2nd ODI Updates, Live Cricket Score: Rain Threat Looms Large as India Look to Demolish Bangladesh

India face Bangladesh in the second ODI with a chance to seal the three-match series. The visitors have been clinical and bullied their way to a comfortable win in the opening match. Catch all the updates from the second ODI here:
 The Indian team registered a thumping seven wicket win in the opening ODI. While the bowlers were decent, India openers Robi Uthappa and Ambati Rayudu had a 99-run stand - a sign that the team can experiment with this pair going forward.
The second ODI is expected to be a one-sided affair once again but the tourists will have to guard against complacency. Skipper Suresh Raina has be an able leader against weaker opponents and he would like to maintain that reputation. Bangladesh though would be itching to deliver a surprise punch.
While their performance has been nothing to write home about, there were some fine knocks from the likes of Mushfiqur Rahim (59), Shakib al Hasan (52) and Anamul Haque (44). The bowlers will have to back the batting if the team has to deliver a comprehensive performance. Weather though may play spoil-sport once again as the forecast is of some rain. The first match had a two and a half hour delay due to the rain and while the ground-staff has done a decent job, showers once again can play havoc.

The incredibly malleable spirit of cricket

Two British satirists, the late John Fortune and John Bird, mastered the art of explaining slippery subjects through humour. They would take a major news story and apparently merely knock it about in a light, spontaneous chat on TV. But their mischievous dialogues often took us closer to the heart of the matter than acres of self-important newsprint. (Here they are in a famous sketch from 2007 about the financial crisis) How I would have loved them to address cricket's confusion about the "spirit of cricket". The old controversy was reignited this month when Sri Lanka "Mankaded" Jos Buttler. In the spirit of admiration rather than emulation, in this piece I imagine a conversion between the two great satirists, reflecting on Mankading and cricket's odd attitudes towards morality... "So what is it, this spirit of cricket thing? Presumably it's about behaving with dignity out on the pitch and that kind of stuff?" "Oh no, not really. Most players can get away with swearing at each other non-stop for five days without contravening the spirit of cricket. We don't get involved morally at that level. Better to turn a blind eye." "You mean sledging - that's the right term isn't it? - does not contravene the spirit of cricket?" "Not really.
No, cricket tends to celebrate verbal abuse as "banter", even though it's very rarely funny. Let's put it this way. If someone sledges you all day in a Test match, the correct response in modern cricket is to go up to him at the end of play and say, "I loved the way you showed real passion about playing for your country, you seem like a champion cricketer, can I buy you a drink, as I'm sure you're a great bloke off the pitch." "So the appropriate response to someone calling you a "f****** ****" for seven hours is to say, 'Thanks, can I buy you a beer?'" "Exactly." "Now I'm confused. So abusing someone who is simply doing his job is fine.
 But when an opponent performs a run-out, entirely within the laws of the game, he has broken the spirit of cricket, and the crowd starts booing and the whole occasion is apparently demeaned?" "You are beginning to understand how the phrase "spirit of cricket" can be thrown around." "But what could Sri Lanka have done to avoid the Mankading? Other than the threat of a Mankad, there's no other way of preventing a batsman setting off for a run from an advanced position is there?" "Not really." "And I suppose, in the heat of battle in elite sport, no one offers warnings before acting within the laws, do they?" "Well, actually Sri Lanka offered two warnings." "So they offered two warnings to an opponent who was - deliberately or, in this instance, accidentally - gaining an illegal advantage, and yet they still broke the spirit of cricket?" "According to lots of people, yes."So if acting within the laws is against the spirit of cricket, what does upholding the spirit of cricket look like?" "It's about not taking advantage of the fact that a man can lose his mind immediately before eating a slice of cake." "I'm sorry, you've lost me." "Back in 2011, poor Ian Bell offered a plea of temporary insanity brought about by the immediate temptation of a slice of cake.
The 'spirit of cricket' jury gave him a reprieve, effectively a second life as a batsman." "You're joking, right?" "Deadly serious. Ian Bell made a brilliant hundred at Trent Bridge against India. But after the last ball before tea, he lapsed in concentration and assumed that the ball had crossed the boundary when in fact it hadn't. As he sauntered off for tea, the Indian team dislodged the bails, and Bell was run out. That is indeed out, according to the laws. But after an English delegation went to the Indian dressing room to complain, India retracted their appeal. "That is, they invited Bell to bat again. Not because he wasn't out, but because they now realised that the prospect of tea had clearly clouded Bell's mind. Pundits agreed that everyone had behaved superbly. After all, how could a man be expected to remember the laws of the game when he can already sniff the aroma of chocolate cake in his nostrils?" "This spirit of cricket is incredibly complex and malleable, isn't it?
It looks as though you can explain or condemn almost anything using the rhetoric of the spirit of cricket." "Exactly. That's the magic of it. It's all about not crossing a line." "Whose line?" "My line." "What do you mean your line?" "Everything up to and including my actions are 'within the spirit of cricket'. Anything I don't like about the actions of other players is 'against the spirit of cricket'." "So it's possible for two people to argue for hours about someone 'crossing the line' without anyone knowing what or where the line is?" "Exactly. That's the brilliance of the idea." "Let's go back to the Mankading controversy. Wasn't there some background controversy about the bowling action of Senanayake, the bowler who performed the Mankading?"
 "Senanayake's action has been reported as suspicious by several officials - i.e. it may be deemed a throw rather than a bowl. He will have to go to Cardiff to have his action specially filmed and analysed to see if it is legal after all." "But isn't there a risk, when spin bowlers have to attend special testing, that they will simply bowl with a slightly different and 'more legal' action during the forensic examination?" "What do you mean 'risk'? Basically, almost everyone who is tested eventually gets cleared. Think of the whole thing as a cooling off process." "But what about the bowlers who don't have questionable actions? Aren't they placed at an unfair disadvantage by having to bowl in the traditional manner?" "What do you think this is, a charity? This is cut-throat, elite sport. There is no room for sentimentality." "Except the spirit of cricket?" "Except for that, of course."

Star to broadcast Bangladesh ODIs

The uncertainty over whether the Bangladesh-India series will be broadcast in India ended a day before the first ODI, when the BCB announced Star Sports will telecast the games. Gazi TV, who had claimed the media rights until 2020, inked the deal on Saturday night.

Salahuddin Chowdhury, CFO and head of operations of Gazi Group, said there had been an issue with "some terms and conditions," which contributed to the delay. Bound by a non-disclosure agreement, he could only offer that "Star will be broadcasting the first ODI tomorrow," and will continue coverage for the next two.

Gazi TV had sought out Star and Sony Six to ensure the series was available in India. But Star's bid of less than a million dollars had been deemed too low and the World Cup left Sony Six with no space to fit the series.

Nazmul Hassan, the BCB president, explained the weight an India series carried while selling the media rights, and offered to lend some assistance. "Gazi TV has written to us that they cannot find a buyer, essentially a broadcaster for the India series. It is probably because of the FIFA World Cup, as TV channels are running on a particular schedule. The India series, according to our valuation makes up about 50 to 60% of the media rights."

The week-long tour to Bangladesh was announced only a month ago and, with India resting marquee names like MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli, interest from broadcasters was low.

Murali Kartik retires from cricket

Murali Kartik, the former India left-arm spinner, has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. Kartik, 37, played eight Tests, 37 ODIs and one Twenty20 international for India. His first-class career, which began in 1996, spanned more than 17 years.

Kartik's career coincided with the dominance of Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh in the India side, and as a result, he never got a sustained run in Tests. He played four Tests in 2000, making his debut against South Africa in Mumbai but had to wait for more than three years for his next chance, which came against Australia in Sydney in January 2004, where he had a return of 1 for 211.

He bounced back with a solid showing against the same opponents at home later that year and his seven wickets were crucial in India winning the Mumbai Test in November. The first Test against South Africa in Kanpur later that month turned out to be Kartik's last, although he made a short-lived ODI comeback in 2007.

The comeback brought about his finest ODI performance, also against Australia in Mumbai, where he claimed 6 for 27 and then made an unbeaten 21 in a match-winning ninth-wicket partnership with Zaheer Khan.

"The Mumbai Test (match haul of 7/76) where I won the Man-of-the-Match award will always be special as we were able to restrict an Australian side chasing 103 (107)," he said, when asked to pick out his career highlights. "Also when Sachin presented me with my India Test cap and Kapil Paaji (then coach) presented the India hat."

Kartik was also a key member of the Railways side that made successive Ranji Trophy finals in 2000-01 and 2001-02, both times against Baroda. He played a vital role in their maiden title triumph in 2001-02, taking 5 for 51 and 3 for 7 in addition to scoring 69 in the second innings of the final.

In all, he played 203 first-class games and took 644 wickets at an average of 26.70. Nearly a third of those wickets were for English county sides Middlesex, Somerset, Surrey and Lancashire. He was also a handy batsman and was even used as an opener at times. He made 4423 first-class runs at an average of 20.19 with a highest of 96.

In the latter part of his career, Kartik also enjoyed success in the shortest format in England. He was part of Middlesex's T20-winning squad in 2008, and made two finals with Somerset in 2010 and 2011. He has represented Kolkata Knight Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Pune Warriors in the IPL and was picked by Kings XI Punjab in the 2014 auction. Kartik has said he will be available to play for Kings XI in the forthcoming Champions League T20.

Virat Kohali innings vedio

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Kohli c Duminy b Kallis 119 (181b 18x4 0x6) 

India lost Virat Kohli (119) after the right-hander lead India's run charge with his majestic century against South Africa on the opening day of the first Test at the Wanderers on Wednesday.

Kohli played a brilliant innings of 119 off 181 balls - his highest in Test cricket surpassing 116 against Australia in Adelaide.

The Delhi batsman added another crucial 68-run partnership with Ajinkya Rahane to help India cross the 200-run mark in the final session of the day.

Kohli scored his fifth Test century to lead India's revival after the visitors lost early wickets.

Kohli reached the milestone in 140 balls, which included 16 boundaries, in his very first outing against the Proteas in their own den.

It is Kohli's second Test hundred away from home after the Adelaide ton in 2012, and he is the only batsman in the current India line-up to score an overseas ton in the longer version of the game.

Earlier, Kohli's 84 helped India reach 164/4 at tea against South Africa.

Kohli added 52 runs to his tally in the second session to keep India in the match. The right-hander remained unbeaten at 84 off 113 balls which included 14 hits to the fence.

In the second session of the day, India managed 94 runs with the lost of Rohit Sharma (14) and Cheteshwar Pujara (25).

Sharma fiddled with an outgoing delivery of Vernon Philander just before the tea break and nicked the ball to the wicketkeeper AB de Villiers. The wicket reduced India to 151/4 before tea.

India lost Pujara after he added a valuable 89-run stand with Kohli to revive their innings.

Confusion between the duo in the middle, after spending so much time together so far, led to Pujara getting run out after they took India to 113/2 from a precarious position of 24/2 early in their innings.

Pujara hit two boundaries in his vigilant 98-ball 25 knock.

On the other end, Kohli smashed his 8th half-century to lead India fightback against the hosts. The new India No. 4 (a slot Sachin Tendulkar occupied for 24 years) smacked nine boundaries to reach his fifty off 76 balls.

Kohli changed his approach after the lunch break as he played more patiently, after racing to run-a-ball 32 before the break.

After losing openers early, Kohli and Pujara make sure that runs keep on coming along with keeping the wickets in tact as they took India over 100 in post-lunch session.