Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar said he noticed the aggressive 'spark' in Virat Kohli when he made his India debut and that characteristic has rubbed off on the entire team.
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If I am honest, my aim is to be able to break that record again, though I know the conditions and environment were on my side this time around.
The first One-Day International between India and Sri Lanka witnessed important milestones being set and new records being made.
Former India skipper Ajit Wadekar paid glowing tributes to Dilip Sardesai giving him a major credit for the historic wins over the West Indies and England in 1971.
South African captain Graeme Smith and top model Minki van der Westhuizen became the talk of the country when they admitted to an instant and mutual attraction.
"Dhoni is enough. If the other keeper is included, he would just be a passenger," the former India captain added.
The BCCI's 2015-16 domestic calendar, which, in a media statement, boasts that it will host 900 matches in the span of six months, starting October 1, has discarded the inter-zonal competition which was started in 1961-62. The tournament was conducted to perpetuate the memory of K S Duleepsinhji, nephew of K S Ranjitsinhji in whose memory the national cricket championship is played.
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They were presented the Platinum Jubilee memento, embossed with BCCI insignia on a silver salver, a tie and an exquisitely handcrafted Kashmiri shawl by Sports Minister Sunil Dutt.
Nari Contractor described Budhi Kunderan, who passed away in Scotland, as a flamboyant cricketer
To watch Dada standing on the steps of the airplane ladder with a glittering trophy in hand was exhilarating, recalls Hemant Kenkre.
Tendulkar pointed out that Mumbai's success percentage in Ranji games was 47 per cent. 'If I say it's unbelievable it's an understatement.'
'My idea of a perfect house is a place that takes me closer to my roots while I look into my future.'
India suffered the ignominy of being restricted to its lowest-ever total in Test cricket, collapsing to 36 for 9 in a terminated second innings against Australia on the third morning of the Day/Night first Test, in Adelaide, on Saturday.
Sunil Gavaskar completed 50 years of his association with Indian cricket on Sunday -- five decades in which he has remained ever-relevant taking on a variety of roles.
Abhijit Kale contended before a Pune court that the suspension slapped by BCCI was 'illegal and malafide'.
Adhikari was also the Indian cricket team manager on the successful tour of England in 1971.
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Former India captains Bishan Singh Bedi and Gundappa Viswanath are yet to get an invite from the BCCI for country's historic 500th Test match against the visiting New Zealand side starting September 22 in Kanpur. With the Test match starting on Thursday, neither 69-year-old Bedi who has led India in 22 Tests nor Viswanth, who captained in two Tests have received any written or telephonic communication from the Board. "Till this evening, I have not received any invitation. And I am not at all annoyed about it. It's BCCI's event and it's their prerogative to invite whomsoever they want to. At this stage of my life, I can't get bitter about all these things," the left-arm spin wizard told PTI.
K N Prabhu, the doyen of cricket writers, salutes Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, who appeared for the first time in Test cricket 50 years ago today, March 6, 1971.
The Hussain family from Sopore and Iqbal household in Kashmir's Anantnag are eagerly waiting for their cell phones to buzz. It's been 11 days since 20-year-old Amir Hussain Rather and 25-year-old Wasim Iqbal last spoke with their folks back home.
'They should be conserved, preserved, and valued highly.'
Ajit Wadekar recalls how India turned the tables on the the West Indies and won a historic victory.
'Doubtless he was the greatest opener of his era; and also one of the greatest in the history of cricket.'
Former Team India Director Ravi Shastri has applied for the chief coach's post of the Indian cricket team, staking strong claims of returning at the helm.
It was an illustrious gathering in Kanpur on Thursday as the Board of Control for Cricket in India felicitated its former Test captains including Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Mohammad Azharuddin, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Anil Kumble and Mahendra Singh Dhoni among others to celebrate India's 500th Test match.
Mumbai schoolboy Pranav Dhanawade was awarded a monthly scholarship for five years from the Mumbai Cricket Association, a day after becoming the first batsman in the world to notch a four-figure innings.
'Our goal is to win the next World Cup and we will surely win it'
His great grandfather played Test cricket for both England and India. His grandfather was arguably the most charismatic captain India has had.
The mood was full of gaiety and devotion, with chants of 'Ganpati Bappa Morya' reverberating across Maharashtra.
'We are known political activists, so the police put our names in.'
Under-fire India coach Ravi Shastri, on Thursday, called on his struggling batsmen to show more discipline and grit when the third Test against England gets underway at Trent Bridge on Saturday.
Pranati Rai Prakash is a bundlehouse of talent.
Music composer Ravindra Jain passed away into the ages on Friday, October 9, in Mumbai. Lata Mangeshkar, who sang some beautiful songs for him, pays rich tribute.
