Indian Skipper M.S. Dhoni honored
M.S. Dhoni smiles with ICC Mace
This year 2009 is coming to an end and with it the first decade of this century. Team India has been put under the control of M.S. Dhoni and finished the year 2009 with glory. The latest one day series with Sri Lanka was rounded up to 3-1 lead by the Indians, who won at Cuttack. The last and final match at Feroz Shah Kotla ground of Delhi, was called off – bringing shame on the part of authorities for a worst pitch.
This is the year when India has achieved the Number 1 Test Team status in the World ICC rankings. This ranking came when India captured the 3 Test series against the Lankans as 2-0 on 6th December. For the record, India has won 7 out of 10 Test Series with no loss under Dhoni’s captaincy. The prestigious ICC mace was held high by Dhoni as captain of Team India. India is the third Team to achieve this height – only after Australia and South Africa.
This year has been a memorable one for other Indian cricketers as well. M.S. Dhoni has gone to the top position as No.1 Player for one day games. Gautam Gambhir has been showing consistent performance with the bat. The Indian Opener in Tests has been adjudged the No.1 Player in Test Matches. How beautiful for the Indian team, to have two world No.1 batsmen in their side.
Virendar Shewag, who praises his pair opener Gambhir as the best after Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, himself is a swash-buckling one day bat and he made the cricket world to look back, when he achieved 293 on his latest one day match against Sri Lanka.
Indian Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar has completed 20 years of professional cricket. He has so far played 162 Tests and 440 One Day matches. Scored 12970 Test Runs (43 centuries) and 17394 runs in One Dyers (45 centuries).
Let us congratulate Team India under skipper M.S. Dhoni and wish them all success in 2010 too.
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