Shaun Marsh & Peter Handscomb manage to keep India away from the victory

 March 20, 2017   kridangan

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Australia’s  decision of selection of 6th batmen in place of the injured Mitchell Marsh to give them the batting depth. This decision turn right on the last day of the match, when thirty minutes before the lunch Handscomb join Marsh , it was the time when Australia were still 89 runs short of making India […]

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Steve O’Keefe Engineers India’s Sordid Slump from Summit in Pune Test

 February 26, 2017   R K Gupta

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When India took 9 Australian wickets for 205 on first day of Pune’s first test match, it looked as if the home side would continue their victorious march with another glorious win. No one factored left-arm spinner Stephen O’Keefe, who was playing only his 5th test match. O’Keefe had test figures of 14 wickets from […]

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Australia spoils Dilshan’s farewell match to sweep series 2-0

 September 10, 2016   Vignesh Aravind

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Sri Lanka once again failed to deliver as they succumbed to some mediocre batting. Dilshan playing his final international match could manage only a solitary run as Australia ripped apart Sri Lanka’s top order. John Hastings started off the proceedings and in the very first over he picked up the wicket of Dilshan. Looking to cut a […]

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Maxwell’s Explosive Batting Helps Australia Thrash Sri Lanka by 85 runs in First T20

 September 7, 2016   R K Gupta

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In the 2014 IPL season, Kings XI Punjab had a new recruit acquired for 60 million rupees. In the earlier season, Australian Glenn Maxwell wasn’t properly utilized by the Mumbai Indians but he fully justified KXIP’s acquisition by providing his new team a thunderous start. With scores of 95, 89, 95, 15, 6, 45, 90 […]

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Finch,Smith takes Australia home win in a low scoring thriller

 August 22, 2016   Vignesh Aravind

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Aaron Finch and Skipper Smith scored valuable half centuries as Australia secured their first win of their tour against Sri Lanka. They took the strenuous route to achieve a modest target. Sri lanka though showed a valiant effort to turn the tables. Earlier Sri Lanka were put into bat and lost their openers cheaply.Veteran Dilshan […]

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Herath’s spell gives Sri Lanka a historic win

 July 30, 2016   Vignesh Aravind

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Sri Lanka registered a historic 106 run win over Australia in the first test at Pallekelle stadium in Kandy. This was only their second win over Australia.The main Architect were the spinners who troubled the Aussie batsman with their spin and bounce.The leader of the attack Rangana Herath secured his 24th five wicket haul to […]

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Classical Virat Kohli Single-Handedly Carves Out Crucial Win as India Storms into Semifinals

 March 29, 2016   R K Gupta

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In the days gone by, India’s batting depended on a solitary figure. Through seventies and much of eighties, Indian batting revolved around Sunny Gavaskar. Nearly the same thing happened in the nineties and a substantial part of new millennium, when Sachin Tendulkar was Indian batting’s focal point. For the past year or so, the Gavaskar-Tendulkar […]

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Australian Women Beat India Comprehensively in Second ODI at Hobart to Win Series

 February 6, 2016   R K Gupta

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India lost their second successive ODI game against Australia on February 5 and Smriti Mandhana’s valiant century went in vain. India batted first and riding on fine knocks by Mandhana and skipper Mithali Raj, posted 252/8 in 50 overs. In their 253-run victory chase, the Aussie women dominated Indian bowlers and won the match by […]

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Australia Blown Away Like Dried Leaves by New Zealand Bowlers in Auckland’s First ODI

 February 4, 2016   R K Gupta

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Australia arrived in New Zealand fresh from their 0-3 drubbing by India in the T-20 Series. Earlier they handed India a 4-1 series defeat in 50-over fixtures. But they found the difference in the quality of opposition attack in the first match of the 3-game ODI series against New Zealand. In Auckland on February 03, […]

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Dominant Virat Kohli Carries India to a Big Win Against Australia in the First T-20 Game

 January 28, 2016   R K Gupta

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India lost the toss but won the game. The difference was the format-change. Steven Smith learnt about the subtlety in the 50 and 20-over formats, when he decided to chase after winning the toss in the first of the three-match T-20 Series at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday and paid the price by losing. It […]

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