Tuesday, November 18, 2008

India on a roll!! Back to back wins!!.. Beats Eng in the 2nd ODI...


England expected to bounce back in the 2nd ODI.. Their hopes were brutally destroyed by the same man yet again Yuvraj Singh who seems to improve game by game, following up with his second consecutive century , rescuing India from a top-order collapse and dismissing four of England's top five batsmen, he remains as england's nightmare. He lead India to a comfortable victory margin of 54 runs..

England were initially on the top early in the game, having reduced India to 29 for 3, but india recovered strongly with the fourth wicket between Yuvi and Gauti. Yuvraj went on to score 118 and gauti 70.. India scored India to 292 for 9 at the end of their 50 overs..

The target was always going to challenge England and they were out of the contest just managing to score 238..

India Leads the series 2-0.. The Man of the match was Yuvi for his brilliant 118 and 4 wicktes!!..

Friday, November 14, 2008

Indian's Trash Eng in the 1st Ind-Eng 7 ODI series!!.. India wins by a big margin!!..


Pietersen's decision to field inspite of winning the toss which ended to be a tradedy form the team.. An utter disaster striked england with India posting 387 for 5 in 50 overs displaying a great strokeplay. Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag added 125+ runs for the first wicket, after which Yuvraj Singh stook like a tiger with an unbeaten 138 from only 78 balls.

It was the second highest ever total.. England could only reply with 229 facing a huge margin losing to the host's india..

Zaheer Khan and Munaf Patel ended bowling well, where zaheer ends up with 2 wickets!!.. Only Captian Kevin Peterson was able to make 63 runs.. With high confidence after crushing the world champions australia in the test series and a victory here keeps india headed steadily to the top position and with a high level of confidence into their next match..

Chak-de-india!!!!!!....

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Sms Addicts-->> Non stop messaging..!!!


How many messages do you text per day and how many messages fill your inbox in 24 hours...have you ever counted them? i'm sure you will be one among the thousands who have become addicted to texting msgs. and with so many different sms packages provided by the airtel, vodafone,aircel, reliance and what not, communication through sms has taken its wildest form specially among the youngsters.

I have a gang of friends msg-ing me every alternate minute, and the worst part being those msgs some will have no meaning, no relevance, nothing and some useful and informative .. lol.. There is also the famously called "inform all" msgs by our friends circle this msg wil be of the kind-
  • "Flash news: Gopal finished studyin"-pass 2 all

  • " Raja is not coming to college today pls infrom 2 the staffs"

  • "Machan Kumar is roaming with a girl"-forward 2 all
and so many of this kind and its real fun msging nonsense to a group of friends and getting replies is a even more funny!!. And apart from that, the usual gud morning msgs, gud evening and gud nite msgs, forwards, "wat doing" msgs, etc, etc, the list is never ending...and the no. of msgs i send is also never ending..[:P]

I am one of those vodafone users with a package having 750 sms/day and that's really made me an addict to sms-ing. Sms-ing rocks!!..

Sunday, November 2, 2008

India-Aus Delhi test ends in a draw!!...



The third Test, which will now be remembered as captain Anil Kumble, ended the game in a draw here today and announcing his retirement. Having their 1-0 lead in the four-match series, with a crushing 320-run win in Mohali, India now move to Nagpur for the last match of the series Kumble, who decided to quit after playing his final Test at his happy hunting ground delhi.

Only an extraordinary batting collapse could have forced a result which hard hardly anything for the bowlers other than the spinners. Taking 20 wickets was an impossible task, as the first two innings alone yielded nearly 1200 runs.

The australian attack finally regained some of its standard bowling and tried hard to get rid off Rahul Dravid and Gautam Gambhir in the morning , but it did not prove enough in the end. India declared there second innings at 208 for 5 with VVS Laxman batting on 59 and Sourav Ganguly on 32.Chasing 245 in 23 overs, Australia finished at 31 for no loss and the test was drawn as temmates lifted Kumble off the ground and all came in turn to wish him.

The greats of the game were Gambir with a 206 & 36 and Laxman who has been Australia's nightmare struck 200 not out in the first innings and 59 not out in his second innings was unbeaten in this game.

This test match will be indeed remembered as we bid goodbye to one of the all time legends of spin Anil Kumble!!. We miss u JUMBO!!....

Jumbo we miss u!!!!... Goodbye Anil!!...


Anil Kumble, India's Test captain, announced his retirement from international cricket today and will not play the last Test of the series against Australia in Nagpur. His announcement came during the fifth day's play in Delhi, at the end of which he was carried off the field by teammates giving an emotional farewell.

In 132 Tests, Kumble took 619 wickets, the most among Indians. He injured his finger on his left hand on the day 3 in the third Test which made him think about his decision to retire. He captained India to three wins, with the 72-run victory at Perth against Australia undoubtedly one of the Greatest wins for indian cricket.

The legspinner was also the second player in history, to bag 10 wickets in an innings against Pakistan in the second innings in delhi. A fitting farewell that his last match was also at the same venue.He stands equal with that of the spin legends Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan, footmarking his contribution to spin's golden era.

He has been a person who has lead india to great heights, a special person has to be born to beat the records of this legend leg spinner. We salute at you kumble!! U rock!!. We miss u Anil!!!....