ALL TIME RATINGS : ODI (21-07-2013)

                                                        Top 20 Batsmen

#	Rating	Name	Country
1	743.2	V Kohli
2	733.6	HM Amla
3	717.5	AB de Villiers
4	706.1	KC Sangakkara
5	706.1	GJ Bailey
6	675.1	TM Dilshan
7	626.1	SR Watson
8	611.6	S Dhawan
9	608.3	IJL Trott
10	574.5	MS Dhoni

11	565.4	MJ Clarke
12	561	AN Cook
13	555.9	Misbah-ul-Haq
14	555	G Gambhir
15	554.3	SR Tendulkar
16	539.1	V Sehwag
17	520.8	Mohammad Hafeez
18	508.9	RN ten Doeschate
19	506.4	RG Sharma
20	505.3	DPMD Jayawardene

                                                         TopTeams

#	Rating	Name	Country
1	675	India
2	635.1	Australia
3	629.7	South Africa
4	559.8	Sri Lanka
5	553	Pakistan
6	552.5	England
7	497.9	Ireland
8	429.2	New Zealand
9	404.2	Bangladesh
10	364.6	West Indies

11	292.8	Zimbabwe
12	258.5	Afghanistan
13	242.6	Netherlands
14	191.4	Scotland
15	148	Canada
16	147.9	Kenya

                                                         Top 20 Bowlers

#	Rating	Name	Country
1	741.4	Saeed Ajmal
2	694.1	SL Malinga
3	660.8	MA Starc
4	648	MG Johnson
5	630.1	CJ McKay
6	621.4	M Morkel
7	618.5	SP Narine
8	607.7	LL Tsotsobe
9	603.3	Junaid Khan
10	601	JM Anderson

11	589.9	ST Finn
12	575.5	Shahid Afridi
13	574.2	Mohammad Irfan
14	572.7	KAJ Roach
15	571.8	JC Tredwell
16	546.1	A Mishra
17	543.1	RA Jadeja
18	538.4	RJ Harris
19	537.7	R Ashwin
20	537	NLTC Perera

ALL TIME RATINGS : TEST (23-10-2013)

Top 20 Batsman

#	Rating	Name	Country
1	709	CA Pujara
2	687	HM Amla
3	653	KC Sangakkara
4	651	MJ Clarke
5	624	AB de Villiers
6	616	AN Cook
7	585	MN Samuels
8	584	IJL Trott
9	568	SR Tendulkar
10	567	GC Smith

11	560	BRM Taylor
12	546	IR Bell
13	544	JH Kallis
14	544	S Chanderpaul
15	533	Younis Khan
16	531	V Sehwag
17	525	LRPL Taylor
18	522	KP Pietersen
19	519	R Dravid
20	519	MEK Hussey

Top 10 teams

#	Rating	Name	Country
1	879	South Africa
2	798	England
3	641	India
4	597	Zimbabwe
5	576	Sri Lanka
6	571	Australia
7	534	New Zealand
8	517	West Indies
9	502	Bangladesh
10	452	Pakistan

Top 10 Bowlers

#	Rating	Name	Country
1	656	DW Steyn
2	650	GP Swann
3	611	JM Anderson
4	579	Saeed Ajmal
5	561	HMRKB Herath
6	552	SCJ Broad
7	503	PM Siddle
8	479	MG Johnson
9	462	M Morkel
10	447	RJ Harris

#	Rating	Name	Country
11	439	PP Ojha
12	425	Abdur Rehman
13	406	BW Hilfenhaus
14	405	Z Khan
15	401	ST Finn
16	389	S Shillingford
17	385	Harbhajan Singh
18	377	KAJ Roach
19	372	NM Lyon
20	369	CT Tremlett

Nehru Trophy Boat Race

Location	:	Alappuzha, Kerala
To Commemmorate	:	The Visit Of Jawahar Lal Nehru To This Place
Centre of Activity	:	Punnamada Backwaters
Held In	:	2nd Saturday Of August, Every Year

Nehru Trophy Boat Race, the most colourful water sport in Kerala, is conducted at PUNNAMADA LAKE in Alappuzha on the second saturday of every August. This prestigious cultural event of Kerala has been attracting people from all over the world. Nehru Trophy Boat Race is a festival for the people of Alleppey the main attraction of which is the sportive sprits among the participants of the race.

This trophy named as NEHRU TROPHY was donated by the late Prime Minister of INDIA Jawaharlal Nehru to the winners of the first boat race which was an impromptu one conducted in 1952 in honour of Panditji who visited Alappuzha

This aquatic festival fosters a sense of unity and fraternity and sports man spirit event and attaching foreign tourists also.
In the year 1952, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru visited the erstwhile Travancore-Cochin. On his way to Alleppey from Kottayam he was given a roaring reception by the people of Alleppey, escorted by the huge snake-boats. Having gone through the tremendous excitement of sailing in a snake-boat popularly known as Chundan, Jawaharlal Nehru donated a rolling trophy to be awarded to the winner.

The trophy is a replica of a snake-boat in silver, placed on wooden abacus on which the following words of Panditji are inscribed above his signature.

Aaranmula Boat Race

Location	:	Kerala
Main Attractions	:	100 Feet Long Boat Races
Centre of Activity	:	Village Aaranmula
Held In	:	August / September

The Aaranmula Boat Race is staged each year in the scenic village of Aaranmula in August/ September. This river carnival is part of the Aaranmula Temple festival. Masses throng the shores of the River Pamba to watch an imposing cluster of snake boats called 'Palliyodams'. Aranmula Uthrittathi Vallomkali is conducted in the Pamba River in front of Sri Parthasarathi Temple. Though, large snake boats take part in this festival they do not race with each other. Instead, they row in union, to the accompaniment of songs and reach their destination together because Lord Krishna is believed to be present in each boat. Since 1971 this procession has taken the present form of a race conducted by the Palliyoda Seva Sangh. Each boat, nearly 100 feet long, is a remarkable feat of craftsmanship, with the stem curved to resemble the hood of a snake and a tampering bow. Festooned with silk and gold spangled umbrellas, the boats are manned by a crew of more than 100 men.

Gilli thanda (Kittipulla) [கில்லி தண்ட (கிட்டிபுள்ளை)]

Gilli Danda or Guli Danda, Lippa, S-Cianco, is a traditional amateur sport, popular among rural youth in the Indian subcontinent and southern Europe. It is also know as dangguli in Bangla chinni-dandu in Kannada, kuttiyum kolum in Malayalam, viti-dandu in Marathi, kitti-pullu in Tamil, gooti-billa in Telugu, and Lappa-Duggi in Pashto. This sport is generally played in the rural and small towns of the Indian subcontinent.

 

The rules are different everywhere and you can have fun making your own rules. Imagine a game like cricket or baseball but without a ball! That's what 'Gilli Danda' is.

Thing Required:

• Gilli Danda requires two wooden sticks - a 'Gilli' and a 'Danda'. The 'Gilli' is a small wooden piece which is about three inches long and 'Danda' - a stick, about 2 feet in length, is used to strike the Gilli.
• 4+ Player
• Open groud

How to play:

 

• A small circle of four feet diameter is drawn. In the centre a small oblong shaped hole is dug which should be smaller than the gilli.
• Two teams are formed. One bat and the other fields.
• Fielders stand in a position from where they can catch the gilli.
• The first player places the gilli in the hole and lifts it quickly high in the air with the danda and then strikes it. If he fails at first, he gets another turn. If the fielder catches the gilli before it touches the 
  ground, the batsman is out and the second player tries to hit the gilli. If the gilli is not caught, then the distance from the hole to the place where the gilli falls is measured with the danda. Each danda equals one point.
• The fielder stands where the gilli had fallen and tosses it to the batsman. The batsman tries to hit the gilli while it is in the air. If it falls in the circle then he is out, if it falls outside the circle then he taps the tapered end and lifts it in the air and strikes while it is in the air. He gets three chances to hit the gilli. If he does not hit it, or is caught, he is out.
• The game continues till all batsmen are out. The team changes side and continues the same way. The team with higher score wins. 

Warning :  

Gilli danda is a very dangerous game to play. Many a times the "Gilli" can go astray and hit one of the players or passersby, so it needs to be played carefully so that no players or passers get hurt.

Pallanguli

Pallanguli

Pallanguli is played in the Southern India. Traditional game for India and favourite game for Tamil community. It is called the gambling game by men and favourite game for ladies.The board has 14 cups with each player controlling seven. In each cup six seeds are placed. To play the game, players lift the seeds and distribute one seed in each hole. If the seeds are finished, the player goes on to his opponent’s side of the board. If the seed fall into a cup with an empty cup beyond, the seeds in the cup beyond the empty hole are captured by the player and put into his store.These two pieces pallanguli was used in 1940's era and made from teak wood. It is very heavy for its size and available in multi sizes and made from different form of products, example made from brass, wood, marble and so on. Type of seeds used to play this game normally cowrie or seashell, tamarind seed or others.