Ashley Jackson is going to lead Ranchi Rays in Hero Hockey India League.

Details of appointment of Ashley Jackson as the captain of Ranchi in Hockey League.:

England hockey player, Ashley Jackson was named as the captain of the new Ranchi franchise, Ranchi Rays, co-owned by Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni for the third edition of the Hero Hockey India League. 

 

Ranchi Rays also named Harendra Singh as the head coach of the team while Clarence Lobo has been appointed as the assistant coach and A B Subbiah as the goalkeeping coach.

“Going by his experience and present performance, we feel that Ashley Jackson is the right choice for the captain. Under his able leadership, the team will do well and he will make the Ranchi fans proud by putting up a terrific show,” Dhoni said about Jackson’s appointment.

“I hope Harendra Singh, as a coach, will nurture the players and will bring the best of them. You need a right coach who knows the strengths of his players and capitalise on it,” he added.

After being appointed as the skipper, Jackson said: “It’s a great feeling to be named captain of Ranchi Rays. I will try my best to lead from the front and alongside some of the best talents in the world.”

Ranchi Rays has replaced now defunct Ranchi Rhinos in the league and is being co-owned jointly by Sahara India Pariwar and Dhoni.

Rohit's Ton of 138 helps India to score 267 Against Australia

India vs Australia odi match is currently going on and India is on good position after Rohit Sharma scored a century and made a 138 runs wonderful inning that helped India.

 

Rohit Sharma anchored the Indian innings with a scintillating 138 before Mitchell Starc’s career-best six-wicket haul helped Australia restrict the visitors to 267 for 8 in the second one-dayer of the cricket tri-series at MCG, here today.

Opening the innings, Rohit blasted nine boundaries and four sixes in 139 balls to produce his sixth ODI hundred and third against Australia after India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat.

 He put on 30 runs for the 2nd wicket with Rohit, the two scoring along at 4.64 runs per over. Just as they were beginning to look comfortable at the crease, Sandhu (1-58) got Rahane to attempt a high cut and instead was caught behind by keeper Brad Haddin. That brought Virat Kohli (9) to the crease but the star batsman was off-colour on the day. 

He miscued a pull-shot off James Faulkner (1/63) and was caught easily by skipper George Bailey at mid-on, shortly after India had crossed the 50-mark in the 11th over. 

Raina then joined Rohit at the crease and two played responsibly to dig their side out of the rot. The left-hander was dismissed in the 35th over as the opener along with his captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni brought up the 200-mark in the 40th over. 

But Starc returned to the attack to remove three Indian captain — Dhoni (19), Axar Patel (0) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (0) to restrict India’s innings. 

Debutant Gurinder Sandhu (1/58) and James Faulkner (1/63) picked up one wicket each.

The fourth wicket stand between Rohit and Raina formed the bedrock of the Indian innings as the duo stabilised the visitors after being pushed on the back foot early. 

R Ashwin (14*) who had been surprisingly held back then arrived in the middle to help add 25 runs for the 7th wicket as the 250-mark came up in the 47th over.

Ashwin was dropped by Pat Cummins (0-52) in the next over but Starc still managed to get his 5th wicket as Rohit was out caught at mid-wicket. He then bowled Kumar who missed a simple full-toss first ball.

The hat-trick was avoided by Mohammad Shami (2*) as the last ten overs yielded just 61 runs for the loss of four wickets.

(This article was published on January 18, 2015)

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India vs Australia 4th Test - Australia is on Stronger position on first day

Updates and information about India vs Australia 4th Test - Australia is on Stronger position on first day:

India and Australia has been playing cricket games from two months and Australia has literally dominated in the whole series. Now from today onwards India and Australia has started the final test of the series and in this one too Aus is just domination as both of the openers have scored tons on the first day itself.

Warner's inning was just like an inning of ODI match and he was just biting the batsman like he did in one day games till now.

Overall the first day of cricket was just on the name of the Australian batsman who literally were winner in the all aspect of cricket on first day of the cricket game.

Stay tuned with us for the updates of India vs Australia cricket games 2015.

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