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Category >> sports
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on Jun 21, 2011
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Exactly 15 years ago, on June 20th 1996 - two young Indian cricketers were handed over the Indian Test cap for the very first time. Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid replaced Navjot Sidhu and Sanjay Manjrekar in the XI at Lord's against England. Indian cricket would never be the same.
Ganguly made a century on debut. His 131 was the first of 16 Test hundreds and 7212 Test runs. In the 50 over format, he made a staggering 11363 runs and formed an explosive opening partnership with Sachin Tendulkar.
Dravid fell five runs short of a ton in his debut at the home of cricket. His 95 however did stand testament to his technique and class that soon saw him transform into an all time batting legend.
The Ganguly and Dravid combination helped the Indian cricket team turn a new page and laid the foundation for their current No 1 status. As batsmen and skippers they helped India achieve Test wins in England, West Indies, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia - aside from the sub-continent. They emerged from the shadow of Tendulkar to convert the Indian team from pushovers to world beaters.
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Dravid is at present the third highest scorer in Tests with 12063 runs and 31 Test centuries under his belt, while his ODI career saw him rack up 10765 ODI runs. Some of his other records include - the most number of Test catches (200) and centuries in all Test playing nations.
15 years on, Dravid continues to represent India in the longer format of the game. The first match vs West Indies in Jamaica is his 151st appearance in Test cricket.
Posted by: Administrator
on Jun 01, 2011
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The Indian cricket team was felicitated on Tuesday for winning the 2011 World Cup while former charismatic all-rounder Salim Durrani was honoured with the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award at the 4th annual Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Awards here.
Durrani, a former Test cricketer, was presented with a trophy and Rs. 15 lakh.
Sachin Tendulkar was given the Polly Umrigar award for being the best Indian cricketer in the 2009-10 season.
Each player of the Indian team was awarded a cheque of Rs. 2 crore for winning the World Cup after 28 years.
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Tendulkar, who broke many records last season, received a trophy and cheque for Rs. 5 lakh. He scored 1,064 runs in 10 Tests, which included one double hundred and five hundreds. In 12 ODIs, Tendulkar made 695 runs at an average of 69.5. He also scored the first double hundred in ODIs which came against South Africa at Gwalior in February 2010.
The glorious evening ended with an audio-visual presentation of the memorable moments of Team India’s 2011 World Cup campaign. The interesting bit about this presentation was that each game was accompanied with a matching theme song.
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on Nov 27, 2010
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Asserting their supremacy in the sport, India trounced Thailand 28-14 to clinch the inaugural women's kabaddi gold medal in the Asian Games in Guangzhou on Friday.
India took control of the game very early with aggressive tackling and dismissed the entire Thai team for a two-point bonus before taking a commanding 17-7 lead at the halfway stage of the one-sided final at the Nansha Gymnasium.
National coach Balwan Singh termed the triumph in the first appearance at the Games as a "good team effort".
"We are proud to have won the gold for the country in a tough competition," he said.
"Our defense was very good. We had studied the rival's game. They were very fast but could not wriggle out of our grasp when making raids into our territory," he said.
Manager Kumar Vijay said the team did not want to take things easy after the nerve-wrecking one-point semi-final victory over Iran.
"Though we were confident of winning the gold, we did not want to take any chances after the close semi-final against Iran on Thursday (which India won by one point)," said Vijay.
"The score may show it was an easy victory but the Thai girls really put up a good resistance," he said.
After conceding a massive first-half lead, the Thai girls tried to make a comeback but the Indians did not allow it to happen with rock-solid defense and better tactical acumen.
The winners added 11 more points to their tally in the second half while keeping their rivals down to just seven to emerge creditable victors.
The slightly built but nimble-footed Thai girls, trained by Indian Ramesh Bhendigiri, were no match for the more powerful raids of India's top attackers Mamatha and Deepika Joseph who were well supported by Tejeswani, Pooja and Manisha.
The Thais were also handicapped by the ankle injury sustained by their top raider and captain Alisa Limsamran in an earlier match.
Indian assistant coach Sunil Dabas said Thursday close shave against Iran was the perfect wake up call for the girls.
"They were determined to win after being really shaken up by Iran. It turned out to be blessing in disguise and was a well-timed wake up call," he said.
Snehal Salunkhe said the Indian girls had played a lot of practice matches with Thailand and the gold was a "dream come true".
"We went out relaxed as we have played practice matches with the Thai team before. They had no weaknesses and played well against Iran and beat them (in league). We are taller, stronger while the Thai team is young," she said.
"Only in my dreams had I thought we could win gold but now it has come true," she added.
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on Sep 09, 2010
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The water level in the Yamuna is likely to rise by at least two metres above the danger mark by tomorrow evening due to release of over 8 lakh cusec water by Haryana, a prospect that has prompted authorities to ask people living in nearby low-lying areas to shift elsewhere. The river was flowing at 204.52 metres this morning, slightly less than the danger level of 204.83 metres.
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on Mar 18, 2010
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Telegraph Sport has teamed up with Emirates Airline, sponsor of Indian Premier League team the Kings XI Punjab, and is offering one lucky cricket fan and a friend the chance to win the trip of a lifetime to India to see the action first hand.
Punjab-based Kings XI will take on the Mumbai Indians in Mohali on April 9 and the winners will be watching the action in India from the best seats in the house. In addition to match tickets, the winners will enjoy the luxury of a return Business Class flight from a UK airport directly to Delhi, three night’s accommodation at a four-star hotel as well as all internal flights and transfers.
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Posted by: Administrator
on Feb 08, 2010
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The popular I ♥ India page on Facebook is holding "The Valentines 2010 Sohni Mahiwal Of The Year Competition!" .
Below is the excerpt from the page.
Posted by: Administrator
on Feb 01, 2010
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Indian judokas, weightlifters and cyclists landed gold medals on the third day of the 11th South Asian Games at Dhaka on Sunday.
Balvinder Singh and Vikram Solanki grabbed the gold medals in the mens 73 and 90 kg categories of the judo event at a BKSP, Savar, which is 40 k.m. away from the capital city, lifters Omkar Otari and Rustam Sarang gave India a gold and a bronze in the men’s 62 kg class.
In the morning, the men’s cycling quartet of Amandeep Singh, Harpreet Singh, Rajendra Bishnoi and Sabu Ganager, earned India gold with a time of 1:44:11.81s in the 80 km team time trial at Khulna. Pakistan (1:45:59.11s) took the silver and Bangladesh (1:46:44.11) the bronze.
Balvinder won against Pakistan’s Karamat Butt en route to the gold medal while Vikram Solanki downed his Sri Lankan rival D.K. Priyadarshana.
Srinivas disqualified
There was a setback for India in the weightlifting arena as the Indian entry, V. Srinivas, competing in the 56 kg class, was disqualified for failing thrice in the snatch event. In a field of five competitors,
Srinivas began after the other four finished at 102 kg. The Indian attempted to clear 103 and failed thus denying India a medal from this class.
In an interesting incident, all the three medal winners in the men’s 62 kg tied on points. India’s Omkar Otari, Pakistan’s Istiaq Ghafoor Muhammad and Rustam Sarang of India tallied 258 kg in snatch and clean and jerk. Omkar’s lesser body weight (61.30kg) gave him the gold while Ghafoor (61.47) took the silver. Rustam (61.50) had to settle for the bronze medal.
GOOD SHOW
Indian shuttlers were looking for a clear sweep in the team events as both the teams made it to the finals of the team event without much difficulty. The men’s team had no difficultly in walloping host Bangladesh 5-0, the women made short work of Nepal also by the same margin.
India’s final opponent will be Sri Lanka whose ladies beat Bangladesh 5-0 and the men outplayed Nepal by an identical margin.
Oinam Bembem Devi struck a hat-trick against Pakistan to enable India win by a half a dozen goals in its second game at the National Stadium. India, which had won against Sri Lanka 8-1 in the opening game, led 5-0 at half-time.
Captain Bembem, who plays as an attacking midfielder, combined superbly with the strikers in rotating the ball in the rival’s zone.
After Sashmita Mallick drew the first blood in the seventh minute, Bembem got into the act scoring in the 10th, 11th and 17th to bamboozle the Pakistanis.
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on Sep 08, 2009
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Pankaj Advani defeated nine times champion Mike Russell at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds to win the elusive World Professional Billiards Championship.  Advani beat the defending champion 2030-1253 after having a 800-plus lead at the break.
Advani is the second Indian to win the title in its 139th years of history. Geet Sethi was the last Indian to win in 2006, his first being in 1992.
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on Aug 29, 2009
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Two years ago, IPL cricket was a pipe dream. Now it's the fastest-appreciating sports business on Earth.The season opener was mere moments away when the Washington Redskins cheerleaders marched to mid-field to perform a routine that brought the crowd--draped in red and yellow team colors--to its feet. No, it wasn't a late-summer night at Maryland's FedEx Field, but rather a sweltering April evening in Bangalore's Chinnaswamy Stadium and the inaugural match of the Indian Premier League (IPL), cricket's first foray, from a business prospective, into the major leagues. The 2008 match between the Royal Challengers Bangalore (the team's owner, Vijay Mallya's United Breweries, hired the cheerleaders for four games) and the Kolkata Knight Riders (co-owned by Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan) was seen by 40,000 spectators, 14.4 million TV viewers in India and millions more watching on the eight networks that syndicated coverage across the globe.
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on Jun 29, 2009
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Below are a few quotes compiled about what others (including his competitiors) think of Indian Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar.. "Nothing bad can happen to us if we're on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it."
- Hashim Amla, the South African batsman, reassures himself as he boards a flight.
"Sometimes you get so engrossed in watching batsmen like Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar that you lose focus on your job."
- Yaseer Hameed in pakistani newspaper.
"To Sachin, the man we all want to be"
- Andrew Symonds wrote on an aussie t-shirt he autographed specially for Sachin.
Beneath the helmet, under that unruly curly hair, inside the cranium, there is something we don't know, something beyond scientific measure. Something that allows him to soar, to roam a territory of sport that, forget us, even those who are gifted enough to play alongside him cannot even fathom. When he goes out to bat, people switch on their TV sets and switch off their lives."
- BBC on Sachin
"Tujhe pata hai tune kiska catch chhoda hai?"
- Wasim Akram to Abdul Razzaq when the latter dropped Sachin's catch in 2003 WC.
Sachin is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.
- Brian Charles Lara
"We did not lose to a team called India...we lost to a man called Sachin."
- Mark Taylor, during the test match in Chennai (1997)
"The more I see of him the more confused I'm getting to which is his best knock."
- M. L. Jaisimha
"The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility - all make for a one-in-a-billion individual,"
- Glen McGrath
"I can be hundred per cent sure that Sachin will not play for a minute longer when he is not enjoying himself. He is still so eager to go out there and play. He will play as long as he feels he can play,"
- Anjali Tendulkar
"Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar."
- Tendulkar's daughter, Sara, tells her class her father's name after the teacher informs them of a restaurant of the same name in Mumbai.
Question: Who do you think as most important celebrity ?
Shah Rukh Khan: There was a big party where stars from bollywood and cricket were invited. Suddenly, there was a big noise, all wanted to see approaching Amitabh Bachhan. Then Sachin entered the hall and Amitabh was leading the queue to get a grab of the GENIUS!!
- Shah Rukh Khan in an interview.
India me aap PrimeMinister ko ek Baar Katghare me khada kar sakte hain..Par Sachin Tendulkar par Ungli nahi utha Sakte..
- Navjot Singh Sidhu on TV
He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also.
- Waqar Younis
'I Will See God When I Die But Till Then I Will See Sachin'
- A banner in Sharjah
Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the world. I was bowling to Sachin and he hit me for two fours in a row. One from point and the other in between point and gully. That was the last two balls of the over and the over after that we (SA) took a wicket and during the group meeting i told Jonty (Rhodes) to be alert and i know a way to pin Sachin. And i delivered the first ball of my next over and it was a fuller length delevery outside offstump. And i shouted catch. To my astonishment the ball was hit to the cover boundary. Such was the brilliance of Sachin. His reflex time is the best i have ever seen. Its like 1/20th of a sec. To get his wicket better not prepare. Atleast u wont regret if he hits you for boundaries.
- Allan Donald
On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!!
- Peter Roebuck - Aussie journalist
"Sachin cannot cheat. He is to cricket what (Mahatma) Gandhiji was to politics. It's clear discrimination. "
- NKP Salve, former Union Minister when Sachin was accused of ball tempering
There are 2 kinds of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the others.
- Andy Flower
"I have seen god, he bats at no.4 for India"
- Mathew Hayden source : Rediff
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