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Indian team under pressure to perform in Asia cup

After two disappointing ODI tours of South Africa and Newzeland where the team did not win a single match the Indian team are under pressure to perform well in the upcoming asia cup starting from tomorrow. Virat Kohli has added responsibility because he has given captaincy for this tournament. In the past two overseas series sometimes the batting clicked and sometimes the bowling was not good as they gave the batsman too much width. In this tournament MS Dhoni is not there as a captain, it gives a chance for Virat Kohli to prove his mettle as a captain. This team has so many young players which have to prove a lot to the selectors that they are capable of doing well. The batting looks quite solid comprising of Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Rahane, Dinesh Karthik, Stuart Binny, Pujara, but the main problem is the bowling. The pitches here are going to help the spinners so Ashwin and Jadjea will play a crucial role in getting wickets. The other teams which include Bangladesh, P...

A unforegttable series for England down under

In the England tour of Australia the visitors managed to win only 1 match out of the 13 matches. The tour began with a loss and will be ending with a loss. The disappointing thing about the England team is that they did give them a fight in the test series, the ODI series was closely fought but won only 1 of them and in the T-20 series the England horrid tour will be ending. The Ashes test series was bad experience for the England team as Andy Flower has stepped down the coaching role. Cook and his men were humbled by a strong bowling attack as Johnson picked up 37 wickets from 5 matches. The ODI series was a new began but there a combination of good batting and bowling and fielding the team won the series 4-1 easily. In that series Aaron Finch scored 2 centuries which led to this victory. In the only match that England won the team had rested four of the key players. The win in the final ODI was special as they clawed back from jaws of defeat to win that match by 5 runs. In the T...

Karnatka- the champion of Ranji trophy

Few minutes back Karnataka became the champions of the Ranji Trophy by defeating Maharastra by 7 wickets in Hyderabad. This year Karnataka deserve to be the champions because they won 7 matches outright. In the final Maharashtra won the toss and batted. Karnataka were in spot of bother when Maharashtra ended day 1 on 272 for 5 .On the second morning Maharashtra team were bowled out for 305. When Karnataka came to bat they piled a hug score of 515 runs. The  1st innings of Karnatka had the contribution of  KL Rahul, Ganesh Satish and others also contributed. In second innings Maharastra played better and scored 366 with KD Jadhav scoring a hundred and left the Karntaka team to score 157 to win which team chased easily by losing only 3 wickets. It has been combined with great bowling, solid batting from KL Rahul, Karun Nair scoring 3 back to back centuries, Amit Verma, Manish Pandey, CM Gautuam. In the bowling department all bowlers have done well especially HS Sharath, Abh...