Best Goalkeeper in 2013

 Goal Keepers are playing important role in a football team. If they do any mistakes in the ground, the whole team will get affected. Here I have listed some of the goal keeper name list those who have been performed well for their country and also their club in this season 2013.

1. Manuel Neur (Germany/Bayern Munich)
2. Iker Casillas(Spain/Real Madrid)
3. Petr Čech(Chelsea/Czech Republic)
4. Gianluigi Buffon(Italy/Juventus)
5. Joe Hart(England/Manchester City)
6. David de Gea(Spain/Manchester United)
7. Victor Valdes(Spain/Barcelona)

No place for Virat Kohli in ICC ODI Player Award

Virat Kohli, who has been standing first place in ICC ODI ranking. The ICC released the name list for ODI team, Test team and Individual performance for this year.  There was no place for virat kohli in the ODI players list. Without Virat Kohli, I couldn't imagine the ODI team list. He has been played well for India in short format cricket since his debut in 2008.This year he has scored more than 1200 runs so far and also this was the third time to score more than 1000 runs in ODI. Already he has reached this milestone in the year 2011 and 2012.He becomes the fastest 5000 runs getter in ODI format. He has equalized the Vivian Richards records, who had scored 5000 runs in 114 innings.   Virat Kohli batting average is nearly 53 and also his strike rate is nearly 93 in ODI format.He won the ICC ODI player of the year in 2012. 

ICC ODI Team of the Year (In Batting Order)
Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka), Shikhar Dhawan (India), Hashim Amla (South Africa), Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka), AB de Villiers (South Africa), MS Dhoni (India, captain and wicketkeeper), Ravindra Jadeja (India), Saeed Ajmal (Pakistan), Mitchell Starc (Australia), James Anderson (England), Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka). 12th Man: Mitchel McClenaghan (New Zealand)

Dhoni won LG People Choice ICC award

MS Dhoni has won the LG people choice ICC award for this year 2013. He was the third player to got the award.The award, which was introduced in the year 2010. Sachin Tendulkar has won the award in 2010 and Kumar Sangakakara has won the award last couple of years 2011 and 2013 consecutively.Other nominees for this award in this year were Michael Clarke from Australia, Alaistar Cook from England, Virat Kohli from India and AB De Villiers from South Africa.

India Is going to break the record in ODI

The Indian ODI team is going to break the record as soon as in upcoming ODI series against South Africa. They score the first run in the first ODI against South Africa. India team becomes the highest ODI run getters in the ODI format. Indian team is currently levelled on 1,82,881 runs from 841 matches with Australia, who has the same amount of runs scored in ODI formats from 825 matches.  However,Australia, have been better winning percentage, having won 505 matches of their 825 as opposed to India’s 423.The 3rd placed team is Pakistan with 1,71,982 from 807 matches, followed by Sri Lanka on 1,46,365 and the West Indies on 1,45,260.

We are Ready to face South Africa : MS Dhoni

MS Dhoni told to the reporters, We are ready to face South African pace attack in South Africa. The upcoming series is an interesting series for us because we have been played good cricket in this year so far. However, we played a lot of matches in India, now we are going to play in South African bouncer pitches.Our top order batsmen are in good form and also bowling side well. We are going to play ODI series first. It will be helpful for us to adjust the conditions.Further he added, there are a lot of good players in South Africa. They become the first ranking in Test. So this series will be big series in this year. 

We are going to South Africa a confident lot : Shikar Dhawan

“Nervousness has gone and we are going to South Africa a confident lot. We have done well in England (ICC Champions Trophy) and we will try to do well overseas again.”The left hander said that the batsmen in the team are aware of the bouncy tracks that they will face in South Africa and they are mentally ready to face Dale Steyn and company.The wickets will be bouncy for sure but there is nothing to worry. The good thing is that we have played Australia (in a seven-match ODI series at home) and bowlers like Mitchell Johnson.”India will be without Sachin Tendulkar for the first time in 24 years but Dhawan, who has scored 6 hundreds in all formats for India, said that India has enough experience in their ranks to put up a good fight.“Sachin was a great player. His presence will be missed but we have a good side now. We are good in all three departments: batting, bowling and fielding.”

Zaheer Khan back to the Indian Test team for South Africa Tour

 The Indian selectors announced a 17 member squad  for upcoming Test and ODI series against South Africa. The veteran fast bowler Zaheer Khan return to the test squad, Who has not been in the team since 2012 December.The other two veteran opening batsman Virendra Sehwag and Gautham Gambhir were not selected in the squad by selectors.The Mumbai Indians middle order batsman Ambati Rayudu has been selected for Test team squad and also Bengal wicket keeper batsman Wriddhiman Saha has been selected for Test squad.The South Africa test series is the first series without Sachin Tendulkar who had retired from Test format in November.The Delhi pace man Ishant Sharma returned to the squad who had not been selected against ongoing ODI series against West Indies.The ODI match will be start in Johannesburg on December 9 and also first test will be start in Johannesburg on December 18.

India ODI squad
MS Dhoni (captain and wicketkeeper), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Ajinkya Rahane, R Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Amit Mishra, Ambati Rayudu, Mohit Sharma, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav.
India Test squad
MS Dhoni (captain and wicketkeeper), Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Ambati Rayudu, Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, R Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Wriddhiman Saha (wicketkeeper), Zaheer Khan, Mohammed Shami, Pragyan Ojha and Ishant Sharma.