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Cricket Batting Tips – Playing the ball too early
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Footwork Problems in Batting
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How to practice batting at home
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How to get centuries?
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How to make a game plan
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Im a left arm orthodox spinner
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Cricket Coaching Fielding Tips / How can I dive and field like the great players?
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T20 Batting Strategy
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Cricket Coaching Spin Bowling Tips / How To Bowl Leg Spin
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How to bowl different types of swings with tape ball and how to gain pace with tape ball?
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Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips/ Having a corn or hard patch on middle finger.
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Cricket Coaching Batting Tips/ How to keep the ball along the ground?
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Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips / Injury : Sidestrain – Over bowling
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Cricket Coaching Batting Tips / Dominating Fast Bowlers In The Short Format
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Cricket Coaching Bowling Tips / Selection Trials
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Cricket Coaching Batting Tips / Adapting To Different Playing Surfaces
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Cricket Coaching Batting Tips: Mental Toughness / Problem With Concentration
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Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips/ Bowl Fast Like Dale Steyn
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Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips: How To Bowl Like My Hero: Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mitchell Starc
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Cricket Coaching Bowling Tips/ Fast Bowling: Back Problems
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Cricket Coaching Bowling Tips / How do I stop bowling too full?
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Cricket Coaching Batting Tips: Mental Toughness / Hashim Amla
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Cricket Coaching Batting Tips / How To Hit Cover Drive
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Cricket Coaching Batting Tips / Stroke Selection
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Cricket Coaching Off Spin Bowling Tips / Gripping The Ball
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Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips / Swing Bowling : Swing the ball late
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Cricket Coaching Spin Bowling Tips/ Controlling Line and Length
Hi Coach, I am an off spin bowler, I keep dropping the ball short, even though I want to bowl full it still drops short. Please offer some advice for this. …
Cricket Coaching Batting Tips/ Batting Game Plan And Strategy
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Cricket Coaching Batting Tips / Batting Stance: Head Position And Balance
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Cricket Coaching: Fast Bowling Tips/ Bowling Injury Free
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Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips/ I lack the natural ability to bowl fast !
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Cricket Fast Bowling Tips: Taking Wickets With Swing Bowling
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Cricket Fitness Tips: Fast Bowlers Workloads
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Cricket Fast Bowling Tips: A repeatable, automatic bowling action
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Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips : Help ! Jimmy Anderson or Glenn McGrath
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Cricket Fast Bowling Tips : Cricket Mental Toughness \ Bowling Under Pressure
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Cricket Fast Bowling Tips/ Using Variation To Take Wickets
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Cricket Batting Tips: Stance, Balance And Batswing
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Cricket Batting Tips / Opening The Batting And Taking Wickets
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Cricket Allrounder Tips: Bowling Economy and Strike Rotation
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Cricket Bowling Tips: Fast Bowling / Taking Wickets With Pace
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Cricket Bowling Tips: Fast Bowling / T20 Bowling Strategy
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Cricket Bowling Tips: Fast Bowling / Controlling Swing
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Cricket All Rounder Tips: Shane Watson
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Cricket Bowling Tips: Fast Bowling: Control, Pace , Line and Length.
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Cricket Bowling Tips: Fast Bowling Tips FAQ’s (Frequently Asked Questions)
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Cricket Mental Toughness: How To Get Into The Zone
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Cricket Bowling Tips : Fast Bowling Tips
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Cricket Fitness: Dale Steyn / Weight Training
Since you have worked with Dale Steyn, I just wanted to know what weight training he does as he isn’t a big man, but he bowls quick. What exercises …
Cricket Coaching Batting Tips / Using my initiative to practice during the off season
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Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips/ Outswing Variation
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Cricket Fast Bowling Tips: Problem With Throwing When I Bowl
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Cricket Fast Bowling Tips: Coach wants me to change my bowling action.
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Cricket Batting Tips: Focus, Concentration And Timing Drills
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Cricket Fast Bowling Tips / How To Bowl In Swing
Sir, I can’t bowl in swing because I am unable to keep the seam straight towards fine leg when bowling to the right hand batsman. Please tell me some tips …
Cricket Bowling Tips: Fast Bowling / Length Of Run Up
My run up as a fast bowler is quite short! How do I extend it? I always feel cramped when bowling! Hi Oliver, run ups are unique, from the long run …
Cricket Bowling Tips: Spin Bowling / Left Arm Finger Spin
Hi coach, I have a left arm finger spinner who controls the ball quite well but tends to drop short and let the batsmen off the hook. What can I do …
Cricket Batting Tips: Answers To Your Frequently Asked Cricket Batting Questions (FAQ’s)
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Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips / Mental Toughness: Problem regarding feet in bowling
Respected Coach, I am a right arm fast bowler, but I am having trouble with my feet. I cannot adjust my feet when I am about to deliver the ball, it makes …
Cricket Fast Bowling Tips : How to bowl to left handed batsmen
Hi Sir, I’m a right hand fast bowler, 13 years of age. I have a problem when I bowl to left handed batsmen, I can’t work on my pace and outswing together….please …
Cricket Bowling Tips: Off Spin Bowling – Control and Doosra
Hi Coach, Please can you help me in becoming a good off spinner ? I have several questions for you. Is height important for me to become a good …
How to Practice to be an Opening batsman.
Dear Respected sir, My Name is Sarvesh Joshi.I am an opening batsman and i lke to open the innings with a positive frame of mind.I wanted to ask you that …
Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips / How to correct my release position
Dear Sir , I am a right arm fast bowler, 19 years old, last week I checked my bowling speed, it is around 115 km/hr. Every ones says my release is not …
Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips / Increasing Pace Or Perfecting Swing To Take wickets.
Good afternoon, My names Tom and I am an opening bowler for my clubs 2nd XI and occasionally 1st XI teams. I am an away swing bowler but feel if I am …
Cricket Coaching Batting Tips: Taking Guard and Set Up In Crease
Hi, I’m 16 years old and am not quite sure how I should face up. My main strengths are driving on the front foot from mid off to fine leg and pulling …
Cricket Fitness Tips: Strength Program Level 1
Hi, I’m currently following the fitness program Greg King suggests for pre-seasons. I wanted to ask how long should you rest between sets and if there …
Cricket Coaching Wicket Keeping Tips / Mental Toughness
Hi Coach, how can I develop my mental toughness for wicket keeping? Hi Taj, the focus needed for wicket keeping is the same as that for batting, as …
Cricket Coaching Batting Tips / Mental Toughness : Paralysed by Anxiety
Hey Coach I have a problem that has been stopping me from performing to my maximum ability. Whenever I practice I do everything really well. My batting …
Cricket Coaching Tips/ Game Planning and Strategy – Whiteboards
Hi Coach, Ive been toying with the idea of using a whiteboard before, during and after matches. Do you use one and if so what type of messages would …
Cricket Coaching Batting Tips / Hanging Ball Practice
Hi Coach, I want to know if practicing on the hanging ball (or a ball inside a sock hanging by a cord or string ) has any advantages? Does it improve a …
Cricket Coaching Batting Tips/ How To Read The Line And Length Early
Hello Coach, what are the drills/tips to read the line and length of the bowler early ? Thank you, KP Hi KP, the simplest batting tips to read the …
Cricket Coaching Spin Bowling Tips / How to remedy bowling too slow
Respected Sir, I am Tahsin an off spinner and I have some problems with my bowling. Firstly I lose pace when I bowl, secondly, when I bowl the doosra …
Cricket Coaching Batting Tips/ Mental Toughness : Managing Focus and Building Confidence
Hi Coach, I usually bat between 4 and 6, I sometimes have trouble focusing and find it hard to cope with the bowling, so it takes some time …
Ambitious 28 Yr Old, Looking to break into First Class.
Hi, what will be your advice for someone like me who wishes to break in to the national circuit and has been playing cricket for a long time. Thank …
Cricket Spin Bowling Tips/ Leg Spin Bowling Variation
Hi Coach, what are the variations a leg spinner needs to have? Is practicing with a tennis ball advisable? Hi Joel, firstly the question regarding variations, …
Cricket Coaching Tips / Selection : How it Works
Hi Coach, I am planning to take a gap year and join an academy in India but I don’t know how to prove myself in 1 year as I’ll be going to university …
Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips / Fast Bowler’s Height
Hi Coach, this is K Arjun, long time no see. I am now 16 yrs old but I am just 167cm tall.Can I Bowl a good bouncer with this height. Note: I do have …
Cricket Coaching Tips / Junior Coaching
Hi Coach, I am coaching junior cricket and I am having trouble with … 1)getting my batsmen to focus for longer innings(avge innings length is 5-7 …
Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips/ Decide on your action and groove it
Hey Coach, my name is Parth, I am having a problem with my bowling action, when I started playing cricket I had a Dale Steyn like action and with that …
Cricket Coaching Spin Bowling Tips/ Which Action – Off Spinners Action Or Medium Pacers ? Not rated yet
Hi Coach, I am Divyadarshi Nahak, I’m an off spinner and I can also bowl medium fast. It will be great of you if you can suggest a single but better action …
Cricket Coaching Bowling Tips / How to control my breathing during my run up
Hi Coach, I don’t know how to breath while running in to bowl, I am always holding my breath. Then when I let the ball go I finally take a big breath …
Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips
Respected Sir, we are running a NGO called ‘Helping Hands’ group in India. We want to select a fast bowler, under 16 from our town, sir please help us …
Cricket Coaching Spin Bowling Tips; Controlling Seam Position Not rated yet
Hi Coach, I have a traditional off break grip on the ball and an offspinner’s action which tends to angle the ball away from the right hander. I spin …
Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips / How Do I Complete My Follow Through?
Hello Coach, I’m a 17 yr old fast bowler, I have good body alignment, a nice action, but I’m not completing my release and follow through. Can you make …
Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips / Follow Through
Hi Coach, I am a pace bowler with a side on action. The problem is that I don’t follow through straight, I don’t face any injury issues but my coach wants …
Cricket Coaching Batting Tips / Trouble With Trigger Movements
Dear Coach I am a top order batsman and I am struggling with my technique. I find myself getting out lbw or caught close in, I find myself not getting …
Cricket Coaching Batting Tips / Mental Toughness: Quiet Mind
Hi Coach, how can I quieten my mind when the bowler starts his run up? How can I avoid pre-empting my shot? Hi Ajay, getting the mind …
Cricket Coaching Batting Tips / Getting Out Bowled Playing Back
Hi Coach, is the backward defence a good shot? I ask this question as in the last two games I have been bowled playing back. Is it the right thing to …
Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips/ How To Bowl The Yorker Like Waqar Younis
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Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips / Keeping Balance In The Crease
Hello Coach, my name is Vivek and I am right arm fast bowler age 17. Sir I have a serious problem with my balance when I comlete my jump, my front foot …
Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips: Good at bowling to left handers, not to right handers
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Cricket Coaching Bowling Tips / Game Strategy: Breaking down the oppositions batting performance
Hi Coach, I recently coached a rep team who had 350 plus scores made against it in 3 consecutive matches with 2 batsmen passing 200 in 2 of those matches. …
Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips/ Speed Intensity From Nets To Match
Hello Sir I’m Shubham, a right arm medium pacer, I am 17 years old. When I bowl in the nets my speed is good and when I bowl on match days it …
Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips :Dale Steyn And The Power Of the Stock Ball Not rated yet
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Cricket Coaching Batting Tips / Lefty always getting out lbw Not rated yet
Hi, my son is left handed and is always getting out lbw, have you got any tips for him? Hi Stephen, getting out LBW is related to a couple of batting …
Cricket Coaching Bowling Tips/ Fast Bowling : Release Point
Hi Coach, I am 13 years old and I am a fast bowler. I want to ask that what is the right time to release the ball ? Hi Prajwal, to keep this simple …
Cricket Coaching Batting Tips / Bottom Hand Grip
Hi Coach, do heavy and light bats makes any difference in your bottom hand grip while batting? I feel while using heavy bat it is better to place the …
Cricket Coaching Batting Tips: Batting Game Plan / Offside Play And The Swinging Ball
G’day coach I’m playing lower grade cricket in New Zealand and I’ve been starting to struggle with my batting in the last couple of weeks. I scored …
Cricket Coaching Fast Bowling Tips / Frequently Asked Questions
Hi Coach, I’m Ahmed from Bangladesh and I’m currently trying out for the school under 16 team(Im 15). Im a fast pace bowler and wanted to know …
Cricket Coaching Spin Bowling Tips / Developing As An Off Spinner
Hi Coach, can you help me in becoming a good off spinner, I have several questions for you? My 1st question is what is the good line and length …
Cricket Coaching Spin Bowling Tips / Working on Flight And Variation
Hello Coach, This is Karan From India, I am an aspiring young cricketer and I am a batting all-rounder, my question is how do I bowl flighted …
Cricket Coaching Batting Tips / Getting Out Yorked
Hi Coach, I’m coaching in an academy and one of my boys has a problem getting out bowled by a yorker. I have checked his bat lift and balance and they …
Cricket Fitness And Nutrition
Dear Coach, I am a fast bowler from Pakistan and I practice 2 to 3 hours daily, but I can’t get my self fit as a bowler. Can you tell me a diet plan to …
Cricket Fast Bowling Tips/ World’s Toughest Cricketers
Hello Coach, Greetings from Saudi Arabia. We are playing cricket in hot and dry weather at 50•c+ . The grounds here are not grassy, they are all sand( …
Cricket Batting Tips : Is Size Important ?
Hi Coach, my name is Stephen, I am a right-handed batsman. Is height a problem for a batsman?. I am a short guy, my height mentally makes me …
Cricket Coaching Wicket Keeping Tips: Standing Up To The Stumps Not rated yet
Coach, how do I work on the skill of standing up to the stumps and the skill of stumping batters? Hi Huzaifa, I have always thought that what defines …
Cricket Fast Bowling Tips/ Dreams, Goals and Patience
Hi Coach, I am Rahul 19, from Delhi, India. I can bowl quick, when I bowl in the nets I can bowl 7-8 overs with the same quick pace and stamina. …
Cricket Coaching Batting Tips / Solutions To Getting Out Caught Behind
Hi, I am a club cricketer in the United States. I have recently got out 3 times in a similar fashion after getting 20-30 run starts, caught at gully …
Cricket Fitness / 5 Minute Warm Up
Hi Coach, this is Hariharan from Chennai. My question is what should we do on the day of the match for warm ups. Hi Hariharan, to warm up before …
Cricket Coaching Batting Tips/ Balance: Head Falling Over
Sir, I am Vikram from Chennai, I am a 16 year old left hand batsman. I represented my state team in the U-16 category and was successful. I met …
Cricket Spin Bowling Tips/ Doosra: Mastering And Bowling The Doosra
Hi Coach, I am an off spinner and able to bowl an off break delivery and a Doosra but have a problem with chucking or bending my arm so much …
Cricket Fast Bowling Tips/ Fast Bowlers Grip
Hi Coach, I am fast bowler, I have problems with gripping the ball. My fingers are small unlike Morne Morkel, so it does not allow me to cover the ball …
Cricket Fitness Tips: Fast Bowling / How to counter ankle strain?
Hi, I’m a tall lanky right arm fast bowler. Of late when I’ve tried bowling bouncers continuously for two to three overs at nets, I’ve experienced a sharp …
Cricket Fitness Tips: What’s A Good Fitness Program For A Batting All Rounder?
Hi Coach, whats a good fitness program for a batting all rounder who is 60kgs and 165cms? I need to have better fitness, could you get me a personal …
Cricket Fast Bowling Tips: Bowling Rhythm And Improve My Control Not rated yet
Hello Sir, I am Karthik, a 13 year old fast bowler and I have a similar bowling action as Waqar Younis. I have a little problem with my control and …
Cricket Bowling Tips: Fast Bowling / How to nip the ball back off the seam Not rated yet
Coach, I want to learn how to bowl that special delievery that bowlers like Andrew Flintoff and Muhammad Asif used to bowl, in which the ball pitches on …
Cricket Mental Toughness Training: Overcoming Fear Of Getting Hit. Not rated yet
Hello, I’m a 16 year old short all rounder who sometimes opens the batting. I was really strong on the back foot until a month ago when I was facing a …
Cricket Bowling Tips: Fast Bowling / Bowl Like Morne Morkel Not rated yet
Hi Sir, I am Sameer, I am a fast bowler of 14 years old. I want to bowl fast and accurate like Morne Morkel, my action is also quite similar to his. …
Cricket Bowling Tips: Fast Bowling / Are Fast Bowlers Born Or Made
Hi Coach! How much is fast bowling a talent your born with? I do know that there are certain things you have to do in your action (like a stable …
Cricket Fitness / Weight Training Based Conditioning Program
I am looking to create a weight based cricket strengthening program, are there any resources that you have to achieve this. Tom, check out the Cricket …
Cricket Bowling Tips: Spin Bowling / How To Get More Spin On The Ball
Hi Coach, I have two young spinners who bowl very well but are slow through the air. How can I get them to quicken their pace without sacrificing …
Cricket Bowling Tips: Fast Bowling / Bowl Like Waqar Younis
Hello Coach, I am a big fan of Waqar Younis, I like to bowl like him and my action is similar. I have a problem with my run up and I would also …
Cricket Bowling Tips: I Want To Bowl Fast
Hello Coach, my name is Jemin Harshad Panchal, I am from India. I have a question, all my friends say that I bowl fast, but my cricket coach …
Cricket Mental Toughness: Focus and Technique For Wicket Keeping .
Hi Coach, when I stand up to the wicket for the spinners I get nervous and feel pressured. This has caused me to miss many stumpings. Please …
Cricket Mental Toughness: Performance Anxiety
Hi Coach, I suffer from performance anxiety before and while I play for my cricket team. How can I overcome this? Thanks Visves Hi Visves, …
Cricket Mental Toughness: Cricket Bowling Tips : Overcoming Performance Anxiety
Hi Coach! I am confident while bowling in the nets but I get nervous and fearful when bowling in matches, which obviously restricts my performance. …
Cricket Tips: Cricket Statistics and KPI’S
Hi Coach, In an ever increasing world of cricket statistics available to coaches, what do you see as useful stats a coach can use during and after a …
Cricket Tips : Cricket Warm Up
Hi Coach, can you detail a typical pre match warm up from run throughs, stretches and fielding drills. Hi Paul, the first part of the warm up for …
Cricket Bowling Tips: Spin Bowling- Taking Wickets
Hello Coach, I am an Off Spin Bowler, please share a few cricket tips and techniques to help me take wickets consistently. Hi, here are a few basic …
Cricket Fitness / Level 3 Strength Program
Is there a strength program level 3? It says after 4 weeks to progress from level 2 to 3 but its not there. I have been doing level 2 for a month and have …
Umpiring
Sir I’m 22 years old, I was playing cricket under Sunita Mam in Delhi at the National Stadium in 2007, but I haven’t been playing for the last 2 years. …
Cricket Players / Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin has just scored his 50th test hundred, what in your opinion makes him so special? Hi Steven, there are several things that make Sachin Tendulkar …
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