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Friday, July 25, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
India's Harbhajan Singh on Tuesday came under a fresh attack by Australian cricketers
India's Harbhajan Singh on Tuesday came under a fresh attack by Australian cricketers with opener Matthew Hayden calling the off-spinner an "obnoxious little weed", a remark which has the potential to create more bad blood between the two teams.
The Indian spinner, who was at the centre of a racism row involving Andrew Symonds, has borne the brunt of the Australian sledging during the explosive tour which has been marked by a series of verbal exchanges between rival players.
"Its been a bit of a long battle with Harbhajan, the first time I ever met him he was the same little obnoxious weed that he is now", Hayden said on Brisbane radio.
"His record speaks for itself in cricket. There is a certain line that you can kind of go to and then you know where you push it and he just pushes it all the time.
"That's why he has been charged more than anyone that's ever played in the history of cricket," Hayden said. Hayden's fresh salvo came a day after the Indian team management lodged a written complaint with Match Referee Jeff Crowe regarding Australia players' "provocative" behaviour.
Hayden and Harbhajan were involved in an ugly tussle at the SCG on Sunday with the Indians claiming that the Australian opener had termed the Indian a "mad boy."
However, Hayden made light of the incident and claimed India was complaining because "they are losing every game they are playing."
"I called him a bad boy," Hayden insisted.
"He took offence to that, I thought that was quite funny. I said mate you should be flattered, it's a clothing range," Hayden said.
Meanwhile, former Australian fast bowler Rodney Hogg also lashed out at the Indians.
"Ive really had a gutful of their whinging, this is international sport, obviously people are going to say things to try to unsettle you," Hogg said.
"It's not tiddlywinks. So long as it's not racial they shouldn't have a problem.
"As far as I am concerned if the heat is too hot in the kitchen then that's too bad.
"I reckon they should appoint an Asian referee for Indian games because when it's a non-Asian referee nothing against Jeff Crowe they never feel as if they are being listened to."
Hayden said he had told Ishant Sharma to settle down and on Monday quipped he would like to meet the stringbean paceman in a boxing ring.
"He is just young. I have said to him many times, you are 19, take it easy, Hayden said.
"At the end of the day you are 19, why dont you just worry about your bowling for a while," he added.
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The Indian spinner, who was at the centre of a racism row involving Andrew Symonds, has borne the brunt of the Australian sledging during the explosive tour which has been marked by a series of verbal exchanges between rival players.
"Its been a bit of a long battle with Harbhajan, the first time I ever met him he was the same little obnoxious weed that he is now", Hayden said on Brisbane radio.
"His record speaks for itself in cricket. There is a certain line that you can kind of go to and then you know where you push it and he just pushes it all the time.
"That's why he has been charged more than anyone that's ever played in the history of cricket," Hayden said. Hayden's fresh salvo came a day after the Indian team management lodged a written complaint with Match Referee Jeff Crowe regarding Australia players' "provocative" behaviour.
Hayden and Harbhajan were involved in an ugly tussle at the SCG on Sunday with the Indians claiming that the Australian opener had termed the Indian a "mad boy."
However, Hayden made light of the incident and claimed India was complaining because "they are losing every game they are playing."
"I called him a bad boy," Hayden insisted.
"He took offence to that, I thought that was quite funny. I said mate you should be flattered, it's a clothing range," Hayden said.
Meanwhile, former Australian fast bowler Rodney Hogg also lashed out at the Indians.
"Ive really had a gutful of their whinging, this is international sport, obviously people are going to say things to try to unsettle you," Hogg said.
"It's not tiddlywinks. So long as it's not racial they shouldn't have a problem.
"As far as I am concerned if the heat is too hot in the kitchen then that's too bad.
"I reckon they should appoint an Asian referee for Indian games because when it's a non-Asian referee nothing against Jeff Crowe they never feel as if they are being listened to."
Hayden said he had told Ishant Sharma to settle down and on Monday quipped he would like to meet the stringbean paceman in a boxing ring.
"He is just young. I have said to him many times, you are 19, take it easy, Hayden said.
"At the end of the day you are 19, why dont you just worry about your bowling for a while," he added.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Dilshan guides Sri Lanka to easy win
Tillakaratne Dilshan's unbeaten 62 helped Sri Lanka cruise to an easy eight-wicket victory against India on the Duckworth-Lewis method in their rain-shortened fifth one-day international of the CB tri-series one-day international at Manuka Oval in Canberra on Tuesday.
Put into bat, India rattled up 195 for five in the allotted 29 overs after play began late due to rain but the islanders overhauled a revised target of 154 in 21 overs with 12 balls to spare.
The Sri Lankans took full advantage of batting second as they chased the revised target without much fuss to keep themselves afloat in the series, riding on contributions from Tillakaratne Dilshan (62 not out) and Sanath Jayasuriya (27 off 13 balls).
Young Rohit Sharma gave ample display of his class with an unbeaten 70 while Gautam Gambhir (35) Sachin Tendulkar (32) and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (31) came up with useful contributions but all their efforts went in vain as another rain interruption immediately after the Indian innings made the equation under the Duckworth-Lewis method easier for the Lankans.
With this victory, Sri Lanka managed to keep themselves in the reckoning by taking their points tally to six from three matches.
India continued to maintain their position at the top of the table with eight points from four matches while Australia have seven points from three matches.
The action will now shift to Perth where Sri Lanka will take on Australia in a day-night encounter on Friday.
Jayasuriya provided a flying start to the Lankan chase as he blasted 27 off 13 balls with two fours and two sixes. The left-hander looked in devastating form and scored 23 in one over from S Sreesanth before being dismissed by Ishant Sharma.
Harbhajan Singh then tokk Sangakkara's wicket (10) but that hardly affected the Lankan run-rate.
Rain came down hard on India as first it intervened to have the game reduced to 29 overs-a-side which further tilted in Lanka's favour when the target, due to another spell of rain, was readjusted to 154 from 21 overs.
Earlier, Indians did enough to post a healthy 195 from their 29 overs with young Rohit Sharma providing the maximum thrust.
Sharma, who took 20 balls for his first 10 runs, struck some lusty blows to finish unbeaten on 70 off 64 balls. He shared a rollicking 68-run fourth wicket stand with skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (31) to take toll of the bowling in the final few overs.
The start of the match was delayed for more than three and a half hours because of heavy morning showers and the match was reduced to 29-overs-a-side. Further rain at the end of the Indian innings saw Sri Lanka being set a revised target of 154 in 21 overs.
The Indian innings got off the mark only off the last ball of the second over before Sachin Tendulkar (32) settled into a groove to coax 45 for the first wicket with Virender Sehwag (14).
Starting with hitting Chaminda Vaas over extra-cover, the veteran played some sweet strokes, including a swept four off Vaas from outside the off-stump.
Tendulkar flicked Lasith Malinga for a four and then pulled Maharoof for another before losing his opening partner, who slashed at a delivery from medium-pacer Nuwan Kulasekara and was caught easily by the third man fielder.
Tendulkar himself departed four runs later in a similar manner when he tried to hit Fervez Maharoof through the mid-on region, but top edged it to third man. He got his runs from 30 balls and hit four fours.
Gautam Gambhir (35) and Rohit Sharma then put on 64 for the third wicket with some brisk running between the wickets before the former backed too far and was run out by bowler Lasith Malinga via a throw from point fielder Tillakeratne Dilshan.
India, who were 113 for 3 after the 22nd over, really opened out thereafter and the signal for it came from Rohit who hoisted Muttiah Muralitharan over midwicket for a massive six.
His partner Dhoni then freed his shoulders by first slamming Maharoof over extra cover and then straight drove him powerfully for yet another boundary in the same over.
India benefitted with two more fours in the next over, first Dhoni driving Chaminda Vaas into the long-off pickets and then Sharma sweetly sweeping the experienced left-arm paceman to the fine-leg fence.
At the end of the 25th over, India had moved to 152 for three.
The 26th over by Kulasekara began with Rohit driving over mid-off for a four and then steering the next over the wicketkeeper for another boundary, reaching his half-century from 53 balls with the help of four boundaries and a six.
The half-century stand between the two came from 35 balls.
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Put into bat, India rattled up 195 for five in the allotted 29 overs after play began late due to rain but the islanders overhauled a revised target of 154 in 21 overs with 12 balls to spare.
The Sri Lankans took full advantage of batting second as they chased the revised target without much fuss to keep themselves afloat in the series, riding on contributions from Tillakaratne Dilshan (62 not out) and Sanath Jayasuriya (27 off 13 balls).
Young Rohit Sharma gave ample display of his class with an unbeaten 70 while Gautam Gambhir (35) Sachin Tendulkar (32) and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (31) came up with useful contributions but all their efforts went in vain as another rain interruption immediately after the Indian innings made the equation under the Duckworth-Lewis method easier for the Lankans.
With this victory, Sri Lanka managed to keep themselves in the reckoning by taking their points tally to six from three matches.
India continued to maintain their position at the top of the table with eight points from four matches while Australia have seven points from three matches.
The action will now shift to Perth where Sri Lanka will take on Australia in a day-night encounter on Friday.
Jayasuriya provided a flying start to the Lankan chase as he blasted 27 off 13 balls with two fours and two sixes. The left-hander looked in devastating form and scored 23 in one over from S Sreesanth before being dismissed by Ishant Sharma.
Harbhajan Singh then tokk Sangakkara's wicket (10) but that hardly affected the Lankan run-rate.
Rain came down hard on India as first it intervened to have the game reduced to 29 overs-a-side which further tilted in Lanka's favour when the target, due to another spell of rain, was readjusted to 154 from 21 overs.
Earlier, Indians did enough to post a healthy 195 from their 29 overs with young Rohit Sharma providing the maximum thrust.
Sharma, who took 20 balls for his first 10 runs, struck some lusty blows to finish unbeaten on 70 off 64 balls. He shared a rollicking 68-run fourth wicket stand with skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (31) to take toll of the bowling in the final few overs.
The start of the match was delayed for more than three and a half hours because of heavy morning showers and the match was reduced to 29-overs-a-side. Further rain at the end of the Indian innings saw Sri Lanka being set a revised target of 154 in 21 overs.
The Indian innings got off the mark only off the last ball of the second over before Sachin Tendulkar (32) settled into a groove to coax 45 for the first wicket with Virender Sehwag (14).
Starting with hitting Chaminda Vaas over extra-cover, the veteran played some sweet strokes, including a swept four off Vaas from outside the off-stump.
Tendulkar flicked Lasith Malinga for a four and then pulled Maharoof for another before losing his opening partner, who slashed at a delivery from medium-pacer Nuwan Kulasekara and was caught easily by the third man fielder.
Tendulkar himself departed four runs later in a similar manner when he tried to hit Fervez Maharoof through the mid-on region, but top edged it to third man. He got his runs from 30 balls and hit four fours.
Gautam Gambhir (35) and Rohit Sharma then put on 64 for the third wicket with some brisk running between the wickets before the former backed too far and was run out by bowler Lasith Malinga via a throw from point fielder Tillakeratne Dilshan.
India, who were 113 for 3 after the 22nd over, really opened out thereafter and the signal for it came from Rohit who hoisted Muttiah Muralitharan over midwicket for a massive six.
His partner Dhoni then freed his shoulders by first slamming Maharoof over extra cover and then straight drove him powerfully for yet another boundary in the same over.
India benefitted with two more fours in the next over, first Dhoni driving Chaminda Vaas into the long-off pickets and then Sharma sweetly sweeping the experienced left-arm paceman to the fine-leg fence.
At the end of the 25th over, India had moved to 152 for three.
The 26th over by Kulasekara began with Rohit driving over mid-off for a four and then steering the next over the wicketkeeper for another boundary, reaching his half-century from 53 balls with the help of four boundaries and a six.
The half-century stand between the two came from 35 balls.
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Friday, November 9, 2007
Younis dedicates century to Woolmer
Vice-captain Younis Khan dedicated his match-winning 117 in the second one-dayer against India on Thursday to Pakistan's late coach Bob Woolmer. Younis anchored the innings as Pakistan recorded their highest successful one-day run chase to win with a ball to spare and level the five-match series 1-1. His third one-day hundred lifted the visitors to 322 for six after India totalled 321 for nine. "The situation required such a knock," Younis told reporters. "Today I tried hard and it worked and I can say it is special. "I would like to dedicate this innings to Bob Woolmer, especially the way he used to work with me." Younis, named man of the match, put on 102 for the fifth wicket with Misbah-ul Haq (49). When the centurion was out in the 46th over, Shahid Afridi [Images] took Pakistan over the finishing line with 29 not out off 14 balls. Woolmer died a day after Pakistan's shock first-round elimination at the World Cup in the Caribbean in March. The former England batsman was found unconscious in his Kingston hotel room. Police started a murder investigation days later after it was revealed the autopsy, which investigators said was inconclusive at first, found he died of manual strangulation. That investigation ended on June 12 when Jamaica's police commissioner said the constabulary would accept the opinion of three independent pathologists that Woolmer had died of natural causes, possibly a heart attack.
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India, Pakistan fined for slow over rates
India and Pakistan were fined for slow over rates in Thursday's second one-day international, won by the touring side by four wickets. The players were fined five percent of their match fee and the two captains double the amount after both teams were ruled to have fallen one over short in the allotted time, the International Cricket Council said in a statement. ICC match referee Roshan Mahanama summoned both captains after the match before deciding on the penalty.
Pakistan scored 322 to win off the penultimate ball. Their bowlers conceded 31 wides in a tally of 41 extras and their Indian counterparts sent down 16 wides. According to the ICC code of conduct regulations governing over-rate penalties, players are fined five percent of their match fee for every over their side fails to bowl in the allotted time, with the captain fined double that amount.
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Pakistan scored 322 to win off the penultimate ball. Their bowlers conceded 31 wides in a tally of 41 extras and their Indian counterparts sent down 16 wides. According to the ICC code of conduct regulations governing over-rate penalties, players are fined five percent of their match fee for every over their side fails to bowl in the allotted time, with the captain fined double that amount.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
How is a monkey chant akin to racial abuse is beyond my comprehension?.
How is a monkey chant akin to racial abuse is beyond my comprehension?. I was in the north stands and people were just having fun..They heckled every australian player and the ones near the boundary ropes bore the brunt..Now it's a well known fact that people who dont take banter lightly get the rough end of the stick..I dont think the taunts and the gestures had any racial overtones..It's just that he took offence to the treatment meted out and that is what's the ultimate aim of the fun loving spectators of the North stand..Why they'll even heckle some Indian players except Sachin, whom every cricket smart fan in Mumbai revers!!!! But it's all in good fun and the crowd generally is very decent and well educated..
Cricket is missing class bowlers?
world of cricket is missing class bowlers like Donald, MG,wasim, Younis etc watching just the ball going for 4 and 6 in the small ground is becoming boring. Previously the ground use to be 80 to 90 mtrs today its 66 to70 mtrs in future it will be 50 mtrs less than gully cricket.
It hard to digest that We Indians make fun of Symonds
I find it hard to digest that We Indians make fun of Symonds while more than 90% of us really look like a monkey with fat wide nostrils and banana lips with ugly short round faces. Really, how dare we made fun of a Mulatto from Australia. He has got a nice fit superior physique to lardy pot-bellied turkey necked Indians with ugly features. Now, see how tolerant they are. They are not making any big issue out of it while a few months ago some racism happened to shilpa and she made it her stairway to fame and cried her eyes out to the world to condemn the show and the participants. Symonds can also use this to gain some world wide fame but...you know what he just doesn't give a damn to some insignificant people from a country where many people actually look nothing less than a black monkey. Now, tell me how would you will when the aussies spectators made fun of us and our cricketers blatantly out in public. We must condemn this racism coz it is highly likely to backfire much much harder on us when we will go to australia in the next series. Trust me as a population of 1 billion , we sit in a boat much uglier then aussies where people generally are quite beautiful and fit. We can't afford to make fun of a forigner's looks when only 1 out of 20 Indians looks beautiful and rest are either too fat or too unattractive or jus plain average.
Symonds faces abuse yet again
The International Cricket Council may have issued the Board of Control for Cricket in India a stern warning with regard to controlling crowd behaviour after Andrew Symonds [Images] faced "abuse" in Vadodara, but it seems nothing has improved. The hard-hitting Aussie batsmen faced a repeat of the monkey chants and boos as he made his way to the crease and back during the seventh ODI in Mumbai on Wednesday. Symonds may have lasted just one delivery, but all through, even while fielding, he had to endure being taunted. Even Australia captain Ricky Ponting made his displeasure clear and said such stuff was totally unnecessary. "Some of the stuff that went on today was totally unnecessary. I hope it doesn't happen in the other cricket venue we are playing because it leaves a bad taste in everybody's mouth. "I am sure there will be a lot of embarrassed people around in this country as well when they know this sort of stuff has happened at one of their cricket venues," Ponting said in Mumbai on Wednesday, after India pulled off a thrilling two-wicket victory in the seventh ODI at the Wankhede stadium. However, this time the tourists were glad that prompt action was taken and fans ejected from the ground. "I believe action has been taken as well. A few members were arrested and taken away from the ground. That sort of stuff, as you all know, and as you all understand, is totally unacceptable any place, any time, not only in sport but in society. To have that sort of stuff happen to him again today for the second time is pretty disappointing considering how much has been made of it in the last few days," he said. Ponting expressed hope that there would not be a repeat of the taunts during the Twenty20 match at the CCI on Saturday. "But it is done now and, hopefully, it doesn't happen at the Twenty20 game [at the CCI on Saturday]. "We got a different reception here than we have in most venues. I went to the ground pretty early and went out to have a look at the wicket and they were all over me straightaway with a few different chants. We do get different kinds of reception all over the world and that is part of cricket I guess," he said. Earlier, in a joint-statement, BCCI president Sharad Pawar and Cricket Australia chairman Creagh O'Connor requested spectators not to engage in racist comments. "There is no place for racism in cricket, either on or off the field. Cricket crowds in all cricket nations are often noisy and boisterous, which is part of the fun of cricket," said the statement.
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Saturday, September 8, 2007
All about cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of eleven players each. A cricket match is played on a grass field, roughly oval in shape, in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called a pitch. At each end of the pitch is a construction of three parallel wooden stakes (known as stumps) driven vertically into the ground, with two small crosspieces (known as bails) laid across the top of them. This wooden structure is called a wicket.
The bowler, a player from the fielding team, hurls a hard, fist-sized, cork-centred, leather-covered ball from the vicinity of one wicket towards the other. The ball usually bounces once before reaching the batsman, a player from the opposing team. In defence of the wicket, the batsman plays the ball with a wooden cricket bat. Meanwhile, the other members of the bowler's team stand in various positions around the field as fielders, players who retrieve the batted ball in an effort to stop the batsman scoring, and if possible to get him or her out. The batsman, if he or she does not get out (for example if the bowled ball hits the wicket, or if a fielder catches the ball off the bat before it bounces), may run between the wickets, exchanging ends with a second batsman (the non-striker), who has been waiting near the bowler's wicket. Each completed exchange of ends scores one run, and the match is won by the team that scores more runs.
Cricket has been an established team sport for hundreds of years. It originated in its modern form in England and is most popular in the present and former members of the Commonwealth. Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world.[1][2][3] More than a hundred cricket-playing nations are recognised by the International Cricket Council.[4] In the countries of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, cricket is the most popular sport. It is also a major sport in England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean, which are collectively known in cricketing parlance as the West Indies. There are also well-established amateur club competitions in countries as diverse as the Netherlands, Kenya, Nepal and Argentina, among others.
The sport is followed with passion in many different parts of the world. It has even occasionally given rise to diplomatic outrage, the most notorious being the Basil D'Oliveira affair which led to the banning of South Africa from sporting events. Other examples include the Bodyline series, played between England and Australia in the early 1930s, and the 1981 underarm bowling incident involving Australia and New Zealand.
source: wikipedia
The bowler, a player from the fielding team, hurls a hard, fist-sized, cork-centred, leather-covered ball from the vicinity of one wicket towards the other. The ball usually bounces once before reaching the batsman, a player from the opposing team. In defence of the wicket, the batsman plays the ball with a wooden cricket bat. Meanwhile, the other members of the bowler's team stand in various positions around the field as fielders, players who retrieve the batted ball in an effort to stop the batsman scoring, and if possible to get him or her out. The batsman, if he or she does not get out (for example if the bowled ball hits the wicket, or if a fielder catches the ball off the bat before it bounces), may run between the wickets, exchanging ends with a second batsman (the non-striker), who has been waiting near the bowler's wicket. Each completed exchange of ends scores one run, and the match is won by the team that scores more runs.
Cricket has been an established team sport for hundreds of years. It originated in its modern form in England and is most popular in the present and former members of the Commonwealth. Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world.[1][2][3] More than a hundred cricket-playing nations are recognised by the International Cricket Council.[4] In the countries of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, cricket is the most popular sport. It is also a major sport in England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean, which are collectively known in cricketing parlance as the West Indies. There are also well-established amateur club competitions in countries as diverse as the Netherlands, Kenya, Nepal and Argentina, among others.
The sport is followed with passion in many different parts of the world. It has even occasionally given rise to diplomatic outrage, the most notorious being the Basil D'Oliveira affair which led to the banning of South Africa from sporting events. Other examples include the Bodyline series, played between England and Australia in the early 1930s, and the 1981 underarm bowling incident involving Australia and New Zealand.
source: wikipedia
Monday, August 27, 2007
England beat India by 42 runs in 3rd one dayer
Ian Bell's innings was the cornerstone of England's 42-run win against India at Edgbaston as they took a 2-1 lead in the seven-match series.
England players celebrate their win over India. England beat India by 42 runs in the third One-Day International at Edgbaston.
England players celebrate their win over India. England beat India by 42 runs in the third One-Day International at Edgbaston.
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