The Great Cricket Thread!

[diabloo]

India complete the trilogy - finally win in top 3 of world's most fast-bowler friendly tracks - after 78 years of starting playing Test cricket. Congratulation !!!

The wins:
1) 02 Jul 2006 - Sabina Park, Jamaica (pitch is the hardest and fastest in the Caribbean): India won by 49 runs
2) 19 Jan 2008 - WACA, Perth (pitch is the hardest and fastest in the Down Under): India won by 72 runs
3) 29 Dec 2010 - Kingsmead, Durban (pitch is the hardest and fastest in the Dark Continent): India won by 49 runs

Incidentally all these wins have come under Dhoni captaincy with Sehwag, Dravid & Laxman in the team.

 

[cooldhaya]

Amazing victory today! Hats-off to the bowlers and VVS for their efforts!

 

[type-r]

what a win it was today! i just loved the wicket of Harris, it was just a beauty of a delivery from Zaheer. But it was just sad for deVilliers that wrong decison was given to him.

 

[cooldhaya]

And Archit don forget the bouncer to Kallis from Sreesanth! Absolute peach of a delivery!

 

[type-r]

oh yes that was too good. it was like some super fast bowler had pitched it. but it was just perfect.

 

[type-r]

the IPL auction is going on and well it has a lot of surprises!

 

[diabloo]

Ya true. I guess Ganguly failed to read the wrting on the wall. Kumble did and so his self-esteem is intact. Dravid was in the same boat. But luck was in his favor when RR bought him.

Live! Franchises snub Ganguly: Former India captain Sourav Ganguly, as expected, was not taken up by any of the ten franchises at the IPL Players' Auction.

Ganguly, who started with $400,000, was ignored by all the teams who opted to use their budget for younger and current players.

the IPL auction is going on and well it has a lot of surprises!

 

[diabloo]

Did anybody notice, Kochi is packing up with lousy players..

Parting quote:
"We've all descended from the monkeys... and we're still descending"
- Navjot Singh Sidhu speaks from experience at the IPL auction

 

[type-r]

i know right... KKR have a good team currently!!

 

[diabloo]

Here is the team that will lift the World Cup on 2nd April 2011

1. MS Dhoni (capt & wk),
2. Sachin Tendulkar,
3. Virender Sehwag,
4. Gautam Gambhir,
5. Yuvraj Singh,
6. Suresh Raina,
7. Virat Kohli,
8. Yusuf Pathan,
9. Harbhajan Singh,
10. Praveen Kumar,
11. Zaheer Khan,
12. Ashish Nehra,
13. Munaf Patel,
14. Piyush Chawla,
15. R Ashwin

 

[type-r]

good choice by selectors to not take ojha. he sucks big time.

 

[cooldhaya]

Ojha is not that good agreed but from where did Piyush Chawla jump into the picture suddenly? He last played ODI several years back!


Rest all players are on expected lines and Ashwin has got the biggest chance in his lifetime! I guess he will only be bowling along with Bajji!

 

[type-r]

today is deciding game. MS Dhoni wins the toss and elects to field.

 

[cooldhaya]

Yes and SA doing well till this point! Piyush Chawla replaces Nehra , i welcome this decision!

 

[anmol_1990]

india lost the series...... :(

hope they revive and perform well in the world cup