Yusuf Pathan's blistering century proved in vain for India as South Africa won the fifth and decisive one-day international by 33 runs on Sunday to take the series 3-2.
Yusuf Pathan threatened to single-handedly pull off a sensational victory with a brutal 70-ball 105 before India suffered a heart-breaking 33-run defeat against South Africa in a thrilling fifth and final One-day International to lose the series 2-3 in Centurion on Sunday.
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Images from the Indian Premier League match between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals at Centurion on Thursday.
India's batting mainstay Gautam Gambhir became the highest-paid player in the history of the Indian Premier League when he was purchased by Kolkata Knight Riders for a whopping $2.4m.
Gautam Gambhir was the most valuable player (MVP) of the recently concluded India-New Zealand One-Day International series, but Yusuf Pathan, with that explosive century and eight wickets, wasn't too far behind.
Yuvraj Singh breezed his way to a 56-ball 84 and gave the national selectors another timely reminder of his worth, even as Abhishek Nayar slammed a 39-ball 75, to take India Blue to the final of the NKP Salve Challenger Series with a 11-run win over India Red in Indore on Friday.
A daunting target of 316 did not fluster Yusuf Pathan a bit and the swashbuckling batsman said he never thought during his match-winning knock of 123 that India would lose the fourth One-day International against New Zealand in Bangalore.
Critics have often lashed out at his susceptibility against short balls but dashing Baroda all-rounder Yusuf Pathan is confident that he will be able to overcome the technical deficiencies that bothered him during the first phase of his One-day International and T20 career.
R Vinay Kumar and Murali Vijay are the new faces in India's 15-man squad for the Twenty20 World Cup, beginning in the West Indies, on Friday.
Images from the Indian Premier League match between Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Daredevils at the Ferozshah Kotla on Wednesday.
Images from the Indian Premier League match between Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Daredevils at the Ferozshah Kotla on Wednesday.
As the first week's action in the third edition of the Indian Premier League comes to a close, rediff.com takes a look at the Indian players who have made noteworthy contributions thus far.
As the first week's action in the third edition of the Indian Premier League comes to a close, rediff.com takes a look at the Indian players who have made noteworthy contributions thus far.
Despite Yusuf Pathan smashing the fastest century of the Indian Premier League, Rajasthan Royals went down to Mumbai Indians by four runs at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai, on Saturday.
All-rounder Yusuf Pathan on Wednesday denied criticising the national selectors for omitting his brother Irfan from India's Champions Trophy squad, saying the reports are 'totally baseless and wrong'. 'I did not make any comment on selection matter or about Irfan's exclusion and the remarks attributed to me are totally baseless and wrong,' the towering right-hander said.
An emergency meeting of the Cricket Board's all-powerful Working Committee has been convened here on August 2 but the agenda for the same is not yet known.
South Zone have an overall lead of 191 on Day 2 of the Duleep Trophy final after finishing with 400 in their first innings and dismissing West Zone for 251. They were 42 without loss in their second innings.
Deccan Chargers skipper Adam Gilchrist (85 off 35 balls) registered the fastest IPL fifty. With his 17-ball half-century, Gilchrist surpassed the 21-ball 50s registered by Yusuf Pathan (2008) and Brendon McCullum (2009). Gilchrist's 17-ball half-century is the fifth fastest in Twenty20.
Delhi Daredevils captain Virender Sehwag on Tuesday gave full credit to Yusuf Pathan for powering Rajasthan Royals to the five-wicket victory over his side and said the right-hander just came in and blew the game away with his clean hitting. Pathan scored a blistering 60 of 32 balls to see the defending champions through and register their second victory in the tournament.
With 23 wickets at 19.43 runs apiece, Shane Warne has surpassed Sohail Tanvir's tally of 22 at an average of 12.09. Warne is now the leading wicket-taker in the IPL.
India overcame a shaky start to register their first win over Zimbabwe on the current tour as they beat the hosts by six wickets in the first Twenty20 International cricket match in Harare on Saturday.
India cricketer brothers Irfan and Yusuf Pathan will soon get a new address as the city and district administrations have given permission for a new bungalow at Tandalja area in Vadodara.
Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat against India in their Asia Cup ODI.
Reader Shreya Paranjape sent us these pictures from Christchurch, New Zealand.
Jacques Kallis continues to be IPL3's most valuable player, and there's a good chance that he might end up becoming IPL3's MVP, now that RCB seem assured of the semi-final berth.
Yusuf Pathan refuses to take the credit for Rajasthan Royals' title triumph. Teamwork, he says, was the key to success.
Yusuf Pathan delivered with the ball against the Kolkata Knight Riders on Saturday.
Yusuf Pathan's 39-ball 80 was in vain as Mukesh Sharma and Rahul Dewan shared nine wickets to help North Zone beat West by 49 runs and win the Deodhar Trophy cricket tournament at the Moti Bagh stadium in Vadodara on Tuesday.
Yusuf Pathan talks about his magical innings in the Duleep Trophy final, and the 'Twenty20 specialist' tag that he is looking to shed.
Rajasthan Royals, after eight games, have a minus net run rate (-0.317) but they became the sixth team to post four wins in the second season of the IPL. Rajasthan Royals, with two important points, have now nine overall in eight matches in the 2009 edition.
Images from the fourth One-Day International between India and New Zealand at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on Tuesday.
India's cricket selectors did a volte-face on Thursday when they brought in seniors to replace youngsters for the ODI series in Sri Lanka and Champions Trophy. It was not surprising that Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh made a comeback and making way for them were Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, Yusuf Pathan and Manpreet Singh Gony.
Legendary Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar is surprised at all-rounder Yusuf Pathan's omission from the Indian squad for the first two one-dayers against Australia. Gavaskar said that Yusuf's selection would have given a better balance to the Indian side.
India suffered a crushing 103-run defeat to New Zealand, after being shot out for 198 while chasing a mammoth 301 runs, in a warm-up game ahead of the Champions Trophy in Potchefstroom on Sunday.
India won the toss and opted to bat against Pakistan in the second match of the triangular one-day series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka on Tuesday. India have included uncapped batsman Yusuf Pathan in the team for their first match of the tournament.
Chennai Super Kings completed a fairy tale comeback from disgrace to glory, clinching their third Indian Premier League title after imposing all-rounder Shane Watson single-handedly hammered Sunrises Hyderabad into submission with a blazing hundred in the final, in Mumbai.
Australian all-rounder Shane Watson powered Rajasthan Royals to a commanding seven-wicket victory over Bangalore Royal Challengers.
A round-up of the fourth and final day's action at the various Ranji Trophy matches on Tuesday.
You have to search really hard to find names of Indian players in the list of the "most valuable players" so far in the ICC World Twenty20. Yuvraj Singh is at the sixth position... but then there's practically no one else! After you run your finger down the list for quite a while you'll run into Pragyan Ojha at No. 22, Yusuf Pathan at No. 24 and Rohit Sharma at No. 25.
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