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Gambhir century sets India up for victory

July 29, 2012

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Gautam Gambhir's 11th one-day internationl century laid the foundation for India's five-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the third one-day international on Saturday.

Gambhir scored a compact 102 off 101 balls, his sixth ODI hundred against Sri Lanka, as India chased down the home team's total of 286-5 with two balls to spare.

India lead 2-1 in the five-match series.

Opener Gambhir was run out in the 39th over and India were guided home by sixth wicket pair Suresh Raina and Irfan Pathan who shared an unbroken stand of 92.

Raina hit an unbeaten 65 and Pathan made 34 not out.

Lasith Malinga gave Sri Lanka hope when he grabbed two quick wickets off successive balls, sending back MS Dhoni for 31 and Rohit Sharma for a duck at the start of the batting power play, but Raina and Pathan snuffed out the threat.

Sri Lanka slipped to 20-3 inside six overs after winning the toss, but Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene staged a recovery with a partnership of 121.

Sangakkara, hit on the right little finger by a ball from Ashok Dinda, continued to bat after being treated on the field to top score with 73.

Jayawardene made 65 before being trapped lbw by Rahul Sharma.

The Sri Lankan innings was given momentum by sixth wicket pair Angelo Mathews and Jeevan Mendis who added 104 off 73 balls.

Scoreboard


Sri Lanka innings:

U Tharanga c Dhoni b Khan 8

T Dilshan b Khan 4

K Sangakkara c Kohli b Dinda 73

D Chandimal lbw b Pathan 0

M Jayawardene lbw b Rahul Sharma 65

A Mathews not out 71

J Mendis not out 45

Extras: (b-2, lb-8, nb-1, w-9) 20

Total: (five wickets, 50 overs) 286

Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-19, 3-20, 4-141, 5-182.

Did not bat: T Perera, R Herath, L Malinga, I Udana. Bowling: Khan 10-0-39-2 (w-3), Pathan 10-0-59-1 (w-3, nb-1), Dinda 10-0-76-1 (w-1), Rahul Sharma 8-0-45-1 (w-1), Ashwin 10-0-50-0 (w-1), Sehwag 1-0-3-0, Rohith Sharma 1-0-4-0.

India innings:

G Gambhir run out 102

V Sehwag c sub (S Senanayake) b Perera 3

V Kohli c and b Herath 38

M Dhoni b Malinga 31

Rohit Sharma lbw b Malinga 0

S Raina not out 65

I Pathan not out 34

Extras: (lb-11, w-4) 15

Total: (five wickets, 49.4 overs) 288

Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-113, 3-180, 4-180, 5-196.

Did not bat: Z Khan, R Ashwin, Rahul Sharma, A Dinda.

Bowling: Malinga 10-0-60-2, Perera 9-0-57-1, Udana 6-0-42-0 (w-4), Mathews 8.4-0-49-0, Herath 9-0-36-1, Dilshan 3-0-14-0, Mendis 4-0-19-0.

India won by five wickets




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August 2,2020

New Delhi, Aug 2: BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Sunday said the Women's IPL or the Challenger series, as it is better known, is "very much on", ending speculation about the parent body not having a plan for Harmanpreet Kaur and her team.

The men's IPL will be held between September 19 and November 8 or 10 (final date yet to be locked in) in the UAE due to the surge in Covid-19 cases in India. The women's IPL will also be fit in to the schedule, according to the BCCI chief.

"I can confirm to you that the women's IPL is very much on and we do have a plan in place for the national team also," Ganguly told PTI ahead of the IPL Governing Council meeting later on Sunday.

The BCCI president, who is awaiting a Supreme Court verdict on waiver of the cooling-off period to continue in the position, did not divulge details but another senior official privy to the development said that women's Challenger will be held during the last phase of IPL like last year.

"The women's Challenger series is likely to be held between November 1-10 and there could be a camp before that," the source said.

The former India captain also said that the centrally contracted women players will have a camp which has been delayed due to the prevailing situation in the country.

"We couldn't have exposed any of our cricketers -- be it male or female to health risk. It would have been dangerous," Ganguly said.

"The NCA also remained shut because of Covid-19. But we have a plan in place and we will have a camp for women, I can tell you that," he added.

The BCCI's cricket operations team is chalking up a schedule where Indian women are likely to have two full-fledged white-ball series against South Africa and the West Indies before playing the ODI World Cup in New Zealand. 

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News Network
March 13,2020

Mar 13: The start of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the world's most lucrative cricket competition, has been postponed from March 29 until April 15 over the coronavirus, the Indian cricket board said Friday.

"The Board of Control for Cricket in India has decided to suspend IPL 2020 till 15th April 2020, as a precautionary measure against the ongoing Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation," the BCCI said in a statement.

The two-month Twenty20 competition is estimated to generate more than $11 billion for the Indian economy and involves cricket's top international stars.

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July 25,2020

New Delhi, Jul 25: Former India spinner Anil Kumble said that he has never understood why people compared him with Australia's Shane Warne.

Kumble was doing an Instagram live session with former Zimbabwe pacer Pommie Mbangwa and it was then that the spinner also talked about being the third-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket.

"It feels really wonderful to finish with these many wickets. I never bothered about statistics or what my average should be, I wanted to bowl the whole day and be the one to take wickets. To finish as the third-highest wicket-taker in Tests alongside Murali and Warne is very special. All three of us played in the same era, there were a lot of comparisons, I do not know why people compared me with Warne. Warne was someone really different and he was on a different plane," Kumble told Mbangwa during the interaction.
"These two guys could spin the ball on any surface so it became really difficult for me when they started comparing me with Warne and Murali. I learnt a lot by watching them both bowl," he added.

The Indian spinner announced his retirement from international cricket in 2008. He finished with 619 wickets in the longest format of the game.

He has the third-highest number of wickets in Tests, only behind Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan (800) and Australia's Shane Warne (708).

Kumble is the second bowler in the history of international cricket after England's Jim Laker to take all ten wickets in an innings of a Test match.

He had achieved the feat against Pakistan in 1999 at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi. Kumble had bowling figures of 10-74 from 26.3 overs in the second innings of the Test match.
Kumble will be coaching Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League (IPL). 

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