The first day of Second test match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy is scheduled in between Australia and India today at 9.30 Am at PCA Stadium, Mohali on 17th October 2008.
The 8th ICL match of the Indian cricket league is scheduled in between Royal Bengal Tigers and Delhi Giants tonight at 7.30 Pm at Hyderabad on 16th October 2008.
ICL chief executive Kapil Dev said that he is very much concerned for the player who has taken the risk of lifetime ban by participating in this tournament. He feels that BCCI as well as IIC should take this tournament as a parallel body to the international cricket. He wants to spread the cricket in a modern way and so he has been involved in this tournament.
Meanwhile, today these new comers are making their debut against Chennai Superkings which is a formidable side to take on
After a modest start in the year 2007, the Indian Cricket League in back in action with a all new season and with more number of competitors. This time Chief Kapil Dev has increased the number of teams by addng one more team to the competition. That team is named as Dhaka Warriors. This year, the organizers have also spread the competition all over
In the last edition of ICL, the tournament saw some unpleasant things from both BCCI and ICC. Even the players were threatened to be banned from playing domestic and International cricket. Some of the players are still under that case only. Ban was imposed on players like Mohd. Yousuf. We never know the BCCI and its plans. Neither do we wish to know their strategy too. But the people all over the world feel that this one tournament is not going to hurt them at least financially. This is all about enhancing the cricket.
Cricket is a game of upset. Each and every time some low profiled teams like
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Aussies started off their second innings in a good manner. Katich was silent in one end where Hayden took the responsibility to move the scorecard. But he was tamed by an in swinger from Zaheer. Though later on it was found that the ball would have missed leg. After lunch, Katich and Ponting started the battle. But this time the duo was not that successful as Ponting fell to Ishant. Ishant bowled with pace, venom and used his slower balls to good effect to Ponting. Katich and Hussey tried to give a fight back. But Harbhajan sent both to the pavilion. Before any further partnership can be built between Clarke and Watson, Ishant removed Clarke with a nice slower ball. But after that nothing seemed to have gone right for India. The wicket-keeper batsman Haddin was very much in ease to face the Indian spinners specially Harbhajan. Kumble made no difference to the situation. Some close shouts were there but was turned down by the umpire. At the end of the day, Australia finished up with 193 on the board for the loss of five wickets.
We can just hope that this Indian team is capable of taking pressure at any situation. Otherwise, India will go down 1-0 to the next test. Tomorrow, Australia will be looking for safe score that can’t be chased down by the Indians. May be then they will give their bowlers a chance to give it a shot for the victory.
After the break,
Tomorrow
On lunch at day one, Ricky Ponting was batting on 41 with Katich on 28 at the other end. The score at the end of first session was 75/1.
Early in the morning Ponting won the toss and elected to bat first. From the first over itself, the controversies started to flow. Asad Rauf gave a wrong decision in favor of the Indians giving out Hayden in third ball which did not touch his bat while carrying to Dhoni. Then started the resilience of Katich and Ponting who added valuable 166 runs for the team. Katich departed after making 66 runs and more importantly giving valuable support to the captain. Just after the tea break, Ponting brought up his 36th test hundred and breaking his drought of runs in
Warne is now in the news again. But this time after his divorce he has been in news for good things. This time he comes to the limelight for his book “Shane Warne’s century”. This legendary has never been out of the limelight after when he started his carrier as a leg-spinner from
Warne’s top 100 has been featured with lots of fellow Australians, nine Indians, eight Pakistani players and similar number of Sri Lankan players. Out of the hundreds, he has considered Scahin as the best. This great cricketer has been featured in lots of books written by cricketers due to his greatness in batting in the field and for being a modest person off the field. Warne said that he liked the way Sachin used to handle his spin. He was very much bold and played some outrageous shots against him. His temperament and his attitude towards cricketing shots made Warne to spot Sachin in the no. 1 position just ahead of another West Indian great Brian Lara. Five fellow Australian has been featured in the top ten. They are Allan Border, Glenn McGrath, Ricky Ponting, Mark Taylor and Ian Healy. Spin wizard Murlidaran was considered as no.7 in his list while the 3rd position was given to Curtly Ambrose. Among the Indians, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Ravi Shastri, Dilip Vengasarkar and Kapil Dev are the other players to feature in the top 50.
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