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Lion is in the Den: Time to Roar

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Saed Anwar's 194,India's record chase against England,Thriller between the rivals in 99, list goes on. Chepauk is flourished by huge history. The Chepauk crowd always appreciated cricket, especially the spirit in which the game was played. That is why the crowd gave Pakistan a standing ovation in 99, after the crackerjack of a Test that Pakistan seized with its last gasp. The Audience always had the the knowledge and were even ready to appreciate the opponents.  A generous portion of the magic that resides within storied sporting encounters is churned out by the venues that host them.We can easily relate those words by Arun Vengopal with Chepauk. Sporting Crowd reputation is one which keeps Chepauk apart. This made Chennai Super Kings, the most popular team in IPL from 2008 to 2015. The most dominated IPL franchise then, played the major role in determining the 'Outcomes' of IPL from 2008 to 2015. Chepauk is already in the verge of excitement, as the Yellow Lions ...

Its just 2 years for The World Cup!

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In The Biopic of MS Dhoni, there is a scene where a selector is saying to MS that "There is 3 Years for the World Cup" and he replies to them as "There is just 3 Years for the World Cup sir". This is just a dialogue, but the 'just' he uses is in his reply has got a significant meaning.Even though the media burned him, The Preparations he did from that series had a great impact in the World Cup.The 4 years before the World Cup is very crucial, especially last 2.  Indian Cricket is going through a face where "The Vice Captain of Test Cricket Team is not a permanent member in ODI cricket and the Vice Captain of ODI Team is not a permanent member of Test Team". That shows the Bench Strength of Indian Team,that much amount of young cricketing talents we are producing in our Cricket. Yes! It is good to have different team for 3 formats, rotation is a good process too. But the fact is Cricket's biggest event is nearby and now it is the time to set...

The Wanderers Cry to Motera's Laugh-The Conclusion

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“It's for moments like these that I play cricket" Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke,Brett Lee, Shane Watson,Mitchell Johnson..The list goes on.. When we beat a team that ruled Cricket like a Hitler, the happiness are beyond words as Yuvi told. The moment Yuvraj roared, it was not just a Semi berth, it was the end of an empire, where Hitlers like Ponting and all ruled. It was fortune that India ended their dominance, because there is no team in the world who deserves to knock out Australiain 2011 World Cup! For India, Motera was the "Revenge" Field, revenge for the tears in Johanesburg, revenge for Greats like Ganguly and Dravid, revenge for Sachin Tendulkar, who missed a well deserved World Cup 8 years before infront of Ponting & co. In fact this revenge was started in the soil where Indians were humiliated by Kangaroos. The defeat from Coachless Dhoni-led team in the Semi Final of 2007 t20 World Cup at Durban marked the decline of Australian Cricket, followed...

Dhoni "THE SELFISH ARROGANT CREDIT STEALER"

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This article is from my Heart. The Title may look strange, but in this country, this title would make a small proportion interested, rather than giving some titles in praise for Dhoni. Dhoni may be the most Popular cricketer after Sachin in this country, but one thing is sure, Even though Dhoni lies second to master in likes, in dislikes he is far ahead than the master. They are very few in number, but they who continuously haunts him, troll him, abuse him. That very few even wished India to lose, just see Dhoni's head down. But unfortunately, Captain Cool always treat those people or media as those three dogs in his house. Am not here to Worship Dhoni, or to go through the milestones he achieved. We watched him, we know him, so there is no need to go through his journey and if I do Words won't be enough to describe that.  There were nearly 453 captains in cricket, but only one won all the three ICC Trophies. ICC T20 WORLD CUP,50 OVER WORLD CUP, CHAMPIONS TROPHY, NO.1 IN TEST...

FROM DHONI's BOY TO ICC CRICKETER OF THE YEAR: AN IT ENGINEER's UNBELIEVABLE 'OFF BREAK' JOURNEY!

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"The journey thus far hasn't been a bed of roses, but if those thorns hadn't come In my way I wouldn't be half the person that I m today."                                                                                     T20's were a revolutuion, a 6ft 2in Off break opening the Bowling attack was something beyond that! 54th match of the 2009 IPL season,CSK is playing KXIP in a do or die match at Kingsmead,Durban. Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat first, despite having just 116 in the scorecard, the former runnerups were in the verge of going out. Eventhough KXIP lost Sunny Sohal early, Simon Katich & Luke Pomerbach started slowly, at one stage they were 32 for 1, suddenly Dhoni introduced the wizard from one end, Muttiah Muralidaran. He got both the Australians ou...

INDIA WAITING..!!

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"But this is just the foundation that's been laid for us to carry on. It's just the beginning. It's not even a tiny bit of what we want to achieve . We understand where we want to go and hopefully the guys can keep putting in this kind of effort and take the team where it belongs" Is there a smell of warning in King Kohli's words? I Feel yes! This Team wants more. They are ready to take more challenges. India losing in India is a big headline for Indian Fans. Winning in huge margins is not a big thing here. In 2001, without Kumble India Shattered the Australians, who were the Immortals visited India with 15 Consecutive Test victories in their name.Losing at Wankhede, the way India came back still remains as a phenomenal perfomance in the hearts of Indian Fans.  Situation was also similar 3 years back, when Australia was whitewashed by India(4-0). Later on the same Australia, under Pup, won the World Cup. So beating any team in India doesn't signi...

Retired RJ XI! PICK YOUR XI :)

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15 man squad ;) Tests; 1)Virender Sehwag 2)Justin Langer/Matthew Hayden 3)Ricky Ponting 4)Kumar Sangakkara(w/k) 5)Rahul Dravid 6)Mohammed Yousuf(Yousuf Youhanna) 7)Jacques Kallis/Andrew Flintoff 8)Shane Warne/Muttiah Muralitharan(In asia I prefer Murali) 9)Anil Kumble(c) 10)Courtney Ambrose/Allan Donald 11)Glen Mcgrath ODI: 1)Sourav Ganguly 2)Sachin Tendulkar 3)Ricky Ponting(c) 4)Kumar Sangakkara(wk)/Rahul Dravid 5)Mahela Jayawardena/Michael Clarke 6)Micahel Bevan 7)Lance Klusener 8)Zaheer Khan/Wasim Akram 9)Brett Lee/Shoaib Akhtar 10)Daniel Vettori 11)Glen Mcgrath T20: 1)Sanath Jayasurya/Adam Gilchrist 2)Matthew Hayden 3)Jacques Kallis 4)Kevin Pietersen 5)Mahela Jayawardena(c) 6)Shane Watson 7)Mark Boucher(wk)/Ridley Jacobs 8)Shahid Afridi 9)Zaheer Khan/Daniel Vettori 10)Waqar Younis/Wasim Akram 11)Courtney Ambrose Make your comments &  Suggest  changes :) PICK YOUR PLAYING XI ;)