Cricket Mania! Part-II

Binu wrote:

Rishabh Panth is the next star of indian cricket

Left arm wicket keeper opener

Ee IPL il ivanayirikkum ettavum vilapidicha u19 tharam

But nammude Sanju Samson- nu ivan oru 'Paara' aakaanulla chance enikku feel cheyyunnoo..especially North Indian lobbying strong aayi ulla saahacharyathil..

brother wrote:

Binu wrote:

Rishabh Panth is the next star of indian cricket

Left arm wicket keeper opener

Ee IPL il ivanayirikkum ettavum vilapidicha u19 tharam

But nammude Sanju Samson- nu ivan oru 'Paara' aakaanulla chance enikku feel cheyyunnoo..especially North Indian lobbying strong aayi ulla saahacharyathil..

Athinu sanju nalla oru innings kalichu nalukalaayi
Adya ranji match il oru 100 adichathaa pinne okke single digit scores aanu

Ithippo Rishabh Pant and Ishan Kishan 17 vayasseylllo talented annu left hander anu wicket keeperumaanu

Sanju keep cheyyarilla ennathum negetive aanu

Binu wrote:

Athinu sanju nalla oru innings kalichu nalukalaayi
Adya ranji match il oru 100 adichathaa pinne okke single digit scores aanu

Ithippo Rishabh Pant and Ishan Kishan 17 vayasseylllo talented annu left hander anu wicket keeperumaanu

Sanju keep cheyyarilla ennathum negetive aanu

Sanjuvinte aadyakaala innings-ukal nireekshichaal payyan test style ulla oru batsman aanennu kaanaam. But IPL demand cheyyunna style- lekku change over aayappol randum ketta avastha aayi..Binu paranjathu pole ippol Ranji- yilum flop aanu. Luck illaa ennu thonnunnoo. orikkal Indian Playing XI - il eduthappol annu match wash out aayi..Pinneyorikkal teamile reserves ne ellaam tru cheythappol Dhoni Sanjuvinu maathram chance koduthillaa. Test team- lekku select cheythu valarthikkondu varaamaayirunnoo..pakshe avide Kohli support cheyyunnathu Saha- ye aanu..Recent aayi nadanna A team series -il middle order-lum No.3 yumokkeyaayi nalla perfomance aanu Sanju cheythathu..

brother wrote:

Binu wrote:

Athinu sanju nalla oru innings kalichu nalukalaayi
Adya ranji match il oru 100 adichathaa pinne okke single digit scores aanu

Ithippo Rishabh Pant and Ishan Kishan 17 vayasseylllo talented annu left hander anu wicket keeperumaanu

Sanju keep cheyyarilla ennathum negetive aanu

Sanjuvinte aadyakaala innings-ukal nireekshichaal payyan test style ulla oru batsman aanennu kaanaam. But IPL demand cheyyunna style- lekku change over aayappol randum ketta avastha aayi..Binu paranjathu pole ippol Ranji- yilum flop aanu. Luck illaa ennu thonnunnoo. orikkal Indian Playing XI - il eduthappol annu match wash out aayi..Pinneyorikkal teamile reserves ne ellaam tru cheythappol Dhoni Sanjuvinu maathram chance koduthillaa. Test team- lekku select cheythu valarthikkondu varaamaayirunnoo..pakshe avide Kohli support cheyyunnathu Saha- ye aanu..Recent aayi nadanna A team series -il middle order-lum No.3 yumokkeyaayi nalla perfomance aanu Sanju cheythathu..

Last A team il nalla performance undayirunnu
Pakshe wicket keeping il thalparyam illa
Prathyekichu long format il

Oru pure batsman aayi orikkalum pariganikkilla
Shreyas um Jalaj saxenayum ithrayum formil kalikkumbol sanjuvinu nu chance kittilla

Binu wrote:

Last A team il nalla performance undayirunnu
Pakshe wicket keeping il thalparyam illa
Prathyekichu long format il

Oru pure batsman aayi orikkalum pariganikkilla
Shreyas um Jalaj saxenayum ithrayum formil kalikkumbol sanjuvinu nu chance kittilla

Very true..Last IPL season- il Wicket keeping quality poor aayirunoo..athu pole jayippichu famous aakaan pattiya onnu randu matches last kondu chennu kalanju..  But have a good cricketing brain and character.. calm and composed .

brother wrote:

Binu wrote:

Last A team il nalla performance undayirunnu
Pakshe wicket keeping il thalparyam illa
Prathyekichu long format il

Oru pure batsman aayi orikkalum pariganikkilla
Shreyas um Jalaj saxenayum ithrayum formil kalikkumbol sanjuvinu nu chance kittilla

Very true..Last IPL season- il Wicket keeping quality poor aayirunoo..athu pole jayippichu famous aakaan pattiya onnu randu matches last kondu chennu kalanju..  But have a good cricketing brain and character.. calm and composed .

unnikmp wrote:

shamsheershah wrote:

Oru chukkum nadakilla Bhai...maximum poyaal oru 150-200 athinappuram nahi nahi..athum ABCD Vijarikkanam...ee Pitchokke BAN cheyyenda kaalam athikramichirikunnu

ഹും ഭായിക്ക് ഇപ്പോഴും വാതുവെപ്പുകാരുമായി നല്ല ബന്ധം ഉണ്ട് അല്ലെ...

Sanju consistent player alla. Charitram ippol angineyanu. .bhavikku thadassavum athu thanne. ..

shamsheershah wrote:

unnikmp wrote:

ഹും ഭായിക്ക് ഇപ്പോഴും വാതുവെപ്പുകാരുമായി നല്ല ബന്ധം ഉണ്ട് അല്ലെ...

ethra kitty

sandeep wrote:

shamsheershah wrote:

ethra kitty

Guptill 93* off 30 annihilates Sri Lanka

Another calamitous Sri Lanka collapse gave way to a spectacular 30-ball 93 by Martin Guptill, as New Zealand crushed Sri Lanka by 10 wickets, running down the required 118 in 8.2 overs. Sri Lanka's humiliation was over before scheduled lunch, and the entire game lasted only 36 overs.

With a paltry target to chase, Guptill was brutal from the outset. He collected four first ball after his hook shot burst through leg gully's hands, then clobbered 27 off one Dushmantha Chameera over, and 26 from legspinner Jeffrey Vandersay's first over in ODIs.

The innings was almost a blur. He hit eight sixes and nine fours, meaning 60 per cent of the balls he faced disappeared to the boundary. His fifty off 17 balls is a New Zealand record. He might have threatened AB de Villiers' fastest hundred - off 31 balls - had Sri Lanka got a few more runs for him to gun down.

It had been Matt Henry and Mitchell McClenaghan that allowed Guptill to bat so freely, as they took seven cheap wickets between them. New Zealand's attack was probing and well-disciplined, without quite being extraordinary. On this day, that was all that was required. Adam Milne was left out with a bruised heel, meaning three frontline quicks were out of action for the hosts, yet they dismissed the opposition inside 28 overs. Henry was rapid and incisive again, taking 4 for 33. McClenaghan got good carry and a little movement from a shorter length, to claim 3 for 32.

The first sign Guptill was about to produce one of his special innings, was the head-down strike high over long-on, to Nuwan Kulasekara's first delivery in the second over of the innings. Guptill continued to launch every kind of bowler Sri Lanka sent at him both down the ground and square of the wicket. In the Chameera over that went for 27, he had first deposited the bowler behind the sightscreen, then carved him over the rope in the arc between third-man and point without remorse.

Guptill missed the world record for fastest fifty, thanks eventually to the use of the yorker by Nuwan Kulasekara. With the score already 71 off five overs, Vandersay came into the attack on debut, and had five deliveries smoked to the fence. Of the three sixes in that over, the 107m behemoth over long-on was particularly stunning.

New Zealand soon had a hundred runs by the seventh over, and the entire match was reminiscent of their demolition of England during the World Cup. On that occasion, Brendon McCullum had been the man launching balls into orbit. Incredibly, he had no part in this breakneck chase, having injured his back making a diving stop at deep square leg earlier on.

Sri Lanka's batting was arguably worse than their bowling. Two days ago, a 98-run seventh-wicket stand had provided brief respite from the tumble of wickets, but the visitors mustered no such mettle on Monday. The most substantial partnership of this innings was 25. Were it not for some clean hitting from Kulasekara, Sri Lanka may not have made triple-figures. He was the top-scorer, with 19 runs.

They were tied down by New Zealand's fielding, which was often sublime to the point of being excessive. Mitchell Santner took a superb catch at cover, Guptill created a run out with a diving stop in the gully region, and the ground fielding was exceptional throughout. McCullum's back injury flaring up was the result of crashing hard into the advertising hoardings, in order to save one run.

Sri Lanka's openers appeared to have embraced a more aggressive approach after the Boxing Day debacle, but soon died by the sword they attempted to slash New Zealand with. Tillakaratne Dilshan was caught at first slip after he charged at Henry and suddenly chose to check his shot. Danushka Gunathilaka was out a few overs later, blasting an overpitched delivery to the right of cover, where Santner completed a spectacular diving catch.

In between, Lahiru Thirimanne had carved a wide McClenaghan ball straight to third man, to collect his second successive score of one. And for the second time in two games, Sri Lanka's top three were dismissed inside the Powerplay.

Angelo Mathews showed glimpses of good form in his 22-ball knock, memorably clipping Doug Bracewell through midwicket for four. But Bracewell quickly nailed Dinesh Chandimal in front of the stumps with an indipper, before New Zealand switched to the legside short-ball plan they have been using against Mathews all tour. Mathews awkwardly fended at a McClenaghan ball at his ribs, then next delivery, gloved a catch to the wicketkeeper. At his dismissal, Sri Lanka were 56 for 5 off 15 overs.

Milinda Siriwardana and Chamara Kapugedara were out in the same over - Siriwardana nailing a short delivery straight to point, and Kapugedara was run out after a mix up that would normally be called catastrophic, but in the context of this collapse, was merely unfortunate.

Kulasekara played some fine strokes for the second innings in a row to make something out of this innings, but quickly ran out of partners as the tail fell as meekly as the batsmen. He was the last man out, blasting another ball to cover only for Tom Latham to take a sharp catch above his head.

Stokes record and Bairstow's ton tramples South Africa

This was joy, utter joy, no matter where your loyalties lie: a feat to stir the youthful, cheer the sick and bring reveries from the old. Ben Stokes bludgeoned one of the great attacking Test innings - the second fastest double century in Test history - on the second day of the second Test in Cape Town and those who were there to see it must have been enriched by the experience.

When it was all over, shortly before England's declaration at 629 for 6, a humungous total they could not have remotely imagined at start of play, Stokes' demolition job had brought 258 from 198 balls with 30 fours and 11 sixes. Freckled of complexion and brawny of stroke, he wielded his bat like a wrecking ball, razing South Africa's attack to the ground.

Even his dismissal summed up South Africa's broken state of mind. Stokes heaved at Kagiso Rabada, AB de Villiers dropped the skier at mid-on - AB of all people - but he steadied himself to throw down the stumps and complete a run out as Stokes jogged towards the bowler's end, by then entirely sated. England declared two balls later once Jonny Bairstow's 150 - an emotional maiden Test hundred that will receive limited recognition - had been gathered in.

South Africa will resume the third day 488 adrift with eight wickets intact after enduring an extraordinary batting assault. England struck their second-highest partnership in Test history, 399 in 59 overs, with Bairstow, no slouch himself, playing an intelligent subordinate role. England made 312 for 1 off 38.5 overs in the day.

Statistics underlining the achievement jostled for attention. It was once-in-a-lifetime, jaw-dropping stuff with virtually every delivery from a disorientated South Africa attack seemingly ripe for slaughter. There was little of the resourcefulness worthy of the No.1-ranked side in the world.

Stokes played with untrammelled power as blue skies shone over Table Mountain and 12,000 cheering England supporters revelled in every moment. It was a stupendous achievement, a day to treasure, the time-honoured rhythms of Test cricket giving way to something more murderous.

Barely anything threatened Stokes' immense sense of feelgood. On 138, a six against the offspinner Dane Piedt barely cleared the outstretched hands of van Zyl, who significantly was a yard off the boundary at long off. On 197, Chris Morris almost yorked him, perhaps to the bowler's surprise. And he pottered around for, oh, all of a few seconds before he pulled Morne Morkel through midwicket to reach 200.

When the ball comes onto the bat, and cricket is a simple game, Stokes' destructive power knows few bounds. This was only his third Test hundred, to follow equally exciting affairs against Australia - including Mitchell Johnson at his fiercest - in Perth and New Zealand at Lord's, and there have been malfunctions along the way, but it was an innings that spoke volumes about the importance of the combative allrounder, able to balance a side and change a game in an instance with bat or ball.

His mind was entirely uncluttered, his physique more demoralising by the minute. His backlift was huge and flowing. Shot selection became entirely a matter of where he would hit the ball - pulls bludgeoned through mid-on a speciality, and not always against balls all that short - because he rarely defended and left only deliveries that were virtually too wide to reach. He powered up and let the shots flow.

Newlands was at its most seductive for batsmen - and Stokes took a golden opportunity at face value. He is not the sort to see fears where none exist. South Africa lacked the waspish pace of Dale Steyn, or the Cape Town nous of Vernon Philander and those asked to fill the roles had no solution. Half-an-hour before tea on the second day, England were impregnable, hoping that the pitch would break up along with South African minds.

England had stolen the game on the previous evening with Stokes and Bairstow taking 46 from the first seven overs with the second new ball. Now they did not just keep it, they ravaged it. That assault began from the outset, helped by some ragged South Africa bowling. An initial plan to bowl wide of off stump proved misguided. Ten came from the first over, from Morkel; a hapless over of short and wide stuff from Morris was flayed to the boards three more times. Playing yourself in was for wimps at a time like this. There were pulls and drives galore. It looked a very simple game.

On this sort of pitch, Stokes fancied he could destroy Morris at will. Morris is a T20 specialist, so Stokes dismissed him from his presence as if playing T20. He looked predictable, a bowler operating at a convenient pace. Morkel produced the occasional good ball - but almost exclusively to Bairstow, one thick edge falling drainingly short of the slips. Rabada's latest lesson in Test cricket was a painful one and his short balls lacked venom. By the time Piedt's spin was introduced, 12 overs into the day, Stokes' eye was set.

Stokes was entirely relaxed, the power of his strokeplay leaving South Africa's captain, Hashim Amla, lost for a response. Bairstow offered no release. Misfields crept in and South Africa's pitch map should have been entitled "desperation". The boundaries rained down, one of the best of them a pulled six against Rabada by Stokes that flew out of the ground in the general direction of the brewery, where accountants could celebrate the profits provided by celebrating England fans. About the only ball he pushed at cautiously in the morning was the last ball of the session: playing for lunch, Ben Stokes style.

England had made 196 in 25 overs in the morning, they added 116 in another 13.5 in the afternoon. What plans South Africa had - and they did not have many - were abandoned at the first sight of failure. Bairstow secured his hundred by cutting van Zyl to the fence and his primeval holler of delight, beard bristling, tightly curled and tightly jawed, holding emotions in check as he looked to the heavens, was a moving moment.

From then on, England slogged in the heat, happy to imagine themselves indestructible, Piedt was slow to chase a half chance behind the wicketkeeper as Bairstow top-edged Rabada and Morkel put down a sitter at long off as he same batsman smeared at Morris. It had to end surely, and it did as Rabada had the presence of mind to roll his fingers across the ball and outwit Stokes. England's ginger quota had proved awfully successful.

What followed was very much the undercard, but with Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers still together at the close, and the deficit clipped to 488, South Africa will hope their partnership will swell into something substantial on a third day that should still favour the batting side.

South Africa started hamfistedly when Stiaan van Zyl was run out for 4, sent back by Elgar, and Stokes had enough stardust left to have Elgar caught in the gully off a leading edge, but Joe Root dropped de Villiers, on 5, a waist-high chance at second slip - cue a James Anderson black mood - and Amla logged his first half-century in 11 attempts, courtesy of a neat clip off Stokes that suggested form reawakening. England had plans and South Africa scored at 3.4 an over. Normality was restored

163 Balls faced by Ben Stokes for his double-century, the second-fastest by any batsman, next only to Nathan Astle's 153-ball double against England in Christchurch in 2002. The previous fastest double-hundred for England was off 220 balls, by Ian Botham against India at The Oval in 1982, while the previous quickest in Cape Town was 211 balls, by Herschelle Gibbs against Pakistan in 2003.

130.3 Stokes' strike rate (258 off 198 balls), the second fastest for a 200-plus score in Tests. Astle scored at a rate of 132.14 in his 168-ball 222 in that Christchurch Test in 2002.

178 The previous highest Test score by an England batsman batting at No. 6 or lower: Graeme Hick got that many against India in Mumbai in 1993. In all, Stokes' blast was the 16th double-century in Tests by a batsman batting at No. 6 or lower. Australia have seven of those, Pakistan three, and India, West Indies, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and England one each.

130 Runs scored by Stokes in the morning session on day two; it is the most by any batsman in the first session of a day in Tests. The previous highest was 123, by Les Ames, the England wicketkeeper, also against South Africa, at The Oval in 1935. Overall, it's the seventh best by any batsman in a session. (Click here for most runs scored between lunch and tea, and here for most runs after tea.)

399 The partnership between Stokes and Jonny Bairstow, England's second highest for in Tests, next only to the 411-run stand between Colin Cowdrey and Peter May against West Indies at Edgbaston in 1957. The Stokes-Bairstow stand is also the highest ever in South Africa, the highest for the sixth wicket by any team, and the second best for any wicket against South Africa, next only to the world record stand of 624 between Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara.

6.91 The run rate during the Stokes-Bairstow partnership, the best in any 200-plus stand in Tests. It is marginally better than the previous highest of 6.88, between Matthew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist in their partnership of 233 against Zimbabwe in Perth in 2003.

11 Sixes for Stokes in his innings, the joint second-highest for any batsman in Tests, next only to Wasim Akram's 12 against Zimbabwe in his unbeaten 257. The others with 11 sixes are Astle, Hayden, and Brendon McCullum (twice).

408 Runs scored by England's Nos. 6 and 7 batsmen, the highest aggregate at these two positions in any Test innings. It's also the first time two batsmen at No. 6 or lower have scored 150-plus runs in the same innings.

150* Bairstow's score, the third highest by an England wicketkeeper in Tests, and their best in South Africa

Laxman's Kolkata epic voted best Test performance

The famous 2001 Test innings leads the list of 50 greatest performances in the last half-century

VVS Laxman's batting feat against Australia in Kolkata in 2001 has been voted the greatest Test performance of the last 50 years by a 25-member panel of cricketers, writers, broadcasters, historians and statisticians assembled by the Cricket Monthly.

Laxman scored 59 and 281 in a match where India trailed by 274 runs, in a series they trailed 0-1, against a team on a record winning streak and widely acknowledged as one of the best to have ever played the game. India went on to win the match and the series.

In his tribute to Laxman's performance, Shane Warne recalls: "I was bowling in the foot marks and Laxman was hitting the same ball through cover or whipping it through midwicket. It was so hard to bowl then."

Ricky Ponting remembers that Laxman's "work through the leg side in particular was a source of wonderment to many of us... Ultimately we bowled for near enough to two days at him without even looking like getting him out."

Zaheer Khan, his room-mate during the series, recalls how Laxman slept on the floor through the match because of a bad back. "Everyone could see that he could not stand straight."

The Cricket Monthly's "50 from 50" exercise looks at batting, bowling and all-round performances in Tests played between 1966 and 2015.

Brian Lara has four entries the list of 50, the most by any player. One of those, the nerveless 153 not out versus Australia in Bridgetown in 1999, has been voted No. 4. Ian Botham, with three entries in the 50, has two in the top five: the dazzling all-round shows in the Headingley Ashes Test of 1981 (No. 2) and the Golden Jubilee Test in Bombay the previous year (No. 5).


Michael Holding's 14 wickets with supreme pace on a batting track at The Oval in 1976 is at No. 3, and performances by Richard Hadlee, Bob Massie, Muttiah Muralitharan, Graham Gooch and Garry Sobers round out the top 10.

West Indian players have as many as 14 entries in the 50, the highest by any team. These include the two earliest performances on the list: Sobers at Lord's and Headingley from the 1966 series in England. The most recent performance is Kevin Pietersen's 186 in Mumbai in 2012.

The panel, drawn from all Test-playing nations, includes Greg Chappell, John Wright, Tony Cozier, Mark Nicholas, Sanjay Manjrekar, Mike Selvey, Ramiz Raja, Scyld Berry, Osman Samiuddin and Gideon Haigh.

The special issue of the Cricket Monthly, now online, has brief write-ups on all 50 entries, full features on the leading performances, a graphical breakdown of results, essays and much more.

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ലോകം നമിച്ചു; പ്രണവ് 1009 നോട്ടൗട്ട് ...

Mumbai teenager scores record 1009*

Pranav Dhanawade, a 15-year-old cricketer from Mumbai, smashed an unbeaten 1009 not out off 327 deliveries to notch up the highest individual score in minor cricket, breaking a 117-year-old record. His team, Smt KC Gandhi School, Kalyan, declared soon after at a mammoth 1465 for 3 and then wrapped up an overwhelmingly one-sided game against Arya Gurukul - bowled out for 31 and 52 - by an innings and 1382 runs.

Dhanawade began the second day of the two-day game - part of the HT Bhandari Cup inter-school tournament - on 652 not out. By then, he had already surpassed the score of 628 not out scored by Arthur Collins in 1899, and had also broken the record for the highest individual score by an Indian cricketer in minor cricket, previously held by Prithvi Shaw, who scored 546 in the Harris Shield in 2013-14.

Dhanawade said that once he had crossed 500, he was confident of breaking Shaw's record and beating Collins' score of 628. The wicketkeeper-batsman admitted it took time for his record-breaking achievement to sink in on Monday, but he began the second day with a clear goal of getting to the 1000-run mark.

"I couldn't believe it last evening that I had scored 652 runs. When I went home, I took a bath and slept. But today I set myself a target of 1000 runs," he told ESPNcricinfo.

Dhanawade - whose previous highest score in recognised cricket was 80-odd - had raced to 921 by lunch and went past the 1000-run mark in the second session. His knock, which spanned almost seven hours, included 129 fours and 59 sixes.

His scoring was probably helped by the size of the ground in the northern suburb of Mumbai. Nestled between two housing complexes, the ground - with a typically muddy Mumbai pitch - is rectangular with extremely short, walled-in square boundaries. Abhishek Karane, a BCCI umpire who was at the match, said it was 110 metres in breadth and 135 metres long but the straight boundaries had been pulled in. Dhanawade targeted the shorter square boundaries, especially on leg side. His school coach, Harish Sharma, however, wasn't willing to concede even a little bit when talking about his student's monumental effort. "I don't think the ground mattered. He hit all over the ground and his technique is built on straight hitting."

Arya Gurukul's Ayush Dubey conceded the most runs - 350 runs in 23 overs. Two other bowlers - Sarth Salunke and Harshal Jadhav - conceded 284 and 281 respectively. Dubey picked up two wickets but rued his side having missed out on a chance, off his bowling, which Dhanawade had offered during his innings. He said Dhanawade had struggled against deliveries outside off but as his innings grew, he was able to steer the bowlers to the smaller square boundaries on either side of the wicket.

"He was struggling to play balls on the off side. When we kept bowling off side to him, he would get into position and hit through leg," Dubey said.

Pranav who was in attacking mode throughout his colossal effort, gave a few stray chances. About that drop off his bowling, Dubey said: "I was so angry that he [the fielder] dropped the catch of such a main player. I was really angry, but I did not tell him anything."

Dhanawade's temperament and fitness were praised by officiating umpire Sunimal Sen. "I would say he was 101% fit [temperamentally], and even after scoring so much he was not tired," Sen said. "Many times we see that batsmen, after scoring a hundred, say 'Sir we want water', but he did not create this type of disturbance. He was very fit."

The innings got plenty of attention on social media and was even mentioned by television commentators in the ongoing Test between South Africa and England. Dhanawade, who idolises former Australia wicketkeeper Brad Haddin, received praise from Sachin Tendulkar and Ajinkya Rahane, while India's limited-overs captain MS Dhoni had some advice for the teenager.

"Often you may find people talking about where [ground, tournament, etc] the individual played and all. But it is a serious business," Dhoni said, when asked about Dhanawade's innings at India's pre-departure press conference in Mumbai. "To score like that anywhere in the world, in those conditions, is very difficult. Not to forget the age of the individual. We need to nurture him, guide him, because all of a sudden the limelight will be on him. He will be compared with a lot of individuals who have been very successful. It is important for the individuals who are close to him - his coach, his parents - to guide him to move in the right direction.

"Definitely he has got talent. What is important is to see how he keeps improving because from now on, every game, every year that passes by, he will be competing against individuals who keep getting better and better."

Rahane urged Dhanawade to keep working hard on his game: "As a Mumbaikar, I am really proud of it. '1009' yeh bolne ke liye itna samay lagte hain [It's quite a mouthful to say 1009]. Two years, ago I think a school team made these many runs, but today an individual managed it. These many runs are usually scored in a season.

"I hope he continues to concentrate on his game. I am sure he will work hard on his game and come and play with us. I want to wish him good luck

Onnonnara scoring aayi poyi.. 1450 adichittum avaru declare cheythillaaa

njaokke randayiram runs adichittunud

First ODI

India vs Aus

182/1 India in 36 Overs

Rohith 99*
Kohli 66*

Century - Rohith....!