Where India Cricket Future Stands?

After losing their way out from ICC T20 World Cup 2012, the questions raises in every Indian mind is where it's time to move with leadership after-all Dhoni finishes his 5 years captaincy. Is this Indian team lead by MS Dhoni capable of winning other major cup of ICC?

Dhoni captaincy came under firing line when he dropped Shewag in all important clash with Aussies, and last night, when Rohit Sharma came into the attack ahead of R Ashwin. He said that, ‘I am a great believer in the present’, that doesn't seems to be enough now, India needs to plan for the future.

Team India seems to be in trouble at every single corner of the game, as their opening pair yet to fire they last scored 100-run partnership in Tests came way back in December 2010. Delhi pair, Gambhir has issues with his footwork while Sehwag’s fitness worries are now starting to affect his game as well, they were looking badly out of form.....

Is Irfan Pathan the only all-rounder we have, he might be good with ball but his batting abilities doesn't meet all-rounder abilities in any manner, compared to Shane Watson (Aus). Neither do Piyush Chawla, R Ashwin, Harbhajan Singh are bidding for ll-rounder position with their batting abilities. Only hope for us is Yuvraj Singh, who battled out cancer for several months entered without any match practice. He did exceptional job with ball, still not in his hitting zone, big worries for India:(

Zaheer Khan is a class act but that doesn't speak his performance, he struggles in T20 are very apparent. Zak bowling style much suited to long formats but in T20s! Does India really need him Zaheer in T20 cricket?

The Rohit Sharma question looms large once again. Almost 5 years in international cricket, what is Rohit Sharma’s standing? His average for the tournament is 41.00. Rhoit's 25 off 27 balls in the match against South Africa makes one wonder what’s really happening with him. In every match he was shunted up and down the order. That could not have been easy for him.

There is only one positive hope for Indian Cricket grooming is none other than Virat Kholi. He has been outstanding though out the tournament; will Kholi be leading next Team India for next T20 World Cup?

Are you with Dhoni or Kholi with young guns for next ICC World T20???????

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Maria Sharapova, Sasha Vujacic to get Married in November

Former World No. 1 Maria Sharapova and her long time beau Sasha Vujacic is all set to get married in this November. Sharapova wedding date is set and their wedding ceremony is likely to be gathered in Istanbul.

Maria Sharapova has been in relation with Vujacic from 2009, and has been dating form them. The duo love to spend time together as they were snapped many times roaming around and having some real fun with each other. Recently, Sharapova said that she and her fiancee planning to be all one, by walking down the aisle and do all the wedding premisses. They decide that Istanbul will the most romantic place to held the wedding ceremony, as Vujacic also leaves here in Istanbul. Sasha Vujacic is a former Los Angeles Lakers star and presently plays for Anadolu Efes Basketball club in Istanbul.

Earlier, Russian beauty Sharapova and Vujacic, her longtime boyfriend have planned to get married in August. But Sharapova prolonged her wedding due to 2012 London Olympics at All England Club. As per the reports couple has set 10th November as their wedding date, but they have not announced any official date right now.

24-year-old Maria Sharapova has been playing really well in 2012 French Open tournament in Paris and one of the favourite contenders to win title. Sharapova advances into 3rd round where she will be playing againg S. Peng June 2 at Roland Garros. World No. 2 is looking to gain back the top spot in the WTA Rankings, by winning French Open 2012 crown.

CSK lost to KXIP slims IPL 5 play-offs chances

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) yesterdays' lost against Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) has just tightened their screws of making into play-offs of (IPL 5) Indian Premier League V 2012.

In the all important game Chennai has played more uncharacteristic game and kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Big names like MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina and Murali Vijay were never upto their mark, but never take away credit from KXIP bowlers. They performed really well Awaana was key in restricting Chennai to modest total of 120. he seems to be the rising star, Azhar Mahmood and Pyush Chawala backed up him.

DJ Bravo has been the outstanding performer of CSK in this season. Bravo once again played very crucial innings for his team he along with Albie Morkel tried to shift the gears in 16^th over, but it was too late where they were place at 78/5 at that point. Bravo felt 2 runs short of 50, and CSK managed to score 120/7 in 20.0 overs.

Return of Adam Gilchrist proved to be very important in a must win game, where he stood the ground and finished game for his team. Chasing 120 was never so difficult in a T20 game but without any big names in their line-up KXIP did a decent job to pull a crucial win. Gilly unbeaten 63 was packed firehouse shots all over the park and he seems to be in hurry to finish the game off early, to improve their net run rate as well.

So here ends the CSK journey in league stages ending up with 17 points in IPL point table and placed in #4 now. Meanwhile, KXIP run for play-offs is still alive with one game to play still, KXIP vs. DD on 19 May, 2012.

As Delhidare Devils and Kolkata Knight Riders are already qualified to play-off of IPL 5 2012. there is a stiff competition for 3 and 4 places, who will be making to the play-offs are not yet confirmed. Mumbai Indians, Rajasthan Royals, Kings XI Punjab and Royal Challengers Bangalore are bidding for those places. Indian Premier League is still pretty much alive with all these top teams fighting hard.

Rahul Dravid

A liquid material minded person to fit in the container given to him. After the couple of test series lost in England and Australia, regained his energy and joined in the IPL 2012 camp today. He is the captain of Rajasthan Royals team. Eagerly waiting to see how he will lead the team and what the miracles he is going to do.............

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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