aussies prepairing for a fightback

English media before the ashes test was praising their team and their players
to sky highs, they were saying that their bowlers would pose a serious threat to
the australian batsman and the Australians are going to have a tough time.Although australia lost the test match but the battleing performances by simon katich,ricky pointing,michael clarke and mitchell johnson in the cardiff test have shut the mouth of english media.

After the injury of kevin pieterson and flintoff's participation in the next test match also seems vulnerable.I think England are going to have a tough time in the Edgbaston test match.

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Sir Geoffery speaks loud

Geoffrey boycott who was a former English opener has said that his technique was superior than Sunil Gavaskar.I think this act of self praising from a senior cricketer like him not all acceptable, if someone else had said this then it was well and good,but you can't praise your achivements all the time. there should not be any comparison between any two players since they all are great at their respective positions.

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Sania does it again

Indian tennis sensation Sania Mirza won the USD 50,000 ITF title in Lexington, USA after defeating top seed Julie Coin.
THis is after some time that sania has participated and won in a major tennis tournament.She had moreover good time competting in this tournament as she was given walkover in her last match when her opponent opted out due to injury.
Sania was seeded second in the event,She defeated coin 7-6 6-4.
The 22-year-old rose three places to 80th in this week's WTA singles rankings.
she was participating in her only second challenger event, last time she paricipated in this event was in 2003.

Sania, who recently got engaged and engagement seems to have brought new luck for her.AS her going to be husband was seen accompanying her for practice.
She rose three places to 80th in this week's WTA singles rankings and her doubles rank has also improved considerably.

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WHat cricketing nations should be playing more test cricket or t20 or odi

WHat cricketing nations should be playing more test cricket or t20 or odi

It has become a very big debate in the indian cricket nowadays that what indian indian cricketing calender should be.
india in the past calender year has played 37 odi 5 t20 and 8 test matches.these stats clearly indicate the downfall in the number of test matches.
Due to playing in ipl chris gayle reached england only 2 days before the beginning of test series between Enland and West Indies.Andrew Strauss England's caiptan,certainly was not happy with this and also spoke in press against this neligence by Gayle.
Are we getting emotional about test cricket or we should move on.Do we need to sort out the priorities of test cricket over t20.
Australia has played 112 days of cricket in the last calender year wheras india has played only 85 days.
But don't forget the days which the indian players have sweated out during the IPL.So,is the IPL eating out the days from international cricketing calender for india.
NOw the youth generation of India is being brougt up on T20.So is this right for developing cricketing skill and technique of the yonger generation crickers.
NOw icc is following the policy of"changing the rules and bringing out new formats".Are we getting greedy,do we need to rechech or do reaility check.

But there is other side out coin also which we would have to take into account.
international players from smaller countries like New Zeland and Ireland play for 6 months and then work for six months in small business.The carrer of a cricket is very small,at most they could play 15-16 years.So is it wrong if the players are trying to make some quick money.
I think there should be mix of t20,odi or tests and the caleder should be such that all the forms should be given equal preference.

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Kevin pieterson and his stand towards test cricket i think is funny

KP last week commented that Test Cricket is going to Die Within 10 years,but i think that he is wrong in his stand since test cricket has been in the arena now for more than 100 years now.Many forms of cricket have come and gone but test cricket still retains its special place in the heart of spectators.IPL has affected its popularity to some extent,but i think that there are still many people who feel that test cricket is the ultimate form of cricket.If test cricket doesn't exists then how would we see those swinging and seeming balls,how we will se those straight drives from Sachin tendulkar and those lovely classic coverdrives from Rahul dravid and those lovely wristy shorts from VVS Laxman.
I agree that money is more in T20 and IPL but have you ever thought that to whom this money is going to,you guessed it right,to those people who have performed well in the longer versions like test cricket and have some brand name in the cricketing fraternity.
I think that whichever form of cricket you play you need the quality and talent to excell.
So cheers to test cricket.

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recent west indies players and their board conflict

Recently west indies board and its players had conflict over the contract issue.I think that these kind of issues should be solved behind the doors and it should not be made public so that the T.v channels have a new agenda to blow upon.Players nowdays due to the IPl have gone out of their limits now they are trying to make more money than they should.We all know that West Indies cricket borad has no big bucks like BCCI.So the players should also understand the problem of the board.

Now due to big sums of money flowing into the game i think the national spirit of players is no more left.West indies has been beaten badly by such a minnow team like Bangladesh,well i know that Bangladesh is playing tests for a long time now but still it has won only 3 tests (including the 2 which they have recently won in west indies)in more than 50 tests that it has played.So you can judge it well where they stand.I don't say that they can't improve but it will take time.

The series is a great shame for west indies team and i think in future they would place the nation's interest above their self interest.

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different parameters for different players in indian cricket team

Saurav Ganguly and Shoaib Akhtar enjoying IPL victory .

I think that Ganguly's statement that BCCI has partial approach towards some players is not appropriate.After over an year of his retirement he comes out with this statement,this has no sense.If you didn't wanted to retire you should have told the Board at that time only ,that i want to play more.

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