The Sri Lanka tour is just round the corner, so the teams are out. The team for the three test series is:
1. Virender Sehwag
2. Gautam Gambhir
3. Rahul Dravid
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Sourav Ganguly
6. VVS Laxman
7. Rohit Sharma
8. Dinesh Karthik (wk)
9. Parthiv Patel (wk)
10. Anil Kumble (capt)
11. Harbhajan Singh
12. Ishant Sharma
13. Zaheer Khan
14. RP Singh
15. Munaf Patel
16. Pragyan Ojha.
I am quote OK with the team, just that I feel that Chawla should have been there instead of Ojha.

There is something about the cricket in the Caribbean, you don’t know whether its happening or not. Some people say that the World Cup is still on there with fat dudes playing and talking diving catches at first slip.
Here are a few stories coming from the land where the world cup is always on:

Brett Lee is tired: He doesn’t say it, but Punter does
Kamran Dropmal has a mate : Brad Haddin is feeling the heat, though I dunno how you do that against the current West Indies team.
Gayle is Back : Being a Knight Rider was never so cool; after …read more

Kevin Pietersen has been oft criticized for being too irrational and inconsistent! But not today. He was rational and scored 115. While a few of my friends are mulling over the IPL, i thought it was time to move on in life. Everything you love might go away, but this one will come back.
Back to the test match, the Black Caps won the toss and decided to field on a typical Trent Bridge wicket. The English batsman struggled early on, with Cook, Vaughan and Collingwood getting out to bowling beauties, O’Brien being the wrecker-in-chief! The score was 86/5. KP loves …read more

West Indies v Australia, 1st Test, Jamaica, 5th day
It was a fighting match. Just that the West Indies were fighting as soon as Ponting made 150 on the first day. In the end, needing 240 odd to win on the last day, they succumbed to the accuracy of Stuart Clark, Brett Lee and Stuart McGill and ended the innings at 191, 96 runs short.
Clark returned with a five-for. Mc Grath II seems to be learning fast. From the West Indies, Ramdin the little keeper showed sparks of guts with his 36 of 61 balls, but when he was out, …read more

West Indies vs Australia – 1st Test – May 22-26 2008
Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica

Sometimes the mind says : TOO MUCH IPL! But mate, it never is enough, when it comes to pleasures of life. But not in this post. I would try my best!
If you are a Kolkata Knight Rider fan, you would have a bitter feeling now. Bitter as your team has been knocked out of the IPL. Bitter as one of your star signings Ricky Ponting could do nothing to help you in your quest for a semi-final berth. Bitter as the same guy has scored 154 in …read more

Being a cricket blogger, you HAVE to give precedence to International Cricket. Which is becoming quite a cumbersome process as the IPL can’t have enough of me. But as Mr Adams would say:
Ain’t no use in ComplainingWhen You Got a Job to do!

So let me shoot away. I did see a lot of the first day’s play between England and New Zealand at Lords. Sidebottom looked sharp. I sometimes get the feeling England look a much better team when they are not playing India these days. Anyway’s, the new ball attack which the whiter shirts (England) dished out almost buried …read more

Bring it on. India vs. Australia: The Border-Gavaskar Trophy

 
Pretty predictable list, basically. Only surprise is Sreesanth’s absence.
Yes, he’s unfit, but then RP and Zaheer Khan have been roped in too, despite injuries. Well, so we’ll miss on the fun, I guess.

Eat Cricket, Sleep Cricket, Drink Cricket
Monty Panesar, England’s wonder boy, suffered at the hands of former England coach Duncan Fletcher last year, missing some important opportunities, but good times are about to roll in for him. He has coach Peter Moores’ confidence ahead of their three-match Test encounter with Sri Lanka.

As soon Monty heard he’s Coach’s fave,

One of the advantages of being a successful professional is that people listen in on your ideas, good or bad.
John Buchanan, Australia’s passing coach, has a brand new idea to transform world cricket.

And I mean it.
Some may not be ready to hail Brett Lee as Australia’s new “spearhead” yet, but he’s cut through the Sri Lankan innings like a torpedo, ripping apart 4 wickets, putting SL on the backfoot completely.
Off the field, he’s signed a deal to compose the World Cup 2011 theme song. Don’t forget: he’s the leading guitarist for Six and Out, a music band run by him and his cricketing friends from New South Wales. His duet with Asha Bhonsle hit the second spot on the Indian music charts last year.
He also believes that, with his kind of external …read more