India made a winning start to the Asia Cup as they beat Bangladesh rather easily in their first game of the tournament at Dambulla. With the win, they also got a bonus point for having chased down the target within the forty over mark and that ensured that the side had five points.
India beat Sri Lanka in the second game of the tri-series in Zimbabwe, by a whopping margin of seven wickets and with almost 40 balls to spare. Rohit Sharma was the star of the show, as he slammed his second successive century in ODIs to lead the side to a win over the Sri Lankans.
Virender Sehwag’s statements about how he did not rate the Bangladeshi bowlers too much almost backfired on the first day of the first Test match at Chittagong as they lost eight wickets in 63 overs scoring only 200 odd runs.
The Kotla controversy refuses to die down. Only a couple of days after the game at the Feroz Shah Kotla was abandoned due to an unfit pitch, there have been contrasting views that have come out from the different stakeholders of the game.
As if to prove that the Green Park wicket in Kanpur will not be left behind to Motera in Ahmedabad, in dishing out tracks that afford nothing to the bowlers, and conversely everything for the batsmen, more than 400 runs were scored on the first day of the second test match between India and Sri Lanka. That Sri Lanka managed to scalp two wickets was a big enough relief but there was nothing more for the fielding side to cheer for.
It might have been an inconsequential win for other teams but the Delhi Daredevils looked hungry for it. They needed this win to prove to themselves more than to anyone else that they still have mettle and have not lost everything. With some brave decisions, the team got down on the Feroz Shah Kotla ground to face South African Nashua Cape Cobras, the team to which they have already lost once, in the last match of the Super eight stage of the Champions League.
It has not been an easy road for the Indian Premier League teams in the glittering Champions League Twenty20 tournament that started on a dismal note for them with Royal Challenger Bangalore losing to South African Nashua Cape Cobras by five wickets.