India moves over to Second Spot in Tests !

After Australia, India is the second team in the world, in Tests!

Now India takes on formidable RSA !

ICL stars are banned from playing county cricket. Wavell Hinds, Andrew Hall, Van der Werth, Kemp,Hamish Marshall - all these have been banned. This has put County Cricket Board in jeopardy. The reason - ICL has no official recognition from ICC. The English Cricket Board decreed so. Nottinghamshare and Derbyshire are already suffering. Hall and Van der Werth are Nottingham players and Hinds Derbyshire.

Now Sachin has 11782 runs in Tests and needs only 172 runs to overpass Lara's record. Many believe this is possible and are glued to their TV sets. Dhoni and Bajji have been declared fit and both teams are in Chennai today. Torrential rain poses a big problem to the Test match.

The WI - Lanka Test series starts today at Guyana.

The third Test is already on at Napier, between England and NZ. Both share honours at 1-1. Now England is 230/7. Kevin Petersen scored 129.

The Cricket war hots up. Sarwar, Gayle and Chanderpaul have been omitted for the first two Tests against Australia. Reason - they joined ICL.


It was Sachin who nominated Dhoni as a leader, Pawar said.