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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...