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Dravid to say his Test retirement?

2012-01-27T09:22:00.000-08:00

Dravid is now the 2nd-highest run scorer in Test history.Dravid may end his international career after India’s likely defeat in the Adelaide Test, unconfirmed media reports said on Friday.

PTI report that Rahul Dravid, who has had a torrid time with the bat in Australia, may choose to publicize his retirement on Saturday. India is 6th-down and are certain to lose the Adelaide Test on the last day and with it, lose the series 4-0, and have missed by the same margin in England.

The 39-year-old Dravid averages 24.25 in Eight innings on the tour. He’s been out bowled in 6 of those innings; bring his famed performance under the scanner. He is said to have told some of his teammates after another failure against Australia in the last Test that he had decided to hang his boots, PTI said.

Dravid has played 164 Test matches, making 13,288 runs. He’s the world 2nd-highest Test score in history with Ricky Ponting now only 88 run behind him. Dravid more has a world record 210 Test catches.

Rahul Dravid cricket career.

Playing role Top-order batsman,

ODI debut-India v Sri Lanka at Singapore, Apr 3, 1996 scorecard

Last ODI -England v India at Cardiff, Sep 16, 2011 scorecard

Test debut- England v India at Lord's, Jun 20-24, 1996 scorecard

Last Test-Australia v India at Adelaide Oval Jan 28-2012

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	163	284	32	13262	270	52.62	31178	42.53	36	63	1652	21	210	0

ODIs	344	318	40	10889	153	39.16	15284	71.24	12	83	950	42	196	14

T20Is	1	1	0	31	31	31.00	21	147.61	0	0	0	3	0	0

First-class	297	495	67	23768	270	55.53			68	117			353	1

List A	449	416	55	15271	153	42.30			21	112			233	17

Twenty20	69	62	6	1605	75*	28.66	1369	117.23	0	7	178	25	14	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10

Tests	163	5	120	39	1	1/18	1/18	39.00	1.95	120.0	0	0	0


ODIs	344	8	186	170	4	2/43	2/43	42.50	5.48	46.5	0	0	0


T20Is	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

First-class	297		617	273	5	2/16		54.60	2.65	123.4		0	0

List A	449		477	421	4	2/43	2/43	105.25	5.29	119.2	0	0	0

Twenty20	69	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Dilshan resigned next Sri Lanka caption Jayewardene

2012-01-23T13:46:00.000-08:00

Colombo, January 23.Tillakaratne Dilshan resigned as Sri Lanka's cricket captain in all three Mahela Jayewardene has been named captain after Dilshan's resignation forms of the game on Monday next the team's disastrous tour of South Africa, official said.Sri Lanka Cricket named previous captain Mahela Jayewardene -- who led the side to the World Cup final in 2007 -- as captain for next month's triangular one-day series in Australia, also feature India.

Dilshan, 35, took up the captaincy on a series-to-series basis after Kumar Sangakkara step down following Sri Lanka's defeat in the 2011 World Cup final next to India.Sri Lanka lost both the Test and one-day series in South Africa, though they recovered a measure of satisfaction with win in the final two limited-over’s games, the last on Sunday."Dilshan has resigned as captain in all three formats of the game," SLC said.

Under Dilshan, Sri Lanka lost Test and one-day series against England, Australia, Pakistan and South Africa. "Member of the management committee takes this opening to thank Dilshan for his assurance and devotion during his tenure as the national captain," the board said."We also wish him well as he continues to represent Sri Lanka as a national player."While Dilshan's own batting form suffers during his reign, he led the team to a famous Test win in Durban this year -- Sri Lanka's first on South African soil.

There was no urgent comment from Dilshan, who has so far scored 4,662 runs in 77 Tests and 5,896 runs in 224 one-day internationals. His replacement is part of an ongoing shake-up after the national team's latest poor run abroad against South Africa and Pakistan. "We are change things at the top to try and change things around," Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage told AFP.The minister last week name a four-member selection panel head by Asantha de Mel, a previous national player, and give them one year to put the group in order.

Trainer Geoff Marsh and team manager Anura Tennakoon is also tip to replaced, local media report over in the weekend. Marsh was appointing in September 2011 for two years. Previous South Africa coach Graham Ford is due to in the island on Tuesday to replace for Marsh, the state-run Daily News said Monday.

Perera helps last Sri Lanka's win the match

2012-01-20T14:55:00.000-08:00

Sri Lanka celebrated a rare success Friday on their tour of South Africa with a five-wicket win in the fourth one-day match

Big knocks from Captain Tillakaratne Dilshan (87), man-of-the-match Thisara Perera (69) and Dinesh Chandimal (59) lift the visitors to 304-5 after the home side reached to 299-7 with skipper AB de Villiers (96) to the fore. After charge close to the six-run-and-over target at the De Beers Diamond Oval for much of the innings, the Sri Lankan batsman strike out against a South African attack sorely missing rested fast bowler Dale Steyn.

unluckily, the win came too late for the tourists to upshot the five-match series with the Proteas taking a winning 3-0 lead three days ago thanks to a four-run win in Bloemfontein."This was a incredible effort as we were hoping to restrict South Africa to 250 or 260 runs," said Dilshan, "and on a personal note it was nice receiving a big score again."Dilshan averaged a run a ball in a 112-minute stand that incorporated nine fours and two sixes while Perera was even faster, taking just 44 balls with 3fours and 5sixes.

Before the ODI matches began Sri Lanka lost a Test series 2-1, prompt the government to order a probe into a "crisis situation" after losses to England, Australia and Pakistan as well.De Villiers hit eight fours and three sixes off 76 balls before being bowled by Perera with the ball slam into middle stump after an attempt to steer it down leg side backfire.Graeme Smith return to form with 68 runs after managing only six, 28 and two in the first three matches of the series, trigger a media and public outcry that led to De Villiers coming out in support of the Test captain.

He struck seven fours and a six off 69 balls in the Northern Cape city before being trapped by Dilshan off the bowling of Lasith Malinga.His dismissal 23.5 overs into the innings was soft with the bat turning in his hand as he attempt a leg-side shot off a escape that was short of a duration.

Bangladesh IPL match Afridi selected 700,000

2012-01-20T14:33:00.000-08:00

Islamabad, Jan 20: Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi has apparently decided to skip the Bangladesh Premier League because of his commitment at home.

Afridi insisted that he would as a substitute turn out for Pakistan against England, The Express Tribune reports. Afridi was sold at the auction for the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) for 700,000 dollars, the top bid for any player in the auction, and was suspended to feature in the match to be played from February 9 to 28.

However, Afridi refuse to take part in the incident, saying his first choice has 'always been my national team'. 'I won't take part in the BPL. It's clashing with the limited-overs series against England in the UAE and that's my focus. My first choice has always been my national team and I'm looking forward to benevolent my best touching England," the paper quote Afridi, as saying.

But he expressed his pleasure at having been sold for the highest amount in the Dhaka sale. "I am happy that I've been chosen above many famed cricketers," but "I can only think about playing in the league when I don't have national commitment," he added. (ANI)

1st Test Pak vs Eng and Very Big Win for Pakistan

2012-01-19T15:12:00.000-08:00

Andrew Strauss admitted England’s batsmen were caught cold by the brilliance of Pakistan’s bowling and called for his team to show “character and resilience” when the series shifts to Abu Dhabi next week to start and the Strauss made no excuses for his team’s abject performance in their first Test defeat as the world’s best side after a batting performance that resurrected doubts about English batsmen ability to cope with high-quality spin bowling.

England bounced back brilliantly from their last Test defeat in Perth against Australia 13 months ago, to win their next two matches by an innings and the strauss will draw on that experience as the team prepare for the 2nd Test of this series, but this situation is different to a England had already beaten Australia in Adelaide and saw Perth as a freak result.

England also knew they would not play on a pitch as bouncy as the WACA again whereas in Abu Dhabi they will face the same conditions they struggled with in Dubai and have little time to work out a method against Saeed Ajmal and he is the man of the match for 1st test.

The five fastest centuries of all time in test cricket

2012-01-13T13:29:00.000-08:00

Viv Richards, West Indies v England, St John's 1986
56 BALLS

The hapless tourists came to Antigua 4-0 down. West Indies' 'Master Blaster' reached 103 in 56 balls to secure the infamous 5-0 'blackwash'. Richards came to the crease soon before tea, and reached his half century in 35 balls soon after the interval. Sixes flew in all directions thereafter. Another flew out of the ground into the adjacent prison. England spinner John Emburey described it as "the biggest carnage I has seen in such a short space of time in any first-class game".

Adam Gilchrist, Australia v England, Perth 2006
57 BALLS

I would have guessed Viv Richards was anywhere in the mix, Australia's wicket-keeper said after planting England's bowlers - mostly Monty Panesar - all over the WACA. Having scored two ducks already in the series, there was no reason to propose Gilchrist would go on to beat four sixes and 12 fours. Richards' record had looked in sight when Panesar was dismissing for 24 in one over. With the shadows expansion, it was 103 minutes of pure power-hitting joy.

Jack Gregory, Australia v South Africa, Johannesburg 1921
67 BALLS

Gregory enjoyed a brief but crashing Test career. He had hinted of his intention before entering the fray at Johannesburg when the expert Australian blasted a ton in 135 minutes in the MCG Test earlier in the year. next to South Africa he did it in 70 minutes - still the fastest of all time - as Australia went on to gain a historic series win.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul, West Indies v Australia, Georgetown 2003
69 BALLS

Dour and set for the most part, on this day controlling and merciless. The second West Indian to make the list, albeit one with a puzzling V stance, who left Australia clueless in Georgetown. Most group would have turned off the TV when Brian Lara was dismissed, leaving West Indies' precariously placed on 47-4. But Ridley Jacobs's unbeaten 54 gave conflict to Chanderpaul (15 fours, two sixes), with no one else able to muster over 30. It was the hosts' only respite as Australia won by nine wickets.

David Warner, Australia v India, Perth 2012
69 BALLS

There is only one ground but left-hander David Warner made it look like two after India had been bowled out for a paltry 161 soon after tea. The firework ensued thereafter, Warner unleashing an attack of stroke play, as well as straight sixes down the ground, to reach his second Test century in just 69 balls. "I was looking at my strike-rate and I said this ain't test cricket, this is a little different," he said later. After an engrossing first day, he wasn't far wrong.

Australia Perth test David Warner celebrate the Test history

2012-01-13T10:52:00.000-08:00

David Warner celebrate after scoring a 69-ball hundred on Perth test took Australia less than three sessions to seize control of the Perth Test. After they send home India for 161 just later than the tea break, David Warner (104*) cracked the fourth-fastest hundred in Test history, adding up 149 unbeaten runs with fellow opener Ed Cowan (40*). The chance pair was untroubled all over the last session against a harmless-looking Indian bowling attack in spite of the situation at WACA offering plenty of bounce, seam and swing during the day.

Warner, one of the faces of Australia’s new making of Test cricketers, smashed 13 fours and three sixes en route to his 2nd Test100, leaves Australia a small deficit of 12 runs and India stare at their seventh immediately defeat overseas. Since Cowan wicket in the Sydney Test, India have now accepted 771 runs for one wicket – a stunning statistic that illustrate the difference between the two sides. Out swinger Ben Hilfenhaus and 2nd-change Peter Siddle stayed true to their fast form with the ball, taking seven wickets between them, stretch their series tallies to 19 and 14 wickets, in that order.

Captain Michael Clarke elected to bowl as both side choose to play four pacers each. The home teams recall left-armer Mitchell Starc in spinner Nathan Lyon’s place, while Ryan Harris replaces the upset James Pattinson. India had Vinay Kumar in R Ashwin place.Despite Australia missing the penetrative ability of Pattinson, Harris claims the big wicket of Sachin Tendulkar (15), which despite another constructive start, fell LBW after one of the many sight-screen related distraction.

Virat Kohli, who was probable to make way for Rohit Sharma for this Test, top-scored with 44 brilliant, runs. But both he and VVS Laxman fell earlier than tea, having worked very hard for their 68-run stand. Siddle dismissed both. Kohli fell to the uppish drive to point, leasing his intolerance and greenness shine through with the release. Laxman was trapped at slip.

YET ANOTHER COLLAPSE

it took Australia 20 delivery to get going. Hilfenhaus bowled a beautifully-shaped out swinger to Sehwag. It started from outside leg-stump, landed around off-stump and constant moving away as it took the edge from Virender Sehwag’s (0) forward shifty. Rahul Dravid, whose defensive skills have come under question this series, was bowled for the fourth time this series. Siddle slip him a Yorker that deflects off his pads to the stumps. During his 35-ball stay Dravid rarely looked relaxed.

Tendulkar, however, didn’t look to have such problems. With a firm push down the ground and another through extra-cover, he fast moved to 12 and 13 balls. At this point, there were numerous stoppages due to movements around the sightscreen. Harris made the most of Tendulkar’s faltering deliberation. Where he should have offered a directly bat, Tendulkar tried to flick away an in swinger and was caught plumb in front. Six balls later, Gambhir, look his stanch best, hung his bat outside off over again and edged Hilfenhaus to Brad Haddin.

As has happen many times in England and Australia, Dhoni came out to bat with his team in tatters. He and the tail folded fast, with India behind their last six wickets in the space of 30 runs. With their lead all but gone, India needs a miracle or five to avert another defeat.

Sehwag record India wins the series-3-1

2011-12-08T14:02:00.000-08:00

Indore: Virender Sehwag smashed the top score in one-day cricket on Thursday as India flattened the West Indies by 153 runs to take a significant 3-1 lead in the five-match series.Sehwag hammer a brilliant 219 off 149 balls to pick up India to their best one-day total of 418-5, before the West Indies were bowled out for 265 in the fourth international.

Debutant leg-spinner Rahul Sharma tacked up three wickets in his first three overs as the tourist was outplayed despite an insolent 96 from wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin.

Ramdin set on 64 for the last wicket with Sunil Narine (27 not out) previous to he was caught in the deep attempt to score his maiden one-day century.

Sehwag plunder 25 four and 7sixes during his 149-ball blitz, joining national Sachin Tendulkar as the only batsmen in history to score double-centuries in the 50-over format.

Sehwag motivated past Tendulkar's 200 not out - touching South Africa in Gwalior last year - in the 44th over when, on 197, he cut Andre Russell to the point fence.

He was at last dismiss in the 47th over when he was caught in the deep off Kieron Pollard and was clap off the field by the total West Indies team and some 30,000 glad home fans.

Sehwag's blistering knock help India surpass their previous highest one-day total of 414-7 against Sri Lanka in Rajkot in 2009. It was Sehwag's 15th three-figure tap in one-day cricket and the first since make 175 against Bangladesh in the chance match of the World Cup in Dhaka in February this year.

Sehwag, who is captain India in the series in the deficiency of the rested Mahindra Singh Dhoni, had managed just 46 runs in the before three matches.

But he found the right condition on the run-laden pitch at the Holkar pitch in Indore to strike form in advance of the Test series in Australia starting later this month.

Sehwag, who was dropped on 170 by West Indies captain Darren Sammy in the cover, put on 176 for the first wicket with Gautam Gambhir (67) and 140 for the second with Suresh Raina (55).

Left-hander Gambhir, who had scored 16 runs in the series, ruined the shackles to hit 11 boundaries in his run-a-ball innings during the rollicking chance stand.

Top Players Were Imprisoned For Spot-Fixing.

2011-12-01T14:02:00.000-08:00

KARACHI, December 1- Pakistan cricket establishment have approved the setting-up of a "vigilance and security division" to fight altered form in the game, a month after three top players were jailed for spot-fixing.

Pakistan Cricket Board has been criticized for failing to conflict graft, painted by the sentence of former Test captain Salman Butt and pacemen Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer over their role in fixing part of a Lord's Test touching England last year.The Pakistan Cricket Board governing board met in Lahore on Tuesday and official the new branch, which it said would be headed by an older retired police or army officer."The allotment will be in charge for monitoring and supervision issues related to version and security," a PCB report released on Thursday said.

New PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf said in the United Arab Emirates last month that stringent measures would be bring into place "so that our players, where they are, don't get in contact with people who try to pull them into such depressing activity."Pakistan cricket has been shattered by allegation of match-fixing since 1995 when Australian trio Shane Warne, Tim May and Mark Waugh supposed then captain Salim Malik accessible them bribes to underperform during a tour to Pakistan.

A judicial inquiry finished in life ban for Malik and paceman Ata-ur Rehman. It in addition fined Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Saeed Anwar, Inzamam-ul Haq, Mushtaq Ahmed and Akram Raza.After the spot-fixing talk last year, the International Cricket Council came along hard on Pakistan, forcing them to form a truth committee to look into players' assets and behavior.

Ponting is Elephant in the Room, Sayed Chris Cairns

2011-11-30T13:39:00.000-08:00

Sydney: earlier New Zealand Captain Chris Cairns called Australian big Ricky Ponting the elephant in the room' and said Cricket Australia (CA) requests to end his 16-year Test career.The famous all-rounder feels that Ponting's retreat is the best way forward for Australian cricket.

I don't think you can have two years averaging 27 as a No.3. I think it's his time. And when you look at the like of Mark Taylor, [Ian] Healy, Mark Waugh - they be told it was their time. And there's an elephant in the room at the second in Ricky Ponting that nobody is really address,' Cairns was quoted as saying by the Sydney Morning bearer of news.

Cairns feel Ponting should retire after the second Test aligned with New Zealand in Hobart.Don't get me wrong, I've got the maximum respect for Ricky Ponting but there's a time and a place. And for me, his time and rest is Hobart in the second Test against New Zealand. That's to say, 'Thanks very much',' he said

Carins said Australian selectors needed to build the hard call on the soon-to-be 37-year-old.Australia for me was an unbending cricket nation, but I've felt there's been decision they make that have been compromise (in) the last couple of years. They've permitted Ricky to keep going since of his stature in the game and who he is,' Cairns said.

'But why must he have to make the call? At the end of the day, for me, Australia has all the time been about the team and what's best. He is following Bradman, Australia's greatest batsman, so they're organization it. But I just think it's an elephant in the room. I really do. Australia has got upgrading to do,' he said.

INDIA AND WET INDIES ODI SERIES SCHEDULES & RESULTS

2011-11-28T13:53:00.000-08:00

World champion India will count on their youthful stars to deliver when they take on fast-improving West Indies in a one-day series start in Cuttack on Tuesday.

India team:

Virender Sehwag (capt), Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Parthiv Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, Vinay Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron, Rohit Sharma, Manoj Tiwary, Rahul Sharma.

West Indies Team:

Darren Sammy (capt), Adrian Barath, Darren Bravo, Danza Hyatt, Anthony Martin, Jason Mohammed, Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, Kieran Powell, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach, Andre Russell, Marlon Samuels, Lendl Simmons.

SCHEDULES & RESULTS

1Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:30 PM IST

IND vs WIBarabati Stadium, Cuttack To be played2Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:30 PM IST

IND vs WIACA-VDCA Stadium, Visakhapatnam To be played3Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:30 PM

IND vs WISardar Patel Gujarat Stadium,Motera To be played4Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:30 PM IST

IND vs WIHolkar Cricket Stadium, Indore To be played5Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:30 PM IST

IND vs WIMA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai To be played.

Australia in South Africa 2011 Complete Schedule

2011-10-10T22:48:00.000-07:00

Date	Match Details	Time		Place
Date	Match Details	GMT	IST	Place
Oct 13 - Th	S.Africa v Aus, 1st T20I	16:00	21:30	Cape Town
Oct 16 - Su	S.Africa v Aus, 2nd T20I	12:30	18:00	Johannesburg
Oct 19 - We	S.Africa v Aus, 1st ODI	12:30	18:00	Centurion
Oct 23 - Su	S.Africa v Aus, 2nd ODI	08:00	13:30	Port Elizabeth
Oct 28 - Fr	S.Africa v Aus, 3rd ODI	12:30	18:00	Durban
Nov 09 - 13	S.Africa v Aus, 1st Test	08:30	14:00	Cape Town
Nov 17 - 21	S.Africa v Aus, 2nd Test	08:00	13:30	Johannesburg

West Indies in Bangladesh 2011, Complete Schedule

2011-09-26T21:12:00.000-07:00

Date	Match Details	Time (IST)	Place
Oct 11 - Tue	Bangladesh v West Indies, Only T20I	14:00	Dhaka
Oct 13 - Thu	Bangladesh v West Indies, 1st ODI	14:00	Dhaka
Oct 15 - Sat	Bangladesh v West Indies, 2nd ODI	14:00	Dhaka
Oct 18 - Tue	Bangladesh v West Indies, 3rd ODI	08:30	Chittagong
Oct 21 - 25	Bangladesh v West Indies, 1st Test	09:00	Chittagong
Oct 29 - Nov 02	Bangladesh v West Indies, 2nd Test	09:00	Dhaka

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