Posted by: karthik007 on: December 25, 2008
Team India’s tactics on the final day of Mohali Test, saying the hosts ‘killed’ the match with their ‘myopic’ thinking by allowing Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh to bat on in search of personal achievements at the expense of a result.
“It is to everyone’s credit that the series took place at all, and without off-field [...]
Posted by: karthik007 on: December 24, 2008
Team India’s golden run continues, as skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and boys end the year (2008) on a ‘winning note’, with Dhoni’s brigade winning the Test series against England 1-nil.
Even though the final Test at Mohali ended in a draw, it was celebration time for the Indian players, as Dhoni’s boys lifted the trophy after [...]
Posted by: karthik007 on: December 24, 2008
India reclaimed the number two spot from South Africa in the ICC Test Championship table by winning the two-Test series against England 1-0.
India won the first Test in Chennai by six wickets and drew the second in Mohali, enough to earn two ratings points and surge ahead of South Africa, a position the Team India [...]
Posted by: karthik007 on: December 24, 2008
Opener Gautam Gambhir’s stupendous year with the willow today (December 24) helped him jump 10 spots to 10th in the ICC Test Rankings, making him the highest-ranked Indian batsman in the list.
The diminutive Delhi batsman has scored more than 1000 runs this calendar year, including three hundreds in his last five Tests.
Gambhir, who made 179 [...]
Posted by: karthik007 on: December 24, 2008
Yuvraj Singh cannot be left out. Making a comeback into Tests, Yuvi has ended the series on a high. The Indian South paw has stormed his way back into Test arena, only to seal the number six slot in the longer version of the game.
Yuvraj’s two centuries against England in the ODI series trounced the [...]
Posted by: karthik007 on: December 23, 2008
Play finally resumed after a two-and-a-half hour delay, as a thick fog delayed start of the fifth day’s play in the second and final cricket Test between India and England in Mohali today (December 23).
The weather denied a timely start of day’s play for the third day in a row. India is expected to go for [...]
Posted by: karthik007 on: December 23, 2008
Thick fog delayed start of the fifth day’s play in the second and final cricket Test between India and England in Mohali today (December 23).
The weather has delayed start of play for the third day in a row.India is expected to go for a kill, but weather just might play spoil sport, bringing down the number [...]
Posted by: karthik007 on: December 23, 2008
India will go for the kill on the final day of second Test against England at Mohali today (December 23).
After Mahi and his men dominated morning of day 4, four quick wickets halted India’s progress as they continued to extend thier lead to 285 runs. Even as a draw seems to be the ultimate result,Dhoni [...]
Posted by: karthik007 on: December 22, 2008
India needed 45 minutes to polish off England’s tail before reaching nine for no loss at lunch in their second innings on the fourth day of the second and final cricket Test in Mohali today (December 22).
Gautam Gambhir (8) and Virender Sehwag (1) were in the middle at the lunch break, having stretched India’s overall lead to [...]
Posted by: karthik007 on: December 16, 2008
Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Monday (Dec 15) described the enthralling six-wicket win over England in the first cricket Test here as the toughest of his four-match old tenure as captain.
“The toughest win. We were not present for the first three days of this Test, did not take wickets and bat the way we [...]
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