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England tour of India 2011 Schedule, England tour of India 2011 Match Fixure
Tag: England tour of India 2011 Schedule, England tour of India 2011 Match Fixure
England team who performed exceptionally well against India in the test and one day series on their backyard will travel to India for five match ODI series and one off twenty20 internationals.
England tour will start with two tour games on 8th and 11th of October 2011. They will play first ODI at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad on October 14th 2011. While 2nd, 3rd, 4th and final ODI’s will be played on 17th, 20th, 23rd and 25th of October 2011 at Delhi, Mohali, Mumbai and Kolkata.
Kolkata will also host only twenty20 internationals to be played between India and England on October 29th 2011.
India v England complete Fixtures Series 2011 Fixtures (All timings are mentioned in GMT+05:30)
England team who performed exceptionally well against India in the test and one day series on their backyard will travel to India for five match ODI series and one off twenty20 internationals.
England tour will start with two tour games on 8th and 11th of October 2011. They will play first ODI at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad on October 14th 2011. While 2nd, 3rd, 4th and final ODI’s will be played on 17th, 20th, 23rd and 25th of October 2011 at Delhi, Mohali, Mumbai and Kolkata.
Kolkata will also host only twenty20 internationals to be played between India and England on October 29th 2011.
India v England complete Fixtures Series 2011 Fixtures (All timings are mentioned in GMT+05:30)
Date | Local | GMT | Match Details | Venue |
Oct 14, 2011 | 14:30 | 09:00 | India vs England, 1st ODI (D/N) | Hyderabad |
Oct 17, 2011 | 14:30 | 09:00 | India vs England, 2nd ODI (D/N) | Delhi |
Oct 20, 2011 | 14:30 | 09:00 | India vs England, 3rd ODI (D/N) | Mohali |
Oct 23, 2011 | 14:30 | 09:00 | India vs England, 4th ODI (D/N) | Mumbai |
Oct 25, 2011 | 14:30 | 09:00 | India vs England, 5th ODI (D/N) | Kolkata |
Oct 29, 2011 | 20:00 | 14:30 | India vs England, 1st T20 (N) | Kolkata |
Opening Ceremony Live | Nokia Champions League T20 2011 Opeaning Ceremony
Starts from 19:00 IST
Watch Live - Opening Ceromony of NCLT20 2011:
On internet :
The group-stage matches of Nokia CLT20 2011 are to be shown live online on ESPNStar's live page. You can expect the opening ceremony also to be shown. In other parts people can check out the online page of their TV broadcasters like supersport.com in African region and willow.tv in USA.
On TV:
ESPN and Star Cricket are showing the opening ceremony live in India and other nearby regions.
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi: India’s greatest ever captain and Career timeline
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, who passed away on September 22 aged 70, was one of India’s most charismatic cricketers of all time.
Leading India barely at the age of 21, he remains India’s youngest ever as well as one of the greatest ever to captain India. He led India in 40 Tests out of 46 he played for the country. Though under him India were able to register only 9 wins, he was India’s first captain who instilled a feeling of self-belief into the team.
He was also instrumental in leading India to a famous victory in New Zealand in 1967, which remained a jinx for Indian team until Dhoni’s team broke it two years back.
It was incidentally also India’s first ever Test series victory outside India.
A flamboyant batsman, an electrifying fielder, a motivational leader of men, Pataudi made his Test debut in 1961 against England in Delhi, a place where he breathed his last. He made his debut just four months after a horrible car accident that completely damaged his right eye’s vision.
His records as a batsman may not look extraordinary with an average of just over 34. He is not among the best batsmen India has produced. But he is certainly the most brilliant and courageous captain India has ever had.
When he took over the reins of Indian cricket at a young age, Indian cricket was in doldrums. India had a dozen of captains in the preceding decade and a half. And in came the charismatic Tiger Pataudi, who gave Indian cricket much-needed stability in the mid-sixties.
Before his entry, India cricket was a dull, drab affair. He was the first man to make it exciting and challenging.
It was Pataudi who first realized that India could be a potent force if they utilize their strength, spin, properly. Under him India started playing with three spinners, a strategy which was later adopted by Ajit Wadekar to win back-to-back series in West Indies and England in 1971.
His 9-win record as captain may not make him India’s greatest ever skipper statistically. But he will be remembered for making Indian cricket team a force to reckon with and putting it on par with other great teams. In that sense, he can be called as the man who laid the foundation-stone of modern Team India which has been successfully led by Kapil Dev, Sourav Ganguly and now MS Dhoni.
Career timeline:
December 13, 1961: Debut against England in Delhi, scores 13.
January 10, 1962: Maiden century in his third Test (113 vs England in Chennai).
March 23, 1962: Leads India in his fourth Test, in Barbados, and at 21 is Test cricket's youngest captain.
February 12-13, 1964: Makes career-best score, 203 not out against England in Delhi.
February-March 1968: Leads India to their first overseas Test in, in Dunedin. India go on to win an away series for the first time, beating New Zealand 3-1.
January 23, 1975: Final Test, scoring 9 in each innings against West Indies in Mumbai.
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi passed away |Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi Biography
Pataudi was admitted at the Sir Gangaram Hospital here earlier this month and was in the intensive care unit (ICU).
Biography
Pataudi was born on Jan 5, 1941, played 46 Test matches for India between 1961 and 1975. He captained 40 of 46 Tests out which India won nine.
He was born in 1941 in Bhopal, to former India captain and the eighth Nawab of Pataudi, Iftikhar Ali Khan, who also played for England, and Sajida Sultan, second daughter of the last ruling nawab of Bhopal.
Cricket was always in Pataudi’s blood.
IPL 4: Malinga most valuable, Valthaty best bargain
Lasith Malinga is the most valuable player (MVP) of IPL 4 so far, beating emerging star Paul Valthaty to second place by just a bit.
When it comes to value for money (VFM), however, the Malayali from Mumbai who's making waves for Kings XI Punjab is streets ahead of all competition.
Behind Malinga and Valthaty in the MVP list are Johan Botha, Robin Uthappa and Doug Bollinger. Sachin Tendulkar heads the second half of the top 10 with Virat Kohli, Kumar Sangakkara, Yusuf Pathan and Jesse Ryder rounding it off.
None of these names, apart of course from Valthaty, makes it anywhere close to the top 10 in the VFM list. That's not surprising given that most of them count their annual fees in millions of dollars while uncapped Indian players like the Kings XI opener have to make do with a maximum of $50,000.
The others on the VFM list are, therefore, predictably local players who have more than pulled their weight for their squads. At No. 2 is Rahul Sharma, followed by Ambati Rayudu, Iqbal Abdulla and Sunny Sohal, in that order. The second half of the top 10 consists of Siddharth Trivedi, Ashok Menaria, Amit Singh, M S Bisla and A G Murtaza.
How have we arrived at these names? A fair bit of number crunching went into it, involving assigning points for batting, bowling, fielding and captaincy on the basis of objective parameters, not subjective opinion, to construct an MVP index.
When it comes to value for money (VFM), however, the Malayali from Mumbai who's making waves for Kings XI Punjab is streets ahead of all competition.
Behind Malinga and Valthaty in the MVP list are Johan Botha, Robin Uthappa and Doug Bollinger. Sachin Tendulkar heads the second half of the top 10 with Virat Kohli, Kumar Sangakkara, Yusuf Pathan and Jesse Ryder rounding it off.
None of these names, apart of course from Valthaty, makes it anywhere close to the top 10 in the VFM list. That's not surprising given that most of them count their annual fees in millions of dollars while uncapped Indian players like the Kings XI opener have to make do with a maximum of $50,000.
The others on the VFM list are, therefore, predictably local players who have more than pulled their weight for their squads. At No. 2 is Rahul Sharma, followed by Ambati Rayudu, Iqbal Abdulla and Sunny Sohal, in that order. The second half of the top 10 consists of Siddharth Trivedi, Ashok Menaria, Amit Singh, M S Bisla and A G Murtaza.
How have we arrived at these names? A fair bit of number crunching went into it, involving assigning points for batting, bowling, fielding and captaincy on the basis of objective parameters, not subjective opinion, to construct an MVP index.
Here's what we did. Batting points were calculated on the principle that both the quantity of runs scored and how fast they are scored should count. So we took the average strike rate of 130 that has actually been achieved by all batsmen and used that as a base.
The total runs scored by each batsman was multiplied by his actual strike rate and divided by this par figure. Thus, a batsman who has scored, say, 300 runs in the tournament so far would get batting points equal to 300 if he has scored at a strike rate of 130, fewer points if he has accumulated them slower and more if he has got them at a better clip.
For bowlers, we used the principle that both economy and wicket taking should count. Again the average economy rate of 7.5 runs per over for the tournament so far was used as the benchmark. Bowlers with a better economy rate than this were regarded as having saved runs for their team. For instance, if a bowler has been going at 6 runs per over and has bowled 20 overs, he would actually have conceded 120 runs. At the average rate he would have conceded 150. So he is given 30 points for saving those many runs. In addition, every wicket gets him 25 points.
Fielding points are given for catches, run outs and stumpings. Catches count for 10 points, run outs for 15. In the case of wicket-keepers, however, catches and stumpings fetch 25 points each, since they are in the side mainly for their fielding.
Finally, captains are given points for the performance of their teams, 25 points for each win and minus 25 for each loss. Adding all of these points together gives us the total points accumulated by each player.
Since it would be unfair to compare someone who has played, say, five matches with another who has played nine, we then divided the total points by the number of matches played by each player to get the points per match. This was the basis for the MVP rankings.
As for the VFM rankings, that was simply a matter of dividing the points per match score by the fees payable to each player per match to get a figure for the number of points per $100,000 of fees.
To ensure that a couple of outstanding performances don't unduly skew the results, we took only those who had played at least five matches. That meant, for instance, that Chris Gayle, who would otherwise have been by far the leader in the MVP stakes, had to be dropped. But that's only fair.
What is interesting is that the MVP list has at its top some like Malinga and Bollinger who are purely bowlers, some like Sachin and Virat Kohli who are wholly or entirely batsmen and many all-rounders. The VFM list also has a similar structure. This is a departure from the past when the same index tended to yield predominantly all-rounders at the top.
It is also a change from the first three seasons that there are no foreign players at the top of the VFM list. But that is due to the fact that the likes of Shane Watson, Shaun Marsh and David Warner, who came for a pittance initially are today commanding huge fees.
MOST VALUABLE PLAYER | ||||||
Player | Batting Pts | Bowling Pts | Fielding Pts | Captaincy Pts | Total | Pts/Match |
L Malinga | 0 | 530 | 35 | 565 | 70.6 | |
P Valthaty | 372 | 91 | 20 | 483 | 69.0 | |
J Botha | 192 | 147 | 50 | 389 | 64.8 | |
R Uthappa | 220 | 0 | 240 | 460 | 57.5 | |
D Bollinger | 0 | 278 | 10 | 288 | 57.5 | |
S Tendulkar | 313 | 0 | 45 | 100 | 458 | 57.2 |
V Kohli | 329 | 24 | 30 | 383 | 54.7 | |
KSangakkara | 267 | 0 | 300 | -75 | 492 | 54.7 |
Y Pathan | 183 | 264 | 35 | 481 | 53.5 | |
J Ryder | 300 | 101 | 20 | 421 | 52.6 | |
VALUE FOR MONEY | ||
Player | Pts/Match | Pts/$100000 |
Paul Valthaty | 69.0 | 1932 |
Rahul Sharma | 43.7 | 1223 |
Ambati Rayudu | 41.4 | 1159 |
Iqbal Abdulla | 40.9 | 1145 |
Sunny Sohal | 32.3 | 905 |
Siddharth Trivedi | 28.8 | 807 |
Ashok Menaria | 27.9 | 782 |
Amit Singh | 27.0 | 755 |
MS Bisla | 24.7 | 692 |
AG Murtaza | 23.7 | 665 |
Sourav Ganguly to join Pune Warriors India
"We were waiting for Ashish Nehra's fitness report and ultimately the report came yesterday. I was already in talks with Ganguly and we decided that the amount of experience that Sourav has in cricket will no doubt help the team. So we finalised Ganguly last night," Pune Warriors Team director Abhijit Sarkar said referring to the finger injury that Nehra has been nursing.
Ganguly, who played for Kolkata Knight Riders for three IPL seasons captaining them in two editions, went unsold in the January players' auction despite a rather modest base price of $400,000.
The 38-year-old refused a mentor's role with KKR after that and there had been speculation of a possible comeback through another franchise. The left-handed batman was first sought by Kochi Tuskers Kerala but their application was rejected by the IPL's Governing Council.
However, he signed on the dotted line for Pune on Monday, giving a major fillip to the side which has lost six matches on the trot after starting promisingly with a couple of back-to-back wins.