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The match between India vs Australia, 1st Test Cricket Match scheduled will be held on 01-Oct-2010,and kickoff time at 9:30 IST.India and Australia has always been a healthy competition and the two nations have been the playground for the consolidation of memory for a long time.The Australians were humbled 2-0 the last time these two sides met in India and want to avenge the humiliating series defeat to victory. Australia, the past has been against a bowling line scary joke list ’star performer’ Indians. But perhaps for the first time, Australia is on tour with weakened bowling attack.Seniors Glen McGrath and Shane Warne is bowling attack on the remaining critically endangered and are trying desperately to find someone to fill the massive shoes. They hope that one of their bowlers really pull up his socks and deliver the goods in India.Although Australia has played the last in July, against Pakistan in England, the India last test was also at the same time against Sri Lanka. Both series ended in a draw, with Australia wasted a 1-0 lead in Pakistan and India to defend itself from a deficit of 1-0 to even the series.

Tendulkar: Stop talking about my age :-

With a fifth Test double ton under his belt, Sachin Tendulkar said he has proved that age has got nothing to do with performance and people should stop linking them in his case.

Tendulkar scored a match-saving 203-run knock as India and Sri Lanka settled for a high-scoring draw in the second cricket Test in Colombo."I think as long as you are mentally strong and prepared to go through the grind, age does not really matter. I think everyone should just stop talking about the age factor. If I can score a double hundred at 37, I don't think age really matters," he said after being named the most stylish player of the match at the post-match presentation.
The veteran right-hander has 48 Test hundreds against his name and though his knock played a crucial role in saving the match for India, he chose to praise the contributions of debutant Suresh Raina (120) and opener Virender Sehwag(99).
"Suresh built an important partnership with me and all credit to him. And the start that Sehwag gave us was also crucial," he said.India are 0-1 down in the series after losing the series-opener and Tendulkar said the team is desperate to latch on to the top spot in the ICC Test rankings which the visitors stand to lose if they go down 0-2.
"Being number one is important for us. We got here through a process and we hope to continue this process in the next match and win it," he said.

SACHIN RESTED, YUVI RECALLED FOR ODI TRI-SERIES

Mumbai: Sachin Tendulkar and Gautam Gambhir have been rested from the 15-membered squad for the forthcoming one-day tri-series against Sri Lanka and New Zealand, the National Selection Committee announced on Saturday.
While Sachin incurred a groin injury during his marathon knock of 200 during the second Test against Sri Lanka, Gambhir has been left out due to his knee injury.

Yuvraj Singh, however, found his way back into the ODI squad after being dropped from the Asia Cup.Tamil Nadu off-spinner R Ashwin and Jharkhand batsman Saurabh Tiwary, two promising youngsters who have done well in the domestic circuit, have been retained in the squad to be led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

The tri-series, which has host Sri Lanka and New Zealand as the two other teams, will be held in Dambulla from August 10 to 25.Meanwhile, after missing the Test series due to shoulder injury, pacer Zaheer Khan has been omitted from the ODI tri-series as well as he couldn’t recover on time. In the absence of Zaheer, veteran speedster Ashish Nehra will lead the pace attack which also has Ishant Sharma, Abhimanyu Mithun and Praveen Kumar.Ishant and Mithun, who were not in the Asia Cup squad, have been included this time around probably because they have already acclimatised to the Sri Lankan conditions as they are in the Test squad.

Harbhajan Singh will too give a miss to the series, as R Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha will take care of the spin department.

Kerala paceman S Sreesanth, who is recuperating from a knee injury, has not been picked in the squad, announced by BCCI Secretary N Srinivasan after a meeting of the selection committee here.There were no major surprises with the selectors more or less retaining the nucleus of the squad that won the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka in June.
“Ashok Dinda and Manish Pandey will replace R Ashwin and Sourav Tiwary in the Indian team participating in the Emerging Players tournament in Australia,” Srinivasan said in a statement.
The batting will largely depend on the fireworks of Virender Sehwag while there are a number of young talents like Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina and Virat Kohli who have already established themselves in the national team.In the absence of Gambhir, Tamil Nadu wicket-keeper batsman Dinesh Karthik is likely to open the innings with Sehwag.
Ravindra Jadeja is the lone all-rounder in the squad although there are a number of batsmen who are known to be part time bowlers.

Squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (C), Virender Sehwag (VC), Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Dinesh Karthik, R Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Abhimanyu Mithun, Ashish Nehra, Pragyan Ojha and Saurab Tiwary.

BOPANNA-AISAM IN SEMIS OF FARMERS CLASSIC

Los Angeles: Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi scored their second come-from-behind win to progress to the doubles semifinals of the ATP Farmers Classic tournament here. The fourth seeded Indo-Pak pair overcame stiff resistance from Arnaud Clement and Jonathan Erlich before scoring a 3-6 7-6(4) 14-12 win the quarter-finals of the USD 619,500 hard court event. 

Bopanna and Aisam now have an uphill task to reach their second consecutive final as they face top seeds and most formidable pair of Mike and Bob Bryan, who beat Latavian Ernests Gulbis and Dmitry Tursunov of Russia 7-5 6-3.

Bopanna and Aisam had ended runners-up at last week’s Atlanta Tennis Championships.
Their only title win came in February in Johannesburg.Somdev Devvarman had lost in the second round of the singles event earlier.