The name Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar echoed not only in Gwalior’s Major Roop Singh Stadium but also throughout the country as he smashed a double century against South Africa in an ODI. Tendulkar became the first ever batsman in the history of cricket to score double century and it was befitting that it was Tendulkar who did it before anyone else!
by Vivek Gite on February 2, 2010 · 1 comment
VVS Laxman has finally spoken out of what one always believed was the case. Talking to the cricket website, Cricinfo, he said that he was worried about India’s lack of spinning options in the domestic cricket.
The Test match side for India’s tour to Bangladesh has been announced. While there were no surprise axes, the selectors have added Sudeep Tyagi to the side after he had earlier been a part of the ODIs and T20Is only.
The three nation series between India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will begin from today. Each team will play the other two sides, twice each, and at the end of this round-robin stage, the top two sides with the highest points will feature in the final of the tournament. There will b six league games. The final will be played on the 13th of January at Dhaka. In fact, all the games will be played at Mirpur in Dhaka and will be day-night matches.
After the test matches series and the two T20Is between India and Sri Lanka, the sides will now battle it out for the five ODIs. The first of the five games will be played at Rajkot on Tuesday, and will be followed by games on Friday, Monday, Thursday and Sunday.
Sri Lanka has easily defeated India in the first of the two T20Is played in Nagpur. With this loss, the Indians could not make a winning start to their T20Is on this ground at Jamtha, where they had earlier won their first Test match and first ODI as well. The second game of the series will be played at Mohali on Saturday and the Indians will look to come back into the series with a resounding win before going into the ODIs.
The BCCI has included Ashish Nehra in the list of retainer contracts after he had been missing out of the list in the last four years. He had made a comeback to the Indian side after performing marvellously well in the Indian Premier League in both, 2008 and 2009, and then getting selected for the Indian side.