GANGULY WINS ASIAN CRICKETER AWARD

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has been adjudged the Asian Cricketer and Asian Batsman of the year for his fighting comeback into the Indian team at the Castrol Asian Cricket Awards here on Friday.Though Ganguly was not present at the ceremony, his wife Dona took the awards on his behalf.The Bengal left-hander also expressed his happiness on receiving the awards in a video taped message.
Sourav Ganguly has shown that with class and experience, age need not be a barrier to success. He had a fantastic year in both Tests and ODIs and it was nice to see his memorable comeback to the India team capped on Friday when he became the first recipient of the Asian Cricketer of the Year Award at the Castrol Asian Cricket Awards function held in Karachi.And on that note Ganguly cannot be faulted for his performances in 2007. It was a great year for him with 1106 runs at 61.44 in Tests and then 1240 runs at 44.28 in ODIs.

Sachin Tendulkar was named the Best ODI batsman while Gautam Gambhir grabbed the honour in Twenty20. Sri Lankan wicket-keeper batsman Kumar Sangakkara took away the best Test Batsman of the year award while compatriot Farveez Maharoof was chosen as the Best ODI Bowler. Pakistan's Umar Gul was named the Best Twenty20 Bowler.Yuvraj Singh was given an special award for hitting six sixes in the Twenty20 World Cup against England.Sri Lankan spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan, not surprisingly, took away the Best Bowler award.

AUSTRALIAN GROUNDS ARE NOT AN EXCEPTION FOR SACHIN

The master blaster sachin tendulkar proved that australian grounds are not an exception from his century feast. For the past 20 years of his career he made 41 centuries all over the world almost in all cricket playing nation's grounds. But till today Australian grounds remained an exception and also the 42nd century created a very big gap for sachin from the 41st as he missed this 42nd for more than 6 times in his nintees. Today will be the most memorable of one of his centuries for sachin as he made the 42nd century in SCG ( Sachin's Cricket Ground, as written in a banner by a fan) , Australia against Auatraliain the first finals of the commonwealth bank series. India comfortably won the first final with the help of the elegant 117* from the mastre blaster. Also with this century sachin ends the nervous nintees streak. The Little master once again proved that he is the DON of the Indian cricket.