04/22/2008:
The Washington Redskins Cheerleaders arrived in India on April 10 to create and train the first ever cheerleading squad in the country for the Royal Challengers Bangalore Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket team. The Redskins Cheerleaders will stay in India until end of the season in mid June.
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04/17/2008:
The first match of the much awaited Indian Premier League (IPL) will be held in Banglaore in this weekend. The matches will follow Twenty20 format of cricket. The opening match will be between Bangalore Royal Challengers and Kolkata (Calcutta) Knight Riders at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium April 18, 2008.
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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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04/17/2008:
The first match of the much awaited Indian Premier League (IPL) will be held in Banglaore in this weekend. The matches will follow Twenty20 format of cricket. The opening match will be between Bangalore Royal Challengers and Kolkata (Calcutta) Knight Riders at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium April 18, 2008.
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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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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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Bollywood Stars Buy Into Cricket
Date: 01/24/2008:
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) and Preity Zinta have into the Indian Premier League (IPL) . Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) and Juhi Chawla Juhi Chawla picked up the Kolkata team for $75.09 million while Fellow actor Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia won the Mohali team for USD 76 million. The Mumbai team was won by Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani for $111.9 million and GMR Holdings won the bid for the Delhi team for $84 million, India Cements grabbed the Chennai team for $91 million, Deccan Chronicle got the Hyderabad team for $107.01 million and Emerging Media won the bid for the Jaipur team for $67 million.
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01/07/2008:
The current Indian cricket tour in Australia has been put on hold until certain demands by the BCCI have been addressed by ICC. The demands include lifting of the three test ban on off spinner Harbhajan Singh and the removal of Steve Bucknor, West Indian umpire, for the remainder of the series. BCCI has asked the Indian team not to travel to Canberra for a two day practice match and instead stay in Sydney.
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