M.S. Dhoni - Retired from Test Cricket - 30 December 2014

Dhoni announced that he is retiring from test cricket on the last day of third test between Australia and India at MCG.  He declared that he will not play the fourth test at Sidney.

M.S. Dhoni - Biography and Cricket - Opinion, Articles and Videos

Dhoni announced his retirement from test cricket on 30 December on 2014 on the last day of the third test between India and Australia at MCG, Melbourne.


Panel Discussion on Dhoni as a batsman and captain
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19 July 2013

Gavaskar explans Dhoni's gut instincts
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NDTV
25 July 2013


Dhoni's match winning 91 not out in the final of World Cup 2011 against Sri Lanka
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The last over of the World Cup 2011 Final
15 runs required with only one wicket remaining. See Dhoni get those run to win the cup for India
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Best of M S Dhoni 2009 IPL
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Best of M S Dhonie 2008 IPL
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Kidambi Srikanth - Badminton - Biography

Srikanth Nammalwar Kidambi was born in a Brahmin family in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh on 7 February 1993. His father KVS Krishna is a farmer, and his brother Nanda Gopal is also a badminton player.

He joined Gopichand's academy along with his brother and trained there.
In the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games in Isle of Man, Srikanth won the silver in mixed doubles and bronze in doubles. In India, he became the champion in  the singles and doubles category at the All India Junior International Badminton Championship held in Pune.


In 2012 Srikanth overcame the then Junior World Champion Zulfadli Zulkiffli of Malaysia in the Maldives International Challenge to claim the Men’s singles title


In the 2013 Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold event, Srikanth won the finals match in singles  beating then world number eight and local favorite Boonsak Ponsana in straight sets won the title. In that year, Srikanth beat reigning champion and Olympian Parupalli Kashyap in the All India Senior National Championships in Delhi and  claimed his first senior national title. He was a member of of the Awadhe Warriors team that finished second in the Indian Badminton League, 2013.


He finished runner up at the 2014 India Open Grand Prix Gold event in Lucknow and was a quarter finalist 2014 Malaysian Open.  He  reached the semi finals of the Mixed-team event at the Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow and reached the quarter finals of the Men's Singles event.  In November 2014, he created a major upset in the final of the 2014 China Open Super Series Premier by beating 5 times World Champion and 2 times Olympic Champion Lin Dan in straight sets (21-19 21-17), thus becoming the first Indian to win a Super Series Premier Men's title.

2014 China Open Super Series Premier Final
Srikant beat Lin Dan 21-19, 21-17
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WBC 2014


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srikanth_Kidambi

Interview - 24 Nov 2014 - Never thought That I Could beat Lin Dan
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-11-24/news/56420912_1_lin-dan-hong-kong-open-kidambi-srikanth

Sunil Gavaskar - Biography and Cricket Career Videos - YouTube

Double Century (221) against England in the fourth test in 1979
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101 - First Test against England in 1974
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World Cup Best Performances Selected by  Sunil Gavaskar

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2014 World Cup Foot Ball - India Media Coverage - YouTube Videos

12 June 2014
Indian Football excited. IBN Live Video
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S. Venkataraghavan - Cricketer

Date of Birth: 21 April, 1945

Venkataraghavan was an off spin bowler. He was one of the famed Indian quartet of spin bowlers in the 1970s (the others being Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Bishen Bedi and Erapalli Prasanna). He had to compete with Prasanna for a place in the team.  He was also a strong close-in fielder and a useful tail-end batsman.  Venkat, at the age of 20 he was selected to play against the touring New Zealand side in 1965. By the end of the series he had emerged as a world-class spinner, taking 12 wickets in the Delhi test that resulted in  India's  victory. He was the vice-captain of the Indian team that toured the West Indies and England in 1970–71. India won both series. Venkat played an important role, claiming five wickets in the Trinidad Test and 13 wickets in the three Tests in England. He captained India in both the 1975 and 1979 World Cup competitions. He was also the captain of  India in a four-Test series against England in 1979. In domestic cricket, he led South Zone and Tamil Nadu for over a decade. Venkat retired from first-class cricket in 1985.

He became a cricket administrator and managed the Indian Test side. Subsequently, he became an international umpire.

He was honoured with the Padma Shri in 2003.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/35656.html

Venkataraghavan's 50 Tests as umpire
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2002/01/14/stories/2002011401662000.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasaraghavan_Venkataraghavan

Kapil Dev - Cricketer

Date of birth 6 January 1959


Kapil Dev, is a famous former test cricketer. He was the  captain of  the Indian cricket team which won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. He was named by Wisden as the Indian Cricketer of the Century in 2002.

Kapil was a right-arm pace bowler noted for his graceful action and potent outswinger, and was India's main strike bowler for most of his career. He also developed a fine inswinging yorker during the 1980s, which he used very effectively against tail-enders. As a batsman, he was a natural striker of the ball who could hook and drive effectively. A naturally aggressive player, he often helped India in difficult situations by taking the attack to the opposition. Nicknamed The Haryana Hurricane, he represented the Haryana cricket team in domestic cricket. He retired in 1994, holding the world record for the most number of wickets taken in Test cricket, a record subsequently broken by Courtney Walsh in 2000. At the time, he was also India's highest wicket taker in both major forms of cricket, Tests and ODIs. He is the only player in the history of cricket to have taken more than 400 wickets (434 wickets) and scored more than 5,000 runs in Tests making him one of the greatest all-rounders to have played the game. On 8 March 2010, Kapil Dev was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.


Turning Point in 1983 World Cup Final - Kapil Dev catching Viv Richards
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1983 World Cup Highlights

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