Sometimes a half century is enough to get the team to a good position while setting targets and sometimes enough to help the team win the match. Sachin Tendulkar is at the number one spot in the list of most half centuries in ODI format of the game. Srilanka’s Sangakkara is second in the list …
Former India coach Greg Chappell on Tuesday hit back at Sachin Tendulkar and rubbished the champion batsman’s claim that he had made a “shocking” suggestion to him to take over India’s captaincy from Rahul Dravid months before the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies. Tendulkar has written in his autobiography ‘Playing it My Way’, …
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Former India captain Rahul Dravid said that there is no need to replace Mahendra Singh Dhoni as suggested by former Australian skipper Ian Chappell because the team has “progressed” well under the able leadership of the Jharkhand wicketkeeper-batsman. “Dhoni is the right man to take India forward as we have been making progress and going …
Former India captain Rahul Dravid termed Indian team management`s decision to include five specialist bowlers as a positive move. “It is a very courageous move, a very positive move in my opinion,” Dravid told reporters at the Laureus Academy function here today. “In the past, India have been a bit scared to play with five …
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Durban: An inspired spell by speedster Dale Steyn helped by some poor shot selection from Indian top-order saw visitors reeling at 183 for six when stumps were drawn on a rain-curtailed first day of the second Test match at Kingsmead, Durban. Almost all the top-order Indian batsmen got starts but failed to continue with Steyn …
Centurion: The pre-series verbal war has set the stage for an electrifying battle as India gear up to face a hostile South Africa in the first of a three-Test cricket series to not just prove themselves as worthy world number ones but also improve their unarguably poor record. Described as the “final frontier” by coach …
Mumbai: Stalwarts Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly, as well as in-form opener Gautam Gambhir, were not retained by their franchises for 2011 and 2012 IPL seasons and will go into the players’ auction pool to be bought by interested teams. Kumble, who led Royal Challengers Bangalore in the last two seasons of the …
