Bravo to Proteas

Hi friends,

First of all Wish you all HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009.God bless you all and world live in peace.

2008 was the happy ending for South African cricket team. They have beaten Australian comprehensively, now the Aussies captain and team has no excuses to tell. Bravo to South African team, and learning the art of Test cricket beautifully. Three test series is now won by the South African team and need another win in the next test to become number one team. The next match is played in Sydney from January 3rd 2009 and unfortunately South Africa lost this match very narrowly. But the series was won by 2-1. This is the first time that Aussies were beaten by the South Africans in their own backyard. India too came beating the Aussies in early January 2008.

India was able to beat the Aussies in India and it was proud movement to Dhoni and his team. Kumble and Ganguly two ex-captains of India retired from cricket gracefully. Indian shooters, wrestlers and boxers were finally able to win its first more medals then ever in Beijing Olympics which was held in Beijing. This time Gold medal was won by Abhinav Bindra and his achievement made India proud nation. I hope all the other categories soon inspire and win more medals for India in near future.

The worst ending of 2008 was the terrorists attacking Mumbai’s top hotels like the Oberai and Taj. Many innocent lives were taken by the cruel terrorists. India government is planning to declare a war and hopefully it happens in 2009. I pray to god that without war, India can catch the terrorists. I hope Pakistan too shows the interest to wipe out the menace of terrorism. Finally, I am happy to be member of blogger.com and will come up with more interesting articles and reviews in coming days, that’s all for now. Come up with more soon. Have nice day.

Signing off with lots of love,
Madhu Vamsi...

Yousuf Pathan knocks spoiled the Deccan Chargers day

Hi friends, Good morning and have a nice cool day on a hot summer day... The match 30 in DLF IPL T20 was between the Hyderabad Deccan Chargers vs Rajasthan Royal Challengers. This match was one sided because of Yousuf Pathan superb hitting. I felt very happy that a new player is ready to play for India.

Rajasthan Royals won the toss and put Deccan chargers to bat first. Gilchrist & Gibbs batted superbly upto 8 overs and score was 60 without loss. The first wicket felt when the score was 61 and after that Deccan chargers could not increase the score. Wickets fell at regular intervals and Gilchrist got out at wrong time. Gilly scored 61 in just 49 balls but remaining batsmen could not score quickly like him. Rohit Sharma, Scott Styris, Sanjay Bangar and Shahid Afridi got out very cheaply and Deccan Chargers were 105 for 6 in 16.2 overs. Thanks to Venugopal Rao who is very promising player scored a superb knock of 23 in just 11 balls and helped Deccan Chargers to reach a respectable target of 140 in 20 overs. Shane Warne & S Trivedi bowled superbly and took important wickets for their team.

Graeme Smith & Yousuf Pathan opened the innings for Rajasthan Royals and it was Pathan's day. Pathan in the early of his innings offered a simple catch which was not taken by Ravi Teja. After this Pathan hit the ball to all sides of the stadium and he scored 68 in just 37 balls. He was awarded the Man of the Match & DLF Maximum Sixes as well and his total earnings Rs.2,00,000/- in a day. Can anyone earn like him in one day???? Royals won the match easily and reached the target of 141-2 in just 16 overs.

I never understood why Deccan Chargers underused Venugopal Rao who is from my place Vizag. He scores hundreds of runs for Andhra Pradesh team in domestic cricket and played for Indian national squad as well. The Deccan Chargers management is expecting more from Gilchrist, Gibbs & Afridi which is not a good sign. Deccan Chargers performance is not good even if these players are playing and management have to give chances to young players instead of trying Afridi so many times after many failures. Afridi had played a stupid shot to Shane Warne which was the turning point. Afridi just faced one ball and in his second ball he wants to hit Shane Warne out of the park. It is ridiculous bcoz it is not that easy to hit Shane Warne when the ball is spinning. Deccan Chargers should try with Charma Silva who is better batsman then Afridi in my opinion. I hope in the next match Deccan chargers come up with a better strategy. Rajasthan Royals need only one more win to qualify for the Semi Finals and I am sure that Shane Warne lead team is outstanding with new young Indian players and that's all for now folks.

By Madhu Vamsi

Good show against the world Champions

Hi friends, to win a One Day Internationals against the Australia, any team have to first perform well in all the departments like good fielding, batting & most important thing is bowling. Aussies team can bat up to number 11 and had showed it against the Sri Lanka, Australia lost the 9th wicket at the score around 141 approx. But the last wicket pair of Brett Lee (37) & Bracken (14 not out) took the Australian team’s score close to 221 & lost the game by 13 runs. So when playing against Australia one should not thing they have won the game unless you make all the 10 players out.

Sri Lanka played the game very positively against the Australian team. First of all they (Sri Lanka) put up a good total on the board after the top order of the Sri Lanka collapsed. But Jayawardena (51) & Dishan (61) has put a very good partnership and saved the Sri Lanka from yet another poor batting performance. C Silva played a cameo but the tail of Sri Lanka could not drag the total to 250 but end up with a reasonable total of 221.

Australian openers Gilchrist (83 off 50 balls) & Hopes started a first wicket partnership of 107 runs without loss of any wicket and everybody thought that Australia is cruising to victory. But the 2 openers departed after good partnership and suddenly the middle order of the Australian team collapsed. The Sri Lanka bowlers pitched the ball at right areas to get rid of the players like Ponting, Clarke, Hussey, etc. Symonds got out to a wide ball & he was duck out. Ponting, Gilchrist, Symonds, Hussey & Clarke are the main batsman without them it is hard for Australian team to win the game. But I was wrong again the match turned towards the Australian team’s way. Brett Lee & Bracken took the Australian team close to the winning target with 14 more need in 13 balls but Jayasuriya bowled a beauty which was not short enough to pull the ball. But Brett Lee tried to pull ball and missed it. He was clean bowled and the Sri Lanka team won the game very narrowly. Australia was bowled out for 208 in 48.1 overs. Mathew Hayden was rested for this match.

Both India & Sri Lanka were able to win the game against the Australians because of Aussies overconfidence & poor form of players like Ponting, Symonds & Hussey. The Indian & Sri Lankan teams improved the fielding & bowling very drastically and not allowing the Aussies batsman to get away with a flyer. Only in the one game Australia scored more than 300 runs & India chased it but lost the game narrowly. So other teams also should plan well & stop the dominance of Australian cricket team in the World Cricket.