Posts Tagged ‘MS Dhoni’
IPL 4 – New Rules, New Game
Kolkata Knight Riders’ owner Shah Rukh Khan says the new player auction rules for the fourth season of the IPL in 2011, are somewhat unfair, and that all players should go into the pool. You can almost understand his pain. Three years of bragging about his team in front of the whole wide world and he has won squat so far. Now, finally, that he [...]
Three reasons to be happy about India’s T20 World Cup exit
Hardly four days have passed since India’s painful exit from the T20 World Cup in the Caribbean and we have heard all kinds of sinister stories on TV channels and leading newspapers of the country. Unfit players, fitter coaches, unruly skipper, pub brawls, torn t-shirts and quiet flights back home have some how ironically overshadowed that [...]
Suresh Raina to lead India in Zimbabwe
Suresh Raina will lead India on their limited overs tour of Zimbabwe, which is scheduled to begin in June. Raina leads a side without a number of high-profile players who have been rested - regular captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and senior players Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh and Ashish Nehra will not be [...]
2010 IPL: Team of the Tournament
While the world casts one eye on the ICC World Twenty20 in the Caribbean, due to begin in the next couple of days, the other eye needs to look back at the 2010 season of the Indian Premier League one last time before it is consigned to the has-been books. Here we look at the first eleven of this season’s Indian Premier League. Openers: [...]
2010 IPL Diary: Why Mumbai Indians lost
Mumbai’s dropped catches were cancelled away by the run-out chances missed by the Chennai Super Kings, and that is how the game of cricket proceeds. Many believe that withholding Kieron Pollard is the one main reason why Mumbai Indians went down in the IPL finals, a match they were widely expected to win. It is true he came out to bat a bit [...]
2010 IPL Diary: Semi-Final Shockers
So, the two semi-finals have been played and now we know which two teams will play for the ghastliest gold-plated trophy in world sport. I mean there’s not even a proper way to lift that thing up, like a cup or something – all you are busy looking at are the shining jewels. Meanwhile the losers two will jostle for a spot in the Champions [...]
2010 IPL: Semi-Final stage is set
The stage is set for the semi-finals of the IPL but no one seems to be talking about this aspect of cricket. Somewhere in the backdrop of the raging fire that that IPL-Kochi franchise-Lalit Modi controversy has become, there are four teams that will be preparing in Mumbai, hoping that when the dust settles down they will be the ones holding that [...]
2010 IPL Diary: Its close, real close
As Kings XI Punjab slowly but surely took apart the Delhi Daredevils’ batting on Sunday afternoon, one sat perplexed as to what was happening. Was the pitch acting up again, as has been quoted widely over the past week? Or was it simply that the Kings XI side decided to turn up on the day and Delhi (the team that is, for the fans were present in [...]
2010 IPL Diary: The competition heats up
Match day 24 of the 2010 IPL will go down as the marker when people look back as the turning point of the race for the semi-finals. At the start of the day no one expected so, and rightly, for the first game was between Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab. Given all factors plus the fact that the match was being played at the Eden Gardens, [...]
India announce team for 2010 T20 World Cup
The Indian squad for the T20 World Cup in the West Indies has been announced and the fifteen names chosen are on expected lines. Squad: MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, Dinesh Karthik, Ravindra Jadeja, Zaheer Khan, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla, [...]
