Sachin Tendulkar honoured with exclusive gold coin

Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar is honoured by Britain’s premium luxury goods brand East India Company. Company has issued an exclusive legal tender gold coin worth 12,000 pound sterling in honour of Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar.

Sachin Tendulkar

This rare coin is to honour his cricketing career and his contribution to the game of cricket in which he spent 24 long years. In that long span he was never involved in any controversy and played the  like a gentleman.

“Only 210 gold coins, each weighing precisely 200g, are being issued to pay tribute to Tendulkar at a global level. Only very few will ever see this coin in the flesh, making them exceptionally rare and precious amongst thousands of fans who yearn to own a piece of the superstar’s legacy,” the London-based firm said in a statement.

“Every single 200g coin issued is a masterpiece in its own right. Exclusively presented in a custom made presentation box the coin is accompanied by an individually numbered and personally signed certificate of authenticity along with an autographed cricket bat by Sachin Tendulkar,” it added.

Tendulkar said he was honoured by the recognition.

“All my life, I have had a dream of playing cricket for India. I am very fortunate to have lived this dream for the last 24 years. I am honoured to be recognised with the issue of these special coins, which have been impressively designed with a lot of thought,” Tendulkar said.

The design of the coin has been handcrafted in great detail by one of the world's most renowned coin designers Joaquin Jimenez, currently the Chief Engraver at Monnaie de Paris.

The canvas of the coin shows the latitude lines of the globe modelled in cricket stitching to represent the international stage of cricket.

The Gateway of India features to denote Tendulkar's home city of Mumbai, where he started and completed his illustrious career.

The East India Company's exclusive legal tender gold coin issued in honour of Tendulkar. (Source: The East India Company)

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India tour of Australia ahead of World Cup

Cricket Australia announced its schedule ahead of the World Cup which it would jointly host with New Zealand.


"The Fans in Brisbane will see the India Test team for the first time since 2003-04," Cricket Australia said in a statement. The World Cup will roll out from February 14 and conclude on March 29.

"The next 12 months will have something for everyone. It contains some refinements from last season that benefits both players and fans. Never before have we had so much high quality cricket to offer around Australia, whether it's international or domestic, men's or women's, or played with a red or white ball," Cricket Australia Chief Executive Officer James Sutherland said.

"The 2014-15 schedule looks very different to previous summers due in large part to the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 that we are co-hosting with New Zealand for the first time in 23 years."

"With a Test series against India, ODIs against the top teams in world cricket, the ICC Cricket World Cup and another strong domestic calendar, this year promises to be even bigger," Sutherland added.


Cricket Australia Schedule:
 
T20 series:
 
Nov 5: 1st T20 Australia v South Africa - Adelaide
Nov 7: 2nd T20 Australia v South Africa - Melbourne
Nov 9: 3rd T20 Australia v South Africa - Sydney

ODI series:
 
Nov 14: 1st ODI Australia v South Africa - Perth
Nov 16: 2nd ODI Australia v South Africa - Perth
Nov 19: 3rd ODI Australia v South Africa - Canberra
Nov 21: 4th ODI Australia v South Africa - Melbourne
Nov 23: 5th ODI Australia v South Africa - Sydney

Test series:
 
Dec 4-8: 1st Test Australia v India - Brisbane
Dec 12-16: 2nd Test Australia v India - Adelaide
Dec 26-30: 3rd Test Australia v India - Melbourne
Jan 3-7: 4th Test Australia v India - Sydney

ODI tri-series:
 
Jan 16: Australia v India - Melbourne
Jan 18: Australia v England - Sydney
Jan 20: England v India - Brisbane
Jan 23: Australia v England - Hobart
Jan 26: Australia v India - Sydney
Jan 30: England v India - Perth
Feb 1: Final - Perth.

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Parvez Rasool : First Player from J&K state

In the first match of the series for Indian against Bangladesh They didn't get a chance to two young talent to showcase their talent at international level but one of the player got a chance to create a history. not only Parvez Rasool become the first player from the state of Jammu and Kashmir, who got a chance wear Indian jersey.

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Parvez Rasool has played 29 first class games in which picks up 84 wickets with average of 31. 66. In his first ODI, though, he gave away 60 runs but picked up couple of wickets which includes Anamul Haque (44) and Bangladeshi skipper Mushfiqur Rahim (59).

Although, he played his first game on Sunday but this wasn't his first tour for India team. He was sent with team for the tour of Zimbabwe last year but he wasn't got a game there. And came back without playing any game but this time fortunately he got his chance in a very first game in the tour of three games.

Also See: Virat Kohli defended not playing Parvez Rasool's in the 5th ODI

With his inclusion in national side Chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah had expressed his pleasure on twitter.

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PICS: Sachin Tendulkar Conducts Training Session In Singapore

Sachin Tendulkar (standing) holds a training session for young players at the Singapore Cricket Club on June 3, 2014. Here are some pictures of the event:

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KKR winner of IPL7

Kolkata Knight Rider won their second IPL title in a span of three IPL’s. They were calm, focused and relaxed throughout their batting otherwise chasing a 200 runs target in finals wouldn’t be easy for them.

With these win they are set the record of most successive win in an IPL session. They had won nine successive win in one session. Gautam Gambhir has become the only captain after MS Dhoni who has two IPL title on his name.

Shahrukh Khan after his team victory
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With Batsmen like Robin Uthappa, Gautam Gambhir, Manish Pandey and Yusuf Pathan, they had the fierce batting line up which can chase any score. Though their Maximum score in whole tournament was around 170 but in final they chased down 200 runs in 19.3 over’s.

Robin Uthappa was the spearhead of their batting. He was the leading runs scorer for KKR and in the tournament. He had scored 660 runs in 16 matches and won Orange Cap in this session.

Manish Pandey, though played some good innings every now and then, wasn’t in his prime form before finals. He must be save his special innings for the finals. He was played one hell of an innings in final which guided his team to the victory. He had scored 94 off 50 balls with six sixes and seven fours.

Experts throughout the tournament said that “KKR has a best bowling set up in this tournament. And KKR had proving them true all through except in final where their bowlers gone for plenty which include Sunil Narine as well. He went for more than 40 runs in his four over’s.

But just one game can’t washed away their all the good work in 15 previous games. They were sharp and crispy, and everyone played their role pretty well. Sunil Narine had missed his test match for West Indies for IPL Final but at the end his decision proved to be worthy. He finished this IPL at second Position in leading wicket takers with 21 wickets.

Morne Morkel, a Proteas fast bowler was another foreign player who had gave his excellent service to them. He was quick and sharp in Powerplay’s. Not only his bowling but also proved to be an asset for team. Indian bowlers like Piyush Chawla and Umesh Yadav was too fantastic in their roles.

After first seven games of Knight’s nobody thought that they would going to win from there. They were persisted with their theme KORBO LORBO JEETBO and finally have a trophy once again.



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Full list of Award winners

Robin Uthappa: Orange Cap for scoring maximum runs in this session. He had score 660 runs for Kolkata Knight Rider."It has been quite surreal. I am at a loss of words right now.Extremely happy KKR did well & I have been able to contribute. I think the innings against MI was big.. I played with an injured toe" he said after receiving the award.

Mohit Sharma: Purple Cap for taking maximum wickets in this session. He had picked up 23 wickets for Chennai Super Kings. ""Big achievement. Very happy. Learned a lot this year." he said

Akshar Patel: Emerging Player of the Tournament. "I feel proud. This will stand me in good stead. I stick to basics and concentrate on my plan. If someone plays well, then my bad luck. I think of myself as a batting allrounder but after this performance maybe a bowling all rounder." he said after receiving award.

Glenn Maxwell: Most valuable player of the tournament. He was chosen by the point system which was given to him for every run, boundary and catch. he had 286 points. He also got the most sixes awards. He had hit 36 sixes for Kings XI Punjab.

Chennai Super Kings: Fair Play Award 

Kieron Pollard: Best Catch of the Tournament.

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KXIP a team who won the heart

Kings XI Punjab lost the Final game but certainly won many hearts from their performance throughout this tournament. If one compares their previous six sessions with this one then certainly one must realize and recognize their hard work to come to his far.

KXIP TEAM
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They had literally been trashed in all six session in which they finished among bottom three almost all the time. But session, IPL7 had promised much more than just an improved performance than previous sessions for them.

They had taken all the right decision from the auction to finals. Weather it was inclusion of Virender shewag or appointment of George Bailey as Skipper or retaining an inexperience Manan Vohra to team, all these seemed to be going in their ways.

Glenn Maxwell had been proved to be a crucial buy for them. He was fantastic and one of those guys along with Miller who provide them the initial impetus in tournament. He was the leading runs scorer for them with 552 runs in 16 matches.

KXIP wasn’t just all about big foreign or Indian players. They had some great young Indian talent as well. Manan Vohra, Akshar Patel, Wriddhiman Saha, Sandeep Sharma and many others who performed whenever they got a chance to showcase their abilities.
Wriddhiman Saha was proved to be an exceptional player for them. The wicketkeeper batsman scored a century when its matter, Yes in Finale!! But his effort of bring KXIP from nowhere to 199 runs gone in vain.

Akshar Patel was another special talent came to the fore in this IPL. Left-arm spinner had impressed everyone with his consistency and also the ability to bat and field as well. He was awarded with “Emerging Player award”.

Sanjay Banger, the man who working with these boys from behind, surely deserve a lot accolades for his fantastic job. He was the brain (Of course along with many) behind their success.

Although, they lost the finale but undoubted they were the best team of this IPL. They had chased down many 200+ scores with so easy. It would be wrong if one says that they were the one who raised the standard of this year’s IPL so high.



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Shahrukh was ecstatic!!

Kolkata Knight Riders' co-owner Shahrukh Khan was ecstatic after his team win on Sunday. SRK who known for his roles in romantic Bollywood flicks was jumping waving to his fans, doing cartwheels after the win.

He dedicated this win to his to his youngest son AbRam. That's what he said after the game:

"I dedicated this win to my little child AbRam and the hard work done by Gautam and his team. Thank you Bengaluru and thank you IPL. We believed in ourselves and the hard work done by the team management," Shah Rukh told

"We didn't have many big players and flashy names but team work did it for us. I told my children that Manish will do something special. If I were to choose my team to play against any team in the final, I wouldn't have chosen Preity's team. I wished to win against any other team."

"Punjab is a great team, they did fantastic job during auction. But luck was on our side, we did manage to capture a few moments," he added.

Here are some of his Moments in pictures:

Image Courtesy: BCCI

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Bailey's Habit of ajusting the helmet

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PICS: Some Funny Fans

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