Sachin Tendulkar on Monday made way for Sourav Ganguly while Zaheer Khan was included as the sixth Indian in the revised 14-member one-day Asian cricket team for the Afro-Asian Cup beginning in Bangalore on June 6.
Sri Lankan Dilhara Fernando and Mashrafe Mortaza of Bangladesh were the other two new faces in the squad after Pakistani [...]

May 29th, 2007
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Terrific displays by India’s batsmen and bowlers helped the visitors defeat hosts Bangladesh convincingly by an innings and 239 runs in Dhaka on Sunday with more than two days to spare, also wrapping up the Grameen Bank Series 1-0.

May 27th, 2007
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Sachin Tendulkar has scored a back-to-back hundred against Bangladesh on Day 2 of the Second Test. Sachin joined Jaffer, Daravid and Karthick who have all scored tons in this test match, a world record of sorts.
The Asian Test minnows were peppered around the park by the Indian batsmen. The star of the day was Dinesh [...]

May 26th, 2007
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“After 17 years, I don’t think I have a point to prove,” Sachin Tendulkar said at the end of a rain-marred second day at Chittagong. .
Today, in a brief spell of play, Tendulkar reached his 36th Test century, and it was more than just another addition to his burgeoning numbers. The reason which gave it [...]

May 20th, 2007
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On the second day of the first Test match between India and Bangladesh the first two sessions were lost due to rains and wet outfield with only 20 overs of play possible that saw the two overnight not out batsmen – Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly – scoring centuries.
Though both of them reached their centuries [...]

May 19th, 2007
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