Monday 31 December 2012
Tuesday 25 December 2012
Pakistan won by 5 wickets (with 2 balls remaining)
India 133/9 (20/20 ov); Pakistan 134/5 (19.4/20 ov)
Pakistan won by 5 wickets (with 2 balls remaining)
India 133/9 (20/20 ov); Pakistan 123/5 (18.5/20 ov)
1st T20I:
India v Pakistan at Bangalore
- Dec 25, 2012
India 133/9 (20/20 ov); Pakistan 123/5 (18.5/20 ov)
Shoaib Malik 50*
AB Dinda 3.5-0-25-1
I Sharma 4-0-23-1
Pakistan require another 11 runs with 5 wickets and 7 balls remaining
1st T20I: India v Pakistan at Bangalore - Dec 25, 2012
1st T20I:
India v Pakistan at Bangalore
- Dec 25, 2012
India 133/9 (20/20 ov); Pakistan 121/4 (18.1/20 ov)
Kamran Akmal 0*
Shoaib Malik 49*
AB Dinda 3.1-0-23-0
I Sharma 4-0-23-1
Pakistan require another 13 runs with 6 wickets and 11 balls remaining
India 133/9 (20/20 ov); Pakistan 120/4 (17.3/20 ov)
1st T20I:
India v Pakistan at Bangalore
- Dec 25, 2012
India 133/9 (20/20 ov); Pakistan 120/4 (17.3/20 ov)
Kamran Akmal 0*
Shoaib Malik 48*
I Sharma 3.3-0-23-1
AB Dinda 3-0-22-0
Pakistan require another 14 runs with 6 wickets and 15 balls remaining
Monday 24 December 2012
Wednesday 19 December 2012
Saturday 15 December 2012
Game News: Day 3, 1st Innings - Session 3IND 269/4 in 116 ove...
Game News: Day 3, 1st Innings - Session 3IND 269/4 in 116 ove...: Day 3, 1 st Innings - Session 3 IND 269/4 in 116 overs IND trails by 61 run(s) Cur RR: 2.31 Over(s) Remaining: 15 ...
Friday 14 December 2012
Thursday 13 December 2012
Saturday 8 December 2012
Ashwin stands in England's way
Eden Gardens: England however are all set to win the third Test against India- Day 4, 2nd Innings - Session 3
- IND 239/9 in 83 overs
- IND leads by 32 run(s)
- Cur RR: 2.87
1st Innings
ENG 523/10
IND 316/10
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Friday 7 December 2012
Thursday 6 December 2012
Ind vs Eng: England resume first innings after tea on Day 2 in 3rd Test
Captain Alastair Cook and Nick Compton resumed England first innings after tea on the second day of the third Test against India at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday.
Scorecard
Cook and Compton consolidated further in the second session by adding 99 runs. The Indian bowlers were left clueless while the English batsmen looked to attack, especially against R Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha, who were not allowed to settle.
Making most of a dropped chance, captain Alastair Cook batted his way to his 30th Test fifty.
Cook was dropped by Cheteshwar Pujara at first slip off Zaheer Khan when he was on 17.
Cook and Compton took England first innings to 22/0 at lunch.
This was after Indian captain MS Dhoni hit his 27th Test fifty just before getting dismissed as England bowled out India for 316 runs.
Steven Finn dismissed Dhoni with a good short delivery at his body. Dhoni tried to fend it away but got into an awkward position and couldn't keep it down. The ball flew down to gully where Swann took a fine diving catch to end the Indian innings.
Dhoni batted well with the tail and reached his fifty with a crashing cover drive to the fence.
Dhoni brought up the Indian 300 with a six off Monty Panesar over long-off and the Indian captain followed it with a huge hit over long-on that went into the stands.
Panesar dismissed Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma in his successive overs.
Panesar floated a delivery at a good pace on off and middle, Ishant got his bat down very late as he tried to drive but the ball sneaked through and hit the stumps.
Panesar trapped Zaheer Khan plumb in front of the wicket in the fourth over of the day.
Panesar bowled a flighted delivery on line with the stumps and moving on with the arm, Zaheer tried to defend but missed and the ball that struck him low on his pads. That would have missed the leg stump as shown by the hawk eye.
The day's play started with captain MS Dhoni and Zaheer resuming the Indian first innings.
An intriguing first day's play saw India score 273 runs and England pick up 7 wickets. A day that saw brave displays from Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar and James Anderson.
Wednesday 7 November 2012
Saturday 27 October 2012
Sunday 21 October 2012
Sunday 7 October 2012
Game News: The ICC World Twenty20 2012 finals are here, and w...
Game News: The ICC World Twenty20 2012 finals are here, and w...: The ICC World Twenty20 2012 finals are here, and we're really excited to see it!
Friday 5 October 2012
Gayle storm blows Aussies away
Windies reach their first World Twenty20 final after massive win.
Sammy elected to bat and once again Johnson Charles deprived Gayle of
the strike, before perishing to an edge off Starc that was taken by the
'keeper. Gaye had faced just 14 balls in the first nine overs, and it
was Samuels who struck the first blows, carting sixes off Brad Hogg and
Doherty and driving Cummins for four. Samuels was castled by a Cummins
slower ball, allowing Dwayne Bravo to take over.
Meanwhile,
Australia was starting to wilt under the attack. Wade let slip a full
toss to concede four byes and Starc's wide swinging delivery went
running down the leg side for five wides. The gears shifted ominously
in the 15th when David Hussey came on. Gayle struck a six and two fours
as 19 were taken. Bravo was out after adding 83 in 51 balls with Gayle.
Gayle,
who appeared to be troubled by an abdominal spasm, then got into his
own. He reached his fifty in 29 balls as the Windies gained 150 in the
17th over, and he and Pollard struck regular boundaries against Watson
and Cummins to keep the board ticking. But it was in the final over that
the match appeared to slip irrevocably from the Aussies. Doherty came
on, was greeted by Gayle with a six, and then brutalised for three more
hits over the fence by Pollard, as 25 came from the last six balls. For
Australia, whose Starc and Cummins had kept it tight at the start, the
73 runs leaked in the last five overs of the West Indian innings cost
them dear.
Thursday 4 October 2012
Pakistan's batting helps Sri Lanka enter final
Mahela Jayawardene's men will now face either Australia or West Indies for title honours.
he two Umars in the Pakistani side were at both ends, for the final six
balls of the first 2012 World T20 semi-final. One of them removed their
helmets to play Nuwan Kulasekara. A move both brave and pointless, for
he missed. When he put it back on, Umar Akmal needed to get 21 runs off
the last two. He managed four, and there ended his tournament. But he
wasn’t the only one to blame, for the Men-in-Green losing their third
consecutive World Cup semi-final across two coloured formats.
When the chase began, Malinga and Kulasekara were bowling slower deliveries, and this managed to keep Mohammad Hafeez and Imran Nazir
quiet for a while. It was clear that the demons inside the batsmen were
bigger than the demons on the pitch, and when Imran Nazir played onto
his stumps, his nerves were to blame, more than the bounce that Ajantha Mendis manage to extract from the track. Nasir Jamshed however was unlucky.
The left-handed Virat Kohli,
if we are allowed to use the blasphemous comparison, failed to make
contact with the ball, which pitched outside the leg-stump before
hitting the pads. Umpire Rod Tucker considered only the second. Pakistan
55/2, and that blow cracked the dam open. First Kamran Akmal with a hideous shot, and then Shoaib Malik
with a shoddy forward defense. Their only consolation was Mohammed
Hafeez’s presence at the crease, but he too was living on borrowed time,
after Lasith Malinga butter- fingered a simple chance at long on.
But
the Professor failed to learn his lesson, by getting himself stumped
off Rangana Herath, thanks to a wild swing, away from the ball. Then Shahid Afridi
came and left in the time, that a human being takes to breathe. Six
wickets is one foot in the grave, and however hard Umar Akmal tried to
delay proceedings, he was only delaying the inevitable. The target was
growing on them, and the Sri Lankans were making sure that the
Pakistanis tied themselves in knots, by hitting within the ropes. It
worked.
At the toss, the coin told Mahela Jayawardene
that his luck was on the money, and he in turn told the mike that he
would bat. Pakistan entrusted the opening responsibilities to two left
armers, at opposite ends of the same trade- pacer Sohail Tanvir and
spinner Raza Hasan. Bowling off the wrong foot, the former got an edge
from Dilshan, but Kamran Akmal’s one-handed dive wasn’t good enough.
Openers Jayawardene and Dilshan understood that there was turn and
bounce in the pitch, and in an effort to improvise, the Lankan skipper
manage to pick up some bounty from the boundary, by utilising his weaker
hand to play the pull and sweep in reverse.
But when he tried
the shot that his batting partner is well known for, Jayawardene only
managed to scoop the ball to Raza Hasan at short fine leg. Shahid Afridi
celebrated like an umpire signalling a six, minus the stiffness and
with a lot more emotion. Replacement Kumar Sangakkara oozed oodles of
style in the three fours that he struck, before he got his timing wrong
at about ten minutes to eight, with the ball in Shoaib Malik’s palms at
long on. Sri Lanka’s skippers in the 2012 World T20, back in the
dressing room, backs taking the shape of a chair.
Triple figures
came up with a single off the last ball of the fifteenth over. Enter
Umar Gul, bowling for the first time in the match to Jeevan Mendis.
Every time the bat touched the ball, there were two runs, and this
happened thrice. The pitch was making sure, that this contest would be a
fair battle between bat and ball. Gul was doing better without the new
ball in his right hand, but robbed himself of a wicket, after
over-stepping, before trapping Mendis leg-before-wicket. He made amends
by using the yorker against Dilshan, with umpire Taufel satisfied with
both the lbw appeal and the delivery stride. That Dilshan was having an
off-day at office, was for all to see.
Mendis took his own
batting life at the crease, by coming down the track, to give Akmal and
Ajmal their one and only dismissal of the match. Thisara Perera was keen
to get a move on, using his ‘left foot out of the way’ stance to add
two boundaries to the one that Angelo Mathews had procured with an
edge. Important. For the last over was Sri Lanka’s best, 16 runs coming
off it, the difference between the two teams in this game.
Friday 28 September 2012
Thursday 27 September 2012
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Wednesday 26 September 2012
Points Table: League Stage in T20 World Cup
Teams M W L T NR Pts NRR
Group A
IND 2 2 0 0 0 4 +2.825
ENG 2 1 1 0 0 2 +0.650
AFG 2 0 2 0 0 0 -3.475
Group B
AUS 2 2 0 0 0 4 +2.184
WI 2 0 1 0 1 1 -1.855
IRE 2 0 1 0 1 1 -2.092
Group C
SA 2 2 0 0 0 4 +3.598
SL 2 1 1 0 0 2 +1.852
ZIM 2 0 2 0 0 0 -3.624
Group D
PAK 2 2 0 0 0 4 +0.706
Teams M W L T NR Pts NRR
Group A
IND 2 2 0 0 0 4 +2.825
ENG 2 1 1 0 0 2 +0.650
AFG 2 0 2 0 0 0 -3.475
Group B
AUS 2 2 0 0 0 4 +2.184
WI 2 0 1 0 1 1 -1.855
IRE 2 0 1 0 1 1 -2.092
Group C
SA 2 2 0 0 0 4 +3.598
SL 2 1 1 0 0 2 +1.852
ZIM 2 0 2 0 0 0 -3.624
Group D
PAK 2 2 0 0 0 4 +0.706
NZ 2 1 1 0 0 2 +1.150
BAN 2 0 2 0 0 0 -1.868
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