MS Dhoni: Best finisher ever

Indian skipper, MS Dhoni is considered as the best finisher in the present ODI cricket. Dhoni even rated the beat of all the greats like Michael Beavan Lance Klusener, Abdul Razzaq and Jonty Rhodes.

India has just finished two most tense and most thrilling games on the ongoing CB series in Australia. Dhoni played two absolute gem of innings to finish the game. But not to take the credit from Gambhir’s bat as he played most difficult part of the innings in both the games, but finishing off games is most important in one-day cricket. The two consecutive knocks at Adelaide retell Dhoni’s reputation as one of the finest finishers in the one-day game.

Even Dhoni’s rivals accept the fact that he is bet finisher in the ODI cricket. Australian skipper Michael Clarke was left feel sorry about his team’s fate after Dhoni chased down the 13 runs in the last over and takes India to victory. In match against Sri Lanka Dhoni played really well to finish the game in tie, where India needed 4 from 1 ball. Dhoni placed it over cover fielder for 3 runs, and there are no words of Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene over the tie what could be a possible win for them.

However, Dhoni stated that it was very difficult to bat low-down the order and win games. He credits his teammate Yuvraj Singh as the best finisher, Yuvi the only one consistent batsman lower down the order was at number six, who bats really well. Dhoni admits that no job in one-day cricket is as difficult as that of a finishing. A player has to be able to hit big yet be capable of manipulating the field with deft placements. He needs to be an excellent judger of a run and must have the speed to convert a singles into a doubles.

Captain cools’ stats suggest that He is nest finisher ever the cricketing world has witnessed. Dhoni has remained notout in 30 of India's 49 successful run chases and scored at an average of 104.89. Despite, - Michael Bevan, Lance Klusener, Abdul Razzaq and Jonty Rhodes who were considered best in finishing the games were nowhere near to Dhoni. Dhoni has played 200 matches and stayed unbeaten 50 times or in every fourth innings of his career. With 44 fifties and 7 centuries, Dhoni is scoring at least a half century in every 4 innings.

MS Dhoni’s stats in successful run-chases:

M	I	NO	Runs	Avg	100s	50s	Highest
62	49	30	1993	104.89	2	14	183*

Dhoni’s record in successful run-chases since he took up captaincy:

M	I	NO	Runs	Avg	100s	50s	Highest
37	30	18	1123	93.58	1	8	101*

List of successful run-chasers in ODI:

Player	M	I*	NO	Runs	Avg	100s	50s	Highest
MS Dhoni	62	49	30	1993	104.89	2	14	183*
Michael Clarke	58	44	24	1784	89.20	3	15	105*
Michael Bevan	75	45	25	1725	86.25	3	12	107
Misbah-ul-Haq	34	24	14	859	85.90	0	7	93*
Michael Hussey	49	25	17	671	83.87	0	3	75*
Graham Thorpe	26	21	9	849	70.75	0	9	82
Shane Watson	46	34	9	1759	70.36	5	9	185*
Hansie Cronje	54	43	19	1682	70.08	0	15	94*

Rahul Dravid is considered as ‘Wall’ of Indian Cricket in test.

Is MS Dhoni fit for the mane ‘THE WALL’ in One-day cricket?

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Novak Djokovic pulls out of BNP Paribas Masters 2011

World No.1 Novak Djokovic has pulled out of 2011 BNP Paribas Masters, due to his sore shoulder and apologized to his fans.

Novak Djokovic reached to quarters and is due to fight with French favourite Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, but sadly Djokovic has withdrawn from the tournament. It is clear that Djokovic is looking to regain his full fitness ahead of the ATP Tour Finals at London’s O2 Arena.

The man-in-form, Djokovic wrote on his Twitter page saying that ‘Dear fans and friends, the ATP Tour Finals at London’s O2 Arena’. He added that he has been pushing himself to make available for ATP Tour Finals at London’s O2 Arena. After his qualifying match for quarters, his shoulder got injury got even worse and so he decided to withdraw from the Paris Masters. Djokovic added that as a professional player his soul urges him to lay for last drop of energy.

The Serbian quoted that he is very sorry for all who bought tickets and wanted to come to watch him play. His season has been long and exhausting, he played all of his matches at highest level, and now his body is hurting for recovery.

However it is rumoured that Djokovic only played at Paris for bonus price money of $1.6 million after skipping Shangai Masters.

Rafael Nadal pulls out of 2011 Paris Masters

World No.2 Rafael Nadal pulls out of 2011 BNP Paribas Masters tournament, schedule to play in Paris next week.

The 10-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal has posted a message on his Facebook page that, he has withdrawn from the next week’s 2011 BNP Paribas Masters tournament held in Paris. Nadal said, it’s been a tough decision taken by him and hopes to return back to 2011 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals begin from 20th November at Arena O2 in London. Rafa added that he will return back to Paris Masters in 2012 season in the most beautiful city in the world.

The King of clay court Rafael Nadal has played his last tournament at Shanghai Rolex Masters tournament, although he made an early exit from the tournament, where he lost to Florian Mayer of Germany in two sets in the third round. Nadal has played well at Japan Open last month, but couldn’t overcome the title short against World No. 3 ranked Andy Murray.

The 25-year-old has been working hard in the training sessions at his home town at Manacor, before heading into the 2011 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London. Nadal even concentrating to regain his fitness and working hard along with his uncle Miguel Angel Nadal and physical trainer Maymo, where he sustained foot injury at the US Open in August.

Maria Sharapova slips to No.4 in WTA Rankings

Former World No.1 Maria Sharapova slips to No.4 in WTA Rankings while WTA Champion Petra Kvitova has top the WTA rankings this week with No.2 in the world.

2011 Wimbledon champion, Petra Kvitova has shown an outstanding performance in the finals of the 2011 WTA Championships defaeting Belarusian, Victoria Azarenka in three set thriller with 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 to clinch her sixth title of the 2011. This win ensured Petra Kvitiva a career high No.2 ranking in the world. Petra Kvitova with a total of 7370 WTA ranking points stands 115 points behind the Caroline Wozniacki world no.1.

Denmark player Caroline Wozniacki having won 6-WTA titles this season, has been the world No.1 for the second successive year with a total of 7485 WTA rankings points. 2011 WTA championship runner-up, Victoria Azarenka has sealed her place in No.3 of the WTA Rankings with a total of 6520 points winning 3-titles in 2011.

Maria Sharapova has been dropped to fourth after being withdrawn from the 2011 WTA championship, due to an ankle injury. She has a total of 6510 WTA ranking points. Howvever, Li Na and Samantha Stosur have placed No.5 and No.6 in WTA Rankings.

Rank	Name	Points
1	Caroline Wozniacki (Den)	7485
2	Petra Kvitova (Czech)	7370
3	Victoria Azarenka (Blrl)	6520
4	Maria Sharapova (Rus)	6510
5	Na Li (CHN)	5720
6	Samantha Stosur (Aus)	5585
7	Vera Zvonareva (Rus)	5435
8	Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol)	5252
9	Marion Bartoli (Fra)	4710
10	Andrea Petkovic (Ger)	4580

Yuvraj Singh: My best years are yet to come

Yuvraj Singh has played most crucial role for India in World Cup winning team. Yuvraj Singh believes that his best years as a cricketer are ‘yet to come’. The elegant left-hander is trying hard to cement his place in Indian Test squad where he is striving to restart his Test career.

India's middle-order batsman Yuvraj Singh is not a permanent member of Test squad, he was considered as one-day batsman. Yuvi lost his place in the Test side after the Sri Lanka series in past year, but the stylish left-hander said that he wants to be remembered as a good Test cricketer after retirement.

Yuvi thinks that it is the right time to focus on his Test career and wanted to be remembered as a good batsman in the longer format of the game. Yuvraj quoted that he always wanted to give his best shot whenever he is out in the field irrespective of formats, but unfortunately injury are real concerns for him. The upcoming series against the West Indies and Australia, He expressed his desire to score big and make his mark in the Test format. Yuvi stated that he wants to restructure his Test career and he will be raising the standard of his game.

29-years-old Yuvraj said, he has matured as a player after going through various ups and downs in his career, he almost saw the both sides of the coin and his injury/fitness really worried him a lot. Yuvi claims that his best years are yet to come, making sure that he is fully fit after a long injury layoff. Yuvraj stated that his career has been damaged by a lot of injury issues but he think it's on the right path now. Yuvi feels that his best is yet to come as lot of cricket is still left in him.

After returning back home from England tour with an injury, he worked hard toward his training. Yuvi said that his body took a lot of toll in the past one year due to injury issues. And they are no more injuries with him and he is looking forward to make his mark in Test cricket and India will be playing with West Indies at home for 3 Test and 5 ODI’s.

Novak Djokovic tops ATP Rankings

The Serbian Novak Djokovic, who has dream year of 2011 as he clinched 10-titles this season is tops the ATP rankings, after the clinching the Wimbledon title at the All England Club in London. Novak Djokovic has total of 13,295 points at No.1 in ATP rankings this week.

Former No.1 Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray, who is bidding for No.1, are staying next behind Djokovic for the second successive week standing No.2 and No.3 in the ATP rankings. Swiss Maestro Roger Federer dropped to No.4 ranking in the ATP, after Murray claiming the title triumph at Shanghai Masters has a total of 5,185 points.

Meanwhile 30-year-old Federer competing in this week home tournament, and trying almost he could to move his plac

e to top-3 of the ATP rankings by the end of 2011 season. There are only few changes have been done in this week’s top-10, as Jo-Wilfred Tsonga winning the title at Vienna Open has earned 500-points to move to No.7 in the ATP rankings while, Mardy Fish has been dropped to No.8.

Rank	Name	Points
1	Novak Djokovic (SRB)	13295
2	Rafael Nadal (ESP)	9500
3	Andy Murray (GBR)	7200
4	Roger Federer (SUI)	5815
5	David Ferrer (ESP)	4300
6	Tomas Berdych (CZE)	2940
7	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)	2890
8	Mardy Fish (USA)	2875
9	Nicolas Almagro (ESP)	2370
10	Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)	2305