CRICKET: June 2013

Monday 24 June 2013

The Young and talented right-handed batsman, Virat Kohli was born on the 5th of November in 1988 in Delhi. His father was Prem Kohli and his mother Saroj Kohli. His father worked as a lawyer and he passed away in December 19th, 2006 due to brain stroke. Virat has an elder brother, Vikash and an elder sister, Bhavna. He had his schooling in St. Sofia School in Paschim Vihar, Delhi.

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Virat Kohli was among the first intake of The West Delhi Cricket Academy which was created in 1998. Virat was included in the Delhi Ranji team on 23rd November 2006.He played his first match against Tamil Nadu. Virat became famous when he played for Delhi in the Ranji trophy, a match against Karnataka. He scored 90 in that match. On that day only (19th December 2006), at 3 o’clock in the morning, his dad passed away due to brain stroke.
Virat played his first T 20 match against Himachal Pradesh at Delhi on the 3rd of April 2007. In 2008, he was the captain of the under 19 Indian Cricket team in the World Cup and India also won that match. He is also a part of Royal Challengers Bangalore from the year 2008.

Virat Kohli in Suits

He made his debut In One Day International against Sri Lanka in the Ideal Cup in 208, when both the great batsman Sachin Tendulkar and Virendar Sewag were injured. In the first match Virat was not able to prove him that much since he got out for 12 runs, but in the second match he scored a crucial 37 runs, which helped India win the match and level the series. Virat scored his first half century in the fourth match, which helped India win the series against Sri Lanka. This win was very special for India since it was India’s first win against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka.
In January 2009, Virat Kohli was dropped from the squad for the fifth ODI series in Sri Lanka against Sri Lanka. He then played in 2009 ICC Champions Trophy since Yuvraj Singh was injured and was not able to play in that match. Virat scored his first ODI Century in the 4th ODI in December 2009. Once Yuvraj became fit, Virat was only able to play occasionally.

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In January 2010, Sachin Tendulakar was rested so Kohli was in replace for him. He played all the five matches in Bangladesh. Virat scored 91runs in the match against Bangladesh on January 7th 2010. He also scored the unbeaten 71 and made way to India’s victory to get a bonus point. The very next day, he scored his 2nd ODI Century. He became the third Indian Batsman to score two ODI Centuries before their 22nd Birthday, following the ways of Sachin Tendulkar and Suresh Raina.
Virat Kohli became the vice captain for the matches in Zimbabwe against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. Virat became the fastest Indian to score 1,000 runs in ODI cricket. He also became the leading run scorer in 2010, with 995 runs which included his three centuries.

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In the 2011 World cup, Virat Kohli was preferred than Suresh Raina. Virat proved his talent and he was the first Indian to score a century in the World cup Debut. Virat constantly maintained his run rate in the matches. He scored 282 runs in 9 innings with an average of 35.25.
Virat Kohli first Test debut was a bit struggle for him in West Indies. In June and July 2011, he was selected in the Test squad along with the inexperienced players. Virat scored just 76 runs from five innings. Virat was then dropped for the Test squad for next four matches but then he was recalled due to Yuvraj injury.
In October 2011, India won against England and Virat Kohli was the highest run getter with 270 runs as a total in all the five matches and with a highest score of 112 runs. In November and December 2011, West Indies toured to India for three Tests and five ODI’s. Kohli was into the Test squad before Raina. He was able to score a pair of fifties in the match.
Virat Kohli was also in the squad which played in Australia in December 2011. Due to the low performance of Virat Kohli in his Test matches, he was insulted by many. In one of the interviews Kohli remarked that, “I don’t know why people have been questioning my technique or temperament so much. … All of this is a learning curve for me. I am playing on difficult wickets, in Australia.”.
Virat also proved his ability and scored his maiden Test century with 116 runs in the match at Adelaide. It was the only century scored by the Indian in that series. He also became the top scorer for India in that series. He scored his second Test Century against New Zealand at Bangalore.

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Kohli was the India’s leading run scorer in the triangular ODI series. Though India did not make up to the finals, Kohli scored 133 runs. He was named the Man of the match for his effort in that match. In 2012 Asia cup in March , Virat Kohli was named the vice captain for the ODI team. He scored 183 runs against Pakistan, recording the highest score by an Indian in ODI’s. This is Virat’s highest Individual score in One Day Internationals and in Asia Cup. On 15th of September 2012, Kohli was named the ODI cricketer of the year at the ICC annual award function in Columbia, Sri Lanka.
Virat played in the test match against England in Nagpur from December 13th to 17th 2012 and scored 103 runs. On December 22nd 2012, Kohli bat against England in Mumbai in T20 match and scored 38 runs. He also played against Pakistan on the 25th of December 2012 in Bangalore. But he scored only 9 runs on the score board. He added 27 runs to his scores but playing against Pakistan in Ahmedabad on the 28th of December 2012 in T20 match. On the 30th ODI December Virat played in the ODI match against Pakistan in Chennai but as the day was unlucky for him he was not able to score any runs in that match.
In the year 2013, Virat Kohli played his first match against Pakistan in Kolkata and scored only 6 runs on the 3rd of January. On the 6th of January he again played in the ODI against Pakistan in Delhi and scored 7 runs. In the next two matches against England he scored only 15 runs and 37 runs in Rajkot and Kochi respectively. Again Virat came back to form in the match against England on the 19th of January 2013 in Ranchi and scored 77 runs not out. On 23rd January in the match against England in Mohali, Virat scored 26 runs.
Virat Kohli took his role as a captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore team in the IPL 2013. The team has extraordinary plays along with Virat to support him like Chris Gayle and Tillakaratne Dilshan. In the match against Kolkata Knight Riders, there came a controversy between the team captain of Kolkata Knight Riders, Gambhir and Virat Kohli. They both were involved in an ugly on field spat during the match. The fact is as both the folks belong to the Delhi region; both of them play all the matches for the same team except the IPL. When Kohli was dismissed he walked towards Gambhir and made a remark which made Gambhir angry and walk towards him. Then as the controversy began to grow another fellow teammate who also belongs to Delhi calmed them down.
Till now RCB has played two matches against Hyderabad, one match against Mumbai Indians, one match against Kolkata Knight Riders and one match against Chennai Super Kings. Royal Challengers Bangalore beat the Mumbai Indians by 2 runs on April 4th, 2013. There was a tie between Sunrisers Hyderabad and RCB but in the super over the Sunrisers won the match on 7th April, 2013. In the next match against Sunrisers Hyderabad the RCB won the match by 7 wickets on April 9th, 2013. They also defeated the Kolkata knight Riders by 8 wickets on 11th April, 2013. The Chennai Super Kings defeated the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the last ball on April 13th, 2013. Thus in 5 matches the team headed by Virat Kohli won 3 matches and is in the first place. It is no doubt that Virat Kohli has scored 256 runs in this IPL 2013 so far and has the orange cap as a privilege of highest run getter. If the same situation persists then Royal Challengers will surely get the IPL cup this year.
About Virat Kohli’s personal likings, his favorite Actor was Aamir Khan and actress was Aishwarya Rai. Virat’s favorite in cricket is M S Dhoni. Kohli has dated with many girls which include the famous Bollywood actresses such as Sanjana and Sarah Jane Dias. As of now Sarah Jane Dias, Bollywood actress and former beauty queen (former Miss India 2007), is his girl friend.

Virat Kohli is one of India’s leading batsmen, if he keeps up his consistency a place in the hall of all time greats is his for the taking. Kohli first caught notice as skipper of India’s U-19 World Cup winning team in 2008. Royal Challengers Bangalore backed Kohli early; he was the team’s first pick in the draft for the U-19 players pool before the inaugural IPL in 2008. In 2011 when all franchises saw a major shuffle, he was the only player retained by RCB. Virat made his debut for India soon after the 2008 IPL but found it hard to thrive at the international level. Undeterred, he honed his technique playing for Delhi in the Ranji Trophy and soon was leading the team successfully, earning himself a recall to the Indian ODI team. His superb form since 2010 has seen him finish as the third highest run scorer in ODIs during the 2010-11 season and the highest run scorer in 2011-12. Kohli has sealed his reputation as one of the best chasers in the limited overs format of the game. Currently ranked at no 3 in ICC ODI rankings, and no 8 in the ICC T20 rankings, Virat has established himself as an important member of the Indian national side across all formats. With 185 runs in the 2012 ICC World Twenty20, he was the lone Indian to be featured in the the World Twenty20 Men’s XI team. He won the International Cricketer of the Year award at the CEAT 2011-12 Cricket Awards and received the Polly Umrigar Trophy for being India’s top cricketer in 2011-12. His electric knock of 133* against Sri Lanka during the CB Series was voted the best century of 2012 in the ESPN Cricinfo Awards. RCB’s most capped player and highest run scorer with 1639 runs in 77 matches, Kohli was named captain in the lead up to IPL 6, having led RCB admirably during the second half of IPL 2012. Coach Ray Jennings has always been a believer in him and is certain that this promotion augurs well for Kohli’s potential and ambitions even in international cricket. RCB vs. DD, Feroze Shah Kotla, 2011 In a roller coaster chase, Virat Kohli's gritty half century helped the team get over the line at the very end. Walking in to the middle in the very first over despite being the no.3 batsman, he played an enterprising knock and stuck around long enough to set up their win.

Virat Kohli Bio

Virat Kohli Biography

Virat Kohli is an Indian international cricketer. He is a middle order batsman, who can also open the batting. He can also bowl right arm medium pace.

Kohli was the captain of the victorious Indian team at the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup held in Malaysia. He represents Delhi in first-class cricket and plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League.

He also played for the West Delhi Cricket Academy.[2] He made his One Day International (ODI) debut in 2008 and was part of the Indian team which won the 2011 World Cup.

Despite being a regular in the ODI side, Kohli only played his first Test in 2011 against West Indies in Kingston. But on the disastrous 2011/12 India tour of Australia, in which India's senior batsmen struggled throughout, Kohli stood out, scoring his first Test hundred in Adelaide.

Virat Kohli is currently regarded as one of India's potential number three batman in Tests, after the retirement of Rahul Dravid following the Australian tour.Virat Kohli was born on 5 November 1988 in Delhi to Prem and Saroj Kohli.

He has an elder brother, Vikash, and an elder sister, Bhavna.Virat attended school at Vishal Bharti and Savier Convent. Virat's father, Prem, worked as a lawyer and died in December 2006.Little is known of Virat Kohli's personal life.

WINNING MOMENTS India vs England Champions Trophy 2013 Final Match Highlights

Virat Kohli Dancing after winning Champions Trophy 2013

Sunil Gavaskar Profile

Full Name:	Sunil Manohar Gavaskar
Date of Birth:	10 July 1949, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Height:	5 ft 5 in
Education:	St Xavier's College; Bombay University
Batting style:	Right-hand bat

Sunil Gavaskar - There was a time when good teams did not want to tour India. After all who would like to play with a team which could be bundled out twice in the course of the day? It was during this period that a man named Sunil Gavaskar came on the horizon of the Indian cricket. The "little master", as Sunil Gavaskar came to be called, changed the face of Indian cricket. His spectacular cricket career began with a bang. In his debut Test series against the West Indies (1971) he scored a record 774 runs and soon became a national hero for the cricket fans in India. To him goes the credit of making cricket a household name in India.

Achievements And Accolades
Gavaskar very much became a public figure, winning the highest of national and state awards.

Despite all these achievements, he is easily accessible and humble. He has the charm and the ability to disarm his critics and win friends. By his outstanding performances, Sunil Gavaskar won many man of the match awards. Sunny Gavaskar was the member of the world cup winning team in 1983. In the year 1985, Sunny led the team to victory in the World Championship in Australia. He was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1980 and was also awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government. He has served as the Sheriff of Mumbai and is now a writer and commentator. He has written an autobiography, "Sunny Days". His son, Rohan has also represented India at international level.

Early Promise
Sunil Gavaskar had a great cricketing heritage in his family. His father was a good club cricketer in his days. Gavaskar's early obsession for the game was harnessed by his mother. Cricket fascinated Gavaskar ever since he was a little boy. In his childhood, Sunny used to play cricket with his mother in the small gallery of their apartment. He played with his mother with a tennis ball. From the very begging he showed a lot of promise. Once, playing with his mother Sunil hit a straight drive so hard on her face that her nose started bleeding.

Major Teams:	India, Mumbai, Somerset
Batting Style:	Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style:	Right Arm Medium
ODI Debut:	vs England at Leeds, Prudential Trophy, 1974
Test Debut:	vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain, 2nd Test, 1970/71
Last Test:	vs Pakistan at Bangalore, 5th Test, 1986/87
Last ODI:	vs England at Bombay, World Cup, 1987/88

Sunny's obsession with the bat became so strong that whenever he was out, he would walk home with the bat and the ball, which usually brought an end to the game as no body else in the neighborhood had the bat and ball. To avoid spending long hours in the field, his friends used to appeal at a decided point, no matter Sunny was out or not. Seeing his potential, Sunil Gavaskar was sent to the St. Xavier's High School as it had a rich tradition of cricket.

Turning Point
Joining the St. Xavier's high School proved the turning point of Gavaskar's carrier as the school boasted of many recognized players, including Ashok Mankad. Playing for Bombay, Sunny scored 246 in the Cooch Behar Trophy in 1965-66. Sunil's prolific run getting saw him get selected for the All India schools team against the touring London Schoolboys. Young Gavaskar was awarded with the J.C.Mukherjee Trophy for the Best Schoolboy Cricketer of the year in 1965-66.. Subsequently, he was selected for the Bombay University and the Bombay Ranji Trophy team.

Sunil Gavaskar, Indian Cricket Player

Sunil Gavaskar Biography
Sunil Gavaskar was born in a middle class family in Mumbai on the 10th of July in 1949. His father was a good club player while he got his cricketing lessons from his maternal uncle. Sunil came on the Indian cricket horizon in the year 1971. Earlier, he joined the St. Xavier's High school because of its rich cricket traditions. Thereafter Sunil Gavaskar played for the Bombay University and The Bombay Ranji team. He made his debut against the West Indies at Port Of Spain and went on to score 65 and 67 against the fiery bowling attack of the West Indies. Later, Gavaskar's batting exploits in the W. Indies made the W. Indians, his die hard fans. They even composed Calypso in his honor.

The most amazing thing about Gavaskar was that he reserved his best for the very best team in that era and they were the West Indies! There was no looking back for this young man and he went on to score several centuries against the likes of the W. Indies, England, Australia, Pakistan etc. Sunil Gavaskar became the architect of many famous wins for India. At the same time he saved many matches for the country. His awesome records speak for himself. If one goes through the conditions under which these runs were scored, one would then realize how superhuman his efforts were! A batsman with 34 Test centuries and more than 10,000 runs is not born everyday!

Ups And downs
His perfect technique and temperament made him one of the greatest batsmen of all times but Sunil Gavaskar could not adjust to the demands of the one day cricket. He was a technician and he wasn't comfortable in playing strokes, which did not form part of the coaching manuals. Just imagine, he could score only 36 not out in a match of 60 overs against England. His only century in the ODIs came against the New Zealand in the Reliance World cup, 1987. Though he was a great batsman but as a captain he did not live up to expectations as India won just 10 Tests under his captaincy.

Sachin Tendulkar Profile

Full Name:	Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Nickname:	Tendlya, Little Master
Date of Birth:	April 24, 1973
Place of Birth:	Mumbai
Height:	5 ft 5 in
Education:	Sharadashram Vidyamandir School
Major Teams:	India, Mumbai, Yorkshire

Sachin Tendulkar - Sachin Tendulkar a boy of 16 walks in to bat against the fiery attack of Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram and is hit on the head, even then this little boy goes on to make half century. This boy was none other than the phenomenal Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin Tendulkar, the very name that strikes terror in the hearts of the bowlers all over the world, is regarded as the most accomplished batsman of modern day cricket. Since his debut against Pakistan in 1989, Sachin Tendulkar has been shining like a star in the international cricketing arena.

Achievements And Accolades
Ever since Sachin made his debut against Pakistan at the age of 16, he has not looked back. Sachin has piled up runs against all teams in the world. Sachin Tendulkar is rightly hailed as the master blaster as he treats most of the bowlers with utter disdain. This man employs almost every shot mentioned in the cricketing manuals. Sachin Tendulkar is capable of tearing apart any bowling attack.

The most fascinating part of Sachin's batting is that he keeps improvising the shots in his armory. In the last 16 years of his carrier, Sachin has won almost every award associated with cricket. At present Sachin is the highest run getter (over 13000 runs) in the one day form of the game and is inching towards becoming the highest run scorer in the test cricket as well. Sachin also has the maximum number of test and one day centuries to his name.

The talent and genius of Sachin Tendulkar was best summed up by the legendry sir Don Bradman when he said that batting style of Sachin Tendulkar reminded him of his own youth.

Batting Style:	Right -Hand Batsman
Bowling Style:	Right Arm Medium, Leg Break, Right Arm off Break
ODI Debut:	India v Pakistan at Gujranwala, 2nd ODI, 1989/90
Test Debut:	India v Pakistan at Karachi, 1st Test, 1989/90

Turning Point
Initially Sachin Tendulkar wanted to be a fast bowler and even undertook trials at the MRF pace foundation, Chennai, but his short height proved to be an obstacle. Changing his school to Shardashram Vidya Mandir and meeting Mr. Ramakant Achrekar (who became his coach) was the turning point of Sachin's cricket career.

Sachin Tendulkar

Early Promise
Playing for his school, Shardashram Vidya Mandir, Sachin along with his buddy Vinod Kambli set a world record partnership of 664 runs for the third wicket. There was no looking back after that. Sachin became the only player to score a century on debut in all three domestic first class competitions- 100 not out in the Ranji Trophy (Bombay v Gujarat at Bombay 1988-89), 159 in the Duleep Trophy (West Zone v East Zone at Guwahati 1990-91) and 103 not out in the Irani Trophy (Rest of India v Delhi at Bombay, 1989-90).

This was the beginning of what Sunil Gavaskar called an illustrious cricketing genius. Such was the promise and prospect of this little boy that during a local match the umpire deliberately didn't declare him out just to show the class of Sachin to one of his friends, a former cricketer.

Sachin Tendulkar Biography
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was born on April 24, 1973, in Mumbai. Sachin's father, Ramesh Tendulkar was a professor of Marathi. Seeing loads of promises in his younger brother, Ajit Tendulkar (Sachin's brother) decided to guide Sachin in the early stages of his life. Ajit took his kid brother to Mr. Ramakant Achrekar, arguably the best cricket coach of his times. It was because of cricket that Sachin had to change his school and had to stay at his uncle's place.

Mr. Achrekar was thoroughly impressed by this little boy. Achrekar could see the world champion in this little boy. He was satisfied beyond doubt that Sachin had huge potential and hunger to succeed at the highest level. Slowly and gradually Sachin started making waves in the local cricket of Mumbai. And it was not long before Sachin got to play his first Ranji trophy match against Gujarat in 1988-89. Sachin went on to make 100 not out in his very debut 1st class match; it was not a surprise for those who knew him!

Ups And Downs
After some initial hiccups, there has not been any real stumbling block in cricketing carrier of this"Bombay Bomber". The little genius, as Sachin is fondly called, has been performing consistently for the country ever since he started playing cricket for India. But every champion has some lean patches, Sachin too had some.

Sachin's tremendous performances soon elevated him to the most challenging task of captaining the Indian side. But sadly this pressure had its toll on Sachin's batting. Many criticize Sachin of not delivering the goods in crunch situations. In recent years Sachin has not been in scintillating of forms and his genius has been visible only in parts. While criticizing him we must not forget that Sachin has been round the corner for the last 16 years.

Kapil Dev Profile

Full Name:	Kapildev Ramlal Nikhanj
Date of Birth:	January 6, 1959, Chandigarh, India
Teams:	Haryana, Northampton shire, Worcestershire, India
Batting Style:	Right Hand
Bowling Style:	Right Arm Fast Medium Pace
Test Debut:	India v Pak at Faisalabad, 1st Test, 1978-79

Kapil Dev - Kapil Dev Although cricket became popular during the British raj but it was largely because of two players that the game became a household name in India in 80's. These two were Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev. Kapil indeed ruled the minds and hearts of an entire generation in the 1980s and the one that followed. Till the rise of Kapil Dev, India was known for deadly spinners and his emergence coincided with the decline of the famous spin quartet of Bedi, Prasanna, Chandrasekhar and S. Venkataraghavan

Kapil Dev was the greatest pace bowler India has produced, and their greatest fast-bowling all rounder. Such was the charisma and stamina of this man that at one point of time he became the highest wicket taker in test and one day cricket. Along with Imran Khan, Ian Botham and Richard Hadlee, Kapil Dev was considered the greatest all rounder of his times.

Last Test:	India v New Zealand at Hamilton, Only Test, 1993-94
ODI Debut:	India v Pak at Quetta, 1st ODI, 1978-79
Last ODI:	India v West Indies at Faridabad, 1st ODI, 1994-95

Achievements And Accolades
Kapil Dev, the man who remained India's main strike bowler for almost 15 years, needs no introduction. On many occasions he single-handedly won matches for India and easily became the most popular pin-up boy of the country. For an Indian fast bowler, taking 434 wickets in test cricket is indeed a great achievement. When Kapil was just 20, he set a new record of scoring 1000 runs and taking 100 wickets. He made this record within a period of one year and 109 days only.

Kapil Dev was the man who marshaled his boys to the most famous victory in Indian Cricket- the cricket world cup of 1983. Not only did he jelled the team together but also played the most memorable knock, in the history of the world cup cricket, against Zimbabwe. Kapil came to bat when India were almost out of the match at 17/5. And then he played like God and robbed the match from the opposition. He was rightly named the Wisden International Cricketer of the Year in 1983.

Kapil Dev Profile

As skipper of the Indian team he did a decent job and led the team to series victory against England in 1986. Throughout his cricketing carrier Kapil Dev contributed to the cause of the team with both bat and the ball and saved the team from impossible situations. One such occasion was when Kapil hit 4 consecutive sixes off the bowling of Eddie Hemmings (England) in 1990 to save India from follow on. Kapil Dev's super human match winning effort with the ball in the Melbourne Test of 1980 against Australia, in which he bowled non stop for 3 hours to bowl out Australia after taking painkilling injections for a worn out hamstring and a pulled groin muscle, is still remembered with awe and respect.

Kapil remained away from the game for some time after retirement and took to golfing and later became the coach of the Indian Cricket team in 1999. As a mark of respect for his contribution to the Indian cricket, the Indian government honored him with the 'Padmabhushan' award. It was not a surprise when Kapil was chosen the Indian cricketer of the century by Wisden, beating the likes of the great Sunil Gavaskar and the batting genius, Sachin Tendulkar.

Turning Point
Kapil was a regular visitor to the inter-sector cricket matches in Chandigarh. It happened so that one Sunday the Sector 16 team fell short of one player, Kapil, as usual, was there to watch the match and was taken in as a replacement. The sector 16 cricket team had 3 players who had played Ranji Trophy cricket for Haryana. They were impressed by the young boy's attitude and talent and Kapil became a regular member of the side.

Early Promise
Kapil's passion for the game was noticed by his family and they encouraged him to take up the game seriously. Kapil was hardly 14 when he started playing for the DAV school. He started his cricketing lessons under the guidance of Desh Prem Azad. At the age of 15, Kapil Dev was invited to attend a live-in coaching camp in Bombay, which was conducted by Hemu Adhikari, an ex India test cricketer.

Kapil Dev made his first class debut in November 1975 at the age of 17, against the Punjab. He returned with a splendid performance taking 6 wickets for just 39 runs. There was no looking back after that as one splendid performance followed another. In his next few matches, Kapil destroyed the opposition (Jammu and Kashmir, Bengal and Services) with his lethal deliveries. This marked the arrival of one of the greatest cricketers of India and the day was not far off when Kapil would make it to the Indian team. That special day came in 1978, at Faisalabad, against Pakistan. He could not make big impression but this series saw the emergence of Kapil Dev as a talented fast bowler and all rounder.

Ups And Downs
While playing for India Kapil always gave his best both with bat and ball. Kapil never let the controversies affect his game. There was hardly any time when this all rounder was not in his silky touch but Kapil's life was marred by controversies after his retirement from international cricket. The match fixing controversy, which rocked the world cricket, engulfed Kapil Dev as well and it looked that all his efforts and contributions to the Indian cricket were washed away in this tide, which gad taken a heavy toll.

Kapil was, however, given a clean chit by the CBI and the Indian Cricket Board. Vivian Richards, who presented the Indian cricketer of the century award to Kapil, was one of those persons who never believed that Kapil could be involved in any thing other than cricket.

LOVELY GUPTA Tuesday, 24 May 2011 Suresh Raina Biography by lovely gupta About Suresh Raina Full name Suresh Raina Born November 27, 1986, Muradnagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh Current age 24 years 53 days Also known as Sanu Playing role Batsman Batting style Left-hand bat Bowling style Right-arm offbreak Suresh Raina Picture Image Major teams India, Chennai Super Kings, India Blue, India Under-19s, Indian Board President's XI, Rajasthan Cricket Association President's XI, Uttar Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh Under-16s Suresh Raina Profile Suresh Raina represents the new age Indian cricketer. An attacking left-hander who goes for the big shots with impunity and clears the field with a swashbuckling flourish when at the top of his game, Raina is also equally capable of attracting applause as an electric fielder in the circle. It has taken him five years to cement his place as an India regular, moving from a limited-overs specialist who played 98 ODIs to one who became the 12th Indian to make a Test century on debut. Raina made his Test debut in Sri Lanka as a replacement for injured team-mate Yuvraj Singh, who, like Raina, was a left-hander, a dasher, and in the early 2000s, India's most athletic fielder. With the Test spot finally earned and a growing ability to spend long hours at the crease and see a crisis through, Raina may think of 2009-10 as the season of his turnaround, though a lean run at home against New Zealand and a questionable technique against bounce and movement in South Africa in late 2010 gave life to doubts that he seemed to have killed earlier. Raina's ability to split the field and discover gaps where fielders could not be placed earned him high praise when he first burst through to play for India in December 2006. The early years, however, were marked by a stack of attractive cameos in ODIs, but only a handful emphatic performances that changed the course of games. A string of 15 ODIs without a half-century found Raina being dropped from the national team, missing out on the 2007 World Cup and falling off the selectors' radar. An 18-month gap from international cricket had Raina producing a mountain of runs in domestic cricket before he marked his return to the Indian team in the Asia Cup in June 2008 with two centuries and the second-highest aggregate in the tournament. The last three years have been Raina's most prolific, with three centuries and 12 of his 15 ODI fifties, and a growing stature in the line-up as one of India's responsible gen-next batsmen. Also helping his cause were three supremely successful seasons for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL and in the Champions League. He was one of the four players retained by the franchise for the 2011 season. His tenacity at the worst of times is typical of someone who has spent his teenage years living away from home in the demanding world of the Uttar Pradesh sports hostel, where a lack of facilities or grooming produces cricketers who must match talent with determination. At the under-19 level, Raina was prodigious with his run-scoring and a string of double-hundreds took him to the Indian junior team and beyond it, to India colours. For a player of his ability, though, India must hope that Raina's best innings are still to be played. Fast Facts * Suresh Raina became the 10th ODI player to notch three consecutive Man-of-the-Match awards. He accomplished the recognition with knocks of 101, 84 and 116* against Hong Kong, Pakistan and Bangladesh respectively. * Raina became the third overall and the first Indian to score a T20I century (101 vs South Africa in the 2010 World T20). * He holds the record for playing the maximum number of ODIs (98) before behind handed a Test debut, beating Australian Andrew Symonds' 94. * In Tests, he became the 12th Indian to score a century on debut. * Raina became the third player to score a century in all three formats of cricket after Gayle and McCullum. * He was also India's top run-getter and the fifth highest overall in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20. Suresh Raina Career Test: 2010-2010 ODI: 2005-2011 T20: 2006-2011 IPL: 2008-2010 CLT20: 2010-2010 Suresh Raina Test Matches Debut: India Vs Sri Lanka at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo - Jul 26, 2010 Last played: India Vs South Africa at SuperSport Park, Centurion - Dec 16, 2010 Suresh Raina ODI Matches Debut: India Vs Sri Lanka at Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Rangiri - Jul 30, 2005 Last played: India Vs South Africa at Newlands, Cape Town - Jan 18, 2011 Suresh Raina T20 Matches Debut: India Vs South Africa at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg - Dec 01, 2006 Last played: India Vs South Africa at Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban - Jan 09, 2011 Suresh Raina IPL Matches Debut: Chennai Super Kings Vs Kings XI Punjab at Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali - Chandigarh - Apr 19, 2008 Last played: Chennai Super Kings Vs Mumbai Indians at Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai - Apr 25, 2010 Suresh Raina CLT20 Matches Debut: Chennai Super Kings Vs Central Stags at Kingsmead, Durban - Sep 11, 2010 Last played: Chennai Super Kings Vs Warriors at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg - Sep 26, 2010 Suresh Raina Batting, Fielding and Bowling Image Posted by sainanehwal at 06:46 No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Yusuf Pathan Biography by lovely gupta About Yusuf Pathan Full name Yusuf Pathan Born November 17, 1982, Baroda, Gujarat Current age 28 years 63 days Playing role Allrounder Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling style Right-arm offbreak Relation Half-brother - IK Pathan Yusuf Pathan Picture Image Major teams India, Baroda, India Green, Rajasthan Royals Yusuf Pathan Profile Yusuf Pathan first made his mark as a hard-hitting batsman and offspinner for the Baroda Under-16 team in the Vijay Merchant Trophy in 1999-2000. His impressive showings saw him quickly climb the rungs to the Baroda U-19 and the West Zone U-19 sides. He made his Ranji debut against Saurashtra in 2001-02, but it wasn't until the 2004-05 season, by when younger brother Irfan Pathan was donning the national colours, that he established himself as a regular in the Baroda squad. Pathan ended the 2004-05 season as Baroda's fourth-highest scorer and third-highest wicket-taker. His ability to score runs quickly - he had the highest strike rate in the 2006-07 Ranji Trophy - and impressive performances in the Deodhar Trophy and Twenty20 domestic tournament in the 2006-07 season was rewarded with a spot in India's squad for the Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa. Pathan's impressive showing for the Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League in 2008 - 435 runs with four fifties at a strike-rate of 179 - earned him an ODI call-up for the tri-series in Bangladesh and the Asia Cup in Pakistan. He recorded the fastest fifty of the IPL's first season - off 21 balls against the Deccan Chargers - and his dazzling all-round show in the final was instrumental in Rajasthan's triumph. A run of patchy scores in India's limited-overs squads saw Pathan dropped, but he replied with emphatically with a 190-ball unbeaten double century - his second in the match - as West Zone sealed the highest first-class chase ever in the 2010 Duleep Trophy final. His ODI career hit a peak when he helped India chase 316 with a blistering century against New Zealand. At the IPL auctions in 2011, he was snapped up by Kolkata Knight Riders for a bumper US$2.1 million, and shortly after, was picked in India's Squad for the World Cup. Fast Facts * Yusuf Pathan made his international debut in the finals of the ICC World Twenty20 in 2007. * In IPL, he scored the first season's fastest half-century of 21 balls. * Pathan also scored the fastest century in IPL of just 37 balls against Mumbai in the third edition. * In 2009-10, his unbeaten 210 from 190 balls in the second innings helped his side West Zone complete a highest successful run chase in the first class cricket history. Yusuf Pathan Batting, Fielding and Bowling Image Yusuf Pathan Sixes Yusuf Khan Pathan is one cricketer in India. Pathan made his debut in first class cricket in 2001.He is a drummer and a powerful and aggressive player on the right hand right arm offbreak.blow and had to settle for a slow 44 from 73 balls with three fours.changed the complexion of the game. Pathan put the first ball after the restart in the stands to reach his fifty and then plunged into a double century in quick time. Yusuf Pathan blistering scored a hundred in the fourth ODI against India in New Zealand is played in Bangalore.He scored 100 runs in only 79 balls hitting nine fours and 7 notout sixes.He again, and keep India’s hopes of winning the match.The best of the seven sixes was Mills who was beaten over 100 meters hit the roof of the stadium and the disappearance further.Even delay due to rain could not stop one hour while raising six Yusuf Vettori Huge first delivery he faced after break. His half-brother Irfan Pathan is also an Indian cricketer Although young people who entered the Indian Irfan Yusuf Yusuf first.Courtesy team all performance, India lead the five match series 4-0.Ross Taylor after adding 40 runs in total over Kiwi has been reduced by 38 degrees higher than the first pitch of batting power play when he played along the wrong line break to recover from underweight Ashwin at birth. Posted by sainanehwal at 06:36 No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook virender sehwag Biography by lovely gupta Bowling Style virender sehwag Name Virender Sehwag Nationality Indian Date of Birth 20 October 1978, Delhi Batting Style Right Hand Bat Right Arm Off Break Test Debut India v South Africa at Bloemfontein, 1st Test, 2001/02 ODI Debut India v Pakistan at Mohali, Pepsi Cup, 1998/99 Virender Sehwag is known for his aggressive, dazzling batting style, and does not hesitate to play unorthodox shots. Sehwag's Achievements One-Days ( Man of the Match : 13 times ) Batting - Matches: 160 Runs: 4727 Avg: 31.72 HS: 130 Bowling - Wkts Taken: 70 Avg: 40.94 Econ: 5.27 Tests ( Man of the Match : 4 times ) Batting - Matches: 49 Runs: 4066 Avg: 52.13 HS: 309 Bowling - Wkts Taken: 12 Avg: 52.33 Econ: 3.16 Profile: A hard-hitting middle-order batsman with an excellent temperament, who also is a useful off-spinner, Virender Sehwag's name is now on everybody's lips. The series against South Africa was an unforgettable one in the young man's career. After impressing in the one-dayers and following it up by scoring a debut Test hundred while giving Sachin Tendulkar excellent company in a glorious stand at Bloemfontein, Sehwag found himself dragged into the match-referee controversy along with his idol in the next Test at Port Elizabeth. The whole controversy ensured that he missed the first Test of the England series which was played at Mohali. But once he was back, he had managed to successfully brush it all aside and return to his free-flowing, ebullient self. An injury while fielding in the second Test against Zimbabwe put him out of cricket again for a brief while. There were fleeting glimpses of his destructive potential in the three one-dayers that he played in the West Indies, but England is where Sehwag would be hoping to prove, once and for all, that his is a talent that here is stay. His disastrous debut against Pakistan at Mohali in the Pepsi Cup did not presage such an eventful career. After having got out for a single he was hammered for 35 runs in the three overs that he bowled. He was then shortlisted among the 19 probables for the 1999 World Cup in England but did not make the final squad. Sehwag has been a mainstay in the Delhi Ranji Trophy team since the 1998-99 season. A powerful hitter of the ball, he aggregated 745 runs during the 1998-99 Ranji Trophy season with three centuries and followed it up with 674 runs in the 1999-2000 edition of the competition. Virender Sehwag Hot Wallpapers Sehwag made a strong comeback to the Indian team during the Australia tour of India in 2000-01. In the first one-dayer at Bangalore, Sehwag helped himself to a quick half-century before scalping three crucial wickets to play a leading role in India's victory. Man of the Match in the first one-dayer, Sehwag was forced to miss the rest of the series with a fractured finger. Promoted to open the batting in the absence of Sachin Tendulkar, Sehwag hammered a 70-ball ton against the hapless Kiwis in a tri-series played in Sri Lanka. That innings made his reputation and secured his place in the Indian one-day team. With his debut hundred in the first Test at South Africa he then went on to confirm his status as the brightest young talent on the Indian cricketing horizon. If there remained any sceptics, they were converted when India toured New Zealand. Scoring two thumping tons in a series dominated by the ball, Sehwag was at his blazing best. Remarkably no other batsman in either side managed to reach three figures in the one-dayers. Sehwag has done well in South Africa in the past and the Indian side will be banking on him to provide them with good starts Posted by sainanehwal at 06:29 No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook YUVRAJ SINGH Biography by lovely gupta Yuvraj SinghFirst Name: Yuvraj Last Name: Singh Born: 12 December 1981, Chandigarh Nick Name Yuvi Height: 6'2 Major Teams: Punjab, India. Known As: Yuvraj Singh Batting Style: Left Hand Bat Bowling Style: Left Arm Medium Biography:Yuvraj born in Chandigarh at 12 December 1981.At 19, Yuvraj is already an all rounder who has proven himself. One need look no further than his performance in the domestic youth competitions and in the Under-19 World Cup in Sri Lanka. In the final of the Cooch Behar Trophy in the 1999-2000 season, Yuvraj made 358 against Bihar. Any batsman who has the ability to play an innings of that length is bound to be a force to reckon with. Following that performance up with what was an extremely successful World Cupin Sri Lanka, Yuvraj caught the eye of many a cricket pundit. He was named player of the series for scoring heavily through theWorld Cup, including a tremendous half century that came off just 20 balls in the semifinals against Australia. [Yuvraj.JPG] Generously gifted, Yuvraj Singh is looked upon as a strong, fearless natural destined for great things. Two months short of his 19th birthday, he made an almost messianic entry into international cricket, toppling Australia in the Nairobi Mini-World Cup in 2000-01, with a blistering 84 and some scintillating fielding. In time he was to supplement these skills with clever, loopy left-arm spin. While Yuvraj's ability to hit the ball long and clean were instantly recognised, he was soon found to be troubled by quality spin and perceived to lack commitment, traits for which he temporarily lost his place in the one-day side. But on returning, for the last two one-dayers against Zimbabwe in early 2002, he swung the series India's way with a matchwinning innings in each game, and then went to England and played a key role in three Indian chases in their dream run in the NatWest tri-series. It took 15 months more, and an injury to his captain, Sourav Ganguly, for Yuvraj to get a Test look-in. On the third such opportunity, against Pakistan on the first day on a greentop at Lahore, he stroked a stunning century off 110 balls. The 2005-06 season proved to be a watershed for Yuvraj, with 1161 runs at 58 in the one-dayers, as he transformed himself into one of the keystones in India's batting line-up. He was soon preferred over VVS Laxman in Tests when India went in with five batsmen, but a lean series One Day International (ODI) and Test Debut Yuvraj Singh made his debut in the One Day International (ODI) Cricket with a match against Kenya played on 3rd of October 2000 at Nairobi. Although he didn’t get a chance to bat in the match, he took no wicket and gave away 16 runs in the match. In his next ODI match against Australia just 4 days after the debutante one, Yuvraj showed his batting prowess by scoring 84 runs off just 80 balls. He began his Test Cricket career with a match against New Zealand played on 16th of October 2003 at Mohali. He scored 25 runs in the match, including 3 Fours and 1 Six. Remarkable Achievements Basically Yuvraj is a Left Handed batsman and often he bowls as a Left Arm Orthodox Spinner. He is considered to fare better as a batsman facing Spin Bowlers in comparison to Fast Bowlers. Yuvraj is also said to be one of the efficient fielders the Indian Cricket team has got, and according to a study he was the 4th ranked fielder in the world in terms of having maximum number of effected run-outs in One Day International (ODI) Cricket matches between 1999 and 2005. In the 131 ODI matches he played during the tenure, Yuvraj as a fielder made 21 run-outs possible. Overall Performance In his overall Test Cricket career till April 2009, Yuvraj Singh has played 28 Test matches in which he has scored 1387 runs including 3 centuries and 6 half-centuries, with an average of 35.56 runs and a highest score of 169 runs. He has managed to grab 7 wickets giving away 316 runs with an average of 45.14 runs in these matches. As far as his One Day International (ODI) Cricket career is concerned, he has played 232 ODI matches till April 2009 and has scored 6850 runs including 11 centuries and 40 half-centuries with an average of 37.43 runs and a highest score of 139 runs. In these matches, he took 72 wickets and gave away 2849 runs with an average of 39.56 runs. Yuvraj Singh is the Captain of the Kings XI Punjab team of the Indian Premier League 2009, and in a match against Kolkata Knight Riders played on 21st of April 2009 at Durban, he scored 38 runs off 28 balls, although he couldn’t get his team the victory in the match, as Kolkata Knight Riders won by 11 runs. Posted by sainanehwal at 06:18 No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook ZAHEER KHAN Biography by lovely gupta [zaheer.jpg] Zaheer KhanFull name: Zaheer Khan Born: October 7, 1978 Birth place: Shrirampur, Maharashtra Height: 6.0 ft Current age: 30 years 177 days Major teams: India, Asia XI, Asia XI, Bangalore Royal Challengers, Baroda, Mumbai, Surrey, Worcestershire Batting style: Right-hand bat Bowling style: Left-arm fast-medium Biography: Like Waqar Younis a decade before, Zaheer Khan yorked his way into the collective consciousness of the cricket world: his performances at the ICC Knockout Trophy in Kenya in September 2000 announced the arrival of an all-too-rare star in the Indian fast-bowling firmament. He might just as easily have come from the Pakistani pace stable: well-built, quick and unfazed by a batsman's reputation, Zaheer could move the ball both ways off the wicket and swing the old ball at some pace. After initially struggling to establish himself as a new-ball bowler, he came of age on the 2002 tour of the West Indies, when he led the line with great heart. His subsequent displays in England and New Zealand - not to mention some eye-catching moments at the World Cup - established him at the forefront of India's new pace generation, but a hamstring injury saw him relegated to bit-part performer as Indian cricket scripted some of its finest moments away in Australia and Pakistan. After that, his pace has dropped and his attitude was questioned, as a new breed of pace bowlers pushed him aside to move to the front of the queue. Zaheer's response was to head to Worcestershire and take 78 wickets in the 2006 county season, a performance that earned him a recall for the tour of South Africa. He was the perfect foil for Sreesanth there, and he then regained his status as leader of the pack with a matchwinning display at Trent Bridge, as India won only their fifth Test on English soil. ODI career He has taken 271 ODI wickets at an average of 28.83 runs per wicket taking 4 wickets in a match 6 times (4 times against Zimbabwe) including 32 wickets against Zimbabwe at an average of 17.46 runs per dismissal. He, along with other seamers like Javagal Srinath and Ashish Nehra helped India to make it to the finals of the 2003 Cricket World Cup. Zaheer finished the 2003 World cup as 4th highest wicket taker - 18 wickets from 11 matches at an average of 20 runs per wicket. Zaheer was the mainstay of Indian bowling attack during the side's victorious Cricket World Cup 2011. He was the joint-leading wicket taker and took 21 wickets which were same as Shahid Afridi's but was given second position for higher average in 2011 Cricket World Cup. Test career Zaheer has taken over 250 Test wickets at an average of just over 33 runs per wicket. Zaheer was at the peak of his Test career in the 2002-2003 season. In 16 matches from the beginning of the tour of West Indies in April 2002 to the end of the 1st match against Australia in December 2003, Brisbane, Zaheer took 54 wickets from 16 matches at an average of 30 runs. It all turned downhill after the First Test against Australia in Brisbane in December 2003. Having taken 5 of the top 7 Australian batsmen in the first innings (5 for 95), he injured himself in the second during the opening spell. After missing the Second Test in Adelaide, he returned for the third test in Melbourne, but was injured midway through the match and was forced to return home. The injury kept him from the early 2004 tour of Pakistan, India's first Test series victory there. Zaheer holds the world record for the highest Test score by a number 11 when he scored 75 for India v Bangladesh in Dhaka, 2004. His partnership with Sachin Tendulkar which produced 133 runs is an Indian-record for the tenth-wicket. His batting average of 19.46 at number 10 is also the highest for a batsman in ODIs. Zaheer Khan reached 250 test wickets when he was yorked. Zaheer is the 5th Indian to achieve this feat. Posted by sainanehwal at 06:08 No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook MS Dhoni Full Biography by lovely gupta MS Dhoni.jpg Personal information Full name Mahendra Singh Dhoni Born 7 July 1981 (age 29) Ranchi, Bihar (now inJharkhand), India Nickname Mahi Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Batting style Right-hand batsman Bowling style Right-hand medium Role Wicket-keeper, India captain International information National side India Test debut (cap 251) 2 December 2005 v Sri Lanka Last Test 9 October 2010 v Australia ODI debut (cap 158) 23 December 2004 v Bangladesh Last ODI 02 April 2011 v Sri Lanka ODI shirt no. 7 Domestic team information Years Team 1999/00 – 2004/05 Bihar 2004/05- Jharkhand 2008– Chennai Super Kings Career statistics Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 54 185 95 241 Runs scored 2,925 5,958 5087 7,960 Batting average 40.06 48.08 37.40 47.95 100s/50s 4/20 7/37 7/34 13/48 Top score 148 183* 148 183* Balls bowled 12 12 42 39 Wickets 0 1 0 2 Bowling average – 14.00 - 18.00 5 wickets in innings - - - - 10 wickets in match - - - - Best bowling 0/1 - - 1/14 Catches/stumpings 148/25 180/60 256/44 247/75 Source: Cricinfo, 21 February 2011 MS Dhoni Latest PicsMS Dhoni Latest Pics MS Dhoni (Full name: Mahendra Singh Dhoni) Was born on 7 July 1981 in Ranchi, Bihar India. He is an Indian Cricketer and currently is the captain of Indian National cricket team. He plays as wicket keeper in cricket field. He was playing 1st class cricket since 2000 but got chance of ODI cricket in 2005 for first time, and he debut test match from India in the same year against Sri Lanka. now he played over the 50 test matches and 200 ODIs. He is breaking the records of fame. He likes bikes very much and he has the best bikes of the world. he married with girl in 2010. India won 2011 cricket world in MS Dhoni captaincy. ODI Cricket ODI career records by opposition # Opponent Matches Runs Average High Score 100s 50s Catches Stumping 1 Africa XI 3 174 87.00 139* 1 0 3 3 2 Australia Australia 23 690 43.12 124 1 3 26 9 3 Bangladesh Bangladesh 9 247 61.75 101* 1 1 9 6 4 Bermuda Bermuda 1 29 29.00 29 0 0 1 0 5 England England 18 501 33.40 96 0 3 19 7 6 Hong Kong Hong Kong 1 109 - 109* 1 0 1 3 7 New Zealand New Zealand 9 269 67.25 84* 0 2 7 2 8 Pakistan Pakistan 23 920 54.11 148 1 7 22 6 9 Scotland Scotland 1 - - - - - 2 - 10 South AfricaSouth Africa 10 196 24.50 107 0 1 7 1 11 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 38 1514 63.08 183* 2 12 38 9 12 West Indies Cricket Board West Indies 18 499 49.90 95 0 3 16 4 13 Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 2 123 123.00 67* 0 2 0 1 Total 156 5271 51.67 183* 7 34 151 51 ODI Centuries: ODI centuries # Runs Match Against Stadium City/Country Year 1 148 5 Pakistan ACA-VDCA Stadium Vishakapatnam, India 2005 2 183* 22 Sri Lanka Sawai Mansingh Stadium Jaipur, India 2005 3 139* 74 Africa XI MA Chidambaram Stadium Chennai, India 2007 4 109* 109 Hong Kong National Stadium Karachi, Pakistan 2008 5 124 143 Australia VCA Stadium Nagpur, India 2009 6 107 152 Sri Lanka VCA Stadium Nagpur, India 2009 7 101* 156 Bangladesh Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium Dhaka, Bangladesh 2010 Posted by sainanehwal at 05:59 No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Older Posts Home Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) Feedjit Followers Blog Archive ▼ 2011 (8) ▼ May (8) Suresh Raina Biography by lovely gupta Yusuf Pathan Biography by lovely gupta virender sehwag Biography by lovely gupta YUVRAJ SINGH Biography by lovely gupta ZAHEER KHAN Biography by lovely gupta MS Dhoni Full Biography by lovely gupta Sachin Tendulkar Full Biography by lovely gupta INDIAN CRICKET TEAM PLAYER BIOGRAPHY BLOGSPOT About Me My Photo sainanehwal Saina Nehwal Personal information Date of birth March 17, 1990 (age 21) Place of birth Hisar, Haryana, India[1] Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) Weight 60 kg (130 lb) Country India Handedness Right Coach Pullela Gopichand Atik Jauhari Women's singles Highest Ranking 2[2] (2 December 2010) Current Ranking 4[3] (26 April 2011) Title(s) Indonesia Super Series 2009, Singapore Super Series 2010, Indonesia Super Series 2010, Hong Kong Super Series 2010, Chinese Taipei Open Grand Prix Gold 2008, India Open Grand Prix Gold 2010, Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold 2011 View my complete profile Awesome Inc. template. 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India national cricket team From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search "Men in blue" redirects here. Men in blue may also refer to Police. India India cricket crest India cricket crest Test status granted 1932 First Test match v England at Lord's, London, 25–28 June 1932 Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni Coach Zimbabwe Duncan Fletcher Official ICC Test, ODI and T20I ranking 3rd (Test) 1st (ODI) 3rd (T20) [3] Test matches – This year 472 4 Last Test match v Australia Australia at Delhi, 22–26 March 2013 Wins/losses – This year 119/149[1] 4/0 As of 31 May 2013 The Indian Cricket Team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), it is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test and One Day International (ODI) status. Although cricket was introduced to India by European merchant sailors in the 18th-century and the first cricket club in India was established in Calcutta in 1792, India's national cricket team did not play their first Test match until 25 June 1932 at Lord's.[2] They became the sixth team to be granted Test cricket status.[3] In their first fifty years of international cricket, India proved weaker than Australia and England, winning only 35 of the 196 test matches.[4] The team, however, gained strength near the end of the 1970s with the emergence of players such as Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and the Indian spin quartet — Erapalli Prasanna and Srinivas Venkataraghavan (both off spinners), Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (a leg spinner), and Bishen Singh Bedi (a left-arm spinner). Traditionally much stronger at home than abroad, the Indian team has improved its overseas form since the start of the 21st century. It won the Cricket World Cup in 1983 under Kapil Dev, was runner-up in 2003 under Sourav Ganguly, and won the World Cup a second time in 2011 under Mahendra Singh Dhoni. It thus became only the third team after West Indies and Australia to have won the World Cup more than once.[5] It is also the first cricket team to win the World Cup on home soil. India has also been the runner-up in 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy and the joint champion along with Sri Lanka in 2002 ICC Champions Trophy, led by Ganguly in both the instances. India also won the inaugural World Twenty20 under the captaincy of Dhoni in 2007. The Indian cricket team is currently ranked third by the ICC in Tests, first in ODIs and third in T20Is.[6] Currently, Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the captain in all forms of the game while Duncan Fletcher is the coach. Under the leadership of Dhoni, the Indian team has set a national record for most back-to-back ODI wins (nine straight wins)[7] and has emerged as one of the most formidable teams in international cricket.[8] The current team contains many of the world's leading players, including Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag, who hold numerous cricketing world records.[9] Contents 1 History 2 Governing body 2.1 Selection Committee 3 Tournament history 4 Individual records 5 Team colours 6 Test cricket grounds 7 Personnel 7.1 Coaching staff 8 Statistics 8.1 Test Matches 8.2 One-Day Internationals 8.3 Twenty20 Internationals 9 Captains 10 Fan following 11 Indian women's cricket team 12 See also 13 References 14 External links History Main article: History of the Indian cricket team See also: History of cricket in India to 1918, History of cricket in India from 1918–19 to 1945, History of cricket in India from 1945–46 to 1960, History of cricket in India from 1960–61 to 1970, History of cricket in India from 1970–71 to 1985, History of cricket in India from 1985–86 to 2000], and History of cricket in India from 2000–01 See also: India at the Cricket World Cup, List of Indian Test cricketers, and List of Indian ODI cricketers Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji was an Indian who played for the English cricket team The British brought cricket to India in the early 1700s, with the first cricket match played in 1721.[10] In 1848, the Parsi community in Bombay formed the Oriental Cricket Club, the first cricket club to be established by Indians. After slow beginnings, the Europeans eventually invited the Parsis to play a match in 1877.[11] By 1912, the Parsis,Sikhs, Hindus, and Muslims of Bombay played a quadrangular tournament with the Europeans every year.[11] In the early 1900s, some Indians went on to play for the English cricket team. Some of these, such as Ranjitsinhji and KS Duleepsinhji were greatly appreciated by the British and their names went on to be used for the Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy- two major first class tournaments in India. In 1911, an Indian team went on their first official tour of England, but only played English county teams and not the English cricket team.[12] India was invited into The Imperial Cricket Council in 1926 and made its debut as a Test-cricket-playing-nation in 1932 led by CK Nayudu.[13] The match was given Test status despite being only 3 days in length. The team was not strong in its batting at this point and went on to lose by 158 runs.[14] The Indian team continued to improve throughout the 1930s and '40s but did not achieve an international victory during this period. The team's first series as an independent country was in 1948 against Sir Donald Bradman's Invincibles (a name given to the Australia national cricket team of that time). Australia won the five-match series, 4–0.[15] India recorded their first Test victory against England at Madras (now Chennai) in 1952.[16] Later in the same year, they won their first Test series, which was against Pakistan.[17] They continued their improvement throughout the early 1950s with a series win against New Zealand in 1956. However, they did not win again in the remainder of the decade and lost badly to strong Australian and English sides. The next decade saw India's reputation develop as a team with a strong record at home. They won their first Test series against England at home in 1961–62, and also won a home series against New Zealand. They also managed to draw home series against Pakistan and Australia, and another series against England. In this same period, India also won its first series outside the subcontinent, against New Zealand in 1967–68. Panoramic View of the Eden Gardens Stadium during IPL 2008 The key to India's bowling in the 1970s were the Indian spin quartet – Bishen Bedi, E.A.S. Prasanna, BS Chandrasekhar and Srinivas Venkataraghavan. This period also saw the emergence of two of India's best ever batsmen, Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath. Indian pitches have had tendency to support spin and the spin quartet exploited this to create collapses in opposing batting line-ups. These players were responsible for the back-to-back series wins in 1971 in the West Indies and in England, under the captaincy of Ajit Wadekar. Gavaskar scored 774 runs in the West Indian series while Dilip Sardesai's 112 played a big part in their one Test win. A graph showing India's Test match results against all Test match teams from 1932 to September 2006 The advent of One-Day International cricket in 1971 created a new dimension in the cricket world. However, India was not considerably strong in ODIs at this point and batsmen such as the captain Gavaskar were known for their defence-based approaches to batting. India began as a weak team in ODIs and did not manage to qualify for the second round in the first two editions of the Cricket World Cup. Gavaskar infamously blocked his way to 36 not out off 174 balls against England in the first World Cup in 1975, India scored just 132 for 3 and lost by 202 runs. In contrast, India fielded a strong team in Test matches and were particularly strong at home where their combination of stylish batsman and beguiling spinners were seen at their best. India set a then test record in the third Test against the West Indies at Port-of-Spain in 1976 when they chased 403 to win thanks to 112 from Vishwanath. This West Indian defeat is considered to be a watershed in the history of their cricket because it led to captain Clive Lloyd dispensing with spin altogether and relying entirely on a four-man pace attack. In November 1976 the team established another record by scoring 524 for 9 declared against New Zealand at Kanpur without an individual scoring a century. There were six fifties, the highest being 70 by Mohinder Amarnath. The innings was the eighth instance in Test cricket where all eleven batsmen reached double figures. During the 1980s, India developed a more attack minded batting line-up with stroke makers such as the wristy Mohammed Azharuddin, Dilip Vengsarkar and all-rounder Ravi Shastri prominent during this time. India won the Cricket World Cup in 1983, defeating the then favourites West Indies in the final, owing to a strong bowling performance. In spite of this the team performed poorly in the Test arena, including 28 consecutive Test matches without a victory. In 1984, India won the Asia Cup and in 1985, won the World Championship of Cricket in Australia. Apart from this, India remained a very weak team outside the Indian subcontinent. India's Test series victory in 1986 against England remained the last Test series win by India outside the subcontinent for the next 19 years. The 1987 Cricket World Cup was held in India. The 1980s saw Gavaskar and Kapil Dev (India's best all rounder to this date) at the pinnacle of their careers. Gavaskar made a Test record 34 centuries as he became the first man to reach the 10,000 run mark. Kapil Dev later became the highest wicket taker in Test cricket with 434 wickets. The period was also marked by an unstable leadership, with Gavaskar and Kapil exchanging the captaincy several times. With 619 wickets, Anil Kumble is the world's third highest wicket taker in Tests and India's highest Test and ODI wicket taker .[18] The addition of Sachin Tendulkar and Anil Kumble to the national side in 1989 and 1990 further improved the team. The following year, Javagal Srinath, India's fastest bowler since Amar Singh made his debut. Despite this, during the 1990s, India did not win any of its 33 Tests outside the subcontinent while it won 17 out of its 30 Tests at home. After being eliminated by neighbours Sri Lanka on home soil at the 1996 Cricket World Cup, the team underwent a year of change as Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid, later to become captains of the team, made their debut in the same Test at Lord's. Tendulkar replaced Azharuddin as captain in late 1996, but after a personal and team form slump, Tendulkar relinquished the captaincy and Azharuddin was reinstalled at the beginning of 1998. With the captaincy burden removed, Tendulkar was the world's leading run-scorer in both Tests and ODIs, as India enjoyed a home Test series win over Australia, the best ranked team in the world. After failing to reach the semifinals at the 1999 Cricket World Cup, Tendulkar was again made captain, and had another poor run, losing 3–0 on a tour of Australia and then 2–0 at home to South Africa. Tendulkar resigned, vowing never to captain the team again, with Sourav Ganguly appointed the new captain. The team was further damaged in 2000 when former captain Azharuddin and fellow batsman Ajay Jadeja were implicated in a match-fixing scandal and given life and five years bans respectively. This period was described by the BBC as "the Indian cricket's worst hour". However, the new core – Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble and Sourav Ganguly – swore not to let this happen to them again – and lead Indian cricket out of the Dark Ages. And the first three happily put aside personal ambition to let Ganguly lead them into a new era.[19] Since 2000, the Indian team underwent major improvements with the appointment of John Wright as India's first ever foreign coach. India maintained their unbeaten home record against Australia in Test series after defeating them in 2001. The series was famous for the Kolkata Test match, in which India became only the third team in the history of Test cricket to win a Test match after following on. Australian captain Steve Waugh labelled India as the "Final Frontier" as a result of his side's inability to win a Test series in India.[20] Victory in 2001 against the Australians marked the beginning of a dream run for India under their captain Sourav Ganguly, winning Test matches in Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, West Indies and England. The England series is also known for India's highest ODI run-chase of 325 runs at Lord's which came in the Natwest ODI Series final against England. In the same year, India were joint winners of the ICC Champions Trophy with Sri Lanka, and then went to the 2003 Cricket World Cup in South Africa where they reached the final only to be beaten by Australia. The 2003–2004 season also saw India play out a Test series in Australia where they drew 1–1 with world champions, and then win a Test and ODI series in Pakistan. The Indian cricket team in action in the Wankhede Stadium At the end of the 2004 season, India suffered from lack of form and fitness from its older players. A defeat in a following home Test series against Australia was followed by an ODI home series defeat against Pakistan followed by a Test series levelled 1–1. Greg Chappell took over from John Wright as the new coach of the Indian cricket team following the series, and his methods proved to be controversial during the beginning of his tenure. The tension resulted in a fallout between Chappell and Ganguly, resulting in Rahul Dravid being made captain. This triggered a revival in the team's fortunes, following the emergence of players like Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Suresh Raina, and the coming of age of players like Irfan Pathan and Yuvraj Singh. A thumping home series victory over Sri Lanka in 2005 and a drawn series with South Africa put India at 2nd place in the ICC ODI rankings. This was followed by a convincing ODI series win in Pakistan in early 2006 following a loss in the Test series, which gave India the world record of 17 successive ODI victories while batting second.[21] Towards the middle of 2006 however, a 4–1 series loss in the West Indies gave rise to a slump in India's ODI form, while they achieved a 1–0 victory in the Test series that followed, giving them their first Test series victory in the Caribbean since 1971. India's ODI form, however, slumped further with a disappointing performance in the 2006 Champions Trophy and a drubbing in the ODI series in South Africa. This was followed yet again by an initial good performance in the Tests, giving India its first Test match win in South Africa, although they went on to lose the series 2–1. This Test series was marked by Ganguly's comeback to the Indian team.[22] The beginning of 2007 had seen a revival in the Indian team's ODI fortunes before the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Series victories against the West Indies and Sri Lanka, marked by the comeback of Ganguly, and strong form by Tendulkar, and the emergence of young attacking players like Robin Uthappa saw many pundits to tip India as a real chance to do well at the 2007 Cricket World Cup. However, defeats to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka saw India fail to reach the final eight. India's traditional strengths have always been its line-up of spin bowlers and batsmen.[23] Recently, it has a very strong batting line-up with Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag all being selected to play for the ICC World XI in the 2005 "SuperTest" against Australia. In previous times, India was unique in that it was the only country to regularly field three spinners in one team, whereas one is the norm, and of the fifteen players to have taken more than 100 wickets, only four were pace bowlers from the last 20 years.[24] However in recent years, Indian pace bowling has improved, with the emerging talents of Zaheer Khan, Irfan Pathan, Rudra Pratap Singh, Munaf Patel and Ishant Sharma many more playing in the national team. In December 2006, it played and won its first ever Twenty20 international in South Africa, becoming the most recent Test team to play Twenty20 cricket. After winning the Test series against England in August 2007, Rahul Dravid stepped down as the captain of the team following which Mahendra Singh Dhoni was made the captain of the Twenty20 and ODI team. In September 2007, it won the first ever Twenty20 World Cup held in South Africa, beating Pakistan by 5 runs in the final. Then they toured Australia with a controversial series that they lost 2–1 in test but come back for a whitewash final against them.[25] After beating Sri Lanka 2–0 in December 2009, India become the No. 1 team in the world. then retained by drawing a series to South Africa and Sri Lanka confirmed their rankings. In October 2010 India won the test series 2–0 against Australia giving them back to back series win vs them. Then they got the first drawn series in South Africa.[26] When India slipped to a 4–0 defeat to England in August 2011, England replaced India as the No. 1 Test team.[27] India's results in international matches Matches Won Lost Drawn Tied No result Inaugural Match Test[28] 469 116 149 203 1 – 25 June 1932 ODI[29] 811 401 369 - 6 35 13 July 1974 T20I[30] 45 24 19 – 1 1 1 December 2006 On 2 April 2011, India won the 2011 Cricket World Cup, defeating Sri Lanka in the final, thus becoming the second team after West Indies and Australia to win it twice, the previous win being in 1983. Gautam Gambhir and the skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni led the way with classy innings of 97 and 91*, respectively. As Sri Lanka's stalwart batsman Mahela Jayawardene scored a brilliant 88-ball 103-run century and yet ended up on the losing side, he also became the first player in World Cup final history to end up on the losing side despite scoring a century.[31] The retirement of Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman from Test cricket in 2012 – and Saurav Ganguly before than in 2008 – signalled the end of the fabled middle order batting line up Indian had for a decade. Now, only Sachin Tendulkar, the last of the so-called "Fab Four" who resurrected Indian cricket after the infamous match fixing scandals, remains in international cricket.[19] Governing body Main article: Board of Control for Cricket in India The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the governing body for the Indian cricket team and first class cricket in India. The Board has been operating since 1929 and represents India at the International Cricket Council. It is amongst the richest sporting organisations in the world, and it sold media rights for India's matches from 2006–2010 for US$ 612,000,000.[32] It manages the Indian team's sponsorships, its future tours and team selection. The International Cricket Council determines India's upcoming matches through its future tours program. However, the BCCI, with its influential financial position in the cricketing world, has often challenged the ICC's program and called for more tours between India, Australia, Pakistan and England which are more likely to earn more revenue as opposed to tours with Bangladesh or Zimbabwe.[33] In the past, the BCCI has also come into conflict with the ICC regarding sponsorships[34] and the legitimacy of the ICC Champions Trophy. Selection Committee Main article: Indian national cricket selectors Selection for the Indian cricket team occurs through the BCCI's zonal selection policy, where each of the five zones is represented with one selector and one of the members nominated by BCCI as the Chairman of the Selection Committee. This has sometimes led to controversy as to whether these selectors are biased towards their zones.[35] The current chairman of Selection Committee is Sandeep Patil. Roger Binny, Vikram Rathore, Saba Karim and Rajinder Hans are the other members of the selection committee[36] whose terms started in September 2012 with BCCI holding the rights for a one-year extension. Tournament history World Cup record Year Round Position GP W L T NR England 1975 Round 1 6/8 3 1 2 0 0 England 1979 Round 1 7/8 3 0 3 0 0 England 1983 Champions 1/8 8 6 2 0 0 IndiaPakistan 1987 Third Place 3/8 7 5 2 0 0 Australia New Zealand 1992 Round 1 7/9 8 2 5 0 1 IndiaPakistanSri Lanka 1996 Third Place 3/12 7 4 3 0 0 England 1999 R2 (Super 6s) 6/12 8 4 4 0 0 South AfricaZimbabweKenya 2003 Runners-Up 2/14 11 9 2 0 0 West Indies Cricket Board 2007 Round 1 10/16 3 1 2 0 0 IndiaSri LankaBangladesh 2011 Champions 1/14 9 7 1 1 0 AustraliaNew Zealand 2015 - – – – – – – England 2019 - – – – – – – Total 12/12 2 titles 67 39 26 1 1 World Twenty20 record Year Round Position GP W L T NR South Africa 2007 Champions 1/12 7 4 1 1 1 England 2009 Super 8s 7/12 5 2 3 0 0 West Indies Cricket Board 2010 Super 8s 8/12 5 2 3 0 0 Sri Lanka 2012 Super 8s 5/12 5 4 1 0 0 Bangladesh 2014 - - - - - - - India 2016 - - - - - - - Total 6/6 1 title 22 12 8 1 1 Other Major Tournaments ICC Champions Trophy Asia Cup 1998: Semi Finals 2000: Runners Up 2002: Joint Champions with Sri Lanka 2004: Round 1 2006: Round 1 2009: Round 1 2013: Champions 1984: Champions 1986: Boycott 1988: Champions 1990/1991: Champions 1995: Champions 1997: Runners Up 2000: 3rd Place 2004: Runners Up 2008: Runners Up 2010: Champions 2012: 3rd Place Defunct Tournaments Commonwealth Games† Asian Test Championship Austral-Asia Cup 1998: Round 1 1999: 3rd Place 2001: Boycott 1986:Runners Up 1990:Round 1 1994:Runners Up †Cricket was played only at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Individual records Sachin Tendulkar celebrates his 38th Test century during a match against Australia in 2008. Tendulkar holds multiple world records including the world's leading run-scorer and century maker in both Tests and ODIs.[37] Main article: Indian cricket team records Sachin Tendulkar, who began playing for India as a 16-year-old in 1989 and has since become the most prolific run-scorer in the history of both Test and ODI cricket, is easily the batsman with the most national achievements. He holds the record of most appearances in both Tests and ODIs, most runs in both Tests and ODIs and most centuries in Tests and ODIs. The highest score by an Indian is the 319 scored by Virender Sehwag in Chennai. It is the second triple century in Test cricket by an Indian, the first being a 309 also made by Sehwag although against Pakistan. The team's highest ever score was a 726/9 against Sri Lanka at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai in 2009, while its lowest was 42 against England in 1974. In ODIs, the team's highest is 418/5 against West Indies at Indore in 2011-12. India score 413-5 in a match against Bermuda in 2007 World Cup which is the highest score ever in Cricket World Cup history. In the same match, India set a world record of the highest winning margin of 257 runs in an ODI match. India also has had some very strong bowling figures, with spin bowler Anil Kumble being a member of the elite group of 3 bowlers who have taken 600 Test wickets. In 1999, Anil Kumble emulated Jim Laker to become the second bowler to take all ten wickets in a Test match innings when he took 10 wickets for 74 runs against Pakistan at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi. Many of the Indian cricket team's records are also world records, for example Sachin Tendulkar's century tally (in Tests and ODIs) and run tally (also in both Tests and ODIs). Mahendra Singh Dhoni's 183 not out against Sri Lanka in 2005 is the world record score by a wicketkeeper in ODIs. The Indian cricket team also holds the record sequence of 17 successful run-chases in ODIs,[38] which ended in a dramatic match against the West Indies in May 2006, which India lost by just 1 run when Yuvraj Singh was bowled by Dwayne Bravo's full toss. Sachin Tendulkar was the first batsman to score 200 runs (He was unbeaten at 200* which he achieved from 147 deliveries) (25x4 | 3x6), in a single innings, in an ODI on 24 February 2010 against South Africa in Gwalior. On 8 December 2011, this achievement was eclipsed by compatriot Virender Sehwag, who scored 219 runs from 149 deliveries (25x4 | 7x6) versus West Indies in Indore, making the ODI double century club exclusively Indian. Team colours Since colours have made their way in International Cricket, Indian National Cricket Team has chosen blue as their primary colour and have worn one or the other shade of blue. The blue colour of their uniform has also earned them the nickname of "Men in Blue". With the advent of the World Series Cup in the 1970s, each team was to don a primary and secondary colour on their uniforms. The Indian team elected to wear light-blue as their primary colour and yellow as their secondary colour. Even during the 1999 Cricket World Cup the secondary colour on the Indian cricket team's clothing has been yellow. However, this has since been removed and replaced with the tricolour. However, in the past the Indian ODI outfits were changed to different shades of blue, mostly darker than the current,[citation needed] and the team donned purple during 1992, and then the sky blue colour for the next decade. Indian team has got a new kit from 2009 which is feroza blue with India written on it in Orange.[39] Currently, from October 2010, the team is once again using a light blue shade though not as light as the previous sky blue one, with India written in orange, and shades of the tri-colour at the sides. The kit sponsor for the Indian Cricket Team is Nike, which in 2005 bought the kit rights in a $27.2 million contract with BCCI.[40] Due to their love for blue color Nike with Board for Control of Cricket in India launched the mega campaign called "Bleed Blue" for the support of Indian team in ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 which turned out to be a huge success and people over the internet and places adopted this to cheer for India.[41] A new ultramarine blue coloured jersey of the one-day cricket team was released on 20 October 2010 .,[42] for the upcoming tours and ICC Cricket World Cup, the jersey has been designed by team's apparel and kit sponsor Nike. Previously, the Indian cricket team has worn a darker shade of blue and before that the team has worn sky blue. The vertical tri-colour band has been made on both sides in comparison to just one side in previous shirt. The name of sponsor Sahara had been removed from the chest as per ICC norms and is now on the left arm and on the right arm Nike logo is visible. The name and jersey number of the player is printed in orange at the back while on the chest the logo of BCCI is on the left side and the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 logo in white can be seen on the right side. The one-day cap was also sky blue with the BCCI logo on the front. When playing first-class cricket, in addition to their cricket whites, Indian fielders sometimes wear a sunhat, which is dark blue and has a wide brim, with the BCCI logo in the middle of the front of the hat. Helmets are coloured similarly. Some players sport the Indian flag on their helmet. The current kit sponsor for the Indian team is Nike, Inc. Test cricket grounds Main article: List of international cricket grounds in India India national cricket team is located in India Barabati Wankhede Brabourne/Gymkhana Eden Gardens Feroz Shah Kotla Gandhi Green Park KDSB/University LB Shastri M Chinnaswamy MAC Nehru PCA Sardar Patel Sawai Mansingh Sector 16 Vidarbha CA Locations of all stadiums which have hosted a Test match within India There are numerous world-renowned cricket stadiums located in India. Most grounds are under the administration of various State Cricket Boards as opposed to being under the control of the BCCI. The Bombay Gymkhana was the first ground in India to host a full-scale cricket match featuring an Indian cricket team. This was between the Parsis and the Europeans in 1877. The first stadium to host a Test match in India was also the Gymkhana Ground in Bombay in 1933, the only Test it ever hosted. The second and third Tests in the 1933 series were hosted at Eden Gardens and Chepauk. The Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi was the first stadium to host a Test match after independence, a draw against the West Indies in 1948, the first of a 5-Test series. 21 stadiums in India have hosted at least one official Test match. In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of world-class cricket stadiums in India, with multiple Test venues in Lucknow, Chandigarh, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Nagpur. Eden Gardens in Kolkata has hosted the most Tests, and also has the largest seating capacity of any cricket stadium in the world, being capable of holding more than 90,000 spectators.[43] Founded in 1864, it is one of the most historical stadiums in India, having hosted numerous historical and controversial matches.[44] Other major stadiums in India include the Feroz Shah Kotla, which was established in 1883 and hosted memorable matches including Anil Kumble's ten wickets in an innings haul against Pakistan. For the last two years, the ground has been undergoing renovation.[45] The Bombay Gymkhana hosted the first ever Test match in India which is the only Test it has hosted to date. Wankhede Stadium, established in 1974, has a capacity to hold 33,000 spectators and is currently the most popular venue in the city. It has hosted 21 Test matches. It was the unofficial successor of the Brabourne Stadium, which is also located in Mumbai. Mumbai is often considered the cricketing capital of India because of its fans and the talent it produces (see Mumbai cricket team) and thus the stadium regularly hosts major Test matches.[46] The M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chepauk is also considered to be an important historical Indian cricket ground, established in the early 1900s it was the site of India's first Test victory.[47] Stadium City Test matches Ref Eden Gardens Kolkata 37 [48] Feroz Shah Kotla Ground Delhi 31 [49] M. A. Chidambaram Stadium Chepauk, Chennai 31 [50] Wankhede Stadium Mumbai 23 [51] Green Park Kanpur 21 [52] M. Chinnaswamy Stadium Bangalore 20 [53] Brabourne Stadium Mumbai 18 [54] Sardar Patel Stadium (Gujarat) Motera, Ahmedabad 12 [55] Punjab Cricket Association Stadium Mohali, Punjab 10 [56] Nehru Stadium Chennai 9 [57] Vidarbha C.A. Stadium Nagpur 3 [58] Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium Hyderabad 3 [59] Barabati Stadium Cuttack 2 [60] Rajiv Gandhi Stadium Hyderabad 2 [61] Bombay Gymkhana Mumbai 1 [62] Gandhi Stadium Jalandhar, (Punjab) 1 [63] K. D. Singh Babu Stadium Lucknow 1 [64] Sawai Mansingh Stadium Jaipur 1 [65] Sector 16 Stadium Chandigarh, (Punjab) 1 [66] University Ground Lucknow 1 [67] Personnel This lists all the players who have played for India in the past 12 months, and the forms in which they have played. Correct as of 6 June 2013. Key C/G = Contract grade S/N = Shirt number Name Age Batting Style Bowling Style Domestic team Zone C/G Forms S/N IPL team Captain and wicket-keeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni 31 Right Hand Bat Right Medium Jharkhand East A Test, ODI, T20I 7 Chennai Super Kings Vice-captain and Middle-order batsman Virat Kohli 24 Right Hand Bat Right Medium Delhi North A Test, ODI, T20I 18 Royal Challengers Bangalore Opening batsmen Shikhar Dhawan 27 Left Hand Bat Off Break Delhi North C Test, ODI 25 Sunrisers Hyderabad Gautam Gambhir 31 Left Hand Bat Leg Break Delhi North A Test, ODI, T20I 5 Kolkata Knight Riders Ajinkya Rahane 25 Right Hand Bat Right Medium Mumbai West B Test, ODI, T20I 17 Rajasthan Royals Virender Sehwag 34 Right Hand Bat Off Break Delhi North A Test, ODI, T20I N/A[68] Delhi Daredevils Murali Vijay 29 Right Hand Bat Off Break Tamil Nadu South C Test 26 Chennai Super Kings Middle-order batsmen Cheteshwar Pujara 25 Right Hand Bat Leg Break Saurashtra West B Test Royal Challengers Bangalore Suresh Raina 26 Left Hand Bat Off Break Uttar Pradesh Central A Test, ODI, T20I 48 Chennai Super Kings Rohit Sharma 26 Right Hand Bat Off Break Mumbai West B ODI, T20I 45 Mumbai Indians Sachin Tendulkar 40 Right Hand Bat Leg Break/Off Break Mumbai West A Test 10 Mumbai Indians Manoj Tiwary 27 Right Hand Bat Leg Break Bengal East C ODI, T20I 90 Kolkata Knight Riders All-rounders Ravindra Jadeja 24 Left Hand Bat Slow Left Arm Saurashtra West B Test, ODI, T20I 8 Chennai Super Kings Irfan Pathan 28 Left Hand Bat Left Medium Fast Baroda West B ODI, T20I 56 Delhi Daredevils Yuvraj Singh 31 Left Hand Bat Slow Left Arm Punjab North A Test, ODI, T20I 12 Pune Warriors Wicket-keepers Dinesh Karthik 28 Right Hand Bat Tamil Nadu South C ODI 19 Mumbai Indians Pace bowlers Shami Ahmed 23 Right Hand Bat Right Medium Fast Bengal East – ODI 11 Kolkata Knight Riders Parvinder Awana 26 Right Hand Bat Right Fast Medium Delhi North – T20I 43 Kings XI Punjab Lakshmipathy Balaji 31 Right Hand Bat Right Medium Fast Tamil Nadu South C T20I 55 Kolkata Knight Riders Ashok Dinda 29 Right Hand Bat Right Fast Medium Bengal East C ODI, T20I 2 Pune Warriors Zaheer Khan 34 Right Hand Bat Left Fast Medium Mumbai West A Test, ODI, T20I 34 Royal Challengers Bangalore Bhuvneshwar Kumar 22 Right Hand Bat Right Medium Fast Uttar Pradesh Central – Test, ODI, T20I 15 Pune Warriors Ishant Sharma 24 Right Hand Bat Right Fast Medium Delhi North B Test, ODI, T20I 1 Sunrisers Hyderabad Umesh Yadav 25 Right Hand Bat Right Fast Vidarbha Central B Test, ODI, T20I 73 Delhi Daredevils Spin bowlers Ravichandran Ashwin 26 Right Hand Bat Off Break Tamil Nadu South A Test, ODI, T20I 99 Chennai Super Kings Piyush Chawla 24 Left Hand Bat Leg Break Uttar Pradesh Central C Test, T20I 24 Kings XI Punjab Pragyan Ojha 26 Left Hand Bat Slow Left Arm Hyderabad South B Test, ODI 30 Mumbai Indians Rahul Sharma 26 Right Hand Bat Leg Break Punjab North C ODI 4 Pune Warriors Harbhajan Singh 32 Right Hand Bat Off Break Punjab North B Test, T20I 3 Mumbai Indians Other contracted players This lists other players who have not played for India in the past year but hold a Central Contract by BCCI. Name Age Batting Style Bowling Style Domestic team Zone C/G S/N IPL team Opening batsmen Abhinav Mukund 23 Left Hand Bat Leg Break Tamil Nadu South C Royal Challengers Bangalore Middle-order batsmen Subramaniam Badrinath 32 Right Hand Bat Off Break Tamil Nadu South C 33 Chennai Super Kings Ambati Rayudu 27 Right Hand Bat Off Break Baroda West C Mumbai Indians All-rounders Yusuf Pathan 30 Right Hand Bat Off Break Baroda West C 27 Kolkata Knight Riders Wicket-keepers Parthiv Patel 28 Left Hand Bat Gujarat West C 42 Sunrisers Hyderabad Wriddhiman Saha 28 Right Hand Bat Bengal East C 6 Chennai Super Kings Pace bowlers Varun Aaron 23 Right Hand Bat Right Fast Jharkhand East C 77 Delhi Daredevils Praveen Kumar 26 Right Hand Bat Right Medium Fast Uttar Pradesh Central C 8 Kings XI Punjab Vinay Kumar 29 Right Hand Bat Right Medium Fast Karnataka South C 23 Royal Challengers Bangalore Abhimanyu Mithun 23 Right Hand Bat Right Medium Fast Karnataka South C 25 Royal Challengers Bangalore Munaf Patel 29 Right Hand Bat Right Medium Fast Baroda West C 13 Mumbai Indians Sreesanth 30 Right Hand Bat Right Fast Medium Kerala South C 36 Rajasthan Royals Spin bowlers Amit Mishra 30 Right Hand Bat Leg Break Haryana North C 9 Sunrisers Hyderabad The BCCI awards central contracts to its players, its pay graded according to the importance of the player. Players' salaries are as follows: Grade A – INR1 Crore per annum ($180,000) Grade B – INR50 Lakhs per annum ($90,000) Grade C – INR25 Lakhs per annum ($45,000) Coaching staff Head coach: Duncan Fletcher Bowling coach: John Dawes Mental conditioning coach: Vacant Fielding coach: Trevor Penney Fitness trainer: Ramji Srinivasan Head Physiotherapist: Evan Speechly Masseur: Ramesh Mane Performance analyst: C.K.M. Dhananjai Statistics Test Matches Test record versus other nations[69] vs Test nations Opponent M W L T D W/L Ratio v Australia 86 24 38 1 23 0.63 v Bangladesh 7 6 0 0 1 – v England 107 20 40 0 47 0.50 v New Zealand 52 18 9 0 25 2.00 v Pakistan 59 9 12 0 38 0.75 v South Africa 27 7 12 0 8 0.58 v Sri Lanka 35 14 6 0 15 2.33 v West Indies 88 14 30 0 44 0.47 v Zimbabwe 11 7 2 0 2 3.50 Total 472 119 149 1 203 0.8 Most Test runs for India[70] Player Runs Average Sachin Tendulkar 15,837 53.86 Rahul Dravid 13,265 52.63 Sunil Gavaskar 10,122 51.12 V. V. S. Laxman 8,781 45.97 Virender Sehwag 8,503 49.43 Sourav Ganguly 7,212 42.17 Dilip Vengsarkar 6,868 42.13 Mohammad Azharuddin 6,215 45.03 Gundappa Vishwanath 6,080 41.93 Kapil Dev 5,248 31.05 Most Test wickets for India[71] Player Wickets Average Anil Kumble 619 29.65 Kapil Dev 434 29.64 Harbhajan Singh 413 32.37 Zaheer Khan 295 32.35 Bishen Singh Bedi 266 28.71 Bhagwat Chandrasekhar 242 29.74 Javagal Srinath 236 30.49 Erapalli Prasanna 189 30.38 Vinoo Mankad 162 32.32 S. Venkataraghavan 156 36.11 One-Day Internationals ODI record versus other nations[72] The result percentage excludes no results and counts ties as half a win vs Test nations Opponent M W L T NR Win % v Australia 109 37 64 0 8 36.63 v Bangladesh 24 21 3 0 0 87.50 v England 86 46 35 2 3 56.62 v New Zealand 88 46 37 0 5 55.42 v Pakistan 124 49 71 0 4 40.83 v South Africa 66 24 40 0 2 37.50 v Sri Lanka 139 75 52 1 11 58.98 v West Indies 106 46 57 1 2 44.71 v Zimbabwe 51 39 10 2 0 78.43 v {Associate Members} 24 22 2 0 0 91.66 Total 817 405 371 6 35 52.17 Most ODI runs for India[73] As of 29 January 2013 Player Runs Average Sachin Tendulkar 18,426 44.83 Sourav Ganguly 11,221 40.95 Rahul Dravid 10,768 39.15 Mohammad Azharuddin 9378 36.92 Yuvraj Singh 8119 36.90 Virender Sehwag 7995 35.37 M. S. Dhoni 7085 51.34 Ajay Jadeja 5359 37.47 Gautam Gambhir 5238 39.68 Navjot Sidhu 4413 37.08 Most ODI wickets for India[74] Player Wickets Average Anil Kumble 334 30.83 Javagal Srinath 315 28.08 Ajit Agarkar 288 27.85 Zaheer Khan 265 29.70 Harbhajan Singh 255 33.52 Kapil Dev 253 27.45 Venkatesh Prasad 196 32.30 Irfan Pathan 165 29.89 Manoj Prabhakar 157 28.87 Ashish Nehra 155 31.60 Twenty20 Internationals T20I record versus other nations[75] vs Test nations Opponent M W L T NR Win % v Australia 7 3 4 0 0 42.86 v Bangladesh 1 1 0 0 0 100 v England 7 3 4 0 0 42.85 v New Zealand 4 0 4 0 0 0 v Pakistan 5 3 1 1 0 70.00 v South Africa 7 5 2 0 0 71.42 v Sri Lanka 5 3 2 0 0 60.00 v West Indies 3 1 2 0 0 33.33 v Zimbabwe 2 2 0 0 0 100 v {Associate Members} 4 3 0 0 1 100 Total 45 24 19 1 1 53.33 Most T20I runs for India[76] Player Runs Average Gautam Gambhir 932 27.41 Suresh Raina 840 33.60 Yuvraj Singh 791 30.42 M. S. Dhoni 748 31.16 Virat Kohli 558 34.87 Rohit Sharma 531 29.50 Most T20I wickets for India[77] Player Wickets Average Irfan Pathan 28 22.07 Yuvraj Singh 23 16.21 Harbhajan Singh 22 26.04 Ashok Dinda 17 14.41 Zaheer Khan 17 26.35 R. P. Singh 15 15.00 Players in bold text are still active with India. Captains Main article: List of India national cricket captains Sourav Ganguly holds the record for most Tests as India captain (49) and most wins (21).[78] Rahul Dravid served as the captain of the Indian cricket team from 2005 to 2007. Twenty-eight men have captained the Indian cricket team in at least 1 Test match, although only 6 have led the team in more than 25 matches, and 5 have captained the team in ODIs but not Tests. India's first captain was CK Nayudu, who led the team in four matches against England, one in England in 1932 and a series of 3 matches at home in 1933/4. Lala Amarnath, India's fourth captain, led the team in its first Test match after Indian independence. He also captained the side to its first Test victory and first series win, both in a 3-match series at home against Pakistan in 1952/3. The Nawab of Pataudi was captain for 36 matches from 1961/2 to 1969/70, returning for a final 4 matches against West Indies in 1974/5. India played its first ODI in 1974, under the captaincy of Ajit Wadekar. India won its first ODI under the captaincy of Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan in the 1975 Cricket World Cup, against East Africa. Sunil Gavaskar took over as Test and ODI captain in the late 1979s and early 1980s, leading India in 47 Test matches and 38 ODIs, winning 9 Tests and 14 ODIs. He was succeeded by Kapil Dev in the 1980s, who continued for 34 Test matches, including 4 victories. Kapil Dev led India to victory in 40 of his 74 ODIs in charge, including the 1983 Cricket World Cup. File:Stumping edited.jpg Mahendra Singh Dhoni (blue helmet) serves as the current captain and wicketkeeper of the Indian cricket team. Dilip Vengsarkar took over the captaincy from Kapil Dev after the 1987 Cricket World Cup. Although he started with two centuries in his first series as captain, his captaincy period was turbulent[citation needed] and he lost the job following a disastrous tour of the West Indies in early 1989 and a stand-off with the Indian cricket board (BCCI). Krishnamachari Srikkanth was made the captain of the Indian team in 1989.He was the captain of the team for India's tour of Pakistan in 1989 and managed to draw all the four Tests of the series. Because of his batting failures in the series[citation needed],the selectors dropped him and made Mohammad Azharuddin captain of the Indian team. India has had six regular Test captains since Mohammad Azharuddin took charge in 1989. Azharuddin led the team in 47 Test matches from 1989/90 to 1998/9, winning 14, and in 173 ODIs, winning 89. He was followed by Sachin Tendulkar, who captained India in 25 Test matches and 73 ODIs in the late 1990s; Tendulkar was relatively unsuccessful[citation needed] as a captain, winning only 4 Test matches and 23 ODIs. He was replaced as ODI captain by Ajay Jadeja and then Sourav Ganguly; Ganguly became the regular captain in both forms of cricket in 2000. Ganguly remained captain for the first 5 years of the 2000s and was the most successful captain, winning 21 of his 49 Test matches in charge and 73 of his 141 ODIs. He even lead India to the final of the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2003. Rahul Dravid took over as Test captain in 2005. In his fourth full series in charge, he led India to victory in the West Indies, the first instance of India winning in the Caribbean in over 30 years. In September 2007, Mahendra Singh Dhoni was named as the new captain of the Twenty20 and ODI team after Dravid stepped down from the post. Anil Kumble was appointed Test captain in November 2007, but retired from international cricket in November 2008 after the 3rd Test between India and Australia. Dhoni succeeded him as the test captain, making him the official captain in all forms of cricket. Fan following Main article: Cricket in India Supporters of the Indian cricket team wave the Indian flag during match between India and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Due to large Indian diaspora in nations like Australia, South Africa, and England, a large Indian fan turnout is expected whenever India plays in each of these nations. There have been a number of official fan groups that have been formed over the years, including the Swami Army or Bharat Army, the Indian equivalent of the Barmy Army, that were very active in their support when India toured Australia in 2003/2004. They are known to attribute a number of popular Indian songs to the cricket team.[79] Sudhir Kumar Chaudhary a fan of the Indian Cricket team, travels to all Indian home games with his body painted as the Indian Flag. Fan rivalry and cross-border tension has created a strong rivalry between the Indian cricket team and the Pakistani cricket team. . In tours between these two nations, cricket visas are often employed to accommodate for the tens of thousands of fans wishing to cross the border to watch cricket. This intense fan dedication is one of the major causes of the Indian Cricket Board's (BCCI) financial success.[80] However, there are downsides to having such a cricket-loving population. Many Indians hold cricket very close to their hearts and losses are not received well by the Indian population. In some cases, particularly after losses to Pakistan or after a long string of weak performances, there have been reports of player effigies being burnt in the streets and vandalism of player homes.[81] In many cases, players have come under intense attention from the media for negative reasons, this has been considered as one of the reasons for Sourav Ganguly being left out of the Indian team. At times, when a match is surrounded by controversy, it has resulted in a debacle. For example, when India slid to defeat against Australia at Brabourne Stadium in 1969, fans began throwing stones and bottles onto the field as well as setting fire to the stands, before laying siege to the Australian dressing rooms. During the same tour, a stampede occurred at Eden Gardens when tickets were oversold and India fell to another loss; the Australian team bus was later stoned with bricks.[82] A similar event occurred during the 1996 Cricket World Cup, where India were losing the semi-final to Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens. In this case, the fan behaviour was directed at the Indian team in disappointment at their lacklustre performance. An armed guard had to be placed at the home of captain Mohammad Azharuddin to ensure his safety.[82] Indian fans have also been passionate in their following of Sachin Tendulkar, who has been commonly thought of as one of the best batsmen in the world. Glorified for the bulk of his career, a riot occurred in early 1999 in a Test against Pakistan at Eden Gardens after a collision with Pakistani paceman Shoaib Akhtar saw him run out, forcing police to eject spectators and the game to be played in an empty stadium. Although in 2006, a string of low scores resulted in Tendulkar being booed by the Mumbai crowd when he got out against England[83] Often, fans engage in protests regarding players if they believe that regionalism has affected selection, or because of regional partisan support for local players. In 2005, when Sourav Ganguly was dropped due to lack of form, Ganguly's home state of West Bengal erupted in protests.[84] India later played a match against South Africa in Kolkata, West Bengal. The Indian team was booed by the Bengali crowd who supported South Africa instead of India in response to Ganguly's dropping. Similar regional divisions in India regarding selection have also caused protests against the team, with political activists from the regional Kalinga Kamgar Sena party in Odisha disrupting the arrival of the team in Cuttack for an ODI over the lack of a local player in the team, with one activist manhandling coach Greg Chappell.[85] Similar treatment was handed to India's Marathi captain Sunil Gavaskar in the 1980s by Bengali crowds, with consecutive Tests in Calcutta requiring police intervention due to crowd rioting.[83] However, it should be noted that a successful string of results, victories against arch-rivals Pakistan or victory in major tournaments such as the World Cup are greeted with particular ecstasy from the Indian fans.[86] Indian women's cricket team Eight female cricketers stand on a field. Two players are in red practice jerseys; three other players in red jerseys are facing toward them; a player in a blue shirt is facing away and hides another player in a blue game shirt. In the upper left corner is a fan with an Indian flag. Members of the Indian cricket team before a Women's Cricket World Cup game in Sydney Main article: Indian women's cricket team The Indian women's cricket team has a much lower profile than the men's team. For all national women's cricket teams, the female players are paid much less their male counterparts, and the women's teams do not receive as much popular support or recognition as the men's team. The women's teams also have a less packed schedule compared to men's teams and play fewer matches. The Indian women's cricket team played its first Test match in 1976/7, when they drew with the West Indies in a six-match series. The Women's Cricket World Cup was held in India in 1978 and featured 4 teams. India lost both the matches they have played. Their next appearance in the Test and ODI circuit was against Australia in 1984, in which the Test series was tied but the ODI series was lost in a whitewash. The Indian women's cricket team has since picked up their form, reaching the finals in the last World Cup, but then losing to Australia. The Women's Asia Cup of 2005–06 was won by India, who beat Sri Lanka in the final. They also beat the West Indies in the 2004–05 season, winning the 5 ODI series 5–0.

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