Tendulkar joins 100-catch club

My favorit start Sachine Tendulkar joins 100-catch club. It’s record for 100 number of catches in a test career. Sachin Tendulkar joined the list of players who have taken 100 or more catches in Test cricket when he pouched a dolly offered to him at mid-on by Australian wicketkeeper-batsman Brad Haddin on the last day of the fourth and final Test in Nagpur on Monday.

 

 

The batting maestro, who holds several batting records in Tests and ODIs, reached the milestone in his 154th Test to follow compatriots Rahul Dravid (179), Sunil Gavaskar (108), VVS Laxman and Mohd Azharuddin (105) into the record book.

 

The world record for the most number of catches in a Test career, 181 in 128 matches, stands in the name of Mark Waugh of Australia.

India regain Border-Gavaskar trophy after historic win

Good Evening friends

 

INDIA PROVES AGAIN. India beat Australia in fourth and final test match and wins the series with 2-0. India wins back Border-Gavaskar Trophy. India thrashed Australia by 172 runs.  This moment come for us after four years.

 

India on Monday gave ample proof of its status as a dominant force in world cricket as they thrashed Australia by 172 runs in the fourth and final cricket Test to regain the coveted Border-Gavaskar trophy after a gap of four years in Nagpur on Monday.

 

After setting the visitors a daunting target of 382 for victory, the Indians exploited a turning fifth day track to skittle out the Aussies for 209 just before the tea break to wrap up the four-match series with a 2-0 margin.

It turned out to be a perfect gift for Sourav Ganguly by his teammates in his farewell Test as they knocked out the Aussies in just about two sessions of play on the last day.

 

Only Matthew Hayden stood bravely amidst the ruins with a 93-ball 77 as the Indian bowlers ripped through the batting line up to bring an end to the Australian innings rather quickly.

 

Leg spinner Amit Mishra (4/64) and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh (3/27) were the main destructors for the hosts who made amends for losing the home series 1-2 in the 2004-05 series.

 

The opening Test was drawn before India thumped the world’s highest-ranked team by a huge 320 runs in the second Test at Mohali to take a 1-0 lead which they maintained coming into this Test following the drawn third encounter at Delhi.

 

Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who took over the reins from Kumble who retired after the third match of the series at the Ferozshah Kotla, thus continued his golden run at the helm to lead the team to a third straight win in as many matches.

 

He had led India to wins over South Africa, earlier this year, and at Mohali as stand-in captain for Kumble.

Curtains close on theatre festival

Good morning friends!  I hope you are all well there.  There will be a festival here in india again.  Even it’s not in our city i’d like to share it with you in reference to The Times of India.

 

The 10-day Ranga Shankara theatre festival came to a close on Sunday with the staging of Kannada play `Sadarame’, one of Gubbi Veeranna’s most successful productions.

 

This year, the festival celebrated the theme of company theatre, also called the golden era of Indian theatre. Company theatre, greatly influenced by Parsi drama, Marathi sangeet natak and several local traditions, evolved in the early part of the 20th century. The two contemporary plays that were staged at the festival were also about people from the times of company theatre.

 

 

Plays like `Nati Binodini’, the biography of an actress who was one of the pioneers of Bengali company theatre, and `Katyar Kaaljaat Ghusli’, a Marathi musical based on the rivalry between two Hindustani music gharanas, were staged during the fest. `Maya Bazaar’, a Telegu play with a cast of 60 members of the same family, was another highlight. 

 

 Various workshops, seminars and film screenings formed the sidelines that appreciated the work of an era almost forgotten. Actors from across the country, including Kannada company theatre actors, participated. An archival exhibition of photographs of company nataka in Karnataka, Sangeet nataka in Maharashtra, Parsi theatre and Bengali theatre was also held.