Sachin on his 100 international Ton

Sachin says he wants to be relaxed and concentrating on his game.

"I feel it is just a number.I am not thinking about it. I am thinking about playing good cricket. I am enjoying my game. When I got my 90th international century, nobody said anything. Even before my 99th century, nobody said anything. So why now? I don't understand.I know everyone is talking and thinking about my 100th century. I want to be relaxed and let cricket decide its own course. I am not rushing into anything, just concentrating on my normal game.It's a wonderful feeling. It gives me immense pleasure and terrific satisfaction that I've been able to serve my country for such a long time."

BCCI's MEDIA RELEASE

The Working Committee of the BCCI met in Kolkata earlier today.

The Working Committee approved the following:

1.Appointment of Evan Speechly as the Physiotherapist of the Indian team for a period of two years.  He will join the team for the 3rd Test between India and West Indies.

2.IPL is categorized as List “A” match.

3.The BCCI has instituted an award for the Best All-Rounder in the Ranji Trophy and the Best All-Rounder in Domestic limited-overs tournaments, in the name of Late Shri. Lala Amarnath from this season, to commemorate the Birth Centenary of the former India captain. The award will comprise a trophy and a cash prize of Rs. 2.5 lakhs, in each category.

4.Player gradations for 2011-12 were approved as detailed below:

A Grade            -   Rs. 1.00 Crore 

1. Sachin Tendulkar

2. Rahul Dravid

3. Gautam Gambhir

4. Virender Sehwag

5. M S Dhoni

6. VVS Laxman

7. Suresh Raina

8. Harbhajan Singh

9. Zaheer Khan

10.Yuvraj Singh

11.Ishant Sharma

12.Virat Kohli

B Grade               -   Rs. 50.00 lakhs

1. Praveen Kumar

2. Pragyan Ojha

3. Ravichandran Ashwin

4. Rohit Sharma

5. Ravindra Jadeja

C Grade               -    Rs. 25.00 lakhs

1. S Sreesanth

2. Amit Mishra

3. Cheteshwar Pujara

4. Abhimanyu Mithun

5. Vinay Kumar 

6. Ajinkya Rahane 

7. Munaf Patel 

8. Murali Vijay

9. Shikhar Dhawan

10.Wriddhiman Saha

11.Parthiv Patel

12.S Badrinath

13.Manoj Tiwary

14.Piyush Chawla

15.Dinesh Karthik

16.Jaydev Unadkat

17.Umesh Yadav

18.Rahul Sharma

19.Varun Aaron

20.Abhinav Mukund

5.The Working Committee approved in principle the proposal that a certain portion of the gate income of the IPL playoffs will be awarded as benefit for retired cricketers. A Committee has been appointed to work out the modalities.

6.The draft Sports Bill was presented to the Working Committee. The views of the BCCI are as follows:

While the BCCI is all for good governance and transparency in sports bodies, certain aspects of the Bill seek to destroy the autonomy of the Board and dilute the rights of its members.  Therefore the Board is totally opposed to this Bill and will be communicating its objections to the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports shortly. It has to be borne in mind that “Sports” is a State subject and the Legislative Competence of Central Government is limited. The bill tends to encroach upon fundamental rights of Sports bodies.

Billion Hopes for One Cup - The Blue Brigade

[NOTE: This article is just to break the stress in Indian Cricket Fans’s mind and make them fit to support TEAM INDIA in ICC WORLD CUP 2011. Read fully before scolding the author]


The Series down under against Proteas just concluded few days ago.Now they are having a span of 18 days for their world campaign. What will they do in these 18 days.


“Few” will practice, while few like Rohit Sharma and Pragyan Ojha will think where they went wrong.
Right let us go in depth in this issue.


Mr.Mahendra Singh Dhoni
The Captain-cool of Team India, will be keen on some game plans (obviously). On the Otherhand,how will be worried thinking “How did Gautam got 11Cr ? ?”


Mr. Yuvraj Singh
Face 1:
The “Out-of-form” stylish left hand batsman will obviously drive down the streets of Punjab just to get Paani Puri ,his fav dish, and will come into the tournament with a bigger Tummy and gives a chance to Mr .Super-fit-Kirsten to comment about Indian Player’s fitness.


Face 2:
The “In-form” orthodox left arm off-spinner will be on cloud nine after his contribution to Team India after the recently concluded India- SA series. He will also feel guilty for grabbing Ojha’s spot.


Mr. Sachin Tendulkar
Since it gonna be his last world cup, this man would be fighting with his ball-machine and would be practicing hard. A billion hopes rest behind him.


Mr.Virender Sehwag
The Delhi Dasher will be thinking for postpoding IPL after the world cup. Else he would have been injured playing in the tournament and would be in the squad till warm matches and then will break up with the skipper. Now he will be searching for the reasons to skip the tournament.


Mr. Gautham Gambhir
“Yes. I did washed out Kiwis under my captaincy” will be the lines that would often cross this man’s mind. He would walk down the road of Delhi thinking where would he be playing in the Playing XI since Openers Sachin and Virender and number 3 batsman Virat are doing well in their places.


Mr. Virat Kohli
Besides being nervous to play his first world cup for India at higher levels, this “in-form” royal challenger will be trying to contact Genelia-De’zousa to date her. He is mad about her.


Mr. Suresh Raina
This man would be lying down in his mother’s lap and will be crying for wasting 2 ODI series (10 Matches) without showing any signs of regaining his form. He is now in a situation of sitting and warming up the benches in the world cup.


Mr. Harbajan Singh
This man would be highly worried thinking how he gonna spend 40 days sharring the same dressing room with his pal-turned-rival Andrew Symonds. Besides he have to work hard trying to learn the art of taking wickets rather than being economical


Mr. Praveen Kumar
He has already booked a place in playing XI by praising the skipper that he is the OBAMA of cricket. He will also be crossing the borders to spend a honeymoon with his wife.


Mr. Ashwin
Being a south-paw, this man will be visiting most of Temples in South India to pray for their Victory .


Mr.Yusuf Pathan
This man will be texting to Steyn and Morkel in abusive language  for bowling too many short balls to him. He would also be challenging them to bowl a short ball in the Sub-continent condition against him. He would also be worried that why his step- brother Irfan Pathan missed out a cut even in WC 30 probables.


Mr. Zaheer Khan
After being elected as the 3rd Desirable Indian Cricketer by Times Of India, this man will be on cloud nine and will be thinking hard to pick his bowling partner.


Mr. Ashish Nehra.
This young boy will be shouting at his mom for being forced by her to eat. He will also try to learn how to field from his pet dog.


Mr.Munaf Patel
He would console himself by saying "I don't know to Swing.. I don't have a threatening pace.. But I have the most bruatal factor.. "Line and Length and it got me 2nd world cup spot." 


Mr. Piyush Chawla.
He will be thinking “Thank God.. I managed to attend Dhoni’s marriage and now I am in WC squad” He will also try to convince the Star Cricket to display his action as Right- Arm-Leg-Spin as he uses Leg spin as a variation in an over containing 5 googlies.

Hope that your stress is down now.
Jokes apart. 


Billions of hopes lies on these Fifteen people. Everyone is thinking that all the above will get INDIA, the prestigious ICC WORLD CUP. Come out and Support for Team India in huge numbers.


Cheers and Claps for Team India.!!

IPL Auction 2011

Players bought in IPL Auction Day 1 Gautam Gambhir	India	Kolkata Knight Riders	2400000
Yusuf Pathan	India	Kolkata Knight Riders	2100000
Robin Uthappa	India	Pune Warriors	2100000
Rohit Sharma	India	Mumbai Indians	2000000
Irfan Pathan	India	Delhi Daredevils	1900000
Sachin Tendulkar (retained)	India	Mumbai Indians	1800000
MS Dhoni (retained)	India	Chennai Super Kings	1800000
Shane Warne (retained)	Australia	Rajasthan Royals	1800000
Virender Sehwag (retained)	India	Delhi Daredevils	1800000
Virat Kohli (retained)	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	1800000
Yuvraj Singh	India	Pune Warriors	1800000
Saurabh Tiwary	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	1600000
Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	Kochi	1500000
David Hussey	Australia	Kings XI Punjab	1400000
Harbhajan Singh (retained)	India	Mumbai Indians	1300000
Suresh Raina (retained)	India	Chennai Super Kings	1300000
Shane Watson (retained)	Australia	Rajasthan Royals	1300000
Dale Steyn	South Africa	Deccan Chargers	1200000
AB de Villiers	South Africa	Royal Challengers Bangalore	1100000
Jacques Kallis	South Africa	Kolkata Knight Riders	1100000
Cameron White	Australia	Deccan Chargers	1100000
Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka	Kochi	1100000
Ross Taylor	New Zealand	Rajasthan Royals	1000000
Johan Botha	South Africa	Rajasthan Royals	950000
Ravindra Jadeja	India	Kochi	950000
Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka	Pune Warriors	950000
Kieron Pollard (retained)	West Indies	Mumbai Indians	900000
M Vijay (retained)	India	Chennai Super Kings	900000
Zaheer Khan	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	900000
Adam Gilchrist	Australia	Kings XI Punjab	900000
Sreesanth	India	Kochi	900000
Dinesh Karthik	India	Kings XI Punjab	900000
Piyush Chawla	India	Kings XI Punjab	900000
Andrew Symonds	Australia	Mumbai Indians	850000
Ashish Nehra	India	Pune Warriors	850000
R Ashwin	India	Chennai Super Kings	850000
S Badrinath	India	Chennai Super Kings	850000
Abhishek Nayar	India	Kings XI Punjab	800000
Praveen Kumar	India	Kings XI Punjab	800000
David Warner	Australia	Delhi Daredevils	750000
Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	Deccan Chargers	700000
Doug Bollinger	Australia	Chennai Super Kings	700000
Cheteshwar Pujara	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	700000
Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	Royal Challengers Bangalore	650000
Kevin Pietersen	England	Deccan Chargers	650000
Dirk Nannes	Australia	Royal Challengers Bangalore	650000
Daniel Vettori	New Zealand	Royal Challengers Bangalore	550000
Lasith Malinga (retained)	Sri Lanka	Mumbai Indians	500000
Albie Morkel (retained)	South Africa	Chennai Super Kings	500000
Rahul Dravid	India	Rajasthan Royals	500000
Graeme Smith	South Africa	Pune Warriors	500000
RP Singh	India	Kochi	500000
Pragyan Ojha	India	Deccan Chargers	500000
Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	Kochi	475000
Morne Morkel	South Africa	Delhi Daredevils	475000
Manoj Tiwary	India	Kolkata Knight Riders	475000
Ishant Sharma	India	Deccan Chargers	450000
Michael Hussey	Australia	Chennai Super Kings	425000
Shakib Al Hasan	Bangladesh	Kolkata Knight Riders	425000
Brad Hodge	Australia	Kochi	425000
VVS Laxman	India	Kochi	400000
Shaun Marsh	Australia	Kings XI Punjab	400000
Stuart Broad	England	Kings XI Punjab	400000
Brett Lee	Australia	Kolkata Knight Riders	400000
James Hopes	Australia	Delhi Daredevils	350000
Eoin Morgan	England	Kolkata Knight Riders	350000
Brad Haddin	Australia	Kolkata Knight Riders	325000
Ryan Harris	Australia	Kings XI Punjab	325000
JP Duminy	South Africa	Deccan Chargers	300000
Shikhar Dhawan	India	Deccan Chargers	300000
Amit Mishra	India	Deccan Chargers	300000
Aaron Finch	Australia	Delhi Daredevils	300000
Callum Ferguson	Australia	Pune Warriors	300000
Parthiv Patel	India	Kochi	290000
Naman Ojha	India	Delhi Daredevils	270000
Tim Paine	Australia	Pune Warriors	270000
Paul Collingwood	England	Rajasthan Royals	250000
Dwayne Bravo	West Indies	Chennai Super Kings	200000
Steven Smith	Australia	Kochi	200000
Davy Jacobs	South Africa	Mumbai Indians	190000
Ramesh Powar	India	Kochi	180000
Wriddhiman Saha	India	Chennai Super Kings	100000
James Franklin	New Zealand	Mumbai Indians	100000
Nathan McCullum	New Zealand	Pune Warriors	100000