Cricket Scores - Tell All About a Cricket Match

If you are not a cricket fan, you are most likely to wonder what is it about cricket scores that keep fans glued to their televisions sets. Well this is something many people have been asking and thinking about and let me tell you till you become involved with the game one can never understand the importance and the thrill behind watching cricket scores. Cricket is a team game consisting of eleven players and it is the duty of all these players to ensure that they keep the score of their team moving till they win the game. For a cricket fan knowing about the cricket score is very important as this is the one factor that actually tells the status of a live match. Ideally fans would love to see the cricket scores live on the field, but all of us know that this is not possible at all times.

A fan can access the latest cricket scores of live matches through different sources, he only needs to choose which means he wants to use. Today you have many corporate houses venturing into the field of providing the latest cricket scores to fans. This is a wonderful marketing strategy which has worked very well for big corporate houses. So you have one of the biggest names in the world of cricket Sachin Tendulkar endorsing a particular telecom company that promises to give customers the latest score of match in the voice of Tendulkar. Now this is something that cricket fans will not like to miss out on and you will find that many of them actually subscribe to this network just because their favorite cricketer is endorsing it. Today you can find most of the telecom companies giving updated cricket scores to fans as there is huge demand of this.

The internet is a wonderful source through which fans can come to know about the cricket scores. And this is just the perfect source for the cricket fan who is also a working professional, as they can know all about the cricket scores and yet continue with their work. All important business meetings can be conducted, all deadlines can be met and yet you can continue to know about the latest cricket scores. There are several sites on the World Wide Web that provide the live cricket score to fans and all they need to do is find out one such site and they can know about the latest status of a live match. The cricket score contains all the elements that a fan would like to know about the game.

Cricket scores can tell many things about a game starting from which team is batting first to which players are bowling and how is the team playing. One can get a simple scorecard and also a detailed score card about the match. So if you are looking for all the details of the game detailed cricket score will tell you all about the game. So even if you cannot catch the live action on the television or on the field you can use the different sources to know all about cricket scores of a live cricket match.

Ella Wilson is a cricket fanatic. She simply loves the game and tries to catch live action no matter where she is. To know more about cricket score,live cricket score,cricket ,cricket discussion,Cricket News and Cricket scores visit at http://www.stickiewicket.com

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Cars of Our Cricketers

All Indians idolize our Indian cricket team. Our curiosity to know more about their lifestyle, their desires, their passions always remains intact. Getting a step closer to their private lives, here we bring you their passion for cars. Our Cricketers have a great passion for cars and they are also avid collectors of them.

Sachin Tendulkar has become the living God for all cricket fans. So, we begin this article by talking about his car.

Sachin was awarded the Ferrari 360 Modena. In fact, we all remember the hullaboo that happened when the batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar had requested a custom duty waiver on the car. The Ferrari 360 Modena was gifted to him by FIAT, after the Mumbai batsman equalled the late Don Bradman's tally of 29 Test centuries.

We have come to know that though Sachin Tendulkar likes his car to be chauffeur-driven, but sometimes he takes wife and kids out for a ride in his dashing Ferrari whenever he is on touting for India.  

In addition to the Ferrari, master blaster Sachin Tendulkar owns two ultimate status-symbols, a silver-coloured Mercedes-Benz and a black Opel Astra, which he won in a Sharjah tournament for his outstanding performance.

Former vice caption of the Indian cricket team, Virender Sehwag, adores cars and owns a BMW 5 Series. Sehwag prefers to drive his BMW 5 Series either early in the morning or late at night as he feels it is the best time to drive in calm and relaxed way.

Open Gautam Gambhir loves speed! This guy from the capital city is also obsessed with cars. The Indian opener was on the headlines when he test drove the 1600cc Formula Ford car.

Delhi Daredevil Gautam Gambhir owns a Toyota Corolla, Maruti SX4 and a Hyundai Santro. However, Gambhir prefers to be driven rather than drive himself. His dream car is to own a BMW model and we all know Gambhir will make his dream come true.

Mr. Consistent Rahul Dravid drives a Hyundai Tucson. The former Indian skipper was gifted the Tucson by the International Cricket Council for being the best Test Player for the year 2004.

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ODI Batsmen Rankings 2007 (All Teams)

Well January in back, and so is the second edition of Vineet's Cricket Rankings! And though there are some surprises the top of the heap is captured by none other than two of the most competitive cricketers of 21st century - Ricky Ponting followed by Matthew Hayden.

Ricky Ponting scored 1424 runs in 27 matches at an amazing average of 79.11 at a very high strike rate of 91.79!! He smashed 5 centuries and 8 half-centuries on the way to achieving this. Not to be left behind, Matthew Hayden scored 1601 runs in 32 matches at a very high average of 59.29 at a good strike rate of 89.19!! He smashed 5 centuries and 6 half-centuries on the way to achieving this.

Graeme Smith, Andrew Symonds and Sachin Tendulkar follow at 3,4 and 5. So the year 2007 was heavily dominated by Australian Batsmen, and the same way the Australian Team dominated the World Cricket.

Well, now for some surprises, Ten Doeschate remains in Top 20 (remember this site had picked him to be a player to watch last year). Shahid Afridi continued to dazzle with an annual strike rate of 161. A player like Haddin who has a position of No. 7 in the table continues to languish on the fringes of the Australian team (Does the Australian team also have a Seniorphilia like the Indians?). AB deVillers continued to be in the Top 10, a feat only Yuvraj could manage besides him. So we can certainly take deVillers and Yuvraj to be the players of the future!!

But the biggest surprise in Top 10 was DJ Reekers (Netherlands), and if you combine him and Doeschate you have a team to look out for - Netherlands!

Some surprises to watch for are LOB Cann (Bermuda), JM Davison (Canada), Robin Utthappa (India).

1 RT Ponting (Aus)

2 ML Hayden (Aus)

3 GC Smith (SA)

4 A Symonds (Aus)

5 SR Tendulkar (India)

6 Shahid Afridi (Pak)

7 BJ Haddin (Aus)

8 AB de Villiers (Afr/SA)

9 DJ Reekers (Neth)

10 Yuvraj Singh (Asia/India)

11 Mohammad Yousuf (Asia/Pak)

12 V Sehwag (Asia/India)

13 SB Styris (NZ)

14 Salman Butt (Pak)

15 LOB Cann (Ber)

16 AC Gilchrist (Aus)

17 HH Gibbs (SA)

18 S Chanderpaul (WI)

19 RN ten Doeschate (Neth)

20 JM Davison (Can)

21 RR Sarwan (WI)

22 Imran Nazir (Pak)

23 JH Kallis (SA)

24 MS Dhoni (Asia/India)

25 SR Watson (Aus)

26 KP Pietersen (Eng)

27 BC Lara (WI)

28 LPC Silva (SL)

29 S Matsikenyeri (Zim)

30 RV Uthappa (India)

Where are the top 5 batsmen of the year 2006?

Well RN Ten Doeschate whom this site had predicted as a hidden gem, continued his exciting run by remaining in Top 20. While Nathan Astle and Mark Trescothick faded into oblivion, Gilchrist continued to be a good bet, though Jayasuria was quite subdued this year.

40 ST Jayasuria (SL) (1)

19 RN Ten Doeschate (Neth) (2)

232 NJ Astle (NZ) (3)

retired ME Trescothick (ENG) (4)

16 AC Gilchrist (AUS) (5)

*These rankings are based on Players who've played 5 matches or more. These rankings are prepared solely by myself based on owned algorithms.

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Indian Cricket Players To Earn More Under The New Proposed Contract

Did they tell you that Indian cricket players to earn more under the new (proposed) contract? Check out some important statistic everyone has been hiding...

Taking a tough stand in the wake of India's World Cup debacle, the BCCI on Saturday scrapped the players' contract system and reverted to payment of match fees, including bonus for every series win.

Previous contract system had three grades.

* Senior players like Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag were Grade A players and got a retainership of Rs 50 lakhs. In addition they were paid Rs 2.5 lakh per Test and Rs 1.60 lakh per ODI.

* Grade B players included Yuvraj Singh, Mohd Kaif, Ajit Agarkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and they were paid Rs 35 lakh as retainership, Rs 2.5 lakh per Test and Rs 1.60 lakh per ODI.

* Grade C players like Zaheer Khan, Suresh Raina and S Sreesanth were paid Rs 20 lakh as retainer and the same as match fee for Tests and ODI as Grade A and B.

Under the proposal, the basic retainer fee will reduce to Rs 5 lacs, while the match fees will be Rs. 1.5 lac per ODI and Rs. 2.5 lac per Test.

Endorsements

Restricting the players to 3 endorsements is a debatable clause, though the player's total earnings may not be affected, since the players would be extract their total endorsemens from these 3 contracts to a large extent since the availability of players would go down, so the best brands would vie for each player and consequently the brand value would go up for each player. Also it would reduce the load on the player and unexpected pressure on the player from the brand. In the end, however, it seems to be an infringement on their basic rights. Thumbs Down.

Retainership Fees

Earlier the retainer fees were Rs. 50 lacs, 35 lacs and 20 lacs depending on the player grade (which anyway was controversial). Now the retainership fees is reduced and spread over the incetives. Please see analysis below. Thumbs Up.

Match Fees

It decided to cut down the players' one-day fees from Rs 1.6 lac to Rs 1.5 lac each and Rs. 2.5 lac per Test. Hardly any change here. Neutral.

Performance Incentives:

Linking payments directly to performance, the players would be played a flat fee with incentives for winning. As reported, the payments would be around Rs one lac for an ODI and about Rs 2.50 lac for a Test. They'd also be given a bonus of Rs 3 lac each for winning a series, BCCI sources said.

A Top player play about 30 ODI and 10 Test Matches every year which is about 8 ODI series and 4 Test Series. Presuming 60% wins, you end up winning 5 ODI series (out of 8) and 18 ODI matches out of 30, you'd expect a windfall of 45 lacs as match fees, and a bonus of 18 lacs for winning 8 ODIs and 15 lacs for winning 5 series. So you collect a total of Rs. 78 lacs from the ODIs alone. Compare it to 98 lacs tendulkar would've made under the earlier contract and 68 lacs that Zaheer Khan would've made under the earlier system. Now imagive if they were to win 70% of their matches, the earnings go up to 84 lacs and so on.

Let us analyse 2 extreme scenarios.

Wining 50% Matches

Old System New System

Retainer

Tendulkar 50 Lacs 5 Lacs

Yuvraj S 35 Lacs 5 Lacs

Zaheer K 20 Lacs 5 Lacs

Match Fees

ODI

Tendulkar 48 Lacs 45 Lacs

Yuvraj S 48 Lacs 45 Lacs

Zaheer K 48 Lacs 45 Lacs

Test Matches

Tendulkar 25 Lacs 25 Lacs

Yuvraj S 25 Lacs 25 Lacs

Zaheer K 25 Lacs 25 Lacs

Bonus

ODI

Tendulkar 0 Lacs 27 Lacs (1x15+3x4)

Yuvraj S 0 Lacs 27 Lacs

Zaheer K 0 Lacs 27 Lacs

Test Matches

Tendulkar 0 Lacs 18.5 Lacs (2.5x5+3x2)

Yuvraj S 0 Lacs 18.5 Lacs

Zaheer K 0 Lacs 18.5 Lacs

Total Earnings

Tendulkar 123 Lacs 120.5 Lacs

Yuvraj S 108 Lacs 120.5 Lacs

Zaheer K 93 Lacs 120.5 Lacs

Wining 70% Matches

Old System New System

Retainer

Tendulkar 50 Lacs 5 Lacs

Yuvraj S 35 Lacs 5 Lacs

Zaheer K 20 Lacs 5 Lacs

Match Fees

ODI

Tendulkar 48 Lacs 45 Lacs

Yuvraj S 48 Lacs 45 Lacs

Zaheer K 48 Lacs 45 Lacs

Test Matches

Tendulkar 25 Lacs 25 Lacs

Yuvraj S 25 Lacs 25 Lacs

Zaheer K 25 Lacs 25 Lacs

Bonus

ODI

Tendulkar 0 Lacs 39 Lacs (1x21+3x6)

Yuvraj S 0 Lacs 39 Lacs

Zaheer K 0 Lacs 39 Lacs

Test Matches

Tendulkar 0 Lacs 24 Lacs (2.5x7+3x3)

Yuvraj S 0 Lacs 24 Lacs

Zaheer K 0 Lacs 24 Lacs

Total Earnings

Tendulkar 123 Lacs 138 Lacs

Yuvraj S 108 Lacs 138 Lacs

Zaheer K 93 Lacs 138 Lacs

This is still not counting the earnings from playing the compulsory 40 days of domestic cricket.

Yes, if a person is dropped his earnings go. Which anyway should not have been there in the first case. In case of injured players they'd get the earnings (maybe not the incentives, which again is fair)

So in the end the new proposed system is much better than the earlier system. Thumbs Up.

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