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10/07/2008:
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly surprised everyone in the cricket world by announcing his retirement after the four Test cricket series against Australia at a press conference in Bangalore . Ganguly was a surprise addition to the first two Tests after being ignored for the five-day domestic Irani Cup last month. Now the others in the club known as the 'fab five' will be thinking about retiring? The 'fab five' includes Sachin Tendulkar (35), skipper Anil Kumble , Rahul Dravid (35) and Venkatsai Laxman (33).

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Danica Patrick Wins One
04/26/2008:
Danica Patrick finally won the big race. Danica is a race car driver and probably was not favoured to win any race in which mostly men are race car drivers. Now she has proved her critics wrong by capturing first place in Sunday’s Indy 300 race in Motegi, Japan. Danica was the first female to hold a lead in the Indianapolis 500 three years ago and has kept herself in the new since then. She is backed by sponsors like Motorola, XM Satellite Radio and Go Daddy.

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04/11/2008:
India started off to a good start in the 3rd test match being played at Kanpur, India. India's spinner Harbhajan Singh grabbed three wickets, while teenaged paceman Ishant Sharma also took three wickets to bowl out South Africa for 265 on the first day of the test match. India's captin Anil Kumble was ruled out due to injury, and Mahendra Singh Dhoni became the first Indian 'keeper to lead in tests'. South Africa skipper Graeme Smith scored with 69. The wicket is making it harder for the batsmen to handle the spin and will test the Indian team.

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03/28/2008:
Virender Sehwag seems to be out to prove his critics wrong. After being out of test cricket for over an year, he is back with a bang. Sehwag scored the fastest triple century in Test history. India batting second after South Africa scored 540 for 10 started off with Virender Sehwag and Wasim Jaffer in which Sehwag ended the day with 309 not out. Sehwag also become only the third batsman to pass 300 twice in Test cricket along with Sir Donald Bradman and Brian Lara. Sehwag's totle also marked the highest score by an Indian on home soil, passing Laxman's 281 against Australia in Kolkata (Calcutta) in 2001.

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03/18/2008:
Katrina Kaif and Bangalore girl Deepika Padukone will be shooting for an ad to promote the Royal Challengers team of the Indian Premier League (IPL) . The team is owned by industrialist Vijay Mallya. The ad will also contain cricketer Rahul Dravid , Zahir Khan and Virat Kohli is will be directed by Sanjay Gupta. Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) has also planned a similar ad campaing for his Kolkata Knight Riders IPL team.

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03/04/2008:
India beat Australia to win a thriller to claim 3 team series. During the competition India stayed close to enter the finals. And then during the finals, the Indian team held together and played some great matches to win the series. India won the match by bowling out Australia for 249, and won by nine runs. Sachin Tendulkar once again proved that he is a great batmens, but fell short of his century. He helped setup India's nice total of 258.

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02/19/2008:
India beat Sri Lanka to win the match by 2 wickets in the 49th over to keep their hope alive for a berth in the final. Sri Lanka had a rocky start but a 153 run third wicket partnership between Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara helped Sri Lanka post a competitive 238 for 6. Sachin Tendulkar was out for 0 in the 2nd over but India pulled together and came out ahead with a 76 off 70 balls by Yuvraj Singh and 50 not out by Mahendra Singh Dhoni .

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02/18/2008:
All the Indian cricketers, contracted to the Cricket Board have signed into the Indian Premier League (IPL), which is promoted by the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India). The IPL is set to begin play on April 18 at Bangalore and has scheduled for 59 match event including two semi finals and a grand final.

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Sania Mirza In Qatar Open
02/17/2008:
Sania Mirza will mark her start in the Qatar Open on Monday Feb 18 against Belarusian Olga Govortsova. If she wins her first round match she will then have to face the Ana Ivanovic , world's no 2 and Australian Open runner up. Other tennis stars taking part in the Qatar Open include Maria Sharapova , Svetlana Kuznetsova, Jelena Jankovic, Nadia Petrova, and Venus Williams .

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Sania Mirza And Rohan Bopanna Advance
01/02/2008:
Sania Mirza and her mixed double partner Rohan Bopanna played a breathtaking game to beat Australia's Alicia Molik and Peter Luczak 6-2 4-6 13-11 (tie-break). Now the Indian team will face Czech Republic team. Sania had earlier defeated Alicia Molik, 6-2 2-6 6-4 in the singles match to give India 1-0 lead.

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Sania Mirza To Endorse Addidas
12/27/2007:
Sania Mirza has been signed by Addidas as their first global brand ambassador. Sania joins a list of other well known brand ambassadors of Addidas to inlcude David Beckham (football, soccer), Zin dine Zidane, Sachin Tendulkar (cricket) and Ricky Ponting (cricket). Sania will next be playing mixed-team competition in The Hopman Cup and then onto the Hobart International, starting January 7, 2008 and then the Fed Cup in February 2008. Sania will be paired with Rohan Bopanna and will face Meghann Shaughnessy and Mardy Fish (United States), followed by a match against Alicia Molik and Peter Luczak (Australia) and then Lucie Safarova and Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic).

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12/12/2007:
The 3rd test match between India and Pakistan ended up in a draw. Pakistan ended the final day with 167/7, when bad light ended the match early. Anil Kumble threatened the Pakistan with a burst of wickets. Kumble ended the day with five for 60 off 14 overs. Now India is all set for a tour to Australia for a four-test series starting on Dec. 26. 1st match on Dec. 26-30 (Melbourne), 2nd on Jan. 2-6 (Sydney), 3rd on Jan. 16-20 (Perth), and the 4th on Jan. 24-28 (Adelaide). The series will be f

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12/11/2007:
Sania Mirza is currently shooting a commercial advertisement at the historic Mecca Masjid which has caused a row with the minorities welfare department. The shooting was done without the permission of the department and hence evoked protest from the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM).

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11/29/2007:
Indian Cricket League (ICL) will begin it ingural match tomorrow Nov 30, 2007. The match will be between Chandigarh Lions vs Delhi Jets and will follow the 2020 cricket format. The ICL is a newly formed cricket league in India, and is being backed by Zee Telefilms, Kapil Dev, and other great cricket players. The ICL is made up of 6 teams being Mumbai Champs, Chennai Superstars, Chandigarh Lions, Hyderabad Heroes, Kolkata Tigers, and Delhi Jets. The league includes such welknown players like Michael Bevan, Inzamam ul Haq, Darryl Cullinan, Craig McMillan, Madan Lal, Sandip Patil, Brian Lara and many more.

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11/27/2007:
The Indian and Pakistani cricket team arrived in Kolkata for their next test match. The test match will be played from November 30 to December 4 at the Eden Gardens. India has already won the first test match by six wicket which was played at Ferozshah Kotla ground in New Delhi.

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09/26/2007:
Indian hockey players to go on hunger strike after the announcement that the Indian Team Cricket players will receive cash awards from central and four state governments of Maharashtra, Haryana, Jharkhand and Karnataka for winning the Twenty20 World Cup. Their contention is that why was not a similar genture announced when the hockey team won the Asian Continental Championship early this month without lossing a match.
The other question here would be that, who's money is being used to pay the players who are already paid well by the cricket board? I just hope that this money is not the tax payers and could be better used somewhere less.

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09/20/2007:
India wins a thrilling match to knock the home team South Africa out of the Twenty20 tournment. India won the toss and elected to bat, India's starting was not good with 61 for four in the 11th over, but with help from Rohit Sharma (50 not out, 40 balls, seven fours, two sixes) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni's (45, 33 balls, four four, one six) lead India to a defended total of 153 for five in 20 overs. Now it was up to the Indian bowler to show there stuff and they did. RP Singh led the way with terrific fielding and even more terrific bowling. He finished with four for 13 in four overs, while Sreesanth and Harbhajan Singh grabbed two wickets each. South Africa never had a chance with lossing early wickets and never able to get things under control. Now India will face Australia on Sep 22.

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India Win In Thrilling Fashion At The Oval
09/06/2007:
Sachin Tendulkar , Saurav Ganguly , and Robin Uthappa lead India to a thriling victory over England in the 6th ODI played at the Oval. England batted first and set a big total of 317 runs for India to chase. India came out hitting with Sachin and Saurav partnering for 150 runs for the opening stand. They both was dismissed within a short time there after the run rate climbed. Sachin again was left short by 6 runs to get yet another century. The middle order played well but quick outs left the total out of sight. Dhoni and Uthappa played well and until Dhoni was dismissed with 2 overs left and Uthappa made some great stoke to get India the win with 2 balls to spare.

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