The final IPL squads for the third season have been announced, with the usual blend of foreign players and stars of the Indian domestic circuit.A whole bunch of form ICL players have been included this year, driving up the percentage of local players. None of them will be known by many outside India.The biggest omission is that of Rajasthan star Ravindra Jadeja, whom Shane Warne famously nicknamed...
The new contracts for the Indian cricket team was finalized recently. 4 grades are given usually which mean players get different payments based on where they have been categorized (60, 40, 25 and 15 lakhs for grades A, B, C, D respectively).Batsmen Grade A Grade B Grade CGrade D Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh Suresh Raina, Rohit Sha...
After my previous post of the Top-30 players for the Indian team (World Cup), I received an email from hemnath janakiraman on his teams for all the 3 versions - tests, ODIs and T20. I have represented the same below in a tabular fashion.PlayersTest TeamODI teamT20 teamVirender SehwagYesYesYesGautam GambhirYesYesYesYusuf PathanYesYesYesSachin TendulkarYesYesVVS LaxmanYesSuresh RainaYesYesYesMS Dhon...
The tour didn’t get ignored as much as I’d thought, actually - quite unlike Raina’s first captaincy stint in the tri-series with Zimbabwe and Bangladesh year. There was plenty of interest in the progress of India’s next cricketing generation. Here’s a list of things that have been added to our knowledge over the course of the T20I, ODIs and Tests.
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