Posted July 20th, 2007
by Nanda
Day 2 Review
Hahahaha. What a bloody match? I was planning on sleeping early yesterday, but the weather gods and the Lords ground/crew was on a completely different wavelength. Ian Botham probaby said it right when he mentioned that the ground was perfect for water-skiing. That was just 2 hours prior to the fireworks, and believe me the English batting team literally imploded. 6 wickets were lost for less than 40 runs. From a comfortable position they slid to a rather uncomfortable position.
India did learn from their mistakes on the first day. The spring in the steps was clearly evident. The line and length were there. There was no unnecessary celebration at the fall of wickets, besides for the usual antics that one now expects to see from Sree Santh (yeah he changed his name from Sreesanth to Sree Santh). Even Zaheer was a transformed bowler from yesterday.
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Tags: bowler, day 2, first test, highlights, james anderson, kevin pieterson, live, lords, rahul dravid, rp singh, sachin tendulkar, saurav ganguly, sidebottom, sreesanth, steve bucknor, video, wasim jaffer, weather, zaheer khan
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Posted July 15th, 2007
by Nanda
Muralitharan took his 700th wicket against Bangladesh as his team won a comprehensive victory by an innings and 193 runs. The 700th scalp was Syed Rasel. He now joins Shane Warne as only the second bowler in cricket history to cross the 700 wicket barrier in test matches. With only 8 more wickets required to become the leading wicket taker in tests, Muralitharan’s carrier could very well have been over even before it started. The bent elbow has been his Achilles’ Heel. It has provided him with the turn that he can generate off any surface and has landed him into a lot trouble as well.
| Wicket No. |
Tests |
Average |
Strike Rate |
5wi |
10wm |
| 100 |
27 |
31.49 |
71.47 |
6 |
0 |
| 200 |
42 |
26.90 |
64.25 |
16 |
2 |
| 300 |
58 |
25.17 |
61.66 |
24 |
5 |
| 400 |
72 |
23.53 |
59.79 |
33 |
10 |
| 500 |
87 |
22.89 |
59.06 |
42 |
13 |
| 600 |
101 |
22.35 |
56.25 |
50 |
14 |
| 700 |
113 |
21.33 |
53.41 |
60 |
20 |
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Tags: 700 wickets, bowler, matches, milestone, murali, muralitharan, mutthiah, off spin, off spinner, record, shane warne, statistics, test
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Posted July 7th, 2007
by Nanda
Here is the official list of the teams and players as per ICC rankings. I will try to keep this updated as regularly as possible. However the latest and most updated rankings can be found
here.
|
Test
|
Teams
|
Batsmen
|
Bowlers
|
- Australia (138)
- South Africa (116)
- India (109)
- Sri Lanka (108)
- England (104)
- Pakistan (100)
- New Zealand (83)
- West Indies (81)
- Bangladesh (0)
|
- Chanderpaul (WI)
- Sangakarra (SL)
- Hussey (AUS)
- Mohammad Yousuf (PAK)
- Ponting (AUS)
- Jayawardene (SL)
- Pietersen (ENG)
- Younis Khan (PAK)
- Kallis (SA)
- Sehwag (IND)
|
- Muralidaran (SL)
- Stuart Clark (AUS)
- Dale Steyn (SA)
- Brett Lee (AUS)
- Ntini (SA)
- Sidebottom (ENG)
- Shoaib Akhtar (PAK)
- Vaas (SL)
- Harbhajan (IND)
- Shane Bond (NZ)
|
|
ODI
|
Teams
|
Batsmen
|
Bowlers
|
- Australia (131)
- South Africa (118)
- England (116)
- New Zealand (113)
- India (113)
- Pakistan (110)
- Sri Lanka (105)
- West Indies (95)
- Bangladesh (47)
- Ireland (19)
- Zimbabwe (15)
- Kenya (14)
|
- Dhoni (IND)
- Hussey (AUS)
- Graeme Smith (SA)
- Ponting (AUS)
- Mohammad Yousuf (PAK)
- Chanderpaul (WI)
- Pietersen (ENG)
- Tendulkar (IND)
- Symonds (AUS)
- Hayden (AUS)
|
- Bracken (AUS)
- Vettori (NZ)
- Mitchell Johnson (AUS)
- Mills (NZ)
- Stuart Broad (ENG)
- Muralitharan (SL)
- Vaas (SL)
- Flintoff (ENG)
- Oram (NZ)
- Brett Lee (AUS)
|
|
Women’s ODI
|
Batting
|
Bowling
|
- S.C. Taylor (ENG)
- M. Raj (IND)
- L.C. Sthalekar (AUS)
- S.J. Taylor (ENG)
- C.M. Edwards (ENG)
- N.J. Browne (AUS)
- K.L Rolton (AUS)
- A.J. Blackwell (AUS)
- S. Nitschke (AUS)
- S.J. McGlashen (AUS)
- H.M. Tiffen (AUS)
- A.L. Mason (AUS)
- J. Sharma (IND)
- L.S. Greenway (ENG)
- J.L. Gunn (ENG)
- L.D.V.V. Silva (SL)
- C.M.G. Atkins (ENG)
- C. Brits (SA)
- C.M. Beggs (IRE)
- R. Dhar (IND)
|
- J. Goswami (IND)
- I.T. Guha (ENG)
|
For full Player ratings, click
here.
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Posted July 6th, 2007
by Nanda
With the Indian tour to England underway and the first ball going to be bowled in less than 24 hours, I wanted to check out on what Sehwag and Harbhajan were upto. The last I heard was that Sehwag was destroying the opposition in the domestic circuit and Harbhajan had been called to join county team Surrey. Both players had been dropped from the Indian squad for both ODIs and Tests due to a string of poor to average performances. They were also dealt a double blow when the BCCI demoted
them in the new contracts assigned to the Indian players.
Sehwag, it seems, has gone back to his roots and has started to correct his flaws. There was plenty of evidence that things have started to change in the recently concluded DDCA Hot Weather tournament. Sehwag led the ONGC team to an emphatic title victory over Indian Airlines(IA). He blasted 168 from only 117 balls, including 19 boundaries and 4 sixes, in the quarter finals. He then went on to smash 59 from 57 balls in the semi-final. It seems that he has been recalled to play county cricket as well.
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Tags: batsman, bowler, county, ddca, England, harbhajan singh, hot weather, India, off spin, ongc, surrey, turbanator, virender sehwag
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