India beat Australia by 320 Runs at Mohali Test

Result India won by 320 runs (india's biggest win by runs)

India 1st innings
G Gambhir c Haddin b Johnson 67
V Sehwag c Haddin b Johnson 35
R Dravid b Lee39
SR Tendulkar c Hayden b Siddle 88
VVS Laxman c Haddin b Johnson 12
SC Ganguly c Lee b White 102
I Sharma c Katich b Siddle 9
MS Dhoni lbw b Siddle 92
Harbhajan Singh b White 1
Z Khan run out (Lee/Haddin) 2
A Mishra not out 0
Extras (b 4, lb 10, w 5, nb 3) 22
Total (all out; 129 overs; 594 mins) 469

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Australia 1st innings
ML Hayden b Khan 0
SM Katich b Mishra 33
RT Ponting lbw b Sharma 5
MEK Hussey c Dhoni b Sharma 54
MJ Clarke lbw b Mishra 23
SR Watson lbw b Mishra 78
BJ Haddin b Harbhajan Singh 9
CL White b Mishra 5
B Lee c Dravid b Harbhajan Singh 35
MG Johnson not out 9
PM Siddle st Dhoni b Mishra 0
Extras (lb 13, nb 4) 17
Total (all out; 101.4 overs; 454 mins) 268

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India 2nd innings
G Gambhir c Hussey b White 104
V Sehwag c Haddin b Siddle 90
MS Dhoni not out 68
SC Ganguly c Clarke b Lee 27
SR Tendulkar not out 10
Extras (b 3, lb 4, w 5, nb 3) 15
Total (3 wickets dec; 65 overs; 291 mins) 314

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Australia 2nd innings (target: 516 runs)
ML Hayden lbw b Harbhajan Singh 29

SM Katich c Tendulkar b Harbhajan Singh 20
RT Ponting b Sharma 2
MEK Hussey lbw b Harbhajan Singh 1
MJ Clarke c Sehwag b Mishra 69
SR Watson lbw b Sharma 2
BJ Haddin b Khan 37
CL White c Dhoni b Khan 1
B Lee b Khan 0
MG Johnson c & b Mishra 26
PM Siddle not out 0
Extras (b 4, nb 4) 8
Total (all out; 64.4 overs; 287 mins) 195

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Played at Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh, on 17,18,19,20,21 October 2008

Player of the match : MS Dhoni (India)

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Close of play

17 Oct day 1 - India 1st innings 311/5 (SC Ganguly 54*, I Sharma 2*, 85 ov)

18 Oct day 2 - Australia 1st innings 102/4 (MEK Hussey 37*, 40.5 ov)

19 Oct day 3 - India 2nd innings 100/0 (G Gambhir 46*, V Sehwag 53*, 23 ov)

20 Oct day 4 - Australia 2nd innings 141/5 (MJ Clarke 42*, BJ Haddin 37*, 46 ov)

21 Oct day 5 - Australia 2nd innings 195 (64.4 ov) - end of match

Umpires Asad Rauf (Pakistan) and RE Koertzen (South Africa)

Yuvraj Singh indian vice captain - achivements

Full Name: Yuvraj Singh

Born: December 12, 1981, Chandigarh

Major teams: India, Punjab, Yorkshire

Batting style: Left-hand bat

Bowling style: Slow left-arm orthodox

Father : former Indian fast bowler Yograj Singh

Then Yuvraj played a pivotal role in India's dream run in the Natwest Series that culminated in the memorable final triumph against England thanks to a glorious partnership between Yuvraj and Mohammad Kaif. After waiting in the wings for 15 months, Yuvraj made his Test debut against New Zealand in 2003 and notched up a century against Pakistan in only his third outing.

His Test debut at his home ground Mohali, against the touring Kiwis was not a memorable one. But he soon made up with a century against Pakistan in his second Test at Lahore. He has many times been plagued by poor form. But the Indian captain, Sourav Ganguly, has always had confidence in his players, and so also with Yuvraj.

He scored his first Test century in a losing effort against Pakistan in the second Test at Lahore. When Ganguly returned for the third Test, Akash Chopra was dropped and it appeared that the Indian selectors wanted to give him a regular place in the team.

Yuvraj hits six sixes in an over against England DURBAN, September 19. 2007: Yuvraj Singh smashed fast bowler Stuart Broad for six sixes in an over as India piled up 218-4 in a must-win match against England in the Twenty20 world championships on Wednesday.

ball-by-ball commentary of six sixes in an over.........

18.1 Broad to Yuvraj Singh, SIX, that's out the ground, super shot over cow corner and it just kept going up.

18.2 Broad to Yuvraj Singh, SIX, now that really is sweet, no more than a dismissive flick off his legs, swatting a fly, and the ball arcs deep into the crowd beyond backward square leg. The dodgy TV measurement says that's 111 yards but as it landed outside the ground how do they know? They guess that's how.

18.3 Broad to Yuvraj Singh, SIX, he's hitting them everywhere, he steps to leg and smashes the ball over extra cover and it keeps on traveling. The fireworks start on top of the scoreboard and they've been going off in the middle for some time.

18.4 Broad to Yuvraj Singh, SIX, Shiver me timbers! Broad goes round the wicket, bowls a filthy wide full toss and Yuvraj steers it over backward point and it clears the rope again.

18.5 Broad to Yuvraj Singh, SIX, down on one knee and larruped over midwicket, that one was more nine iron, it went into the night sky and dropped with a thud in the jubilant crowd. England have a team meeting.Broad looks quizzical and miserable. Can he, can Yuvraj do it. Broad looks like a man who knows he is about to be mauled again.

18.6 Broad to Yuvraj Singh, SIX, and he has, Yuvraj leans back and smacks that over wide mid-on. It was the maximum from the moment it left that bat and the crowd was roaring as it flew. The left-hander's feat in the 19th over gave him the fastest 50 in the tournament off just 12 balls.

Saurav Ganguly Ex Indian Captain - biography

Famous picture of Saurav Ganguly at Lords.

Saurav Chandidas Ganguly, born 8 July 1972, in Calcutta, West Bengal, was the captain of Indian national cricket team. He is ambidextrous, a left-handed batsman and a right-handed bowler.He made his ODI debut in 1992 but his talent was noticed in India's 1996 tour of England when he scored centuries in both innings of his debut test match (an third test of the series).

He became only the third cricketer ever to score a century in his first two innings after Lawrence Rowe and Alvin Kallicharan. He scored 183 against Sri Lanka at Taunton in the 1999 cricket World Cup, the highest by an Indian in World Cup cricket.

Sourav Chandidas Ganguly also known as "Dada" is an Indian cricketer. He has led India to the World Cup 2003 finals, and holds the Indian captaincy record for the most Test victories. Ganguly is a left-handed batsman and a right-handed medium-pace bowler. He is a natural right-hander, but converted to the southpaw stance at a young age.

Ganguly is widely credited with grooming a bunch of talented youngsters like Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh. Ganguly led India all the way to the World Cup final in 2003 and later that year, in Australia, an imperious hundred at Brisbane set the tone for the series-where India gave the mighty Aussies a good run for their money.

He is the third player to cross 10,000 ODI runs and so far the fastest one to do so, after Sachin Tendulkar and Inzamam Ul Haq, and reached 6000, 7000, 8000 and 9000 ODI runs milestones in least number of matches played.

SAURAV GANGULY the perfect example of the induvidual whith a great determination,he was the one who took the responsibilityof leading the indian team when everything was falling apart,he was the one who made the new indian cricket team.

Records

Test:
Scored a century on Test debut
Scored a century in each of his first two Tests
Captained India in a record 49 Test matches
Led India to a record 21 Test wins
India's most successful Test captain

ODIs:
Second fastest player to reach 10,000 ODI runs

Fastest to reach multiples of 7,000, 8,000, 9,000 ODI Runs

Holds the record, shared with Mahendra Singh Dhoni, for the second highest score by an Indian cricketer in an ODI — 183, against Sri Lanka in 1999.

Held the record, shared with Sachin Tendulkar, for the highest first wicket partnership for India in a ODI match, 258, against Kenya in 2001. This record was bettered by Sri Lankan opening pair of Jayasuriya and Tharanga in 2006 at Headingly.

Was involved in the First 300 run ODI partnership with Rahul Dravid

He is also the only player to win 4 consecutive man of the match awards in ODIs.
India's most successful ODI captain.

6th on the all time list with 30 man of the match awards (Sachin Tendulkar leads with 52 awards in 369 matches)

First Indian to Score a ODI Century Against Australia in Australia

Mahedra Singh Dhoni- Indian Captain- facts

Name : Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Nickname : Mahi

Father : Pan Singh ( junior management positions in Mecon )
Mother : Devaki Dev
Sister : Jayanti Gupta
Brother : Narendra.

Date of Birth : 7 July 1981
Place of Birth: Ranchi, Bihar

Nationality : Indian

Role: Captain of the Indian ODI and Twenty20 team and Vice captain of the Test team

Batting style : Right hand batsman

Bowling style : Right arm medium

Field position: Wicketkeeper

Clubs played : Jharkhand

Dhoni was born and brought up in the city of Ranchi. He has two siblings. A sister who is married and a brother who lives in Almora. Almora is a high-lying town at the foot of the Himalaya which is his father's home town. His father's name is Pan Singh and mother's name is Devki Devi.Dhoni, made his debut for Jharkhand in the 1999-2000 season as an eighteen year old. He was noticed by the national team selectors in 2004 after his performances in first class tournaments such as the Deodhar Trophy and the Duleep Trophy.

His one day international debut came after playing five years of first class cricket against Bangladesh On the 23rd of December 2004 Chittagong, Bangladesh. Unfortunately, he was run out on the first ball he faced. It wasn’t a great debut for him where batting is concerned. Luck wasn’t on his side in the first four matches he played. Where as on the fifth match which was played against Pakistan in Visakhapatnam, Dhoni came to the crease one down and managed to score 148 runs from just 123 balls. He hit 15 boundaries and four sixes. He got his first man of the match award that day. Not only a good wicketkeeper but Dhoni proved himself to be a first class batsman too. He is one of the few finest wicketkeeper batsman India has seen after a very long time.

On the 31st of October 2005, Dhoni broke the record of highest runs scored by a wicket keeper by securing 183 runs against Srilanka which was played at Jaipur, beating Adam Gilchrist's former record of 172 runs.

He made his maiden Test century against Pakistan in the 2nd Test at Faisalabad in January 2006, reaching the landmark in just 93 balls. Dhoni's career batting average at the end of the ODI series against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi stands at 52.76, which is the fourth highest for any batsman having scored at least 1,000 runs in one-day internationals, behind Australians, Mike Hussey Michael Bevan, and Englishman Kevin Pietersen.

Sreeshanth .. Harbajan beat him during IPL

Santhakumaran Srishanth. He is from Kerala , India. Sreeshanth is very aggressive player in Indian Team. But, he is crying after beaten by Harbajan.

During the Indian Premier League (IPL ) Harbajan singh beat his team mate Srishanth. Harbajan got 11 game ban in IPL tournament for this.

Sir Viv Richards .. The real legend from west indies

Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards was born on 7 March 1952 at St. John’s, Antigua. Considered to be one of the finest batsmen of all time, he was also a part time off break bowler. One of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century, he was nominated Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1977.

You knew when he was coming. The outgoing batsman would already have disappeared into the pavilion, and the expectation of what was to follow filled the air. Viv kept you waiting ... time to ponder. Then he appeared, sauntering, swaggering, arms windmilling slowly. He would take guard, and then, head tilted back slightly and cudding his gum, he would walk a few paces down the pitch to tap it while looking the bowler in the eye. It was calculated menace and magnificent theatre from arguably the most devastating batsman of all time. How to bowl to him? Get him to the other end, perhaps. Hold your nerve, do not take what might follow as personal.

Richards made his test debut at Bangalore against India in 1974-5 and his one-day international debut against Sri Lanka in the World Cup of 1975. His last test was against England at the Oval in 1991 and his last ODI was at Lord’s in the same series. Playing 121 tests, he scored 8,540 runs at an average of 50.23, with 24 hundreds and 291 as his highest score. He claimed 32 wickets and took 122 catches. In 187 ODIs, he scored 6,721 runs at an average of 47.00, with 11 hundreds and 189 n.o. as his highest score. He also claimed 118 wickets and took 100 catches.

M S Dhoni ..wicket keeper,Captain for Team India

Inidian cricket team captain Mahendra singh Dhoni... with seniors...

India's Mahendra Dhoni celebrates after winning the match during their tri-series one-day international cricket match against Sri Lanka in Adelaide February 19, 2008

Team India captain M S Dhoni speaking at a felicitation function for winning CB series defeating Australia

Saurav Ganguly ..Bengal Tiger in action

Saurav Ganguly with his wife Dona and daughter

Indian cricketer Sourav Ganguly celebrates after scoring a double century (200 runs) on the second day of the third Test between India and Pakistan at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore, 09 December 2007

Indian cricketer Sourav Ganguly plays a shot during the second day of the third Test match between India and Pakistan at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore, 09 December 2007.

Brian Lara, The Prince of Port-of-Spain

As per wiki, Brian Charles Lara born on May 2, 1969 ,nicknamed, "The Prince of Port-of-Spain", "The Prince of Trinidad" or simply "The Prince" is a retired record-breaking cricketer, and considered to be one of the greatest batsmen in the history of the game. He also holds the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with a total of 501* for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994. Lara played his international career with the West Indies cricket team.
He has topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds two of the most prestigious world records for batting in Tests: highest individual innings and the all-time leading run scorer.

INDIA won CB Series cup beating AUS by 9 runs

Commonwealth Bank Series - 2nd FinalAustralia vs India
Played at Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane, on 4 March 2008 - day/night (50-over match)

DETAILED SCORECARD

India innings (50 overs maximum)
RV Uthappa .............. c Hopes b Clark ............30
SR Tendulkar............. c Ponting b Clarke ..... 91
G Gambhir ..................c Johnson b Clarke .... 15
Yuvraj Singh ...............c Hayden b Symonds . 38
MS Dhoni .....................c Clarke b Bracken...... 36
RG Sharma .................c Symonds b Clarke ..... 2
IK Pathan ....................b Bracken .................... 12
Harbhajan Singh .........lbw b Lee ...................... 3
P Kumar ......................c Ponting b Bracken ..... 7
Piyush Chawla............ not out ........................... 6
S Sreesanth .................not out............................ 1

Extras (lb 5, w 12) 17
Total (9 wickets; 50 overs) 258 (5.16 runs per over)

Fall of wickets: 1-94 (Uthappa, 20.5 ov), 2-121 (Gambhir, 25.2 ov), 3-175 (Yuvraj Singh, 34.6 ov), 4-205 (Tendulkar, 39.2 ov), 5-209 (Sharma, 41.1 ov), 6-237 (Pathan, 47.2 ov), 7-240 (Dhoni, 47.6 ov), 8-249 (Harbhajan Singh, 48.5 ov), 9-255 (Kumar, 49.3 ov)

Bowling............. O M R W Econ
B Lee ......................10 0 58 1 5.80 (1w)
NW Bracken............ 9 1 31 3 3.44
SR Clark ..................6 0 32 1 5.33 (1w)
MG Johnson........... 6 0 33 0 5.50 (8w)
JR Hopes................ 6 0 20 0 3.33
MJ Clarke .............10 0 52 3 5.20 (1w)
A Symonds..............3 0 27 1 9.00 (1w)


Australia innings (target: 259 runs from 50 overs)
AC Gilchrist ............c Dhoni b Kumar............................................2
ML Hayden ............run out (Yuvraj Singh/Harbhajan Singh)..55
RT Ponting .............c Yuvraj Singh b Kumar.............................. 1
MJ Clarke ...............b Kumar .......................................................17
A Symonds .............lbw b Harbhajan Singh ...............................42
MEK Hussey........... c Dhoni b Sreesanth ...................................44
JR Hopes................ c Piyush Chawla b Pathan......................... 63
B Lee....................... b Kumar....................................................... 7
MG Johnson ..........c Dhoni b Sreesanth................................... 8
NW Bracken ..........c Piyush Chawla b Pathan .........................1
SR Clark ................not out .........................................................0

Extras (lb 2, w 7) 9
Total (all out; 49.4 overs) 249 (5.01 runs per over)

Fall of wickets: 1-2 (Gilchrist, 0.3 ov), 2-8 (Ponting, 2.3 ov), 3-32 (Clarke, 8.6 ov), 4-121 (Hayden, 25.4 ov), 5-123 (Symonds, 25.6 ov), 6-199 (Hussey, 41.6 ov), 7-228 (Lee, 46.4 ov), 8-238 (Johnson, 48.2 ov), 9-247 (Bracken, 49.2 ov), 10-249 (Hopes, 49.4 ov)

Bowling ...................O M R W Econ
P Kumar ...................10 2 46 4 4.60
S Sreesanth............. ...9 0 43 2 4.77 (2w)
IK Pathan ................8.4 0 54 2 6.23 (4w)
Harbhajan Singh.... .10 0 44 1 4.40 (1w)
Piyush Chawla ...........9 0 45 0 5.00
Yuvraj Singh ..............3 0 15 0 5.00

Result India won by 9 runs

Toss India, who chose to bat first Series India won the best-of-3-finals 2-0

Player of the match P Kumar (India)
Player of the series NW Bracken (Australia)

SACHIN TENDULKAR - Little master in action

Sachin accepting the applouse of crowd
A cover drive

Sachin thanking god

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