Come 6th January and the pressure on three Delhi men in Sydney will be immense. While Virat Kohli takes over the reins of a young Indian team under the most dramatic circumstances, Ishant Sharma will have to come to terms with the sudden realization of becoming the senior most in the team and the added […]
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MS Dhoni retires from Test cricket: Full list of Indian captains and records
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, one of India‘s most successful Test skippers. Dhoni declared his retirement from the test format of the game on Tuesday. Virat Kohli is the new captain of the Team India. He put an end to his test career after India failed to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground […]
Impact of great Indian players on cricket
India has seen some great cricketing legends in the recent past. The likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, VVS laxaman, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Harbhjan Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Virender Sehwag, Gautuam Gambhir and MS Dhoni proved their worth by performing for the country. Their contribution to cricket has been immense. With the retirement […]
Impact of T-20 on Indian cricket
Since the inception of T-20 cricket in 2005, the impact of T-20 format on Indian cricket has been great. Different T-20 leagues across the world, has led to many changes in the attitude of the players. T-20 has made the batsman more fearless, play more innovative strokes and led to many huge scores in ODI […]
Highest partnership for India in Overseas Test matches
Test performance of India has seen a huge dip in past years and the Indian cricket team has struggled to win Test matches in away matches. But the partnership between Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane has brought back a hope for the Indian fan as after a long time Indian teams batting has actually proved […]
Australia vs India – 3rd Test, Day 3: Statistical Highlights
Indian batsmen fought back against Australian at MCG led by Kohli and Rahane in chase of Australia’s mammoth score of 530. In this succession, the India batsmen allowed in recording of quite few records and stats. Here are the Statistical Highlights during 3rd Day’s play: –> Ajinkya Rahane became first batsman from Asia to score […]
A look at some of the cricket records made in 2014
2014 proved another year of cricketing excitement and saw many new cricketing records being established. Here are some of them: 1. Corey Anderson, the hard hitting left-hander broke Shahid Afridi’s record for the fastest century in an ODI match when he scored a century of just 36 balls against West Indies. 2. Rohit Sharma rocked […]
Players with Most Sixes in Tests
Test Cricket is more of a patience game and here the real class of a batsman is tested. However, since the evolution of the T20 cricket, batsmen are much more adapted to shorter versions of the game and they tend to get slowly adapted to the longer versions of the game. And thus, Test Cricket […]
New Zealand vs Sri Lanka: 1st Test – Statistical Highlights
New Zealand Captain, Brendon McCullum blazed to a quick fire Century during the Boxing Day Test match against Sri Lanka at Christchurch putting a helping hand in recording a quite few stats. Statistical Highlights of Day 1: –> With the help of his 74-ball Century, McCullum broke his own record for the fastest Test Century by a […]
Yuvraj Singh Scores Back to Back Centuries in Ranji Trophy
The list of 30-probables for the World Cup 2015 squad was announced a week ago. Plenty of youngsters were provided with opportunities and this also reflected the team management’s lack of faith in the experienced pros in the likes of Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh and last but obviously not the least, […]