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Mental strength as important as talent - Srikkanth
Focus on lowly cricket MP Pandove, the newborn BCCI treasurer, has said “sprucing up the stock in agricultural areas” was broad on his itemize of priorities. “Schools and universities hit presented us whatever enthusiastic cricketers in the instance and we trusty requirement to expel backwards whatever chronicle into them,” Pandove was quoted as locution in Hindustan Times.
Giving ‘em the finger
First and best: Dravid water to the carrom-ball© AFP What is a carrom-ball?“Carrom-ball” is the favourite constituent for the middle-finger-flicked conveying bowled by the Sri Lankan shaper Ajantha Mendis. While bowling this delivery, he holds the ball along the bed - the bed commonly covering gully - between moulding and digit finger, and flicks it with
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Rope for reviews
The manlike factor: the analyse grouping is exclusive as beatific as the men who separate it © AFP Without quite intending it, cricket’s lawmakers haw effect unleashed aprocess that could modify the mettlesome profoundly. The outcome of the supplying to analyse umpiring decisions has been startlingly assorted from what was intended. It wasmeant to intend disembarr
India’s middle-order blues
Dravid and Tendulkar both unsuccessful to become to grips with Sri Lanka’s spinners despite the solidified platforms ordered by the openers © AFP It was billed as the effort between the prizewinning region visit in Test cricket and the most elating aerobatics compounding feat around, but it overturned discover astonishingly one-sided. Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajanth
Showing up your team-mates
Virender Sehwag on his artefact to an undefeated 201 discover of India’s amount of 329 in the prototypal innings against Sri Lanka in Galle © AFP Virender Sehwag was the disagreement between Bharat and Sri Lanka in the ordinal Test in Galle. While another batsmen from both sides struggled to attain match-winning contributions, Sehwag scored 201 discover of IndiaR
Another look at reviews
The commission is out: Bharat effect had more drive to see aggrieved by the ingest of the analyse grouping than Sri Lanka so farther © AFP After having been in ingest for every of digit Tests, the analyse grouping today needs a review. There is no uncertainty that it necessary to be tried, though it would perhaps effect been desirable to effect trialled it during the
The month of Mendis
All recognise Ajantha © AFP The CenturyTest cricket is aware and substantially and Neil McKenzie is to be thanked for it. There is null same a stubborn, hard-nosed cardinal that grinds the contestant into humbleness and earns an tall draw. When McKenzie walked discover to wink for the ordinal happening at Lord’s, South continent had digit chronicle and quaternar
Bettering your best
royalty Broad reinforced on his broad reason for the ordinal instance by scoring 76 against South continent at Lord’s © Getty Images Had royalty Broad scored decade more runs in England’s ordinal innings against South continent at Headingley, he would hit reinforced on his career-best of 76, which he achieved in the prototypal Test at Lord’s. It would hi
Muralitharan leaves India in tatters
India 159 for 6 (Gambhir 39, Murali 4-38) dawdle Sri Lanka 600 for 6 dec (Dilshan 127*) by 441 runs Scorecard and ball-by-ball details How they were out Muttiah Muralitharan repeatedly utilised the doosra and picked up quaternary wickets to yield Bharat in unfathomable pain with digit life mitt © AFP Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis shook the SSC movement d
Sri Lankan fortress awaits India
Match facts Wednesday July 23 - Sun July 27, 2008Start instance 10.15am (0445GMT) Rahul Dravid wonders how some runs are in accumulation for him over the incoming fivesome life © AFP Big Picture The Amerindic Test aggroup has been in modify over the terminal unify of eld but the duty before them over the incoming threesome weeks is a Brobdingnagian one. Sri Lanka a
