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- South Africa Vs Sri Lanka 1st ODI Post Match Presentation 2012
- India squad for T20, ODI to be named on Sunday
- Alastair Cook century puts England in top in warm-up against PCB XI
- Sehwag, Dravid rubbish rumours of rift
- Sri Lanka vs South Africa 1st ODI Scorecard Paarl 2012
- Pakistan Cricket Board XI Vs England XI scorecard tour match 2012
- India will bounce back in Perth test: Yuvraj Singh
- Sri Lanka Vs South Africa 1st ODI Live Streams Highlights 2012
- Live 1st ODI: South Africa elects to bat against Sri Lanka
- Sydney Thunder vs Perth Scorchers Scorecard T20 Big Bash 2012 – Match 23
- Hope this tour doesn’t go England way: Dravid
- Sourav Ganguly doubts India’s ability to win abroad
- Sydney Thunder vs Perth Scorchers Live Scores Highlights T20 Big Bash 2012
- No rift in Team India, says Rahul Dravid
| South Africa Vs Sri Lanka 1st ODI Post Match Presentation 2012 Posted: 11 Jan 2012 11:00 AM PST
Morne: To come out here and play in front of this fantastic crowd is a very happy feeling. It’s been a slow start for me but I worked through the tough games and knew there will be something good around the corner. We have a very good support staff and I got good support from home. Alan and Gary have been very good, I knew I wasn’t very far off from doing well. Lobsy has been opening the bowling and doing very well, and so has been Dale Steyn coming in at one change. Morne Morkel is the Man of the Match for his 4-10. AB de Villiers: It was a thorough team performance. Amla, Kallis and Morne did well but team performance is the word that comes to mind. There was something in there for the bowlers. Our boys played really well and made good use of the conditions. Unbelievable intensity from our bowlers, the pacers are running in and bowling 140+ consistently.
Dilshan: The key point was the first 5 overs. They bowled really good lines and it was very difficult to come back. We bowled well in the last few overs and came back a bit but unfortunately our batsmen couldn’t put runs on the board. Malinga is one of the best in the business and it is great to have him in the team. We don’t have much time between the games and will be travelling tomorrow, hope to do better in the next match.  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| India squad for T20, ODI to be named on Sunday Posted: 11 Jan 2012 10:20 AM PST
The Indian squad for the upcoming two-match T20 international series against hosts Australia and the subsequent triangular one-day series, with Sri Lanka completing the line-up, is to be picked at Delhi on January 15, according to Cricket Board sources. “The squad is to be selected on January 15 in Delhi,” BCCI sources told PTI today. Yuvraj Singh, who is out of cricket since November because of a non-malignant tumour in his lungs, is expected to be named in the squad by the senior national selection panel headed by Krishnamachari Srikkanth.
The dashing Punjab batsman, who was chosen as the man of the tournament during India’s triumphant campaign in the World Cup, has been working hard to regain full fitness and return to the national squad. Also in the running to return to national duty is off spinner Harbhajan Singh who was dropped from the Test squad against the West Indies at home and failed to find a berth in the bunch now playing in the Test rubber in Australia. Harbhajan was edged out by off spinning rival R Ashwin who became the man of the series against the West Indies but has been largely unsuccessful in the two Tests that India have played and lost in Australia. At the conclusion of the four-Test rubber on January 28, India and Australia will square off in the two T20 ties which are scheduled on February 1 and 3 at Sydney and Melbourne respectively before plunging into the three-nation 50-over tournament commencing on February 5 at Melbourne. The three teams would clash with each other four times each leading to the best of three finals in March. © PTI  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alastair Cook century puts England in top in warm-up against PCB XI Posted: 11 Jan 2012 10:10 AM PST
The 27-year-old left-hander hit an attractive 133 to lift England, sent into bat, to 269-9 declared on the opening day of the match played at the Global Cricket Academy. In reply the PCB XI were 22-0 at close, with openers Nasir Jamshed on 12 and Afaq Raheem on 10. Apart from Cook, Matt Prior (46) and Kevin Pietersen (38) were the only top-order batsmen to get some runs as Andrew Strauss (3), Jonathan Trott (0), Ian Bell (0) and Eoin Morgan (11) flopped again.
That left England much to think about ahead of the first Test against Pakistan, starting from Tuesday. Cook, who made 76 and 24 in England’s three-wicket win in the first tour match, held the innings together by adding 83 for the third wicket with Pietersen and had a fighting stand of 90 with Prior for the sixth. He was finally dismissed, caught behind by Sarfraz Ahmed off Talha before England declared the innings. Cook hit 10 boundaries during his 260-ball knock and looked untroubled throughout. Talha finished with 4-43. It was leg-spinner Yasir Shah who rattled the middle-order with figures of 5-75. Talha, part of Pakistan’s 16-man Test squad, dismissed Strauss and Trott in his first spell before Pietersen and Cook repaired the early damage. Shah broke the partnership when he dismissed Pietersen soon after lunch and followed that with wickets of Bell in his next over and then got Morgan to leave England struggling at 5-121. Prior, who hit seven boundaries during his fiery 57-ball knock, helped Cook take England past 200-mark. © AFP  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sehwag, Dravid rubbish rumours of rift Posted: 11 Jan 2012 10:00 AM PST
Senior players Virender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid on Wednesday rubbished reports of infighting among Indian players and any rift between vice-captain and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. “When teams start losing then these kind of things come, but there is nothing true in that. We are playing as a team and we are fine,” Sehwag was quoted as saying by ‘The Age’. “I can’t talk about anything else because there are rules, but you asked me about this and I can say it is rubbish. We are as a unit and we are carrying on for the next Test,” the star opener said. Sehwag has been at the heart of rumours of a fractured dressing room after India’s capitulation to Australia in the first two Tests.
Earlier, in the day when Dravid spoke to media persons, he also termed the reports as baseless. “When you do badly, suddenly everything is seen as wrong with the team. There is no truth (in Sehwag vs Dhoni reports) to those matters. As I said, the spirit of the team is really good,” Dravid told reporters. There’s been criticism all around with the go-karting session of Indians drawing extreme response from Indian media and Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin has added his bit by stating that the Indians are mentally the most fragile team in international circuit. “One of the good things about travelling abroad is you are in a bit of a cocoon. You don’t gauge what’s happening back home. There’s a sense of disappoint with the results so far, we would certainly like to do better but the spirit of the team is very good,” he said. Dravid also seemed unperturbed about Haddin’s comments. “We haven’t bothered (with Haddin comments) really. There are five days of important cricket to worry about and there is no time about anything else to be honest. “You don’t need anyone’s comment to motivate yourself. We are not even bothered” he added. © PTI  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sri Lanka vs South Africa 1st ODI Scorecard Paarl 2012 Posted: 11 Jan 2012 08:30 AM PST
Sri Lanka in South Africa Test Series 2011-12 Sri Lanka vs South Africa – 1st ODI Played at Boland Park, Paarl, 11 Jan 2012 Toss - South Africa won the toss and elected to Bat. Innings Break
Fall of wickets (South Africa): 1-9 (Smith, 2.4 ov), 2-153 (Kallis, 28.3 ov), 3-244 (de Villiers, 40.3 ov), 4-279 (JA Morkel, 45.2 ov), 5-279 (Amla, 45.3 ov), 6-283 (Duminy, 46.4 ov), 7-298 (du Plessis, 49.2 ov), 8-300 (Steyn, 49.5 ov)
Powerplay: 1-10, 15-20 (bowling), 26-31 (batting)
South Africa (Playing XI): Graeme Smith, Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers(w/c), Jean-Paul Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Albie Morkel, Robin Peterson, Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel, Lonwabo Tsotsobe  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pakistan Cricket Board XI Vs England XI scorecard tour match 2012 Posted: 11 Jan 2012 08:20 AM PST
England tour of United Arab Emirates – Tour Match Pakistan Cricket Board XI v England XI Played at ICC Global Cricket Academy, Dubai, 11-13 Jan 2012 Toss - Pakistan Cricket Board XI won the toss and elected to field. Stumps Day 1
Fall of wickets (England XI): 1-13 (Strauss, 6.2 ov), 2-14 (Trott, 6.4 ov), 3-97 (Pietersen, 30.5 ov), 4-101 (Bell, 32.1 ov), 5-121 (Morgan, 40.6 ov), 6-211 (Prior, 65.1 ov), 7-257 (Swann, 76.1 ov), 8-267 (Onions, 78.6 ov), 9-269 (Cook, 81.1 ov)
Fall of wickets (PCB XI):
Teams England (Playing XI): Andrew Strauss(c), Alastair Cook, Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell, Eoin Morgan, Matt Prior(w), Graeme Swann, Graham Onions, Monty Panesar, Chris Tremlett Pakistan Cricket Board (Playing XI): Nasir Jamshed, Afaq Raheem, Haris Sohail, Mohammad Ayub, Fawad Alam, Usman Salahuddin, Sarfraz Ahmed(C)(W), Raza Hasan, Mohammad Khalil, Mohammad Talha, Yasir Shah  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| India will bounce back in Perth test: Yuvraj Singh Posted: 11 Jan 2012 05:09 AM PST
“If India has to do well guys like Viru (Virender Sehwag), Sachin (Tendulkar), Rahul (Dravid), (VVS) Laxman all have to fire together, get good partnerships going and I am sure they will bounce back in the next Test match,” Yuvraj said. The dashing left-hander, who has been forced out of cricket with a non-malignant tumor in his lungs, however credited Australia for putting up a great performance in the first two Tests of the four-match series.
Yuvraj particularly appreciated the way former captain Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey returned to form in Sydney and silenced their critics. “You need to give credit to the Australians, they have played very good cricket. Everybody was writing Hussey and Ponting off, those are the guys who came and scored and made the difference along with Michael Clarke,” he told the Times Now. Yuvraj, however, was hopeful of India making a comeback into the contest and also rubbished reports of rift within the team as reported by the Australian media. “When the team is loosing you are bound to draw criticism. I don’t agree that there is any rift in the team, these are issues created by the media. I just hope they have a good Test match and everything dies down. I am sure altogether they will pull something special,” he said. Drawing a parallel between the current series Down Under and the previous one played under Anil Kumble’s leadership in 2008, Yuvraj said the team showed great character in bouncing back after the “monkeygate” episode in Sydney four years ago. “I think our bowlers distributed the wickets in between. We had very good partnerships between Sachin, Rahul and Laxman which helped us to get a good score and got them out early. It was a great comeback after what had happened in the Sydney Test last time. It was great character shown by Anil Kumble,” he recalled. The 30-year-old, who last played against the West Indies at Kolkata in November before being diagnosed with the tumor, said he was “desperate to play Test cricket” but conceded that playing through deteriorating health was a mistake. “I have always been desperate to play Test cricket but at that point of time my body was not 100 per cent fit. After I got the news that the tumor was non-malignant I thought lets get to 100 per cent fitness and then play cricket,” Yuvraj, who played the first two Test against the West Indies with the lung infection, said. “I should have not played but I always put my country before myself, which was again right thing to do. Like I said I wanted to play Test cricket so I was compensating with my body which was not the right thing to do. But in the end I realised if you don’t have a cent per cent fit body you cannot go and perform for your country,” Yuvraj revealed. But having passed the difficult phase, Yuvraj said he is now working hard to get back to his full fitness and make a comeback to international cricket in the upcoming tri-series in Australia. “Looking forward to represent my country once again. Hopefully, I get a nod to play in Australia and I do really well for India,” he said. © PTI  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sri Lanka Vs South Africa 1st ODI Live Streams Highlights 2012 Posted: 11 Jan 2012 04:15 AM PST
Toss: South Africa have won the toss and elected to bat Teams: South Africa (Playing XI): Graeme Smith, Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers(w/c), Jean-Paul Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Albie Morkel, Robin Peterson, Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel, Lonwabo Tsotsobe More South Africa vs Sri Lanka 2011 Highlights, News, Scores  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Live 1st ODI: South Africa elects to bat against Sri Lanka Posted: 11 Jan 2012 04:08 AM PST
Toss: South Africa have won the toss and elected to bat ABD: We’re going to have a bat first. It looks like a nice wicket and hopefully we can put a good score on the board. Albie Morkel comes in at 7 and Robin Peterson at 8. Looking forward to the captaincy. I have to make some big calls and I’m up for it. Dilshan: After the return of Malinga and Kulasekara it is a good bowling unit. The batting unit is also experienced and we will look to bowl well to restrict them. It looks to be a very good ODI track. More South Africa vs Sri Lanka 2011 Highlights, News, Scores  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sydney Thunder vs Perth Scorchers Scorecard T20 Big Bash 2012 – Match 23 Posted: 11 Jan 2012 02:28 AM PST
Big Bash League 2011 Sydney Thunder vs Perth Scorchers – Match 23 Played at Homebush Bay, Sydney, 11 Jan 2012 Toss - Sydney Thunder won the toss and elected to Bat. Result – Perth Scorchers beat Sydney Thunder by 9 wickets
Fall of wickets (Sydney Thunders): 1-17 (Khawaja, 3.1 ov), 2-34 (Gayle, 5.2 ov), 3-35 (Smith, 5.6 ov), 4-42 (Floros, 8.4 ov), 5-51 (Butterworth, 10.6 ov), 6-63 (Dunk, 13.6 ov), 7-64 (Abbott, 14.3 ov), 8-97 (Coyte, 18.2 ov), 9-97 (Armstrong, 18.3 ov), 10-99 (Copeland, 19.2 ov)
Fall of wickets (Perth Scorchers): 1-0 (Ronchi, 0.2 ov)
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| Hope this tour doesn’t go England way: Dravid Posted: 11 Jan 2012 12:45 AM PST
The team morale hit by back-to-back defeats, senior Indian batsman Rahul Dravid is anxious that the ongoing tour of Australia doesn’t turn out to be a repeat of England last year when his team lost all the four Tests and also drew a blank in the one-day series. “It’s important we don’t go down the same route. Hope we can fight back and play better cricket. We had our moment in Melbourne…we need to take heart from it. It’s important for us we don’t go down the route of England,” Dravid told media persons. With talks in media centering about his bowled dismissals; the growing pause on Sachin Tendulkar’s 100th international century and calls for VVS Laxman’s head by past cricketers, India’s revival at the moment, being 0-2 down, doesn’t seem too easy a task.
“I am definitely working on a few things. When you get out bowled three times you do think about it. I’ve worked on a few things but it isn’t anything major. There isn’t anything drastic that I have changed over the last year when I was very successful. I have seen the videos (of England) and I can’t see anything different. I hope it’s just a coincidence. “I don’t think the talk (of Laxman’s removal) has affected him much. I haven’t read and Lax is not bothered either. It’s part and parcel of our job. You have got to accept it while you continue to play. That’s the way it goes. He is a pretty relaxed character and I’m sure he would come good in one of these Tests,” he said. “As for Sachin’s 100th century, it’s not spoken about much. He’s been pretty relaxed about it. He’s been batting so well. He got a 90 in Mumbai and 70 and 80 in the last two games. He is batting well enough to complete it. It’s great if he can do it here. But he wouldn’t be worried as he has been batting beautifully over the last two or three games,” he added. The Indian batting hasn’t been allowed to get into any sort of rhythm by the Australian bowlers in this series which has led to the debate whether attacking them is the only way to neutralise them. “Each to his own and each has to plan his own strategy. One (plan) doesn’t fit everyone. You need to know what your game plan is, what you have done throughout your career and what’s got you success. You need to know what didn’t get you success. You need to do what you know best. You can’t say there is one way. I can’t bat like Viru (Virender Sehwag) and he can’t bat like me. Each one is different. “Each one of us have our own game plan and it’s important how we execute it. It’s difficult to do and maintain it when there’s so much pressure. I think the key for us is to keep Australians in the field for as long as possible.” The situation can be daunting for young Indian batsmen but Dravid said there hasn’t been a formal kind of discussion with them. “There’s no formal talk as such. In the course of spending time in dressing room, in team dinner or go-karting for that matter, conversations can happen which are useful. It’s not like a powerpoint presentation, that’s not how teams work,” he said. “We speak to each other, juniors to seniors and seniors to juniors, and it’s always a healthy conversation.” Australians have kept harping they have been able to keep Indian batting quiet by bowling a lot of dot balls and stringing together maiden overs. Dravid tended to go along with this opinion. “They have bowled well. One must give credit where it’s due. If you bowl in good areas with good pace and consistently you are going to do well against anyone and not just India. If you can bowl consistently in good areas with pace, you would trouble any line-up. It’s how we counter which is important. “I hope they bowl some half volleys,” Dravid said in jest. The greenness of the Perth pitch and all the talk about pace and bounce inherent in the WACA pitch is drawing a huge response in the media. Dravid said such a contest is exciting for him as a batsman and that it would be a similar test for the home team. “We have to see how it goes (the pitch). It’s too early to make a judgment. When I saw it yesterday, it had been watered and it was damp underneath. It must have now dried up and got harder today. “It’s a test for both of us. It’s same for them as well, same for both teams. It’s exciting to have such a challenge for if you do well here, you get judged on it. There’s a great amount of thrill and satisfaction if you do it abroad in the same way if Australia was to do well on a rank turner of India.” It is learnt that MCC cricket committee, of which Dravid is a member, has decided on a uniformity of acceptance of DRS technology. Dravid, even though he is a member, wasn’t quite updated on it. “I was a pro-DRS guy six months ago. In the last six months, my own stance is quite weak sometimes. DRS is a work in progress. You have to keep your eyes on it if it keeps improving and reviews keep happening.” As for being within the touching distance of 40 years in age, Dravid jocularly said that any number scares one after 30. “But till it’s 40, I am okay.” © PTI  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sourav Ganguly doubts India’s ability to win abroad Posted: 11 Jan 2012 12:20 AM PST
“It’s not the loss but the manner in which they have been outplayed that will be of concern,” Ganguly wrote in his column in the newspaper on Wednesday. “Indian cricket has taken a lot of pride in its performance overseas in the last 10 years, but the fear I have now is, have we taken a huge step backward?” India trail 2-0 in its four-Test series against Australia after losing the opening Test in Melbourne by 122 runs and then falling by an innings and 68 runs in Sydney.
India were also beaten 4-0 in a Test series in England last year, conceding the top world ranking to the opposition in the process. The third Test against Australia starts Friday in Perth. The final Test will be in Adelaide from January 24-28. Ganguly, who is credited with helping India shed its reputation as a poor away team after taking over as skipper in 2000, said the recent losses were due to poor batting and bowling performances, as well as a failure to seize key moments. “Winning cricket matches is about seizing the moment and that did not happen. Indian batting has been rated very highly for the last 10 years, but somewhere in the last few Tests, they have found themselves in difficult positions,” the 39-year-old Ganguly wrote. He also said the opening pair of Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir had failed to deliver in Tests overseas. Ganguly’s comments follow criticism by other cricket greats over the past week. Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar said the India team was not practicing enough on tour. “Have they gone there for sightseeing or (to) play cricket?” Gavaskar said. “The first Test ended on the fourth day and the next day was a free day,” he added. “But did the Indian team practice? The attitude has to be there. You have to go out there and practice cricket.” Former Pakistan pace bowler Wasim Akram also wondered how the team could bounce back in the series. “India are seriously looking out of sorts. There seems to be no planning in the team. Players are just looking like individuals and not gelling as a unit. This is surprising considering the fact that almost the same team were world No. 1 just a few months back,” Akram said. © AFP  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sydney Thunder vs Perth Scorchers Live Scores Highlights T20 Big Bash 2012 Posted: 11 Jan 2012 12:00 AM PST
Toss: Sydney Thunder have won the toss and elected to bat Teams: Sydney Thunder (Playing XI): Chris Gayle, Usman Khawaja, Daniel Smith(c), Ben Dunk(w), Jason Floros, Luke Butterworth, Sean Abbott, Tim Armstrong, Scott Coyte, Luke Doran, Trent Copeland  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No rift in Team India, says Rahul Dravid Posted: 10 Jan 2012 11:57 PM PST
Senior Indian batsman Rahul Dravid today rubbished Australian media reports that successive losses in the ongoing Test series has led to disharmony in the visiting side’s dressing room, saying the team is not bothered about such speculation. Dravid said reports that opener Virender Sehwag is at loggerheads with skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and that some players in the team are backing the former to take over captaincy are untrue. “When you do badly, suddenly everything is seen as wrong with the team. There is no truth (in Sehwag vs Dhoni reports) to those matters. As I said, the spirit of the team is really good,” Dravid told reporters at Perth on Wednesday.
There’s been criticism all around with the go-karting session of Indians drawing extreme response from Indian media and Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin has added his bit by stating that the Indians are mentally the most fragile team in international circuit. “One of the good things about travelling abroad is you are in a bit of a cacoon. You don’t gauge what’s happening back home. There’s a sense of disappoint with the results so far, we would certainly like to do better but the spirit of the team is very good,” he said. “We haven’t bothered (with Haddin comments) really. There are five days of important cricket to worry about and there is no time about anything else to be honest. “You don’t need anyone’s comment to motivate yourself. We are not even bothered” he added. © PTI  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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