India vs Australia 6th ODI Venue Vidarbha C.A. Ground, Nagpur

Vidarbha C.A. Ground, Nagpur has been selected as the 6^th ODI venue. Although it is known as a test cricket ground but he exciting 6th match between Australia and India will be played in that ground. The match of this play ground is important to both the team because if India could win the match they will back to the series as well as if Australia could win then the series become favor to the Australia team. Although the 5^th venue was favor to India but they was beaten seriously to Australia. The 6^th match could raise the hope of draw the ongoing series.

The Vidharba Cricket Association Ground is a Test cricket ground in the city of Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. The ground is known as the VCA Ground. The first match was played here on October 3, 1969. The ground has been selected to host 2011 Cricket World Cup matches. It is one of the two grounds where play was called off due to dangerous pitch conditions. The ground belongs to the Central Zone. Sunil Gavaskar scored his only one day century here against New Zealand in the 1987 Reliance World Cup.

The winning record of the ground Australia, Pakistan, England, South Africa and West Indies is 100% but the winning record of India is very low that is 44.4%. The total highest scored occupied by the Indian former Captain Rahul Dravid and SC Ganguly is the top scorer of 130 not out against New Zealand in 1999. And the top wicket achiever is BP Patterson, West Indies; he took 6 wickets by 29 runs only against India in 1987. The highest team runs is 8/348 by New Zealand against India in 1995. You can see the more report by visiting the link.

Ground Facts and Figures:

Name: Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground

Location: Vidarbha Cricket Association, Civil Lines, Nagpur

Established: 1975

Seating Capacity: 40,000

End Names: Jaika End, Church End

Home Team: Vidarbha

Owner: Vidarbha Cricket Association

First Test: India v New Zealand - Oct 3-8, 1969

First ODI: India v England - Jan 23, 1985

Milestones at Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground:

The highest Test score at the ground is 609/6 declared by India vs. Zimbabwe in 2000-2001.

The highest ODI score at the ground is 350/6 by India vs. Sri Lanka. in 2005-2006.

The Capacity of the stadium is 40,000. As the stadium has made for test cricket so there is no Floodlights here.

India wants Serious Changes before Pakistan’s Tour

India wants Serious Changes before Pakistan’s Tour. India is playing seven matches ODI series along with Australia. In November, India will play another series along with Pakistan. But the performances are not well at all. The high officials are thinking about some changes on the team. They are thinking seriously about some old players and their performances such as Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly. Why are they thinking it? Why do they keen to some change? Last month India became Twenty20 champion without some key players who are well ranked in ICC ranking. The young team beat the 50-50 champion Australia in the semifinal round. But they did not do well with the experienced players in the ongoing ODI series. As a result the guest has taken a 2-0 lead in the seven-match series after game one was abandoned due to rain.

The reverses have put senior batsmen Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Saurav Ganguly under pressure after a young side achieved the Twenty20 success in their absence.

Chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar said patience might run out on the senior players after Tendulkar made 0, 16 and 43, Dravid 31 and 0 and Ganguly missed out due to injury.

"Definitely, the threshold has reduced. No question about it," he was quoted as saying in the Mid-Day tabloid, when asked whether selectors would be patient with the senior players.

This decision is inconsistency with time. Because it is the proper time to give opportunity for the youngest players.

India vs Australia ODI Series: Poor Batting Side of India

The 3^rd match of ongoing India, Australia odi series will perform on 5 October at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad. Live action will start from: 09:00 GMT (14:30 IST). But in the first match of this series discarded for rain and in the second math India was beat by 84 runs.

The Indian chase never took off on a wicket that played a touch slow. Brett Lee and Mitchell Johnson worked up good pace and their air speed proved discomforting for Gautam Gambhir and Sachin Tendulkar. Johnson beat Gambhir for pace and India were quickly reduced to 11/1. Robin Uthappa (41) revived hopes with some clean strikes.

Sachin fell driving into the offside, straight to Symonds off Clark. Yuvraj who came ahead of Dravid hit a now customary six over mid-on off a free hit. Shortly afterwards, he fell in the same fashion as Sachin.

Rahul Dravid and Dhoni strung together a 49-run stand which, kept some interest alive as the near capacity crowd cheered every run. Dravid’s slog sweep against Brad Hogg was taken brilliantly by Johnson on the line at deep mid-wicket, the fielder showing a great sense of balance. The remainder of the chase was a procession while Dhoni helped himself to some average boosting and morale saving runs.

Now, It is established truth if Indian top order batting become failure then India will not do any good thing. Last match along with Australia is another big example. G Gambhir, SR Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh did not do more than 20 runs. To over come this situating what India needs to do? What is their problem?

India vs Australia ODI Series: Excellent Batting of Australian Batsmen

On 3rd One Day International between India and Australia, Australia will come to the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad with as new fashion. In the last two matches it proved that there is none similar to Australia although they lost against India in the Twenty20 world cup semifinal.

Australian Captain Adam Gilcrist told in an interview that India have to prove that they are best. In an article of Ramiz Rajza in Crickinfo one reader has commented, “Australians have showed, yet again, why they are the supreme world champions in this game. India might have won the t20 championship which demands less application of skills, but Australia is certainly showing their supreme skills in the longer format. The victory seems even more appreciable because they did not have the service of the great Ponting, Bracken, Hussey, & Watson. In comparison, India missed only one of their premier batsmen (Sourav Ganguly) & Sreesanth needs to focus more on his bowling than his comics. He is an absolute embarrassment to watch with his "so-called aggression"(which is absolute wastages of time because he shows his comics when its least needed........) however, India should not be written off because they do have the players with skills. They just need to apply their skills & know when to be display aggression (not comics)”

I agree with the reader. The match of Twenty20 which India beat Australia did not mean that Australian is less strong that India.

India vs Australia ODI Series: DD, NEO Sports, Fox Sports will telecast

To get live score and updates of India vs Australia 1^st ODI, visit this link:

India vs Australia 1^st ODI Live Updates

http://www.southasiabiz.com/2007/09/india_vs_australia_1st_odi_liv.html

India vs Australia ODI Series: DD, NEO Sports, Fox Sports will telecast

After spending a lot of time, I have collect this information the flowing TV channel will telecast live the India and Australia ODI Series. In the previous post I mention that if anyone knows about which channel will telecast live, except Sky Sports. One of my junior informed me that DD, NEO Sports, Fox Sports will telecast will telecast too. May be DD National will telecast the matches so that the locals could watch the matches.

Visit the link below to know which channel will telecast live between India and Pakistan series:

http://dhaka-pic.blogspot.com/2007/11/india-vs-pakistan-series-neo-and.html

After after India’s dramatic victory in the ICC Twenty-20 finals, It’s advantage Neo Sports. The exclusive cricket channel, owned by Nimbus Sport, has already booked Rs 75 crore worth of advertising accounting for 65% of its inventory for the upcoming India-Australia series, starting September 29. Tying up sponsorship deals for the rest could now be a breeze.

“After the disappointment of the World Cup, this will definitely bring back the buoyancy of the game. But, its a long season ahead, and its a larger version with 50 overs. So, it is critical for India to sustain its performance. If the initial matches don’t go in India’s favour, rates will automatically slide down,” said Shashi Sinha, president, Lodestar and regional media director, FCB Asia Pacific.

Now it is clear to all the cricket fans that they will able to see all the matches of home series of India and Australia easily.

India vs Australia ODI Series: Match Referee and umpires

India vs Australia ODI Series: Match Referee and umpires, After 4days, form 29 September, a seven matches ODI series will take place between India and Australia. According the ICC selection, Chris Broad named as the match referee and Steve Bucknor and Aleem Dar will be the umpire during the ODI series. According to a ICC release, Steve Bucknor will be the neutral umpire in the first four ODIs. Aleem Dar will umpire the last three matches.

India v Australia – 7 ODI's

Match	Referee	Umpires
1st ODI	Chris Broad	Steve Bucknor
2nd ODI	Chris Broad	Steve Bucknor
3rd ODI	Chris Broad	Steve Bucknor
4th ODI	Chris Broad	Steve Bucknor
5th ODI	Chris Broad	Aleem Dar
6th ODI	Chris Broad	Aleem Dar
7th ODI	Chris Broad	Aleem Dar

According to a ICC release, Steve Bucknor will be the neutral umpire in the first four ODIs. Aleem Dar will umpire the last three matches.

Twenty20 world Cup Final: Australia will play Twenty20 (T20) Final? Do you agree?

Twenty20 world Cup Final: Australia will play Twenty20 (T20) Final? Do you agree? May be, Australia is going to face semifinal to Twenty20 (T20) in Durban and a home series along with India without Ponting. It is a big shock for Australia team. There is not doubt the he is one of the success Captain in Australia team. But I think, Australian is not less strong without Ponting. Ponting suffered a hamstring strain while batting during Australia’s six-wicket loss to Pakistan at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on Tuesday night. Ponting’s injury, which did not allow him to field against Pakistan,

Weaknesses of Australia team: Left-armer Sohail Tanvir proved the undoing of the Oz top-order in their loss to Pakistan and in Rudra Pratap Singh India have a match-winning leftie that potentially could do the same. The Aussies can be a flustered bunch when their top three or four don't kick in.

The players suppose to be play in the tweny20 Semi-final, are below; Adam Glichrist, Matthew Hayden, Brad Hodge, Andrew Symonds, Michael Hussey, Michael Clarke, Brad Haddin, Brett Lee, Nathan Bracken, Mitchell Johnson, Stuart Clark.

Same thing is here like India that top-order batsmen’s early down fall is the big problem in the Australia Team now. In spite of some strong middle order batsmen like Brad Hodge, Andrew Symonds, Michael Hussey, Michael Clarke some time they had to fall seriously batting downfall. If Australia would maintain their middle warder then it will be easy to win. I think, the result of this match will show the reflection in the forthcoming ODI series along with India that will be hosted by India.

Twenty20 world Cup Final: Is India Strong Enough to play Twenty20 (T20) Final

Twenty20 world Cup Final: Is India Strong Enough to play Twenty20 (T20) Final, India could play on final if they can beat Australia in the semi-final in Durban. They team who win the match will play the final in Johannesburg. After this twenty20 world cup, India and Australia will meet again in a seven matches home series India. So both the team will try hardly to beat each other and will take the match seriously.

Weaknesses of Indian team: If their frontline attacks have an off day, India has only Yuvraj and Sehwag to call on for a couple of overs of part-time spin. Nothing extra to speak of in the medium-pace unit - that may turn out expensive.

The players suppose to be play in Semi-Final of Tewnty20 in Durban: India: Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Robin Uthappa, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, Mahendra Dhoni, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Ajit Agarkar, Rudra Pratap Singh, Shantha Sreesanth.

What India will have to do? We all know that most of the victory and defeat will depend on the success of the top-orders batsmen. So the match is the key to play final of T20 also a jumping inspirations for the home series between India and Australia. So India will have to try heart and soul, to win the match.

India vs Australia ODI Series: The Indian Squad for Home Series

India vs Australia ODI Series: The Indian Squad for Home Series

India has announced their team for home series. For upcoming series with Australia, BCCI selection board members have taken away some of old and experienced players such as Virender Sehwag, Munaf Patel, Ajit Agarkar and Rohit Sharma and announced a fifteen-member squad team.

Speaking to reporters BCCI chief Sharad Pawar said, “We should give opportunity to young players…in the presence of old, experienced players, new generation should be prepared.”

There was immediate good news for Harbhajan Singh, but Virender Sehwag need not despair just yet. Although the selectors did not find place for Sehwag in the squad for the first three one-dayers against Australia, you can be sure he will figure at some point in the 12 ODIs India play at home over the next couple of months. With the quantum of cricket India have ahead of them, the selectors will rotate Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly. cricinfo

M S Dhoni (Capt), Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, Irfan Pathan, Dinesh Karthik, Zaheer Khan, R P Singh, Ramesh Powar, Sreesanth, Harbhajan Singh

India vs Australia ODI Series: MS Dhoni, The Captain of Indian Team for Home Series

India vs Australia ODI Series: MS Dhoni will be the Captain of Indian Team

Who will be the next captain of Indian Team during the India vs Australia ODI series? After returning form England tour India Captain Rahul Dravid announced on September 14 that he did not agree to lead Indian team. As cause he showed that it hampered to his batting concentration. Now BCCI has decided that MS Dhoni will lead the India team during the India-Australia upcoming ODI series.

Zeecric reported:

BCCI on Tuesday announced that Mahendra Singh Dhoni will succeed Rahul Dravid as the captain in the forthcoming ODI home series against Australia beginning September 29. Team India meanwhile will get a separate skipper for Tests.Though reports suggest that Tendulakar will lead in the longer version, the decision is still kept in abeyance.

Dhoni, who is 26 years old and hails from Jharkhand, will lead only 3 ODIs against Australia to begin with. A decision to whether his term as skipper will be extended will be taken only after the Australia series. Yuvraj Singh will be the Vice-Captain of the team. India is to take on Pakistan after meeting the Oz challenge.

The announcement came at CCI meet in Mumbai. The five selectors, with former captain Dilip Vengsarkar at the helm, took the decision among others.

MS Dhoni is not bad for leading India team during the ODI series against Australia because he is doing well on the Twenty20 world cup Championship. Dear fans you have to wait what will he do? Will he appropriate for the next captaincy of Indian Team?

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India vs Australia 1st ODI Venue: The first Venue M. Chinnaswamy Cricket Stadium

India vs Australia 1^st ODI Venue: The first Venue M. Chinnaswamy Cricket Stadium

India vs Australia ODI will take place from 29 Sep 2007. The first match will be played at 09:00 GMT (14:30 IST) at the M. Chinnaswamy Cricket Stadium in Bangalore, Karnataka. The stadium is located in Bangalore, Karnataka. The Stadium is known as Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) stadium. The Stadium was renamed according to M. Chinnaswamy, who was concerned in cricket management in Karnataka for four decades and was at the controls of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) from 1977-1980.

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The Stadium was established in 1969 and the seating capacity is 55,000 with flood light. It is operated by the Karnataka State Cricket Association. The first Test match was played between India and West Indies in 1974-75 and the first ODI was played between India and Sri Lanka on Sep 26, 1982. After 2005, no international match played.

Test Match Records

Highest innings total: 570 all out - Pakistan v India, 24-28 March 2005

Highest individual score: 267 - Younis Khan, Pakistan v India, 24-28 March 2005

Best innings bowling: 7-27 - Maninder Singh, India v Pakistan, 13-17 March 1987

Most runs: 600 - Sunil Gavaskar, India, scored in 8 matches (12 innings) at an average of 54.54 with a highest individual score of 172

Most wickets: 35 - Anil Kumble, India, taken in 7 matches at an average of 30.85 with best figures of 6-98

One Day International Match Records

Highest total: 347-2 - Australia v India 12 November 2003

Highest individual score: 121 - Roy Dias, Sri Lanka v India, 26 September 1982

Best bowling: 5-35 - Paul Jarvis, England v India, 26 February 1993

Most runs: 365 - Sachin Tendulkar, India, scored in 7 matches at an average of 52.14 with a highest individual score of 117

Most wickets: 10 - Javagal Srinath, India, taken in 5 matches at an average of 25.10 with best figures of 5-41

15 international matches were played in this ground and India won 9 matches with different international teams. Australia played 5 matches and lost all of the matches except the last match that was played at Nov 12, 2003 and beat India by 61 runs. In this match of TVS Cup Australia scored a record quantity of 347runs and it was the new record and the lowest run was 169. South Africa scored this lowest run at Mar 25, 2001.

No doubt that now, Australia is the beat team in the world. If India wants to do well in this they have to be well in bowling and fielding.