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India vs Sri Lanka Mumbai For the second game at Mumbai, we go in unchanged on another pitch that is expected to take turn later in the day. Once again, we win the toss and elect to bat. After the early wicket of Sehwag, Gambhir and Tendulkar kept the scoring rate above 4.5 an over. But some...

ICC World T20 The 2009 cricket season started with the ICC World T20 in England. The whole of India hoped for a successful title defence. We were drawn in a group with Bangladesh and Ireland and progressed unbeaten into the Super Eight where we were in a group with Australia, Pakistan and New...

India in Sri Lanka Virender Sehwag is appointed captain after Tendulkar's retirement. His retirement along with Dravid and Laxman's have left holes in the batting line up too. Sehwag and Gambhir will open with Badrinath at No.3. For the first test, India went with Robin Uthappa, Suresh...

Well, Laxman was recalled at a later stage.

India's next two series are tours to England and South Africa. Victory in the test and ODI series there would move India to the top of the ranking table. Sachin Tendulkar is retained as captain and Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman stay on for the present. India in England The tour games against...

India face their first defeat of the World Cup against the West Indies in the final group game. Knock Out Stages India vs New Zealand On a pitch that is taking turn, New Zealand win the toss and bat first. But thanks to some excellent bowling by Harbhajan Singh, they were restricted...

India vs England India play the same 11 against England, win the toss, bat first and put on a decent score. India now have 5 wins from 5 matches and play the West Indies before going on to the knock out stages.

India in Pakistan We got off to a good start beating Rawalpindi in the tour game and the form carried to the test series. crickap added 27 Minutes and 45 Seconds later... India is unbeaten in one dayers so far this year and goes into the World Cup as one of the favourites, full of...

Following a 3-0 win over Australia, India approach the tour of Pakistan with full confidence.

crickap added 59 Minutes and 47 Seconds later... We are defeated 3-1 in the ODI series and as a result Mahendra Singh Dhoni is sacked as captain. Sachin Tendulkar is appointed captain for both forms of the game which obviously means he will return to the one day game for the World Cup. India...

India in West Indies Dravid and Ganguly were dropped for the tour of the West Indies. Raina, Srivastava, Rahane, Yuvraj and Rohit Sharma will fight for the two slots. As for the pace attack, RP Singh and Munaf will be joined by Pathan, Joginder and Ishan Malhotra while Harbhajan and Piyush will...

With two big hundreds, Badrinath secured the No.3 spot ahead of Dravid.

crickap added 6 Minutes and 35 Seconds later... The season has ended on a positive note. India have moved up the rankings to No.2 in Test Cricket and No.4 in ODIs. It is also time to plan the composition of the team for next season. Test Cricket Sehwag and Gambhir will be first choice...

India in New Zealand INDIA 2 NEW ZEALAND 1 Mahendra Dhoni was appointed captain of the test team and the selectors proceeded to pick a young team. Five seam bowlers were selected - RP Singh, Pathan, Joginder, Sreesanth and Munaf, two spinners - Harbhajan and Piyush. As for the batsmen, the...