India Become No. 1 in Test Cricket !
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Where is autralia?
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cus we are slow...and cricket suits us the best.
Tennis is the other sport we like playing...
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Seriously man, you can count me there. Makes me feel bad for the kids that start at 9 in the morning and go lazily throughout the scorching hot day till the evening doing what... wandering around counting each other's scores... and throwing the ball around once a while too lol
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Finally We are Alone at The Top : The Kings of Test Cricket !
Resuming at 274/6, the Sri Lankans lost their heroic captain Kumar Sangakkara (137) in the very first over and were bundled out for 309 with Zaheer Khan being the pick of the Indian bowlers with figures of 5/72.
The Sunday crowd at the Brabourne Stadium, hosting a Test match after a gap of 36 years, witnessed a historic moment as Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his men crowned themselves the number one team.
The crowd erupted into a frenzy as Muttiah Muralitharan edged a flighted delivery from Harbhajan Singh to Dhoni to bring down the curtains on the Lankan innings.
The Indian players hugged each other and a beaming coach Gary Kirsten greeted them as they returned to the pavilion.
The victory has given India three points in the ICC rankings, taking their overall tally to 122 and leaving them ahead of South Africa and Sri Lanka in the ICC table.
The teams will now gear up for two Twenty20 matches in Nagpur and Mohali followed by a five-match One-day series which begins at Rajkot from December 15.
The match would be best remembered for the blazing 293-run knock that Virender Sehwag played. The right-hander, however, missed out on becoming the first batsman in the game's history to score three triple tons.
Such was India's dominance that Dhoni's men completed the comprehensive victory in just 7.4 overs this morning.
Zaheer hastened Lanka to their doom by claiming three of the last four wickets to finish with his eighth five-wicket innings haul.
The 31-year-old pacer's figures in the morning sessions read an astonishing 4-1-21-3. Sri Lanka needed 59 more runs to make India bat again but with just four wickets in hand to start the day, only a miracle could have saved the match for them.
After having brought down the visitors to their knees last evening, India dismissed Sangakkara off the third ball to start their victory march.
Zaheer swung the ball a bit away and Sangakkara, who struck his 20th four off his previous ball, was drawn to it like a magnet but only managed to edge it to counterpart Dhoni.
He could add only four runs to his overnight score and fell for 137 in 349 minutes after having prevented the hosts from sweeping to victory last evening.
Zaheer then dismissed Rangana Herath in his third over, caught by a diving Pragyan Ojha at short mid-wicket while attempting a pull.
Muthiah Muralitharan then used the long handle against Zaheer by carting the bowler for three fours in one over before the left-arm pacer sent back overnight unbeaten batsman Nuwan Kulasekara.
Kulasekara, resuming at 9, could not negotiate a rising ball from Zaheer and edged it to second slip fielder VVS Laxman. He added 10 more runs including two boundary hits to his individual score.
Harbhajan then brought down curtains on the match by having Muralitharan caught behind as he tried an almighty heave to give Dhoni his sixth catch in the match.
Spinners Harbhajan, who looked unimpressive for the major part, and Pragyan Ojha finished with two wickets apiece for 80 and 84 runs respectively while S Sreesanth bagged 1 for 36.
It was the second successive innings victory for India following their resounding win by an innings and 144 runs in the second Test at Kanpur. The first Test at Ahmedabad was drawn.
It was also India's 101st Test win and their fifth at this venue in 18 matches.
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BCCI Rewards Team India ::
Mumbai: The Indian Cricket Board, BCCI, on Sunday decided to reward members of the Indian cricket team with Rs 25 lakh each after the national team won three-match Test series against Sri Lanka.
The team, under the leadership of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, also secured the top spot in the ICC Test rankings.
Board President Shashank Manohar announced at the BCCI awards function here that each support staff and selection committee members will get Rs 10 lakh.
“We have decided to give each Indian cricket team member Rs 25 lakh for becoming the number one in ICC Test rankings,” Manohar said.
The BCCI also announced a cash reward of get Rs 10 lakh for each of the support staff and selection committee member.
“Each of the support staff and selection committee members will be given Rs 10 lakh,” he added.
India on Sunday became the number one team in the ICC Test Championships after their innings victory over Sri Lanka in the third and final match here to win the series 2-0.
Resuming at 274/6, the Sri Lankans lost their heroic captain Kumar Sangakkara (137) in the very first over and were bundled out for 309 with Zaheer Khan being the pick of the Indian bowlers with figures of 5/72.
The Sunday crowd at the Brabourne Stadium, hosting a Test match after a gap of 36 years, witnessed a historic moment as Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his men crowned themselves the number one team.
The crowd erupted into a frenzy as Muttiah Muralitharan edged a flighted delivery from Harbhajan Singh to Dhoni to bring down the curtains on the Lankan innings.
The Indian players hugged each other and a beaming coach Gary Kirsten greeted them as they returned to the pavilion.
The victory has given India three points in the ICC rankings, taking their overall tally to 122 and leaving them ahead of South Africa and Sri Lanka in the ICC table.
The teams will now gear up for two Twenty20 matches in Nagpur and Mohali followed by a five-match One-day series which begins at Rajkot from December 15.
The match would be best remembered for the blazing 293-run knock that Virender Sehwag played. The right-hander, however, missed out on becoming the first batsman in the game's history to score three triple tons.
Such was India's dominance that Dhoni's men completed the comprehensive victory in just 7.4 overs this morning.
Zaheer hastened Lanka to their doom by claiming three of the last four wickets to finish with his eighth five-wicket innings haul.
The 31-year-old pacer's figures in the morning sessions read an astonishing 4-1-21-3. Sri Lanka needed 59 more runs to make India bat again but with just four wickets in hand to start the day, only a miracle could have saved the match for them.
After having brought down the visitors to their knees last evening, India dismissed Sangakkara off the third ball to start their victory march.
Zaheer swung the ball a bit away and Sangakkara, who struck his 20th four off his previous ball, was drawn to it like a magnet but only managed to edge it to counterpart Dhoni.
He could add only four runs to his overnight score and fell for 137 in 349 minutes after having prevented the hosts from sweeping to victory last evening.
Zaheer then dismissed Rangana Herath in his third over, caught by a diving Pragyan Ojha at short mid-wicket while attempting a pull.
Muthiah Muralitharan then used the long handle against Zaheer by carting the bowler for three fours in one over before the left-arm pacer sent back overnight unbeaten batsman Nuwan Kulasekara.
Kulasekara, resuming at 9, could not negotiate a rising ball from Zaheer and edged it to second slip fielder VVS Laxman. He added 10 more runs including two boundary hits to his individual score.
Harbhajan then brought down curtains on the match by having Muralitharan caught behind as he tried an almighty heave to give Dhoni his sixth catch in the match.
Spinners Harbhajan, who looked unimpressive for the major part, and Pragyan Ojha finished with two wickets apiece for 80 and 84 runs respectively while S Sreesanth bagged 1 for 36.
It was the second successive innings victory for India following their resounding win by an innings and 144 runs in the second Test at Kanpur. The first Test at Ahmedabad was drawn.
It was also India's 101st Test win and their fifth at this venue in 18 matches.
---------- Post added at 11:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:17 PM ----------
BCCI Rewards Team India ::
Mumbai: The Indian Cricket Board, BCCI, on Sunday decided to reward members of the Indian cricket team with Rs 25 lakh each after the national team won three-match Test series against Sri Lanka.
The team, under the leadership of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, also secured the top spot in the ICC Test rankings.
Board President Shashank Manohar announced at the BCCI awards function here that each support staff and selection committee members will get Rs 10 lakh.
“We have decided to give each Indian cricket team member Rs 25 lakh for becoming the number one in ICC Test rankings,” Manohar said.
The BCCI also announced a cash reward of get Rs 10 lakh for each of the support staff and selection committee member.
“Each of the support staff and selection committee members will be given Rs 10 lakh,” he added.
India on Sunday became the number one team in the ICC Test Championships after their innings victory over Sri Lanka in the third and final match here to win the series 2-0.
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Man this indian batting line up is too strong. Its really hard for any bowling line up to stop them when they are going. A lot of effort, passion, and skill has gone into this I hope they can maintain this form for a bit longer.
And of course waiting for India pakistan tests and hopefully not on flat batting Tracks
And of course waiting for India pakistan tests and hopefully not on flat batting Tracks
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Man this indian batting line up is too strong. Its really hard for any bowling line up to stop them when they are going. A lot of effort, passion, and skill has gone into this I hope they can maintain this form for a bit longer.
And of course waiting for India pakistan tests and hopefully not on flat batting Tracks
I personally think that Indian batting was always good, though current batting line up is probably the strongest in years, it was our team's extraordinarily stupid fielding and to some extent bowling which made us lose most of the matches.
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Who cares if Americans don't know anything about Cricket? The fact remains that the Cricket world cup is the third most popular sporting event in the world after the Olympics and the Fifa world cup.
About India being in the football world cup, won't happen for another 25 years. We had our chance in 1950, but we refused to participate.
About India being in the football world cup, won't happen for another 25 years. We had our chance in 1950, but we refused to participate.
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This is good about this forum is ,if you are tired from defense topics you have the opportunity to divert yourself on much lighter topics like sports.
Congratulation all of you Indian friends and thread members for this achievement and pls correct me if I am not wrong this is first time in your test history.So guys have a partys and supplies from my side TAKE THESE
Congratulation all of you Indian friends and thread members for this achievement and pls correct me if I am not wrong this is first time in your test history.So guys have a partys and supplies from my side TAKE THESE
