IPL-4 Begins after Fantastic WC-2011

               After a colorful 1-month 2011-WC, it is time for IPL season.IPL-4  kick starts on 08 April 2011 in Chennai between defending champions CSK and KKR. There are 10 teams participating in this IPL-IV season . Pune Warriors and Kochi Kerala are the two new entrants.Almost all the teams are filled with new faces. The teams like KKR, KingsXI Punjab, DC, RCB, and DD have new captains,players, coaches and supporting staffs. Only 3 teams like CSK, RR and MI have the captains. While two teams CSK and MI have retained 4 players from the previous IPL season.There are huge spendings made for some individual players specifically Indian Youngsters like Gautam Ghambir, Rohit Sharma, Robin Uthappa, Virat Kohli,
Irfan and Yousuf Pathan and this aution took place in the month of January.

                 Everytime new team has won the IPL edition. In the inaugral edition it was Rajasthan Royals
under Shane Warne which won the IPL-I season. While in the IPL-II season it was Deccan Chargers charging from the bottom-line and emerged victorious. Then it was CSK's turn to lift the cup in the IPL-III season. Now it is time to see which team will win the IPL-IV season.

CWC-2011 proved a balanced competition

          For many new people who are witnessing this world-cup, a common news has been shared universally. This world cup has been played with right spirits. All the big teams right from IND, PAK, SL, AUS and SA have lost atleast 1 game in their league stages.The good news is that all the captains of the team have enjoyed this world-cups. The better team on the given day have proceeded to the next stage. One good thing about the
Group Division into 2 means a team need not worry about net-run rate. All the teams have played against each other either in their Groups Quaters, Semis or in Final. The competition was best seen in the group-B where
the so-called minnows Ireland, Bangladesh and Netherland played better against top teams. The Quater-Final team England was pushed close against Netherland. But Bangladesh and Ireland played well and won their games against England.                                                                     

Sachin's Dream Finally fullfilled

        Everyone says "If Cricket is considered as the Religion, Sachin is the God for many billions." But a God
in a normal circumstances always fulfills his devotees wishes.But in this case the God( Sachin Tendulkar)
had a wish in his life i.e.to win a World cup for the nation. That dream has been carried over by him for 21years. Sachin has played in World Cups starting from 1992 to 2011 in six world-cup appearances under many captains like Azzharuddin (1992, 1996, 1999) , Sourav Ganguly (2003), Rahul Dravid ( 2007) and M.S.Dhoni (2011).

      Sachin has played a significant Match-Winning knocks in at-least one match in each World-cups. In 1992 WC, Tendulkar played a good knock in a league match against Zimbabwe(81 of 77). In 1996 WC, Sachin was the highest scorer for India and scored 127* against Kenya, 70 against W.I.. In 1999 WC, Sachin scored 140 against Kenya in a league match. 2003 WC matches saw his masterclass scoring 81 Vs Zim,
152 against Namibia, 50 Vs Eng, 98 Vs Pak, 83 Vs Kenya in S/F. Even in 2007 WC Sachin scored 57 of
just 29 balls including 2 fours and 4 sixes in a highest WC total of 413. While in 2011 WC Sachin scored 120
Vs England in a drawn match.

Changes that transformed 2007 TeamIndia into Cup Winners.

      India after the 2007WC debacle has lifted itself in almost every quarters of the game. Many changes were made in the Indian Cricket team from the year 2007. First an end was put to the then Indian Coach Greg Chappell and Gary Kirsten became the coach of TeamIndia. Captainship was changed from Rahul Dravid and was given to Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Even in the highest level changes were made. New Selection Commitee was formed and K.Shrikanth became the Chairman of the Selecton Committee.The spirit came alive after India defeated Pakistan and lifted t20-WorldCup. Preferences were given to present form and performances rather than past records and reputations.

           Cricket was blossoming and spread in the  form of t20 format in the year 2008 when IPL was introduced. It is the introduction of IPL which gave exposure to many new and young Indian players such as
Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Sreesanth, Ashish Nehra, Gautham Gambhir, Piyush Chawla, Ravichandran Ashwin, Rohit Sharma, Robin Uthappa, R.P. Singh, Yousuf and Irfan Pathan. These young players got the
inputs from several seniors in the team. One important fact in the IPL is that players got to know about each other foriegn players' strength and weaknesses.

          These changes in the period from the year 2007 to 2010 December Team India won many home and away series under the leadership of M.S.Dhoni. After winning maiden t20-WCtitle, India won the IndianOil Cup against Pakistan 3-2  in the year 2007. India also won the final of CommonWealth Bank ODI series against Australia 2-0 in the year 2007-08. Then India won against SriLanka in SL 3-2 in the July 2008.
In the year 2009, India won the NewZealand Series in test 1-0 and ODI 3-1. India also won the following
WestIndies series in the mid-July 2009 by 2-1. India also won the Srilankan Series in Dec2009. That was the highlighting wins for India in the year 2009.It was followed by India-Bangladesh Tour in the year 2010 where India won the Test series against Bangladesh 1-0. India also won its series against SA by 2-1 in March 2010. India started to built their Team for the WC after winning the Asia Cup for the 5thTime.
India also won the successive series against Australia by 1-0 and NewZealand by 5-0 and got its confidence back.