Indian ODI team for England series – Sehwag dropped, Pujara in

India’s team for first 3 matches against England for upcoming ODI series was announced by selection committee. The major change was elimination for attacking batsman Virender Sehwag who was dropped due to indifferent batting performances in the recent past. While Cheteshwar Puajra was drafted into ODI format driven by solid performances both in test matches and domestic matches. Pujara’s inclusion would is also an indication that Indian team management is thinking of next World Cup which would be played in Australia where solid batting technique would be critical factor.

Importantly, players like Gambhir and Rohit Sharma got more chance to prove their worth while Amit Mishra got a chance as visitors are susceptible against leg spin bowling.

The team of 15 members is as follows

MS Dhoni (capt), Cheteshwar Pujara, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Ashok Dinda, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shami Ahmed, Amit Mishra

The God of Cricket retires from One Day Internationals

 The God of Cricket -  Sachin Tendulkar announced his retirement from ODI's on 22nd Dec 2012.On this day many millions of heart were broken. The Mayan's had claimed that the world will end on 21st dec 2012 but in reality it ended on 22nd Dec  2012 for the Indian Cricket fans. People wrote statuses like "God retired from playing, 1 Billion Indians retired from watching" Here is a snapshot of Sachin's life and Career:

Full name	Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Born	24 April 1973 (age 39) Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra , India
Nickname	Tendlya, Little Master,[1] God of Cricket [2]
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm leg spin, off spin, medium pace
Role	Batsman

National side	India
Test debut(cap 187)	15 November 1989 v Pakistan
Last Test	13 December 2012 v England
ODI debut(cap 74)	18 December 1989 v Pakistan
Last ODI	18 March 2012 v Pakistan
ODI shirt no.	10
Only T20I (cap 11)	1 December 2006 v South Africa
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1988	Cricket Club of India
1988–present	Mumbai
1992	Yorkshire
2008–present	Mumbai Indians
Career statistics
Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	194	463	297	551
Runs scored	15,645	18,426	24,678	21,999
Batting average	54.32	44.83	58.48	45.54
100s/50s	51/66	49/96	79/112	60/114
Top score	248*	200*	248*	200*
Balls bowled	4,174	8,032	7,551	10,230
Wickets	45	154	70	201
Bowling average	54.64	44.32	62.15	42.17
5 wickets ininnings	0	2	0	2
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	0	n/a
Best bowling	3/10	5/32	3/10	5/32
Catches/stumpings	114/–	140/–	184/–	175/–

He played his first ODI against Pakistan and ironically he played his last ODI aginst them.

His knock against Pakistan in 2003 world cup will always be remembered.
BYE BYE ODIs

ICC T-20 World Cup Srilanka vs Zimbabwe .. started

SL 182/4(20) | Zim 100/10(17.3)

SL won by 82 runs. Man of the match: BAW Mendis

Cricket Quiz - Guess the player

Clue:
1. he is left handed batsman.
2. he is medium pacer.

Indian Ready for T-20 World Cup

MS Dhoni (captain),
Suresh Raina,
Zaheer Khan,
Virender Sehwag,
Manoj Tiwary,
R Ashwin,
Gautam Gambhir,
Rohit Sharma,
Laxmipathi Balaji,
Yuvraj Singh,
Irfan Pathan,
Piyush Chawla
Virat Kohli,
Harbhajan Singh,
Ashok Dinda

Sachin Tendulkar official facebook page crossed 5 million in record time.

After tweeting the world master blaster Sachin Tendulkar in on Facebook with 5 million users already Like.
There are many pages of sachin and finally after fans demand and requests he agree to be on Facebook and now with help of some  private company he opened his facebook page.
Click here for his FB page..

First Indian Cricket Team 1932

Indian Cricket team in 1932 who played first test match on Lords.Indian pacer Muhammad Nissar took 6 wicket in match and Amar Singh made first 50.