SACHIN’S 200TH TEST

I too should write about the Greatest Sports Person.

November 14, 2013. How one can call this day.

World Diabetes Day / Children’s Day / India’s First Prime Minister’s Birth Anniversary / 2nd Rest Day in the FIDE World Chess Championship Match.

or Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar’s 200th Test.

The Second test against West Indies starts at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.

It is Sachin’s 200th Test.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s 150th Test.

Chris Gayle’s 99th Test.

M.S.Dhoni’s 79th Test.

Can you believe it ? Yes, it is of course, Rohit Gurunath Sharma’s 2nd Test.

Let us know little about our LEGEND - Little Master.

Born on April 24th 1973.

Test Debut November 15th 1989, against Pakistan. (The other person on debut that day was Waqar Younis).

Batting	Match	Innings	Runs	Average	100s	50s	HS
Test	199	328	15847	53.71	51	67	248 no
ODI	463	452	18426	44.83	49	96	200 no

Besides this, He has taken 200 wickets in Tests and ODIs together.

Thanks to ESPNCRICINFO.

Wish Him another Century and more on his Last Test.

ALL THE VERY BEST TO YOU, SACHIN.

HAPPY VIEWING friends.

INDIAN TEAM FOR ODI AGAINST AUSTRALIA AT HOME OCT’ 2013

Indian team for the T20 and for the first 3 ODI’s announced today.

1	M S DHONI Captain
2	SHIKHAR DHAWAN
3	ROHIT SHARMA
4	VIRAT KOHLI
5	YUVARAJ SINGH
6	SURESH RAINA
7	R ASHWIN
8	RAVINDRA JADEJA
9	BHUVNESHWAR KUMAR
10	ISHANT SHARMA
11	VINAY KUMAR
12	AMIT MISHRA
13	AMBATI RAYUDU
14	MD SHAMI
15	JAYDEV UNADKAT

 

SCHEDULE

MATCH	DATE	VENUE
T 20	OCT 10, 2013	RAJKOT
1st ODI	0CT 13, 2013	PUNE
2nd ODI	OCT 16, 2013	JAIPUR
3rd ODI	OCT 19, 2013	MOHALI
4th ODI	OCT 23, 2013	RANCHI
5th ODI	OCT 26, 2013	CUTTACK
6th ODI	OCT 30, 2013	NAGPUR
7tH ODI	NOV 2, 2013	BENGALURU

 

All ODIs are Day Night matches will Start 1.30 pm IST.

ENJOYYYY . . .

West Indies in India - 2011

Cricket Schedule:

West Indies will play 3 tests and 5 ODIs in India during Nov – Dec 2011.

TEST MATCH

1st TEST	Nov 6th to Nov 10th	Sun - Thu	Delhi – Feroz Shah Kotla
2nd TEST	Nov 14th to Nov18	Mon - Fri	Kolkata – Eden Gardens
3rd TEST	Nov 22nd to Nov 26th	Tue - Sat	Mumbai  - Wankhede

 

ODIs

1st ODI	Nov 29th	Tuesday	CUTTACK
2nd ODI	Dec 2nd	Friday	VISAKHPATNAM
3rd ODI	Dec 5th	Monday	AHMEDABAD
4th ODI	Dec 8th	Thursday	INDORE
5th ODI	Dec 11th	Sunday	CHENNAI

 

HAPPY VIEWING

England Tour of India 2011

England will play 5 ODIs and a T20 in India in October  2011.

All matches are Day Night starting at 2.30 pm  India time.

14-10-2011	Hyderabad	14.30
17-10-2011	Delhi	14.30
20-10-2011	Mohali	14.30
23-10-2011	Mumbai	14.30
26-10-2011	Kolkata	14.30
29-10-2011	Kolkata	20.00

 

HAPPY VIEWING

RAHUL DRAVID

The Wall and a Cool Gentle Man Mr RAHUL DRAVID

deserves more than a post in a blogger page..

He became the second highest  run getter in Test Cricket goes past Ricky Ponting and is now behind only Sachin.

Scoring a Century at Lords which he missed in 1996 on his Test Debut.  (thanks AFP for this still)

India avoided Follow on.

India lost just only once in a test match when Rahul Scores a century.

Highest Run Getters in TEST CRICKET

TENDULKAR                            14726 (51 Hundreds)

DRAVID                                      12417 (33 Hundreds)

PONTING                                   12363 (39 Hundreds)

LARA                                          11953 (34 Hundreds)

KALLIS                                       11947 (40 Hundreds)

The Winning Hit ICC WC 2011

IPL 4 SCHEDULE

Indian cricket fans will have continuous feast of matches till August 2011.

IPL Apr 08 Friday to May 28 Saturday. SCHEDULE

West Indies tour 1 T 20, 5 ODIs and 3 Tests till July

England 4 Tests, 1 T 20 and 5 ODIs till  end of August .

THE OFFCIAL WEBSITE FOR IPL 4 IS VERY WELL DESIGNED

IPL 4 TEAMS

TEAMS IN IPL 4 – 2011. 10 TEAMS  ALL IN ONE GROUP

CHENNAI SUPER KINGS	C S K
MUMBAI INDIANS	M I
ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE	R C B
DECCAN CHARGERS	D C
KOLKATTA KNIGHT RIDERS	K K R
DELHI DARE DEVILS	D D D
RAJASTHAN ROYALS	R R
KINGS XI PUNJAB	K XI P
KOCHI	KOCHI
SAHARA PUNE WARRIORS	SAHARA

 

Each Team will play 14 Matches. (7 Home and 7 Away).

Each team will play each other at least once but not twice by default. Its by draw of Lots.

Total 74 matches only (70 league matches and 2 Semi Finals 1 loosing Semi Finalists for third place and 1 Final).

HASIM MD AMLA

Batsman number 3 or one down in Test Cricket for South Africa,  Mr Hashim Mohamed Amla of Indian origin was born on 31st March 1983.

Hashim Amla, known as Gentleman cricketer, is playing his 50th Test at his Home Ground Kingsmead at Durban.

In his last four innings against India in 2010 alone He made 630 runs at least a century in each innings and was out only twice.

His stats 49 matches, 3,787 runs, 12 Hundreds, 18 Fifties at an average of 46.75,( ODI Ave 59.56) 253 not out being the Highest score, that too against India.

He showed in 2010 in India in a 2 test series what is test match batting. . .      read Hashim Amla 2010 

The most amazing thing is

He successfully refused to wear the team Sponsor’s logo because it was a beer Manufacturer's.

All the very best to him.

2nd Test against South Africa begins tomorrow at Durban.

All the very Best to Indian team.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

ICC T20 world cup

ICC T20 world cup schedule

FIXTURES

India and Pakistan are the favourites.

India won their first match against Afghnistan. (could have done better).

more updates to follow in super 8 stage.

ENJOY SUMMER