India win in Quandrangular Series u-19

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Carters ton denies India victory



A battling century from captain Ryan Carters helped Australian Institute of Sport force a draw against India Emerging Players at Endeavour Park No.2
in Townsville. However, India finished on top in the points table,
thereby capping a successful series for them - they were also victorious
in the Twenty20 tournament that preceded the three-day games.

Ryan Carters' 115 helped Australia earn a draw



Australia ended the second day at 93 for 2, still 236 runs adrift of
India. Carters, who was unbeaten overnight on 56, continued to look
solid. He and Glenn Maxwell had added 65 before stumps on day two, and
they carried on the good work on the final day, adding a further 55
before Maxwell was dismissed for 73. Any hopes that India might have had
of causing a collapse were dented as Tim Armstrong joined his captain
and the duo put on 87 for the fourth wicket. Carters was finally
dismissed for 115, but Armstrong (75) featured in handy partnerships for
the fifth and sixth wickets to deny India a win, as Australia ended the
day on 328 for 7.




Reeza Hendricks completed his double-century and Richard Levi reached a century but South Africa Emerging Players were not left with enough time to bowl New Zealand A out at Endeavour Park in Townsville.
South Africa's only hope of notching up their first win of the
three-day leg of the tournament was to score quickly on the final day
and then hope for a New Zealand collapse. But Hendricks and Levi took
their time, and South Africa used up 54.2 overs in the day to get 177
runs, which put them 169 runs ahead. New Zealand lost two wickets in the
34 overs they had to bat.




Hendricks' 218 was his second double-century of the tournament and his
566-run aggregate earned him the Batsman-of-the-Tournament as well as
the Player-of the-Tournament awards. India's Iqbal Abdulla was named
Bowler of the Tournament for his nine wickets.

Lets see what Pakistan does in upcoming matches

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With the Scintillating Century performance from the Captain from the front,India U-19 Team Clinch the Quandrangular Trophy.

Four teams Competing for the title England,Australia,New Zealand and India.India and Australia made it to final in which Sandeep Sharma of India took 4-51 in 10 overs and Captain Unmukt Chand led his team to memorable victory with 7 wickets Left.

India Under-19s captain Unmukt Chand led his side to the title with an unbeaten century as the visitors overhauled Australia Under-19s' 194 with seven wickets to spare in the final in Townsville. India had lost all their three league games but got an even chance for the title with the tournament format featuring semi-finals. Their bowlers justified their captain's decision to field , with medium-pacer Sandeep Sharma taking four wickets as Australia were kept to 194 for 9. Only opener Meyrick Buchanan and No. 7 Sam Hain were able to resist the India bowlers, all but one of whom were among the wickets.

Pat Cummins removed the India openers within seven overs but Chand single-handedly led the visitors to victory with a breezy hundred. Facing 127 deliveries for his 112, Chand hit nine fours and six sixes as India motored to victory in the 43rd over. Chand had made 75 runs in the three league games, but rose to the occasion in the knockout stages, his century in the final following a 94 against England Under-19s in the semi-finals. Chand plays for Delhi Daredevils in the IPL, but missed the first quarter of the Twenty20 league, choosing to lead his country in this tournament.



Australia Under-19s 194/9 (50 ov)
Meyrick Buchanan 59(68) || S Hain 41(87)*
Sandeep Sharma 10-1-51-4 || Harmeet Singh 10-1-33-2

India U-19s 198/3 (42.4 Ov)
Unmukt Chand 112(127)* || Akshdeep Nath 24(53)*
Patrick Cummins 7-0-42-2 || Gurinder Sandhu 10-2-37-1

GREAT ACHIEVEMENT CONGRATS BOYS

WOW.
CONGRATS YOUNG INDIA..

Well Done Boys

Awesome Performance by Captain and Team

Morne Morkel bowled two immaculate yorkers to clean up Kallis and Tiwary in two consecutive deliveries. Dale Steyn’s pace was a bit too much to handle for the dangerous Richard Levi. Lasith Malinga made Manish Pandey dance to his tunes before ending his misery.

If you missed seeing these dismissals and were told that all this happened in South Africa in Test match cricket, you would have readily believed. Fortunately though, all this and more has happened in this year’s IPL and for me, that’s been the highlight of the tournament.

Fast bowlers are not only making their presence felt but also winning matches on their own.

Is this a new trend?
T20 cricket, especially in the subcontinent, is considered to be a batsman’s game. The matches are played on flat pitches and grounds are relatively smaller. Hence bowlers are expected to play only a supporting act. The lead actors are always the ones with the willow in their hand, or so it is believed.

But whatever we have seen so far in IPL-V reiterates the fact that even though the format is condensed; the skills continue to be non-negotiable. If a bowler of Steyn or Morkel’s quality is bowling, you need special skills to put him away. T20 may be a shortened game and gives you the license to hit but the reaction time for a batsman remains the same.

Bouncers
Fast bowlers have realized that there aren’t too many batsmen around who can comfortably hook a well-directed bouncer and hence we see a fair sprinkling of short-pitched stuff in IPL-V. If they find pace and good bounce like Steyn had in Vizag against Mumbai, they stick to the conventional bouncers aimed at the batsman’s head. But if they realize that bounce and pace off the surface isn’t their ally, they resort to bowling different variations of the same delivery, which are the slower bouncers and bouncers directed outside the off-stump etc.

Three lengths
One may wonder that if the bowlers are the same, how come they weren’t as effective in the first few years? Well, though these bowlers’ skill-set hasn’t changed much, the mindset has. Initially they thought that bowling in good areas, like they operated in other formats, would do the job in T20 too. But as the time passed, they realized that the good lengths in Tests and ODIs fall in the hitting zone in a T20 game.

In fact, there are only three kinds of deliveries that work in the shortest version— yorkers, bouncers and short-of-good-length-effort-ball. Finding the block hole with a new ball is fairly difficult and therefore, it was avoided earlier, but not anymore. Bowlers have mastered the art of bowling yorkers even with the new ball. Don’t they say that necessity is the mother of all inventions?

The short-of-good-length ball is the effort ball that hits the bat towards the splice. On Indian pitches, most batsmen have the tendency of coming onto the front-foot and hence it’s imperative to ensure that the ball bounces a bit more than expected or else it’s far too easy to be clobbered.

Bowlers are having a bigger say in this edition of the IPL and that’s a healthy sign for the game. Cricket is revered the most when there’s a contest; six-hitting fests aren’t entertaining anymore.


----By AAKASH CHOPRA, YAHOO! CRICKET

Dubai, Apr 14(ANI): The International Cricket Council (ICC) is set to consider sweeping reforms that could weaken the influence of Test-playing nations and bring greater transparency and accountability to the sport's governing body.
But India, the most powerful Test-playing nation, has already rejected the radical Woolf report, which is scheduled to be discussed during the ICC's executive board meeting starting from April 15.
India's opposition to the report raises doubts over whether any of the 65 recommendations will be approved.
"If India objects to the main recommendations of the Woolf review, then there is next to no chance of the recommendations being enacted. You are asking the powerful nations to cede their power. It just doesn't happen," the Daily Times quoted Wisden Cricketers' Almanack editor Lawrence Booth, as saying.
The report has garnered little response from the full members but some lesser recommendations could be approved.
The ICC board has already approved splitting of the various roles of the presidency.
Based on the Woolf recommendation, a new system would limit the presidency to an ambassadorial role, while a chairman would lead the board from 2014 onwards.
The 68-page report, which was commissioned by the ICC board, calls for overhauling the sport's governing body to ensure the ICC is no longer "a club" for the Test playing nations.
It suggests the ICC should be "positioned and empowered to promote, develop and act in the best interests of the international game as a whole" and calls for restructuring the ICC's executive board to make it independent and give a greater voice to associate and affiliate nations. (ANI)

Pune, April 15 (IANS) Pune Warriors India all-rounder Marlon Samuels has been reported for a suspected illegal action for bowling certain deliveries during his team's match against the Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League (IPL) here Saturday.
Off-spinner Samuels was reported by on-field umpires Aleem Dar and Bruce Oxenford, along with third umpire Vineet Kulkarni, at the conclusion of the match.
'Under the IPL Suspected Illegal Bowling Action policy, Mr. Samuels may continue to be selected to play and bowl for Pune Warriors India in the 2012 season but should he be reported a second time, he will be suspended from bowling for the remainder of the season,' an IPL release said.
It was only last September that the International Cricket Council (ICC) cleared Samuel's action after a three-year ban.
Samuels has also endured a two-year ban for links with an alleged Indian bookie before returning to the game in 2010.

Not that your life is incomplete or meaningless without knowing these facts (or our version of the truth, if you must get snotty), but some of it is actually rather interesting, if this sort of stuff intrigues you.

By taking the scorecards of all the matches played in last year’s World Cup through Impact Index, some interesting things came up – which probably won’t enter your consciousness otherwise, especially not after a year. Maybe you’ll find a few of these interesting.

1. Yuvraj Singh’s bowling impact in the tournament was higher than his batting impact

India’s highest impact player in the tournament is remembered the most for his scintillating 57 in the quarter final against Australia (at absolute crunch-time), maybe even for his devastating 113 against West Indies in their last group game – all memorable batting performances. Yuvraj was actually India’s fourth-highest impact batsman in the tournament (after Tendulkar, Gambhir and Dhoni) but second-highest impact bowler (after Zaheer Khan and ahead of Harbhajan Singh) – his consistency with the ball not quite as eye-catching perhaps. But it had a huge role to play in India’s victory.

2. Yuvraj Singh was not the highest impact player of the tournament

While Yuvraj was India’s highest impact player by a distance (362 runs, 15 wickets, Econ 5.0), interestingly, Dilshan (who scored 500 runs and took 8 wickets, Econ 4.1) had a higher impact than him in the tournament (Dilshan had a higher impact right through the knockouts). As did Brad Haddin (332 runs) whose consistency with the bat was remarkable – his contribution as a wicketkeeper overlooked. As was Sangakkara’s, whose tournament impact came very close to Yuvraj’s too.

The logic of these awards necessarily going to a member of the winning team is fundamentally flawed in a team sport – also partially responsible for 36% of the Man-of-the-Match awards in this tournament that were not given to the highest impact players in those matches (this was still better than the norm of 45% being wrong overall –the flat subcontinental pitches often producing such high impact batting performances that they were indisputably highest impact from any angle).

3. The highest impact batting innings in World Cup 2011 (only in a match context) was not Kevin O’Brien’s.

Kevin O’Brien’s stunning 113 is considered the showpiece innings of the tournament.

But AB de Villiers’ 107 against West Indies in Delhi (coming in to bat at 20-2, chasing 223), registered more impact than Kevin O’Brien’s innings (coming in at 111-5, chasing 328). While O’Brien’s landmark (in an Irish context) performance had him absorb more pressure and achieve a higher match relative strike rate than de Villiers’ innings, ultimately, de Villiers made 24% of the runs in the match (despite registering Pressure IMPACT) while O’Brien made 17% of the runs in his match – the main reason for the difference – which also reveals how many runs there were on those respective pitches.

There is no doubting O’Brien’s dominance of the proceedings when he exploded, but those who follow South Africa would know how fragile they can get under pressure (especially in the World Cup) - while the target of 222 may have been achieved very comfortably in the end, anything could have happened if de Villiers had not taken charge at that point.

4. The highest impact Irish batsman in the World Cup was not Kevin O’Brien

While Kevin O’Brien’s magical innings made him the poster boy of Irish cricket, most have automatically assumed he was his team’s most (if not only) successful batsman. The truth is that his brother beat him to it – Niall O’Brian’s batting impact was actually more in the tournament. Not because of the measly 7 runs more than he made (at a considerably lower strike-rate than Kevin), but because his failure rate was a good 17% lower than Kevin’s with the bat – he was just more reliable and consistent. Moreover, despite the fact that Kevin also bowled (and was a genuine all-rounder), Niall was Ireland’s highest impact player too (narrowly this time) – because he was also the wicketkeeper.
New Zealand's entry to the semi-finals was not unexpected.


5. New Zealand’s entry to the semis was not unexpected. Neither was South Africa’s exit

New Zealand had lost 0-4 to Bangladesh in an ODI series there just before the World Cup and their chances were considerably reduced by fans, experts and bookies alike when this tournament began. However, they were the fourth-highest impact side on career numbers (as per the Impact scale) and showed considerably more potential than were given credit for. A key attribute they had as a team was their considerable ability to absorb pressure (based on how much the individual players had done over the careers), which was always likely to stand them in good stead in a knockout match.

As it happened, they could not have done better than to meet pre-tournament favourites South Africa in the quarter-finals, which, as a team had an alarmingly low Pressure IMPACT – always likely to get them into trouble in the crunch moments (and had given them the tag of chokers for a while now). The rest is history of course, but as per Impact Index, this was not at all unexpected, as per our pre-tournament analysis (published in The Times of India before the World Cup began.)

6. The Indian batsman to absorb the most pressure in the tournament was Virat Kohli

While Sachin Tendulkar made the most runs for India in the tournament and registered the highest impact (primarily because of his runs tally), and Yuvraj Singh had the highest batting average, an unsung hero for India was Virat Kohli (unnoticed for his 282 runs at an average of 35) – who absorbed the most pressure for India right through the tournament. He came under pressure thrice during the tournament and he had a 100% absorption rate – a very promising sign of things to come (which, of course did with great clarity this year).


7.The two batsmen to absorb the maximum pressure in the World Cup were both from England

It is interesting that the two batsmen to absorb the most pressure in the tournament were both from the side that provided the most thrills in the tournament – by losing to

Ireland and Bangladesh but defeating South Africa and tying with India. Ravi Bopara and Jonathan Trott rescued England 5 times between them.

8. The highest impact batsman in the tournament was Jonathan Trott from England

Perhaps the most underrated batsman in world cricket today (in both Tests and ODIs), Trott’s sustained performance in this tournament was special. Though he had the fourth-highest runs tally in the tournament and the tenth-highest batting average, he was the highest impact batsman in World Cup 2011. His batting failure rate of just 14% was amongst the lowest in the tournament, his runs tally significantly high within the context of every match, his pressure-absorption very high (as mentioned above) – he was the main
reason why England competed so hard, so often in the tournament.

9. Only two batsmen achieved a 0% failure rate in the tournament. Both their sides failed to reach even the semis.

It is interesting that the two batsmen who achieved a 0% batting failure rate right through the tournament (quite an achievement) – AB de Villiers of South Africa and Brad Haddin from Australia, could not take their teams past the quarter-finals.
Harvir Baidwan was outstanding in the World Cup.


10. The highest impact bowler from non-Test-playing nations was originally from Chandigarh

23-year-old Harvir Singh Baidwan was the highest impact bowler in the tournament, amongst those who played from the non-Test playing nations. He plays for Canada and is originally from Kapil Dev and Yuvraj Singh’s hometown.

11. Even before India’s innings began in the World Cup final, Sehwag and Tendulkar were the least likely batsmen in the Indian team to take India to victory

This was an Impact Index observation made when the score was 31-2 in the World Cup final, when Tendulkar had just been dismissed. As it happened, out of the seven batsmen in the Indian team, the five with the highest impact when it came to chasing in pressure situations were Gambhir, Kohli, Yuvraj, Dhoni and Raina and if India had to choose two batsmen to leave out in that situation, they would be Sehwag and Tendulkar. The rest is history. And this same story has become even clearer in the one year that has gone by since April 2nd, 2011.

If you want to know about Gary Kirsten’s work ethics, who better to tell you about it than a childhood mate? Herschelle Gibbs in his no-holds-barred autobiography, To The Point, offers excellent insights into what makes Kirsten tick.
Gibbs befriended Kirsten as a 16-year-old. They went on to forge a successful opening partnership in Test cricket for South Africa. Their method of net practice was simple yet intense: they took turns to throw balls at each other at great speeds from 16 yards. Sometimes, one would hit the other on the helmet and then return the favour.
“The practice sessions Gary and I had together were sometimes more draining than actually facing bowlers in the middle,” Gibbs wrote. “Gary practiced like he played – with a lot of heart and determination. He always wanted to get things right.”
In one stroke, Gibbs explains why India are No. 1 in Tests and South Africa aren’t. He reckons members of the current SA squad are spoilt and selfish. “The guys won’t throw to each other,” he writes. “I know that Gary spends hour upon hour practising in the same way he and I used to with the Indian national team he’s currently coaching, so you don’t have to wonder why they’re currently number one in the world. And why the Proteas aren’t...”
Kirsten’s tireless right arm is one of the reasons why India’s batsmen have done so well in recent times. He is at it all the time in the nets, throwing one fast ball after another, minute after minute, session after session to the Indian batsmen.
As VVS Laxman puts it, "From the first minute of a net session to the last, he's either giving throw-downs, hitting catches or talking to someone. He's always busy. His capacity for work is unbelievable and that's been infectious."
Saturday’s World Cup final is Kirsten’s last match with the Indian team. And what a run it has been. After Greg Chappell’s exit, India were No. 6 in ODIs and No. 4 in Tests. They’re now the clear No. 1 in Tests, and were No. 1 in ODIs briefly. With a World Cup win, they will be within an earshot of the top spot again.
Four years ago...
... after India made an early return from the World Cup in the West Indies, Chappell’s divisive reign ended. For something like nine months, several men warmed the coach’s chair. Ravi Shastri was used in Bangladesh. A 72-year-old Chandu Borde was pressed out of retirement for the tour of UK.
Lalchand Rajput next held the job when India won the World T20 in South Africa and did well in Australia. In between, Graham Ford, former Proteas coach, Dav Whatmore, Sri Lanka’s 1996 Cup-winning coach and John Emburey were some of the people who threw their hat in the ring. With Kirsten’s decision to return home citing family commitments, India are back to square one.
It was this period when Kirsten, who had his own coaching set-up in Cape Town, was working with the Zimbabwe squad. Later at the World T20 in South Africa, the unfancied team stunned Australia in one of the league games.
Kirsten was approached eventually, but getting him to the job wasn’t easy. Apparently, some senior players weren’t on the same page as the BCCI. Kirsten finally took the job in December 2007 after being assured of full support. India have risen steadily since then.
It’s worthwhile going through what Kirsten does for the team. His approach to coaching is wholesome. And he has done it all with a soft touch. Right from finding the right practice methods, he advices the team on mental conditioning, eating habits and managing one’s role perfectly. He tells you how it is with an arm around your shoulder. And when a man with 7200 Test runs and 6700 ODI runs gives you advice about cricket, you listen.
He encourages players to write down their goals, to crack jokes in the dressing room, take pictures, learn to smile and say thank you, be willing to forgive team mates, and even watch TV comedies to take their minds off cricket.
But the one department even Kirsten seems to have given up on is India’s fielding. He has admitted this aspect has remained ignored during his tenure. Recently he had set a target for every fielder to save eight runs a day, show positive intent on the field by wanting the ball to come to you, to score the match-winning catch or run-out.
Nevertheless, this pain point remains in Indian cricket.
As a parting shot...
... here’s another clip from Gibbs, who describes his feelings after Kirsten made a gutsy 227-ball 76 to save what was his final game for South Africa.
“It is not often that a great cricketer ends his career with a great innings but unfortunately this servant of South African cricket left the field having given his team one last master class on how talent and application make a formidable combination,” Gibbs wrote.
“Two hours after Gary walked off, the tears were still there… The only time I’d ever cried like that was at Hansie Cronje’s funeral. But, ja, Gary Kirsten is just a genuine, true and complete human being.”
A World Cup win may be another master class from Kirsten. And his supporters will share Gibbs’ feelings when he walks away after Saturday’s final at the Wankhede Stadium.

india still misses him

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Karachi: Former Pakistan cricket captain Younis Khan and paceman Umar Gul sashayed down the ramp at a bridal fashion show this weekend.
Wearing a blackish grey shirwani - a long suit worn by grooms in Pakistan-Younis smiled all down the runway in his first-ever appearance in a fashion show in Karachi on Saturday, while Gul wore an off-white shirwani, thenews.com.pk reported.
Fashion show regular Hina Sheikh gave the players a reverberating thumbs up
"It was delightful to watch cricketers on the ramp," said Sheikh.
"Younis was more confident and although Gul was a bit reserved and shaky at the start, he finished the job well.
"Both looked stunning."
Gul asserted that although he enjoyed the experience, he has no intention of swapping the wicket for the catwalk.
"A friend had invited me to walk on the ramp and although I enjoyed it but I have no plans to join modelling in future because my focus is only on cricket," he said.
All rounder Shahid Afridi was also invited for the event but was unable to attend.

Karachi, Apr 17(ANI): The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is trying to avoid a stand-off with the International Cricket Council (ICC) regarding the ban on government interference in cricket boards' functioning.
PCB Chairman Zaka Ashraf, accompanied by the board's chief operating officer Subhan Ahmed and legal adviser Taffazul Rizvi, had discussed the matter with the ICC on the sidelines of its executive board meeting in Dubai.
An official close to the case ruled out chances of disagreement with the sport's world governing body.
"It's a complex issue. At the moment, the PCB is also not 100% clear on what to do. It's a situation like fixing a puzzle as things will be sorted out in order. But there are no chances of confrontation as the PCB will look to resolve the matter by taking the ICC into confidence. The matter was discussed cordially in the recent meeting," The Express Tribune quoted an official, as saying.
The ICC has set March 2013 as deadline for cricket boards to implement the plan that proposes the removal of all kinds of government interference in its annual general meeting in 2011.
The official added that the ICC's priority is to ensure that cricket boards are run in a democratic manner.
"The ICC wants every official of the board to go through an electoral process. It has no major issues with the president being the patron-in-chief as it appreciates his role in promotion of the game," he said
The official added that mater is likely to get sorted out in a few months before the ICC annual conference takes place in June.

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