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Few Days ago when I was in London for a holiday on the last day of the trip a guided tour of the famous the mecca of cricket Lords happened which i never thought in my dreams that this day would come in life to see the ground in person. On that tour there was 10 to 15 people. At the start of the tour they told us the history of the ashes.They showed the place where ganguly took off his shirt and Kapil Dev lifted the 1983 world cup. They showed the place where the records of bowlers who took 5 wickets each or more and the bastman who scored the highest individual scores at that ground. I was so much happy that i could not believe that i was at the ground. They showed the committee room where the meetings happen of MCC members and the history about the ground. The Lords ground has 18 pitches used for county matches, under 16 matches and International matches. They told the history of the ground and took us the media centre from where the commentary takes place and it was pleasure to c...

The first leg of the popular Indian premier league came to end yesterday. The matches were played in UAE and the people enjoyed the matches and there was full capacity crowd in all of the three venues where the matches were played in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. In 20 matches played so far few matches went to the last. As the standings Kings XI Punjab are sitting pretty with 10 points, CSK at 2nd position with 8 points, Rajasthan at 3rd with 6 points, KKR at 4th with 4 points, Bangalore Royal Challengers at 5th with 4, followed by sunrisers , Delhi and the last place goes to Mumbai Indians as they have 5 matches on a trot. Of all these teams Kings XI Punjab are going great guns with the likes of Maxwell is at the top of runs scorer with 300 runs in 5 matches. He scored 95,89,95 to give a the team a brilliant platform and when the batsman did not score many runs the bowlers performed brilliantly to restrict the opponents.CSK losing the 1st match against Punjab scoring 205 in that ga...

Since Saina Nehwal was training for the Uber Cup , the Indian teen sensation PV Sindhu, the pair of Jwala Gutta and Ponappa, Guru Sai dutta all played really well in the recently concluded Asian badminton championship played in Gimechon, Korea. It was nice experience for these players as it would a good preparation for the Indian players as they would play the best in the world in New Delhi in Thomas Cup and Uber Cup respectively. PV Sindhu won the first match against a player which she never defeated ie Erioke Hirose and was confident with storke play which is great sign for Indian badminton. In the quarter finals she defeated Thaliand Busan in thrilling three setter. In the semi finals she took the first game against the Chinese Wang Shixian and was leading 20-18 in the second but she frittered away points and after that it was all Chinese player from that point. It was a case of tension i case but she gave a tough fight to top seed in rankings but with exposure the Indian badmint...

M. S. Dhoni ; born 7 July 1981) is an Indian cricketer and the current  of the Indian national cricket He is an attacking right-handed middle-order batsman and wicket-keeper. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest finishers in limited-overs cricket. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut in December 2004 against Bangladesh, and played his first Test a year later against Sri Lanka. Dhoni is the captain of India in all three forms of the game. His Test and ODI records are the best among all Indian captains to date. He took over the ODI captaincy from Rahul Dravid in 2007 and led the team to its first ever bilateral ODI series wins in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, He also won the CB Series of 2007–08, the 2010 Asia Cup, the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. In the final of the 2011 World Cup, Dhoni scored 91 not out off 79 balls to take India to victory for which he was awarded th...

Pavan, New Delhi India entered into the final of the T-20 world cup 2014 by beating south Africa in Dhaka today by 6 wickets in a convincing manner. South Africa won the toss and elected to bat first. The innings began on bad note losing Quinton De Kock for 6 runs. After that Amla and the captian of South African team stitched a partnership of 33. At the end of 10 overs the South Africans were 66 for 2, du plesis played a captians innings of 58 and along with duminy they attacked the most successful spinner of India Amit Mishra. Ashwin was most successful bowler with 3 wickets for 22 runs in 4 overs and Duminy 45 helped the South Africans to reach a competitive score of 172. The Indian innings got off to quick start with Rohit Sharma and Rahane playing aggressive strokes. Both of them added 39 runs of 3.5 overs, he was out for 24 off 13 balls. After losing Rohit, Kohli and Rahane played some beautiful strokes. Kohli was the calm head taking singles, doubles. Rahane got out at 32. ...

By Pavan, New Delhi On the 2nd day of the Yonex Sunrise Indian open played at the Siri Fort complex stadium the Indians had a mixed day. In the men's singles P Kashyap beat Guru Sai Dutt but it was curtains for the doubles pair of Ashwini Ponappa and Jwala Gutta lost in the second round to the Chinese pair in straight sets 21-12, 21-17. The Chinese pair played with great coordination. The second set saw a much closer game, at one stage both were locked 17-17 and at the end the chinese took the second game and match also. The men's doubles was between Malaysia and Korean pair. It was a great match as the match went to a three setter with the first set won by Korean pair 21-18, Goh/lim won the second set and third set was won by the koreans. The women's single match was the centre of the attraction in which Saina was pitted against qualifer from Thaliand and won the match in straight sets 21-15 and 21-10. She played some brilliant strokes as she tired her opponents. Af...

After the league matches the semi finalist of the ICC world T-20 world cup 2014 has been decided. It will be Sri Lanka vs West Indies and then India vs South Africa. All the four teams have performed well in the group stages. In what was called the group of death India played well to win all the matches and West Indies lost their only match against the Indians. In the other group Sri Lanka lost only 1 match but in the final match against NewZeland they were dimissied for 119 but a quality spell by Ragana Hearth of 5 wicket for 3 runs helped them to reach the semi finals and South Africa lost only 1 match against the Sri Lankans. India's bowling which was under the scanner before the tournament began has been on the money as they have restricted the teams to below 140. The strengths in the tournament has been the trio spinners of Jadjea, Ashwin and Mishra, also dhoni as a finisher.As we talk about the weakness the openers especailly Shikar Dhawan form has been a cause of concern ...