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Murali to end international career with World Cup
http://www.espncricinfo.com/srilanka...ry/497657.html
Muttiah Muralitharan has said he will retire from all international cricket after the 2011 World Cup. The 38-year-old offspinner, who had retired from Test cricket in July last year, will continue to play in domestic Twenty20 competitions.
"This World Cup will be my last outing," Muralitharan said. "My time is up. I have signed up to play for two years in the IPL. I am also looking at similar work in New Zealand and perhaps England."
Muralitharan, who holds the record for the highest number of wickets in both Test and one-day cricket was part of Sri Lanka's World Cup winning side in 1996. He is one of three spinners in Sri Lanka's squad for the 2011 tournament, the other two being left-arm spinner Ranagana Herath and Ajantha Mendis. "This is my fourth World Cup. We won in 1996 and came close in 2007 by reaching the final. This would be a memorable one for me and for Sri Lankan fans."
Since quitting Tests, Muralitharan has played only three international matches - two ODIs and a Twenty20 game during Sri Lanka's tour of Australia in October-November 2010. He has been rested from the side for the first two ODIs of the three-match home series against West Indies which starts on January 3, Sri Lanka's final commitment before the World Cup.
He played for Chennai Super Kings in the first three seasons of the IPL, including their triumphs in the 2010 edition of the tournament and the Champions League in the same year. He was bought by the new Kochi franchise in the 2011 IPL auction for $1.1 million.
In July, Muralitharan had said there were plans in the pipeline for him and former India legspinner Anil Kumble to open a spin-bowling academy in Bangalore. However, while announcing his retirement after the World Cup on Friday, he said he had no immediate plans to start coaching. "There are plenty of coaches and lots of talented people out there. I will take things as they come. For the moment, I am not looking at any coaching stints."
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idhAn wozniackiyA? Sharapova thangai rangekku pEsikitturundhAnga? She looks like Peter siddle's thangai :shock:
munvazhukkaiya pArthA Bollinger nyAbagam varudhu
idhukku dhAn ivLO buildup koduthAngaLA?
no no..neenga apdina nethiku match paakala...konja nerame paathalum konjamavathu kannai kulumai adaya seyyum...
plis to check this
http://www.tennisgrandstand.com/wp-c...wozniacki1.jpg
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enakku therinju indha aLavukku ignorantA irukka kUdiya thambi praveen kumar dhAn.
Ok North Indies, Uttar Pradesh, Meerut!!
Also Fossible Munap Patel...
gavaskarukke aapu vacha andha bowler munaapu than irukkanum..
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Munaf played for mumbai so yes, chances are there when interoeduced to him
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K25C4pcsrs
Kapil Dev 89 off 55 balls 1st test vs England 1982
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AsSJ..._order&list=UL
Kapil Dev 97 off 93 balls 3rd test vs England 1982
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Indha match velaiyaduna groundla pudhu pul kooda molachuduche? :huh:
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45.6
Oram to Shahid Afridi, 1 run, moves down the track and whips it through midwicket
45.5
Oram to Shahid Afridi, FOUR, Whackity whack! He moves outside leg and slices this over the off-side field. To the cover boundary. What a run fest these last few overs have been.
45.5
Oram to Shahid Afridi, 1 no ball, Nasty beamer! Oram apologises. The ball must have slipped out of the hand. It was the full toss around the right shoulder, Afridi was looking to swing it to the on side and is hit on the right shoulder. He is in pain. He gets up to see Oram next to him and Afridi wraps his arms around Oram to sort of say, it's all right mate.
45.4
Oram to Shahid Afridi, SIX, Thunderous wallop! Afridi moves outside leg and Oram bangs it in short. Afridi adjusts and crash-pulls it over wide midwicket boundary, into the stands
45.3
Oram to Shahid Afridi, 2 runs, gets forward to whip this full delivery to wide midwicket region
45.2
Oram to Shahid Afridi, SIX, Thump! Afridi clears his front foot and heaves this high, really high, but also manages to clear wide long-on
45.1
Oram to Shahid Afridi, 2 runs, the slower one now, dragged down to deep square-leg region
Afridi back to form...........
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47.4
Bennett to Shahid Afridi, SIX, This is amazing! Six over cover point! It was the short delivery and Shahid Afridi whacks it up and over cover point. Blast!
47.3
Bennett to Shahid Afridi, SIX, Whaddaplayaaa! He makes it look simple. Just clear the front foot, hold your balance and swing through the line. This one sails over the straight boundary.
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Afridii 50 in 19 balls........... :clap:
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49.2
Bennett to Shahid Afridi, OUT
Shahid Afridi c †McCullum b Bennett 65 (25b 5x4 5x6) SR: 260.00
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Guys, This is from sehwag's triple100 in chennai...
He managed to score a century against one bowler alone (harris). Has anyone ever done this before? Is it a record? :roll:
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Guys, This is from sehwag's triple100 in chennai...
He managed to score a century against one bowler alone (harris). Has anyone ever done this before? Is it a record? :roll:
Thought it might have been done before so queried this innings of Lara and here you go
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engin....html?view=pvp
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Pakistan cricketers face prosecution
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raajarasigan
Brutal :) Shot of the innings has to be the one he plays around the 3.45 - 4.10 mark. One thing that struck after watching this innings is the sound of Sir Vis's bat.
I've seen the bats that were used in late 80's and early 90's and believe me, they are not half good as the ones we get these days. Antha batlaye intha adinna :notworthy:
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Hayden praises and criticises the stars
Former Australian opener Matthew Hayden has re-opened a seven-year-old controversy by claiming that ex-India captain Sourav Ganguly and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh chickened out of the series-deciding 2004 Nagpur Test due to a fear of the green-top pitch there.
In his autobiography ?Standing My Ground?, Hayden writes that the Australians felt at that time that the nature of the pitch had led to the sudden withdrawal of Ganguly and Harbhajan from the Test, which the visitors eventually won to clinch a historic series win.
?The curator, a famously single-minded character with no love of the Indian hierarchy, ignored pleas to shave the deck and left a healthy covering of grass. It reminded me of Gabba (In Brisbane). To have that sort of wicket for the deciding Test of an away series ? particularly in India ? was the most pleasant surprise imaginable,? Hayden wrote.
?When Ganguly and Harbhajan went out to see the deck a couple of days before the game, they looked like farmers inspecting crops after a hail storm. We predicted neither would play, and they did not. Ganguly withdrew with a leg-muscle injury that flared up suddenly, and Harbhajan had an even more sudden dose of food poisoning. We put their ailments down to acute cases of ?greentrackitis?, where you develop a severe intolerance to green wickets likely to give you nothing as a spin bowler and plenty of headaches as a batsman,? wrote Hayden, who retired from international cricket in 2009.
Hayden, who scored 8625 runs in 103 Tests, however, has plenty of admiration for the Indians for their cricketing ability and named four of them ? Harbhajan, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag ? among the 12 best players he had played against.
He rated Tendulkar and Brian Lara as the best among opposition batsmen.
?A significant part of his (Tendulkar?s) game was his fierce body language. For a little man, he had a huge stature.
And he exuded a cool nonchalance at the crease. He may have the occasional crack, but generally he let his bat do the talking. He was so fearless and (ridiculously) skilful.
?He and Lara were the most skilful batsmen I have ever seen. Just the way they manipulated the field was fascinating to watch. Against spin Sachin was in complete control. There was never any strategy implemented by Warnie or another spinner against him which made me think, ?Here we go ... let us see how he handles this?
?Sachin is quite a shy guy, and I can?t claim to know him well at all. He kept his distance. But for Sachin to survive and thrive in international cricket for two full decades is extraordinary,? Hayden wrote.
For the calm and composure in times of adversity, Hayden described Dravid as the Bjorn Borg of cricket.
?They called him ?the Wall?, and he was well named. Great mental toughness and the capacity to inspire...
Dravid has all these. Others might have quickened the pulse of spectators more, but with his textbook purity and great concentration Dravid was still absorbing to watch. In my era, he was the Bjorn Borg of cricket, absolute ice under pressure,? Hayden wrote.
?As the chaotic forces of Indian cricket swirled around him, he was a beacon of serenity,? wrote Hayden.
Hayden found Sehwag a sort of a puzzle and not quite clear in his thinking about batting, a thought contrary to many who consider him an uncluttered cricketer.
?Dravid was a beautifully organised batsman with magnificent discretion. He would drive you for four one ball, but not even think about offering a stroke to the next delivery if it was pitched three centimetres wider, and thus just outside his driving zone. But Sehwag?s thinking was never as clear. Sehwag?s weakness was that he could be a nervous starter and a feeler for the ball,? Hayden said.
?But there is something magnetic about Sehwag. The core of his appeal to me is his natural aggression and his cool demeanour: he?ll smoke one through the covers with imperious timing, then look up with total nonchalance as if to say, ?What was the big deal about that. I do it for a living, you know?
?The crowd will be going crazy, yet he shows about as much emotion as a man who?s just licked a stamp and put it on a letter. A great player can suck you into bowling where they want you to, and Sehwag was always a very difficult man to plan for. On our 2004 tour of India we spent more time talking about him than any other player ? Tendulkar included,? he said.
Harbhajan had quite a few run-ins with the Australians, including the bitter Sydney Test racism row, but Hayden expressed his admiration for the feisty off-spinner.
?I have gone for the man who caused me the most trouble at the crease (preferring to Anil Kumble and Daniel Vettori).
Harbhajan was a very attacking bowler, and traditionally an attacking spinner normally means a teasing flight bowler. He definitely was not one of those. He was more into-the-wicket spinner, using sharp revolutions he put on the ball to get bite off the wicket and cause problems.
?Harbhajan brought an intensity and controversy to the contest that put bums on seats. There was a real ?game on? feel to anything he was involved with. He could be impetuous at times ? and he could make you feel impetuous. His over-the-top celebrations ? like doing a lap of the Gabba after getting Ricky Ponting out ? were cringe-worthy.?
?But I will pick Harbhajan for his superb skills. When he bowled his doosra ? the ball that spins away from right-handed batsmen ? to go with his conventional off-spinner, like Murali, he lifted his game to a level beyond the reach of conventional off-spinners. The doosra was a priceless weapon ? it made his other balls so much more dangerous as well, as batsmen asked themselves whether or not to play,? Hayden said.
The other eight players who made in Hayden?s best 12 opposition players were Graeme Smith, Brian Lara, Jacques Kallis, Kumar Sangakkara, Muttiah Muralitharan, Wasim Akram, Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh.
A cricketer who enjoys life outside and has interests in surfing, fishing and cooking, Hayden said he has many things in common with his captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni in Chennai Super Kings.
?He (Dhoni) is the ?most fascinating character at Chennai Super Kings. He is India?s Ricky Ponting, an unpretentious working class boy with simple, clear thoughts on the game and a love of rolling up his sleeves and getting into it. Like Punter, he thrives in training. One minute he is batting, next he is throwing the stumps down, next he is onto something else. Dhoni is very direct.
?I related to Dhoni on several levels, including his ability to enjoy life outside the game and see cricket as a vehicle to pursue other passions. He is an all-action sort of character, in every way. He can be an elusive character. I have never once got him on the phone, and at times I think he likes to hide from the madhouse world in his hotel room, as well as getting out and doing his own things,? Hayden wrote.
Though Hayden puts Tendulkar and Lara in the same bracket, he rated the West Indian as his favourite. More so, himself being a left hander just like Lara.
?Lara was a chameleon of the crease. If you switched plans, he would switch too, always staying one step ahead of you. Plenty of batsmen have a great technique, but very few have several great techniques ? Lara did. The key to his adaptability was his beautiful hands. Soft, quick and malleable, they would take him to places he wanted to be. They were the best hands ever, I reckon, and they made him my favourite player by a street.
?Lara just captivated me. Every time he took the crease it was like a batting tutorial. Being a left-hander, I was all over his every move and I absolutely loved most of what I saw.
Lara shaped my thoughts and actions about playing spin bowling. If anyone has played spin better, I have not seen him.
In fact, Lara did not so much play spin bowlers as play with them,? Hayden wrote.
Among the bowlers he had faced, Hayden picked West Indian fast bowler Curtly Ambrose as the best with Pakistan left-arm seamer Wasim Akram coming a close second.
?Curtly was the best opposition bowler I ever faced ? by far. You were always under pressure with him. Did he bowl a bad over ... ever? A bad ball? A full toss? I?m sure he did, but it never seemed that way when you were facing him,? Hayden said.
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?The only bowler who came anywhere near Ambrose was the great Pakistani Wasim Akram, whom I faced only in one-day cricket, and towards the end of his illustrious career. He was amazing. His swing bowling was so technically pristine that the seam was always in perfect position. Facing him was brilliant, because I knew every part of my game had to be in the groove to cope with the genius,? he said.
In one of his suggestions to improve the game, he said the conflict between traditional cricket and Twenty20 must be solved. And for that, he said Indian Premier League should be given a window in the international calendar.
?My solution: embrace the new wave. Franchise cricket, as played in the IPL, has revolutionised the game. Speaking as a player, there is nothing more exciting that the opportunity to play among the best players in the world. IPL, the world?s premier franchise tournament, is here to stay.
?Scheduling is the main point of conflict between the IPL and established game, particularly the clash of players? contract. This could be avoided in future by creating a two-month window in each year ? I would make it March and April ? when other forms of the game take a back seat. That is, no Tests, no World Cup cricket and so on. The IPL has the ability to generate international fan bases in the same way as the English football?s Premier League.
?I believe some IPL matches should go on the road each year and be played in other countries, to make it a global competition. The sooner the world of cricket embraces the IPL, the sooner everyone can find ways to benefit from its massive potential.?
http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricke...cle1156182.ece
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"Dhoni is india's Ponting":
Great the insult
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http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/c...ry/499614.html
Butt out for 10 years, Asif 7 and Amir 5
The ICC tribunal has announced a sanction of ten years' ineligibility for Salman Butt (with five years of a suspended sentence); seven years for Mohammad Asif (with two years suspended) and five years' ineligibility for Mohammad Amir. The sanctions follow investigations of their role in spot-fixing, along with Mazhar Majeed, a players' agent, during Pakistan's tour of England in 2010.
The announcement on Saturday evening followed a day of deliberations in Doha between the three-man tribunal - comprising Michael Beloff QC, Sharad Rao and Justice Albie Sachs - and the players and their legal teams.
The sentences are open to appeal by both sides - players and ICC - in the Court of Arbitration in Sport in Switzerland.
Butt, who was captain during the series in England, received the maximum sentence but one charge against him - of batting out a maiden over during the Oval Test - was dismissed. However, he was found to have not disclosed an approach by Majeed that he should bat a maiden over.
The other charges that were upheld relate to the subsequent Lord's Test, where Amir and Asif were found to have bowled deliberate no-balls and Butt was party to that.
The tribunal released a statement after announcing the decision. The full text is reproduced below:
'The independent Anti-Corruption Tribunal which has been hearing the cases of Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif under the ICC's Anti-Corruption Code for Players and Player Support Personnel had adjourned on Tuesday 11th January 2011 after a six day hearing.
'The Tribunal reconvened today for further submissions and thereafter announced the following decisions.
'The Tribunal found that the charge under Article 2.1.1 of the Code that Mr Butt agreed to bat out a maiden over in the Oval Test match played between Pakistan and England from 18 to 21 August 2010 was dismissed, whereas the charge under Article 2.4.2 that Mr Butt failed to disclose to the ICC's ACSU the approach by Mr Majeed that Mr Butt should bat a maiden over in the Oval Test was proved.
'The Tribunal found that the charges under Article 2.1.1 of the Code that (respectively) Mr Asif agreed to bowl and did bowl a deliberate no ball in the Lord's Test match played between Pakistan and England from 26 to 29 August 2010, Mr Amir agreed to bowl and did bowl two deliberate no balls in the same Test, and Mr Butt was party to the bowling of those deliberate no balls, were proved.
'We impose the following sanctions:
'On Mr Butt a sanction of ten years ineligibility, five years of which are suspended on condition that he commits no further breach of the code and that he participates under the auspices of the Pakistan Cricket Board in a programme of Anti-Corruption education.
'On Mr Asif a sanction of seven years ineligibility two years of which are suspended on condition that he commits no further breach of the code and that he participates under the auspices of the Pakistan Cricket Board in a programme of Anti-Corruption education.
'On Mr Amir sanction of five years of ineligibility.
'No further sanctions are imposed on any player and no orders are made as to costs.
'The Tribunal has recommended to the ICC certain changes to the Code with a view to providing flexibility in relation to minimum sentences in exceptional circumstances.
'The Tribunal note that it is for the ICC, whether and if so when, the fully reasoned decision in respect of the breaches of the Code and of the sanctions imposed in consequence should be published.
'It is our strong and unanimous view that it is in the interests of all concerned in the world of cricket that publication should take place as soon as possible.'
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep-erfbEtHQ
Brian Lara 88 vs Australia 2nd test 1995 :D
It was one of the best innings from Lara with some scintillating strokes against the best attack.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6a6ePUAY2Y
This is why I keep saying Zaheer is the best fast bowler India produced. :smokesmirk:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5S9xZuphlc
Stephen Fleming's 134* .. For me, the best world cup innings I have ever seen since 1992.. This was a kind of innings where the batsman hit the ball exactly the place he wanted to hit. Also, he almost played all the shots in the text book. 21 fours in 134 is such a big number.
Fleming :notworthy:
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Steven Davies reveals he is gay :roll:
http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/...ry/503503.html
PS: Make this thread to sticky
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcjHbDz76Us&feature=channel_video_title
Vintage footage. My oh my its been ages i have watched this appeal. Was quite a topic at that time.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEEe18eVoOU&feature=relmfu
Pathan, irfan - You beauty. Come back like the beast furing 04-05 days.
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10 Year Anniversary for Kolkatta 2001 Test Match
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engin...tch/63920.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Y8wnTfGng&feature=channel_video_title
VVS Laxman 59 vs Australia Kolkata 2001
Can somebody please open a thread for VVS Laxman?. I've opened so many threads here and I don't want to open one again. There are so many good videos in you tube and it can be a good place to store em. Plum, You up for it?.
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Hey AF. Me?
Old godrej shaving cream ad:
Survey assistant to a man facing opposite side: sir, which shaving cream do you use?
Man turns to the surveyor, patting at his thick beard
Man: me?
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Aamam ninga dhan. indhiya cricket-kaaga allum pagalum paadu paduravar la ningalum oruthar. Adhanala than. Nalla oru 5-6 post intro koduthu aarambinga onnu.
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http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-c...ry/508432.html
Dravid 81* for MCC. Vinod, pls note.
Af, nAn post ezhudhi PM vENumna paNdrEn, en kaiyyAla LatchumaNanukku thread vENdAmE please!
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[url]Af, nAn post ezhudhi PM vENumna paNdrEn, en kaiyyAla LatchumaNanukku thread vENdAmE please!
aamama,.. retire aanappuram vena neenga aarambichikkunga..:p
