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Hyderabad: Australian cricket captain won the toss and elected to bat first at Hyderabad. The crucial match is going to begin soon here. Hyderabad is being seen as batting paradise track at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, Uppal.

In the mean time, India has made couple of changes for 5th ODI. Ishant Sharma paved the way for Munaf Patel while Gautam Gambhir back in the side replacing Virat Kohli.

Meanwhile, all eyes are on Sachin Tendulkar today as he’s only 7 runs behind from making 17,000 run marks.

He is currently the top run-getter in ODI cricket with 16, 993 runs to his name. Sanath Jayasuriya is second on the list with 13,377 runs while Aussie captain Ricky Ponting has a lot of catching up to do.

Tendulkar, who has been in focus in the series so far will go into the fifth match with a familiar burden of expectations.

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Nagpur: As part of the tight security arrangements for Wednesday’s day-night match, commandos have been requisitioned from Naxal hit areas for a day, police sources said.

Police will be using night vision devices to keep a vigil in and around the new stadium, they said.

Reports say that a crack team of anti-Naxalite commandos has been roped in to provide security cover to the Indian and Australian cricket teams at the

Vidarbha Cricket Association stadium at Jamtha, where the second One-dayer will be held on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, both the teams had net practice at the stadium to have a feel of the ground. The Australians were the first to reach the stadium while the Indian team arrived a little later.

Vadodara: India, Aus series is set to begin tomorrow. First one-dayer would be starting here at Vadodra tomorrow with the injury-hit hosts fully aware that a series triumph in the seven-match rubber would catapult them to the number one spot.

Though flamboyant Virender Sehwag has returned to bolster the Indian top-order, Yuvraj Singh is unlikely to take the field for the series-opener at the Reliance Stadium.

The Indians will also be keen to make amends for their Champions Trophy debacle as they take on the world champions in what promises to be a thrilling contest of nerve and skills.

Australia are in super form having clinched the Champions Trophy title, which followed an impressive 6-1 thrashing of England while the Indians have not quite lived upto expectations in recent times.

The Local Organising Committee met on Wednesday to finalise the venue-based distribution of the 29 games that India is scheduled to host.

The full schedule of the 14-nation tournament is due to be announced in Mumbai on 9th November.

The rest of the 20 games of the 49-match event have been awarded to Sri Lanka (12) and Bangaldesh (8).

The committee decided to give two other matches to Mohali apart from the semifinal.

Ahmedabad has been given a quarterfinal and two other games, while Kolkata and Delhi will host one India and three other matches each, BCCI secretary N Srinivas said in a statement.

Jaipur has been left out of the list of venues with Nagpur, Chennai and Bangalore getting one India game each.

India’s share of World Cup matches increased by eight after the games scheduled in Pakistan were shifted to other co-hosts due to security concerns of the participating countries.

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Dravid, who was surprisingly named in India’s Champions Trophy squad, failed to find favour with the selectors, who have decided to persist with young right-hander Virat Kohli.

Kohli had been inducted in the Champions Trophy squad after Yuvraj was forced out due to a finger injury.

In apparent fallout of India’s Champions Trophy debacle, out of form all-rounder Yusuf Pathan and pacer R P Singh were dropped from the squad announced by the BCCI after a meeting of its selection panel in Chennai.

Wicket-keeper batsman Dinesh Karthik and young all-rounder Abhishek Nayar were also dropped.

Rookie Uttar Pradesh pacer Sudeep Tyagi was the lone new face in the squad, which marked the return of another fast bowler Munaf Patel and young all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja.

Tyagi has played 16 first-class match for Uttar Pradesh and has taken 57 wickets at an average of 25.73.

Meanwhile, the BCCI said Yuvraj, who is still recuperating from a fractured finger, will be completely fit by 28th October for the second one-dayer in Nagpur and might as well be available for the first one-dayer on 25th October in Vadodara.

“Selectors are advised that Yuvraj would definitely be fit to play on 28th October. It is possible that he may be able to play the first match as well,” BCCI secretary N Srinivasan said in a statement.

“The decision on the playing XI for the first match will be made based on Yuvraj’s fitness on 25th October,” he added.

Sehwag, meanwhile, has already recovered from his shoulder injury and is currently playing in the Champions League Twenty20.

The spin combination of Harbhajan Singh and Amit Mishra have retained their place in the side along with in-form fast bowler Ashish Nehra.

The squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c), Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Virat Kohli, Praveen Kumar, Amit Mishra, Ashish Nehra, Suresh Raina, Ishant Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Munaf Patel, Sudeep Tyagi.

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Kotla: South Africa’s Diamond Eagles beat the Sussex Sharks of England at the Group B match of the Airtel Champions League T20. With the victory, Eagles qualified for Super Eight stage.

Both the teams finished on 119. So the Super Over was played and Eagles batted first and scored a score of 9 runs. The Sussex players were bowled by CJ de Villiers off the first two balls and match turned in the favor of South Africans.

119 was not a tough target to achieve for the Englishmen. However, Sussex captain Michael Yardy, kept the batsmen on a tight leash with his left-arm spin.

Delhi DareDevils have already qualified for the second stage and will play the Royal Challengers Bangalore in Bangalore on October 17.

They will then face the Cape Cobras at the Kotla on October 19.

Islamabad: National Assembly’s standing committee on sports chairman, Jamshed Dasti is against the players talking to the media and questions Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ejaz Butt.

Dasti asks, “”What is this all about? We read nearly every player whether it is Shahid Afridi or Shoaib Malik giving statements on a regular basis.”

He says further, “Doesn’t the PCB have a contract with these players? Are there no regulations or rules for them?”

Dasti and other members of the committee asked Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ejaz Butt to explain why the players were not being hauled up for speaking so much with the media.

It is an unfortunate incident for the cricketer but a shameful one for the country. A member of India’s under-19 Test and ODI teams was shot dead outside a crowded Meerut kebab shop last night when a customer protesting delay in service fired indiscriminately from a revolver.

Alleged shooter Rahul Chaudhary is the son of a woman head constable in the crime branch of the state CID, has been arrested. He is suspected to be a member of a gang of kidnappers. He had picked a fight with Shahnawaz over alleged delay in being served, eyewitnesses said. Asked to wait a while longer, he allegedly abused Shahnawaz and left. He returned with two men in a Santro after half an hour. By then, Gagandeep had arrived. Chaudhary began firing indiscriminately at employees of the shop. Residents of the Lalkuthi locality took Gagandeep and Shahnawaz to hospital where they were declared dead on arrival. A restaurant employee, Mohammad Sharif, too was hit and is fighting for his life.

Gagandeep Singh, 18, had played a Test and a One-Day International during the junior India team’s tour of Australia last April, scoring 41 runs at an average of 41 and taking two wickets at 60.50.

He had the talent to represent India’s senior team in the future as told by Meerut Cricket Association president Yudhveer Singh.

The left-handed batsman and left-arm orthodox spinner from Kanpur was in Meerut, 350km west of Lucknow, to play the under-22 C.K. Nayudu Trophy, which starts on Monday. He was standing outside the restaurant around 11.30pm with friends, waiting for their takeaway kebabs, when he unwittingly got caught in the row.

MS Dhoni has topped the all-India power list when it comes to celebrity brand endorsements surpassing Tendulkar and SRK, said a new study.

According to the second round of the CelebTrack findings, a joint endeavor between Percept Talent Management (PTM) and Hansa Research, Dhoni tops the charts while Sachin Tendulkar now slipped to fifth place.

Dhoni has also left King Khan of Bollywood behind. Shah Rukh, who is also the co-owner of IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders, is placed second in the list.

While Tendulkar takes second top-of-the-mind brand post when it comes to cricketers, it’s Sania Mirza who tops the charts when all the other sports besides cricket is considered.

Bangalore: The Twenty20 cricket format shot to fame with the success of the Indian Premier League (IPL). In order to make this format an even grander success, Twenty20 Champions League has been conceptualized. Chaired by Lalit Modi this new tournament kicks off today in the country.

This new tournament will feature cricket teams from clubs across the world. Teams have arrived to represent clubs from Australia, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and West Indies. Not to mention IPL teams will also be there.

Twenty20 Champions League has been postponed twice since last year owing to various issues. This year finally it managed to see light of the day.

Let’s see if it can drive cricket fans round the globe crazy and leave them begging for more.