Cricket fan critical after 40m fall
A 32 years old man who is a cricket fan is in a critical condition in hospital after falling almost 40 metres from an escalator at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Ray Rowe a Metropolitan Ambulance Service (MAS) spokesman said that the man fell from an MCG members’ stand escalator at about 4:00pm (IST) today after Australia’s Twenty Twenty cricket win over India. He sustained major head injuries, multiple fractures & significant upper-body injuries. Mr Rowe ….
Read More: Cricket fan critical after 40m fallAustralia won the Match
Australia won the Twenty-Twenty match against India in Melbourne. Australia won the match by 9 wickets. India made a score of 74-10 in 17.3 overs where Australia won the match in 11.2 overs with the help of MJ Clarke the captain of Australia.
India-74/10 (17.3 Overs)
Australia 75/1 (11.2 Overs)
Indian team will behave, assures Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni captain of Indian ODI 20-20 series said on Thursday that he expected his players to be on their best behaviour for the remainder of the Australian tour. India play agaibst Australia in a Twenty-Twenty match at the MCG today. The relationship b/w the Indians & Australians has been stressed since the argumentative second Test in Sydney and tensions have resurfaced after the three-match suspension of spinner Harbhajan Singh was overturned. ….
‘Uncompromising’ but fair cricket: Ricky Ponting
Ricky Ponting told DailyNews that Australia would continue to play “uncompromising” cricket against India but would assure that his team played the game in the right courage during the tri-series. Ponting told our reporters,”As it happens in most international sports, chit-chat between the players is comon. Both teams have realised that there is a line in the sand, I had a word with players before the Perth Test about the little things we needed to ….
Read More: ‘Uncompromising’ but fair cricket: Ricky Ponting‘Big bully’ Team India: Silly point or caught out?
The racial abuse charges on the Harbhajan Singh thretened to leave India’s tour of Australia. The BCCI went to the extent of declaring that if the three-match ban on the Indian off-spinner were not removed, the team of India would come back & would leave the tour. The ban was finally removed after New Zealand High Court Judge John Hansen ruled that Harbhajan did not racially abuse Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds. India is ….
Read More: ‘Big bully’ Team India: Silly point or caught out?20-20 International at Melbourne
A four-match Test series, a triangular One-day tournament and a Twenty Twenty figure is on the schedule of the Indian cricket team’s Australia tour. India vs Australia 20-20 match will start from today at 2:00 (IST). In this match Ricky Pointing & Yuvraj Singh are not playing.
Read More: 20-20 International at MelbourneICC ask players to take note of Harbhajan row
ICC the International Cricket Council has urged players to learn from the row over Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh and improve their field behaviour in match. Harbhajan was fined half his match fee for the abuse of Australian player Andrew Symonds during this month’s Sydney Test after the ICC appeals commissioner dismissed charges of racial abuse and revoked a three-Test ban by match referee Mike Procter. ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed said on Wednesday “One thing that ….
Raciam charge has been droped
In the Harbhajan Test ban case hearing today, the racial charges have been dropped against the off-spinner Harbhajan Singh. Harbhajan Singh has been fined only 50% of the match fees to abusing a player rather than any racist occurrence under section 2.8 of the ICC code of conduct.
The hearing of Harbhajan Singh test ban case considering the racial charges against him began in the early hours on Tuesday as players from both the sides presented ….
BCCI wouldnot allow stump mike evidence
The Border-Gavaskar trophy has won by Australia by 2-1 after India’s Adelaide test was drawn today (January 28). After Match, the Team India management was ready to chalking out plans for Harbhajan Singh’s hearing. Today is the hearing of Harbhajan Singh & BCCI is supporting the players.
BCCI said that the stump mike evidence in Harbhajan case wouldnot allow. If it will not remove then the Team India will not play the one-days & will come ….
Sania Mirza become Asia’s number one women’s tennis player
Sania Mirza become Asia’s number one women’s tennis player, by overtaking China’s Na Lin the WTA Rankings.
According to the agency reports the official WTA list would be announced on Tuesday. Sania’s third-round appearance in the Australian Open has enabled her to be ranked 29th on the WTA charts, up three spots from her previous ranking.
Sania Mirza said she described it as a rare honour.
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IT has a solution.
The Indian IT sector has been looking forward to cashing in on the wrong decisions made by umpires during cricket matches.With the cicket software market pegged at Rs 100 cr & set to grow substantially, many IT companies have already developed software to provide a solution to improve umpiring standards.The Banglore-based Stumpvision, which has Indian skipper Anil Kumble as one of its directions, has developed a cricket-related software which was put to use by John Wright & Greg Chappel during ….
Read More: IT has a solution.Indian Cricket Team will not go to the Canbra
Indian Team will not go to the Canbra until they will not got the orders of the BCCI to play the Next Test playing in the Canbra.BCCI ordered team to stay at the Sydney still they not got their next orders.But Indian team decided n said that they will not go the Canbra.
ICC banned Harbhajan Singh for next three tests
ICC banned Harbhajan Singh Indian off-spinner bowler for next three tests for the alleged “racial comments” on Andrew Symonds. He was banned for three tests after ICC match refree Mike Procter upheld the Australian charge that he had racialy abused all-rounder Andrew Symonds by calling a “monkey”. The Indian team will appeal against the ban within 24 hours.
Bucknor may sit out
Controversial umpire Steve Bucknor is most likely to sit out of the third Test at Perth after a livid Indian team went public with their grouse against the veteran West Indian.
It is learnt that the ICC is favourably inclined to agree with the request of the Indian team that Bucknor doesn’t stand in any other match of the ongoing series.
India all out at 532 Runs
India in 1st innings all out at 532 runs in 138.2 overs.
First Innings
Australia 463 (Andrew Symonds 162 not out, Brad Hogg 79, Brett Lee 59, Ricky Ponting 55; Anil Kumble 4-106, Rudra Pratap Singh 4-124);
India 532 (Sachin Tendulkar 154 not out, Vangipurappu Laxman 109, Sauruv Ganguly 67, Harbhajan Singh 63, Rahul Dravid 53; Brett Lee 5-119)
Second Innings
Australia 13/0