What happen to Australian skippers. They always target ganguly cahppel and now buchannan
They hurt dadas heart very much, its not a nice think to do infront of a serious, dada do better job in last IPL
Mar 26, 2009
Ganguly – always run in front of devil
Mar 23, 2009
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Mar 18, 2009
INDIA VS NEW ZEALAND TEST SERIES - 2009 DAY 1 REPORT
Ryder, Vettori centuries spare NZ blushes
A defiant captain's century by Daniel Vettori and a maiden ton for Jesse Ryder rescued
The home side were dismissed for 279 on a batsman-friendly wicket and at stumps the tourists had reached 29 without loss off seven overs with the explosive Virender Sehwag not out 22 and fellow opener Gautam Gambhir on six.
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bowl, gambling on his bowlers capitalising on the overcast conditions and a green-tinged wicket.
His choice paid off, with
The pair produced a record-breaking 186-run partnership to take the score to 246, and New Zealand added just 33 more runs before they were all out.
The skipper's 118 was his third century in 90 Tests, while Ryder's 102 was his maiden ton in his seventh Test.
But that partnership aside, the day belonged to
"Our first thoughts were to get through to 150. It would give us something to play with. Fortunately, Jesse and I batted for a long time and put a competitive score on the board but certainly below par," he said.
"We created momentum through our partnership, but if you erase that and look at the scores you'd say
At times the match was a battle of wits between the captains, with Vettori looking for runs and forcing Dhoni into frequent field adjustments.
Ryder, at the other end, showed his versatility, shelving his big-hitting one-day role to play a watchful knock.
Between them they blocked out the spin of Harbhajan Singh at one end while picking off the quicks at the other as the afternoon sun baked the wicket, the ball aged, and conditions became more batsman-friendly.
Vettori brought up the
Vettori's immense effort came to an end after 197 minutes at the crease when Dhoni moved smartly to take an inside edge off Munaf Patel.
The 164-ball innings produced two sixes and 14 fours, with his century arriving off a single when he top-edged Harbhajan to fine leg.
He survived two close calls, diving to make his ground when sent back by Ryder two balls before tea and then on 77 he was dropped by Rahul Dravid off Harbhajan.
Vettori's dismissal brought to an end the record seventh-wicket partnership in New Zealand-India Tests and the Indian bowlers were quickly back on top.
Kyle Mills was yorked by Patel first ball, while Iain O'Brien avoided the hat-trick and reached eight before he was stumped by Dhoni off Harbhajan.
His departure, with
The look of consternation on Ryder's face was evident as Martin prodded at the five remaining balls in Harbhajan's over.
Ryder then made sure of his century, hitting Ishant Sharma to the boundary and was out caught by VVS Laxman off the next ball.
It was an innings delivered with class and determination, something that was missing from the relatively inexperienced top order, who appeared to lack the resolve to bide their time in the middle.
Zaheer Khan did the early damage, removing Martin Guptill (14) and Daniel Flynn (0) in the space of three balls. Sharma added the scalps of Tim McIntosh (12), Ross Taylor (18) and James Franklin (0).
Munaf Patel claimed the sixth wicket when he sent Brendon McCullum back to the pavilion for three shortly before lunch.
In contrast, Indian attacked from the start of their innings, with Sehwag continuing the form which saw him star in the one-day series, in which
Sehwag hit five boundaries in his unbeaten 22, while
| Scoreboard |
| |
| |
| |
| M. Guptill | c Dravid b Khan | 14 |
| T. McIntosh | c Sehwag b Sharma | 12 |
| D. Flynn | c Dhoni b Khan | 0 |
| R. Taylor | b Sharma | 18 |
| J. Ryder | c Laxman b Sharma | 102 |
| J. Franklin | c Dhoni b Sharma | 0 |
| B. McCullum | c Laxman b Patel | 3 |
| D. Vettori | c Dhoni b Patel | 118 |
| K. Mills | b Patel | 0 |
| I. O'Brien | st Dhoni b Harbhajan | 8 |
| C. Martin | not out | 0 |
| Extras | lb1, nb3 | 4 |
| Total | for all out | 279 |
| | | |
| Fall of wkts | 1-17, 2-17, 3-10, 4-51, 5-51, 6-60, 7-246, 8-246, 9-275 |
| | |
| Bowling |
| |
| Khan 16-3-70-2 (2nb), Sharma 19.2-4-73-4, Patel 18-4-60-3, Harbhajan Singh 22-7-57-1, Sehwag 3-0-18-0 (1nb) |
| |
| Gautam Gambhir | not out | 6 |
| Virender Sehwag | not out | 22 |
| Extras | b1 | 1 |
| Total | for no loss | 29 |
| | | |
Bowling Martin 4-1-9-0, Mills 2-0-18-0, O'Brien 1-0-1-0
Highlights of Tendulkar's ODI (One Day Internationals) career
* Highest ODI run-scorer in the world with 16,007 aggregate ODI runs (as of 05-Feb-2008)
* 41 ODI centuries - highest in the world
* Played most number of ODIs (409) (as of 05-Feb-2008)
* Played most number of consecutive ODI matches (185 matches from Sharjah, 1989/90 to Sharjah, 1997/98)
* Most Man of the Match (53!) awards
* Appeared on the most grounds (90 different grounds)
* Most ODI runs by any batsman in any given calendar year - 1,894 runs (34 Matches Avg :65.31 SR :102.15) in 1998
* Most Centuries by a player in one year - 9 ODI centuries in 1998
* Most centuries vs.
* Holds the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He has done it six times - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2003.
* First and the fastest cricketer to cross 10,000-run mark, 11,000-run mark, 12,000-run mark, 13,000 run-mark and 14,000 run-mark in ODIs. The only player to have scored over 16,000 runs till-date
* Only cricketer to cross 14,000-run mark in ODIs
* One of only six players to pass 10,000 runs in ODIs (Sanath Jayasuriya, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Brian Lara, and Inzamam ul Haq are the others)
* Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against
Mar 17, 2009
Its like a war India vs. New Zealand Day 1
Everyone enjoy from the first delivery to last ball. And the nice performance from Indian pacers, they do their best with in 25 over’s. But after that Dani and Jesse do a fine job. If they didn’t do that, they loss the game. And now they have some hope to restrict
Dani prove that he is a nice captain and score a ton in hard time. 60/6 and then they reach 7/246. What a time u have captain.
Sehwag has made a start already. Indians are wish to continue at least more 20 overs. Nice work guys.
Who is the Fourth Bowler for the New Zealand series?
Indian point of view Baji, Khan and Ishanth will be the finest bowlers for test cricket. But who is the fourth bowler?
If u took Munaf he is not the man of fire. He pitches the ball in right areas. But most of time it won’t give wickets. And batsman left alone the nice balls because most of his balls are outside the off stump.
Amit Mishra is a nice bowler. He is capable of doing lot of damage in Indian soil. But the major question is whether he is capable of do those in seam friendly pitch?
Mar 16, 2009
Miss u Gangly on this New Zealand Test series?
Every one think that Ganguly is not the man on this track. But the fact is we miss him. Because we know what happen in last tour of
DADA came back after 1 yr and score runs freely on the bouncy tracks. No one believe that. Who knows Greig Chappel also don’t believe that.
Don’t forgot that Dravid, Laxman and even Little master also not able to get the runs freely. So I think that DADA we miss u.
This is the right time to find a place in top of the test cricket ranking. But I don’t think we can do that without DADA.
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