No Match For Indian Lions

What if Australian kangaroos are behaving like dogs these days, but the T20 champs shall prove in in 50 over game too. This is not just my confidence but whole of India's confidence in the Indian cricket team. T20 triumph has also instilled a new wave of confidence in the big three-Sachin,Sourav and Dravid and hope we see nice cricketing action from thse three also!!!!!

Watch out for the first ODI between India and Australia live from Bangalore at 2:30 on Neo Sports!!!!!

Best of luck to India!!!!!!!

CHAK DE INDIA............T20 WORLD CUP

It was the second most cherishable moment in the Indian cricketing history after the heroic win of 1983 World Cup.The snaps say that all......................

Indians just didnt believe what had happened........................

Team India lifts T20 World Cup........................

They turned out to be heroes, truly.........................

Indian Tri-Colour moving across the Wanderers..................

INDIA AND PAKISTAN PROCEED TO SEMI FINALS

The mighty Indians beat South Africa in their Super Eight clash by a nice margin. Indians had set a moderate target of 164 in theor 20 overs and it looked as thoygh it was thelast match of the dream run for Indian chokras. But yet again this time RP Singh bowled an excellant spell bagging 4 wickets and showed the way to dugout to the likes of Herchelle Gibbs,Graeme Smith.........

So, the big news is that Indians have qualified for the Semi Finals and this time they have a real challenge 'coz they'll face Australians but the good news is that Ricky Ponting and Shane Watson are not playing for Australia and Yuvi bhai is back in the Indian line up.

Meanwhile Pakistan also advanced to the semi finals by beating Lankan tigers, Bangladesh and guess what,Australia, just cudnt believe that!!!!

Anyways best of luck to both the teams and hope that we could see a long awaited India-Pakistan Final.

जय हिंद

WHAT A MATCH IT WAS!!

Well guys, we all know that the Twenty20 Cricket World Cup is going on in South Africa. We also know that this format of the game is a nightmare even for a world class bowler like Nathan Brancken,Lee and co.

Yesterday the tournament witnessed the best match ever played in any format of the game and why not, it was played amongst the best arch rivals of the cricketing history.People, it was India vs Pakistan!!!!

The match took place at Durban. It was a second match for the Paks as they thrashed the Scots in their first match while it was the first for the young Indian team as rain had washed away their first match against Scotland.

Pakistan won the toss and skipper Shoaib Malik elected to field looking to the conditions that favoured side bowling first. It eventually turned out to be very good toss won for the Paks and why not??

The guy was Mohammad Asif who single handedly bowled out the Indian top order comprising Sehwag,Gambhir,Karthik,Yuvraj. He bowled an excellant spell of 4-0-19-4,man!! Probably the best bowling figures i have seen so far in the tournament!!!

The stage was set for Robin Utthappa and didnt he repond to it well!!!! A thundering 50 of just 39 deliveries under such harsh conditions for the batsmen!!!

So, at the end of the Indian innings, there was a moderate score of 141 on the board. If, the Paks would have chased this target in 14.4 overs,India would have been eliminted.

Now, Pakistan's innings started and our desi boy R.P. Singh did the proceeding for the Indian bowling. He was bowling well and was making the ball to swing which was a right tactic. Indian frontline bowlers including R.P,Sreesanth,Agarkar and Irfan Pathan-The comeback boy, blew off Pakistan top order and 4 wickets had fallen at the end of ten overs with just a meagre score on board. At the ebd of the 15th over, Afridi got on to the crease and the crowd really expected some big hits from this Karachi explosive but he failed to deliver 'coz he was facing the 'Turbanator' apna Bhajji who was making a comeback aftera long time and what a comeback it was. After Afridi's wicket Paks hopes were shattered and itseemed as if India could maintain its record of not losing to Pakistan in major World Cup competition. Then Yasser Arafat came to bat, and his team needed about 45 odd runs of 26 deliveries. He thrashed Bhajji last two balls to a six and a four. Agarkar was the next target and Arafat thrashed him as well and his over costed 19 expensive runs.

The grand finale, the final over people..............Sreesanth had the bowl in his hands and Pakistan needed 12 of just 6 balls and they were well aware of the fact that India has not lost a major World Cup match against Pakistan ever. Misbah ul Haq took a single of the first ball and gave strike to Arafat who sent the next ball to the fence for a four.He took a single of the third ball and strike to Misbah who again sent the ball back to ropes. Now Pakistan needed just 1 run off 2 balls. It seemed as is India has lost the match. Sreesanth bowled the next ball for a dot ball giving hopes to a tense Indian dugout. Now the last ball, Sreesanth bowled a short pitched delivery and taking no chances Misbah played a backward defence , but to the best Indian fielder Yuvraj and misbah was run out. So the match was not over as yet!!!!

In case of a tie,we would now have a bowl out analogous to a Penalty shootout in football.Each team would have to nominate 5 bowlers and the team that hits the stumps the maximum times would win the match. India hit the first three bang on target while the Paks didnt!!!! Man just just cudnt believe that Shahid Afridi had missed the target!!! Well it was India day in the end and it bagged those vital three points.

Best of luck to India for the Super Eight matches.

AN APOLOGY TO READERS

Hey people i hav been really busy with my studies for the past one month so cudnt regularly update this blog.

But I promise that i would try my level best to be regular.

bbye

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