India crush West Indies by an innings and 126 runs in Sachin Tendulkar's last Test

November 16, 2013

New Delhi, Nov 16: Sachin Tendulkar got a fitting farewell in his last Test as India crushed the West Indies by an innings and 126 runs at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Saturday.tendulkar

Mohammed Shami registered victory by shattering the stumps of Shannon Gabriel.

Tendulkar has now won each of his last competitive cricket match be it ODI, T20, Ranji, IPL or CLT20.

The West Indies lost their ninth wicket when R Ashwin trapped Shane Shillingford plumb in front of the wicket.

Pragyan Ojha registered a five-wicket haul by trapping West Indies captain Darren Sammy plumb in front of the wicket by an arm ball.

The West Indies lost their seventh wicket when R Ashwin trapped Shivnarine Chanderpaul plumb in front of the wicket.

Pragyan Ojha dismissed Marlon Samuels, Chris Gayle and Narsingh Deonarine to bring India closer to victory.

Pragyan Ojha struck in the fifth over of the day when he had Marlon Samuels stumped by captain MS Dhoni.

Ojha induced Samuels out of his crease with a flighted delivery but it spun away past the flashing blade and Dhoni had ample time to take off the bails.

The day's play started with Chris Gayle and Samuels resuming the West Indies second innings, facing the prospect of an innings defeat.

Tendulkar may have missed out on a fairytale hundred on Day 2, but there were two young Indian batsmen who managed to notch three-figure scores.

Cheteshwar Pujara and Rohit Sharma showed that the future of India's batting was in good hands. Pujara played a big one for the first time in this series, setting himself up mentally for the tour of South Africa that lies ahead. Sharma took off from where he had left in Kolkata, adding meat to the restored reputation and further cementing his spot at No. 6 in the Indian team.

The two centuries were scored in contrasting styles. In the morning, when Pujara resumed at an unbeaten 33, the West Indies pacers - Tino Best in particular - showed renewed energy running in with the ball. There was pace to counter and Pujara did well, staying around, getting his runs and not let the momentum break with Tendulkar batting at the other end.

Sharma was a little more prolific. He got his 111 not out off 127 balls, with a life when batting on 85. Caught at long on off Shane Shillingford, Sharma was on his way back to the dressing room when umpire Nigel Llong stopped him to check if the ball was legitimate. It wasn't as the off-spinner was guilty of overstepping by quite a distance and his innings resumed from where it had paused.

Laced with 11 fours and three sixes, he took on the West Indies attack and did a VVS Laxman by playing expertly with tailenders, and got to the landmark. He now has a whopping 288 runs in just two Test innings.

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April 12,2020

London, Apr 12: Former Formula 1 legendary driver Stirling Moss died at the age of 90 on Sunday.

"All at F1 send our heartfelt condolences to Lady Susie and Sir Stirling's family and friends," Formula 1 said in a statement.

Often referred to as the greatest driver never to win the world championship, Moss contested 66 Grands Prix from 1951 to 1961, driving for the likes of Vanwall, Maserati and Mercedes, where he famously formed a contented and ruthlessly effective partnership with lead driver Juan Manuel Fangio.

In his 10-year-long stint at the tracks, Moss took 16 wins, some of which rank among the truly iconic drives in the sport's history - his 1961 victories in Monaco and Germany in particular often held up as all-time classics.

Moss won the 1955 Mille Miglia on public roads for Mercedes at an average speed of close to 100mph, while he also competed in rallies and land-speed attempts.

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July 3,2020

Karachi, Jul 3: Pakistan limited overs captain Babar Azam is tired of his constant comparisons with India skipper Virat Kohli and says he would rather be compared to the greats at home.

Babar, six years younger to Kohli, has a long way to go in getting close to Kohli's staggering numbers across formats. The India skipper has 70 hundreds to his name and averages more than 50 in all three formats.

"I would be more happy if you compare to me say a Javed Miandad, Muhammad Yousuf or Younis Khan. Why compare me to Kohli or any Indian player?" asked the 25-year-old, who is in England with the national team, said in an online media interaction on Thursday.

Babar has scored 16 international hundreds and averages more than 50 in ODIs and T20s. In 26 Tests, he has scored 1850 runs at 45.12.

He also said that he is not targeting any English bowler for the series next month.

"I don’t see who the bowler is or his reputation. I just try to play each ball on merit. England no doubt has a top bowling attack and they have advantage of playing at home but this is a challenge I want to score runs in," he said.

Before the squad’s departure for England, Pakistan batting coach Younis Khan said that pacer Joffra Archer will be a handful for the Pakistani batsmen.

Babar said that he would try to play every English bowler on merit but conceded that after getting runs in Australia last year, he was keen to leave his footprint in the coming Test and T20 series in England.

Reminded that some former Test players had already written off Pakistan for the England series, Babar said they were entitled to their opinion.

"But we don’t have a bad team and already we have been enjoying our training. It is good to be back on the field after such a long lay-off. I think we have the bowlers to trouble them like Abbas, Naseem, Shaheen and others while we have some experience in our batting line-up."

Babar said he would love to get a triple century in a Test match.

"When you score a century, you naturally want to go on and convert that into a double or a triple century. This is something I would like to do during the Test series.

"I like to play my natural game but my selection of shots depends on the conditions and bowlers."

Babar also ruled out any problems in the Pakistan dressing room due to the presence of former skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed, who was sacked last year.

But he said that since Muhammad Rizwan had been playing in all formats for Pakistan in recent times, he would be the starting keeper in the Test series ahead of Sarfaraz.

"I think we first have to give Rizwan a proper chance and Sarfaraz is there as back up."

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April 8,2020

London, Apr 8: England wicketkeeper Jos Buttler has raised more than 65,000 pound (USD 80,000) to help fight the coronavirus by auctioning off his World Cup final shirt.

Buttler's shirt, which he wore when completing the last-ball run-out that saw England beat New Zealand at Lord's last year, was sold to raise money for specialist heart and lung centres provided by the Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals in London.

Buttler, who earlier in the showpiece match had hit a fifty and batted in the Super Over, put his long-sleeve keeping jersey up for sale on eBay a week ago.

By the time the auction closed on Tuesday, the shirt had attracted 82 bids with the winner paying 65,100 pound.

Buttler, speaking on Monday, said: "It's a very special shirt but I think it takes on extra meaning with it being able to hopefully go to the emergency cause.

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