India heading away for a big lead

Today was another glorious day for India as Ishant Sharma and Ojha wrapped up the last few wickets of New Zealand in some time and they lost last three wickets for just 45 runs. It was Southee who kept India away from batting for a little while as he made a delightful 38 which also included three sixes in his innings but that could help New Zealand to finish for a score more then 193.

India came to bat with the opening pair of Sehwag and Gambhir, both of them played with much confidence and Sehwag as usual wacked the bowlers all round the park. Sehwag made a quick fire half-century in no time and had put up another century stand along with his partner Gambhir who was also looking well settled on the crease. Sehwag was dismissed my Vettori at last to bring some ease to the visitors but Gambhir also had regained his form and continued his delightful innings to complete his another half century.

Gambhir was also soon dismissed before he could reach to his century by Southee. Later on Dravid and Tendulkar occupied the crease to prevent any further casualties to India as they carried on form where Sehwag and Gambhir left to complete the day with India scoring 292/2 at the end of the day. Tendulkar completed his another half century and along with Dravid he had put up their 19^th century partnership.

New Zealand didn’t seem to have any ray of hope to make a comeback in the game as the Indian batsmen had left them into misery. New Zealand will have to come up with something special to get rid of the strong Indian middle order.

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AB de Villiers sizzles with double ton

The mighty Proteas finished for a mammoth score of 584 before they declared their innings to let Pakistan go in to show off their batting skills. AB de Villiers was the man for South Africa to help them reach such a mammoth score. AB de Villiers completed his double ton and made a mind bloggling 278 for South Africa, his innings also included six sixes.

AB de Villiers was helped by the South African lower order to put up such a huge score, he made up a partnerships of 42 with Botha, 59 with Dale Steyn and a impressive unbeaten 91 with Morkel. Pakistan were already thrashed and were left hopeless. Tanvir was the only bowler who had things to be glad about in the match as he finished for figures of 6 for 120 which were not so bad figures for a bowler on his debut, but none other bowler seemed to bring any help to Pakistan.

When Pakistan were sent on field by the Proteas to bat just after the tea, they lost their first wicket in no time to Steyn, though they had no more casualties to end the day with a score of 59/1. While South Africa will be thrilled with their performance.

 South Africa will be having many positives to look forward to after the day, AB de Villiers had made his best test score and some handy partnerships from the lower order. Pakistan on the other hand who were totally down physically and mentally with the hitting of AB de Villiers.

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A dull move turning splendorous

The second test match of the South African tour of United Arab Emirates is on. The second day of the test started this morning at Sheik Zayed Stadium. The South Africans started to bat and they did not pour out runs as expected. The Pakistanis too failed to shoot out for wickets in the morning.
As time went on AB de Villiers and then Mark Boucher slowly started off with singles. And then all of a sudden they turned into sixes and boundaries setting the Pakistani bowlers to go further tight. With just 45 runs mark boucher had to walk away and Tanvir Ahamed celebrated the dismissal with his team making it his fifth wicket of the innings. AB de Villeirs stood firm till he scored 188 and still in the ground striking the ball off. Mohamed Rehman led Botha and Steyn walk out of the ground at short scores.
The match is on with de Villiers still on the play firm and cautious.

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Alarm for Aussies before the Ashes

The Ashes series are about to commence in Brisbane on the 25^th of November. But the great loss against the lions has imparted a great disappointment among the Aussies.

The visitors easily scored over the home team winning the entire series. The loss in the series has put a great question ahead as to how the most keenly awaited Ashes series will go on. The Australian newspapers haven’t forgotten to accuse Ricky Ponting and his guys and they describe the Aussies as woeful.

The Australian bowlers were entirely knocked down by the Sri Lankan batsmen putting Dong Bollinger injured. He is set in doubt for the Ashes warm ups. The Sri Lankans stroke the ball around placing a high pressure on the Aussies. Mitchell Johnson and Michael Hussey are expected to be the Australian big shots at the Ashes this season. The Ashes series is going to be a great challenge for both the teams.

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Biography-Harbhajan Singh

Harbhajan Singh, who born in Jalandhar of Punjab, is the player of passion and talent of India. He is the most successful Indian spin bowler. Among the top wicket takers, his position is three among all the off-spinners of the world and first among the Indians. He made his one-day and test debut in 1998. But his career was encircled that time by the investigations about his bowling action legality and disciplinary matters. In 2001, after the injury of leading leg spinner Anil Kumble, his career was revived after his inclusion to the team for Border-Gavaskar Trophy by the captain Sourav Ganguly. In that series, he proved his skill against Australia and made his position strong in the team by taking total 32 wickets and becoming the first Indian hat-trick bowler in test match.

In the recent ongoing series against New Zealand, Harbhajan has proved his batting skill too. He got two consecutive test centuries leading his team to the batting section.

Harbhajan Singh has played a total 89 test and 212 one-day matches in his career. His highest scores are 115 and 49 in the test and one-day matches respectively. He has two centuries and eight half-centuries in the test. His total test-match run is 1896. For one-day, it is 1083. He also played 70 Tewnty20 matches where his highest score is unbeaten 49 runs.

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Biography-Mohammad Azharuddin

Mohammad Azharuddin was one of the best players of India. He was the former captain of the Indian team. He was born in Hyderabad. He was famous because of his excellent wrist flicks which made the cricket a poetic creation. He showed his batting skill against spin bowlers. His clean and sharp batting was compared to the English batsman, David Gower.

Like everyone, the life of Azharuddin was not free from the dark side. The former captain of S. Africa, Hansie Cronje had confessed his involvement in the international match fixing which has also taken Azharuddin to the scandal for participating. The prime investigation agency of India named Central Bureau of Investigation found that Azharuddin had taken money from bookies to fix the matches. As a result, BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) decided to ban him from playing for a lifetime in the year of 2000.

He has played a total 99 test and 334 one-day matches in his career. His highest scores are 199 and 153 in the test and one-day matches respectively. He has 22 test centuries and 7 one-day centuries. In test, his total run is 6215. For one-day, it is 9378.

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Biography-Rahul Dravid

The profile of Rahul Dravid is changing day by day over many years. He is not only the batsman of India but also an excellent wicket-keeper and fielder too. He helped India to win 18 consecutive matches during his captaincy. Dravid started his international one-day career in 1996 against England at the stadium named Lord’s and test career in the same year against Sri Lanka in Singapore. His One Day International cricket career began with the match against Sri Lanka in 1996, in the Singer Cup.

The most prominent part of Dravid’s career is the unforgettable partnership with Laxman in the second test against Australia, in Kolkata, in the year of 2001. After the innings of 180 runs in this match, his position in the cricket has reached a new height. His nick name has been converted as “The Wall” at the present time for his nerveless batting skill.

He has played a total 146 test and 339 one-day matches in his career. His highest scores are 270 and 153 in the test and one-day matches respectively. He has 30 test centuries and 12 one-day centuries. In test, his total run is 1480. For one-day, it is 941. He also played 54 Tewnty20 matches where his highest score is unbeaten 75 runs. Rahul Dravid is probably one of the last classical batsmen for the test match.

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Biography-(V.V.S.) Laxman

Vangipurappu Vekata Sai (V.V.S.) Laxman is an excellent right-handed batsman and spin bowler of India. He was born in Hyderabad in 1974. He has showed his best skill against Australia both in test and one-day cricket matches for a maximum number of times.

Laxman started his test career in 1996 against South Africa at Ahmedabad. Since 1997, he had to alter his batting position. Now he plays as the opener for India.

In January 2000, he was in his team during the Australia tour. In that tour, he scored 167 runs. He found that his position was not suitable for him as the opener. For this reason, he gave up the international cricket and started to play domestic cricket again. After about one year, he returned again to the international team.

He has played a total 116 test and 86 one-day matches in his career. His highest scores are 281 and 131 in the test and one-day matches respectively. He has 16 test centuries and 6 one-day centuries. In test, his total run is 7695. For one-day, it is 2338. He also played 22 Tewnty20 matches where his highest score is unbeaten 78 runs.

It is amusing that he started his one-day cricket career with a duck (scoring as zero) in a match against Zimbabwe in 1998, and also finished that career with a duck in a match against S. Africa in 2006.

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Biography-Yuvraj Singh

Yuvraj Singh is an asset for Indian cricket team. He was born at Chandigarh of India in 1981. He served his team as the vice-captain since 2007 to 2008. He is famous for scoring 6 sixes in one over in the bowling of Stuart Broad in a Twenty20 match against the team of England in 2007.

He started his one-day cricket career in a match against Kenya at Nairobi in the year of 2000. In that match, he got no chance to bat and gave away 16 runs getting no wicket. But in the next one-day match, he scored 84 runs from 80 balls. He began the test career with a match against New Zealand in 2003 at Mohali. In that match, he scored 25 runs only.

Yuvraj Singh is considered better as a batsman facing the spin bowlers in comparison with the fast bowlers. He is one of the most efficient Indian fielders. He made a maximum number of run-outs in one-day matches from the year of 1999 to the year of 2005.

He has played a total 34 test and 255 one-day matches in his career. His highest scores are 169 and 139 in the test and one-day matches respectively. He has 3 test centuries and 12 one-day centuries. In test, his total run is 1639. For one-day, it is 7478. He also played 78 Tewnty20 matches where his highest score is 71 runs.

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Indian Bowlers dominate the first day of the final test

New Zealand had the things going in their way when they won the match and chose to bat on a flat pitch. They were expected to score big but Indian bowlers had come to spoil their party this time. Though India already had their top class bowlers ruled out of the final test due to injury.

Indian bowlers struck the visitors hard at the time when it wasn’t expected that Indian bowling was having any firepower left after Zaheer Khan already ruled out of the game and considering their performance in the previous tests.

New Zealand had to open with Guptil and McIntosh as McCullum had injured himself just before the match during fielding practice which meant that McCullum will have to come in the middle order this time. The openers didn’t provide much trouble to the Indian bowlers as Sreesanth removed both the openers in a short while and was getting into his rhythm as he was able to swing the bowl well.

New Zealand soon after lost Taylor and their skipper Vettori, Taylor provided some resistance to Indian Bowling but was dismissed by Sharma and Ojha respectively. Ishant Sharma was playing a game after a long break and was good to see him back in form with his in-swings and out-swings in positions.

New Zealand’s day was summed up by the wicket of Kane Williamson by Sharma again though Ryder made a fighting fifty to save his team from a shameful innings but was also struggling throughout his innings because of his calf injury. Brendon McCullum was sent in the middle order to provde some time to rest his injury but wasn’t provide much rest by the Indian bowlers as they had sent of all their top order batmen to the pavilion.

The day had been tough from the New Zealand point of view and also had in injury to their main batsmen and one batmen was already suffering from injury in the game. India showed off their classy performance to put the visitor on the back foot  on the opening day of the final test.

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Tanvir Ahmed impresses on debut

Pakistan won the toss and decided to field, South Africa were put on to bat. When South Africa occupied the crease with Greame Smith and Petersen opening for them, they were astounded by the performance of one of the oldest Pakistani debutant bowler Tanvir Ahmed as he took the first three wickets of the morning in no time to reduce the mighty Proteas to 33 for 3.

When the South African were struggling on a score of 33/3, Kallis and AB de Villiers came up and made a 176 run partnership to get them out of trouble with a classy knock from Kallis but this time he played in a more aggressive manner, while de Villiers played first a supportive innings. Kallis made 105 which also included three sixes and this hundred was also among one of his quickest in the tests. Kallis was also fell victim to the debutant Tanvir as he had things going on his way but so was not for Pakistan.

AB de Villiers carried his innings even after the loss of his partner and soon reached to his century as well. Prince was just looking to get settled in when he was dismissed by Hafeez. The day ended with AB de Villiers unbeaten on 120 and Boucher making 26 not out to end the day. Pakistan had only one thing to be happy about in the whole day as their debut bowler had a fantastic day and took the top four wickets of the mighty Proteas. While none of the other Pakistani bowlers posed much difficulty for the visitors.

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