Posts Tagged ‘India’
2010 IPL: Royal Challengers beat Kings XI Punjab
Jacques Kallis (89; 55 balls, 8x4, 5x6) fired Bangalore Royal Challengers to a thumping eight-wicket victory over Kings XI Punjab in match 7 of the IPL 2010 at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Chasing a stiff 204 runs for victory, the Royal Challengers romped home in 18.5 overs. Openers Manvinder Bisla and Ravi Bopara put on a 129-run opening stand [...]
Ravindra Jadeja to miss 2010 IPL – confirmed!
Ravindra Jadeja is all set to miss the third season of the IPL despite pleas made on his behalf to placate the IPL authorities. They didn’t even listen to the appeals from different quarters of the BCCI so that is telling in the sense that there ought to be some ground in upholding the punishment against the offence. This is again a piece of [...]
Karun Chandhok: Second Indian in Formula One
Hispania Racing (formerly Campos Meta) have confirmed that India’s Karun Chandhok will partner Bruno Senna for the 2010 Formula One season. It brings to an end a long wait for both parties and it must be confessed that not many thought the two of them would be on the grid this season. For team Hispania, things have finally started moving [...]
IPL changes Time-Out rules
IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has announced changes in the time-out rules for the upcoming season of the IPL. Instead of the unbearably dull seven and a half minutes per innings, we will have two time-outs per innings of two and a half minutes each. Only this time the batting and the bowling side will have their very own time-outs. The bowling [...]
Problems aplenty for IPL
Less than two weeks remain before the annual cricket carnival that is the IPL begins. In all earnest, hosting the tournament in India this time around is proving to be a bigger hassle than it was to transfer the entire circus to South Africa on short notice. Lalit Modi and company will power through this time as well but if the teething problems [...]
A satisfying season
With the ODI series win against South Africa, a highly satisfying season for the Indian cricket team has come to an end. It has been one of many highs and some disappointing lows. Wining the tri-series in Sri Lanka while playing on poorly prepared pitches was an ideal start, though that waned off when Champions Trophy in South Africa and the ODI [...]
Thank You Sachin!
Almost eighteen years to the day, in the 1992 World Cup, India took on Pakistan. That was the first match I watched, thanks to our babysitter who was a cricket fan as it turned out. A curly-haired guy got a half-century – whatever that meant I must have thought then. Important point was everyone was happy and later got happier because India won. [...]
