2009: A batting line up that has Jacques Kallis, Robin Uthappa, Ross Taylor, Kevin Peitersen, Rahul Dravid and Virat Kohli gets bowled out for 87 runs. Shocking right? But this is what happened on April 20, 2009 when CSK set huge target of 180 against RCB, and in reply the most reputed batting order collapsed within 100 runs. […]
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This day in IPL history: 18th April
April 18 occupies a special position in the history of Indian Premier League. Let’s find out why – 2008: On this very the day the first edition of IPL took off. The first of Indian Premier League was played on 18th April, 2008. Not to forget, many other records were made as Brendon McCullum playing for […]
Gavaskar conducted a meeting, urging ‘play hard, play fair’
The intervening president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Sunil Gavaskar emphasized on the conspicuousness of executing the game in accordance with the MCC Spirit of Cricket by enchanting ‘play fair, play hard’ in the interim of the meeting of Coaches and Captains before the seventh edition of the Indian Premier League which has […]
Shane Watson and his Royal Brigade at IPL 2014
Shane Watson has been handed the charge of leading Rajashtan Royals in Indian Premier League 2014 following Rahul Dravid’s retirement from the game last year. There were not many options for the Rajasthan Royals side for captaincy and given the fact that Shane Watson has been with the Rajasthan Royals all throughout every season so far, it was […]
Duncan Fletcher will carry on as Indian Coach
Even supposing the cricket Board has not produced any public announcement, but from the sources it has been virtually confirmed that Duncan Fletcher‘s will likely carry on as the coach of Indian team withal the support staff Joe Dawes as a bowling coach and fielding coach Trevor Penney. Fletcher has been turned off to bits frantically […]
Media reports: MS Dhoni may resign from captaincy at the end of World T20
According to a report in Deccan Chronical MS Dhoni has offered to quit from the captaincy of Indian team after his name got involved in Gurunath Meiyappan and Indian Premier League betting scam. This IPL betting scam has not only ended Meiyappan’s father-in-law N. Srinivasan’s career as BCCI chief, but also put huge doubts over Chennai Super Kings captain […]
Top 5 candidates to replace N Srinivasan as BCCI President
These are turbulent times for the richest and most powerful Board in world cricket – BCCI (Board of Cricket Control in India). Its President considered the most powerful man in world cricket is in deep trouble. At 10:30 a.m. on Friday Supreme Court will finally pull the carpet from under Srinivasan’s feet as his position […]
Top 10 current test batsmen with highest average
Hi folks! We all have a fancy for statistics, don’t we? Don’t you constantly keep an eye on the ICC rankings to see whether our very own Virat is at the top of the pile among ODI batsmen, or whether Ravindra Jadeja is among the best all-rounders in the world? To satiate our hunger for […]
Dada’s World Beaters
11 Years ago, on this day Sourav Ganguly’s boys entered the field to face 2 time world champions Australia. It was India’s best display at the world cup after the 1983 heroics. It was akin to the 1992 Pakistani team led by Imran Khan. Imran and Dada have a lot in common. Both were fighters and […]
Politician Kaif desires to ‘recieve blessings’ from Sachin, Sourav, Shawag
Forgoing Test cricketer Mohammadd Kaif has joined politics and he is a Lok Sabha candidate from Phulpur now. All he desires at this time is to ‘receive the blessings’ of his once upon teammates Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Virendra Shewag and he is requiring their support in his election effort. This 33-year-old cricketer-turned-political leader has been seamed […]