Rising Star Ishant.

Ishant was nobody when he was in Ganga International School in Delhi.He was regularly thrown out of the class and made to stand out of the class,by Madam Babita Mann who was her class teacher in Class XI and XII.

Babita Mann said 'I never wanted him in my class.I was sick of his low attendance.I remembar scolding him everyday and he would always give me the excuse of being late that he was playing cricket'.

I asked the Physical Education teacher to get the principal's approval to allow Ishant to sit in the class,he would try to resolve to matter amicalbly instead of going to the principal. He would tell me 'Madam you are looking at the future Indian cricketer how can you throw him out of the class'. 'Today I am waiting outside the principal's office since one hour to have a photo with the star.'She said 'I can't believe what I'm seeing .Its more than one hour he has come to school has been mobbed by his student fans and I am unable to meet my worst student'.

It was not only Babita but the pricipal Charu Kapoor was amused that Ishant sat in her chair surrounded by media.

'This is the first time I was made to feel like an alien in my own office. The office which people dread to enter. Its as if the office belonged to Ishant'.

Dhoni joins college ??????

The indian one day captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni now wants to become an obedient student once again. Since the sensex of his cricket career is zooming up he had no time to pursue his studies after Class 12.

Sources close to the captain said 'He wants to complete B.Com,a couple of days back he met Ranchi University's Sports Director Mr Jai Kumar Sinha and Physical Education Director Shekhar Bose. Dhoni wants to complete gradution from St Xavier's College under the sports quota. Sinha has taken up the matter with the college principal Father Nicholas Tete who has accepted the prosposal,that he will have problems in attending the classes due to cricket matches and his star status. Father Tete said,'We have to complete the formalities with this regard and take the permission from the university.'

Lift Up Indian Hockey.

The entire nation is in shock for our exit from Olympic Hockey.
Cricket maestro Sachin Tendulkar has urged the hockey loving people to support the players and boast their defeated moral in the time of crisis,he said 'Do not run them down,this is the time all the Indians should encourage and support the players.He said 'Once you fall its important to get up and we must give them our helping hand. As we need to be with all the players'.

Tendulkar added 'As a hockey loving nation its very disappointing that our team has not qualified the Olympics,but one must recognise that the players must be feeling the disappointment much more than anyone else.No sportsperson wants to fail.

Matinee idol Shah Rukh Khan who has played the role of a womens hockey team coach thrown out of reckoning wins the world cup in the movie CHAK DE which was a box office hit. He was very positive and said 'Do not ponder over the past failure,but look forward for future.'His precription for the Indian Hockey to turn around is to set a four year target and start working towards the target. We should quickly get over the blame game,we should approach the whole issue positively.

Indian Hockey Freezes in Chile

Can you believe India eight times gold medal winners in Olympics,fail to qualify first time in 80 years. It was a black Monday 10th March 2008 for the Indian Hockey team which lost to Great Britain 0-2,thus failed to qualify for the forthcoming Beijing Olympics.

Till date India has won 8 gold ,2 bronze and one silver medals since 1928 Olympic Games. The gold medals were won twice in hat-trick in 1928 , 1932 and 1936 than again in 1948,1952 and 1958.

After such a fabulous achievement is the game dieing in India ?
The sports ministry is responsible for the debacle ?
The Indian Hockey Federation is responsible?

To save the game the above questions needs to be scrutinised.

Take action against Bhajji.

Harbhajan has denied to have called Mathew Hayden 'a lair' and Adam Gilchrist 'no saint'. I did not make these comments said Harbhajan .

The Australians after a humiliating defeat in one days,wants something to keep an upper hand. The Australian cricket board is making a joke of the episode again asking the Indian board to take action against Harbhajan Singh.

Have written a letter to BCCI secretary Mr Niranjan Shah demanding the board to take action on him. Have written 'Enough is enough.Despite assurances that you have instructed him not to fuel this issue anymore,Harbhajan continues to say whatever he wants. When will it end? Could you please deal with your player.

Indians stun Aussies.

Dhoni and the man in blue stunned Ricky Ponting,Symonds,Lee and Hayden to lift the Commonwealth Tri-series Cup in Brisbane. The young Indian team turned the world upside down when it produced a magical performance at Gabba to knock down the World Champions,by 9 runs. Ricky Ponting's fuming big boys were beaten twice consecutively in two days in the best of the three finals.

India batting first scored 258 runs in 50 overs. Sachin Tendulkar again showed he is a master batsman with his classy 91 runs in 121 balls. Again a sound start for the first wicket partnership of 94 runs with Robin Uttappa scoring 30 runs in 49 balls.
Dhoni contributed 36 runs in 37 balls and Yuvraj 38 runs in 38 balls.

The target for 259 runs for the Aussies was achievable,with there strong batting line up. But the young Indian bowlers rattled the Kangaroos in the first over when Gilchrist was out for 2 runs wicket claimed by Parveen Kumar. Thereafter they were not allowed to settle down and Parveen Kumar showed the pavilion to Ricky Ponting for 1 run. Parveen continued his debacle and the Aussies were dangling lose at 3 wickets for 32 runs.

But Hayden 55 runs,Symonds 42 runs , Hussey 44 runs , Hopes 63 runs tried to reach the target losing wickets at regular intervals.

In a nail biting finish Australia required 13 runs with 2 wickets in hand in the last over. The ball was given to Irfan Pathan who produced two wicket taking balls to finish with Australia all out for 249 runs.

The highlights of the series were India won the Tri-Series in Australia after 23 years. Second Sachin reaches No 1 position in ICC rankings throwing out Ponting.
Third Streakers running on the ground,Symonds smashes one who falls on the ground.
Fourth Parveen Kumar named the man of match. The only consolation for the Australian was Bracken was named the man of the series.

Indian Record Broken

The 52 years old first wicket record of 413 runs,was broken by the South African opening pair Graeme Smith and Niel McKenzie.

The Indian opening pair in 1956 of Vinoo Mankad and Pankaj Roy in Chhenai had scored
413 runs for the first wicket against New Zealand.

The South Africa playing Bangladesh in Chittagong now holds this record created by Graeme Smith scoring 232 runs and Niel McKenzie scored 232 runs,by posting 415 runs.

Ashok Mankad son of Late Vinoo Mankad said 'Records are meant to be broken. But this one took half a century to be overhauled.'

Pranab Roy son of Late Pankaj Roy said 'It would have been better had an Indian pair got it,for me the record belongs to the country first than to an individual.'

Saurav Ganguly congratulated Smith and McKenzie to set a new record. He said that the old record of Mankad and Roy was more praiseworthy since it was made against tough opposition like New Zealand.

SUNNY DAY FOR INDIAN CRICKET

Virat Kohli and his small kids made India proud by lifting the U 19 World Cup,by defeating South Africa by 12 runs. India scored 159 runs in 45.4 overs,than South Africa were strulling at 17 runs for 3 wickets before rains struck the Kinrara Oval ground for two hours. They were set a new target to chase 116 runs in 25 overs,that is had to make 99 runs in 98 deliveries with 7 wickets in hand.

The Proteas never raised any hopes for the win and lost wickets at regular intervals, were bowled out for 103 runs.

The Indian coach Dev Whatmore said 'The boys did all the hard work and my contribution was very minimal.'

The Indian cricket board announced prize money of rupees 15 lakhs for each member of the team.


On the other hand our seniors won effortless defeating the Aussies in the first final of the Commanwealth Series.

Sachin Tendulkar scored his firt one day hundred in Australia remaining unbeatan with 117 runs in 128 balls,and his 42nd century in one dayers.

A good sound start was given by Uttappa and Sachin for the first wicket for 50 runs.
Thereafter youngster Rohit Sharma played well to score 66 runs from 87 balls in a partnershitp of 123 runs for the 4th wicket with Tendulkar.
Australia batting first were bowled out for 239 runs,major contribution were from Hayden 82 runs in 88 balls. Our seam bowlers bowled superbly with early breakthrough and the Kangaroos were struggling at 24 runs for 3 wickets.