Yuvi confident for T20 clash.

Yuvraj Singh is practising hard for the coming T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka.  He said " Experts are not are not watching me, they don't know about my fitness, its only me who knows what's going on inside me. I know myself better and I am confident enough to do well in the coming World Cup."

The former Indian captain Saurav Ganguly had commented on inclusion of Yuvraj in the squad as an  'emotional' decision by the selectors.  


Yuvraj Singh said " I am practising hard National Cricket at Academy at Bangalore since last three months. The experts here are closely watching my progress and fitness level  from all the aspects of the game" He further said '' I have played three matches at the NCA. I will have some serious match practice for two matches against New Zealand.I shall have seven matches before going in for the World Cup, hence I will have enough match practice."

We all have to keep our fingers crossed and see how the fighter Yuvraj performs in the days to come.   Sure he will prove the selectors right for his selection. 

Champs Seniors & Juniors

The Indian Cricket seems to be on cloud 9, with a series of successes both for our junior and senior cricketers .

The Indian Colts lifted the U-19 World Cup in Australia,defeating the strong Australian team, by 6 wickets .
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India won their third U19 World Cup title, as Unmukt Chand,
played a captains innings, and showed that he is a match winner, by scoring unbeaten 111 runs.

Australian made 225 for 8 wickets in 50 overs. The skipper Bosisto scored 87 not out, and posted a defendable score of 225 runs. The Indian batsman were expected to struggle against the quality pace attack of the opponents.

But Chand (111 not out ), Smit Patel ( 63 not out }and Baba Aparajith ( 33 }, calmly worked towards the target, in a very professional manner and the boys lifted the Cup .

Amitabh Bachchan Congratulated the Indian team and said" Unmukt Chand is the new face of Indian cricket."

Indian Team Captain Dhoni congratualated the Indian team for the fantastic win." Unmukt Chand really batted well."

The whole Indian Team at Hydrabad playing against New Zealand, were following the match in the dressing room .Virat Kohli who was the captain of the U-19 team which won the world Cup in 2008, now a dashing batsman in the Indian team said " Beating Australia in Australia in a final has never happened before, hence this is a great acheivement.

The former Pakistan captain and the master of seam bowling Wasim Akram said " Unmukt Chand is a whole package, he is excellent and ready to gain a Indian Cap soon.He said that myself and Ian Chappel has been saying that Chand is ready for India.  

It was definately a sunny day for Indain cricket since again on the same day, The Indian Cricket team led by Dhoni trounced the Kiwis in Hyderabad. They defeated the Kiwis by an innings and 115 runs. The tourist had no answers to the spinning bolts by Ashwin and Ojha, both the spinners cast a web around the batsman and shared 18 wickets between them in two innings . Ashwin had 12 wickets and Ojha had 6 wickets a great contribution both the spinners.      



   

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Indian Colts in final

The Under-19 Indian cricket team has reached the final, of the Under-19 World Cup, in Townsville in Australia. The Indian colts are in great form and have won both nerve wracking encounters in Quarter Final against Pakistan and Semi Final against New Zealand.

Can the colts win the World Cup like our seniors on Sunday which is against Australia.

They are a bunch of aspiring cricketers, would definitely strive hard to win the Cup.

The skipper of the Indian Team Unmukt Chand's reaction after winning the close encounter with the Kiwis said '' now  we are used to these kind of crunch games."

We have next line of young ones in making after Dhoni , Sehwag , Tendulkar .

Captain Unmukt Chand said that till date we have not performed well with the bat,but the bowlers have done a great job of restricting the opponents upto 200 runs.

Coach Bharti Arun said that the pitches here are not tailor made for bowlers.They do offer something to bowlers , but you need the skill and discipline to exploit the conditions .

The promising young ones to watch are seamer Sandeep Sharma, spinner Harmeet Singh, all rounder Baba Aparajith. 

Master Coach Gary

Gary Kirsten the magical, cricket coach of South Africa, has created a record by positioning two teams at number one position in ICC cricket rankings , in Test cricket.

He achieved the number one position for India when he was the cricket coach for India. Now he has again achieved this milestone of number one position for South Africa by defeating England at Lords.

Gary Kirsten the coach for his home team South Africa , has this rare distinction of rising to number one slot for two different countries as a coach, which is a record in the history of cricket.

A coach with a midas touch which every cricketing nation would like to have is all set to take South Africa to No 1 slot  in all forms of cricket.

South Africa is at no one in T20, has rose to No 1  in Test format and is No 2 in 50 overs format, if they win the next one day series against England they will be on the top slot for all the formats of the game.
Best of luck Gary you will surely achieve this for your beloved country.
 
    

RAWALPINDI EXPRESS CHUGS AGAIN.....

Shoaib Akhtar , the controversial fast bowler from Pakistan , now again wants to serve his country , as the bowling coach for the Pakistan Cricket Team.




The 37 year old, charismatic,  high tempered and out spoken fast bowler , has send his desire to train the team for bowling.

Known as Rawalpindi Express, his lethal and fearsome fast bowling . The  best of the batsman in the world , had problem facing him when he used to bowl at top speed , was a master in swinging the ball away from the batsman. .

Now will the Pakistan board consider his request and can he become a good coach for his country is to be seen in the days to come.

He has been declared 11 times man of the match in his career.

Shoaib Akhtar

Country: Pakistan,Asian Cricket Council XI,ICC World XI

Style: Right Hand Batsman , Right Arm fast bowler

• Full name:Shoaib Akhtar
• Born:August 13th, 1975 Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
• Age:37 years 18 days
• Debut:Against West Indies, 2nd Test, West Indies in Pakistan 1997/98
  Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Pakistan
• Man of the Match:11 Times

Test Career Batting and Fielding

	M	I	NO	RUNS	HS	Ave	100	50	SRate	Ct
Pakistan	46	67	13	544	47	10.07	0	0	41.43	12
Overall	46	67	13	544	47	10.07	-	-	41.43	12

Test Career Bowling

	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BB	Ave	5wI	10wM	SRate	Econ
Pakistan	8121	237	4574	178	6-11	25.70	12	2	45.62	3.38
Asian Cricket Council XI	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	-	-
ICC World XI	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	-	-
Overall	8121	237	4574	178	6-11	25.70	12	2	45.62	3.38

One Day Internatonal Career Batting and Fielding

	M	I	NO	RUNS	HS	Ave	100	50	SRate	Ct
Pakistan	158	80	39	361	43	8.80	0	0	70.92	20
Asian Cricket Council XI	3	2	0	21	15	10.50	0	0	95.45	0
ICC World XI	2	2	1	12	10	12.00	0	0	150.00	0
Overall	163	84	40	394	43	8.95	-	-	73.10	20

One Day International Career Bowling

	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BB	Ave	4wI	5wI	SRate	Econ
Pakistan	7493	93	5952	241	6-16	24.70	6	4	31.09	4.77
Asian Cricket Council XI	152	4	106	6	2-16	17.67	0	0	25.30	4.19
ICC World XI	102	2	110	0	0-49	-	0	0	-	6.47
Overall	7747	99	6168	247	6-16	24.97	6	4	31.36	4.78

Twenty-Twenty Internatonal Career Batting and Fielding

	M	I	NO	RUNS	HS	Ave	100	50	SRate	Ct
Overall	15	6	3	21	8	1.75	-	-	131.25	2

Twenty-Twenty International Career Bowling

	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BB	Ave	4wI	5wI	SRate	Econ
Overall	318	3	432	19	3-38	22.74	-	-	17	8.15

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