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Mahendra Singh Dhoni, pronunciation (help·info), Hindi: महेन्द्र सिंह धोनी (born 7 July 1981, in Ranchi, Bihar, now in Jharkhand) is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team. Initially recognised as an extravagantly flamboyant and destructive batsman, Dhoni has come to be regarded as one of the coolest heads to captain the Indian ODI side. Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, CB Series of 2007–08, the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in 2008 and 2010 against Australia 2–0 and 2011 World Cup in which India beat every previous world cup winning team. His Test, ODI record is best among all the Indian captains to date. He also captained Chennai Super Kings to victory in the recent 2011 IPL and in the Champions League. He is now captain of India in all three forms of the game and also led the team to their first ever bilateral ODI series wins in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Under Dhoni’s captaincy India became the first team after a gap of more than 20 years to whitewash Australia in a Test series. Dhoni also led the Indian team to the number one position in ICC rankings in Test cricket for the first time. Dhoni has also been the recipient of many awards including the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 (the first Indian player to achieve this feat), the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and the Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian honour in 2009. In 2009 Dhoni topped the list of world’s top …

Subscribe ow.ly | Facebook ow.ly | Twitter ow.ly “We probably fell a few runs short if we are fair with ourselves. It possibly comes because we were in such a good position. Uz played an unbelievable knock to get us into that position. And we probably looked at getting too many, it wasn’t a 160 wicket and sometimes when you do that, you fall well short and that happened to us. But hopefully we will learn from that but it was a fantastic effort from the bowlers to restrict like that. We knew the new ball was going to be crucial and from there on in, it’s always difficult to score in that middle period, especially with our spinners operating. And we are used to those types of conditions as we get them in Kolkata.”

Kevin Pietersen and Yuvraj Singh sledging each other during the 2008 Ind-Eng test series

Kevin Pietersen was the toast of the England dressing room after his stunning double hundred gave India the runaround in the first Test at Lord’s. The batsman admitted he had ‘never worked so hard’ after crashing an undefeated 202 — his 18th Test century and his fifth at Lord’s — as the hosts declared on an imposing 474 for eight. India closed on 17 without loss. (Download this video officially at) www.iLCreation.Blogspot.com (Kevin Pietersen’s Information) Kevin Peter Pietersen, MBE (born 27 June 1980) is a South African-born English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional off spin bowler who plays for England and Surrey. He had also played for Indian Premier League team Royal Challengers Bangalore for its second and third seasons, captaining the side in his first, prior to being bought by the Deccan Chargers for the fourth season of the competition. He was captain of the England Test and One Day International teams from 4 August 2008 to 7 January 2009 but resigned after just three tests and nine One Day Internationals, following a dispute with England coach Peter Moores, who was sacked the same day.Pietersen was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal Province, South Africa. He made his first-class debut for Natal in 1997 before moving to England after voicing his displeasure at the racial quota system in place in South Africa.His English mother gave Pietersen eligibility to play for England, and after serving a qualifying period of four years playing at county …

A funny interview with Yuvraj Singh after Pietersen called him a piechucker

A compilation of some great Indian Premier League action, featuring players such as Sachin Tendulkar, Kumar Sangakkara, MS Dhoni, Daniel Vettori, Kevin Pietersen and many more.

JAMIL KHAN

Here’s Richie Benaud, arguably the greatest ever cricket analyst, rating Tendulkar as the best batsman since Bradman.