Even as the young India and Australia turks got ready for an explosive contest of Twenty20 at the MCG on Friday, two players who can make a significant difference despite being on the wrong side of their 30s are still to make a decision on whether they will play.
Australia skipper Ricky Ponting is nursing a sore back and keeping his fingers crossed till the start of the much-awaited game here, while master blaster Sachin Tendulkar is yet to take a call on making the Indian XI. Tendulkar has no fitness worries, but may still not walk out at the MCG on Friday.
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A day ahead of the Twenty20 encounter against Australia, India’s ODI skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has urged his players not to exceed their limits.
However, he added that players cannot just ‘shut up and play’ as ‘chit chats’ were part of the game. ”Players know the international guidelines that are set out to be followed. Each and every player should respect it. It is the responsibility of an individual more than their skipper to know the limitations and to know where they stand,” Dhoni said.
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Indian one-day captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said on Thursday that he expected his players to be on their best behaviour for the remainder of the Australian tour.
The Indians play Australia in a Twenty20 match at the MCG on Friday in front of an expected 90,000 people, before taking on the hosts and Sri Lanka in a triangular one-day series.
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Cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni loves his new hairstyle and he has received applause aplenty from his female fans for it too!
When Mahendra Singh Dhoni was not playing cricket, he was busy brushing up on his acting skills.
With his brand value soaring by the day and companies queing up to rope him as his brand ambassador, it seems that our Team India captain has taken his acting and modelling assignments very seriously. Here is why.
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India were last night hopeful Harbhajan Singh would have his racial slur downgraded as his defence team finalised plans for tomorrow’s appeal hearing in Adelaide.
Leading Indian lawyer V.R. Manohar has led Harbhajan’s appeal against a three-Test ban for labelling Andrew Symonds a “big monkey” in a drama-filled Sydney Test.
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Reunited friends Matthew Hayden and Phil Jaques savaged India with a telling counterattack as tempers flared on a pivotal third day of the final Test in Adelaide.
Hayden went past Sir Donald Bradman on Australia’s list of centurions with his 30th ton in 94 Tests soon after lunch on day three. The avid cook has now whipped up six hundreds in 14 Tests against India.
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The FritoLay Division of PepsiCo India Holdings, the makers of ready-to-eat snack brands Lays, Kurkure and Cheetos, has signed Mahendra Singh Dhoni as their new brand ambassador. ”
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A sparkling unbeaten 124 from Sachin Tendulkar gave India the edge on the opening day of the fourth Test against Australia at Adelaide, a game the Indians must win to secure a remarkable 2-2 series draw. Having won the toss on a typical Adelaide belter, India closed on 309 for five, with Tendulkar’s 39th Test hundred the jewel in the tourists’ crown.
There remains plenty of work to do, of course: India won here four years ago after conceding over 550 in the first innings, a feat Australia replicated against England in late 2006. But if Tendulkar and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, undefeated on six after being badly dropped on three by Matthew Hayden at first slip off Mitchell Johnson as the evening shadows lengthened, can coax runs out of the tail, 400 should be the bare minimum. Another cracker could be on the cards.
Best and worst
Sourav Ganguly was asked about Brad Hogg’s bowling during the Sydney Test and said “he’s not the worst”. By then he was already on top of Hogg’s dismissal list, and today he fell to the wrist-spinner for the fifth time in his career and the fourth occasion in the series. Hogg, who is playing his sixth Test, has struggled to remove any other Indian, but has Ganguly’s measure.
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni refused to take questions on the exclusion of Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly from India’s One-Day cricket side for next month’s triangular series, but defended the timing of the team announcement Tuesday.
India’s one-day captain is at the centre of a storm over claims he asked for the two former captains to be replaced with younger blood.
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