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Ajay Jadeja named Vice - captain

The Indian team for the Sahara cup was announced last week. In what was a good decision on part of the selectors , Prasad and Kumble were rested. Prasad is reported to be unfit . The selectors felt it was time to give poor Kumble a beak after he looked jaded in Srilanka . Navjot Sidhu and Nayan Mongia have been dropped. Saba Karim comes back as keeper . Poor Gagan Khoda could not find a place again.The bowling looks extremely weak what with Abey Kuruvilla (under 10 matches)the most experienced seamer. Ajay Jadeja has been rewarded for his consistency . He takes over the post of Vice captain from Anil Kumble. Now the man who always kept the spirits of the team high will have some responsibility to share with Sachin . The batting looks strong on paper with the return to form of Mohd. Azharuddin. Harvinder Singh is the new face in the side.

The team for the Sahara cup and Jinnah cup is :


  1. Sachin Tendulkar (C)
  2. Ajay JAdeja (VC)
  3. Mohd.Azharuddin
  4. Saurav Ganguly
  5. Rahul Dravid
  6. Robin Singh
  7. Saba Karim
  8. Vinod Kambli
  9. Abey Kuruvilla
  10.Rajesh Chauhan
  11.Nilesh Kulkarni
  12.Debashish Mohanty   
  13.Harvinder Singh 
  14.Hrishikesh Kanitkar

Pakistan team Schedules

England announces team

The England team to tour the Caribbean (windies) has been announced. 

  1. Adam Hollioke (C)
  2. Alec Stewart (Wk) (VC)
  3. Graham Thorpe
  4. Ben Hollioke
  5. A.Brown 
  6. D.Brown
  7. Robert Croft
  8. Mark Ealham
  9. Ashley Giles
  10.Darren Gough
  11.Dean Headley
  12.Knick Night
  13.Graham Hick   
  14.Peter Martin
  15.Angus Frazer

Sahara cup schedule

The 2nd edition of the Sahara cup starts on 14th sept 97. The matches are scheduled on : 14th , 15th , 17th , 20th and 21st .

Fever in the two countries will reach sky high as the tourney progresses . The promoters have signed a deal with the boards of the two countries for 5 yrs. The capacity of the Cricket and Curling club in Toronto has been raised to 5,500 .

The two teams clash again in the Jinah cup later this month . It will be for the first time since 1989 that India play in Pakistan.It is a series of 3 one dayers.

Chris Cairns strikes 157

Newzealand took on Kenya in a one dayer. Newzealand batting first piled up a mamoth score of 363/6 in 50 overs. Chris Cairns scored 157 in his 111 minute inngs. He slammed 13 sixes and 9 fours with his last 105 runs coming in only 29 balls. Kenya could manage only 246/8 in their quota of 50 overs. Man of the match : Chris Cairns .

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