Century agony again for India's Tendulkar

ndian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar was again denied the chance to secure a record 100th international century, after being caught out for 80 against Australia in the Second Test in Sydney on Friday.
The 38-year-old batsman was caught by Michael Hussey off bowler Michael Clarke, to leave him one short of the elusive milestone.

The "Little Master" is international cricket's record run scorer in both the five-day and limited overs formats but has been stranded on 99 centuries since March last year
In November he fell agonizingly short against the West Indies in Mumbai -- his home city -- when he was dismissed for 94.
His last century came against South Africa at the World Cup when he reached 111.
But Tendulkar's wicket was all the more sweet for Clarke, the Australian skipper, who also played a starring role with the bat, scoring an unbeaten 329 runs to put his side on course to clinch a second Test victory in a row against India.
Clarke's triple squeezes India
His contribution gave the hosts a massive first innings total of 659 for 4, leaving struggling India with a mountain to climb.
With India starting Day 4 on 112 for for 4, 354 runs behind, Tendulkar worked quickly to give his side hope as he reached 50 off 89 balls -- including seven fours.
He had reached 70 when play resumed after lunch, and quickly reeled off a further ten runs before he was caught by Hussey at slip off spinner Clarke.
Earlier in the innings, Gautam Gambhir was dismissed on 83, while VVS Laxman chipped in with 66 before the inevitable Indian collapse.For More>>>

Kyojin no Hoshi Baseball Manga Remade for India With Cricket

 The financial news source Nikkei reported on Friday that an Indian/Japanese animated series will adapt Ikki Kajiwara and Noboru Kawasaki's Kyojin no Hoshi baseball manga — except the production will remake the story with India's ball game of choice, cricket.
The Japanese publisher Kodansha is collaborating on this project, which will begin airing as a 26- or 52-episode weekly television series in India this fall under the tentative name Rising Star. Japan's TMS Entertainment anime studio will be in charge of the scripts, storyboards, and other parts of the early production process. (TMS Entertainment, under its original name Tokyo Movie Shinsha, already adapted the manga into a 1968-1971 baseball anime series in Japan.) Local Indian studios will also work on the latter parts of production and cover about half of the animation's production costs.
The new adaptation's story will follow a sports scenario similar to the original manga, despite moving the setting to modern India. A young left-handed cricket player wants to be like his father, also a former cricket player. Because his family is poor, the boy faces many challenges as he strives to become a star player. Kajiwara's original manga story follows the baseball pitcher Hyūma Hoshi as he dreams of becoming a star player in Japan's professional baseball league.
Kodansha serialized the original Kyojin no Hoshi manga series in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1966 to 1971. The story inspired three television anime series in the 1960s and 1970s. Yoshiyuki Murakami began serializing Shinyaku [Kyojin no Hoshi] Hanagata as an alternate retelling of the original manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2006.For more>>>