England TRASHES India!!

India would just like to forget this tour as India didn't win a single match..India lost 4-0 in the Test Series,lost the one off T20 and lost the ODI series 3-0..Most of the matches were interrupted by rain and again umpiring was not up to the mark..There was  review system in all the matches played and Raina once again suffered the most..India who have the weakness of short ball mostly got out playing the wrong shots for the deliveries which were bowled short..India were plagued by injuries..Virender Sehwag played only 2 tests;the 3rd and the 4th! England defeated India in all the tests!! India lost its No.1 rankings in Tests after losing all the 4 matches..The last match was a thrilling one in which England won by an innings and 8 runs..Sachin Tendulkar and Amit Mishra batted splendidly..At times when a review was taken HotSpot  revealed nothing..In the 3rd test match.Dravid's bat touched the lace of his shoe but he was given out and dravid didn't take a review! Dravid's batting..!! gosh!! a person could learn how to be patient from him..He notched up 3 centuries! he was adjudged as India's Man of the series and Kevin Pietersen was adjudged England's..He scored a double century in the 1st test at Lord's!! India's bowling was brittle..India lost Zaheer Khan in the 1st test..He suffered a hamstring injury after bowling 13 odd overs!! India lost the one off T20...England won in the last over thriller!! Samit Patel was the hero and Eoin Morgan also made 49..In the ODI series,India lost 3 matches..all by D/L method!! not in a single match 100 overe were played!! The first match was abandoned,The second match was reduced to 23 overs..The 3rd match would have been really a nightmare for India until MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja rescued India!! Ashwin played few amazing strokes at the end of the innings but England won it by 3 wickets..The 4th ODI ended in a tie..At 48.4 overs the rain came and both the scores were tied!! Again by D/L method the match ended in a tie!! In the last ODI Virat Kolhi scored a century,Rahul Dravid hit a half century and MS Dhoni's 50 off 26 which was studded by 2 monstorous sixes ensured that India reached a score of 304 for 6 in 50 overs but again the skies opened up and England's target was reduced to 241 runs from 34 overs 11 england did it successfully !! Debutant Bairstow scored 41 off 21!! MS Dhoni was adjudjed The Man of the series for scoring 3 consecutive 50's!! India slips to 5th in the ODI ranking and England rise to 4th place!!

The ICC Awards Function

Cricketer
of the Year :  Jonathan
Trott
Test Cricketer of the
Year : Alastair Cook
ODI Cricketer of the
Year : Kumar
Sangakkara
People's Choice Award :
Kumar Sangakkara
Spirit of Cricket Award :
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Emerging Player Award :
Devendra Bishoo
ICC Associate and
Affiliate Player : Ryan
ten Doeschate
Twenty20 International
Performance of the
Year : Tim Southee
Umpire of the Year :
Aleem dar
ICC Women's Cricketer
of the Year : Stafanie
Taylor
Four Indian Cricket
Team | ICT player
named in ICC ODI Team
of Year:
TM Dilshan, V Sehwag,
K Sangakkara, AB de
Villiers, S Watson,
Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra
Singh Dhoni [Captain &
WK], G Swann, Umar
Gul , D Steyn, Zaheer
Khan, L Malinga

Bamy Army wins against Sri Lanka!

Well the England versus Sri Lanka series was a tour which Sri Lanka would like to forget..The finalists of the 2011 World Cup lost in both Test Series and in the ODI series.Sri Lanka won the only T20.Sri Lanka lost the test series 1-0 and the ODI series 3-2..Sri Lanka lost the first match of the Test Series by an innings and 14 runs..The second and the third  test matches were drawn..Then Sri Lanka bounced back by winning the only T20..In the ODI series,England won the first match but Sri Lanka fought back by winning the second and the third ODIs,but England were no less and won the remaining 2 ODIs..Thus England won the ODI series against Sri Lanka..Alastair Cook captained the ODI Team for England..England will now face India..The series starts from July 21!!

India wins in the carreabian !!

India,after being crowned the world champs,have maintained their winning momentum..India,with a second string team in the ODIs,won the series 3-2 Suresh Raina led the young Indian side for ODIs and regular captain MS Dhoni  captained India in the Test Series..West Indies,without Gayle in ODIs and in the Test Series fought back by winning the last 2 ODIs..In the Test Series,India won 1-0..in the 3 match Test series..West Indies were really struggling without Gayle and the key players also failed to fire..In the last test debutant Kirk Edwards scored 110,while Chandrepaul scored 116 n.o. .The first Test was won by India , the second and the third test ended in a tame draw..All the tests were affected by rain and umpiring was worse..Suresh Raina suffered the most..One of the umpire even opted out of the final test!!

Man of the series - (ODI) Rohit Sharma
Man of the series - (Test) Ishant Sharma

Chennai Super Kings win IPL 4

Well Well....Chennai Super Kings have been outstanding throughout this tournament..They in fact deserved to win this tournament...The side was balanced...Batting and bowling were superb....Fielding...goodness me...What a superb fielding...One of the best you might have ever witnessed...The Royal Challengers Bengaluru were too dependent on Chris Gayle....Since his arrival The RCB won 7 out of their 7 matches....Chennai had a great home record winning all the 7 matches...The Chennai were never dependent on a certain guy..Whenever one guy fails;the other guy compensates...Murali Vijay who was in patches performed very well...Vikay scored 95 runs of just 52 balls...Mr.Cricket,Mike Hussey scored 63 runs of 45 balls..The opening duo (Vijay and Husssey)shared a sizzling 159 run partnership off just 14.5 overs...Dhoni won the toss and chose to bat that would help spinners a lot...The RCB's would have never expected such a start in whiche Gayle was gone for a 3 ball duck...Saurabh Tiwary hit a few lusty blows but it was too late for the RCB team...Ashwin was the pick off the bowlers..Even Jakati was among the wickets...Totally it was a team effort from CSK which won them the grand finale....


                                  Brief Scores: CSK : 205/5 in 20 overs (M.Vijay 95;M.Hussey 63;MS Dhoni 22;Gayle                    2 for 34;Aravind 2 for 39)
                                                        RCB : 147/8 in 20 overs (S.Tiwary 42 n.o.;V.Kolhi 35;Z.Khan 21;R.Aswin 3 for 16Jakati 2 for 21)

THE IPL IV SCHEDULE

Sorry for posting the schedule very late...

Previous matches before posting this schedule..

CSK bt KKR;MI bt DD;SPW bt KXIP;RCB bt Kochi;RR bt DC;KKR bt DC..

Apr 12 4PM . Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Daredevils Jaipur
Apr 12 8PM . Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians Bangalore
Apr 13 4PM . Pune Warriors vs Kochi Navi Mumbai
Apr 13 8PM . Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings Mohali
Apr 14 8PM . Deccan Chargers vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Hyderabad
Apr 15 4PM . Mumbai Indians v Kochi Mumbai
Apr 15 8PM . Delhi Daredevils v Kolkata Knight Riders Delhi
Apr 16 4PM . Chennai Super Kings v Royal Challengers Bangalore Chennai
Apr 16 8PM . Deccan Chargers v Kings XI Punjab Hyderabad
Apr 17 4PM . Rajasthan v Kolkata Knight Riders Jaipur
Apr 17 8PM . Pune Warriors v Delhi Daredevils Navi Mumbai
Apr 18 8PM . Kochi v Chennai Super Kings Kochi
Apr 19 4PM . Delhi Daredevils vs Deccan Chargers Delhi
Apr 19 8PM . Royal Challengers Bangalore v Rajasthan Royals Bangalore
Apr 20 4PM . Mumbai Indians v Pune Warriors Mumbai
Apr 20 8PM . Kolkata Knight Riders v Kochi Kolkata
Apr 21 8PM . Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan Royals Mohali
Apr 22 8PM . Mumbai Indians v Chennai Super Kings Mumbai
Apr 23 4PM . Kolkata Knight Riders v Royal Challengers Bangalore Kolkata
Apr 23 8PM . Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab Delhi
Apr 24 4PM . Deccan Chargers v Mumbai Indians Hyderabad
Apr 24 8PM . Rajasthan Royals v Kochi Jaipur
Apr 25 8PM . Chennai Super Kings v Pune Warriors Chennai
Apr 26 8PM . Delhi Daredevils v Royal Challengers Bangalore Delhi
Apr 27 4PM . Pune Warriors v Chennai Super Kings Navi Mumbai
Apr 27 8PM . Kochi v Deccan Chargers Kochi
Apr 28 4PM . Kolkata Knight Riders v Kings XI Punjab Kolkata
Apr 28 8PM . Rajasthan Royals v Mumbai Indians Jaipur
Apr 29 8PM . Royal Challengers Bangalore v Pune Bangalore
Apr 30 4PM . Kochi v Delhi Daredevils Kochi
Apr 30 8PM . Mumbai Indians v Kings XI Punjab Mumbai
May 1 4PM . Rajasthan Royals v Pune Warriors Jaipur
May 1 8PM . Chennai Super Kings v Deccan Chargers Chennai
May 2 8PM . Delhi Daredevils v Kochi Delhi
May 3 8PM . Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders Hyderabad
May 4 4PM . Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals Chennai
May 4 8PM . Pune Warriors v Mumbai Indians Navi Mumbai
May 5 4PM . Kochi v Kolkata Knight Riders Kochi
May 5 8PM . Deccan Chargers v Delhi Daredevils Hyderabad
May 6 8PM . Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kings XI Punjab Bangalore
May 7 4PM . Kolkata Knight Riders v Chennai Super Kings Kolkata
May 7 8PM . Mumbai Indians v Delhi Daredevils Mumbai
May 8 4PM . Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kochi Bangalore
May 8 8PM . Kings XI Punjab v Pune Warriors Mohali
May 9 8PM . Rajasthan Royals v Chennai Super Kings Jaipur
May 10 4PM . Kings XI Punjab v Mumbai Indians Mohali
May 10 8PM . Deccan Chargers v Pune Warriors Hyderabad
May 11 8PM . Rajasthan Royals v Royal Challengers Bangalore Jaipur
May 12 8PM . Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Daredevils Chennai
May 13 8PM . Kochi v Kings XI Punjab Indore
May 14 4PM . Mumbai Indians v Deccan Chargers Mumbai
May 14 8PM . Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kolkata Knight Riders Bangalore
May 15 4PM . Kings XI Punjab v Delhi Daredevils Dharamsala
May 15 8PM . Kochi v Rajasthan Royals Indore
May 16 8PM . Kolkata Knight Riders v Mumbai Indians Kolkata
May 17 8PM . Pune Warriors v Deccan Chargers Pune
May 18 4PM . Kings XI Punjab v Royal Challengers Bangalore Dharamsala
May 18 8PM . Chennai Super Kings v Kochi Chennai
May 19 8PM . Pune Warriors v Kolkata Knight Riders Pune
May 20 8PM . Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals Mumbai
May 21 4PM . Kings XI Punjab v Deccan Chargers Dharamsala
May 21 8PM . Delhi Daredevils v Pune Warriors Delhi
May 22 4PM . Royal Challengers Bangalore v Chennai Super Kings Bangalore
May 22 8PM . Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals Kolkata
May 24 8PM . Qualifier 1 Mumbai
May 25 8PM . Eliminator Mumbai
May 27 8PM . Qualifier 2 Chennai
May 28 8PM . Final Chennai

INDIA : THE NEW WORLD CUP CHAMPS!!

Well...It was a mouthwatering final between India and Sri Lanka in which India emerged as the World Cup champs after 28 years..India qualified for the finals after defeating Pakistan by 29 runs and Sri lanka qualified after defeating New Zeland by 5 wickets...Dhoni who was in patches throughout the World Cup came up with a match winning 91*...This is probably the last World Cup match for the legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar...and this was the last match forthe spin wizard Mutthiah Muralitharan...
Brief Scores(of the Final) : Sri Lanka won the toss..
                                         Sri Lanka : 274 for 6 in 50 overs ( Jayawardane 103* ,Sangakkara 48, Yuvraj 2/49,Zaheer 2/60)
                                               India   : 277 for 4 in 48.2 overs ( Gambhir 97,Dhoni 91*,Malinga 2 for 42,Dilshan 1for 27)