Deepika Padukone getting ready for marriage?

People just don’t seem to have enough of actress Deepika Padukone, who earned lots of accolades acting opposite Shahrukh Khan in Om Shanti Om. She has been linked with actor Ranbir Kapoor, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh. Now, another news is doing the rounds that she is ready to tie the knot with the latest cricket sensation Yuvraj Singh.

Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni had openly expressed his admiration for Deepika but it is the vice captain who has stole her heart. It is rumoured that Yuvi and Deepika are getting engaged soon.

It is said that the actress visited the Grand Ashok hotel in Bangalore, where Indian cricket team stays. Another news has it that Yuvi will leave for Mumbai soon after the match against Pakistan.

The duo have not confirmed the news but something seems to be cooking between them. They were spotted together late at night not long ago. Then Deepika watched him play at Jaipur, where they went for a long drive.

Indian Cricket star Yuvraj Singh dating Deepika?

The rumours of Indian Cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni romancing Om Shanti Om heroine Deepika Padukone has taken a twist. Now, the story has switched to Indian cricket vice captain Yuvraj Singh. Yuvraj-Deepika affair seems to be on the cards.

Well, the story of Yuvraj’s reunion with actress Kim Sharma was doing the rounds but that looked unlikely, as the cricketer seems to have fallen for Deepika Padukone, the latest muse in Bollywood. He was spotted going out with Deepika late on Saturday night. Sources said that the duo seemed to share good rapport if their body language is any indication.

Now, the million dollar question, if Yurvaj has stolen his captain’s pie before his very eyes. Well, everybody knows that Dhoni has a crush on the actress and had even invited her to the recent T20 cricket match against Australia.

Indian cricket star MS Dhoni overtakes Sachin

MS Dhoni

Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has signed a two-year endorsement deal with a talent management company worth 2 billion rupees ($42 million), local media reported on Tuesday.

Dhoni had signed with Rhiti Sports Management and Mindscapes, who manage national team mates Harbhajan Singh and RP Singh, the Press Trust of india said.

"Yes, we have entered into a two-year contract with Dhoni for R200 crore. We signed the contract a week back," the agency quoted Rhiti Sports general manager Sanjay Pandey as saying.

The contract eclipses a $40 million three-year deal signed by Sachin Tendulkar, one of the all-time greatest batsmen, with sports management firm Iconix in 2006, the agency added.

Dhoni, who led India to victory in the 2007 World Twenty20, was rated the world's highest paid cricketer by Forbes magazine last year ahead of team mates Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh.

The deal caps a good week for the india skipper, who celebrated his 29th birthday and his wedding to 21-year-old management student Sakshi after a small private ceremony in northern India.

Jumbo for india

Anil Kumble was born on 17th October 1970 in Bangalore, Karnataka. His parents K N Krishna Swamy and Saroja took the family name from a village situated in Kasargod district of Kerala. Even though of Kannadiga origin, his grandfather hailed from this village. Kumble completed mechanical engineering at R.V. College of Engineering. However very soon he realized that his real talent lies in some other field.

Anil Kumble started his career as a medium pace bowler. He made his test debut in 1990 on India's tour of England. His debut ODI match was against Sri Lanka at Sharjah in the Australasia Cup on April 25, 1990. In 1992, he established himself as a quality international spinner by taking 8 wickets in the second test during India's tour in South Africa.

The Greate Man

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar born April 24, 1973 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. In 2002, Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time next only to Sir Donald Bradman, and the second greatest one-day international (ODI) batsman of all time next only to Sir Viv Richards. The list was later revised to make him the greatest one-day international (ODI) batsman of all time. In September 2007, Shane Warne, the world-record breaking Australian leg spinner, rated Sachin Tendulkar as the greatest player he has played with or against. Sachin Tendulkar was the only player of the current generation to be included in Bradman's Eleven, the dream team of Sir Donald Bradman, published in his biography. He is sometimes referred to as the Little Master or the Master Blaster. 

Virender Sehwag nickname Verru born on 20 October 1978, in Delhi is an Indian cricketer and permanent member of the Indian Cricket Team since 1999 (one-dayers) and 2001 (Tests). Veeru is an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and an occasional right-arm off-spin bowler. Veeru is the record holder for the highest score made by an Indian in Test cricket in a single innings (319), the fastest triple century in Test cricket (reached 300 off only 278 balls) and is the only Indian to score a triple century in Test cricket. He is one of the only three players to have scored two triple hundreds in Tests, along with Don Bradman and Brian Lara. He is the only player to score two triple centuries and take a five wicket haul at Test level.

Virender Sehwag - Veeru is not afraid from Ajantha Mendis
The Sultan of Multan Virender Sehwag sounded a warning to Lanka mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis saying that he had done homework against him and now he is ready to face the Baltimore Bulllet for the upcoming Lanka tour.
"I studied mystery men during the Asia cup in Pakistan and can pick up his deliveries." 

Cricket Team

Cricket grew out of the many stick-and-ball games played in England 500 years ago, under a variety of different rules. The word 'bat' is an old English word that simply means stick or club. By the seventeenth century, cricket had evolved enough to be recognizable as a distinct game and it was popular enough for its fans to be fined for playing it on Sunday instead of going to church. Till the middle of the eighteenth century, bats were roughly the same shape as hockey sticks, curving outwards at the bottom. There was a simple reason for this: the ball was bowled underarm, along the ground and the curve at the end of the bat gave the batsman the best chance of making contact. 

How that early version of cricket played in village England grew into the modern game played in giant stadiums in great cities is a proper subject for history because one of the uses of history is to understand how the present was made. And sport is a large part of contemporary life: it is one way in which we amuse ourselves, compete with each other, stay fit, and express our social loyalties. If tens of millions of Indians today drop everything to watch the Indian team playa Test match or a one-day international, it is reasonable for a history of India to explore how that stick-and-ball game invented in south-eastern England became the ruling passion of the Indian sub-continent. This is particularly so, since the game was linked to the wider history of colonialism and nationalism and was in part shaped by the politics of religion and caste. 

Our history of cricket will look first at the evolution of cricket as a game in England, and discuss the wider. culture of physical training and athleticism of the time. It will then move to India, discuss the history of the adoption of cricket in this country, and trace the modern transformation of the game. In each of these sections we will see how the history of the game was connected to the social history of the time.