COMEBACK FOR VETTORI

New Zealand  coming up with a surprise for Pakistan. New Zealand have announced that left-arm spinner Daniel Vettori has been added to the squad for the third Test against Pakistan in Sharjah. Vettori, 35, hasn't played a Test since July 2012 and, after suffering a series of injuries in recent years, had questioned whether he had the fitness necessary to last a five-day game.

New Zealand fielded the inexperienced spin pair of Ish Sodhi and Mark Craig in the first two Tests, and are now likely to go in with a spin trio for the Sharjah Test. That would present an unheard-of bowling combination for New Zealand, a side that usually banks heavily on its quick bowlers.

"From the first two Tests it's been pretty clear how important spin is in these conditions and we expect the pitch in Sharjah to be the slowest of all three wickets," New Zealand coach Mike Hesson said. "The possibility of having three bowlers who can exploit those conditions is an exciting option for us to have."

Vettori was in the UAE with the New Zealand A side, and trained with the Test squad on Monday. If he is picked, he will move past Stephen Fleming to become New Zealand's most experienced Test player.
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HASHIM AMLA BREAKS VIRAT KOHLI'S RECORD

Hashim Amla is going very well on breaking records set up by Virat Kholi .South African opener Hashim Amla has now become the fastest cricketer to score 17 ODI centuries. He reached the mark by scoring a hundred in the third ODI vs Australia played at the Manuka Oval in Canberra on last Wednesday. Amla reached to this milestone in his 98th innings, 14 less than the earlier record-holder Virat Kohli.Virat Kholi took 112 Innings to score 17 Centuries.
Amla has been South Africa’s Mr. Consistent over the past few years, frequently giving them good starts at the top of the order and piling on the runs in every series. He earlier became the fastest to score 15 ODI hundreds as well when he scored a century against Zimbabwe in, again going past Kohli. Amla achieved that feat in his 86th innings while the Indian superstar  took 20 more innings to get to the mark. Amla made his ODI debut for South Africa in 2008, the same year Kholi made his debut and has developed into an extremely effective one-day cricketer over the years.

Cheteshwar Pujara got out in a Dramatic way

Few months back Cheteshwar Pujara became the first Indian batsman ever to be dismissed
“handled the ball” in first-class cricket. The incident occurred on day 1 of the County
Championship Division Two match between Derbyshire and Leicestershire at the County

Ground in Derby.

Pujara was batting on 6 when he was given out to handled the ball on the last delivery of
the 20 th over of the innings, which was bowled by left-arm medium pace bowler Atif Sheikh.

According to Derbyshire’s official Twitter account, the Saurashtra batsman “swatted” the
ball away, when it seemed destined to be going on to hit the stumps.

This is just the second instance of an Indian batsman losing his wicket to this mode of
dismissal. The only previous time it happened was when Mohinder Amarnath was given out to
handled the ball in an ODI match against Australia, way back in 1986.

Just last week, the 26-year-old Pujara had inspired Derbyshire to victory over Surrey with
an unbeaten knock of 90* in the fourth innings.

This is the 59th time a batsmen has been dismissed handling the ball in first-class cricket.
The last instance of such a dismissal occurring in England was in 1996 .

Sachin Tendulkar & Steve Waugh to be honured by Bradman Honour

The two great batsman of time Sachin Tendulkar & Setve Waugh are to be honured by the Bradman honour next month.
Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar joined Steve Waugh in Sydney for their inductionas  for the october  2014 Bradman Honourees.

Tendulkar and Waugh joined the likes of Dennis Lillee and Adam Gilchrist as inductees at a gala
dinner at the Sydney Cricket Ground on October 29.

"There could be no more principled and
deserving individuals in the game than Sachin
and Steve," said Bradman Foundation Executive
Director Rina Hore.
"Were Sir Donald to still be alive I'm sure he would unhesitatingly applaud their recognition at
the ground where his ambition to play Test cricket was first kindled."
Tendulkar will be just the third Indian and fourth non-Australian to be inducted following Sunil
Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid and Sir Richard Hadlee.
Both men enjoyed impressive records at the SCG, with Tendulkar scoring three centuries from
five Tests at the ground, including an unbeaten innings of 241 in the 2004 New Year's Test.
Waugh, who retired after that match, scored three centuries from 17 Tests at his home
ground, including his memorable last-ball century against England in 2003.

Tendulkar has scored more international runs than any other player in cricket history and was
famously regarded by Bradman as the player who most reminded him of himself.

India will play four Tests in Australia this
summer, the first time they have toured the
country without Tendulkar in over two decades.
Previous Bradman Honourees
2006: Norm O’Neill

2007: Neil Harvey, Sam Loxton

2008: Bill Brown, Arthur Morris

2009: Alan Davidson, Dennis Lillee

2010: Sunil Gavaskar, Adam Gilchrist

2011: Sir Richard Hadlee, Bob Simpson

2012: Rahul Dravid, Glenn McGrath

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FEW FACTS

Fact 1:
It is said that cricket originated in England. Since they used to raise sheep, the grass was so short that it was possible to roll a lump of wool on it which they used as a ball.

Fact 2:
The first ever historical players of this great game were fined.
The first recorded game was played in 1646, and later fines were handed out for those who missed the church to play.

Fact 3: 
Before 1760 players used curved bats.
In the 1760’s, pitching a ball through the air was considered normal, thus the bat shape changed from a curve to a straight one.

Fact 4:
In 1939 a match ended in 14 days and thus is considered as longest cricket match in the history of cricket.
In 1939 England and South Africa played a match that made history as the longest match ever, after 14 days it ended with a tie.

Fact 5:
An animal stop the game.
A cricket game was once stopped because a pig ran across the field. It is even considered legal to suspend the game if an animal entered the field.

Fact 6:
Only one player can run out at a time. Usually left for the umpire to decide.

8th Feb

The day history 8th feb.........

1952 - India's first Test Victory in their 25th test. It was vs Eng at Chennai. Thanks to Vinoo Makad's 8/55 & 4/53 which resulted in a victory of an inning & 8 runs.

1963 - Birth of Mohammad Azharuddin who went on to become the first cricketer to play 300 ODIs and score 9000 ODI runs.

 1994 - Kapil takes 432nd test wkt to go past Hadlee as the highest wicket taker at that time. His victim was Sri Lanka's Hashan Tillakaratne.

The Day of History

On January 11, 1930 history was made when England managed to play two tests on two different sides of the world on the same day - That has not happened again since that series and is almost certain never to happen again.

On January 10th 1930: The test between England and New Zealand started
On 11th January 1930: A test between England and West Indies started 
(and again) On Feb 21, 1930: A test match was started between England and New Zaealnd & England West Indies 
STATS of England and New Zealand on 10th Jan

Fri, 10 Jan	- day 1 - England 1st innings 147/4 (GB Legge 35*, MS Nichols 10*)
Sat, 11 Jan	- day 2 - no play
Sun, 12 Jan	- rest day
Mon, 13 Jan	- day 3 - England 2nd innings 66/2 (18.5 ov) - end of match

STATS of England and West Indies on 11th Jan

Sat, 11 Jan	- day 1 - West Indies 1st innings 338/8 (LA Walcott 7*, HC Griffith 5*)
Sun, 12 Jan	- rest day
Mon, 13 Jan	- day 2 - England 1st innings 233/2 (A Sandham 111*, EH Hendren 64*)
Tue, 14 Jan	- day 3 - West Indies 2nd innings 46/1 (CA Roach 29*, GA Headley 16*)
Wed, 15 Jan	- day 4 - West Indies 2nd innings 326/4 (GA Headley 157*, JED Sealy 5*)
Thu, 16 Jan	- day 5 - England 2nd innings 167/3 (65 ov) - end of match

It happened because ICC wanted to promote cricket in smaller countries and when they asked England's board they agreed to send two different teams - one in New Zealand and one in West Indies.

But due to the time difference both the English teams were never seen in action at the same time. By the time play was started on the second day in West Indies, the match was already over in New Zealand and before their was rain. But in the test match started on 21st Feb the second day in New Zealand - February 22, 1930 - the start of play coincided with the last session of the first day's play in the Caribbean (where it was still February 21st).

So that was a time when the same country was playing test cricket simultaneously for less than two hours - Something which will never happen again