Mahendra Singh Dhoni: Cricket's Mr Finisher

India 6 for 270 (Gambhir 92, Dhoni 44*) hit Australia 8 for 269 (Hussey 72, Forrest 66) by four wickets

India weren’t perfect today. But they beat Australia the hard way. And nothing satisfies a team more than a hard-fought win when it is going through a rut.

A pale-looking MS Dhoni got off to an agonizingly slow start of three runs in 17 balls. But he caught up with the pace at the end, capping off a tight chase for 270 by getting India the 13 wanted in the final over from Clint McKay.

It helped India burst past some glass ceiling – they had never compressed Australia in an ODI in Adelaide, and had never chased more than 242 against the hosts in their country. More highly, the win would take the concentration away from the howls of protest after Sachin Tendulkar was rested today.

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Australia Won by five-run victory

Australia 231 (Clarke 57, Mathews 2-37) beat Sri Lanka 226 (Mathews 64, Doherty 2-24) by 5 runs

Innings Dot balls 4s 6s Last 10 overs NB/Wides Australia 183 22 3 44/4 0/5 Sri Lanka 166 18 1 55/3 0/6

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Afridi sets up victory against spirited Afghanistan

Pakistan 198 for 3 (Younis 70, Farhat 52) beat Afghanistan 195 (Sadiq 40, Nabi 37, Afridi 5-36) by seven wickets

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Indian cricket star being treated for cancer in USA

Yuvraj Singh is undergoing chemotherapy to treat a cancerous increase that may have been bothering him even while he twisted his World Cup heroics last year.

The growth in his chest was initially consideration to be benign, but has recently been diagnose as wicked, and he traveled to the United States on Jan. 26 to seek treatment.

"It is a rare growth and is cancerous, but it has been detect in stage-one," Singh's physiotherapist, Jatin Chaudhary, was quoted as saying Monday by the Press Trust of India.

"Doctors had to decide whether to continue medicine or go for chemotherapy, but since parts of the cancer are just above the blood vessel of his heart, there was a danger that while running it could rupture. But it is 100 percent curable," he said.

Dr. Nitish Rohatgi, an oncologist in New Delhi's Max Hospital who has been co-coordinating with Singh's doctors in the United States, said the cricketer had been respond well to treatment.

"His growth is curable and he has been responding well to chemotherapy that is being administered since the end of January," Rohatgi told a news conference in New Delhi on Monday. "The chemotherapy will continue till the end of March and we are confident he will be cured."

Yuvraj Singh's mother Shabnam said in November that her son perhaps carried the illness through the World Cup in March and April last year, saying that the all-rounder suffered from constant "bouts of coughing and vomiting" during the competition and medical tests exposed a "golf-ball size lump over the left lung."
India's sports minister Ajay Maken has promised help to Singh.

"Wish Yuvraj a speedy recovery! Asking officials to find the quantum and nature of help necessary. Government should and will help him," Maken posted on Twitter.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India has wished Singh "a speedy recovery" in an e-mailed statement, in which it also asked the media to admiration the privacy of Singh and his family members.

The 30-year-old Singh, man-of-the-tournament during last year's home World Cup-victory, last played for India during a home test series against the West Indies in November.

Singh has played 37 tests, 274 limited-over’s internationals and 23 Twenty20 internationals.

He played a large part in India winning the World Cup for the first time since 1983, playing in all nine matches at the 2011 edition and causal 362 runs at a standard of 90 and taking 15 wickets at 25 with his left-arm spin.

Singh is also famous for outstanding six sixes in an over off England pace man Stuart Broad during the Twenty20 World Cup in 2007.

Singh's absence on India's current tour of Australia has been noticeable. India was trounced 4-0 in the test series and won just one of two Twenty20 matches before lose its opening one-dayer against Australia by 64 runs Sunday.

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