REVIEW ABOUT INDIA VS PAKISTAN IN SEMIFINAL:

The india have performed well against the australia and Men in blue is all set to clash with men in green in one of the most eagerly awaited world cup semi final matches in 2011 on 30th March. Men in green has never beaten men in blue in World cup and with the strong performances of the men in blue especially that of Yuvi, Men in blue is all set for the battle at Mohali. What more does a cricket fan want than this thrilling event?

Australia cricket captain, Ponting feels men in blue have the required firepower to outclass Afridi and his Pakistan when the arc-rival play each added in the World Cup semifinal on 30 March adding that INDIAN Captain and his men justify a World Cup win this time.

Umpires: Simon Taufel and Ian Gould will take charge of the potentially-volatile World Cup semifinal between Men in green and Men in blue here at the PCA Stadium on March 30.International Cricket Council announced Ranjan Madugalle will be the match referee. Billy Bowden (third umpire), Rod Tucker (fourth umpire) are the other officials for the eagerly-expected encounter. Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has accepted an invite from his India Prime minister to watch the cricket World Cup semi-final match between Men in blue and Men in green in Mohali March 30.

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The two batting shots which are rarely applied in cricket are the sweep and the reverse sweep. Especially reverse sweep is hardly applied. Though both shots can be applied in certain batting circumstances and are also a powerful technique to score runs.

There is a high factor of menace involved in the sweep shot, therefore good decision and brilliant timing is important. Don’t play the sweep and reverse sweep in the beginning of your innings particularly to straight deliveries, because it’s not a good plan to perform it until you observe how the pitch is playing and the bowler performance. For an instance, if the ball hanged about low it would be relatively easy to misjudge and get out LBW or bowled which you absolutely have to avoid, so remain patient and play wisely.

The both sweep and reverse sweep are cross batted shots and should be perfectly played to slow down deliveries of good length. To play the orthodox sweep shot, wait for the ball to be released first before making any movement.

DON’T PREMEDITATE THE SHOT!

Once you have decided the sweep shot for the ball, step your front foot as far down the wicket in the direction of the pitch of the ball. Now as you are stepping forward bend both the knees simultaneously so that your whole body is positioned down. Let your back knee touch the ground to perform as an added foot of support. Try to remain balanced and comfortable. Take the bat down from the off side and across the ball in the direction of the leg side and aim to hit it either in front of or at the back of square leg.

To play the reverse sweep, put on the same positions as for the orthodox sweep, but this time, keep your bat down and cross-ways from leg side towards the off side as if you are aiming to hit the ball through the channel area. This shot involves a very good synchronization and timing, since you have to twist the bat so that the bat face faces the off side at the point of contact without disturbing your grip.

Keep in mind that the sweep and reverse sweep are relatively tough shots to master and bear quite a lot of risk. So if you plan to use them, practice the shots in the nets to build the confidence and skilled enough to apply so.

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Ex- Indian captain Sourav Ganguly (Kolkata) on Monday retired from all editions of the game.

The verdict came after no team selected him up in the newly held Indian Premier League (IPL) auction.

Ganguly’s anticipations of playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) gone through a giant blow on Friday after three franchisees were against the move to take in unsold Indian players back in the IPL.

The rebuff came after Kochi team who were supposedly attentive in procuring Ganguly after his writings to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), and the BCCI as a result sought the outlook of the franchises on permitting a team to buy one of the Indian players gone unsold in the auction.

Ganguly played his final One Day International (ODI) against Pakistan at Gwalior in November 2007, where his previous test match was against with Australia at Nagpur in November 2008.

Ganguly played his last IPL match against Mumbai Indian in April 2010.

The left-handed Ganguly was a productive One Day International (ODI) batsman, with over 11,000 ODI runs to his glory.

Ganguly was a hostile captain, and he is praised with having cared for the professions of many young players who played under him.

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Gifted Indian batsman Virat Kohli leaped three places to joint second in the most recent ICC ODI players’ rankings numbered.

Kohli and South African A B de Villiers share the second spot with 784 points following Protea Hashim Amla (889).

Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and opening batsman Gautam Gambhir are the former two Indians in the top 10 at fifth and ninth correspondingly. Dhoni slid one place while Gambhir achieved one spot.

Volatile batsman Yusuf Pathan climbed 34 places to be at 47th.

Within the bowlers’ chart headed by New Zealand’s Daniel Vettori, South Africa pacers Morne Morkel and Lonwabo Tsotsobe accomplished career-top rankings at second and 10th respectively.

Morkel, who obtained 12 wickets in South Africa’s 3-2 series win over India, leaped 10 positions whereas Tsotsobe has been prized for concluding as the primary wicket-taker in the series, with 13 wickets, with an increase of 38 positions.

None of the Indian traits in the top 20 with Praveen Kumar and Harbhajan Singh residing in 17th and 20th spots respectively.

Zaheer Khan grew four places to be at 23rd whilst Munaf Patel leaped six places to reside in 33rd spot.

In the Reliance ICC ODI Championship, Australia’s 6-1 series win over England has made it three ratings points and it at present took a seat cute on 131 with its nearby competitors being India and Sri Lanka who are on 119 ratings points each one.

South Africa is an additional one point following in fourth position.

Bangladesh has progressed forward of the West Indies in eighth place, Sri Lanka’s 2-0 win over Darren Sammy’s side in the three-match series finished in Colombo yesterday is to be thanked too.

Both Bangladesh and the West Indies are bolted on 66 ratings points but Bangladesh is positioned higher after the scores are worked out beyond the decimal point.

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On Monday in Abu Dhabi, a four-day game starting and in that pink balls will utilize as element of a proposal by the ICC. Officials that govern the rules of cricket are needed to play finally the five-day match. Test arrangement under lights to take into custody of it’s on its last legs recognition.

The Cricket Club that is named Marylebone will play Durham under submerge lights and which work out the rules for the governing organization. As the season-opening games in England is traditionally played at Lord’s.

In One-Day Internationals they use white balls as an alternative of red ones for tests matches. As the first-class cricket, has failed to keep hold of their color more than long stretches of time. as an For the experiment in Australia Pink balls were utilized in recent times but only in limited-over of games.

PTI- Cricket viewers started occupying the trendy and low-priced East Stands at the Brabourne Stadium. But the stadium has no proper means to follow the progress of the game in the pre-lunch gathering of the third and final Test between India and Sri Lanka today.

Conducting a Test match after a 36-year-gap, the Cricket Club of India authorities seemed to have varnished over the significance of a manual scoreboard for the East Stand crowd’s benefit in the first sitting.

In reality, the only way to follow the growth of the game, for the East and North Stand crowd numbering around 2000 before lunch, was by leaning forward to the right or left and finding out the score from the electronic screen kept just in front of the previous Press Box at ground level. Also there was a manual scoreboard right behind the screen but due to some strange reason it was not operated.

Australia, India and Sri Lanka sweep up off all the CEAT Cricket Rating (CCR) awards between them.

Australia had won the ‘CEAT International Team of the Year’ award and Mitchell Johnson had won the ‘CEAT International Test Bowler of the year’.

Gautam Gambhir from India had won the ‘CEAT International cricketer of the Year’ award for his consistence performances in all the structure of cricket. Also he was awarded as the ‘CEAT International Test Batsman of the year’. Virender Sehwag had won the ‘CEAT International ODI Batsman of the Year’ and Harbhajan Singh had won the title ‘CEAT International 300 Wickets Felicitation Award’.

Sri Lankan players like Ajantha Mendis had won the ‘CEAT International ODI Bowler of the year’ award and Thilan Samaraweera had won the title of ‘CEAT International Spirit of Cricket Award’.