World Cricket II

15 sixsargal , strike rate 192
Sakib to Watoo : manushanaaya nee.. a la Karthik

Sooradhi Shruvo 3 - 0 -46 - 0
Death to the Bangla tactic of six left arm spinners hustling and bustling the opposition to a low score

A golden opportunity missed. Ponting would have kept idle at non-striker end and alllowed watson to score even bigger. Anyway mediocre bowling needs such harsh treatment by hitters. Happy to see such results. 2 bottom scores in recent icc worldcup and todays result will impact Bang team's confidence level.

Enna sir, cricket thana idhu :lol: naayadai, peyadi..mbangale adhu thana idhu? Shane Watson :clap: :clap:

Watson :rotfl:. Enna dhan ilichavayan kedachalum ippadi ya :lol:

'My decision may have been selfish but it was right'

Kumar Sangakkara explains why he stepped down from the captaincy and looks back at his two years in charge

http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine...ry/510625.html

Very matured and open responses from Sangu :clap: Never used to like him but he does come across as a true statesman in this interview!

Yeah, he sure does know how to talk statesman-like. The act of giving up captaincy is not quite easy - just see how Ricky went kicking and screaming until he was given no other choice. As Sanga himself says "A year down, if I do well as captain, I might be tempted to think oh I am doing well let me continue". The thought process seems to be firmly that he has to give the new captain a chance to build his team and Sanga recognises that he is human and one year down the line, he may turn into clinging to captaincy. That makes it quite an impressive decision now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx45G...&feature=feedu

Manoj prabakar and venkatesh prasad bowled well in Kotla against sri lanka in 1006. Shame ful bowling. And Ponting was a by-stander to this carnage. If these guys are there in next world cup and Ireland aren't then God save cricket.

Cook: I can be the next Sachin

Recipe for success... Alastair Cook has scored 16 tons in 65 Tests

By Sam Peters
April 10, 2011

April 10, 2011

ALASTAIR COOK has vowed: I can be the next Sachin.

England's record breaking batsman stole the Ashes show this winter with a staggering 766 runs in seven Tests as Australia were mauled.

In the process he became the second youngest batsman after India's little master Sachin Tendulkar to pass 5,000 Test runs.

Essex boy Cook, 26, has now chalked up an astonishing 16 tons in 65 Tests and is setting his sights on Tendulkar's astonishing stats.

"Tendulkar has the added advantage of being a genius," Cook said. "He has an incredible record and probably the best thing about him is his longevity and his hunger.

"Under that kind of pressure for 20 years, you have to go to India to see how he's idolised. To do what he's done under that pressure is an extraordinary achievement. I don't know how he does it.

"If you look too far ahead then you can get tripped over. I need to keep working hard to do it and if you look at scoring that many runs then you'll forget about your next ball and that's very important.

"But the exciting thing is that potentially that could happen. What happened in Australia for us as a side and for me personally went very well.

"It would be unrealistic to expect me to score that amount of runs all the time but if I can't take confidence from doing what I did in Australia then I'd be mad. "Hopefully, now I know I can play like that, I can carry on playing like that."

England take on India and Sri Lanka in Test series at home this summer knowing back to back wins could see them ranked the number one team in the world. Tendulkar could pass 100 international hundreds in the process.

The spotlight will inevitably fall on Cook following his heroics down under - but he insists he can handle the added weight of expectation.

"When you play as well as that then you have to handle there's more expectation from people because other players have done it and haven't kept it going," he said.

"But if I keep doing what I've been doing and practising as hard as I have then I will give myself the best opportunity to do that and that's all can ask for.

"The pressure is what people put on you or what you perceive they put on you. When you go out there and bat, it's only going to distract from your cricket. I've got to try and forget about that and focus on my batting.

"I'm not so worried about other people's expectations. I'm only worried about what I'm going to do."

Cook has labelled the decision not to select him for England's World Cup campaign as "extremely disappointing".

He was left to fly home without any of his Ashes winning team-mates as they embarked on a doomed seven match one-day series in Oz before heading to the subcontinent.

"It was just me and Monty Panesar on the plane home," Cook said. "It was a strange feeling seeing the lads go and being part of that Ashes moment had kind of gone in a minute. It was slightly strange.

"The scheduling could be changed. I feel sorry for the lads who did carry on playing because they never had that moment to sit down and enjoy something which was a very special achievement."


http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/notw...Tendulkar.html

Plum, one thread for Cook pls :noteeth: