Dhoni changed the indian team

Mahendra Singh Dhoni's leadership has changed the face of Indian cricket, according to Pakistan's pace legend Wasim Akram who believes it is a matter of time before India upstages Australia as the number one team in the world.

Akram said Dhoni has completely transformed the team ever since he took over the mantle of captaincy and that Indian cricket was on the right track with a number of talented players in their ranks.

"Dhoni has changed the face of Indian cricket, there is no doubt about that. He leads from the front, he has charisma and players like him. You can't ask for anything more," Akram said in a telephonic interview.

"He has given the team the confidence. The players now believe that they can go and beat any team and it is this confidence that has helped India to bring about the desired results," the former Pakistan captain said.

Akram, regarded as one of the finest left-arm speedsters with 414 Test and 502 ODI wickets to his credit in a career spanning nearly 17 years, said Dhoni had also brought about a refreshing change in his attitude and approach to matches.

"It does not matter whether Sachin Tendulkar is resting or some other players are injured, the Indians are so confident that they go out and do the job. It was not the case about six or seven years ago, India did not have that confidence," he observed.

"If the captain leads from the front, half the job is done. That is what I like about Dhoni. He is cool, comes out with few quotes and gets the best out of his players," Akram said.

"Leading the Chennai team in the upcoming Champions League will be a good challenge for him since there will be a lot of international teams," he said.

Asked whether India would be able to topple Australia as the number one team in the near future, Akram said "India is the new Australia. I think they are on the right track to achieve that".

Akram also lavished praise on India's new pace sensation Ishant Sharma saying the Delhi youngster had improved by leaps and bounds in the last few months.

"Ishant has been a revelation. He has really improved in the last few months and I think he is a real asset to India," Akram said about the paceman who emerged as the man-of-the-series in the recent Test series against Australia.

"After the Australian tour late last year, his length was slightly short. But he has now rectified that and was simply brilliant in the recent series against Australia. The way he bowled, it seemed he had been around in Test cricket for five years or so," he said.

The cricketer-turned-commentator said Ishant will only get better with time but also cautioned that the youngster needed to be handled well to prolong his career.

"He (Ishant) will get quicker and better with time, there is no doubt about it. He just has to keep himself fit as fast bowling is hard work," Akram pointed out.

He said the Indian bowling line-up looked quite balanced at the moment and the presence of an in-form Zaheer Khan has provided a lot more sting.

"Zaheer has been fantastic. He has bowled the reverse swing well, got the ball to swing in and out... he has become a complete bowler now. He really provides that cutting edge to the attack," he said.

"India always had good spinners but I am happy to see these pacemen developing. They are winning matches for India", Akram said.

The ex-pacer said Harbhajan Singh was capable enough to shoulder the responsibility in the spin department following the retirement of champion leg spinner Anil Kumble.

"Harbhajan is a good spinner. It is now upto him to take upon the responsibility in the spin department. I think he is capable of doing it and also has the experience".

Akram also credited India's rise as a cricketing nation to the planning done by the BCCI over the last few years.

"Credit must also go the BCCI for India's rise in recent times. They have planned and implemented everything well. The results have started coming now," he added.

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India us england fourth ODI series

Bad weather conditions have turned out to be better at Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore and it seems India and England will soon resume fourth ODI match.

Around an hour back, rain interrupted the fourth ODI between India and England. India were at 81/2 when umpires DJ Harper and AM Saheba asked the sides to halt the play.

Unstoppable Delhi boy Virender Sehwag completed 6000-run mark before the match was intervened by rain.

Sehwag (45*) along with Gambhir(23*) will resume batting for India after the weather conditions turn better.

Earlier in the match, England pacer Stuart Broad got an early breakthrough for his side by clinching the invaluable wicket of Sachin Tendulkar for 11 runs.

England, on the other hand, retained the same side that played in Kanpur.

Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar came back in the team when Team India decided to rest Rohit Sharma. The veteran player opened with Virender Sehwag after England captain Kevin Pietersen asked India to bat first.

India are just one win away from wrapping up the seven-match series, and Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his bravehearts are eager to maintain their winning sequence in the floodlit encounter in Bangalore.

The visitors, on the contrary, have been left with the daunting task of winning four matches in a row to clinch the series and it seems to be a hard nut to crack to stop the Indian juggernaut.

yuvraj movie review

After winning the best music director award in 2006 (Rang De Basanti) and giving an outstanding score this year with Guru and just two days back bagging the Filmfare for Sillunu Oru Kadhal and enthralling us all with Sivaji, Rahman is getting ready to deliver his next big album.

He will be scoring music for the Dream Merchant’s (Subhash Ghai) directorial venture to be produced by his own Muktha Arts. The movie titled “Yuvraj” is slated to begin shortly with a schedule in Europe.

The movie has a big star line up with Anil Kapoor, Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif and Boman Irani playing the lead characters. The movie is very important for Subhash Ghai as his last few directorial ventures had been losing propositions. Especially his last movie, Kisna, a Vivek Oberoi starrer had sunk at the box office. Yuvraj is expected to arrive some time in early 2008.

India Won third ODI us england

Poor light saw D/L method playing the decisive role as India won the third ODI at Kanpur by 16 runs. Chasing 240, India were 16 runs ahead of the revised target and finished with at 198/5.

England's all-rounder Andrew Flintoff broke the 52-run partnership between MS Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh after he dismissed the latter for 38 runs in the third ODI at Kanpur.

After flaying England bowlers, Yuvraj mistimed a pull shot off a short delivery and found Stuart Broad at the deep square leg. In his knock of 38 runs, Yuvraj slammed two fours and one six. He fell as Flintoff's third wicket. Previously, Freddie dismissed Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir.

Sehwag sliced one from Freddie in the gully region and Paul Collingwood took an unbelievable catch to see the dangerous Indian opener back in the hut. Sehwag raised 31st ODI half-century, his fifth against England. He had added 73 runs with Rohit Sharma for the third wicket before England spinner Graeme Swann dismissed the latter for 28 runs as the third Indian wicket. Sharma tried to cut a delivery but his late movement saw the ball taking a thick edge of his bat before wicketkeeper Matt Prior gloved it.

Sehwag lost his opening partner Gautam Gambhir early in the innings. Flintoff picked his wicket when Gambhir chipped a short ball and Stuart Broad caught him at third man for 14 runs. Broad carried the momentum and hurriedly dismissed Raina for 1 run. A good-length delivery swung back in and took an inside edge of Raina's wicket before crashing into the leg-stump.

Earlier, on what was predicted to be a batting track, England fell well short by at least 30-40 runs as India bundled them for 240 runs in 48.4 overs. India's off-spinner Harbhajan Singh picked three wickets and also completed his 200 ODI wickets. He became the sixth Indian bowler to cross the 200-mark after Anil Kumble, Javagal Srinath, Ajit Agarkar, Kapil Dev and Zaheer Khan. He achieved this feat when he dismissed Owais Shah for 40 runs. Shah holed one from Harbhajan to Zaheer at long-off.

Kevin Pietersen and Paul Collingwood were his first two victims whom he foxed with his 'doosra' and removed in quick succession. He first deceived Pietersen (13) as the English skipper went for the lofted drive and found Zaheer at long-off. Bhajji's next victim, Collingwood was beaten by the flight. He lunged forward to drive the ball but lost the balance and wicketkeeper MS Dhoni stumped him for just 1 run.

After a steady start from openers Ravi Bopara and Ian Bell, England lost the plot and kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Bopara, who was promoted as the opener in place of Matt Prior, gave a good start to his side along with Ian Bell. They added 79 runs for the first wicket when Indian pacer Munaf Patel gave India the first breakthrough. He dismissed Bell for 46 runs. A good-length delivery from Munaf took a faint edge of Bell's bat before landing in the gloves of Dhoni. Munaf also dismissed James Anderson as the last wicket of the innings with a straight delivery knocking off the middle stump.

While his partner missed out on a fifty, Bopara got one up in the order. He slammed fourth ODI fifty, his second against India, with the help of eight fours. He was removed by Yuvraj Singh for 60 runs. Yuvraj's short of length delivery drew Bopara out of the crease. The ball beat him and Dhoni made no mistake behind the wickets to knock off the bails.

Andrew Flintoff was done by Yusuf Pathan for 26 runs. The ball pitched in the line of off and middle. Flinotff tried to play across the line and the ball hit him on the knee-roll.

Ishant Sharma, who replaced RP Singh, struggled with his bowling but finished with two wickets of Samit Patel and Matt Prior. While Patel (26) was caught by Suresh Raina at long-off, Prior missed the next delivery that kissed the leg-stump and sent him packing for 5 runs. Zaheer picked Stuart Broad's wicket as he surprised him with a short ball and Dhoni took a simple catch behind the stumps.

championship league : chennai super kings team schedule

Captain: Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Best Twenty20 cricket captain in the world.

Top order: Mathew Hayden, Arun Karthik Suresh Raina and Parthiv Patel. They dropped Vidyut who played reasonably well in the IPL. Hayden and Karthik will open the innings.

Middle order: Michael Hussey, Kapugedara.

All-rounder: Albie Morkel. He needs to play crucial role in the absence of Jacob Oram.

Bowling: Gony, Makhaya Ntini, Balaji, Tyagi, Muralidharan and Ashwin. Chennai has strong bowling lineup in both fast and spin departments. But Muralidharan and Ntini failed to meet expectations in the IPL 2008 but Gony surprised cricket experts with his superb performance.

Chennai Super Kings will play with Victoria on December 4th in its first match in the Champions League Cricket tournament.

Breaking news: First test between England and India will be held as per schedule. No change in dates.

Obama, McCain pledge to work together

Coming face-to-face for the first time after the November four elections, President-elect Barack Obama and his defeated rival John McCain has pledged "a new era of reform" to solve the US economic crisis and safeguard national interests.

After a private meeting at the President-elect's transition headquarters here, Obama and McCain said Americans are looking for their leaders to come together and "change the bad habits of Washington."

The two leaders, in a joint statement issued after their first meeting since the elections, said they hoped to work together on challenges like the financial crisis, creating a new energy economy and protecting the country's security.

Senator Lindsey Graham, a McCain ally, and Congressman Rahm Emanuel, Obama's choice for White House chief of staff, were also present at the meeting.

"At this defining moment in history, we believe that Americans of all parties want and need their leaders to come together and change the bad habits of Washington so that we can solve the common and urgent challenges of our time," it said.

"It is in this spirit that we had a productive conversation today about the need to launch a new era of reform where we take on government waste and bitter partisanship in Washington in order to restore trust in government, and bring back prosperity and opportunity for every hardworking American family," they said in the statement.

Receiving McCain at his office, Obama said he and McCain were "just going to have a good conversation about how we can do some work together to fix up the country and also to offer thanks to McCain for the outstanding service he has already rendered."

Coming face-to-face for the first time after the November four elections, President-elect Barack Obama and his defeated rival John McCain has pledged "a new era of reform" to solve the US economic crisis and safeguard national interests.

After a private meeting at the President-elect's transition headquarters here, Obama and McCain said Americans are looking for their leaders to come together and "change the bad habits of Washington."

The two leaders, in a joint statement issued after their first meeting since the elections, said they hoped to work together on challenges like the financial crisis, creating a new energy economy and protecting the country's security.

Senator Lindsey Graham, a McCain ally, and Congressman Rahm Emanuel, Obama's choice for White House chief of staff, were also present at the meeting.

"At this defining moment in history, we believe that Americans of all parties want and need their leaders to come together and change the bad habits of Washington so that we can solve the common and urgent challenges of our time," it said.

"It is in this spirit that we had a productive conversation today about the need to launch a new era of reform where we take on government waste and bitter partisanship in Washington in order to restore trust in government, and bring back prosperity and opportunity for every hardworking American family," they said in the statement.

Receiving McCain at his office, Obama said he and McCain were "just going to have a good conversation about how we can do some work together to fix up the country and also to offer thanks to McCain for the outstanding service he has already rendered."