The performance of the indian cricket team.

Fever of cricket in India!

2007-03-09T00:06:00.000-08:00

The fever of cricket is mounting in India. World cup is yet to start officially but today there are four high profile matches. Yes it is warm up matches only but you cant consider them as low profile. The match begins with India Vs. West Indies. Being an Indian I will always support and wish for an Indian victory. At this moment Indian team looks more concentrated towards winning the cup. I will be waiting for this team to pick the cup.

Today's second match is between the present world champions Australia and England. We cant say who is going to win this match as both are equally maintained side. Recently England has defeated world champions in the final or tri-series, even they faced a whitewash from Kiwis too, but still they cant be underestimated. I will definitely vote for England for this match.

The third match is between Pakistan and South Africa. As we know Pakistan is going through a bad phase, they lost both their opening bowlers and since South Africa is the world's no. 1 team in ODI's right now. Still I will predict for a Pakistan to win.

The fourth warm up match is between New Zealand and Sri Lanka. New Zealand was going through a very good phase by defeating world champions Australia in their home series, but in the first warm up match they lost to Bangladesh. Hence, the match is going to be tough and I will support Sri Lanka for this match.

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Team India stoped Proteas from their first ever ODI series win in India!

2005-11-28T22:31:00.000-08:00

Ultimately Team India stopped the Proteas to win the ODI series in India. Nice show by Team India. Rahul Dravid led from the front with a gritty unbeaten 78 as India shrugged off the Eden Gardens humiliation with a five-wicket win over South Africa in the fifth and final cricket one-dayer and level the one-day series 2-2 in Mumbai on 28th of November. The credit should also be given to Irphan Pathan. After restricting the visitors to 221 for six on a difficult batting track, Dravid anchored his innings brilliantly to guide the team to victory with 15 balls to spare and prevent South Africa from recording their first-ever one-day series in India. This guy has improved a lot. Yuvraj Singh has also shown some brilliant show in this series.

Proteas roar's over Team India!!!

2005-11-25T09:55:00.000-08:00

Team India has shown that Proteas are much better player of cricket than India. Strategy wise also India does not stand at par to them. Team India opened the inning with Irphan Pathan while they have the two world class opener in their kitty. Even the game of Sachin is going to the down ward route. He is not touching the double figure from so many matches then why the team is carrying him? Our very own DADA has shown the reply to the national selector by showing the consistency as an allrounder in recent time. (159 Runs and 5 wickets against MAHARASHTRA).

Team India collapsed today here at Eden garden at Kolkata on 25th November. They scored merely 188 with 4.1 overs left on the board. Thanks to some brilliant show by Yuvraj Singh and Md. Kaif. Both of them shown the consistency and helped India to reach a respectable total. Then Smith scored a brilliant century and they won the game by 10 wickets.

Team India has stopped the chariot of Victory of South Africa!

2005-11-19T18:44:00.000-08:00

Ultimately team India has stopped the chariot of Victory of South Africa, here at Bangalore on 19th of November. In the 2nd ODI Dravid won the toss and ask them to bat first. It proved to be a master-stroke. They have bundled out the visitor's team at 169/9. Then the hero Viru (Virendra Sehwag) came up with such a fine show that ended with 6 wicket victory of Team India. The match ended when there are 14.2 overs are still left. Pathan has shown a brilliant all round show by taking 3 wickets and then making 37.

Ab aya Ut pahar ke niche!

2005-11-16T08:22:00.000-08:00

Ultimately Team India lost the opening ODI with South Africa on 16th November 2005. Indian batting order collapsed today. At one time they are strugling at 35/5. Thanks to some brilliant show by the MOM Yuvraj Singh (103), Irfan Pathan (46) and Harbhajan Singh (37 in 17 ball) Team India reached to a good score of 249 for 9. But SA won the match with 5 wickets and 7 balls to spare. Ab aya Ut pahar ke niche!

Easy series victory by Team India!!!

2005-11-13T06:04:00.000-08:00

Team India has won the last ODI here at Vadodara on November 12th 2005. The series is won by Team India with a margin of 6-1. And the seventh and the last ODI not only added the smile to more than one million faces but also on the face of Grage Chappell as his strategizing proved successful yet again.

Dhoni’s exploit with the bat again ensured Team India register another easy five-wicket victory in the last game. Today’s game was won with 10.3 overs to spare. Irfan Pathan playin in his home ground for the first time, and Ajit Agarkar started off well and then RP Singh backed them up by breaking the middle-order. In the later part of Lankan inning Pathan took the wicket of Atapattu (59) and Arnold (68) in two consecutive ball.

Brilliant show by R. P. Singh and Yuvraj Singh!!!

2005-11-10T08:21:00.000-08:00

Once again Team India has defeted the world # 2 team Sri Lanka by 7 wikets. Thanks to some fine show by Rudra Pratap Singh, and Yuvraj Singh and also Kaif. Sri Lanka is now 1-5 down in the series.

Brilliant show of aggresion by Gautam Gambhir!

2005-11-08T21:37:00.000-08:00

Despite the great show by Gautam Gambhir and Rahul Dravid, Team India lost the 5th ODI here at Ahmedabad on 6th of November 2005. This victory of Sri Lankan team has not so important since they have already lost the series. This match will be remebered for the aggresion shown by Gautam Gambhir. He has shown that he is a Gambhir (Serious) player in ODI also.

First series win in the home since March 2002 !!!!!

2005-11-05T08:06:00.000-08:00

Team India has won yet another fight with Sri Lanka and wrapped up the series with an unassailable 4-0 lead in this Videocon seven-match series. India won the match with 4.2 overs to spare. Ajit Agarkar stole the show with five wickets, one catch, and one run out. Winning the toss, Team India asked Sri Lanka to bat first in the fourth ODI here at Pune on 3rd November 2005. Sri Lanka made 261 (all out), with one ball to spare. Thanks to some brilliant show by captain Atapattu and Tillakaratne Dilshan.
Chasing the target of 262 Team India once struggling at 180 for six in the 35th over. Then come the new face of Indian Team, i.e. Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Suresh Raina. Both shared an unbeaten partnership of 81 runs and guided the Team India to the first series win in the home since March 2002 against Zimbabwe.

Dhoni! Dhoni!! And Dhoni!!!

2005-10-31T04:03:00.000-08:00

No name comes in this match (3rd ODI, 31st October 2005). Neither Sachin nor Sehvag nor Dravid its only Dhoni. Dho Dala.

Sri Lanka after winning the toss made 298 for 4 in their alloted 50 overs. Thanks to fine innings by Kumar Sangakkara (138*), and Jaywardhane (71). They have started nicely while bowling also, Vaas shows the way of pavilion to Sachin in the very first over. Then comes the MOM Mahendre Singh Dhoni. He has changed all the calculation of Sri Lanka. Gr8 Show 183 Not Out. India is now 3-0 up in series. India won the match by 6 Wicket with 3.5 overs to spare.

One more brilliant show by Pathan and Sachin!!!

2005-10-28T11:14:00.000-07:00

Again the same two devastating man!! One with ball and other with bat!!

One man is Irfan Pathan, other one is Sachin Tendulkar. Seeing Pathan’s bowling is like seeing some thing which is too close to the heart.

Irfan Pathan produced a devastating spell of seam bowling as an inspired India showed little mercy to ruthlessly destroy Sri Lanka with an eight wicket victory in the second cricket ODI in Mohali on Friday 28th October. The young Pathan captured four early wickets to help skittle out the visitors for a paltry 122, thanks to J. P. Yadav for his brilliant bowling also, before Sachin Tendulkar took the centre stage with a magnificent display of stroke play to quickly overhaul the target with 29.4 overs to spare and give the hosts a 2-0 lead in the seven-match series.

Mean while selectors do not selected our favorite DADA, it is quite indicative that he needs to improve a lot. But we are still waiting for his come back. Good Luck DADA.

Fabulous performance by Irfan Pathan, and great show by Sachin and Dravid!!

2005-10-25T11:53:00.000-07:00

In fact Pathan has shown the way to the team India, and Sachin and Dravid has shown the path for the victory. What a inning by these three. Team India has outperformed Sri Lanka in all the department of the game. What a way to shine - Team India.

Batting first Indian team made 350 runs, thanks to some fabulous shot by Dhoni, while Sri Lanka is all out on a mere score of 198. First ODI has given the Team India the dose for the success.

What a come back by Sachin, this is what makes him different from other legends of world cricket.

Fate of the Sri Lankan team and Sourav Ganguly !!!

2005-10-23T10:59:00.000-07:00

Sri Lanka's narrow defeat at the hands of President's XI in the warm-up tie has exposed chinks in their armour. Although the responsible people are saying not to take too much from this. It's a golden chance to let team india shine.

Sourav Ganguly, the greetest south paw betsman of Indian cricket history, what has happens to you. Sourav Ganguly has once himself said he must be the most hated captain in the history of indian cricket. Some days ago some people has started a site named as ihateganguly. This is completely bad thing to Indian cricket. Experts feel he is not a good captain, Indian fans do not like his harsh nature and everyone agrees he is rude, arrogant and overconfident. Greg Chappell of course feels Sourav is "mentally and physically unfit to lead India" but Ganguly refuses to change, he refuses to fade. So what makes him tick? Why do so many people hate him despite a brilliant captaincy record. Also in my view he is one of the greatest batsman I have ever seen. Ganguly please come back at least I am with you!!

Victory at the time of discontent

2005-09-25T20:18:00.000-07:00

Ultimately Team India won the two test series by a margin of 2-0 against the like of a team which is only considered good than Bangladesh. The controversies made this series as much important in Indians. Sourav Vs Greg.

The drama of Indian team is coming from 2003 world cup. First Laxman was rested from the world cup without any specific reason. Till date fingers continue to be pointed at Ganguly. Then came the biggest drama of team India in the Pakistan tour of India. Sachin Tendulkar was stranded on 194 at Multan. Many people think Ganguly behind this drama when Viru has scored a tripple century and stand-in-skipper Dravid declare the innings when Sachin was batting at 194. Then the Nagpur picth drama, in which Ganguly declares him fully fit before one day of the third test against Australia, and then suddenly pulls out under dubious circumstances. Ultimately now comes the Chappele's ire. He fumes after players turn up late for a pre-tour press conference and complains of indiscipline and improper arrangement. Then in the first test against Zimbabwe, underpressure guy's Laxman and Ganguly both scored a century and Laxman complains about negative vibes hampering team unity. One day later Ganguly suddenly says he was under pressure since Chappel had suggested before the test that he stepped down and make way for in form palyers like Kaif and Yuvi.

The disclosure of Ganguly has shaken up Indian cricket. But we should not overshadowed the briliant performance of Irfan Pathan in this test series. 200 wickets by Harbhajan Singh, good knock by Gautam Gambhir are some of the sailent features of team India in this series.

Dont know when Team India will win the FINAL ?

2005-09-06T21:41:00.000-07:00

India continued their exasperating sequence of flops in the finals on 06th September as New Zealand rode on Nathan Astle's scintillating century to clinch the Videocon Cup with a comfortable six-wicket victory in Harare on Tuesday. The right-handed Astle cracked an unbeaten 115 to help his team overhaul the target of 277 and leave the Indians licking the wounds of yet another embarassing defeat in a Final. The Team India is unable to utilise the brilliant innings of Md. Kaif and Sehwag.

Dont know when Team India will win the FINAL ?

Are the Indian seniors past their prime?

2005-09-04T20:16:00.000-07:00

A sixth-wicket partnership of 158 between Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh lifted India to a four-wicket win over Zimbabwe in a one-day international on September 4 in Harare. Man of the match Yuvraj recorded his fourth and perhaps his best structured century in ODI.

In the last match against New Zealand on Friday, it was 24-year-old Mohammad Kaif who led India's chase. On Sunday, it was the turn of another youngster who took up the challenge and steered India through tides. Yuvraj Singh's sparkling 120 from 124 balls spared India the humiliation of defeat against a second-string Zimbabwe in the last league encounter.

So in the entire series it was only the youngsters who are doing their part, not the seniors.

Virender Sehwag has been too rash, Sourav Ganguly's form hasn't turned and even Rahul Dravid has been mediocre by his own very high standards.

Are the Indian seniors past their prime? Please share your opinion.

Has Team India found its winning touch?

2005-09-02T21:00:00.000-07:00

Mohammad Kaif slammed a sparkling century as India's top order batsmen came out of a prolonged form slump to fashion a convincing six-wicket victory over New Zealand in a crucial Videocon Cup tri-series match in Harare on Friday 2nd September. Kaif notched up his second one-day international hundred to lead the batting renaissance as India overhauled New Zealand's score of 278 with 15 balls to spare. This was the record highest run chase ever at the Harare Sports Club. The win has ensured that India will meet the Kiwis again in the final on September 6.

After close defeats and capitulations, the Indian cricket team has this time finally managed a victory over a top-class side. And a fine triumph it was. That they did it while chasing a very competitive total is no mean feat. Although Shane Bond and Daniel Vettori were certainly missed by a New Zealand bowling attack which looked listless on Friday, it cannot take away the credit from the Indian batsmen who applied themselves much better.

India's new found fighting spirit was also on display as they restricted New Zealand to 278/9 after a great start on a beautiful batting track, and then kept their cool while chasing the target.

But is this just another flash in the pan, or is Team India really moving forward? Can we expect such performances consistently? Please tell us what you think.

Team India Performance Blog

2005-08-30T23:13:00.000-07:00

Team India has finally won a match by a big margin (against Zimbabwe) and the whole nation is relieved. But make no mistake the victory was all due to the bowlers, the batsman failed miserably (except Dhoni and Yuvraj), they pushed and prodded throughout against an attack which has been pounded by every single team in world cricket including Bangladesh. They batted as if they are batting against a team like Australia. Credit goes to Zimbabwe bowler's. Team India has had many glorious moments but now they are a mere shadow of their former self. What has gone wrong with them? Have they lost the magic touch?