And India Wins The 2011 Cricket World Cup!

[WAQAS119]

Chummi baba is back! ;D And Congrats to India

 

[Paan Singh]

Chummi baba is back! ;D And Congrats to India

chummy died in mohali

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Chummi baba is back! ;D And Congrats to India

kya Totaa ab Chidiya ban ke aa gaya?

 

[justanobserver]

Mahendra Singh Dhoni: From a 'ticket collector' to Team India World Cup winning captain

Kharagpur: Sourav Ganguly was Team India captain then and Yuvraj Singh a rising star. Those days, Mahendra Singh Dhoni worked as a railway ticket collector in West Bengal's Kharagpur. The shy, reticent Mahi is now Indian skipper. And, winner of the World Cup.

Kharagpur residents have not forgotten Dhoni who stayed at the railway town for about three years. On Saturday, his former colleagues and locals performed yajnas, pujas and prayed hard for 'Captain Cool'. Many of them remembered how Dhoni cycled around the town and played cricket with tennis balls on practically every ground in and around Kharagpur.

He was known as a cricket crazy lad then. No one knew he was meant for bigger things.

Dhoni came here as a 20-year-old in 2001, desperately seeking a job. The then divisional railway manager of South Eastern Railway Animesh Kumar Ganguly, a cricket fanatic, was desperately looking for a wicket-keeper batsman.

"Ganguly took Mahi to the South Eastern Railway Sports Association stadium, bowled him 60 balls and came back satisfied. Dhoni got the job in sports quota," said a nostalgic Siddhartha Chatterjee. He was the captain when Dhoni played for a local club.

Everyone in this town seems to have similar stories to tell. Since early Saturday morning, the railway town had only cricket and Dhoni in their mind. Ranjan Chakraborty was busy with a puja at Durga temple for Dhoni at 6am. At another puja, a huge cut-out of Hanumanji stood beside a giant replica of the World Cup trophy.

But Dhoni's tryst with Kharagpur ended abruptly in 2003, when he began getting calls for bigger matches. He quit the railways job and joined the erstwhile Indian Airlines . A few years ago he came to Kharagpur to meet his friends quietly. "That was the last time he was here. We all stole into a train compartment and had dinner," said a friend.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Webby if he would have been Pakistani, looking at his records you would have been saying the opposite.
1) Highest test runs.
2) Highest ODI run. ( The difference between him and number is too so big (4000+ runs) that most Batsmen retire without making that much).
3) Highest ODI and Test Centuries.
4) Highest Runs in World Cup (Single).
5) Highest Runs in World cups combined (He has always done well in each World cup).

No one is invincible and so does Sachin. His not making runs in Final is no big deal.

Admit you are jealous and you cannot digest, he na Webby.

Sachin's a batting genius, on his day he can tear any attack in the world apart.
- Wasim Akram ( former Pakistan fast bowler)

Another thing you are forgetting, he is 37 years today.

His record is priceless I think he has served his nation well - he has benefited from playing constant test cricket and that too 5-6 test series regularly , and allowed him to amass runs, but even so , his centuries have proven the guy is real deal and he won the cup rightfully

I think it would have been so odd if this legendary player would have not won the World Cup it would have ruined the world cup - just like Imran Khan lifted the cup it raised the status of world cup , with Sachin's lift the level and prestige of cup has gone up

I remember Inzi had a chance to also reach 10,000 runs but our own PCB , benched poor inzi for like 2- years and countless games

Anyhow - its definitely a take a bow moment

 

[SpArK]

Captain Cool's new avatar. Dhoni shaves his head!

 

[@nline]

indian panditon ka jado akhir chal hi gya,

 

[twoplustwoisfour]

When India won the World T20, Dhoni cut his hair short.

When India won the World Cup, Dhoni goes bald.

I'm afraid of what he'll do if India wins another world championship....

 

[SpArK]

Munaf, Yusuf to Get Gujarat's Highest Sports Award​

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today announced the state's highest sports honour- Eklavya Award - for Munaf Patel and Yusuf Pathan, members of the Indian squad that won the 2011 Cricket World Cup.

"Today, the entire country is celebrating victory of the Indian cricket team. Cricket in India is a game that is associated with patriotism. Yesterday, Indian team have honoured the nation and fulfilled the aspirations of the 121 crore Indians," Modi said inaugurating seminar on human resource development by the Raksha Shakti University (RSU) here.

"I congratulate all players for the feat. In this team there are two youths from Gujarat, bhai Yusuf Pathan and Munaf Patel. My special congratulations to them," he said.

"Gujarat government has decided that both Munaf and Yusuf would be awarded with that highest sports honours of the state of Gujarat - Eklavya Award," Modi said.

He said honouring Munaf and Yusuf would be in a way honouring the strength of the youths of the country.

The Eklavya award includes a cash price of Rs one lakh, a memento and a certificate of honour.

news.outlookindia.com | Munaf, Yusuf to Get Gujarat's Highest Sports Award

 

[luckyyy]

Captain Cool's new avatar. Dhoni shaves his head!

now he looks more of a football player..

 

[Water Car Engineer]

 

[LEGENDARY WARRIOR]

congrats Team India!

 

[Rafi]

Congrats and well played, you deserve this victory as being the most consistent team.

 

[Markus]

Super Congratulations to Team India​

 

[Water Car Engineer]