should keep playing for India, until a better Indian player replaces him

Ian Chappell's argument that Sachin Tendulkar should retire, since Brian Lara is apparently better than him, is a stupid argument. Sachin Tendulkar needs to play as long as he can contribute to Indian cricket and no better Indian cricketer can replace him

Greg Chappell has fooled the Indian cricket board,BCCI

Greg Chappell seems to have completely fooled the Indian cricket board-the BCCI

Greg Chappell is now looked upon as a sincere "Guru" whose professionalism is worth appreciating. The only thing professional about Greg Chappell is his professional bungling of his job as coach of the Indian cricket team.

Mr. Pawar, are you aware that Greg Chappell insulted the Indian cricket spectators

Greg Chappell actually openly insulted the Indian cricket spectators by using an abusive gesture. If Greg Chappell had done this to an Australian cricket crowd, the Australian cricket crowd would have lynched Greg Chappell and the Australian cricket media would have ensured that Greg Chappell was permanently out of a job

Mr. Pawar, would you have censured Greg Chappell if he had insulted Indian cricket crowds in Maharashtra?

Greg Chappell has taken Indian cricket for a ride for the last two years, and sadly,the BCCI is still encouraging Greg Chappell

Cricket-Greg Chappell's email to his wife leaked to media?

Greg Chappell's email to his wife may have been leaked to media,per sources

A source close to the Indian coach has informed segments of the media that one of Greg Chappell's emails to his wife may have been leaked to the media. Some sources,close to the coach, claim that the leak of the email may be as a result of a habit of sending important confidential emails to his media friends,rather than any deliberate leak of the email to the Indian media

The email leak controversy rages and is expected to escalate the current controversy

Who else could have leaked this email? Our sources close to the coach also point out the coach himself is unlikely to have leaked the email, since he is the epitome of sincerity. In fact, the sources suggest that a coach who has not made a single mistake in his reign as Indian cricket coach (it was always someone else's mistake) could not have made this simple blunder

In fact, this email leak could be attributed to a number of sources such as the Indian Internet services provider or certain search engine such as Google,acting in collusion with certain senior members of the Indian cricket team

Greg's brother Ian Chappell also could not be reached- per our sources close to the coach, Ian may have been busy calling for other Indian senior cricketers to retire,acting in isolation and with absolutely no prodding from the Indian cricket coach

Please take this blog post in the spirit of April Fool's day and definitely not take it seriously (despite what our sources close to the Indian cricket team say)

Indian cricket's scourge,Greg Chappell-An expert blame game consultant

Chappell now blames the entire list of senior Indian cricketers

Chappell is a "blame-game" expert. This time, Greg Chappell is blaming Yuvraj,Sachin,Sourav and every other "senior" cricketer for opposing his "royal" word

Greg Chappell has a secure career as a blame game consultant

Greg Chappell will hopefully be thrown out of Indian cricket, if the BCCI is serious about "saving" Indian cricket.

Greg Chappell need not worry about his career, he can easily get a job in any industry as a "blame game" consultant. In his stint as coach of the Indian cricket team, he first blamed Saurav Ganguly,then abused the Calcutta crowds, and finally is now blaming the entire set of Indian senior cricketers such as Yuvraj,Sachin,Sourav and Sehwag

My humble recommendation for Indian cricket-Sack Greg Chappell immediately

Who is Ian Chappell to tell Sachin to retire?

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Indian cricket

Every jerk in the country and outside seems to think that there is something wrong with Indian cricket and "something" needs to be done about it

The BCCI needs to avoid this precise knee jerk stupid reaction to Indian cricket

Who is Ian Chappell to tell Sachin to retire

Ian Chappell is just another smart guy who says something controversial and keeps himself in the news (and gets invited by the stupid Indian media) for his "insightful" (ha!) comments.

There is nothing wrong with Sachin Tendulkar- he is playing perfectly well. Look at Sachin Tendulkar's average over the last year and you will see that Sachin Tendulkar's average is better than even Ricky Ponting's average. Surprised? You should be surprised , given the nonsense that the Indian media is feeding you

Inzamam said it best-the subcontinent's media does not support the teams

Look at the way the Australian media reacts to every Australian cricket team's loss. The Australian loss is always either blamed on the umpiring, the bad pitch or the hostile overseas crowds! The Australian cricketers can do absolutely nothing wrong

In contrast, the Indian media would criticize even a match winning innings by Sachin Tendulkar- he didn't rotate the strike , for example.

Look at Ian Chappell's criticism of Sachin Tendulkar's almost match winning double hundred against Australia- he criticizes Sachin for not using his talent,but using sheer determination and focus to score runs. The same Ian Chappell is now saying that Sachin lacks determination but has talent..Please dont listen to these so-called Gurus - including the current Australian coach of Indian cricket

Mr. Rajan Bala, do you hate Indian cricket?

Mr.Rajan Bala, the "esteemed" sports columnist seems to hate the Indian cricket team

Mr.Rajan Bala, do you support India or "Greg Chappell"?. I understand that Mr. Greg Chappell is a close buddy of yours and has supported your journalist career by leaking information about Indian cricket at the right time and giving you "juicy" insights into the Indian cricket team

But hey, you seem to be supporting a self-styled "Guru", who has systematically destroyed Indian cricket and criticizing the Indian cricketers who are heart-broken that their country has not qualified for the cricket World cup

Kick Mr. Greg Chappell out of Indian cricket

To be fair to Greg Chappell,Greg Chappell has not deliberately destroyed Indian cricket. Greg Chappell just seems to be incompetent and amazingly has no repentence for his stupid experiments with the Indian cricket team.Greg Chappell's experiments meant that no one in the Indian cricket team was ever aware of his presence in the team and definitely not his batting position

Mr.Rajan Bala, your friendship is worthy of being recorded in posterity,but please dont put your friendship before Indian cricket

Sachin Tendulkar should never be dropped

Sachin Tendulkar should never be dropped from the Indian cricket team

Sachin Tendulkar should never be dropped from the Indian cricket team. It hurts and pains me to hear about Sachin Tendulkar being summarily dropped from the Indian cricket team.

Sachin Tendulkar is a crunch time player for the Indian cricket team

The most common complaint about Sachin Tendulkar nowadays is that he is not a crunch match cricket player and tends to succumb under pressure.But, that argument about Sachin Tendulkar is really flawed

The perception about Sachin Tendulkar's so-called failures for the Indian cricket team is influenced by two factors- Our large expectations from Sachin Tendulkar and his batting position

Since Sachin Tendulkar opens the Indian team's cricket innings or bats at number four,any good innings by Sachin Tendulkar is not noticed and taken as part of the course and nothing extraordinary.

Have you ever wondered what would happened if Sachin Tendulkar had failed in those cricket innings when he scores centuries?

If Sachin Tendulkar scored a century for the Indian cricket team against Bangladesh, people would have said that Sachin Tendulkar scores only against minnows

Sachin Tendulkar is now in a non-enviable lose-lose scenario in Indian cricket.If Sachin Tendulkar had scored against the Bangladesh cricket team and if the Indian cricket team had scored a facile win, the Indian cricket media would have taken potshots at Sachin saying he picked an opportunity to score against a minnow cricket team

Sack Greg Chappell from Indian cricket team Now

Greg Chappell should be sacked as Indian cricket team's coach job Now

The Indian cricket authorities are too tolerant of Greg Chappell's antics and blame games. The Indian cricket board should see thru the so-called Guru Greg's antics and fire Greg Chappell immediately

Greg Chappell - an expert at blame games

Not only does Greg Chappell seem to be a great control freak but also adept at blame games. Apparently, Greg Chappell has spoken to Rajan Bala and told Rajan that Greg Chappell is not to blame for the woes afflicting the Indian cricket team-This time , the Indian cricket team's problems are the fault of the entire Indian senior players,including Dravid,Sehwag,Sachin and Saurav

Greg Chappell goes on to suggest that the ever-failing Suresh Raina should have been in the Indian cricket team- Yeah, let sycophants be part of the Indian cricket team

It is never Greg Chappell's fault

In Greg Chappell warped brain, it is never his own fault- first it was Saurav Ganguly's fault, then the fault of the Indian cricket media, now its the fault of the entire Indian senior cricketers

Repair the damage to the Indian cricket team by firing Greg Chappell now!

Sachin Tendulkar gets a phone call

Humor to ease the pain for Indian cricket fans

I am a Sachin Tendulkar fan and will always be one- but in view of his recent failure in the India Vs Sri Lanka crunch match, I can resist adding this joke

A phone rings in the Indian dressing room

Sehwag picks up the phone- Mrs. Sachin Tendulkar is on the other end of the phone inquiring about Sachin. Sehwag tells her that Sachin has just gone to bat.

Mrs. Sachin Tendulkar says that she will hold the line since Sachin should be back soon

Greg Chappell, last "foreign" coach for Indian cricket?

Greg Chappell should be the last foreign coach for the Indian cricket team

I am not being chauvinistic when I say that Greg Chappell should be the last truly "foreign" coach for Indian cricket.

When I mentioned "foreign", I was referring to Greg Chappell's inability to understand Indian culture and try to work within the mindset of the Indian cricket team, the Indian cricket fans and the Indian cricket media

Unlike Greg Chappell, John Wright was almost an "Indian" coach

Unlike Greg Chappell,John Wright was loved and respected by the Indian cricket team members, since John Wright knew and understood the cultural sensitivies of the Indian cricket team.

The Australian methods of motivation employed by Greg Chappell were bound to fail with the Indian cricket team. Just look at John Wright's performance with the Indian cricket team - a World cup finals, beating the Australian cricket team in India and drawing against the Australian cricket team in Australia

Greg Chappell and maybe Sunny, need to learn from Steve Waugh's comments

Greg Chappell should learn from Steve Waugh's insightful comments about the cultural differences between the Indian and Australian cricket teams. Steve Waugh has rather insightfully pointed out to the respect expected by the Indian senior cricket players, the class differences apparent in the Indian cricket team's inability to carry their own kit and more

Whats more, Greg Chappell should have realized that in any job, it doesnt make sense to abuse any stakeholders- Greg Chappell's rude behaviour against the Calcutta crowd should have been enough to have thrown him out of Indian cricket team.

No Australian crowd would have allowed Greg Chappell to remain coach after his rude behavior against the Calcutta crowds!

Well,Guru Greg Chappell is unlikely to do well in Australia either as a coach

Sack Greg Chappell from Indian cricket team

Greg Chappell should be sacked from the Indian cricket team

Greg Chappell should retire from coaching the Indian cricket team, in fact Greg Chappell should retire from coaching.Period

Dropping Greg Chappell - the best experiment

Greg Chappell, the self-styled "Guru",experimented with the Indian team and batting lineup for over 18 months- the Indian cricket board, should experiment with the coaching position now by dropping Greg Chappell

Greg Chappell seems quite shameless

While Inzamam and Woolmer resigned from their posts after Pakistan's quick exit from the cricket World cup,Greg Chappell seems very shameless and is still looking to extend his infamous stint with the Indian cricket team

Why does the Indian cricket board tolerate this rude,shameless and worthless coach?

As Kapil Dev remarked - Who is Greg Chappell and why is he given so much prominence

In short, the BCCI should get rid of Greg Chappell immediately and start re-building the Indian cricket team

GameCricket.com predicted Indian cricket team's loss to Bangladesh cricket team

Indian cricket team's loss to Bangladesh - as predicted by GameCricket.com

In our cricket astrologer blog post on the preview of the India Vs Bangladesh cricket match, we had successfully predicted that the Bangladesh cricket team will be a tough nut to crack for the Indian cricket team

Lo, and behold, the Indian cricket team has lost to the Bangladesh cricket team and is now almost certain of facing relegation from the cricket World cup tournament

India Vs Bangladesh cricket match at the World cup- How we predicted the cricket match results accurately

GameCricket.com used statistical simulation techniques to predict the results of cricket matches such as the India Vs Bangladesh cricket match. The factors used to successfully predict the results of cricket matches include current form of cricket players, past statistical performance, performance in past one on one confrontations and pitch details

The India Vs Bangladesh cricket match at the cricket World cup was successfully predicted by using such statistical simulation and as you can see, it was a great contrarian prediction. We may have broken a billion hearts,but statistics knows no geographic boundaries- Mathematics is God!

Cricket World cup shocker: India and Pakistan out of World cup cricket?

India and Pakistan are on the brink of being out of the World cup cricket tournament

The Indian cricket team has made 191 all out against the unfancied Bangladesh cricket team in the Group match of the cricket World cup

The Indian cricket team struggled on the slow pitch at Trinidad against both the pacemen such as Mortaza and spinners such as Rafique. The Indian cricket team seemed tentative and approached the cricket ball with undue respect and now find themselves with a small total to defend on a reasonably good pitch

Pakistan cricket team struggles against Ireland on a seamy pitch

The Pakistan cricket team is definitely on the brink of the biggest cricket disaster in their history - The Pakistan cricket team is now struggling at 130/9 off 43 overs against lowly Ireland, who have bowled like champions

The Pakistan cricket team however still has a chance in this key World cup cricket match since the pitch is seamer friendly and Umar Gul and Rao Iftikar could wreck havoc with the Ireland cricket team

World cup cricket 2007- Will the favored Pakistan and Indian cricket teams crash out of the cricket World cup?

Indian cricket team losing to Bangladesh in World cup cricket group match?

Indian cricket team is struggling against Bangladesh cricket in the World cup cricket Group match

The Indian cricket team is struggling at 125/4 off 37 overs against the unfancied Bangladesh cricket team

The Indian cricket batsmen were tentative to start with and soon lost Sehwag - playing without moving his feet again

Uthappa showed promise for the Indian cricket team but was soon out prodding at the ball outside the offstump

The Indian cricket batsmen are treating the cricket ball as if it is a live grenade

The Indian cricket team are running scared of the cricket ball and only gingerly touching the ball with the bat

The Indian cricket team soon lost Sachin Tendulkar as he tried to force the pace for a change, but his current amazing weakness against the spinners was exposed as he was caught behind of the foxy Rafique

Indian cricket team's only hope are Yuvraj and Dhoni in Group match against Bangladesh cricket team

Yuvraj Singh seems to be in fine form for the Indian cricket team and he seems to be the only hope for India along with Dhoni to follow next. Yuvraj and Dhoni need to power the Indian cricket team to a score of at least 225 runs to make a match of this India Vs Bangladesh Group match of the cricket world cup,2007

Indian cricket team could be out of the cricket World cup if they lose this opener against the Bangladesh cricket team and time is running out!

Soon,

Bangladesh cricket team may beat India in World cup cricket Group Match

Indian cricket team may lose to Bangladesh cricket team in World cup cricket tournament

The Indian cricket team has a chance of losing the first Group match of the World cup cricket series in the West Indies. The Indian cricket team faces the Bangladesh cricket team who are no minnows to World cricket and appear to be in great form

Bangladesh cricket team could beat the Indian cricket team in the slow pitches of the Caribbean

The Indian cricket batsmen could struggle against the Bangladesh cricket team spinners such as Rafique who can exploit the slow pitches of the Caribbean and make the Indian cricket batsmen struggle

The Indian cricket team could face upto three spinners in the match against the Bangladesh cricket team at Trinidad

The Indian cricket team could be out of the World cup cricket tournament

The Indian cricket team should be careful not to lose against the Bangladesh cricket team. The Indian cricket team is obviously a better team than the Bangladesh cricket team but in a one-off match at the cricket World cup, surprises could occur.

The Indian cricket team should play their natural game and should win against the Bangladesh cricket team in the Group match of the cricket World cup

The Indian cricket team should not get bogged down against the Bangladesh cricket team or unnecessarily try to slog early. The Indian cricket team should realise that at most West Indian cricket pitches, 250 runs is the ideal cricket score that is quite hard to chase

An Indian cricket team with Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid should not lose in the first match of the World cup cricket tournament

The Indian cricket team have traditionally been slow starters in past World cup cricket tournaments , and should not let the expectations of the Indian supporters make them play an unnatural game.The Indian cricket team has experienced players such as Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumble, and these great players should stand up and not let past mistakes happen

Irfan Pathan's struggles- Who is responsible?

Irfan Pathan is currently struggling in the Indian cricket team

Irfan Pathan seems to reflect the song 'I am half the man I used to be'

Irfan Pathan is struggling in both bowling and batting departments and should count himself lucky to be in the Indian cricket team for the World cup cricket tournament

The Irfan Pathan mess - Who is really responsible?

Irfan Pathan seems to been made the scapegoat in a political mess. Who can explain the "sudden" drop of form, just days after Irfan Pathan landed a hattrick against the Pakistan cricket team

Who is responsible for the Irfan Pathan debacle- Could it be the same person who made Sourav Ganguly miss an important year of international cricket?

Irfan Pathan's struggles - Why dont the senior cricket players speak up

Irfan Pathan is one of the victims as a result of the frequent experimentation in the Indian cricket team in terms of the batting order,the bowling sequence and the team selection

Why dont the Indian senior players like Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid speak up against this stupid experimentation- Imagine if Sachin's new batting order is going to cut short his cricketing career!

My take on Irfan Pathan's so-called loss of form

Irfan Pathan is primarily a swing bowler and is deadly in the initial overs of a cricket match especially with the ball that curves into the middle stump from outside off.

Irfan was robbed of his opening bowling status and when he started bowling with less venom, the Indian cricket coach started criticizing Irfan Pathan in public and in the press. This criticism has obviously psychologically demoralized Irfan Pathan and led him to a downward spiral in international cricket

The moral of the Irfan Pathan story:Get rid of this cricket quack in charge of the Indian cricket team before he does any more damage to young cricketers

Greg Chappell-The Damage Guru Greg has caused Indian cricket

Greg Chappell has scarred the Indian cricket team

Greg Chappell's experimentation theory has damaged the careers of several members of the Indian cricket team

Greg Chappell's coaching seems to suggest that no Indian cricket player is secure in the Indian cricket team,even if the Indian cricket player is secure,he has no clue which batting number he will be batting at

Greg Chappell can take his experimentation elsewhere

When talking about Greg Chappell's experimentation, Kapil Dev said it best- Greg is free to take his experimentation elsewhere, but Greg should leave the Indian cricket team out of it

Greg Chappell does not practice the Australian way,either

Greg Chappell knows that the Australian cricket team hardly ever changes the batting order or the core Australian cricket team. Gilchrist has been opening the Australian cricket team's batting for ages and Ponting has always been playing at number 3 in the Australian cricket team

Whose side is Greg Chappell on when he makes these stupid changes in the Indian batting order?

Have you forgotten Greg Chappell's nastiness?

Greg Chappell has survived despite his inherent nastiness

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  Greg Chappell uttered nasty statements against Sourav Ganguly and mentioned that Sourav is playing solely for money


• Greg Chappell's dirty gesture at Calcutta will not be forgotten

Greg Chappell survives due to the inherent niceness of the Indian cricket fan and the apathy of Indian cricket board

Dhoni should open for the Indian cricket team

Dhoni should open the batting for the Indian cricket team

Dhoni is the right person to open the batting for the Indian cricket team. Dhoni has the ability to thrash the opposition in the initial Power Play overs and is the right candidate to open the Indian cricket team's innings.

Dhoni opening for the Indian cricket team ensures that Dhoni gets the maximum number of overs

The best criteria to decide who should open the innings is that the best batsmen of the team should open and Dhoni is currently the batsman in the Indian cricket team with the best strike rate and the best average.

Dhoni is also ranked No. 3 in the ICC cricket rankings and rankings are usually a good criteria in determining the best batsman of the innings

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In summary, the Indian cricket team is underplaying Dhoni by making him bat at No. 7 and thereby not utilizing Dhoni's skills fully

Sehwag-The importance of being Viru of Indian cricket

Sehwag-the importance of being Viru of the Indian cricket team

Sehwag is repeatedly being selected in the Indian cricket team for his "superhuman match winning skills".Is this hope of Sehwag putting up a match winning score justified to keeping him in the Indian cricket team indefinitely

Sehwag is another of the long procession of the Indian cricket team's superstars

Sehwag and the triumph of individual cricketing talent in the Indian cricket team

Sehwag epitomizes the importance of the "hero syndrome" affecting the idolizing Indian cricket spectators,selectors and other cricket followers

Before Sehwag,there was Sachin Tendulkar, before Sachin there were Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev-For every success, these Indian cricket stars like Sehwag are treated like Gods and dumped after every failure

Sehwag's importance and New Zealand's success

In comparison to Sehwag's individual talent, no one in the New Zealand cricket team has had super talent, apart from maybe Richard Hadlee, but the New Zealand cricket team has been reasonably successful in world cricket

There seems to be a virtue in not having great talent and the expectations the talent leads itself to

Kapil Dev's indomitable spirit-The Indian cricket team needs this

Kapil Dev-The greatest Indian cricketer ever

Kapil is,without a doubt,the greatest cricketer the Indian cricket team has ever produced

Kapil Dev's intense passion for the Indian cricket team, the dedication Kapil Dev showed, and his raw talent have no parallel in Indian cricket history

Kapil Dev- the world cup cricket tournament brings nostalgic memories

Kapil Dev was the Indian cricket' team's icon during the cricket World cup in 1983. Kapil Dev's catch of Vivian Richards and his 183 not out against Zimbabwe were the lasting images of the cricket World cup in 1983

Kapil Dev says "no" to stupid experimentation by Greg Chappell

Kapil Dev retains his passion for Indian cricket even after he has retired from international cricket. In a recent interview, Kapil Dev said that Greg Chappell is free to do his experimentation but not with
"his" Indian cricket team.The Indian cricket team needs a coach or manager who understands the Indian psyche or culture- not an Australian misfit who was not even a good coach for South Australia

A Kapil Dev like inspiring leader is needed for the Indian cricket team - not a goody-goody person like Dravid!

"Rahul Dravid is not a great ODI cricket player"

Is Rahul Dravid a truly great ODI cricket player

"Rahul Dravid is not a good one day international cricket player"-This quote about Rahul Dravid was attributed to a former Indian cricketing great

In the years from 1996-2002,Rahul Dravid struggled in one day international cricket. Rahul Dravid could never find the gaps and often was guilty of either playing perfect defence or hitting the ball too hard, and unable to rotate the strike

Rahul Dravid is a truly great ODI player today

The greatness of Rahul Dravid is that he is now debatably one of the best one day international cricket players in the world.The great players like Rahul Dravid are not the ones who,by nature,excel at a certain type of game, but those who adapt and change their game to suit the requirements

Rahul Dravid- a player of many shades today

Rahul Dravid nowadays excels at consolidating the Indian cricket innings during the initial overs, rotating the strike during the middle overs and slogging the cricket ball all over the park during the end overs. Rahul Dravid is in short, a truly complete and great ODI cricket player

Rahul Dravid's improvement in ODI cricket

A look at Rahul Dravid's statistics over the years will show a marked improvement in his strike rate as the years progress and a reasonably good batting average. Rahul Dravid may have scored only 10,000 runs in ODI cricket,which is not a record compared to his peers such as Sachin Tendulkar,but his contributions in tight situations has been incredible and Indian cricket will always be proud of Rahul Dravid's achievements

Rahul Dravid - Three cheers to Rahul Dravid on completing 10,000 runs in ODI cricket

Sehwag not dropped from Indian cricket team-the much hyped matchwinner

Sehwag has been selected for the Indian cricket team for the cricket World cup

Sehwag has been chosen in the Indian cricket team for the cricket World cup in the West Indies. The Indian cricket selectors chose experience over recent performance by selecting Sehwag,Agarkar,Yuvraj ahead of special players such as Ramesh Powar

Sehwag-the much hyped cricket matchwinner for the Indian cricket team

Sehwag has been selected in the Indian cricket team despite his recent poor performances.Ostensibly,Sehwag has been selected since he is a "matchwinner" and can win a cricket match for the Indian cricket team , by virtue of his own performance

I am not disputing that Sehwag is a matchwinner, but I would like to question the number of chances given to Virendra Sehwag compared to other players in the Indian cricket team. Compared to Sehwag,Joginder Singh,for example, was recently given only one cricket match to prove himself and was summarily chucked out

Compared to Sehwag,even Ganguly was given fewer chances and even thrown out of the team,that too after a good showing against the Pakistan cricket team

Well, lets hope that Sehwag does justice to the faith imposed by the selectors and scores during the cricket world cup

VVS Laxman dropped again from Indian cricket team

VVS Laxman has been dropped for the India Vs Sri Lanka one day international cricket series

Why is VVS Laxman always the fall guy in the Indian cricket team? Its quite amazing that VVS Laxman has been repeatedly treated so badly by the Indian cricket selectors

VVS Laxman was promoted to vice captain of the Indian cricket team just a couple of months back in the last one day international against South Africa,but amazingly, the Indian cricket selectors have decided to insulted him by dropping him for the cricket World cup,without even giving him a chance

VVS Laxman 's dropping from the Indian cricket team is good news for Australia and bad news for the Indian cricket team

VVS Laxman 's axing from the Indian cricket team is probably being celebrated by the Australian cricket team, who fear Mr. Very Very Special Laxman more than anyone else in the cricketing world.

VVS Laxman has produced at least four incredible knocks for the Indian cricket team against the Australian cricket team and the Australian cricket team respects his batting abilities

Why is only VVS Laxman criticized for his fielding in the Indian cricket team?

VVS Laxman is the Indian cricket team's best slip fielder and his abilities will be very useful to the Indian cricket team at least in the first 20 overs. Why is only VVS Laxman's slip fielding criticized? What about Munaf Patel and Sreesanth- probably the Indian cricket team's worst fielders in almost a decade

VVS Laxman being dropped from the Indian cricket team is only a witch-hunt against nice guys

Nice guys like VVS Laxman dont protest after being treated badly by the Indian cricket team- no wonder people like VVS Laxman are made the scapegoat by the Indian cricket authorities and selectors,so that Greg Chappell sycophants like Suresh Raina are always given a chance in the Indian cricket team

Suffice to say, not selecting VVS Laxman is the biggest blow to Indian cricket

Cricket Australia will never choose a foreign cricket coach!

Cricket Australia will never choose a foreign cricket coach

Cricket Australia has just announced the appointment of Nielson as coach of the Australian national cricket team. Nielson was formerly Buchanan's assistant coach and played eight seasons for the South Australia cricket team

The Australian cricket team will always select an Australian cricket coach

Cricket Australia always selects an Australian as a national cricket coach,which believes in the 'Australian way' of playing cricket. There is no jingoism attached to selecting an Australian as the national coach, its just that Cricket Australia has selected a coach who understands cricket and also the Australian way of playing cricket.

Why don't Indian cricket selectors select Indian cricket coaches

The Indian cricket selectors are stupid enough to select foreign coaches who dont understand Indian and Asian culture. John Wright was smarter and quickly adapted himself to the Indian methods of coaching and motivation. Greg Chappell of course is a real failure, and has found it really hard to shed the Australian way,which is not accepted in India,in fact,Greg Chappell does not even seem to be trying

Cricket coaching is more about managing and motivation,not teaching

As Kapil Dev recently said, the job of a cricket coach is to motivate the cricket team,do you really think Greg 'Guru' or anybody else can advise a Sachin Tendulkar or a Rahul Dravid on playing the cover drive. The successful multinational corporations of the world believe in the 'Glocal' school of management- act local but think Global. You need to adopt the best global management practices but customize it to local culture.Pity,Greg Chappell has not taken any management classes. The end result - A struggle for the Indian cricket team who pretend to listen to the self-styled Guru Chappell and then smirk behind Chappell's back

Ramesh Powar dropped.How Unfair!

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Ramesh Powar has been dropped for the India Vs Sri Lanka cricket series

In an incredibly unfair decision, the Indian cricket selectors have dropped Ramesh Powar from the Indian cricket team. Dropping Ramesh Powar is a case of selecting the team for the cricket World cup in advance by keeping a key player out

Ramesh Powar-Are the Indian cricket selectors afraid to select Ramesh Powar?

Ramesh Powar has performed better than both Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh in any cricket one day international where Ramesh Powar has played in tandem with one of these great spinners.

Is it that Ramesh Powar has no place in the Indian cricket team since the Indian cricket selectors have already selected the team for the cricket World cup ? How very unfair to drop Ramesh Powar- India's best performing spinner

Ramesh Powar's fault- he is not flamboyant?

Ramesh Powar is not flamboyant or smart- he does his job of off-spin bowling extremely well,but does not give controversial television interviews or mocks the opposing batsmen like some of the so-called new generation bowlers such as Sreesanth.

That is probably Ramesh Powar's tragedy- he is not a larger than life figure,who is suited for many advertisements.There is no appreciation these days for a person like Ramesh Powar who only does his job extremely well

Ramesh Powar should be in Indian cricket team

Ramesh Powar should be in the Indian cricket team for the World cup cricket tournament

Ramesh Powar is being treated as only the possible third Indian spinner for the World cup cricket tournament

Why is Ramesh Powar treated in this way by the Indian selectors and the Indian think-tank?Time and again, Ramesh Powar has proved his worth, and repeatedly the Indian selectors have two-timed this energetic cricket performer.

Ramesh Powar is India's best one day international spinner

Surprised ? But really, Ramesh Powar has been India's best one day international spin bowler for some time now. Ramesh Powar is the best spinner based on recent statistics-GameCricket.com's fans are aware that GameCricket.com's statements are based on actual statistical data and not hype

In recent matches,Ramesh Powar has almost always performed better than Harbhajan Singh and Anil Kumble. Without taking anything away from Harbhajan and Kumble,Ramesh Powar to vary the flight of the ball and his ability to grab wickets are quite brilliant. Ramesh Powar has proved his worth in the West Indies, in the DLF cup ,in the Champions Trophy and now again against the West Indies cricket team

Ramesh Powar is not flamboyant but effective

Ramesh Powar may not have the Australian lean muscular body that the cricketers who are queuing to the gym seem to be craving for- but Ramesh Powar does an effective job for the role he has been selected for. Ramesh Powar takes his catches and bowls an effective line to the batsmen and takes wickets, after all ,isn't that his job?

Hope the Indian selectors are not cruel to Ramesh Powar and drop him for not being 'slim'

Sachin Tendulkar proves media wrong with timely ton

Sachin Tendulkar proves GameCricket.com right with a timely century

Sachin Tendulkar is still one of the best batsmen in the world and we have been crowing exactly that in our GameCricket.com blog. Its nice when Sachin acknowledges our comments by launching into another fantastic century. The West Indies cricket team bore the brunt of Sachin Tendulkar's large blade as he thrashed the West Indies bowlers to all parts of the ground

Sachin Tendulkar is still the best batsman in the Indian cricket team

Sachin Tendulkar hit this century in Vadodara off only 76 balls. It amazes me that Sachin Tendulkar with forty one centuries in one day international cricket matches can be questioned by sections of the media.

Please dont question Sachin Tendulkar's talents again

I appeal to the media - Please do not question Sachin Tendulkar's greatness again and do not be stupid enough to ask for dropping Sachin

Sachin Tendulkar should be dropped.Are u crazy?

Sachin Tendulkar should be dropped from the Indian cricket team

Per the media,Sachin Tendulkar is a spent force in Indian cricket and needs to be dropped from the Indian cricket team. Dropping Sachin Tendulkar from the Indian cricket team is the craziest idea I have heard for a long time

Sachin Tendulkar was the Indian cricket team's best performers in the recent cricket season

Sachin Tendulkar has been quietly accumulating runs in the recent cricket series starting with the DLF cup in Malaysia and actually has a better record than any other Indian cricket batsman. Here are Sachin's stats for the last season,per an recent article by Prem Sanjay on the internet

Sachin Tendulkar Runs: 480 Average 36.9

Rahul Dravid Runs:358 Average 32.5

Mahendra Singh Dhoni Runs:336 Average 30.5

Sachin Tendulkar has incredibly scored the most runs and has easily the best average among all the other Indian cricket batsmen.

Sachin Tendulkar is actually among the most prolific batsmen in the world in the past season

Incredibly enough,Sachin Tendulkar has scored at a prolific rate in the past cricket season , compared to other so-called ageless current batting greats such as Ponting and Lara

Sachin Tendulkar's stats in comparison to other world batsmen

Sachin Tendulkar Runs: 480 Average 36.9

Ponting Runs:460 Average:38.3

Lara Runs:472 Average:33.7

Gilchrist Runs:298 Average:27.0

Hussey Runs 392 Average:98.0

Kallis Runs 332 Average:36.8

Sachin Tendulkar has scored more runs than all these top players of world cricket-barring Hyssey and Ponting (by a small margin),Sachin has a better batting average than all these so-called greats of world cricket today.

If the media feels Sachin Tendulkar must be dropped after seeing these figures, the people in the media must be really stupid!

Should Dhoni and Kamran Akmal be dropped?

Should Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Kamran Akmal be dropped

Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Kamran Akmal are a cause of great debate. Imran Khan recently said that he is curious to see whether Dhoni or Kamran Akmal is the better wicketkeeper. Well, I would suggest Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Kamran Akmal should be dropped from the national cricket teams of India and Pakistan as wicketkeepers

Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Kamran Akmal are good batsmen but poor wicketkeepers

I dont deny that Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Kamran Akmal are great world class batsmen, but they are extremely poor wicketkeepers.Syed Kirmani has suggested that Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a very poor wicketkeeper and I am sure that Kumble will agree for all the missed chances off his bowling.Both Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Kamran Akmal do not seem to grasp the fundamentals of staying down low to spinners-

Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Kamran Akmal should first perform as wicketkeepers

Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Kamran Akmal should realize that their first day job is of wicketkeepers- Imagine if its the world cup final and Dhoni or Akmal drop either Kallis or Lara, their entire countries will rue the missed chance for the next four years

Dhoni
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Was Shane Warne the greatest legspinner ever?

Was Shane Warne the great legspinner to have played cricket

Shane Warne was undoubtedly a great legspinner but was he the greatest? Certainly, a lot of young Australians do think that Shane Warne was the best legspinner ever,but older Australian cricket fans do think that Richie Benaud may have been a better legspinner

Some think Shane Warne was not as good as Chandrasekhar of the India cricket team

Chandra or Chandrasekhar evoked as much respect as Shane Warne among the opposing batsmen. To compare Shane Warne and Chandra is obviously unfair,given that the two bowlers were so different.Shane Warne was a traditionally legspinner who liked to give the ball a lot of air while Chandra was almost a fast bowler and tended to skid the ball through.Viv Richards among other great cricketers respected the leg spin bowling of Chandra to a great extent

Was Shane Warne better than Abdul Qadir of the Pakistan cricket team

Abdul Qadir was undoubtedly responsible for the revival of traditional leg spin bowling in the subcontinent and his google was incredible,but it is debatable whether he was as good as Shane Warne

Shane Warne was definitely the greatest legspinner in his time

In summary,Shane Warne was of course the greatest legspinner among his contemporaries,and cricket statistics do not lie, but there were other great legspinners prior to Shane Warne's time who were really great too!

Ganguly and Inzamam prove cricket experience cannot be purchased from a shelf

Sourav Ganguly and Inzamam,experienced cricketers, have proved that experience cannot be bought off the shelf

• Saurav Ganguly helped the Indian cricket team beat South Africa in the first India Vs South Africa cricket test


• Inzamam Ul Haq has enabled the Pakistan cricket team to beat South Africa in the second cricket test.


• Jayasurya has almost come back from the dead to make the Sri Lankan cricket team potential favorites for the cricket World cup in the West Indies

Do you think the new cricket players around the world lack talent?

Of course not, but cricket experience at the highest level enables you to play the kind of match winning knock that Sourav Ganguly,Jayasurya and Inzy have been displaying against all odds at the most crucial time

Sachin Tendulkar,are you listening? We are awaiting that magic knock by Sachin against top-class opposition-I am sure that magic knock by Sachin is not far away

VVS Laxman being victimized by Indian cricket selectors?

Is VVS Laxman being victimized by the Indian cricket selectors?

Apart from VVS Laxman, we have seen comebacks from most of India's veteran stalwarts such as Anil Kumble and Saurav Ganguly in India's one day international cricket team.

Why isnt Laxman being allowed to make a comeback to the Indian cricket team?

Laxman has been India's great cricket warrior- even apart from the famous 281 not out against Australia, he has played some incredible test and one day cricket innings.

• Laxman has partnered Sachin and Dravid in four 250+ partnerships against Australia


• Laxman hit three one day international cricket series against Australia and Zimbabwe in one week.


• In India's recent tour of South Africa, Laxman hit critical knocks,often batting with the Indian cricket team's tail, to help the Indian cricket team to a respectable draw.
  

Laxman not selected for bad fielding? How stupid

Laxman has officially not been selected because of his bad fielding.Laxman is one of the Indian cricket team's best close fielders-doesnt the Indian cricket team at least need one good close-in fielder in Laxman at least in the initial stages of the game?

VVS Laxman
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