India win Kanpur test - 100rd Test wins

Sri Lanka were dismissed for 269 by India in their second innings to lose the second test match at Kanpur by an innings and 144 runs. India played brillantly first by posting such a huge score and then their bowlers forced the Lankan batsmen to commit mistakes and bowled them twice. Following are the important landmark of this match

• India registered their 100th Test match victory.
• India's third biggest win in terms of handing over the opponent an innings defeat.
• Man of the Match: S.Sreesanth

Scores

• India 1st innings : 642 all out
• Sri Lanka 1st innings : 229 all out
• Sri Lanka 2nd innings : 269 all out

History of India Test wins:

• 1st Test win - v/s England at Madras 1951-52
• 50th Test win - v/s Srilanka at Lucknow 1993-94
• 100rd Test win- v/s Srilanka at Kanpur 2009-10

Sachin Tendulkar completes 20years in cricket

20 years ago a little gem called Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar made his debut for India and today he holds numerous records in both forms of the game. Lets salute the Master Blaster and take a look at history.

Not many remember that during his debut tour to Pakistan there was a 20 over exibition match played where Sachin scored 53 runs of just 18 balls. It has to be best remembered for him hitting the Pakistani leggie Abdul Qadir for 28 runs in one over. Later the then captain Kris Srikant said"Its one of the best innings that I have seen."

Sachin quotes:

"When I started learning cricket from my coach Ramakant Achrekar,I was told clearly by him that not only should I respect the game, I should worship cricket also and then only cricket will take care of me. I still believe in that."

"I wanted to be as solid as Sunil Gavaskar and as destructive as Vivian Richards because that combination was always going to be lethal. I felt truly inspired by these two individuals on the field."

Sri Lanka tour of India 2009

November 11-13 : Three-day warm-up match in Mumbai


November 16-20 : 1st Test, Ahmedabad

November 24-28 : 2nd Test, Kanpur

December 2-6 : 3rd Test, Mumbai

December 9 : 1st Twenty20, Nagpur (d/n)


December 12 : 2nd Twenty20, Mohali (d/n)

December 15 : 1st ODI, Rajkot

December 18 : 2nd ODI, Visakhapatnam (d/n)

December 21 : 3rd ODI, Cuttack (d/n)

December 24 : 4th ODI, Kolkata (d/n)

December 27 : 5th ODI, New Delhi (d/n)

Australia tour of India 2009

Australia tour of India schedule 2009


Oct 25, 2009 09:00 IST Reliance Stadium, Vadodara 1st ODI India vs Australia (Aus win by 4 runs)

Oct 28, 2009 14:30 IST Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur 2nd ODI India vs Australia (Ind win by 99 runs)

Oct 31, 2009 14:30 IST Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi 3rd ODI India vs Australia (Ind win by 6 wkts)

Nov 2, 2009 14:30 IST Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali 4th ODI India vs Australia(Aus win by 24 runs)

Nov 5, 2009 14:30 IST Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad 5th ODI India vs Australia(Aus win by 3 runs)

Nov 8, 2009 09:00 IST Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Guwahati 6th ODI India vs Australia(Aus win by 6 wkts)

Nov 11, 2009 14:30 IST Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai 7th ODI India vs Australia(Match abandoned)
Australia win series 4-2

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India crash out of ICC Champions trophy

Australia’s 2 wicket win over Pakistan ensured that India was not going to the semi final of the ICC Champions Trophy. This bring us to the question that did India really deserve its place in the semi final line up. The way the Indians have approached this competition they never looked like they would win the cup. M.S.Dhoni who had lady luck smiling on him for a long time now needs to do some serious thinking. His laid back attitude during this tournament along with some bad team selection has been the bane of Team India. This along with some extremely bad bowling performances from most of the bowlers proved costly for them.

India faced the first blow when Zaheer Khan and Virendra Sehwag got injuries and adding to that list was the injury to Yuvraj Singh. The writing was clear on the wall that it would need some extra ordinary performances from the Indians if they were to be winners. But the bowling attack barring Ashish Nehra looked toothless in the absence of Zaheer Khan. First Pakistan and then Australia plundered them for runs and had it not been for the rains the Australians were also looking to post a 300 plus score like Pakistan. But read this in the final match against the West Indies Dhoni turned over his arm and got a wicket too!!!! Sorry to say this does not look like a no.1 team.

Abhishek Nayar who was the only one who posted a good score in the warm up match was ignored. The question is why was he made to play the warm up match if he was not going to be selected initially. Wouldn’t it make sense to give practice to someone who was going to be in the playing eleven? Or were they over confident from their victory in Sri Lanka.

Well now Autralia play a resurgent England team on Friday and Pakistan take on the Kiwis on Saturday. May the better team win.

NZ trash India in warm up match

India recieved a wake up call in their only warm up match against the Kiwis before the start of Champions trophy. Chasing a huge total of 301 runs India never looked like winning the match and lost by 103 runs.

The pace bowling in abscence of Zaheer Khan looks weak and India have to come up with a solution immediately else even a score of 300 plus wont be enough to contain the opposition. Abhishek Nayar looks promising and warrants a place in the final eleven especially after his performance yesterday(41 runs,36 balls).

India play Pakistan at the Centurion on 26th September.

Read the full news story at http://www.cricinfo.com/iccct2009/content/current/story/425807.html