Ganguly may not play for KKR

Sourav Gaguly, one of the most successful captains of Indian cricket, may not play for Kolkata Night Riders in the forth coming Indian Premier League. Sourav says his first choice is, of course KKR. If situation changes he is open to play for any team as he still wants to play IPL.

The current rumor is that KKR will not retain Gunguly this session. Sourav rejects and says to a media that Shah Rukh Khan is abroad and no decision has been taken.

As Ganguly is willing to play IPL he hopes to be picked up by some other team from the player auction in January if KKR do not retain him. He is currently playing Ranji Trophy cricket with Bengal. He hopes to regain necessary vigor and strength from this tournament for IPL. Sourav Gunguly has stopped playing international cricket in 2008.

Source: Playing11

Sourav Ganguly to be captain of KKR IPL-3 Coach John Wright

Former Indian national cricket team Coach John Wright has been selected the coach of Kolkata Knight riders. Beside, Sourav Ganguly has been selected the captain of the Indian Premier League’s cricket club KKR. Ganguly was opted out to lead the team in the second season of Indian Premier League in South Africa for the question of multi captain option proposed by the former coach John Buchanan. KKR washed out for the premier league in the qualified round and the responsible captain was Brendon McCullum.

Times of India wrote:

Ganguly would be back at the helm in 2010 when his contract with the Kolkata team ends and the iconic Bengal cricketer had a one-on-one with prinicipal owner Shah Rukh Khan when the duo met in London to receive doctorates by the University of Central Lancashire last week.

The new will brought a great satisfaction on the fan of KKR especially the fans of Sourav Ganguly. KKR is the team that won by bollywood superstar and most poplar actor Shahrukh Khan who recently has acquired the D-lit degree. Sourav is honored as a most successful captain of Indian ever who has said bye-bye to the international cricket at the end of the year 2008. But now he has given attention to the home cricket.

IPL 2009: Will Sourav Ganguly be the Captain of Kolkata Knight Riders?

Sourav Ganguly is one of the successful captains of India who leaded Kolkata Knight Riders in the first season in 2008. In the second season he is doubtful to lead the team in the IPL 2009, second season to lead the team that will be taken place in South Africa. After the opinions of the team coach John Buchanan who offers four captains of the team for IPL 2009 who will lead the team.

Hindustantimes wrote:

The KKR management in a statement said that “the idea is to have a set of strategists as is always the case classically in cricket… who will form a team of 4 or 5 core experts in the field of fielding, bowling, batting and data etc. These strategists will assist the one captain on field with their viewpoints on the plan set earlier or shoot from the hip as the case maybe.” 

This is a new theory ever. I am not sure that how will he implement it in a match. Although there is no positive signal on behalf of the multi-captain theory but it is really an innovative idea. We have to wait what the decision comes at last. The team management announced that they will public the squad in South Africa and who will be in that squad will be clear after a few days. On April 5, Ganguly is expected to reach South Africa for the IPL 2009 who does not agree with Buchanan multi-captain theory.

Sourav Ganguly will be the Judge of Shah Rukh Khan’s Knights Angels show

First time, former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly is going to debut as a judge with the small screen by Shah Rukh Khan’s reality TV show ‘Knights Angles’ to select six cheerleaders for the upcoming second season Indian Premier League that will be taken place on April 2009. The reality TV show ‘Knights Angles’ is suppose to be started form March 7, 2009.

By Shah Rukh Khan’s TV show ‘Knights Angels’ will be looked for style, personality, attitude, rhythm and a fit body cheerleaders for Kolkata Knights Riders. By TV show ‘Knights Angels’ to be selected six talent cheerleaders who will inspire Kolkata Knight Riders during the match time.

 

Prience of Kolkata and also the captain of Kolkata Knights Riders, Sourav Ganguly will be seen as a judge to select the six cheerleaders. It hopes that the talent hung will be telecasted in NDTV and the show will be produced by Red Chillies Entertainment. The popular choreographer Shiamak Davar will train the selected girls.

 

The cheerleaders are the attractive parts of the nail-beating Twenty20 Cricket tournaments. This tradition was started from the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup Cricket tournament that was held in South Africa in 2007. And the second Twenty20 World Cup Cricket will be come to the ground in June 2009 that will be hosted by England.

 

Souces:

• http://cricketnext.in.com/news/retired-ganguly-to-pick-babes-for-knight-riders/37300-13.html
• http://entertainment.oneindia.in/television/top-stories/news/2009/sourav-shahrukh-show-070109.html
• http://www.apunkachoice.com/scoop/bollywood/shahrukh-khan-searches-cheerleaders-for-his-knight-riders.html

 

Sourav, Rahul, Laxman, Sachin and Anil should go to retirement

Once up on a time, in Indian cricket there was a golden time that has been passed when Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tecdulkar dominated the oppositions during the firs 15 overs. India was the top most team that will more runs during the restricted fielding time. By the time being it Sourv and Sachin is in aged and the in the last 10 matches they did not do well in ODI a Test.

Recently, there was news in Indian media that Sourav Ganguly has planned to take retirement for the international cricket when he has been kept his name from the next Home Test series alongside Australia. After getting some change in the selection board of Indian Cricket board, some of older players get opportunities to play the home Test series including Sourav. Beside, they all have got notice to go to retirement form the International cricket.

Cricket-mad India is fiercely debating whether it is time for their record-breaking batsmen Saurav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Vangipurappu Laxman as well as spinner Anil Kumble, the test captain, all well into their 30s, to quit.

I think, India needs to take some change for future and should get opportunity for the young players.

Top 5 High scores of KKR in the IPLT20

Kolkata Knight Riders is another most losing party in the Indian Premier League. It just has acquired two wins of six. It is not respectful for the team members. Kolkata Knight Riders is going to play its second match against Bangalore Royal Challengers at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. In the first match KKR beat BRC in its own ground. So what the result will come in Eden Gardens?

Kolkata Knight Riders is in power after getting Shoaib Akhtar. Although it has improved the bowling side but the batting side of the team is very bad after going back some players home.

BB McCullum: BB McCullumn is the player from New Zealand but playing alongside Kolkata Knight Rides. He is the only players still now holding the highest record holders. He acquired 158 (not out) just form 73 balls by hitting 13 fours and 15 sixes. The strike rate is 204.34. He is in the third position of highest strike rates and the highest six hitter in an innings of IPLT20 too.

DJ Hussey: Hussey’s 71n runs is the second highest runs in the Kolkata Knight Riders. With a very good strike rate he obtained 71 runs from 46 balls. He is the second highest average batman of KKR team. To acquire this runs he had to hit 10 fours and 9sixes.

WP Saha: A good average and strike rate is always power the batsman acknowledgment. WP Saha is one of them in the KKR. 59 runs (not out) from 32 balls against King XI Punjab brought the third position of the team. By 8 fours and 5 sixes sits him in the 25^th position of the High scores chat.

LR Shukla: LR Shukla is a talented batsman in Bangla. He has very good achievements in the home cricket series. In the IPLT20 he also did well. He scored 42 runs by hitting 8 fours and 3 sixes.

SC Ganguly: SC Ganguly is the most successful captain in past 75 years in India. He has been nominated as a captain for the Kolkata Knight Riders team. It is his first twenty20 formatted match he playing in the inaugural IPLT20 tournament. Although he is the captain of KKR but he did not show any impressive performances in the Indian formatted IPLT20 tournament. In the last 6 matches his total score is very bad.

The summary is showing that the batting side of Kolkata Knight Riders is not good enough to dominate any bowlers well in the IPLT20. It needs to improve more. In a conversion Sourav Ganguly told to a media that to improve the team performance everyone needs to play well.

Sourav Ganguly is not Tri-nation CB series Squad

Again Sourav Ganguly has eliminated for upcoming tri-nation CB Series from Indian 16 members team, which will be started on 3 February and the solitary Twenty20 international at the MCG on 1February. Although Ganguly was in form in both last ODI and test matches. Not only Sourab Ganguly but also Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman have eliminated. The other two countries Sri Lanka and host Australila have done the same task, giving focus on their youth cricketer. Indian cricket board focused on young and hard fielding for the upcoming CB series. Mainly Indian ODI captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni wanted a team those who played last Twenty 20 World Cup cricket 2007.

Suresh Raina has displaced instead of Sourav Ganguly, who played last ODI against England in 2007, he performed 3 half century with average 25.66 in 9 innings. Suresh Raina, who played ODI match on January last year and also played Ranji Trophy on behalf of Uttar Prodesh where he benefited by ended runner up.

For the fast-bowling attack will be lead by RP Singh, Irfan Pathan and Sreesanth, who was in injured with his shoulder and missed the test series against Australia. Also Praveen Kumar will be joined in Indian squad, who played last Ranji Trophy.

The Indian squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt & wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Irfan Pathan, Praveen Kumar, RP Singh, Ishant Sharma, Sreesanth, Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla. Source: www.cricinfo.com

India vs Pakistan 1st ODI: All about Indian Squad-1

India already has announced their ODI Squad for the 1^st and 2^nd ODI. Indian most dependable batsman Rahul Dravid is not on the team for first two ODI match. A new all-rounder from Uttar Pradesh, Parveen Kumar is going to debut in the first ODI against Pakistan. On the other hand Virender Sehwag will play in the replacement of Rahul Dravid.

Squad (first two one-dayers): Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Robin Uthappa, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wk,capt), Irfan Pathan, Praveen Kumar, Zaheer Khan, RP Singh, Sreesanth, Harbhajan Singh and Murali Kartik.

Sachin Tendulkar: There is no doubt that Sachin Tendulkar one of the top batsman in the world cricket. He is the only batsman who holds all the highest record both ODI and Test. In ODI match his total runs are 15703 and 41 centuries and 85 half centuries with 1705 fours (highest) and 165 sixes (4^th highest) and in test match his total runs are 11150 with 37 centuries and 45 half centuries. In the first class cricket his achievements are 19894 runs heights runs in a match 248 not-out with 63 centuries and 91 half-centuries. Although he is not in well-form now but physically fit for play any match. He is a classical batsman of great timing. -Source cricinfo.

Sourav Ganguly: Another dependable batsman and awarded as a successful captain in India of last 25 years. He is one the best state hitter batsman in the world. He is also known as Moharaj (King) form west Bengal. He econ are both ODI and Test are well such as he has 11274 runs and 22 centuries and 72 half-centuries in ODI and 5812 runs, 13 centuries and 29 half-centuries in the Test cricket. In first class cricket he scored 13385 and 200 not out in a match. He is the top fourth man, was hit 1110 fours and the third man was hit 188 sixes. -Source Circinfo.

Parveen Kumar: Although, he is well known as Parveen Kumar, his full name is Praveenkumar Sakat Singh. He is form Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, was born in 2 October 1986. He played first class cricket as an all-rounder. His major teams are Air India, India Red and Uttar Pradesh. Parveen Kumar played 19 first class matches and scored 732 with 4 half-centuries and List-A cricket 36 match, scored 854 runs. He debuted with the first class cricket on 23-26 November 2005 against Haryana at kanpur. In his 19 matches in the first class cricket his econ rate is well that is 2.99 and took 90 wickets. He also played 4 Twenty20 matches highest run 76 not-out and took 5 wickets.

Robin Venu Uthappa: Robin Venu Uthappa has come to light after Towenty20 world cup championship. His batting style impressed all the cricket fans. He was born on November 11, 1985, Coorg, in Karnataka. His father is an international hockey referee. Although we all know him as a batsman and fielder but he is a very good wicket keeper too. He was debuted ODI in April 9, 2006 against England in Guwahati. Although he did not attend any test match but he has played 20 ODI matches and 8 Twenty20 and 35 First class crickets. Although his average is not good but his strike rate is well. Most of the time he played on behalf of India, India Under-19s, Karnataka, Reebok XI in the domestic cricket. May be he takes a place to cricket fans heart for the winning wicket catch that he took against Pakistan in Twenty20 World Cup Championship. Source cricinfo

Yuvraj Singh: Actually, Yuvraj is a hard hitter batsman in Indian team and is a most important player in the cricket world now. He was born on 12^th December1981 in Chandigarh. His inauguration in ODI cricket debuted on 3 October 2000 against Kenya at Nirobi, Zimbabwe. As a left handed batsman and also a slow-medium bowler and his duty is also well and dependable also in good form now. Besides he is one of the best fielders in the world. Yuvraj is the first player who performed 6 over-boundaries in an over during the first Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa against England bowled by Stuart Broad. So, Yuvraj’s appearance is one kind of threat not only for Pakistan but also any other teams. The assumption of Pakistan captain Shoeb Malik is that Yuvraj may be dangerous for them in the upcoming ODI and test series.

India vs Australia Twenty20 match and Sourav Ganguly

Some of top cricket stars were kept off form the twenty20 world championship. Among them Sourav Ganguly was the list. Without this pinnacle starts India has won the twenty20 championship trophy. According to this accomplishment of victory this top listed stars become ineffective. As a visible example we could demonstrate the odi series along with Australia. In the seven match series these star players did not show any notable performances that could continue themselves on the upcoming Twenty20 match with Australia. None but Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar could do well in the series. Depending on the performances Sourav Ganguly is hopping to available on that match.

Sourav Ganguly's explosive batting style - which he rediscovered in the Nagpur ODI against Australia - would have made him a successful batsman in Twenty20 cricket, but the former Indian captain says he doesn't miss the newest and fastest version of the game. "I don't think I miss Twenty20 cricket. I don't know what it would have been if this kind of cricket was introduced during my younger days. But now I don't think I would have really missed it," Ganguly told IANS in an interview.

There is no doubt that Sourav Ganguly has an ability to do well in any moments. After a long time gap form Indian team, Indian team had to face many problems.

Schedule, Live score, Live Telecast & Indian Batsmen for Ongoing series Between India and Australia

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

Schedule, Live score, Live Telecast & Indian Batsmen for Ongoing series Between India and Australia, 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.

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.

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.

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.

After a luminous success on Twenty20, India is going to take part a seven matches ODI series along with Australia form 29 September 2007. There is no doubt that a lot of first class batsmen in the Indian team now. I am giving a short profile of them. This is the Indian squad for home series MS Dhoni, Rahul Dravid, Gautam Gambhir, Sourav Ganguly, Harbhajan Singh, Dinesh Karthik, Zaheer Khan, Irfan Pathan, Piyush Chawla, Ramesh Powar, Rudra Pratap Singh, S Sreesanth, Sachin Tendulkar, Robin Uthappa, Yuvraj Singh India has a strong squad. Dravid, Ganguly and Tendulkar are back for team India. I know if you search on google you will find a lot of materials about them. But form my view I selected Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, Sourav Ganguly.

Sachin Tentulkar: Sachin Tendulkear is number one batsman in the world. He is born at 24 April 1973 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. In his cricket career he played 140 test match and total runs 11150 and played 395 ODI matches in 90 different Grounds and total runs 15,395. He is the highest achiever both ODI and Test runs and centuries.

These formations are form Cric info

Test debut	Pakistan v India at Karachi - Nov 15-20, 1989
Last Test	England v India at The Oval - Aug 9-13, 2007
ODI debut	Pakistan v India at Gujranwala - Dec 18, 1989
Last ODI	England v India at Lord's - Sep 8, 2007
ODI Centuries	41
Test Centuries	37
Man of the Match	55
Man of the Series	14
Highest test Score	248 against Bangladesh
Highest ODI Score	186 against New Zealand

He started his Test and ODI career against Pakistan. In the first test he scored only 15 runs and bowled out by Waqar Younis and first ODI he scored duck and huntet by Waqar Younis too. By starting 15 runs in test and duck in ODI, now he the owner of highest records as a batsman.

Rahul Dravid: Rahul Dravid is known as a The Wall in cricket world. He was born at January 11, 1973 at Indore in Madhya Pradesh. He played 112 test matches and 9492 runs and 327 ODI and 10534 runs. His first Test debuted England v India at Lord's- Jun 20-24, 1996 and the ODI debuted India v Sri Lanka at Singapore- Apr 3, 1996. In the ODI match his highest run was 153 against New Zealand and in the test match 270 against Pakistan.

In October 2005, he was appointed captain the one-day side, began with a thumping 6-1 hammering of Sri Lanka in a home series, and was soon given responsibility of the Test side as well, taking over from the controversy-shrouded Sourav Ganguly. While his captaincy stint started encouragingly with ODI victories against Pakistan and England, it soon nosedived with an embarrassing defeat against Bangladesh which led to an early exit from the 2007 World Cup. As a Test team, though, India had plenty to celebrate under Dravid, winning their first Test in South Africa and achieving two historic away series wins in the West Indies and England. Dravid stepped down from the captaincy after the 2007 England tour.

Sourav Ganguly: Sourav Ganguly introduced with international cricket at 1992 as an ODI player. He debuted himself with ODI cricket at along with West Indies at Brisbane - Jan 11, 1992 and introduced with Test math against England at Lord's - Jun 20-24, 1996.

Ganguly was the captain of the Indian cricket team from 2000 to 2005. He led India to the 2003 World Cup final, and holds the Indian captaincy record for the most Test victories.

He was born at 8 July 1972 at Barisha in Kolkata. Ganguly has been nicknamed Bengal Tiger, Prince of Calcutta, Lord Snooty by his opponents, and affectionately Dada.

If you visit the link you could know about his award and achievements form 1996 to September 5, 2007. It is updating continue.

MS Dhoni: MS Dhoni is a successful name in India cricket. After Kapil Dev he is the only captain who leaded Indian team to won any ICC World Cup trophy. He was elevated to the vice-captaincy of the one-day squad for the tour of England and Ireland in 2007 and, soon after, was appointed captain of the Twenty20 squad for the World Championship in South Africa. He was handed the reins of the one-day side in September 2007 after Rahul Dravid decided to step down as captain.

He his on of the wicket keeper who is the owner of highest runs of 183 not out. Before him Adam Gilchrist was the owner of that recored. On the 31st of October, Dhoni broke the record of highest runs scored by a wicket keeper by securing 183 runs against Sri Lanka which was played at Jaipur, beating Adam Gilchrist's former record of 172 runs.

Yuvraj Singh: Now Yuvraj Singh is called as Yuvi. It means the victory sign V. During the Twenty20 world cup his performances named so. He debuted with ODI against Kenya at Nairobi (Gym) - Oct 3, 2000 and test along with New Zealand at Mohali - Oct 16-20, 2003 and test. He has played 183 ODIs and 19 tests and 6 Twenty20 matches. In the test match he scored 122 highest in his career and 139 on ODI. In Twenty20 format he is the owner of quickest 50 by 12 balls.