Raina asks Arnab to launch campaign supporting India in West Indies

Bangalore, Jun 10: Fans world wide have always considered Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar as the God of cricket and that is what even technology is confessing. Weird it may sound but, Google translate in a bizzare way translates "Suresh Raina is god" in Serbian to "Sachin Tendulkar is God" in English.

While there has been no information, if it is a malfunction or a deliberate attempt to establish the Indian cricketing legend as the supreme cricketer (highly unlikely though that Google would do something so wayward to recognise the Master Blaster's genius

Suresh Raina, the Indian cricket team captain for the West Indies tour, is understood to have written a mail to Times Now editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami, pleading the news channel to launch a “sustained campaign” to help the Indian team get some support and television ... “While we don't grudge Anna, it's painful to see someone like Suhel Seth getting more airtime for his howzzats than Harbhajan Singh,” the letter argued, “Harbhajan is actually agitated for god's sake!” .

Mumbai. Suresh Raina, the Indian cricket team captain for the West Indies tour, is understood to have written a mail to Times Now editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami, pleading the news channel to launch a “sustained campaign” to help the Indian team get some support and television viewership.

India has won one Twenty20 match and two ODIs in West Indies, but Indian cricket fans have shown no interest in following the series yet.

“Nothing but pointed and direct questions from Arnab could force viewers to watch cricket now,” Raina is reported to have argued in his mail to Boria Majumdar, the sports editor of Times Now, “Please have a Newshour debate of six hours and help us survive here. We badly need your suppor

PORT OF SPAIN — India's captain Suresh Raina said his side was was now well-placed to win their One-day International series against West Indies.

India took a 2-0 lead in the five-match series, after half-centuries from Virat Kohli and Parthiv Patel followed up Amit Mishra's career-best bowling to lead them to a seven-wicket victory in the rain-affected second ODI on Wednesday.

Chasing a revised target of 183 in 37 overs due to the rain, after West Indies made 240 for nine from their 50 overs, India reached the target with 20 balls remaining, and Raina earned high praise for setting things up.

"We were expecting to chase something around 260 or 270, but I think the credit has to go to Mishra, he bowled really well," he said.

"At the same time, Munaf gave us breakthroughs at crucial times, and Virat and Parthiv batted very well in the chase."