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'Tendulkar 11 vs Ganguly 11' 20-20 cricket match on 6th March 2010 at Andheri Sports Complex, Mumbai.

Team Line up for Ganguly 11

Saurav Ganguly- Captain
Irfan Pathan -
Amit Mishra -
VVS Laxman -
Ashish Nehra -
Anil Kumble -
Virendra Sehwag-
Rahul Dravid-
Gautam Gambhir -
Pragyan Oja
Ishant Sharma -
Ravindra Jadeja -
Suresh Raina -


Team Line up for Sachin 11:

Sachin Tendulkar - Captain
Harbhajan Singh -
Wasim Jaffer -
Rohit Sharma
Ajit Agarkar
Vinayak Samant -
Abhishek Nair
Dhawal Kulkarni
Zaheer Khan
Avi Salvi
Murtuza Hussain
Iqubal Abdulla
Yogesh Takwale
Yusuf Pathan -




Cost of Ticket: Rs 250.

For tickets,contact:

TALL GRASS RESTAURANT(NEAR INFINITY MALL, Andheri west): 26730646/47

SIGARA RESTAURANT (NEAR FAME ADLABS, Andheri west): 26304567/6553766


5.00 PM on Star Cricket
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d​mcylITDA_4

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Sachin Tendulkar's words about the value of Test cricket given new light


When Sachin Tendulkar speaks, his words carry weight - even when he was only 17. Photograph: Rafiq Maqbool/AP

As a 17-year-old, Sachin Tendulkar batted nearly four hours on the final day to save a Test match for India at Old Trafford. It was the first of his 47 centuries and remains one of the most memorable. Last November, he faced a voracious media pack at a gathering to celebrate two decades in the international arena. It was envisaged as a two-hour event, but he ended up answering questions for longer than he had batted that day in Manchester all those years ago.

Despite the same questions being asked again and again in a variety of languages, he was as composed as he had been when facing Devon Malcolm, Angus Fraser, Eddie Hemmings and Chris Lewis. The Australian Associated Press's Daniel Brettig wrote afterwards: "Through it all he never slipped up, answering each question with respect and care, and never offering anything but the straightest of bats."

One quote from that evening was to become headline news. And as the TV channels and newspapers played up his disenchantment with the politics of regional chauvinism – "Mumbai belongs to all Indians. I am a Maharashtrian and am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first," he said when asked about the anti-immigrant stances taken by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and its big brother, the Shiv Sena – another telling line was lost in the white noise.

Tendulkar does not grace the front page of tabloids. He does not have Dennis Rodman-like body art. The chances of him endorsing Viagra in middle age are exceedingly slim, as is the likelihood of him grabbing his crotch and treating detractors to a volley of abuse after a game. Though he does not have the wild streak that sometimes lets down Wayne Rooney, there are certain similarities with the once-a-blue-always-a-blue who is most comfortable out on the field. Put a microphone in front of them and they can be shy and inhibited. On the patch of grass that they own, they become virtuosos.

Tendulkar knows the value of words, though, and when he speaks, a nation listens. So, that afternoon, when he spoke passionately about India's step-motherly treatment of the five-day game, those associated with it took notice. The Indian Cricket Board may be the Microsoft of world cricket, but its functionaries are not immune to public opinion. And in Indian cricket, few dictate that quite like Tendulkar.

"We should play more Test cricket for sure," he said that day. "It's obviously not great news that we are only playing five Tests this season. Ideally, for any team to progress, you need to play more Test cricket as that is where the real cricket is according to me. Test cricket is cricket of the highest level and at the end of each day it allows you to regroup, re-think, come up with fresh ideas and plan for the next day. Sometimes, in Twenty20 and ODIs, even before you realise, the match is over."

His comments emboldened others to have their say. Rahul Dravid, McCartney to Tendulkar's Lennon for so long, spoke of how the BCCI needed to use its clout to ensure that Test matches were the marquee events of each domestic season. "Everyone around the world needs to recognise that Test cricket needs to thrive in India," he told Cricinfo. "Everyone knows now that it is important Test cricket succeeds in India for it to succeed worldwide as well. People have to come to this realisation in some other countries and recognise that India now needs to have a set international calendar for the benefit of the world game really."

Even MS Dhoni, derided by so many after he opted to miss a Test series in Sri Lanka in 2008, expressed a desire to play more five-day cricket. And the oft-stated view that Indians had fallen out of love with men in white clothes was made to look ridiculous by the packed crowds for games against Sri Lanka in Kanpur and South Africa in Kolkata. Call it pride or jingoism or what you will, but thousands who looked at the Test rankings and liked what they saw came through the turnstiles and endured facilities that no punter in the UK or Australia has to tolerate.

And yet, Lalit Modi told the Guardian he is certain that Twenty20 cricket will become the dominant form of the game in the not-too-distant future, that Test cricket will wither and die unless games are played under lights. It's all too easy to dismiss him as a charlatan with an agenda, but the points he raises need to be addressed by administrators. England usually has no problem selling out Tests because the venues are small and games are played in summer when a holiday can be planned around a match or two. The same is true of Australia where the summer schedule appears to be etched in stone.

In India, though, as this column has previously pointed out, there are no traditional Tests. With matches seldom scheduled around festivals or holidays, even those who want to watch Tests are often unable to. Three decades ago, someone like my uncle could take a train to Madras (as Chennai was known then) from Kerala, pack lunches every morning and watch Gundappa Viswanath make a double-hundred against Keith Fletcher's Englishmen. In those days of Nehruvian socialism, such indulgences were not uncommon. With the advent of economic liberalisation and 60-hour working weeks, sparing upward of 35 hours to watch a Test simply isn't an option.

Modi speaks primarily of his fiefdom and of other parts of the subcontinent where Tests are played out in near-eerie silence. He's right when he says that people can no longer afford to take days off to humour such a habit. Maintaining tradition is one thing, but is it really worth risking extinction for it? When probes have been sent to Mars and you can voice-chat in real time with someone in Buenos Aires, is it really so difficult to produce a white or pink ball that will stay intact for 80 overs under lights? Is keeping the ball red more important than keeping Test cricket in good health?

Given that Indian business houses account for so much of the game's income, any steps taken to boost Test cricket's popularity in the subcontinent must be encouraged. If playing under lights is the only way to get back the sort of crowds you had two decades ago, then so be it. Tendulkar, who revelled in that Eden Gardens roar as he scored a century last month, certainly wouldn't complain.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog...-india-cricket

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Tendulkar 11 vs Ganguly 11' 20-20 cricket match on 6th March 2010 at Andheri Sports Complex, Mumbai.

Team Line up for Ganguly 11

Saurav Ganguly- Captain
Irfan Pathan -
Amit Mishra -
VVS Laxman -
Ashish Nehra -
Anil Kumble -
Virendra Sehwag-
Rahul Dravid-
Gautam Gambhir -
Pragyan Oja
Ishant Sharma -
Ravindra Jadeja -
Suresh Raina -


Team Line up for Sachin 11:

Sachin Tendulkar - Captain
Harbhajan Singh -
Wasim Jaffer -
Rohit Sharma
Ajit Agarkar
Vinayak Samant -
Abhishek Nair
Dhawal Kulkarni
Zaheer Khan
Avi Salvi
Murtuza Hussain
Iqubal Abdulla
Yogesh Takwale
Yusuf Pathan -

Date: 6th March 2010
Venue: Andheri Sports Complex, Mumbai
Timing: 4pm
Gates open: 2pm

Cost of Ticket: Rs 250

For Tickets,contact:

TALL GRASS RESTAURANT(NEAR INFINITY MALL, Andheri west): 26730646/47

SIGARA RESTAURANT (NEAR FAME ADLABS, Andheri west): 26304567/6553766



Cost of Ticket: Rs 250.

For tickets,contact:

TALL GRASS RESTAURANT(NEAR INFINITY MALL, Andheri west): 26730646/47

SIGARA RESTAURANT (NEAR FAME ADLABS, Andheri west): 26304567/6553766

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmcylITDA_4

http://www.orkut.com/Main#CommMsgs?c...449&na=1&nst=1

I think this match comes on star cricket.

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Ganguly XI

160/5 in 20 overs
Ganguly 47[30]
Rahul 37[30]
Vianayak Samanth 29[24]
Anil kumble24[16]

Sachin XI

162

Sachin 43(29)
Dhoni 96*

Dhoni MOM

Ground outfield conditions kevalama irunthichi.. :x paakave pidikkala :sigh2:

An eyewitness account of the TXI vs GXI match

Oh! The unfettered freedom of college-going days. This author could make last minute plans to bunk college(or something like that) to go watch the exhibition match live. Considering I stay about 5 Kms from the ground, and yet, was kept away by work, it is quite envy-inducing.

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Originally Posted by Plum

The unfettered freedom of college-going days. This author could make last minute plans to bunk college(or something like that) to go watch the exhibition match live. Considering I stay about 5 Kms from the ground, and yet, was kept away by work, it is quite envy-inducing.

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:cry: I didn't even read it.
Sabotaging the system from within isn't exactly going as per plan.