India Beat Bangladesh 2-0

As predicted Gautam Gambhir will not have any chance of chasing a bit target and hence will not be able to equal Sir Don Dradman's record of 6 consecutive centuries in test cricket. The best part of thhis test series was Zaheer Khan getting Man of the match and man of the series award. Its very rare to see a bowler getting this award on batting friendly picthes.

Injuries are what India have got along with the winners trophy. Yuvraj Singh will be out got the first test match againse South Africa. Other players who got injured are Sreesanth, VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid. Let see will the injuries cause any trouble for the indian cricket team for the comming series against South Africa. You can check out the India - South Africa series match details.

Few wallpapers from the test series:

India takes lead in First Innings

India hav got to a good start and have taken tead of 70 runs so far and this will increase to a good one till the end of second day of second test between India and Bangladesh. India have scored 301/2 in 69.0 overs and both Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid re on the edge of adding one more centuries in their test match stats.

Its tea break for now and as seen in Test matches tea breaks are often followed by fall of wickets. Hopefully This will not happen :). Another disappointment for Gautam Gambhit not being able to make it to the century and given the conditions of the test match I hardly see he will get the chance to bat in second innings with a good target.

South Africa tour of India - Fixtures

South Africa will be touring India and will play two test matches and three one day matches. Now this will goinf to be a real challenge for team India. Now this will really determine if Indian cricket team is worth number one team in Test cricket or not.

Below are the tournament fixtures:
Tue Feb 2 - Wed Feb 3 04:00 GMT 09:30 local09:30 IST TBC v South AfricansVidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
Sat Feb 6 - Wed Feb 10 04:00 GMT 09:30 local09:30 IST 1st Test - India v South AfricaVidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur
Sun Feb 14 - Thu Feb 18 04:00 GMT 09:30 local09:30 IST 2nd Test - India v South AfricaEden Gardens, Kolkata
Sun Feb 21 09:00 GMT 14:30 local14:30 IST 1st ODI - India v South AfricaSawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Wed Feb 24 03:30 GMT 09:00 local09:00 IST 2nd ODI - India v South AfricaGreen Park, Kanpur
Sat Feb 27 09:00 GMT 14:30 local14:30 IST 3rd ODI - India v South AfricaSardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad


Below are few wallpapers and pictures for your to enjoy:

Sachin Tendulkar Practicing
Yuvraj Singh

Virendar Sehwag

Lady Cricketer in Bikini

Ricky Ponting

India Vs Bangladesh Second test Match

Bangladesh had been bit unlucky in the first test as they were unable to get advntage of restricting India to a two hundred something score. They may have a better chance in the second test, VVS Laxman will not be playing second test and this makes Indian batting line little weak.

What to watch in the match. Gautam Gambhir, will he be able to equat the Don Bradmans recore of 6 consecutive test hundreds. Just wait and watch this guy. All the best to him, it will be a pride moment to all the Indian cricket fans.

IPL Twenty Twenty opening match at Mumbai

The opening match of IPL season 3 will be played between Deccan Chargers vs Kolkata Knight Riders in Mumbai on March 12. Also auction for two new teams would be held next month. Also though the Kotla pitch has been banned for any international match in 2010, IPL will have the matches held in Delhi.

Watch IPL live videos - google IPL deal

This IPL you can watch live videos of IPL and even player interview over youtube.com the popular video sharing site owned by google.com. IPL has signed a 2-year deal with Google to telecast matches through youtube. It will not only stream the live matches but also players interviews, off-the field antics and all the news, views and opinions involving IPL.

So enjoy live IPL twenty tweny matches video live and that too free of costs.

Pollard, Bond, Roach hottest picks in IPL season three Auction

No player ffrom the T20 World cup winning country Pakistan was choosedn by any of the IPL franchisee. However much unknown names to Indian cricket fans made it big this time. Pollard, Bond, Roach are signed with a huge ammount. Parnell himself was stunned at the eventual winning bid, of $610,000 from Delhi. He now becomes the third most expensive South African in the League after JP Duminy (US$950,000) and Jacques Kallis (US$900,000). Just like every player who joins Kolkata Bond, too, is eager to be part of the Shah Rukh Khan camp

Bangladesh loss early wickets chasing 415

India declared the inning on 413 for 8 hs has set Bangladesh taget of 415 runs to win. India must have thought to get some early blows in the 20 overs that they can bowl. And first wicket of Bangladesh just fell in the third over at the score of eight. Now this had made things difficult for Bangladesh. Bangladesh sid that a draw must be satisfactory for them but here there chances for batting one full day are looking very dim.

Good luck to the Bangladsh team

India Vs Bangladesh - Test Match

Well India had a bad start on day one, loosing six wickets for 71 runs in the second session of the play . Now its all on Sachin Tendulkar to sail India safely to a respectable first Innings score. Game started late by 90 minutes and India have a good start of the game but only till the first wicket fell and after that no batsmen build a storn partnership.

India score is 182/7 (52.1 overs) now let us see how they can manage till the end of day given team is able to play till end of day.

New bowling coach for team India

Eric Simmons the former South Africa coach will join team India as bowling coach for the Bangladesh test series starting from Janurary 17th. Eric will also remain bowling coach for Test and one day series againse South Africa. During his playing time Simons was known for his powerful batting and fast medium batting.


Shadule for test match series against Bnagladesh.

Sun Jan 17 to Thu Jan 21
1st Test - Bangladesh v India
Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong

Sun Jan 24 to Thu Jan 28
2nd Test - Bangladesh v India
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur

India Vs Sri Lanka - final match

India have defeated Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in consecutive match on consecutive days. Now Indian fan miogh tbe hoping for a win on wednesday final match to start the new year with a series win. However India lost the first match of the year, its possible they may also loose the first series.

For final I am expecting big score from Virat Kohli so that he can happily take away the man of the series award.

Also on wedensday final India and Sri Lanka will shae a record of playing highest number of matches between two teams.

IPL T20 Auctions - 51 Cricketers shortlisted

Auction to get players of their choice will be held on January 19 for IPL T20 and this time the franchisees have shortlisted 51 players. 100 entries were recieved from international players for the third edition of Indian Premier league, however the eight franchisees shortlisted only 60. 9 out of the shortlisted 60 are pending no objection certificate from their home cricket boards.

Below is the list of players avaialable for Auction of IPL T20 (Twenty - Twenty) this time:

Australia: As seen in the previous two versions of IPL twenty twenty, Ausralians iare iin demand this tiem also. 11 players are in the auction list from Australia. Pleayers are Doug Bollinger, Brad Haddin, Ashley Noffke, Jason Krejza, Ben Laughlin, Graham Manou, Damien Martyn, Clint McKay, Peter Siddle, Adam Voges, Phillip Hughes

South Africa have 9 nominations this time with players like Yusuf Abdulla, Zander de Bruyn, Justin Kemp, Rory Kleinveldt, Wayne Parnell, Vernon Philander, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Johan van der Wath, Vaughn van Jaarsveld

Sri Lanka: Last time players from the subcontitnent have good impact on the IPL. Players in the auction this time include: Thilina Kandamby, Nuwan Kulasekera, Thisara Perera, Chamara Silva, Upul Tharanga, Kaushalya Weeraratne, Chanaka Welegedara, Nuwan Zoysa

West Indies: Eight West Indies players for auction are Sulieman Benn, Daren Ganga, Darren Bravo, Wavell Hinds, Kieron Pollard, Lendl Simmons, Kemar Roach, Ramnaresh Sarwan

Pakistan: Players from Pakistan missed IPL last time but have stars like Afridi in nomination this time others in the list include Mohammad Aamer, Saeed Ajmal, Umar Akmal, Rana Naved Ul Hasan, Imran Nazir, Abdul Razzaq

New Zealand: Only Shane Bond, Grant Elliot, Nathan McCullum, Lou Vincent make from New Zealand.

Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan lets c which franchise will hire him

Canada has Rizwan Cheema for auction

Zimbabwe: Its good to see Murray Goodwin

Holland: Holland who is looking to make its place in wolrd cricket will neeed gret performance from Ryan ten Doeschate.

INDIA won by 6 wickets

India vs Bangaldesh

To the utter surprise Bangaldesh choose to bat first, may the fact that middle order of Bngladesh team is not so good and have beeen an area of concern from so my years. Bangldesh made a good start and it will all depend on how they finish up the things.

Bangladesh 207/5 is 38.1 overs and if they are able to make it upto 290 they have good chances of winning the match. Lets see hats on the cards for Bangladesh team.

Bangldesh Tri Series - India Vs Sri Lanka

Well as said in my previous post, dew factor will be on the mind of both the captains. Now Sri Lanks do have upper hand in this match as Sangakkara has won the toss and decided to bol first. Now only thing India can do to boost chances of winning is to post a huge total of 300+ anyyhing around 260 to 270 will be very easy to chase, given the due factor. Worries for Sri Lanka are : Dilshan and Chamara Silva are injured and not playing. Lahiru Thirimanne will be making his debut as a makeshift opener (in Dilshan's place) and Thissara Perera will bat in the middle order.

Pakistan tour of Australia, 2nd Test at Sydney

Its tea at day three of the second test match and Pakistan do have upper hand over Autralia, however Australia have made a comeback in the test. Now Australia is trailing by 7 runs and have 7 wickets in hand. Targets for both teams are well defined Australia need to post a good defending total and Pakistan need to restrict Australia ASAP.

Score: Australia 127 & 199/3 (56.0 ov)
Pakistan 333

India Sri Lanka Bangladesh Tri series match 2

Well as expected Sri Lanka won the match today and will play India tomorrow. Both team are equally favorite for winning however toss will be handy to decide the winner and in todays match dew factor caused prblems for team fielding later.

SO I am confident that team winning the toss and electing to field will win the match.

Good luck team India

india sri lanka bangaldesh tri series - first match

Well Bangladesh failed to convert a good start to a huge total. Middle order is the weakness of the team forever. Bangladesh have posted a score of Bangladesh 260/7 in 50 overs. Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field and the score doesn't seems to be good one to defend against a team like Sri Lanka. However my best wishes for Bangladesh.

They will also play secone game againse India tomorrow.