Rohit Sharma in 2013

     Captaining the Mumbai Indian side in IPL was the turning point for Rohit's career. He not only lead the team in difficult times, but led with any role that situation demanded, being an anchorman or a hard hitter. It taught him the importance of a batsman's wicket. So now when you see Rohit play an International innings you wont find him throwing away his wicket like his prior International outings.

  Rohit sharma was a world famous name in cricket even before 2013 even before his test debute. What the opening position has done to Rohit in the present Inidan squad has sent all the cricket gurus praising the Hero of Historic Indian win over Austraila in ODIs.

     All that much talked about class and style has glittered like a diamond. If he keeps his form going he will be among the most celebrated batsmen of

cricketing history. Even now he also has a lot to accomplish, Selectors and fans would be expecting a lot from him in the upcoming South African series.

     At this point he has more than 1000 runs in 2013, a double century in ODI's, Man of the series against Australia, fantastic opening record with Shikhar Dhawan and two consecutive centuries in both of  the tests. Well he is surely lifting his average which was floating around 35 from a long time, and this boy has a lot to tell against the statistics.

     Bouncy pitches and fiery dale steyn awaits Rohit for now, Best of luck and keep your form unbeatable !!!

Trott out of Ashes because of Stess

Jonathan Trott, a key pillar in English batting line-up has gone back to England to recover from an internal injury to his psych. A pale performance by all the English batsmen on first Ashes test have sent a lot of heads spinning over what exactly went wrong. The same batting lineup help England clinch the number 1 Test team. The same line-up made India embarrass by defeating them on their own turf. What an ecstatic Johnson can do in his return was on show when he defeated Trott in both the innings. With all the hype going around ashes and stress episode of trott doesn't seem too good for England. They will have to come back harder in the next test, until then its party time for Warner and team.

1 day ago

Lords Test 2nd Ashes Match 2013

 Update

Smith takes his 3rd wicket, dismisses Prior for 6(18) c Haddin b Smith

Anyone missing Shane Warne here

Smith Takes two after a consistent Bell and Prudent Bairstow departs.



Ian Bell register another 109 to English scorecard after the early departure of openers and KP. He made partnerships of 99 and 144 with Trott and Bairstow respectively. He hit 16 boundaries in his savior innings.
 J Bairstow fortunately held his ground for a fantastic partnership with Bell to take England to a respectable 274 but returned a catch to Australian All-rounder, Part time leg spin bowler Steven Smith.
Smith took his took wicket in just a span of 4 runs after a solid partnership which made Pattinson and Siddle sweat for a wicket.

Ashes 1st Test 2013

                1st Ashes test of the season formed one of the best archives for ESPN. Though it resulted in pride for the composed and methodical England, But the young Ashton Agar won many hearts back home with his fearless 98 against one of the best Test bowling line up in the world.
                Ian Bell quoted this century as the best innings of his career so far. Anderson well deserving his Man of the Match for his 10 wicket haul. He has developed to a real masterpiece and  a perilous weapon of Cook. Specially for his classic reverse swing and for his 3 c Cook b Anderson and 4 c Prior b Anderson combination, which shows how skillfully he can maneuver the ball.
               Around all the hype about the DRS and Broad not walking off, many forgot the Important contribution from Stuart Broad in English Triumph. He scored 89 runs and scored 12 boundaries in the match with 2 crucial wickets of Watson and Clark who where once unstoppable.

               This match will surely make Australian think tank to ponder over their selection and batting order.  Interesting to wait what the new coach bring into the side.
                Anyway it was a wonderful start to another breathtaking series for the cricket full of tweets and opinions to follow in the upcoming month.

Split Captaincy and Change of Coach

        Many senior players suggesting Split Captaincy to reduce burden from Dhoni, Virat Kohli for ODI's and Gambhir for tests are the available options. split captaincy became a good technique after it's implementation on most successful teams like England and South Africa.
       
       After the fall of team India in last 16 months, Indian team really need a passionate Coach. And who can be better than Saurav Ganguly who have uplift the game of India in last decade,
 
      He knows Cricket India better and Indian players than anyone else.
Dada have told many times that he is open to Coach, But now it's time for BCCI to make the right call...