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Career stats: Indian squad for Twenty20 World Cup Take a look at the career stats of the  Indian squad  that has been announced on Monday for the Twenty20 [ Images ]  World Cup starting next month. Player Mts Runs Hs Avg SR Ct/St Wkts Best Avg RpO M S Dhoni  [ Images ] 13 215 45 23.89 103.86 3/- 0 - - - Gautam Gambhir  [ Images ] 12 328 75 29.82 126.64 3 0 - - - Harbhajan Singh  [ Images ] 12 30 21 7.50 85.71 3 11 2-24 23.73 6.53 Ravindra Jadeja  [ Images ] 2 24 19 12.00 104.35 0 0 0-21 - 6.25 Praveen Kumar 1 6 6 6.00 60.00 0 1 1-15 15.00 7.50 Pragyan Ojha  [ Images ] Yet to make his debut Irfan Pathan  [ Images ] 13 120 33* 30.00 120.00 1 15 3-16 22.93 7.82 Yusuf Pathan  [ Images ] 4 57 22* 19.00 203.57 2 2 2-23 32.50 8.30 Suresh Raina  [ Images ] 4 99 61* 49.50 126.92 3 0 - - - Virender Sehwag  [ Images ] 12 223 68 20.27 144.81 1 0 0-20 - 20.00 Ishant Sharma  [ Images ] 4 3 3* - 50.00 1 2 1-35 51.00 9.00 Rohit Sharma  [ Images ] 8 107 50* 35.67 122.99 2 0 - - - RP Singh 8 1 1* - 100....

Instrumental in Mahendra Singh Dhoni's [ Images ] elevation to captaincy of the Indian cricket team, Sachin Tendulkar [ Images ] says India's rich success under the stewardship of the star stumper from Jharkhand vindicated his faith in him. After Rahul Dravid [ Images ] decided to step down from the captain's job soon after India's England [ Images ] tour last year, Tendulkar suggested Dhoni's name to the then Board of Control for Cricket in India president, Sharad Pawar [ Images ]. Under Dhoni, India won, among others, the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa [ Images ], tri-series in Australia , Test series against Australia [ Images ] at home before recording their first ODI series win in New Zealand and first Test series there in 41 years. Refusing to disclose much about his suggestion to Pawar to appoint Dhoni captain, Tendulkar said, "I spoke to the BCCI president but I would not want to discuss everything publicly. As I said earlier, it's my principl...

The second test between the indian and newzeland have ended in a draw. kiwis won the toss and elected to bat . Ryder's double century , taylors and macullum century have powered the team to a respectable sore of 619/9. India in the first ining failed to score and where all out for 305. Indian where made to follow on. But on the dead pitch of this kind failed to produce any result . Kiwi bowler tried their level best to take wicket. But indian under the leadership of dravid (the wall) along with gambhir have started the resistance. finally india was able to achieve a draw.

The Second edition of DLF Indian Permier league is about to be underway from april 10 onward.The first season was a huge sucess with Rajasthan royal and chennai super king being the winner and runners up respectively. However the secons season start after the mumabi attack and also in the middle of the finianical crisis. Even specifically speaking the finianical crisis has also just started and have to wait and see howfar the thing will go. Last some team like the Punjab king, Kolkata night rider have failed to achieve the expected profit. This year i expects more team will have the same effect, becasue the software professional and other working will be reluctant to go to stadium paying Rs 500 ( Min ticket) person for a match .This will result less turn out for the game and hence affecting the profit of the game. The Second edition will ECB player like Kevin petersen, Flintoff etc playing in the IPL. However i think aussie may pull out.

The newzeland has won the 2 match T20 series in newzeland beating india comprehisevely. In the first match india scoresd 161 with Raina top scoring... while mucullum made the batting for kiwis. In the second match india scored 150 with yuvi top scoring. while again mucullum making the merry again. However the second match was down to wire when the kiwis required 12 run from 6 ball . I think we need to send in some quick and real faster alrounder if we need to win the series.

The T20 game between the Indian Srilanka was the nail biting . The game was 85 % game was controlled by the srilanka. In the begining of the the pathan dropped the dilshan at the begining of the game. So they capitalised on the dropped chance and they bundled up 171 run for loss of four. In return batting of india start with diaster with run out of sehwag and ganbhir late the raina and yuvaraj build up a patnership.But once the Yuvaraj falls the wicket starts to fall quickly and jayasuriya bowling look pretty diffcult. But when yusuf pathan came into the crease he smashed the bandra over for 16 run which was real turning point og the game. More over the captain of srilankan failed to use the jayasuriya full quota. finally both the pathan brother made a 67 run paternship from a failure to a victory . It was Matching wining performance of the Pathan

Indian Team under the dynamic leadership of M.S Dhoni have defeated the srilanka in IDBI fortis wealth insurance cup with 4-1 . In the first two matches even though tough one for Indian remaining two saw the Indian batmans hameering the srilankan bowler alround the park.The srilankan team failed in the fielding and bowling dept which was the reason for the defeat. Indian team aslo set a new record of 9 striaght win and bettered the record of the previous Indian team. yuvaraj singh was adjuded the man of the series

Team India under the dynamic leadership of the Dhoni have defeated the Aussies in the four Test series held in various parts of india in the month of the oct and Nov. The series also saw the end of the Dada (Ganguly) and Anil Kumble. Both of them were the India's best player for last 15 years. Team under the leadership of Dhoni have defeated the England in 5-0 whitewash of the ODI sereis. Last two matches are cancelled because of the war on mumabi .

Trouble seems to be chasing Harbhajan Singh with the feisty off-spinner alleged to have made monkey gestures towards the crowd at the Sydney Cricket Ground during India's victory in the first tri-series final on Sunday. Local media reported that Harbhajan apparently motioned as if to scratch his armpits with both hands in the same manner fans did to taunt Andrew Symonds in the one-day series in India last year. The Sydney Morning Herald claimed to have a picture of Harbhajan making the gesture.