Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Dhoni India's New ODI Captain

After resigning of Rahul Dravid, Mahendra Singh Dhoni is selected as a new One day international captain for the cricket nation of India. Dhoni is now leading India's twenty20 team.

The career of Dhoni s improving rapidly after joining with the ODI squad. Rising continued with his appointment on Tuesday as captain of India's one-day team for the home series against Australia and Pakistan. The selector also picked the squad for the first three ODIs against Australia, bringing in Harbhajan Singh and Irfan Pathan but finding no place for Virender Sehwag.

Selector Vengsarkar said "He would have three former captains in the ranks who would give him full support. You are talking about having three captains - Azharuddin had five former captains under him when he led India in England," .

The key points in the selection of the 15-man squad were the return of Harbhajan and Pathan, the continued absence of Virender Sehwag and the dropping of Ajit Agarkar, Munaf Patel and Rohit Sharma from the side that toured England.

After appointment Dhoni said he was aware of the pressure and challenges that come with it. With PTI Dhoni told "I just heard the news in the afternoon and haven't had the time to reflect on that since I am preparing for the twenty20 games against England and South Africa,".

The career of Dhoni for one-day start in December 2004. He has scored 2477 runs in 84 ODIs at an average of 44.23 and a strike rate of 96.26. His highest score, an unbeaten 183 against Sri Lanka in 2006, is a record for a wicketkeeper and also the record for the most runs scored by a batsman while chasing. Dhoni had also occupied the top batsman's spot in the ICC one-day rankings in April 2006. Dhoni was the vice-captain of the ODI team on the tour of England.

Profile of Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Full Name: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Nick : Dhoni, Mahi
Date of Birth : July 7, 1981
Place of birth : Ranchi, Jharkhand.
Profession: Cricketer.


Major Teams: Team India, Bihar, Jharkhand.
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Other: Wicket-Keeper
Test Debut: Versus Sri Lanka in December 2005 in Chennai. Made Valuable 30 runs (India 168 all out, match-drawn).
ODI Debut: India Vs Bangladesh at Chittagong, 1st ODI, 2004/05

India one-day squad
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt) ,Yuvraj Singh (vice-captain), Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Dinesh Karthik, Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa, Irfan Pathan, Ramesh Powar, Piyush Chawla, RP Singh, Zaheer Khan, Sreesanth, Harbhajan Singh

Srilanka Win Easily showing 146 is enough big total for Bangladesh

There was little hope with Bangladesh to chase 146 which Srilanka made for them by very good bowling from Bangladeshi bowlers. But they are unable to cope with this because of very very good bowling from all Lankan Bowlers. As a result Srilanka won by 64 runs easily, a handsome victory.

Srilankan Batsmen was in really trouble to make run. No batsmen can not got run as easy as they gained in others match. But at the last couple of overs Dilshan and Mobarak hit well to make as close as 150 because at one stage it was seems far away.

In batting BD batsmen start with flourishing their bat as a result some quick wickets. If they can bat sensibly then it will be their. But they can't do. After First wicket fall in the very first over, the two successive wicket in 4th over of Farnando clearly shown that the result will be on their way. This is a reckless batting form BD batsman.

Pakistan Won Quite Easily to Reach Semi Final

Once again most unpredictable Pakistan prove they can win against any team even if it is world no. 1 on their day.

Yes, Pakistan showed all round performance today and win against Australia by 6 wickets. At the beginning of Australia innings early break through was given by Tanvir, while he took the wicket of Hayden it was blooming that the day might be in favour of Pakistan and that was the end of the innings.

In the middle of Aus innings Ponting and Symonds tried to recover the early damage and they ware doing quite easily. But after the wickets of Symonds taken by Afridi Australia ware lost their way. And that was when Ponting bowled out on successive over by Hafeez. Finally Australia can reach a good looking innings on Hussy and Hodge innings. But at the end it is not good enough for Australia to give some challenge. And Pakistan win quite comfortably.

In Pakistan innings the start by some good shots while Imran Nazir punching Nathan Bracken over square leg for a six, and Mohammad Hafeez pulling Brett Lee for another maximum. But as earlier match The first wicket partnership could not go long. But it did not make any problem for Pakistan's batsmen. Though some quick wickets fall on the top in the middle Misbah and Malik took the match on the way of their favor. Both of them hit some extraordinary shot to reach huff century on their innings. Malik took the initiative early on, chipping Clark over midwicket for six, and then taking two fours and a six from a Michael Clarke over that went for 17. Misbah was tapping the singles at that stage, but once he opened out, the game was Pakistan's for the taking. Shoaib Malik score unbeaten 52 while Misbah-ul-hoq hit unbeaten 66. Misbah was judged as Man of the match.

New Zealand is in Semi Final in Twenty20 World Cup

New Zealand is gone through the Semi-Final bitting England by 5 Runs runs in a very exciting, heart thrilling match live at Durban, South Africa.

Earlier, England bowlers bowled very well with good captency from Collingwood to restrict New Zealand Batsmen within 164. At one stage NZ ware 31/4 . Then in the 5ht wicket partnership McMIllan and Styris recover the early damage and finally scored a challenging score for England to chase. McMillan scored 57 from 31 balls as well as declared as Man of the Match.

Came into the bowling England batsmen give a good foundation to chase the target in opening partnership 62 from 7.5 overs. From here Nz come back strongly and England batsmen lost their wicket regularly as a result run came slowly. at last england needed 46 runs from 36 balls is possible. But they can't because of their good hitting batsmen already in dressing room.

So, New Zealand make their foot first in the ICC twenty20 world Championship Semi Final. And it is difficult for England to make any hope because they already lost two match in three. May be they have to leave after their last match with India.

Happy wishing to New Zealand.

 
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