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Not worried about my form: Sehwag
VISAKHAPATNAM: Virender Sehwag is a no-nonsense guy. His approach to batting is quite simple and uncomplicated. There are no frills attached to it.
There is only one way he knows to bat and that is to whack the ball and send it to the fence. The ball is meant to be hit, is his simple batting mantra.
The endearing fact of the Nawab of Najafgarh is that if it comes off it's good, if it doesn't it doesn't matter at all. On Friday, the Delhi batsman was not at his fluent best as he struggled to time the ball. He also failed to capitalise on the Windies' largesse, who let him off twice. He managed to make 26 but was far from impressive.
Sehwag, however, was unfazed by it all. "I am not thinking too much of my own form. My batting is natural and am not unduly worried about the lack of runs. I was hitting the ball well today too. It may not have been a fluent innings as I got a couple of edges and was dropped twice. But that doesn't bother me," he said dismissively.
Newspaper:Times Of India,4rth Dec
VISAKHAPATNAM: Virender Sehwag is a no-nonsense guy. His approach to batting is quite simple and uncomplicated. There are no frills attached to it.
There is only one way he knows to bat and that is to whack the ball and send it to the fence. The ball is meant to be hit, is his simple batting mantra.
The endearing fact of the Nawab of Najafgarh is that if it comes off it's good, if it doesn't it doesn't matter at all. On Friday, the Delhi batsman was not at his fluent best as he struggled to time the ball. He also failed to capitalise on the Windies' largesse, who let him off twice. He managed to make 26 but was far from impressive.
Sehwag, however, was unfazed by it all. "I am not thinking too much of my own form. My batting is natural and am not unduly worried about the lack of runs. I was hitting the ball well today too. It may not have been a fluent innings as I got a couple of edges and was dropped twice. But that doesn't bother me," he said dismissively.
Newspaper:Times Of India,4rth Dec
Want to bowl like McGrath: Yadav
AHMEDABAD: Indian pacer Umesh Yadav wants to get "as close to Glenn McGrath as possible" as he readies for his first tour to Australia later this month.
"I like McGrath personally. In my life I will try that I get as close as possible to his bowling," Yadav said while talking to the media ahead of third ODI against West Indies.
"McGrath is my hero and I am inspired by him and I try to bowl like him," said the Vidarbha bowler who has so far bagged nine wickets in two Test matches and 10 in eight ODIs that he has played so far.
Yadav is all set to leave for Australia with some senior members of the squad, including Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman a few days earlier than the rest of the squad for the eagerly awaited four-Test series. He said that the extra days would definitely help him adjust to the wicket and get acclimatized to the conditions there.
"Indian wickets are different from the Australian ones. It is good that I am going early," he said.
Yadav also believes that Test cricket is the best format of the game as it examines a player's calibre to the fullest.
Newspaper:Times Of India,5th Dec
AHMEDABAD: Indian pacer Umesh Yadav wants to get "as close to Glenn McGrath as possible" as he readies for his first tour to Australia later this month.
"I like McGrath personally. In my life I will try that I get as close as possible to his bowling," Yadav said while talking to the media ahead of third ODI against West Indies.
"McGrath is my hero and I am inspired by him and I try to bowl like him," said the Vidarbha bowler who has so far bagged nine wickets in two Test matches and 10 in eight ODIs that he has played so far.
Yadav is all set to leave for Australia with some senior members of the squad, including Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman a few days earlier than the rest of the squad for the eagerly awaited four-Test series. He said that the extra days would definitely help him adjust to the wicket and get acclimatized to the conditions there.
"Indian wickets are different from the Australian ones. It is good that I am going early," he said.
Yadav also believes that Test cricket is the best format of the game as it examines a player's calibre to the fullest.
Newspaper:Times Of India,5th Dec
Sachin Tendulkar might play last two ODIs of West Indies series
AHMEDABAD: His 100th international century eagerly awaited across the nation, veteran Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar is likely to play the last two one-dayers against the West Indies.
Tendulkar, who failed to reach the milestone despite coming close at least twice during the Test series, might be selected for the last two matches of the ongoing ODI series when national selectors meet on Monday.
India leads the five-match rubber 2-0 with the third ODI scheduled on Monday.
Tendulkar had been rested from the squad for the first three matches but sources say the 38-year-old wants to play the remaining two matches of the series scheduled on December 8 and 11 in Indore and Chennai respectively.
Newspaper:Times Of India, 5th Dec
AHMEDABAD: His 100th international century eagerly awaited across the nation, veteran Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar is likely to play the last two one-dayers against the West Indies.
Tendulkar, who failed to reach the milestone despite coming close at least twice during the Test series, might be selected for the last two matches of the ongoing ODI series when national selectors meet on Monday.
India leads the five-match rubber 2-0 with the third ODI scheduled on Monday.
Tendulkar had been rested from the squad for the first three matches but sources say the 38-year-old wants to play the remaining two matches of the series scheduled on December 8 and 11 in Indore and Chennai respectively.
Newspaper:Times Of India, 5th Dec
West Indies on the lookout for a win
In this dry textile town with no sign of December's chill in the air does India have a chance to wrap up its second successive ODI series?
How perfect it would be if the whitewash of England could be reprised against a team far lower in the pecking order, in a year the World Cup champion can do no wrong on its own turf!
Hard-achieved
If only it were that straightforward. This is just the third game of a five-match duel and India's 2-0 lead has been hard-achieved. The first win at Cuttack required the participation of the last pair and second at Vishakhapatnam was not as convincing as had appeared before Ravi Rampaul broke through with a record-breaking knock.
Another way of looking at it is that India has learnt to succeed from situations of relative crisis — the hallmark of a team that is brimming with confidence and feels secure in the backing of the various structures of power and finance that support it.
Not that India has been entirely free of concern. Skipper Virender Sehwag and his opening partner Parthiv Patel —, who will play his first ODI on his home ground — the Sardar Patel Stadium — on Monday have done little of note.
Gautam Gambhir, the senior pro along with Sehwag in the absence of the Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh and M.S. Dhoni, has totalled 16 in two matches. Suresh Raina, five and 0, has fared worse.
Kohli's knock
The solidity and enterprise of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma has helped India tide the paucity of runs at the top-order. Kohli has scored four ODI hundreds, including the match-winning knock in the second match this year and is the second highest run scorer of the season, 57 runs behind England's Jonathan Trott.
Rohit has continued to draw from the rich vein of form that he struck in the Caribbean and is yet to be dismissed in the series. Ravindra Jadeja has fused his bits and pieces together to form a whole greater than the sum of its parts.
Yadav has impressed
The pace bowlers, Umesh Yadav in particular, and Vinay Kumar and Varun Aaron in patches, have delivered the goods.
R. Ashwin was taken for 74 (including six sixes) at Vizag after an expectedly stifling show at Cuttack. The off-spinner would be itching to show the Caribbeans their place on a wicket that is expected to dry out under the harsh sun.
Newspaper:The Hindu, 5th Dec
In this dry textile town with no sign of December's chill in the air does India have a chance to wrap up its second successive ODI series?
How perfect it would be if the whitewash of England could be reprised against a team far lower in the pecking order, in a year the World Cup champion can do no wrong on its own turf!
Hard-achieved
If only it were that straightforward. This is just the third game of a five-match duel and India's 2-0 lead has been hard-achieved. The first win at Cuttack required the participation of the last pair and second at Vishakhapatnam was not as convincing as had appeared before Ravi Rampaul broke through with a record-breaking knock.
Another way of looking at it is that India has learnt to succeed from situations of relative crisis — the hallmark of a team that is brimming with confidence and feels secure in the backing of the various structures of power and finance that support it.
Not that India has been entirely free of concern. Skipper Virender Sehwag and his opening partner Parthiv Patel —, who will play his first ODI on his home ground — the Sardar Patel Stadium — on Monday have done little of note.
Gautam Gambhir, the senior pro along with Sehwag in the absence of the Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh and M.S. Dhoni, has totalled 16 in two matches. Suresh Raina, five and 0, has fared worse.
Kohli's knock
The solidity and enterprise of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma has helped India tide the paucity of runs at the top-order. Kohli has scored four ODI hundreds, including the match-winning knock in the second match this year and is the second highest run scorer of the season, 57 runs behind England's Jonathan Trott.
Rohit has continued to draw from the rich vein of form that he struck in the Caribbean and is yet to be dismissed in the series. Ravindra Jadeja has fused his bits and pieces together to form a whole greater than the sum of its parts.
Yadav has impressed
The pace bowlers, Umesh Yadav in particular, and Vinay Kumar and Varun Aaron in patches, have delivered the goods.
R. Ashwin was taken for 74 (including six sixes) at Vizag after an expectedly stifling show at Cuttack. The off-spinner would be itching to show the Caribbeans their place on a wicket that is expected to dry out under the harsh sun.
Newspaper:The Hindu, 5th Dec
Jadeja & Ashwin: Two of a kind
After facing off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin in the nets, middle-order batsman Suresh Raina moved to the adjoining piece of turf to face left-arm orthodox spinner Ravindra Jadeja. Jadeja welcomed Raina with a quicker ball, which the batsman failed to pick up. The ball kissed the edge of Raina’s bat — precisely the kind of delivery that has made it tough for batsmen of late.
Ashwin has a bagful of tricks, whereas Jadeja has a mean arm-ball and a quicker delivery. Both are accurate and while Ashwin tends to experiment more with his line and length, Jadeja is more conservative when it comes finding a spot on the wicket.
The West Indian batsmen — and England before them — have struggled to find their feet against this pair that is reaping rewards, individually as well as when bowling in tandem.
In this series, the West Indies batsmen are getting no respite. If they failed to read Pragyan Ojha’s arm-ball in the Test series, in the One-day Internationals, Ravindra Jadeja has flummoxed them with a similar delivery. Unlike Ojha, who deceived them in flight, Jadeja slips in a faster ball. And as he did against England, Jadeja has found success with the arm-ball, a delivery he uses as a surprise weapon to break his orthodox servings.
Newspaper:Indian Express, 5th Dec
After facing off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin in the nets, middle-order batsman Suresh Raina moved to the adjoining piece of turf to face left-arm orthodox spinner Ravindra Jadeja. Jadeja welcomed Raina with a quicker ball, which the batsman failed to pick up. The ball kissed the edge of Raina’s bat — precisely the kind of delivery that has made it tough for batsmen of late.
Ashwin has a bagful of tricks, whereas Jadeja has a mean arm-ball and a quicker delivery. Both are accurate and while Ashwin tends to experiment more with his line and length, Jadeja is more conservative when it comes finding a spot on the wicket.
The West Indian batsmen — and England before them — have struggled to find their feet against this pair that is reaping rewards, individually as well as when bowling in tandem.
In this series, the West Indies batsmen are getting no respite. If they failed to read Pragyan Ojha’s arm-ball in the Test series, in the One-day Internationals, Ravindra Jadeja has flummoxed them with a similar delivery. Unlike Ojha, who deceived them in flight, Jadeja slips in a faster ball. And as he did against England, Jadeja has found success with the arm-ball, a delivery he uses as a surprise weapon to break his orthodox servings.
Newspaper:Indian Express, 5th Dec
India on course for second successive ODI series triumph
With a 2-0 lead in hand, India are firmly on course to record a second successive one-day series triumph at home as they take on West Indies in the third ODI of the five-match rubber at the Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium in Motera here tomorrow.
Although it has not been without some hiccups, the hosts look all set to hand out another defeat to the visiting side and take a winning 3-0 lead at the ground where they dethroned 2007 champions Australia on March 24 on their way to grabbing cricket's most coveted crown ' the World Cup.
India, by all counts, are holding all the trump cards and should clinch the series unless they self-destruct or the Windies punch above their weight. A win tomorrow would give a consecutive series triumph to India after they mauled England 5-0.
The Virender Sehwag-led hosts have shown exemplary tenaciousness in the face of deep trouble to win the first two games of the series at Cuttack (by a narrow one wicket) and Vishakapatnam (by five wickets).
Newspaper:Indian Express, 5th Dec
With a 2-0 lead in hand, India are firmly on course to record a second successive one-day series triumph at home as they take on West Indies in the third ODI of the five-match rubber at the Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium in Motera here tomorrow.
Although it has not been without some hiccups, the hosts look all set to hand out another defeat to the visiting side and take a winning 3-0 lead at the ground where they dethroned 2007 champions Australia on March 24 on their way to grabbing cricket's most coveted crown ' the World Cup.
India, by all counts, are holding all the trump cards and should clinch the series unless they self-destruct or the Windies punch above their weight. A win tomorrow would give a consecutive series triumph to India after they mauled England 5-0.
The Virender Sehwag-led hosts have shown exemplary tenaciousness in the face of deep trouble to win the first two games of the series at Cuttack (by a narrow one wicket) and Vishakapatnam (by five wickets).
Newspaper:Indian Express, 5th Dec
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