February 2014

Thursday, February 13, 2014

IPL 2014 squads after auction


After auctions on 13feb and 14feb the final list of players seems something to be like this.

Chennai Super Kings

 Faf Du Plessis - Batsman - 4,75,00,000 Dwayne Smith - Batsman - 4,50,00,000 Brendon McCullum - Wicket Keeper - 3,25,00,000 Ashish Nehra - Bowler - 2,00,00,000 Mohit Sharma - Bowler - 2,00,00,000 Samuel Badree - Bowler - 30,00,000 Matt Henry - Bowler - 30,00,000 Baba Aparajith - All-rounder - 10,00,000 Mithun Manas - All-rounder - 30,00,000 Ishwar Pandey - Bowler - 1,50,00,000 Pawan Negi - Spinner - 10,00,000 Vijay Shankar - All-rounder - 10,00,000 Ronit More - Bowler - 10,00,000 John Hastings - All-rounder - 50,00,000 Players already retained: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Dwayne Bravo.

Delhi Daredevils


 Dinesh Karthik - Wicket Keeper - 12,50,00,000 Kevin Pietersen - Batsman - 9,00,00,000 Murali Vijay - Batsman - 5,00,00,000 Mohammad Shami - Bowler - 4,25,00,000 Nathan Coulter-Nile - Bowler - 4,25,00,000 Quinton De Kock - Wicket Keeper - 3,50,00,000 Manoj Tiwary - Batsman - 2,80,00,000 Jaydev Unadkat - Bowler - 2,80,00,000 Jean-Paul Duminy - Batsman - 2,20,00,000 Rahul Sharma - Bowler - 1,90,00,000 Laxmi Ratan Shukla - Allrounder - 1,50,00,000 James Neesham - All-rounder - 1,00,00,000 Kedar Jadhav - Batsman - 2,00,00,000 Mayank Agarwal - Batsman - 1,60,00,000 Shahbaz Nadeem - Bowler - 85,00,000 Ross Taylor - Batsman - 2,00,00,000 Milind Kumar - Batsman - 10,00,00 Wayne Parnell - Bowler - 1,00,00,000 HS Sharath - Bowler - 10,00,000 Jayanth Yadav - Bowler - 10,00,000 Players retained: none 


Kings XI Punjab 


Mitchell Johnson - All-Rounder - 6,50,00,000 Glenn Maxwell - All-rounder - 6,00,00,000 George Bailey - Batsman - 3,25,00,000 Virender Sehwag - Batsman - 3,20,00,000 Wriddhiman Saha - Wicket Keeper - 2,20,00,000 Shaun Marsh - Batsman - 2,20,00,000 Cheteshwar Pujara - Batsman - 1,90,00,000 L Balaji - Bowler - 1,80,00,000 Thisara Perera - All-Rounder - 1,60,00,000 Parvinder Awana - Bowler - 65,00,000 Gurkeerat Singh - Batsmen - 130,00,000 Mandeep Singh - Batsman - 80,00,000 Rishi Dhawan - All-rounder - 3,00,00,000 Anureet Singh - Bowler - 20,00,000 Sandeep Sharma - Bowler - 85,00,000 Beuran Hendricks - Bowler - 1,80,00,000 Karanveer Singh - All-rounder - 10,00,000 Murali Karthik - Bowler - 1,00,00,000 Shivam Sharma - Bowler - 10,00,000 Shardul Thakur - Bowler - 20,00,000 Players retained: David Miller and Manan Vohra.

Kolkata Knight Riders


 Jacques Kallis - All-Rounder - 5,50,00,000 Robin Uthappa - Batsman - 5,00,00,000 Yusuf Pathan - All-Rounder - 3,25,00,000 Shakib Al Hasan - All-Rounder - 2,80,00,000 Morne Morkel - Bowler - 2,80,00,000 Ranganath Vinay Kumar - Bowler - 2,80,00,000 Umesh Yadav - Bowler - 2,60,00,000 Piyush Chawla - Bowler - 4,25,00,000 Manish Pandey - Batsman - 1,70,00,000 Suryakumar Yadav - Batsman - 70,00,000 Manvinder Bisla - Wicketkeeper/Batsman - 60,00,000 Ryan ten Doeschate - All-rounder - 1,00,00,000 Kuldeep Yadav - Bowler - 40,00,000 Akshar Patel - Bowler - 75,00,000 Veer Pratap Singh - Bowler - 20,00,000 Chris Lynn - Batsman - 1,30,00,000 Andre Russell - All-rounder - 60,00,000 SS Mandall - All-rounder - 10,00,000 Pat Cummins - Bowler - 1,00,00,000 Debabrata Das - Batsman - 20,00,000 Players retained: Gautam Gambhir and Sunil Narine.

Mumbai Indians

 Michael Hussey - Batsman - 5,00,00,000 Corey Anderson - All-rounder - 4,50,00,000 Pragyan Ojha - Bowler - 3,25,00,00 Zaheer Khan - Bowler - 2,60,00,000 Josh Hazlewood - Bowler - 50,00,000 CM Gautam - Wicketkeeper/Batsman - 20,00,000 Aditya Tare - Wicketkeeper/Batsman - 1,60,00,000 Sushant Marathe - Wicketkeeper/Batsman - 10,00,000 Jasprit Bumrah - Bowler - 1,20,00,000 Shreyas Gopal - Bowler - 10,00,000 Jalaj Saxena - Bowler - 90,00,000 AV Wankhede - Batsman - 10,00,000 Marchant de Lange - Bowler - 30,00,000 Krishmar Santokie - Bowler - 10,00,000 Ben Dunk - Wicketkeeper - 20,00,0000 Pawan Suyal - Bowler - 10,00,000 Players retained: Rohit Sharma, Lasith Malinga, Kieron Pollard, Harbhajan Singh, Ambati Rayudu


Rajasthan Royals

 Steven Smith - All-Rounder - 4,00,00,000 Brad Hodge - Batsman - 2,40,00,000 Abhishek Nayar - All-rounder - 1,00,00,000 Tim Southee - Bowler - 1,20,00,000 Ben Cuttings - Bowler - 80,00,000 Unmukt Chand - Batsman - 65,00,000 Ankush Bains - Wicketkeeper/Batsman - 10,00,000 Rajat Bhatia - All-rounder - 1,70,00,000 Kevon Cooper - All-rounder - 30,00,000 Iqbal Abdulla - All-rounder - 65,00,000 Dhawal Kulkarni - All-rounder - 1,10,00,000 Praveen Tambe - Bowler - 10,00,000 Karun Nair - Batsman - 75,00,000 Dishank Yagnik - Wicketkeeper - 30,00,000 Vikramjeet Malik - Bowler - 20,00,000 Rahul Tewatia - All-rounder - 10,00,000 Ankit Sharma - Bowler - 10,00,000 Amit Mishra - (fast) Bowler - 10,00,000 Deepak Hooda - Bowler - 40,00,000 Players already retained: Shane Watson, James Faulkner, Sanju Samson, Ajinkya Rahane and Stuart Binny.

Royal Challengers Bangalore

 Yuvraj Singh - All-Rounder - 14,00,00,000 Mitchell Starc - Bowler - 5,00,00,000 Albie Morkel - All-Rounder - 2,40,00,000 Varun Aaron - Bowler - 2,00,00,000 Ashok Dinda - Bowler - 1,50,00,000 Parthiv Patel - Wicket Keeper - 1,40,00,000 Muttiah Muralitharan- Bowler - 1,00,00,000 Ravi Rampaul - Bowler - 90,00,000 Nic Maddinson, Batsman - 50,00,000 Vijay Zol - Batsman - Rs 30,00,000 Abu Nechim Ahmed - Bowler - 30,00,000 Yuzvendra Chahal - Bowler - 10,00,000 Shadab Jakati - Bowler - 20,00,000 Sandeep Warrier - Bowler - 10,00,000 Harshal Patel - Bowler - 40,00,000 Tanmay Mishra - Batsman - 10,00,000 Sachin Rana - Bowler - 10,00,000 Yogesh Takawale - Wicketkeeper - 10,00,000 Players retained: Virat Kohli, Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers.

Sunrisers Hyderabad

 David Warner - Batsman - 5,50,00,000 Amit Mishra - Bowler - 4,75,00,000 Bhuvneshwar Kumar - Bowler - 4,25,00,000 Aaron Finch - Batsman - 4,00,00,000 Darren Sammy - All-Rounder - 3,50,00,000 Ishant Sharma - Bowler - 2,60,00,000 Irfan Pathan - All-Rounder - 2,40,00,000 Moises Henriques - All-rounder - 1,00,00,000 Venugopal Rao - Bowler - 55,00,000 Brendon Taylor - Wicket-keeper - 30,00,000 Jason Holder - Bowler - 75,00,000 Srikanth Aniruddha - Batsman - 20,00,000 Manprit Juneja - Batsman - 10,00,000 KL Rahul - Batsman - 1,00,00,000 Parvez Rasool - All-rounder - 95,00,000 Karn Sharma - Bowler - 3,75,00,000 Amit Paunikar - Wicketkeeper - 20,00,000 Naman Ojha - Batsman - 50,00,000 Ashish Reddy - Bowler - 20,00,000 Chama Milind - Bowler - 10,00,000 Players retained: Shikhar Dhawan, Dale Steyn

 * All amounts are in INR.


Source: http://www.firstpost.com/sports/ipl-2014-auction-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-teams-1385703.html?utm_source=ref_article

Fixtures of Nepal Cricket team in World Cup 2014,Bangladesh


Playing their first ever worldcup, Nepali Cricket team are all set to go blast the tournament with all their skills and talents. After preparing in UAE with other top associate nations their confidence level along with strength is on high. Here is the fixtures of the team...
Date and TimeMatchWeather The Weather Channel
Wed Mar 12 (20 ovs)          
13:30 GMT | 19:30 local
19:00 IST
Ireland v Nepal
Fatullah Khan Saheb Osman Ali Stadium, Dhaka
N/A
Fri Mar 14 (20 ovs)          
09:30 GMT | 15:30 local
15:00 IST
Nepal v United Arab Emirates
Fatullah Khan Saheb Osman Ali Stadium, Dhaka
Sun Mar 16 (20 ovs)          
13:30 GMT | 19:30 local
19:00 IST
ICC World Twenty20
2nd Match, Group A - Hong Kong v Nepal
Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong
Tue Mar 18 (20 ovs)          
13:30 GMT | 19:30 local
19:00 IST
ICC World Twenty20
6th Match, Group A - Bangladesh v Nepal
Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong
Thu Mar 20 (20 ovs)          
09:30 GMT | 15:30 local
15:00 IST
ICC World Twenty20
9th Match, Group A - Afghanistan v Nepal
Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong

Wednesday, February 12, 2014


Picked for Australia, ruled out by injury, rehabilitated in time for the Big Bash League final, flown over to South Africa after all, chosen to play on the strength of two training sessions, facing up to Dale Steyn, Vernon Philander and Morne Morkel on day one of the series at Centurion.
That is a lot to fit into one sentence, let alone one week: the whirlwind left Shaun Marsh with barely any time to think. As he constructed a century that may yet provide the foundations of a famous Australian victory, it was possible to conclude that this rushed state of affairs had been good for him.
All Marsh has been able to do is train, travel and play, living on the instincts honed by his years of batting at the similarly bouncy WACA Ground and passed on through the genes of his father Geoff and the instructions of his two coaching mentors for state and country, Justin Langer and Darren Lehmann.
Described by the national selector John Inverarity as being "in a very good space" on the day he was first chosen, Marsh has not had the chance to move out of it, his sole focus getting fit and making runs.
It was on this very ground two years ago that Marsh occupied a space as far from "very good" as can be imagined. He and his brother Mitchell were dropped from the Perth Scorchers team to play in a Champions League match following a pattern of drinking and poor behaviour that stretched most of the way across the team. He would later be dropped from the Western Australia Sheffield Shield side upon his return home, in the midst of an horrific slump that began during his previous spell in the national team when he cobbled 17 runs in six innings against India.
At the time, it seemed inconceivable that he would return to Test cricket. But the ascension of Lehmann to the role of Australian coach last year opened up an avenue by which Marsh would again become a contender. They had worked together fruitfully at King's XI Punjab in the 2013 IPL immediately before Lehmann was chosen to replace Mickey Arthur. Lehmann, like Inverarity, Langer and many other powerful figures in Australian cricket, was attracted by the purity of Marsh's technique and the ease of his run-scoring when in form.

Smith lauds jetlagged Marsh

  • Having shared an unbroken union of 199 with Shaun Marsh, Steve Smith was rich in his praise of the man who had only arrived in the country three days before.
  • "It took me a good week to get over [jetlag] and he's only been here three days," Smith said. "He's certainly probably copping a little bit. Just the way he played today was sensational. He waited beautifully and when they got into his areas he capitalised on it he showed great maturity. The way he's come back against arguably the best bowling attack in the world and the way he played today was just terrific. I'm really happy for him."
  • As for his own burgeoning career, Smith said his game had leapt forward with the aid of greater reserves of patience. "I've tightened up my technique for a start, I'm a lot more patient," he said. "They're probably the two major factors. Just knowing where my off stump is and being able to leave a lot of balls and wait until the bowlers get into my areas when I want to score. I think that's probably been the key to my success over the last little bit. Hopefully it carries into tomorrow and long into the future."
They have had to ignore a record that has remained mediocre throughout a career now comfortably into its second decade. This hundred was only Marsh's ninth in first-class matches, a tally that looks hopelessly puny when lined up against the 24 compiled by the 25-year-old Phillip Hughes. Like the similarly stylish debutant Alex Doolan, he has often flattered to deceive, including his hundred in Sri Lanka in 2011, when his first Test innings in Palakelle grew to 141 runs every bit as assured as those collected here. The evidence of the eyes conflicts enormously with that of the record book.
Watching Marsh subdue South Africa at Centurion, it was easy to see why Lehmann was so taken with him. His simple but powerful method, footwork economical and bat unimpeachably straight, looks very much like that of the finest players. He is capable of judging the location of his off stump wisely also, and left a third of his first 100 balls on a pitch offering lateral and vertical movement. One drive down the ground from Steyn drew purring approval from spectators not always so generous to visiting teams - there are reinforced concrete columns in existence less solid than that stroke.
If the chaotic circumstances of his return to the Test team were perversely of some benefit to Marsh, he was also aided by a few other circumstances and moments of good fortune. The faith of selectors and coaches would not have amounted to much had an early inside edge flicked the stumps instead of skating narrowly past them, had Hashim Amla held onto a chance in the gully on 12, or had a chipped drive on 57 floated in the direction of a taller man than Robin Peterson.
South Africa, too, were some way short of their best. Electing to bowl first in expectation of the kind of quick kill they have invariably achieved at Centurion, the hosts were overexcited by the bounce on offer and pitched far too short on a regular basis, as evidenced by a conspicuous lack of edges or lbw shouts.
Chris Rogers and Michael Clarke both succumbed to bumpers, the opener pinned by Morkel and the captain worried out by Steyn. David Warner and Doolan also perished aiming cross-bat shots to balls short of a length, but it was not an angle of attack that perturbed the WACA-raised Marsh.
There would be few troubles either for Steve Smith, who joined Marsh at the uncertain juncture of 98 for 4 following Clarke's exit. Moved down from his preferred spot at No. 5, Smith announced himself with a cracking square drive from the bowling of Ryan McLaren and went on to play with the kind of unruffled assurance he had exhibited against England on lively strips in Perth and Sydney.
As a duo, Marsh and Smith made for a fascinating contrast of form and function. The younger man's technique is far from smooth but it has become wonderfully effective over time, wrong-footing bowlers where it had once befuddled Smith himself.
The only thing ungainly about Marsh was the slight limp he picked up during the innings, likely to be the aftermath of the calf problem that had first scrubbed him from the trip. A team spokesman later denied any calf trouble but said Marsh had complained of stomach muscle soreness. How that affects him over the rest of this match remains to be seen, and another poorly-timed dice with injury would be in keeping with the boom and bust narrative of his career.
For now, though, Marsh can afford a moment's reflection on the past week and what it has brought him. His natural instincts, and those of the selectors who chose him in defiance of much empirical evidence, have been richly rewarded. A very good space indeed.
Source:http://www.espncricinfo.com/south-africa-v-australia-2013-14/content/story/718389.html

Saturday, February 1, 2014