ICC Cricket World Cup 2015: Pakistan Cricket Board unhappy with Mohammad Hafeez’s comments

Mohammad Hafeez’

Karachi 2015:  The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is really not happy with the comments made by experienced all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez regarding ICC World Cup 2015 but he has decided to ignore the issue because of the 50 over match.
He said, “We just don’t understand what these players really want. Mohammad Hafeez knows very clearly what is written in his medical report yet he went and made some unwarranted comments to the pak media".

He said, medical reports on Hafeez had stated clearly that he required atleast three weeks to recover from his body injury and that there was no guarantee he would remain 100 percent fit in the World Cup 2015.

“After that he has claimed he would have been fit in 10 to 12 days. This is Rubbish. We are ignoring this matter but we will have a little quiet word with him because of the World Cup and we don’t want any unnecessary controversies,” the official media said.

I got injured on February 3 2015 while our match against India is on February 15, so I would have regained my fitness soon. But the touring management called me and told me that they have asked for my replacement for me,” Hafeez said.

Top Cricketers Not in the World Cup 2015 Squad

Top Cricketers Not in the World Cup 2015 Squad : 

Yuvraj Singh (India): Yuvi was India’s best player in the 2007 World Twenty20 and the 2011 World Cup, and he was the man of the tournament of the World Cup 2011. But after that his form had declined since then, and he failed to make a mark when it was time to pick the World Cup team squad. But it must have been tough leaving out a once high-impact top player, but it was a pragmatic call by Indian team selectors. 

Gautam Gambhir (India): He was the top run scored for India in the finals of the World Twenty20 and World Cup, and his contribution to his team’s rise in all types of formats in the Gary Kirsten era was immense. 

Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Bravo (West Indies): A set of two top players boycotted the tour of India. They are Pollard and Bravo were among them. They both has now been left out of the World Cup squad 2015. Chief selector Clive Lloyd said, insists of they were dropped for their poor performance only. 

Alastair Cook (England): He was the The former England ODI captain and now he is in out. His extraordinarily poor form with the bat—no hundreds in the last 45 innings, one fifty in the last five series and coupled with England’s horror run in ODIs.No series wins over a major team since June 2012,So the selectors doesn't choose him.

Nathan Lyon (Australia): He was the off-spinner troubled India a great deal in the recent Test series and he picked up 23 wickets. But his form with one-day cricket has been brief, and he wasn’t experienced enough to merit a place to go ahead of the more experienced Xavier Doherty. 

Shoaib Malik (Pakistan): This Was it as a 2011 headline repeated by mistake in think? But the fact is No. The former Pakistan captain was left out again for the 2015 World Cup, right now when he is in the prime of his life. He is one of Pakistan’s key cricketers of the last decade, Malik will have to wait longer for another track at the World Cup 2015. 

Murali Vijay (India): he performed well to his recent tours to South Africa, England and Australia, India’s Test opener displayed discipline in stroke-play and staying power in the crease rarely seen from an Indian batsman since the heady years of Rahul Dravid. Being he is in-form batsman with 482 runs in the Tests against Australia team, Vijay could have made the team in place of the struggling Shikhar Dhawan. 

ICC World Cup 2015: Misbah-ul-Haq Wish to change history by defeating Indian Team

ICC World Cup 2015: We are looking to rewrite history by beating arch-rivals in the upcoming World Cup 2015, Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq has promised the pakistan fans that the national team would play it is best cricket in the 50 over match.

India and Pakistan starts their respective campaigns against each other on February 15 in Adelaide, a day after the mega event beat-starts and that makes the fight a mouth watering one.

“We all know very well how important this match is and we are going with a clear mind that we want to change history and beat India in this World Cup 2015,” Misbah said while addressed the media briefly at the cricket academy in pakistan before the team left for the airport to embark on their World Cup schedule today.

ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Fixtures/Schedule

“We are fully focused for the world cup match and the players are going to play with lot of passion and commitment to try to win the match,” he added.

Misbah also said that our team is ready to give their best shot at the title they last won in 1992 world cup.

Pakistan is scheduled to play two warm up matches and two one-day internationals in New Zealand before moving to Australia and Misbah, who has already announced the World Cup 2015 team will be his final one-day international event, said the team would have nearly 3-4 weeks to acclimatise to the conditions in the other countries.

AB De Villiers Records : Fastest Fifty, Fastest Century, Highest sixes against West indies

AB De Villiers Claims three massive records against west indies in the 2nd ODI on 18th january 2015 Sunday at The wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, south africa. West indies won the toss and they invite south africa to bat their start their innings.

They made strong partnership in the First Wicket both opener put 247 run partnership made very easy for upcoming batsman AB De Villiers.
AB De Villiers scores a 149 runs in just 44 balls by hitting 9 fours and 16 Sixes with a strike rate of 338.64 amazing.

AB de Villiers broke the past records of Srilankan Sanath Jayasuriya's for the fastest fifty by scored a fifty run in just 16 balls and the fastest hundred in ODI in just 31 balls and they surpassing Corey Anderson's record also.

In this 2nd ODI against West indies AB DE Villiers made another record that is also equaled Shane Watson's the record for most sixes in the innings by hitting 16 biggies and other records of Team as in The score Board All the batsman hit a century and this is also record for any team in ODI cricket world.

ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Fixtures/Schedule

ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Fixtures : Feb 14 2015 - Mar 29 2015

Teams: 

New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Australia, England, South Africa, Pakistan, India, Zimbabwe,
Ireland, West Indies, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Scotland, United Arab Emirates.

Match Venues and the number of match details:

1. Brisbane Cricket Ground, Wooloongabba, Brisbane, Australia  - 3 matches
2. Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia  - 4 matches
3. Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia - 5 matches
4. McLean Park, Napier, New Zealand  - 3 matches
5. Manuka Oval, Canberra, Australia  - 3 matches
6. Western Australia Cricket Ground, Perth, Australia  - 3 matches
7. Hagley Oval, Christchurch, New Zealand  - 3 matches
8. Saxton Oval, Nelson, New Zealand  - 3 matches
9. Bellerive Oval, Hobart, Australia - 3 matches
10. Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand  - 4 matches
11. Westpac Stadium, Wellington, New Zealand  - 4 matches
12. University Oval, Dunedin, New Zealand  - 3 matches
13. Seddon Park, Hamilton, New Zealand - 3 matches

ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Fixtures

Pool A: 

England, Australia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, NewZealand, Qualifier 2 (TBD), Qualifier 3 (TBD).

Pool B: 

South Africa, India, Pakistan, West Indies, Zimbabwe, Qualifier 1 (Ireland), Qualifier 4 (TBD)

Indian Cricket Team Squad for ICC Cricket World Cup 2015

Below are the Fixtures for the World Cup 2015 that will be held by Australia and NewZealand from February 14 to March 29,2015.

Date	Teams	Venue
Feb-14	Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand	Christchurch
Feb-14	England Vs Australia	Melbourne (D/N)
Feb-15	South Africa Vs Zimbabwe	Hamilton (D/N)
Feb-15	India Vs Pakistan	Adelaide (D/N)
Feb-16	West Indies Vs Ireland	Saxton Oval, Nelson
Feb-17	New Zealand Vs Qualifier 3	Dunedin
Feb-18	Bangladesh Vs Qualifier 2	Canberra (D/N)
Feb-19	Zimbabwe Vs Qualifier 4	Nelson
Feb-20	England Vs New Zealand	Wellington (D/N)
Feb-21	Pakistan Vs West Indies	Christchurch
Feb-21	Australia Vs Bangladesh	Brisbane (D/N)
Feb-22	Sri Lanka Vs Qualifier 2	Dunedin
Feb-22	South Africa Vs India	Melbourne (D/N)
Feb-23	England Vs Qualifier 3	Christchurch
Feb-24	West Indies Vs Zimbabwe	Canberra (D/N)
Feb-25	Ireland Vs Qualifier 4	Brisbane (D/N)
Feb-26	Pool A Qualifier 2 Vs Qualifier 3	Dunedin
Feb-26	Sri Lanka Vs Bangladesh	Melbourne (D/N)
Feb-27	South Africa Vs West Indies	Sydney (D/N)
Feb-28	India Vs Qualifier 4	Perth (D/N)
Feb-28	Australia Vs New Zealand	Auckland (D/N)
Mar-01	England Vs Sri Lanka	Wellington
Mar-01	Pakistan Vs Zimbabwe	Brisbane (D/N)
Mar-03	South Africa Vs Ireland	Canberra (D/N)
Mar-04	Pakistan Vs Qualifier 4	Napier (D/N)
Mar-04	Australia Vs Qualifier 2	Perth (D/N)
Mar-05	Bangladesh Vs Qualifier 3	Nelson
Mar-06	India Vs West Indies	Perth (D/N)
Mar-07	South Africa Vs Pakistan	Auckland (D/N)
Mar-07	Zimbabwe Vs Ireland	Hobart (D/N)
Mar-08	New Zealand Vs Qualifier 2	Napier
Mar-08	Australia Vs Sri Lanka	Sydney (D/N)
Mar-09	England Vs Bangladesh	Adelaide (D/N)
Mar-10	India Vs Ireland	Hamilton (D/N
Mar-11	Sri Lanka Vs Qualifier 3	Hobart (D/N)
Mar-12	South Africa Vs Qualifier 4	Wellington (D/N)
Mar-13	Bangladesh Vs New Zealand	Hamilton (D/N)
Mar-13	England Vs Qualifier 2	Sydney (D/N)
Mar-14	India Vs Zimbabwe	Auckland (D/N)
Mar-14	Australia Vs Qualifier 3	Hobart (D/N)
Mar-15	West Indies Vs Qualifier 4	Napier
Mar-15	Pakistan Vs Ireland	Adelaide (D/N)
Mar-18	First Quarter-final	Sydney (D/N)
Mar-19	Second Quarter-final	Melbourne (D/N)
Mar-20	Third Quarter-final	Adelaide (D/N)
Mar-21	Fourth quarter-final	Wellington (D/N)
Mar-24	First semi-final	Auckland (D/N)
Mar-26	Second semi-final	Sydney (D/N)
Mar-29	Final	Melbourne (D/N)

England Team Squad for ICC Cricket World Cup 2015

ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 : England Cricket team selectors have made three changes to the world cup one day squad after their lost 5-2 to Sri Lanka in December. Team Lead by Eoin Morgan, James Anderson and Stuart Broad return from injury with batsman Gary Ballance also included.

England Squad for ICC Cricket World Cup 2015

Eoin Morgan (Capt)
Moeen Ali
James Anderson
Gary Ballance
Ian Bell
Ravi Bopara
Stuart Broad
Jos Buttler
Steven Finn
Alex Hales
Chris Jordan
Joe Root
James Taylor
James Tredwell
Chris Woakes 

Indian Cricket Team Squad for ICC Cricket World Cup 2015

 ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 :  Indian Cricket team have announced their final squad for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015. MS Dhoni will lead the 15 man team. 

Indian Cricket Team Squad for ICC Cricket World Cup 2015

Indian squad that will aim to defend its ICC Cricket World Cup title which is in Australia and New Zealand on coming February-March 2015. 

Ravindra Jadeja and Stuart Binny have been included as all-rounders part, whilst Axar Patel and Ravinchandran Ashwin looking a spin options.

The squad also features several fast bowlers with Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav and Ishant Sharma leading the bowling line up.

Indian Cricket Team Squad for ICC Cricket World Cup 2015

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c)(wk)

Virat Kohli (vice-capt)

Ajinkya Rahane

Shikhar Dhawan

Rohit Sharma

Stuart Binny

Suresh Raina

Ravindra Jadeja

Ambati Rayudu

Axar Patel

Ravichandran Ashwin

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Mohammed Shami

Umesh Yadav

Ishant Sharma.

Afghanistan Cricket Team Squad for ICC Cricket World Cup 2015

ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 : Mohammad Nabi has selected as the captain of Afghanistan’s 15-man squad for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.Which is the place in Australia and New Zealand in February and March.

This is the first world cup for Afghanistan’s maiden appearance in a World Cup series, although they have some big-match experience and having taken part in World Twenty20 tournaments earlier.

There have some core of senior players with the likes of Samiullah Shenwari, Nawroz Mangal, Asghar Stanikzai, Shapoor Zadran, Dawlat Zadran, Mirwais Ashraf and Hamid Hassan all part of the side.

Afghanistan Squad for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015

Mohammad Nabi (capt)

Nawroz Mangal

Asghar Stanikzai

Samiullah Shenwari

Afsar Zazai (wk)

Najibullah Zadran

Nasir Jamal

Mirwais Ashraf

Gulbadin Naib

Hamid Hassan

Shapoor Zadran

Dawlat Zadran

Aftab Alam

Javed Ahmadi

Usman Ghani.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni Retires From Test Cricket!

Mahendra Singh Dhoni : India's Most Succesful Skipper Who has ended his five-day career, having played 90 Test matches. He finished with 4876 runs, 6 hundreds, 33 fifties and 294 dismissals. Below are some of the statistical highlights of India's most successful skipper.
Most successful Indian skipper.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni Retires From Test Cricket!

Dhoni's captaincy record: 60 matches, 27 wins, 18 losses, 15 draws, win% 45. Second comes Sourav Ganguly with 21 wins in 49 matches, win% 42.85.

Most successful Indian skipper at home
Dhoni's captaincy record: 30 matches, 21 wins, 3 losses, 6 draws, win % 70. Second comes Mohammad Azharuddin with 13 wins in 20 matches, win % 65.

Most runs as India captain

Dhoni's numbers: 3454 runs, 5 hundreds, 24 fifties, avg 40.63. Second comes Sunil Gavaskar with 3449 runs with 11 hundreds and 14 fifties at an avg of 50.72.

Highest individual score by an Indian captain
Dhoni's numbers: 224 off 265 against Australia in 2013. Second comes Sachin Tendulkar with 217 off 344 against New Zealand in 1999.

Highest individual score by a wicket-keeper captain
Dhoni's numbers: 224 off 265 against Australia in 2013. Second comes Mushfiqur Rahim with 200 off 321 against Sri Lanka in 2013.

Highest individual score by an Indian wicket-keeper
Dhoni's numbers: 224 off 265 against Australia in 2013. Second comes BK Kunderan with 192 against England in 1964.

Most dismissals and most catches by an Indian wicket-keeper
Dhoni's stats: 294 dismissals - 256 catches and 38 stumpings. Second comes Syed Kirmani with 198 dismissals - 160 catches and 38 stumpings.

Most dismissals in a match by an Indian wicket-keeper
Dhoni's numbers: 9 dismissals - 8 catches and 1 stumping against Australia in 2014. Nayan Mongia (twice) and Dhoni himself (thrice) occupy the second spot with 8 dismissals.

England Cricket Announce 15 members team for the ICC World Cup 2015

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) selecting committee has announced the 15 members team for the Cricket World Cup 2015 in Australia and New Zealand. The selectors hsas declared yesterday have excluded former England captain Alastair Cook and the newly elected skipper Eoin Morgan will lead the cricket team first against Australia and India in the tri-series and also in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.

England Cricket Announce 15 members team for the ICC World Cup 2015

In this time the selectors have made three major changes in the team squad that was comprehensively beaten by Sri Lanka at Sri Lanka 5-2 stats. 

Whereas the three main players who are ought to replace them are James Anderson, Stuart Broad, who have recovered form injuries and Garry Balance.

England team 15 members for the World Cup 2015:

Eoin Morgan (Captain), Moeen Ali, James Anderson, Garry Ballance, Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Stuart Broad, Jos Buttler, Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Chris Jordan, Joe Root, James Tredwell, James Taylor and Chris Woakes.

2014-15 BCCI Contract List : No place for Gambhir and Yuvraj

BCCI Contract List 2014-15: In this list there is no place for Gambhir and Yuvraj. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has released the list of the contracted players, who will play for India in the 2014-15 year season. For the first time BCCI has increased the number of contracted indian players from 25 to 32. 

2014-15 BCCI Contract List : No place for Gambhir and Yuvraj

Now the BCCI follows a three tier grading system for paying the salary to the cricket players. 

Players in Grade A they will get Rs 1 crore per year from the board while the players in Grade B and Grade C they will get Rs 50 lakhs and Rs 25 lakhs per year.

Indian Fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar has been promoted from Grade B to Grade A, while Yuvraj Singh and Gautam Gambhir find themselves out of the contract list, ending the speculations of their cricket career. 

Ajinkya Rahane finds himself and promoted from Grade C to Grade B, while Robin Uthappa finds himself back in the selectors’ find radar. 

The new young players in the contract list are KL Rahul, Parvez Rasool, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson, Karn Sharma, Pankaj Singh and Manoj Tiwary. Players who are not in the lists will be placed in Grade C as and when they represent India in Tests / ODIs / T20 Internationals during this year.

Including this BCCI will also pay Rs 7 lakhs as Test match fee, Rs 4 lakhs as ODI fee and Rs 2 lakhs as T20I fee per match to all the contract players, who represents India on the above all match formats. This is the fee, which will be deducted by the custodians of the individual game and if any code of conduct is violated on the field by the cricket players.

CONTRACT LIST

Grade A: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Grade B: Pragyan Ojha, Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja, Ishant Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Umesh Yadav, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Ambati Rayudu, Mohammed Shami

Grade C: Amit Mishra, Varun Aaron, Wriddhiman Saha, Stuart Binny, Pankaj Singh, R Vinay Kumar, Mohit Sharma, Dhawal Kulkarni, Parveez Rasool, Axar Patel, Manoj Tiwary, Robin Uthappa, Karn Sharma, Sanju Samson, Kuldeep Yadav, KL Rahul

This list has properly announced by BCCI

Cricket Latest Photos Of The Week - Cricket Gallery

Cricket Gallery September 2014 :

Cricket Latest Photos : MS Dhoni captain of Chennai Super Kings has a word with Field umpire Kumara Dharmasena during match 1 of the Oppo Champions League Twenty20 

Cricket Latest Photos:Pakistani cricket player Shahid Afridi (R) makes a selfie with teammates with the ICC World Cup 2015 trophy during a ceremony in Karachi 

Cricket photos 2014 :West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul (C) bows after reaching a century off a delivery from Bangladesh bowler Mahmudullah Riyad as Jerome Blackwood watches on day four of the second and final Test between West Indies and Bangladesh 

Cricket photos 2014 :Batsman Mushfiqir Rahim of Bangladesh jumps to avoid a bouncing delivery from West Indies bowler Shannon Gabriel on day four of the second and final Test between West Indies and Bangladesh on September 16, 2014 

Cricket photos 2014 :Yusuf Pathan, Manvinder Bisla of the Kolkata Knight Riders celebrates the wicket of Brendon McCullum of The Chennai Superkings during match 1 of the Oppo Champions League Twenty20 between the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Chennai Superkings held at the Rajiv Gandhi Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad,

Cricket photos 2014 :Kevin Pietersen looks on during the Barclays Premier League match between Manchester United and Queens Park Rangers at Old Trafford 

Cricket photos 2014 :Breeze CLT20 dancers performing during match 4 of the Oppo Champions League Twenty20 between the Dolphins and the Perth Scorchers held at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, India on the 20th September 2014

Cricket photos 2014 :Sakshi, wife of MS Dohni, with daughter of Gautam Gambhir during match 1 of the Oppo Champions League Twenty20 between the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Chennai Superkings held at the Rajiv Gandhi Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad, India

Cricket photos 2014 : 

Virender Sehwag of the Kings XI Punjab waits to go in to bat during match 2 of the Oppo Champions League Twenty20 between the Kings XI Punjab and the Hobart Hurricanes held at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, India 

Cricket photos 2014 :Mitchell Marsh of the Perth Scorchers celebrates after hitting a six off the final ball to beat Dolphins during match 4 of the Oppo Champions League Twenty20 between the Dolphins and the Perth Scorchers held at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali,

Cricket photos 2014 :Ben Hilfenhaus of the Hobart Hurricanes shares a lighter moment with the umpire during match 2 of the Oppo Champions League Twenty20 between the Kings XI Punjab and the Hobart Hurricanes held at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali,

Top 10 players with most consecutive matches inT20's

In the T20 format has been played frequently With existence of Leagues this format got a huge demand. Every Players trend has been representing consecutively without missing out unlike when they play First class games of List A.

But few of them kept representing and completed 100 matches milestone and few of them in that under process.

Indian Skipper Suresh Raina leads this list by playing all the games that Chennai Super Kings(CSK) have played in both IPL T20 and CLT20 seasons.

Next comes, Royal Challengers Bangalore(RCB) Captain, Virat Kohli, who played similarly like Raina but missed out on couple of last matches in the first season been an young player.
CSK Captain MS Dhoni also similarly played same number of matches like Raina but missed out couple of some matches due to back strain in 2010 IPL.

Ambati Rayudu who has been a crucial player in Mumbai Indians(MI) past years also been a good regular player for their team.He missing a game in his first season of IPL, 2010 as he took time to convert as a wicket keeper.

Now here is the Top 10 players list who have consecutively played in T20s for their Individual team:

PLAYER	TEAM
		MATCHES	FROM	UNTIL
S Raina	Chennai Super Kings	137	19 Apr 2008	27 Sep 2014
V Kohli	Royal Challengers bangalore	112	21 May 2008	24 May 2014
S Croft	Lancashire	102	27 Jun 2006	23 Aug 2014
MS Dhoni	Chennai Super Kings	102	25 Mar 2010	27 Sep 2014
A Rayudu	Mumbai Indians	100	28 Mar 2010	16 Sep 2014
R Ashwin	Chennai Super Kings	98	6 Apr 2010	27 Sep 2014
P Nixon	Leicestershire	95	16 Jun 2003	21 Sep 2011
J Adams	Hampshire	94	25 May 2009	23 Aug 2014
N carter	Warwickshire	87	13 Jun 2003	26 Jun 2011
G Cross	Lancashire	87	27 Jun 2006	7 Aug 2013

All Stats till 1st October 2014