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The Indian bowling has to step up if they have beat the England team in the upcoming test series starting from 9th July. In the practice match against Lecicstire  all the bowlers were given an hammering and they must improve a lot before the first test match starts. Ishant Sharma needs to focus on his line and length, Shami needs to increase pace to rattle the English batsman, Varun Aaron, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ravindra Jadjea, Ashwin has to bowl tight bowling to get rid of English batsman twice. In the 2011 tour of England the Indian pace battery consisting of Zaheer Khan who got injured was ruled out of the series, Ishant Sharma and Praveen Kumar was the only bowlers who took wickets otherwise it was very disappointing tour to remember. In the previous two tours of South Africa and NewZeland the Indians inability to pick 20 wickets was the main issue and they lost the test matches 1-0 both respectively. In South Africa the first test was prime example of how India bowlers really ...

Saina Nehwal beat Carolin Marin in straight sets 21-18,21-11 to win the Austrlian open badminton championship 2014 today in Sydney to win her 2nd tittle of the year.She struggled in first set but her experience came to her rescue.Her net play was brilliant,her smashes did not allow Marin to put pressure on the Indians and she won won the first set 21-18. The second set was totally different as the Indian dominated from start as she played some wonderful smashes, drop shots,and the net play was great as Saina did not allow her to come back in the game and won the game 21-11. This win will increase her confidence as her form in the past 1 year has been not up mark and because of injuries. In this tournament she beat Chinese opponent which will give her much needed boost ahed of major tournament like the commonwealth games and Asian games.Her performances in uber cup 2014 has shown that she can compete with worlds best and beat them on any given day.

In a epic three sets the Indian sensation defeated the top rank seed Chinese Wang X Shixan 21-19, 14-21, 21-16 to reach the finals of the 2014 Australian open badmination championship. It was a grueling match as both the players played some long rallies in the match. Saina Nehwal in first set played some nice drop shots, her net shots was ok, the Chinese committed a lot mistakes in the first which Saina Nehwal took advantage of and won the first set 21-19. At one point of time in the second set Saina was leading but the Chinese played some wonderful strokes at the net which did not allow the Indians to come back in the game. The Indian player was having some trouble with her both finger of her but played on the game and when she came back to field the scoreboard showed 18-14 but Chinese showed the sportsmanship and did not allow the point, the scorecard then showed 17-14 . There was some long rallies in the second set. The Chinese played some wonderful smashes which did not allowed ...

Before the five test series begins the India got much needed batting practice in the first tour opener at Grace Road stadium in Leicester.  India won the toss and elected to bat. Vijay was the only person who got for 20. All the other batters including Gambhir retired out for 54, Shikhar Dhawan injured his finger who scored 60, Pujara Retired out for 57,Virat Kohli was bowled for 29,and the batsman who were batting at the crease Rahane on 42 and Rohit Sharma 36. The tour opener will set the tone of the series and allow the batsman to adjust to the conditions which will test these young batsman who have never played in England apart from three players including Ishant Sharma, MS Dhoni and Gautuam Gambhir.   The motive of this game is get the Indian batsman and bowlers get used to these conditions and it will big morale booster for Indian team that England team lost the test series against Sri lanka 1-0. At the present India are 331 for 4 at the end 88.1 overs. The crucial th...

 Sri Lanka has been a team with some quality players in the past with likes of Arvinda De Silva, Sanath Jayasuryia, Arjuna Rantunga, Mutthamuralithran, Chaminda Vaas which can destroy any opponent. Muralithran is one of finest bowler in the world which the Sri Lankan cricket can be proud of and from then onwards the likes of Jayawarnde and Sangakara has taken Sri Lankan cricket to new level. Sri Lanka team has been in the final 2007 world cup, 2011 world cup,2012 T-20 world cup, 2009 T-20 world cup but in 2014 the dream of winning the world cup came true when the Sri Lankan team beat India. Jayasuriya was a batsman who smashed the bowlers all parts of ground if given width outside the off stump. In the past 5 months the Sri Lankan team has won across in all three formats especially  ODI and test series in Bangladesh, Asia Cup, T-20 world cup and T-20, ODI and test series in England. It has been brilliant year for them so far winning 9 matches and drawing 1 match which shows...

The Indian team will leave for England on Saturday for 3 months long tour consisting of 5 test matches, 5 ODI and 1 T20. The practice matches will be important to give an idea of the pitches and the form of the players. In 2011 the Indian team were whitewashed 4-0 and lost the ODI series 3-0, lost the T-20 match, but this time around India might suprise England and win the series. The conditions will be helpful to the swing bowling. The Indian team needs to focus on taking 20 wickets to win a test match outside the subcontient which they have been not able to do in the recent past. This year Newzeland were struggling to save the test match but the lack of fifth bowler the match turned to be draw and the home team won the series 1-0. The batting line will have the likes Gautuam Gambhir, Vijay, Dhawan, Pujara, Virat, Rohit Sharma, Dhoni, Jadjea, Binny, Ashwin. The batsman has make big scores to let the bowlers weave their magic.The Indian batsman has to face the like Anderson, Broad, ...

The third match between India and Bangladesh was called off due to heavy rains  today at Dhaka. India won the toss and elected to bat first to get match practice as the team had already won the series. The Indian team began off to bad not losing 4 wickets for 16. The pitch was doing something for the fast bowlers and the Bangladesh bowlers utilized them brilliantly. After the first break Raina and Pujara played sensibly before the rain intervened again. Raina scored 25 off 25 before getting out the Shakib Al Hasan and then wickets began to fall at regular intervals but Binny played crucial innings off 25 and end the match on 119 for 9 before rain lashed again to completely call off the match. In the 2nd half matches played the batting was not up to mark. The first ODI saw Utthappa scoring runs, Rahane scoring runs. The second match was totally a bowlers game as Binny broke the record of taking 6 wickets for 4 runs as India defended 105 runs.This series was a chance to test the b...

India won the ODI series by beating Bangladesh in the 2nd match of the 3 match series with thumping 47 runs win in low scoring thriller. Bangladesh won the toss in this match and elected to bowl on helpful pitch for the seamers and spinners. India got off to a poor start losing Rahane for 0, after a rain delay shorten the match to a 41 overs side. Taskin Ahmed then bowled with pace and rattled the Indian batsman with swing bowling which proved the undoing of the Indian batsman. All the three pace bowlers bowled well and took the advantage of the overcast conditions. The top scorer for the Indian team was Raina scoring 26 and the next highest scorer was Umesh Yadav 17 and were finally bowled out for a paltry score 105 with 16.3 to spare. Bangaladesh innings began off to worst possible start losing Tamim Iqbal for 4 and then after Anamul Haque lost wicket reduced to 13 for 2. The Indian bowlers bowled well but the Bangladesh batsman played some irresponsible shots. At the interval Ban...

The Indian hockey team beat Korea 3-0 to finish 9th in the Hockey World Cup at Kycorea Stadium at Hague today. The first goal of this game came from Akashdeep Singh in the 6th minute to give India a 1-0 lead. After that there was no goal in the first half. Again penalty corners was problem for India at there were not able to convert and thread the goalkeeper. Both team tried their best to put goals. The second half saw two goals from the Indian team, one from Rupinder Pal Singh from a penalty stroke and the next one from Akashdeep Singh to seal the match. The Koreans were not at their best and the main problem was ability to penetrate the Indian goalkeeper P Srjeesh. This tournament showed that India needs to improve their penalty corners conversion and passing needs to improved a little much better and to save energy at the end to not concede late goals. The Indian coach terry Walsh must know the abilities of each player and plan much better for the upcoming Asian Games and Commo...

In 2011 the experience of VVS Laxman, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag could not avoid a 4-0 scoreline. The ball swings in the air and this time around the likes of Shikhar Dhwan, Virat Kohli, Pujara, Rohit Sharma, Murali Vijay, Gambhir will be tested against England best bowlers of James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Steve Finn. As it is a five match test series the first two practice matches  will decide the opening combination as Shikhar Dhawan and Murali Vijay have not been able to put good partnership at the top in 2014 and with Gambhir coming in the opening partnership problem may be resolved. Coming in number 3 the solid Pujara has been in sublime touch and has the ability to play long innings and it will be challenge for the young Indian batsman to put huge totals on the board so that the pressure is not much on the bowlers who have come under scrutiny for the lackluster bowling. This time Indian bowling short of experience but the swinging conditions will be conducive for th...

Last time when the Indian team played in the hockey world four years ago the team India finished 8th out of the 12 teams but this team around the Indian team may came 9th or 10th in the final standings. This shows that the situation of hockey in India has come down  and the Federation hockey India must take necessary steps to improve the situation. In this year hockey world cup the expectations were that they may finish in the top 5. They went to Europe before that, but the practice must have been done in cooler place in India so that they would have been adjusted to conditions of Hague much better. India played very well in tournament despite losing 2 close matches in the dying moments of the match against the English and Belguim. The penalty conversion of India has been poor and the passing has been ok. The Indian team work on these weakness if they have compete against top sides like Netherland, Australia, Argentina, England, Germany. In the matches against Spain the match ...

The Indian team which is going to participate in upcoming Asian games in Inchon, Korea and the Commonwealth games in Glasgow this year the Indian contingent, the hopes are pinged on some of the players who have done well in past and are serious contenders to win a medal for the country. There are various sports in which India can perform very well. The Indian team has a good record and with good form the team can bring medals in Wrestling, Badmination, Hockey, Cricket, Shooting or may be archery. In wrestling the main contenders in the men's category is Sushil Kumar who has won two medals in Bejing and London Olympics in 2008 and 2012. Yogeshwar Dutt who won a bronze in London olympics, and many other young Indian wrestlers have a chance to showcase their talent in the prestigious event. Wrestling is game where the Indian can hope for more medals. In Badmination Sania Nehwal, PV Sindhu who have done well in recent uber cup winning bronze medal for the first time will be under ...

After 60 matches the new champions of IPL 7 was crowned as Kolkatta won the tittle for the 2nd time as they won previously  in 2010. It was amazing end to the IPL tournament which saw some entertaining cricket in the UAE leg as well in the India leg. Few years ago nobody thought that 190 would be chased in 14.3 overs and in the power play overs 100 runs would be scored. The thinking of players has just increased to a new level. This IPL has helped the young Indian players to grow as a player and with the help of international, foregin coaches the players have performed better. In the this tournament some of the best players in the world has not performed as expected with  the likes of Gayle for Royal Challengers, Dale Steyn for Sunrisers Hydebrad who was tonked for 24 runs 3 times, Amit Mishra, Virat Kohli, Kevin Pietersen for Delhi Daredevils not delivering for their teams There were few young Indian players who made an impression and got selected in the Indian team for ...