Melbourne cricket fans witnessed a rare practice session at the MCG nets when the son of the legendary Sachin Tendulkar displayed his skills during an Indian practice session. 

The Indian cricketers are taking flak from all corners, but this coming from one of their staunch supporters is indeed surprising. Model Poonam Pandey expressed her disgust at Team India’s loss through Twitter.

The Indian team fought gallantly for the first three days in Melbourne but let Australia off the hook to lose the Test. In Sydney where the stakes were high for India’s majestic middle order they went down meekly in the fi rst innings handing a valuable advantage to the Australians who went about piling runs.

Michael Holding mentioned a few years back that Twenty20 will destroy the game and the youngsters cannot develop into a Test player. He argues quoting “If I'm a young man growing up today and you are going to pay me $800,000 for six weeks work, I am gone. I'm certainly not going to spend time in the nets busting a gut improving my technique to play Test cricket.”

The 122 run loss at MCG can be clearly attributed to the Australian tailenders playing comfortably the Indian bowlers and adding vital runs in both innings in a low scoring match. Indian Captain Dhoni remarked “we need to come up with ways to run through the opposition's lower order”.

MELBOURNE, JAN 9. Melbourne Renegades’ international recruits for KFC T20 Big Bash – Pakistani cricketers Abdul Razzaq and Shahid Afridi dined out at VIT Café in Abbotsford tonight, and mixed with the members of the Indian & Pakistani communities, including international students.