Ahmedabad : India squared the 2-match T-20 International series 1-1, beating Pakistan by 11 runs in the second encounter at the Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, here Friday.
India beat Pakistan by 11 runs, draw T-20 series


A career-best 72(36) by Yuvraj Singh, who was also adjudged the Man of the Match, helped India post 




a formidable 192 for five wicket in 20 overs. Pakistan managed 181 for seven in 20 overs after skipper Mohammed Hafeez top-scored with 55, his second consecutive half-century. Hafeez was declared Man of the Series. Put in, the Indian middle-order put on a sterling show and atoned for their dismal performance in the first T-20 in Bangalore. Yuvraj smashed 07 sixes and 04 fours during his 36-ball innings. Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni-33, Ajinkya Rahane-28 and Virat Kohli-27 run also came up with valuable knocks. Pakistan pacer Umar Gul picked up 04 wicket for 37. India pacer Ashok Dinda (3/36) bowled an excellent spell in the death overs to restrict Pakistan. Dinda picked up two wickets in the final over giving away just eight runs when Pakistan needed 20 to win. Pakistan got off to a good start with Nasir Jamshed-41 and Ahmed Shehzad-31 adding 74 runs for the first wicket. The Pakistani top-order got good starts but none of the batsmen could go on to score a big innings. Earlier, Gautam Gambhir-21 and Ajinkya Rahane-28 gave India a steady start with their 44-run stand for the first wicket. Unlike the first T-20, Pakistani opening bowlers Sohail Tanveer and Mohammed Irfan were wayward, prompting skipper Mohammed Hafeez to introduce pacer Umar Gul in the fifth over. Gambhir greeted Gul with 03 consecutive fours before being trapped lbw in the fifth ball. Gul removed Rahane in the next over, taking a good catch off his own bowling. Yuvraj and Kohli were going strong with their 35 run stand for the 3rd wicket but Kohli gifted away his wicket in the 12th over while attempting a needless single. What followed next was a blitzkrieg by Yuvraj that left the Pakistanis hapless. Yuvraj and Dhoni were involved in a 97 runs stand in just 7.2 overs and took India’s score to a mammoth total. Yuvraj’s brilliant innings was ended by Gul with Shoain Malik taking a good catch at long-off boundary. Dhoni, who hit 33 off 23 balls, became Gul’s fourth victim after he was clean bowled by a yorker in the final over.



 

The trailer of Khilady films star Akshay Kumar and Anupam Kher starrer Special Chabbis is out.

The promotional trailer revolves around CBI raids on politicians' houses. Akshay Kumar, who has been keeping purposely mum about Special Chabbis, is using it to build up interest in the movie.

A source said,"Akshay Kumar has consciously stayed away from talking about this film at all. He has kept it under wraps, so that he could do a teaser campaign about raids in various cities of India by a group of CBI officers"

A real-life heist drama, Special Chabbis is directed by Neeraj Pandey of A Wednesday fame. It's also stars Manoj Bajpayee, Jimmy Shergill and Anupam Kher.

The Special Chabbis trailer will be released with Dabangg 2, which is coming out of Friday

One of the Cricket game's all-time greats, Sachin Tendulkar, on Sunday announced his retirement from 01-day cricket, bringing to an end a glorious 23-year-old career in the format during which he rewrote numerous batting records.
                                                                 

"I have decided to retire from the One-Day cricket format of the game. I feel blessed to have fulfilled the dream of being part of a World Cup wining Indian team. The preparatory process to defend the World Cup in 2015 should begin early and in right earnest," the 39-year-oldman Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar said in a statement released by the BCCI on Sunday.


"I would like to wish the team all the very best for the future. I am eternally grateful to all my well wishers for their unconditional support and love over the years,"Sachin added.


Tendulkar, considered the most complete batsman in modern cricket and one who was considered next only to the legendary Sir Donald Bradman, retires from the ODI format at the top of the run-getters' list.

Tendulkar goes out after amassing 18,426 runs in 463 one-dayers at an average of 44.83. The diminutive right-hand batsman has an astonishing 49 hundreds in the ODI format, including a 200* the first in this form of the game.

Tendulkar made his ODI debut against Pakistan way back in 1989 and interestingly he is quitting the scene just ahead of another series against the arch-rivals.


The Mumbaikar, who made himself unavailable for T-20 after playing just one game in 2006, will now remain active in only the Test arena.

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar: 39 years, 39 achievements.

                                                    
  Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Zaka Ashraf said the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) had announced the team's intention to tour Pakistan next month for a short 2 matches series.
 
Ashraf sai-We were in constant touch with the Bangladesh Cricket Board  officials & they have conveyed to us that the tour is confirmed.
 
"They have also got approval from their board members and we are in touch for the schedule."
Ashraf said that the best security arrangements will be put in place for the Bangladesh cricket team.
                                                                                
"We will soon coordinate with the provincial governments and put in place the best arrangements for the tour and I am pretty confident that the tour will take place in the best possible manner and pave the way for more teams to come," Ashraf said.
Bangladesh earlier this week said they will play a T-20 and a one-day match on January 12 and 13 respectively, both in Lahore.
 
The Bangladesh cricket team had agreed to tour Pakistan in April this year but the event was blocked by the Dhaka high court.

NEW DELHi: The New Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a PIL challenging cricketer Sachin Tendulkar's selected to the Rajya Sabha.

"The petition is dismissed," a division bench of Chief Justice Dr.Murugesan and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said.

Earlier, Additional Solicitor General Rajeev Mehra, who appeared on behalf of the Centre, had told that Tendulkar's nomination to the Upper House is as per constitutional provision which also allows induction of experts from the field of crickets.

The expertlawyer had said the provision under Article 80 of the Constitution is not confined to inducting experts only from the fields of science, arts, literature and social services but also from sports, education and other sides.

The court had on November 21 reserved its order on the PIL filed by Ram Gopal Singh Sisodia, a former Delhi MLA, challenging Tendulkar's nomination alleging that he does not possess any of the qualifications prescribed under Article 80 of the Constitution for being nominated to the Rajya Sabha.

"A bare reading of the article makes it clear that the person to be nominated should have special knowledge or practical experience in matter choise literature, science, arts and social service, but the expertise so required for nomination is not confined to the specific illustrations given in the article," he had said in his petition.

In an affidavit to the High Court, the Centre had earlier said-The special knowledge and practical experience required for the purpose is not confined to the said 4 categories only but would also include categories like sports, education, law, history, academics attainments, Indology, economics, journalism... or anather matter fields of human endeavour.

Appearing for Sisodia, counsel R.K.Kapoor had said to the bench that the Constitution selected the government to nominate to the Rajya Sabha persons only from 4 fields - arts, science, literature and social science, and argued that the nomination of a sports person to the Rajya Sabha was unconstitutional.