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Martin Crowe, the man who surprised the cricket lovers by his decision to play the first class cricket after 16 years of retirement, has finally ended his career by just facing 3 balls.

Crowe, aged 49, played his long awaited cricket match today. But as he started to face the delivery, he developed a thigh muscle strain and later was forced to retire.

Crowe who first retired from International cricket in 1995, after a chronic knee injury took toll on his body was the star New Zealand Batsman of his time.

But with Saturday’s pulled muscle being his fourth in as many months, Crowe said it was time to admit the dream was over.

‘While getting off the mark yesterday, I pulled a thigh muscle running a normal single into the covers. So three balls into my first premier match back, it’s over,’ Crowe said in an email sent to the media.

‘It was sort of fun along the way. I got to hit lots of balls over five months, experiencing the joy of batting again. But as soon as it required the important running bit, the old problems kicked in,’ Crowe was quoted as saying in New Zealand media.

“I said from the start it would end in tears with an injury,” he said.

“No tears, but frustrated after a lot of hard work getting ready. So that will do.”

‘No regrets,’ he added.

Today was probably one of those exciting day when Legends from different field met and shared their time with each other.

Sachin Tendulkar, the cricketing legend, whose record might perhaps never be broken if even by Sachin himself, was one among the cheerful crowd at the Wimbledon Championships match. We also had Former Grand Slam champion Martina Navratilova present at the crowd watching the match.

Roger Federer, the tennis legend, who has more number of grand slams in his belt than any other tennis  player, whose record of winning straight six tournament is perhaps will remain unbroken for decades to come, was at the center of the court  preparing for the match with David Nalbandian.

When Sachin Tendulkar presence was felt by the fans with his introduction , the crowd went crazy and started cheering for him.

Is it said that when too Icons met, the air goes tense and cold. However, Roger Federer kept himself patient and secured an easy win over David Nalbandian.

It is reported that both Sachin and Federer had dinner together after the match

Lets hear what Sachin and Federer has to say on their meeting

Sachin tweeted, “Spent an hour with Roger Federer chatting on the balcony of Wimbledon Royal box. What a humble guy! And by the way he knows a lot about cricket!!”

Federer  talked about his meeting with Tendulkar on his facebook page.

“Today was a special day, played a good match and had the chance to catch up with the great indian cricket star Sachin Tendulkar,” read the status message on his facebook page.

India, today, defeated Netherlands in the world cup match held at Delhi. With this win, India is now virtually into the quater-finals of the ICC World Cup 2011.

The result of the match held today was not surprising as world no 1 test team India was predicted to win convincingly against the Netherlands.

However, Netherlands gave India the upset scare when they took 4 Indian wickets in quick succession.  That was the time of the match where each member of the audience were on the edge of the seats.

Netherlands made the fans believe that they can also win the match. Their dreaming of winning against India was however halted by Indian Star batsman Yuvraj Singh who scored his back to back half century along with a solid bowling contribution  that made him man of the match once again.

The match begin today with Netherlands batting first.  Although Netherlands fought against India, they could not hold against the Indian attack as they crumble their wickets. Netherlands at the end of their innings scored 190 .

When India started their batting, the local fans prayed to see India hit the runs in boundaries.

Indian batsman Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar didnt disappoint the fans as they batted through the overs hitting boundaries all over the field.

The slopping of Indian Innings began after the first wicket fall. India lost 4 quick wickets all of a sudden that made the match very thrilling.

At the end though, the partnership of Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni, took the team home. Yuvraj singh was awarded Man of the Match for his brilliant half century and wickets with the bowl.

India Vs Netherlands World Cup match is currently live with India slowly proceeding towards the winning margin.

India’s  score as of now is 140/5 for  25 overs. India need 50 runs more to win the match.

India started the match with dazzling performance only to lose 4 quick wickets for 100 runs. Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar batting very well, but they couldnt carry on as they both departed for  39 and 27 runs.

Netherlands who scored 189 runs are putting in their best efforts to scratch the game.

The batsman who are currently at the crease are Yuvraj Singh and M S Dhoni.

Get the Live Scorecard of India Vs Netherlands by Clicking here

The ICC world cup match between England and South Africa held today in chennai, India will be remembered for a long days to come by the local fans as well as England fans for the thriller it provided them.

England successfully defended their low target of 171 for 10 against the giant South Africa. As the saying goes low scoring matches will be the real threat to watch, this match was not an exception to that.

As a cricket fan myself, i will remember this match for long days to come.

The match begin with England winning the toss and electing to bat first.

The England opening batsman started the innings very disastrously by falling very easily to the South African bowling making the score 15/3.

Jonathan  Trott  and Ravi Bopara were the real star for the England team today as they both build up a solid partnership ,thereby completing their respective half centuries.

As they continue to go forward, South Africa bounced back with an explosive performance by restricting England to 171 for 10

One would expect SA to easily walk away with a win, but the result was different.

South Africa started the innings with very much as they used to in any other matches. They were solid in their batting.

SA lose their first wicket in the form of Smith when the score was  63. After which the collapse of SA batting began as batsman had no clue for English bowling, in particular, Graeme Swann’s attack.

In the end though, SA lost the match with just 6 runs in the scoreboard. SA end their innings for 165 for 10.

Ravi Bopara of England was awarded the Man of the Match award.

Man of the Match Ravi Bopara says that he came to know last night hat he would be playing. Adds that it feels great to be back into the side. Says that he never expected the side to be 15/3, especially with the quality of players at the top. He too, did not expect the pitch to turn so much, but adds that in an IPL game in 2010, his team had defended a target of 120, so he was sure that the spinners will come into play.

Ireland defeated England in the group state match of the ICC World Cup 2011 held today in chinnaswamy stadium, Bangalore, India.

Ireland has scripted history by successfully chasing down 328 runs thereby becoming the first nation to make such run chase.

Boy, i dont know where to start. I am thrilled to the core.

Kevin O’Brien and Alex Cusack are the deserving candidate to be praised. Both the cricketers have scripted their names in the history of Cricket.

Kevin O’Brien became the first man to score a fastest hundred in the world cup history. He scored 100 for just 50 balls. Holy cow! Thats just brilliant.

Exciting isnt it!

The match started with England elected to bat. The England batsman didn’t disappoint as they whack the ball all over the ground. Trott, Pietersen and Ian Bell scored a marvelous half centuries taking the England  score to 327 for 50 overs.

In reply, the Irish started the innings very badly as they score very slowly and wickets going down regularly in the other end. At one stage, Ireland were 111 for 5 in  24.2 overs.

When everything seemed lost, there came a hope for Ireland with the coming of Kevin O’Brien and Alex Cusack. Man, they batted superbly. Hats off gentleman.

Kevin O’Brien scored fastest century in the world cup history taking out Matthew Hayden of Australia. He scored  100 runs of 50 balls. Alex on the other end played a sensible 47 runs  before getting run out.

The match then became very interesting as the new batsman John Mooney played a sensible innings along with Kevin O’Brien.

When all seemed set for Ireland, Kevin got run out when the Irish score was 317 for 7. In the end though, the day belonged to Ireland as they scripted history today.

Ireland successfully defeated England to open the points in the point table.  Kevin O’Brien of  Ireland was awarded man of the match

Some reports are being published online that Ricky Ponting smashed a LCD TV after he was dismissed by run-out in a match against Zimbabwe in this World Cup. Looks like somebody has some really serious anger issues.

This happened in the dressing room where the reply of how he got out was being telecast. But yes, Australia did win the match. It was Australia’s 91-run victory against Zimbabwe.

“It is true that Ponting smashed the LCD (TV) in the Australian dressing room,” Gujarat Cricket Association secretary Rajesh Patel told AFP.

“I think he must have been frustrated at his early dismissal. We have informed the International Cricket Council as well as the Australian team management about the incident.”

Well, I just hope that he doesn’t break any more TVs just because he can’t play well.