Showing posts with label cricket champions trophy 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cricket champions trophy 2009. Show all posts

Monday, September 28, 2009

Ind Vs Aus

Ind Vs Aus
India vs Australia , ICC Champions Trophy 2009, Match Preview, Live Scores , Live Streaming : India and defending champions Australia will face each other in the Group A match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2009, Watch Live Streaming and Live scores of the match which will begin in Johannesburg on Monday 28th September, 2009. Match start time at 14:30 am local, 12:30 GMT , 6-00 pm India time.This is a do or die match for India and Captain Dhoni has chosen the tricky option to play five bowlers and ask their depleted batting order to rise to the occasion. India and Australia seem to play each other so many times often that it’s hard to believe they haven’t met in an ODI for the last 18 months. since the CB series in Australia last year. If India play 5 blowlers it is almost certain Amit Mishra, the leggy, who made an impressive Test debut against Australia recently will play this match. There are all kinds of possible scenarios for which teams could be in the semi-finals in Group A , among all the simplest seems to be : if Australia beat India, it will be Pakistan and Australia in the semi finals fro group A..
Despite injuries, Team India was among the top contender for the title but last hour ouster of flamboyant all-rounder Yuvraj Singh has left the ‘Men in Blue’ in a tizzy. India’s clash with Australia is now bigger than Saturday’s match against Pakistan. Skipper Dhoni will have to settle with not less than a victory. All the top guns of Team India Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid and MS Dhoni will have to fire today. It becomes important for India when bowlers are not upto the mark in absence of Zaheer Khan. Once again Harbhajan Singh has to strike early to put Australians on backfoot. In the fielding department, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli and Harbhajan Singh to save extra run for the team and couple of run outs could pave the way for victory. In one sentence, Team India will have to improve its batting and fielding to compensate weaker bowling side. To strengthen bowling, skipper Dhoni has decided to play five bowlers against Australia. Amit Mishra is likely to make into final eleven while RP Singh may be rested and Praveen Kumar will replace him in the side.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Willow TV

Willow TV
Willow tv. Indian and Pakistani cricket teams are again slugging it out on the cricket pitch in Champions Trophy in South Africa. For them cricket is simply not a game to win and lose, here they come as enemies and cricket pitches are warfields for both the teams. The two teams take it as war and do every bit to ensure that they are not to face the ignominy of losing a war. The pressure from around one and half billion people from both the countries is always very high on both teams to handle. They have to win the match at any cost to keep the honor of their nations. And whenever they lose they may be sure that their effigies will be burnt on Indian or Pakistani towns and villages by their own people who praised them and made them demigods. Over-zealous supporters even burn effigies of a losing team's players or even of individual players that had simply performed less than well.
The two teams met in the Super Sixes of the 1999 Cricket World Cup, where India won against Pakistan but lost against Australia and New Zealand. Pakistan went on to face Australia in the finals. In the 2003 Cricket World Cup, they again met each other in the Group league match where India achieved a memorable victory and later went on to appear in the finals, but lost to Australia. After the 1999 Kargil Conflict, much of the hatred transformed into a peaceful rivalry between the teams. They played each other in Australia in the 1999–2000 Triangular Series. A successful team and successful players could expect to be given hero status for months after the victory. Thus both the teams are under tremendous pressure to perform well and win which can make for a very exciting game. Then, in the 2003–2004 season, India completed a tour of Pakistan in which there were rare scenes of Indian and Pakistani supporters in unison, followed in early 2005 by a reciprocal tour by Pakistan in India to complete 3 Tests and 6 ODIs.