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Hyderabad, Nov. 5 -- Virender Sehwag smashed Australian bowlers all over the ground before chipping one in the air at deep fine leg, of Hilfenhause's over. He scored 38 runs off 30 balls. Indian scoring has only gradually slowed as Gautam Gambhir and Sachin Tendulkar are knocking the occassional balls to the fence. Tendulkar, having completed 17,000 runs in ODI cricket, is batting on 38.

For those with a nose for numbers, here's something interesting. Sachin Tendulkar took 17 balls on Thursday to score the seven runs he needed to reach 17,000 ODI runs. The capacity crowd at Rajiv Gandhi International stadium didn't have much to cheer till then and broke into a roar which drowned the voice of the deejay on the loudspeaker.

These are not good times for VVS Laxman. With India showing little urgency in playing Tests more frequently, Laxman has had to make do with first-class cricket. At the moment, even that isn?t happening ? a stiff back ruled him out of the his team?s ongoing Ranji match against Himachal Pradesh. Laxman is hoping to play the next match against Punjab. He spoke to HT on Thursday.

Hyderabad, Nov. 6 -- Sachin Tendulkar has proved that one-day cricket is not dead. On Thursday, he took India breathtakingly close to what would have been their biggest ever win in one-day international (ODI) history. His 175 off 141 balls under lights, a nerveless masterclass on the day he got to 17,000 runs, was record-breaking, but that statistic was just a number.

Bloemfontein (S. Africa), Nov.6 (ANI): The England cricket team management has said the players will be asked to focus on power hitting and on greater athleticism in the field when they take on the Proteas in a one-day series starting from today here.

Over the years, the Indian cricket team has mastered the art of somehow keeping their passionate fans' hopes alive even in the most desperate of situations, before completely and dramatically trashing them at the end.

Poona Club beat Deccan Gymkhana on the basis of their first innings lead in the Bhandarkar Lele Trophy organised by the Pune District Cricket Association at Deccan Gymkhana Cricket Ground on Thursday.

A day after his record-breaking 439 in the Harris Shield, a tired Sarfaraz Khan is once again at Azad maidan, obliging the media with long interviews and snappy sound-bytes.

Railways off-spinner Kulamani Parida, who was stopped from bowling on Thursday due to a suspect bowling action, has said he would rather stop playing than go through corrective measures after 13 years of first-class cricket.

More than halfway through what some thought would be a long series, the one-day international seems to be doing quite well.

The seamers bowled at good length, pitching their deliveries further up to get more swing, and the slip cordon stood with soft hands that absorbed anything offered in their vicinity.

Having celebrated his 21 st birthday just a couple of weeks ago, Harshad Khadiwale is the youngest captain in the 2009-10 Ranji Trophy.

It wasn't a long time ago that Ishant Sharma and Mitchell Johnson were considered among the most promising cricketers in the world.

The Twenty20 match between the intellectually-challenged cricketers of Bengal and Bangladesh at Eden Gardens yesterday may have been a welcome spectacle, but the event gave the differently-abled sportspersons a huge opportunity to showcase their talent and make their presence felt in a sporting fraternity dominated by the mainstream.

Generations of Indians can remember the first time they heard the name Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar: in late February of 1988, when they opened their newspapers to discover that a couple of schoolboys named Kambli and Tendulkar had put together a partnership of 664 runs for their school, Shardashram, against St.

Romesh Powar has much to thank Rahul Sharma for. The Punjab fielder dropped the Mumbai all-rounder, not once but twice, during the course of the day.

The Karnataka team had three players who racked up half-centuries in their second innings against Uttar Pradesh, among those Rahul Dravid, who made his way to a crisp unbeaten 51. KB Pawan (78) and Robin Uthappa (56) also built substantial knocks as Karnataka made things tougher for their opponents in this Super League Group B match.

Maharashtra batted first and were bowled out for a meagre 179 runs. In reply, Bengal posted a decent total of 325 runs, which gave them a lead of 146 runs. Maharashtra started Day 2 with a score of 46/0 and pushed their score to 99 runs before they lost their first wicket.

The final ball of the fifth over during India's chase in Hyderabad may have had little significance to the eventual outcome of the match, but for the capacity crowd at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, what had transpired before it and what was to follow were from two different worlds.

A remarkable innings of 175 in 141 balls by Sachin Tendulkar proved in vain when Australia took a 3-2 lead in the series with a thrilling three-run win over India in the fifth one-dayer on Thursday.