A spectacular unbeaten 63 by S Badrinath helped Chennai Super Kings to a comfortable eight-wicket win over Pune Warriors in their Indian Premier League match at the DY Patil stadium in Navi Mumbai on Wednesday.
South Zone produced solid batting to take control of the final against North, reaching 298 for three on the second day of the Duleep trophy match in Viaskhapatnam on Thursday. Three South Zone batsmen -- Robin Uthappa (66), S Badrinath (97 not out) and Manish Pandey (74) -- smashed individual half-centuries as they posted a solid reply to North's first innings total of 337 in 70 overs.
Struggling pacer Ishant Sharma was recalled to India's 16-member Test squad for the two-match series against Bangladesh, starting January 17 in Chittagong. Tamil Nadu middle-order batsman S Badrinath, who featured in India's squad that played the last Test against Sri Lanka at home, was dropped.
Abhinav Mukund struck an unbeaten 156 while Shikhar Dhawan (83) and S Badrinath too blossomed (72 n.o.) with the bat as Rest of India piled up a mammoth 331 for one against Ranji champion's Mumbai on the opening day of the Irani Trophy cricket match in Jaipur on Friday.
By his own admission, S Badrinath takes time to settle when he comes in to bat but the star of India's Twenty20 win over the West Indies says he has also learnt to pace up for cricket's shortest format.
Wicket-keeper batsman Dinesh Karthick will captain Tamil Nadu in their first Elite Group-A league match of the Ranji Trophy championship against Indian Railways scheduled from November 3 to 6 in New Delhi.
Aushik Srinivas, the 16-year-old spinning sensation from Tamil Nadu, has 20 wickets in six matches and his season is still not over.
S Badrinath celebrated his India call-up with a fluent 82, while Manish Pandey and R Ashwin also struck half-centuries as South Zone thumped Central Zone by five wickets to sail into the final of the Duleep Trophy in Indore on Friday.
Almost certain to make his Test debut against South Africa next month, Tamil Nadu batsman S Badrinath on Thursday said he has been longing for this opportunity.
Tamil Nadu batsman S Badrinath was on Monday named captain of the Indian team for the Emerging Players' tournament in Australia. Virat Kohli will be his deputy.
S Badrinath smashed a brilliant unbeaten 59 and shared a crucial 89-run partnership with Matthew Hayden (48) to fashion Chennai Super Kings' impressive seven-wicket win over Rajasthan Royals in their Indian Premier League match in Kimberley on Saturday.
Munaf Patel and Sudeep Tyagi wreaked havoc with seven scalps between them as India Red won the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy, steamrolling Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led Blue team-mates by seven wickets in an extremely lop-sided final in Nagpur, on Sunday.
Opener Virender Sehwag will return to action in the Irani Cup, where he will lead Rest of India in the October 1 to 5 tournament in Nagpur. Sehwag, who missed the just-concluded tri-series in Sri Lanka due to a shoulder injury sustained during the Indian Premier League, will have S Badrinath as his deputy.
Opener Ajinkya Rahane's classy 92 went in vain as India slumped to a four-wicket defeat against South Africa in their fourth 50-over match of the Emerging Players Tournament in Brisbane, on Sunday. This was India's third 50-over defeat in the tournament. The Badrinath-led Indian side had also been beaten by the Australian Institute of Sports on July 23.
Sudeep Tyagi's haul of six wickets for 37 runs was in vain as India slumped to a 10-run defeat against South Africa in their first 50-over match of the Emerging Players Tournament in Brisbane on Tuesday.
Abhinav Mukund feasted on Uttar Pradesh's pedestrian attack and slammed his fourth century of the season as Tamil Nadu cruised to 296 for two wickets on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy semi-final match in Nagpur on Sunday. Dinesh Karthik's decision to bat first stood vindicated as Mukund (100) and Murali Vijay (69) added 167 runs for the opening stand before both fell in the span of seven overs.
The top order wobbled again but skipper S Badrinath led with example and hit a sedate unbeaten 69 to fashion India A's comprehensive five-wicket win against their New Zealand counterparts in the Tri-Series cricket tournament in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
The Australia 'A' team, led by left-hand batsman Simon Katich, will arrive in Bangalore on Friday. It will play two three-day games against its Indian counterparts, before participating in a triangular one-day series of 'A' teams. New Zealand is the third team.
S Badrinath stood tall amid ruins before West Zone bundled out South for 199 and stretched their overall lead to 492 runs after day three of the Duleep Trophy final in Chennai on Saturday.
Disciplined bowling performance by medium pacer Laxmipathy Balaji and leg spinner M Suresh helped South Zone to thrash North Zone by a huge margin of 411 on the fourth and final day of four-day Duleep Trophy semi-final played in Rajkot on Sunday.
Skipper S Badrinath's double century and Rahul Dravid's hundred helped South Zone amass 442 runs for the loss of six wickets on the opening day of the Duleep Trophy match against North Zone at the Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground, in Rajkot on Thursday. Badrinath scored an exact 200 while Rahul Dravid got 138 as the duo put on 312 runs for the third wicket after a shaky start where they lost both their openers cheaply.
Skipper S Badrinath led from the front with an unbeaten 83 as India 'A' ambled to a six-wicket win with 10 overs to spare against the Australian Institute of Sports (AIS) in the ongoing Emerging Players tournament in Brisbane on Tuesday.
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Cheif selector Dilip Vengsarkar warned the seniors that performance alone would grant them a place in the team.
With nothing really to lose and a lot to gain, Team India hopefuls, under the leadership of Yuvraj Singh, will try every trick in the book to pull off an upset when Board President's XI take on Australia in a four-day warm-up match, starting in Hyderabad, on Thursday.
Leg-spinner Amit Mishra wrecked South Africa with a three-wicket haul to guide India to a 12-run win in the Twenty20 match of the quadrangular Emerging Players tournament in Australia on Monday. Batting first, India were bundled out for 87, but Mishra's brilliant spell of three for 11 helped them bowl out South Africa for 75.
A R Rahman will be the second Indian artiste to perform at the UN General Assembly after M S Subbulakshmi.
Gautam Gambhir, India's top performer in the Twenty20 World Cup triumph, is eyeing a permanent place in the Test and ODI teams.
Yomahesh's incisive spell of seam bowling backed by Parthiv Patel's sparkling century gave India 'A' a stranglehold on their three-day tour match.
Brilliant centuries by skipper S Badrinath and opener M Vijay saw Tamil Nadu in a strong position amassing 302
Himachal Pradesh medium pacer Ashok Thakur came up with a career best six for 34 to help dismiss Tamil Nadu to 234 in their first innings on the opening day.
A brilliant century by 19-year-old debutant Abhinav Mukund, who scored 108 runs, and an unbeaten 93 by skipper S Badrinath, enabled Tamil Nadu score 289 for 5 on the opening day of the Ranji Trophy match against Karnataka.
Badrinath hit an unbeaten 82 and Gambhir struck 73 to propel India Red to a challenging 303 for seven. Kaif's side then skittled out the Greens for 215 runs in 47 overs to romp home.
The Tamil Nadu batsman was included in the Indian squad for the fifth ODI against Australia.
The victory enabled the Indians clinch the three-match one-day series 1-0.
Tamil Nadu were 80 for three in reply to Haryana's 287 on the second day of their Ranji Trophy Elite Group A match.
Tamil Nadu were 267 for six in reply to Baroda's 263 in the Ranji Trophy tie.
Tamil Nadu rallied from a poor start to end of the first day's play in the Ranji Trophy match against Delhi on 184 for 3.
Chasing 206 for victory on the final day, the Indians were reduced to a precarious 44 for 4 before S Badrinath (76) and Tejinder Pal Singh (46) rallied them in the Top-End series.
Railways were struggling at 25 for two after conceding a first innings lead of 101 runs against Tamil Nadu
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