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Feb19

8th Odi India V Sri Lanka

by wasim on February 19th, 2008 at 5:17 am
Posted In: Cricket, Cricket India

Sri lanka won the toss and elected to bat and after 20 overs are 62/2 both teams are struggling to find help from their bench and are suffering from similar problems. I was a bit surprised at the Indian selection they again persisted with Uthappa who is completely out of sorts, both India and Srilanka are suffering from sudden batting collapses and both have a hole in their line up in the lower middle order.

Srilanka after losing its openers are trying to grind out the middle overs and are trying to preserve wickets for the slog overs, Sangakara is in top form but he is not getting much help from other Srilankan batsmen. This match is important for both the teams although they will face each other one more time but both are desperate to earn additional point to reach the finals. India made a mistake by not playing Sehwag he should have been given preference over Uthappa.

India clinched a thriller from Srilanka who again failed to capitalize on the platform laid by Sangakara, Yuvraj finally scored and came out of his bad patch he played a fantastic innings of 76 Yuvraj got out with India still requiring 81 runs to win but Captain Dhoni saw them home in a tense finish with two wickets to spare.

Earlier India were reeling at 35/3 and the match was slipping away from India that Yuvraj came to crease and batted fluently he struck 10 fours and 1 six in his 76 and Dhoni played a very sensible innings identifying his role and played according to the situation and took no risk he played an uncharacteristic knock of 50  with no boundaries.

Srilanka still have a chance to reach the finals but they will have to win most of their remaining games.

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Feb19

U-19 WC round up

by wasim on February 19th, 2008 at 6:32 am
Posted In: Cricket, Cricket India

Pardeep Sangwan puts India on top

17 year old Pradeep Sangwan of Delhi, a left-arm medium pacer who swings the ball both ways at a nippy pace, has crippled South Africa by picking up four wickets in five overs! Earlier SA won the toss and elected to bat and ran right into Pardeep Sangwan who made SA batsmen look clueless against his swing bowling he was ably supported on the other end by Argal. SA were bundled out for 149 in 30.1 overs India are 51/1 as the match is still in progress.

India went on to win the match comfortably and maintained their top position in the group B their team looks very balanced and very impressive.

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Defending champions struggling against the kiwis

Newzealand won the toss and put Pakistan into bat their seamers made full use of the conditions and sent four Pakistani batsmen back to the pavilion for just 28 runs. Pakistan recovered because of a gutsy innings from Salah-ud-din and A Asad, in the end they were restricted to 156 in 47.1 overs. The champions will have to bowl their heart out to win this one.

Pakistan’s bowlers were upto the task, reducing New Zealand to 51 for 4 in the 23rd over. Harry Boam led the chase with a patient 38 and his partnership with Greg Morgan took them closer but legspinner Ahmed Shehzad grabbed three wickets to hasten the end.

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Feb19

Australia ready to tour Pakistan

by wasim on February 19th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Posted In: Uncategorized

PCB chairman has promised that he will announce good news in the next 24 hours as a break through is expected anytime, PCB officials seem quite sure that they have convinced Australian chief about security issues and he is willing to send the Australian team to Pakistan, it should be noted here that in the event of cancelling the tour cricket Australia was facing a fine of US$ 2.3 mil. Pakistan’s case was lobbied by other member nations in the meeting held in Malaysia, a final decision will be announced on Tuesday.

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Feb19

Going once, going twice, gone……

by wasim on February 19th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
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Eight IPL franchisees will be getting together to bid for the cricketers they want in their teams. On offer, for a price, are some of the world’s finest cricketers, from Ricky Ponting to Shaun Pollock, Chris Gayle to Shoaib Akhtar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni to Muttiah Muralitharan. Eager to buy them are some of India’s biggest corporate names, from United Spirits to Reliance Industries, and a couple of the country’s brightest faces – Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and leading lady Preity Zinta.

The cell phones will ring off the hook, the “open bidding” will take place behind closed doors inside the Regal Room at the Hilton Towers. About six representatives from each of the eight teams will be seated around separate tables with computer screens to track the action.

The auction process is complicated and tensions will rise, each team has to spend a minimum of $3.3 million but can’t go above $5 million.

The bid starts with the annual “base player fee” that has already been fixed by the IPL. This base player fee assumes that the player is available for the entire tournament. This fee will be adjusted on a pro-rata basis, depending on the players’ availability.

The players will be divided into “sets” of approximately 12 each, according to their base player fee, cricketing speciality and expected availability for the opening season. But the bids will start with a set of marquee players like Gilchrist, Dhoni, Ricky Ponting and Chris Gayle. A random draw will decide the order in which players go up on the block.

Bid increments have been fixed at $5000 for bids up to $100,000, $10,000 for bids between $100,000 and $250,000, and $25,000 for bids between $250,000 and $500,000. Increments over the $500,000 mark will be at the auctioneer’s discretion.

The minimum “percentage availability” for any player included in the auction will be 25 per cent. Thus, even if a player is expected to be either completely unavailable or only available for less than four of the DLF IPL matches in 2008, 25 per cent of the player fee bid for that player in the auction will count against the $5 million purse. For example, the purchase for $400,000 of a player who is expected to be completely unavailable in 2008 will cause a deduction of $100,000 from the franchise’s overall $5 million purse.

If more than one franchise is interested in signing a particular foreign player from outside the current pool, the IPL’s organisers will hold another auction. But Indian players who are not in the pool can be signed at any time.

Each team has to choose 8 international players, 4 under 22 players, 4 players from the local catchment areasThere is no cap on the number of Indian players but no team can select more than two Aussie players.

Sachin, Ganguly, Dravid, Sehwag and Yuvraj are the Icon players and will not be available for auction.

We will keep on updating this thread as the auction progresses.

You are more than welcome to post your picks for different teams.

LIST OF PLAYERS AVAILABLE FOR AUCTION

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