Wanna Be A Millionaire Overnight? Get Yourself Sold in An IPL Auction
February 17, 2014 R K Gupta
Cricket, indian cricket, IPL, IPL2014February 12 and 13, 2014 were two absorbing days, which saw the convergence of global celebrities at Bengaluru’s posh ITC Gardenia hotel, where IPL franchise owners made their bids to create right team combinations for coming IPL seasons. If you were to go to the Gardenia on any of those two days, you could have […]
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India’s Cricketing Miseries – Where Do They Go From Here?
February 13, 2014 R K Gupta
Cricket, indian cricket, New Zealand Cricket, Test CricketThe fact that Ishant Sharma has taken a number of wickets in the first test will mean that the wayward bowler will be persisted with when the team for the second test is finalized. Including Zaheer Khan will be another compulsion, since the veteran is still erroneously thought of as India’s bowling spearhead. And since […]
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Miraculous India Fight Doggedly but Lose the First Test on the Fourth Day
February 9, 2014 R K Gupta
Cricket, indian cricket, New Zealand CricketAfter waiting for 12 long years, New Zealand have scored their first test win against India. On the first day morning, the sky was overcast and any captain, winning the toss on such a day, will not hesitate to send the opposition in. MS Dhoni did precisely that, because overcast weather conditions help seam bowling. […]
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Runs sacrificed for ‘team ethic’ in wake of Pietersen departure
February 6, 2014 John Welsh
Cricket, ECB, England Cricket, ICC, kevin pietersenNow that England have completed their controversial winter tour to Australia with the Ashes no longer in possession of the tourists, it was to be expected that changes in personnel would be required as a result of the 5-0 whitewash in the main test series. That the leading batsmen would be told his services would […]
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Australia Win ODI & T-20 Series despite Losing Women’s Ashes
February 3, 2014 R K Gupta
Ashes series, Cricket, Cricket Australia, England Cricket, Women CricketAfter losing the test match and the first ODI to England, the Australian women scored thumping victories against England in ODI and T20 series. But in the end it was not enough. The test match had given England 6 points and the first ODI victory for them added another 2. But Australia bounced back to […]
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Pathetic Show by India in the ODI Series Against New Zealand
February 2, 2014 R K Gupta
Cricket, indian cricket, New Zealand Cricket, ODIAfter somehow taking the third ODI to the tie, India miserably lost the next two and gifted the Series to the Kiwis 4-0. In a post-match interview, MS Dhoni talked only about his batsmen passing through a bad patch, as if everything else was OK with the team. In every ODI, except the 4th, Dhoni […]
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India comprehensively Outplayed by New Zealand, Lose 4th ODI, Series
January 29, 2014 R K Gupta
Cricket, indian cricket, MS Dhoni, New Zealand Cricket, ODIAs if on cue, India surprised everyone by deciding to bat first after putting the opposition in. This was the first time in the last 20 ODIs out of Asia, when MS Dhoni, so fond of chasing, chose to bat. In a related post, couple of days ago, this author made a mention of Indian […]
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England Bowlers Dominate Australia But Lose the Fifth ODI Narrowly
January 27, 2014 R K Gupta
Cricket, Cricket Australia, England CricketEngland almost won the fifth ODI at Adelaide on January 26, 2014. Irrespective of the final result, it was the first time in the ODI series that England laid Australia low, after losing the toss and fielding first. Stuart Broad and Ben Stokes dominated the top-order Australian batting and accounted for early wickets. Broad clean-bowled […]
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Jadeja’s Heroics In Tied ODI at Auckland But Bowling Torn To Shreds Again
January 25, 2014 R K Gupta
Cricket, indian cricket, New Zealand Cricket, Ravindra JadejaThe story of the third ODI at Auckland was no different from the script of the first two games at Napier and Hamilton. At both venues, India needed to chase an identical target of 293 runs. The only difference in Hamilton was that India had only 41.3 overs by D/L method to reach the target, […]
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Stokes and Buttler offer future hope for English cricket
January 24, 2014 John Welsh
Cricket, Cricket Australia, England CricketThe name of Jos Buttler may not have been enshrined on everybody’s lips when England began their ODI series against Australia this January, especially when the tourists collapsed to an insurmountable 3-0 deficit after being whitewashed 5-0 in the Ashes series. Yet the young Lancashire cricketer has proved in three of the four one day […]
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| # | Player | Point |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viktor AXELSEN | 72,500 |
| 2 | CHOU Tien Chen | 67,190 |
| 3 | PRANNOY H. S. | 66,730 |
| 4 | Jonatan CHRISTIE | 64,960 |
| 5 | Kodai NARAOKA | 63,020 |