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Chennai Super Kings face a rising task when they take on last year's runners-up Mumbai Indians in a high-voltage Indian Premier League match on Friday.
2011 World cup
28 years after Kapil Dev lifted the Prudential World Cup, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni did the honours in front of a packed Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. This after he led the chase for 275 runs as India won the 2011 Cricket World Cup final by six wickets.
BCCI
With Twenty20, the three-hour, 20-overs-a-side version, One-Day internationals and Test matches, cricket is the second most popular sport in the world. The ICC World Cup is the world’s second largest single sporting event, drawing a cumulative television audience of five billion.
God of Cricket Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar height may not be that big, but his stature is the biggest in the Cricketing world. Runs : 32647 (14692 T + 17955 O ), 200s : 7(6 T + 1 O), 100s : 99(51 T + 48 O), 50s : 152(59 T + 93 O)
Muttiah Muralitharan - The record machine
The highest number of wicket in International Cricket in both format Test and One day. 134 Tests: 800 wickets, 337 one day: 515 wickets. The most 5 wickets: 67times a world record. The world record for 10 or more wickets in a test: 22 times.
Yuvraj Singh Runs and Records Cricket World Cup 2011
After Kapil Dev Yuvraj Singh is the second indian player who took more than 10 wickets and scored above 300 runs. Before this Indian all rounder legend Kapil Dev took 12 wickets and scored 303 runs in 1983 cricket world cup.
Australia and their record
The Australian cricket team is the national cricket team of Australia. It is the equal oldest team in Test cricket, having played in the first Test match in 1877. Australia won the Cricket World Cup 4 times in total; 1987, 1999, 2003 and 2007.
Brutal Punjab beaten Rajasthan
Kings XI Punjab 195 for 7 (Marsh 71, Valthaty 46, Tait 3-22) beat Rajasthan Royals 147 for 7 (Praveen 2-22, Bhatt 2-20) by 48 runs
You don't discharge Paul Valthaty off a no-ball, this month. You don't dismiss Adam Gilchrist off a no-ball, continually. Rajasthan Royals establish out just why. Siddharth Trivedi overstep as he got Gilchrist to chop on in the first over, and Shaun Tait cut the go back gather as he sent down a thunderbolt in the second, that Valthaty guide to third slip.
Both free-hits were slam for fours, setting up a session of outgoing viciousness. Shaun Marsh built on the openers' heroics as Kings XI Punjab roar to a score of 195, setting up their third win in three games. The Mohali crowd lapped up the activity, Shane Warne was reduced to sledging in vain, Elizabeth Hurley had little to cheerfulness by the end, and Preity Zinta could barely contain her glee.
Punjab was on top from start to finish, but the peak of their supremacy was the third over of the game, off which Valthaty plunder Trivedi for 25 runs. A slow bouncer was pull out of the ground, a fuller delivery was drill as the crow flies and another length ball was redirect to cow corner.
Trivedi manage to press in a dot ball before distribution down a badly-disguised slower one that was fixed over point. And then Trivedi sent down another no-ball, full and succulent on the pads, and Valthaty tuck in for four more.
Things just kept receiving worse for Rajasthan, but they had it coming after the no-balls. Even Shane Warne wasn't at his best, as Gilchrist thump him for a six and a four off his first three balls. At the end of four overs, Punjab was going at the ghostly run-rate of 16.75.
You don't discharge Paul Valthaty off a no-ball, this month. You don't dismiss Adam Gilchrist off a no-ball, continually. Rajasthan Royals establish out just why. Siddharth Trivedi overstep as he got Gilchrist to chop on in the first over, and Shaun Tait cut the go back gather as he sent down a thunderbolt in the second, that Valthaty guide to third slip. Both free-hits were slam for fours, setting up a session of outgoing viciousness. Shaun Marsh built on the openers' heroics as Kings XI Punjab roar to a score of 195, setting up their third win in three games. The Mohali crowd lapped up the activity, Shane Warne was reduced to sledging in vain, Elizabeth Hurley had little to cheerfulness by the end, and Preity Zinta could barely contain her glee.
Punjab was on top from start to finish, but the peak of their supremacy was the third over of the game, off which Valthaty plunder Trivedi for 25 runs. A slow bouncer was pull out of the ground, a fuller delivery was drill as the crow flies and another length ball was redirect to cow corner.
Trivedi manage to press in a dot ball before distribution down a badly-disguised slower one that was fixed over point. And then Trivedi sent down another no-ball, full and succulent on the pads, and Valthaty tuck in for four more.
Things just kept receiving worse for Rajasthan, but they had it coming after the no-balls. Even Shane Warne wasn't at his best, as Gilchrist thump him for a six and a four off his first three balls. At the end of four overs, Punjab was going at the ghostly run-rate of 16.75.
Sri Lanka players will play IPL untill May 18
Sri Lanka Cricket has resolute to allow its cricketers to play in the IPL till May 18, after a conference with sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage. The boards have earlier asked the players to come back on May 5 in order to prepare for the tour of England, which begin with a practice match against Middlesex on May 14. However, they have now issued a release saying the players have only to get there in time for the second warm-up game, next to England Lions, starting May 19. The first Test is on May 26.
"We are favorably look at giving players more time to play the IPL before joining the team for the England tour," Aluthgamage told AFP. "We have outstanding relations with the government of India and the Indian cricket board. We don't want to trouble, or embarrass India."
He, however, denied that Sri Lanka was succumbing to force from the BCCI.He said the initial decision to call the players back near the beginning was taken by the new collection panel headed by Duleep Mendis in order to give the player’s time to get ready for the series, and it was not planned to spark any argument. "The selectors felt the boys were playing too many one-dayers and Twenty20s for the past two months. They required the players to come early and adjust to English circumstances and new changes in team organization. There is no sinister move."
As seven of the 16 players selected for the Test tour are concerned in the IPL, SLC secretary Nishantha Ranatunga stated that the selectors would pick an extra three to four players to make up the XI for the tour opener against Middlesex.
SLC had originally given the Sri Lanka players till May 20 to play in the IPL, and next their change in the date, the BCCI had contacted Sri Lanka's board asking them to reconsider. The choice had spark mixed reaction among the Sri Lanka players, with Muttiah Muralitharan criticizing it, while new captain Tillakaratne Dilshan said he did not mind it since playing for the country came before playing the IPL.
Sri Lanka's players will now overlook only the last week of the IPL. Lasith Malinga has not been selected for the Tests, since he had tell the board he was upset, but he has been asked to return to Sri Lanka to experience a treatment programme.
Simmons and Bishoo provide West Indies victory
West Indies 150 for 7 (Simmons 65, Bravo 42, Rehman 2-22) beat Pakistan 143 for 9 (Umar 41, Bishoo 4-17) by seven runs
It's just one match, that will fade into gloom by the end of the next, but West Indies began their latest New Era extraordinarily, beating Pakistan by seven runs in the first ever Twenty20 match between the teams.
Lendl Simmons made 65 to help West Indies set something spirited before Devendra Bishoo's four wickets brought them victory.
Such has been Ottis Gibson's extreme anxiety for regeneration after a disappointing World Cup campaign that five debutants were fielded. Critics, though, could point to a desire for greater control as much as freshness after a clutch of senior players was jettison from the squad.
That certainly seems to be the view held by Chris Gayle, the former captain, who vents his aggravation with Gibson and the WICB by combination Royal Challengers Bangalore and issuing a scornful assessment of both in a radio interview. The off-field wranglings conquered the build-up to the match and are likely to rumble on for some time to come but West Indies fans could at least enjoy a moment of on-field catharsis.
Such drama is familiar to Pakistan but of late they have been frighteningly stable. Their last game was a fervent spectacle against India in the World Cup semi-final against in Mohali, so they could be forgives for look a little underwhelmed by St Lucia.
Barely a smattering of viewers show up but those who did were treating to an entertaining opening from Simmons. Filling the huge hole left by Gayle's absence he broken 65 from 44 balls and shared a 99-run stand for the second wicket with a fluent Darren Bravo, who made 42. The pair struck 15 boundaries between them which proved critical as West Indies collapsed in familiar fashion after they were separated.
Luckily for them the bowlers, led by legspinner Bishoo, masked the errors in a lively display. The six no-balls and pointed to performance lacking polish but the pursue used a tiring pitch to good effect.
Darren Sammy ensures Pakistan's chase got off on the wrong foot as he had Mohammad Hafeez caught at fine leg for 3 before Ahmed Shehzad spoon Ravi Rampaul to mid-on for 12. Asad Shafiq in danger a revival with Umar Akmal before Bishoo intervenes with two wickets in his first over. Shafiq was brilliantly caught for 25 by Danza Hyatt diving forward from midwicket after looping a leading edge before Misbah-ul-Haq was dismiss for a duck tread on his stumps a ball later.
Even modest legspinners have proved powerful in 20-over cricket and Bishoo, who frightened on intercontinental debut in the World Cup, is better than that. Mixing his pace and flight satisfactorily he got his third wicket when Shahid Afridi scythed a cut to point for 12 to leave Pakistan's hopes completely with Umar.
Having reached a run-a-ball 41 Umar fell victim to his own misunderstanding. The previous delivery he had alerted the umpires to a no-ball caused by West Indies not having the required three men in the ring but, thinking the following ball was a free-hit, swung Rampaul to Marlon Samuels on the square-leg rope. Umar linger but the umpires this time knew better.
What should have been a doddle from there became fought with tension as Rampaul's no-ball-ridden last but one over cost 15 but Andre Russell held his spirit in the final over to seal victory.
The lacklustre showing from Pakistan's batsmen was in sharp disparity to Simmons and Bravo. Happy to use their feet, both were proficient against the pace and spin and used the small boundaries to good outcome. The 100 was crossed in the 13th over and at that stage West Indies looked set to post something really significant but a brand collapse puncture the optimism.
Bravo holed out long-on off Abdur Rehman before Simmons was run out by Samuels two overs later. Samuels, on his comeback after serving a two-match ban for supposed involvement with illegal bookmakers, endure a hot return as he laboured to 4 from 11 balls before running past a Saeed Ajmal doosra. Sammy follow quickly for 1 and it needed a last-over border to take the total past 150. Pakistan look to have the edge but Bishoo ensure otherwise.
