Mumbai Boy Suryakumar shines as KKR start title defence with win over MI

Suryakumar Yadav drove them to a seven-wicket win over Mumbai Indians in the IPL 2015 tournament opener. Chasing 169 for a win, Gambhir's 43-ball 57 (7x4, 1x6) led the KKR charge, while Suryakumar's unbeaten 46 off 20 deliveries helped them canter to their target in 18.3 overs. 

(Pic Source: BCCI/IPL)

Enter Suryakumar Yadav at No.4. It took just one ball for Yadav to get his eye in; the next was dispatched for a six over the deep square leg with a touch of Viv Richards in it. For Yadav, the target was just another number that he would whiff off with his nimble wrists and effortless stroke play.

Half an hour and five sixes later, he hit a crisp drive to the extra cover boundary to win it for KKR. Yadav is a proud and relieved man as he walks back to the dressing room with nothing but content and smiles to share with his teammates.

Suryakumar Yadav after the game:- Today I was being promoted up the order and given an opportunity to the captain and the support staff. Any player in any team would like to bat at the top of the order in this format. I am grateful to them for that. The team management has given me a lot of confidence over the last year. I have got a great chance here with KKR and I am trying to finish games for the team. I hope I have played my role well in this game and am confident there are many more performances to come to the games to come. 

Team India for tri-series and World Cup 2015 announced

 Indian selectors sat down in Mumbai for the toughest task of the year and have picked the 15 best cricketers from the country to represent the nation with a Billion hopes.

The tri-series will give the players a right chance to get their combination and formula right for the World Cup, as the conditions, pitches and grounds will remain one or less the same.Indian selectors have continued to show faith on the same lot for the tri-series and the ICC world cup 2015 as well.

These four men Virat, Raina, Rayudu, and Dhoni will be the key for the Indian team as the skipper and Indian team management love batting second considering the weaker organ there bowling attack has been.


Indian squad for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 

MS Dhoni (Captain), Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma, MnShami, Stuart Binny, Umesh Yadav

The Indian squad for the Tri Series

MS Dhoni (Captain), Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Md. Shami, Stuart Binny, Umesh Yadav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohit Sharma.

J&K take historic win over Mumbai

Jammu & Kashmir shocked domestic heavyweights Mumbai with a historic four-wicket win by chasing down 237 on the last day at the Wankhede Stadium. J&K needed 179 runs when the fourth day. Khajuria and Ian Dev Singh stitched a 52-run stand to take them past 100. Ian Dev scored a brisk 30 off 25 with four fours before Dabholkar struck. Khajuria continued to steer the ship and brought the required runs within 70 after bringing up his fifty. 

Khajuria was named Man of the Match for his fifty in second innings and 107 in the first.

Jammu & Kashmir are the 12th teams to beat Mumbai in 81 seasons of Ranji Trophy. Mumbai have now lost for the 23rd time in 465 games. Others to beat Mumbai: Baroda (4), Maharashtra (3), Haryana, Gujarat, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh (2), Holkar, Nawanagar, Delhi, Hyderabad, Karnataka (1).

scores: Mumbai 236 & 254 lost to J&K 254 & 237/6 (Shubham Khajuria 78, Ian Chauhan 30, Parveez Rasool 32, Hardeep Singh 41*; Vishal Dhabolkar 2/67) by four wickets.

Deodhar Trophy 2014-15: Full schedule

Apart from the Vijay Hazare trophy, The Deodhar trophy is another 50-over competition that could prove to be important for a lot of players. Unlike the Vijay Hazare trophy, this is a 5 team competition, each team representing their particular zone. 

Deodhar Trophy schedule

Date	Match Details	Venue
November 29th 2014	Quarter Final- Central Zone vs South Zone	TBA
November 30th 2014	First Semi-Final- East Zone vs North Zone	TBA
December 1st 2014	Second Semi-Final- TBC vs West Zone	TBA
December 3rd 2014	Final- TBC vs TBC

Former Gujarat captain Mukund Parmar to coach Andhra

Former Gujarat captain Mukund Parmar has been appointed as the lead coach of Andhra for the 2014-15 domestic season. Parmar played 83 first-class matches for Gujarat, scoring 6674 runs with 20 centuries and 30 fifties at an average of 49.80. 

He will replace R Sridhar, the former Hyderabad spinner, who left Andhra to join the Indian support team as a fielding coach.

Parmar, who has completed an NCA Level C course, coached India Under-23s to the Asian Cricket Council Emerging Teams Cup title in 2013, with a win over Pakistan Under-23s in the final. During the 2012-13 season, Parmar served as the head coach of Gujarat and he led the team to victory in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, the domestic T20 competition. 

Parmar's main task will be to lift the performance of a team which endured a poor 2013-14 domestic season. Andhra finished seventh in the weakest group of the Ranji Trophy, and the results were similarly poor in the limited-overs tournaments. They came last in the South Zone group of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and failed to qualify for the Super League. In the Vijay Hazare Trophy, they finished third in their group, behind Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. 

Sachin Tendulkar's Autobiography to Release on November 6

The book titled 'Playing It My Way' will be published worldwide by Hodder & Stoughton & by Hachette India in the Indian sub-continet.

The book, titled 'Playing It My Way', will be published worldwide by Hodder and Stoughton and by Hachette India in the Indian sub-continent.

The book has been co-authored by renowned cricket historian and media personality Boria Majumdar.

"I knew that agreeing to write my story would need me to be completely honest, as that's the way I have always played the game. It would require talking about a number of aspects I have not shared in public before," said Tendulkar in a press release issued by the publishers.

"So here I am, at the end of my final innings, having taken that last walk back to the pavilion, ready to recount as many incidents as I can remember since first picking up a cricket bat as a child in Mumbai thirty-five years ago," Tendulkar added.

"My autobiography will be available on Nov 6th... Excited," Tendulkar tweeted.

The front cover of the book shows Tendulkar raising his bat while walking away from the field one last time after his knock of 74 against the West Indies at the Wankhede Stadium on November 15.

Venues for WI Tour of India Announced

India-WI to play five ODIs, one T20I and three Tests from Oct 8-Nov 19

India will play the West Indies in five ODIs, one T20 International and three Tests, in October-November 2014.  

The match-schedule is as follows:

ODI SERIES

8 Oct - Kochi
11 Oct - Vishakhapatnam
14 Oct - Cuttack
17 Oct - Kolkata
20 Oct - Dharamshala

T20 INTERNATIONAL

22 Oct - Delhi

TEST SERIES

30 Oct – 3 Nov - Hyderabad
7 Nov – 11 Nov - Bengaluru
15 Nov – 19 Nov - Ahmedabad