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Australia 2-1 lead against New Zealand

Posted by admin on March 9th, 2010

Australia Vs New Zealand

Australia won the match with the help of Brad Haddin. Before the match Brad stated that ‘it is the most important game of the series’. Brand’s 110 was highest ODI score. Ricky Ponting analyzes the pitch with costars and resolved that problem at Seddon Park.

Ponting combined with Haddin 151- run partnership and ponting made 69 runs. Ponting ODI captaincy career for a remarkable 20 victories. His bowlers gave 245 target to the New Zealand. Haddin loves batting against New Zealand. His averages was 52.06 against New zealand.

In New zealand bowlers, Mason gave 68 runs of his ten overs. When Haddin was on 8, Shane Bond missed the catch. Haddin did a good work with seven fours and five sixes in Shane Bond’s bowling. New Zealand five down in the 30th over. Styris continued his consistent series with 41 and combined with Gareth Hopkins for a 67-run.

Johnson did take three wickets as well and the final three New Zealanders fell for five runs and they were bowled out with 22 deliveries still available.

Brian Lara wants to help Windies

Posted by admin on October 21st, 2009

Brian Lara is prepared to join other Carribean cricket legends in rescuing the game in the region ahead of the Australia tour.

Lara admits he is happy not to be involved in the current set-up following years of poor on-field results and off-field controversy, including a recent players’ strike that has only just been resolved.

The once powerful Windies look set to arrive Down Under in disarray , but the 40-year-old is willing to play his part in dragging their game back to its feet.

“Not much other than encouraging the guys,” Lara said when asked on radio 2UE what his involvement in West Indies cricket was.

“There is so much wrong with it at the moment that I’m very happy that I’m not in there causing some of the problems.

“There (will be) some involvement in the future, I am almost certain that is going to be the situation.

“I am not pushing myself on anyone and I’ve not been asked but I believe it’s a fait accompli that the likes of Sir Vivian Richards or Gordon Greenidge (or myself)… we all have to play a significant part in West Indies cricket in the near future.”

Lara fears the players’ strike coupled with Australia’s hunger to make amends for their Ashes loss leaves West Indies in danger of heavy defeat during the upcoming three-Test series.

But long term he sees some hope for his former team on the back of the success in the Twenty20 version of the game.

Lara has taken great heart from Trinidad & Tobago’s performance in reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League Twenty 20 and believes exposure at that level can only be good for all forms of cricket in the Caribbean.

“There is less talent (needed) and more luck so, yes, we can do pretty well in it,” he said of Twenty20 cricket.

“But what it’s done is create an opportunity for first-class cricket to excel along the same levels as international cricket.

“Victoria and NSW and Trinidad & Tobago are all being represented at that level (in the Champions League).

“That’s what I love about it; that first-class cricket is coming on the same level as international cricket.

“That can only be a positive thing.”(source)

“India-Oz series will be hard-fought”

Posted by admin on October 20th, 2009

Australia all-rounder Cameron White today echoed Ponting’s view that India would be a tough nut to crack at home.

“As Ponting said the Indians will be very hard to beat on their home soil and I too feel the same. I think it will be a good, hard and exciting cricket series between the two countries,” White, the captain of Victoria Bushrangers, told reporters ahead their Champions League semifinal match against domestic rivals New South Wales Blues here tomorrow.

“Even the Indians will get the support of thousands of home crowd,” he said.

Earlier, leaving for India, Ponting had yesterday said that India are a much tough opponent at home than when they are travelling.

White’s views were backed by Test regular Simon Katich, who though feels that Ponting’s men are a confident lot coming into the series, especially after their recent success in England and South Africa.

“I think the guys are very confident. They have performed very well in England as well as in the Champions Trophy in South Africa. Some of the guys in the team have played in IPL and in Champions League and know the conditions well,” Katich, who is the skipper of NSW, said.

Meanwhile, on tomorrow’s first semifinal encounter of the cash-rich Twenty20 tournament, both the NSW and the Victoria skippers feel the match would be a hard-fought affair but warned against expecting a high-scoring affair in the low and slow Feroz Shah Kotla wicket.

“It will be interesting to play Victoria in neutral venue. We have had lot of battles and good rivalry, so expect a tough game tomorrow,” Katich said.

“Hopefully, with Brett(Lee) in our side, we will draw more Indian support. But the match would be a low-scoring one because the earlier matches have shown that bowlers will have upperhand on this wicket,” he added.

White also expressed similar feelings, saying, “We know each other very well, the only thing is that we will be playing on a different venue than where we usually play each other. But it will be a hard pressure game.(source)

England vs Australia 2nd ODI Score Card

Posted by admin on September 7th, 2009

Match Information
Umpires:	Ian Gould (Eng) & Tony Hill (NZ)
Third Umpire:	Nigel Llong (Eng)
Match Referee:	Roshan Mahanama (SL)
Toss:	England (Elected to field)
Match Status:	Australia won by 39 runs
Man of the Match:	Mitchell Johnson

Batting: Australia Innings

Batsmen	Australia (249/8 in 50 ovs)	Runs	Balls	4’s	6’s	SR
Shane Watson	c L Wright b T Bresnan	34	49	4	0	69.39
Tim Paine (wk)	c E Morgan b L Wright	26	44	2	0	59.09
Cameron White	c M Prior b R Bopara	42	66	5	0	63.64
Michael Clarke (c)	c M Prior b L Wright	4	11	0	0	36.36
Callum Ferguson	b J Anderson	55	58	5	0	94.83
Mike Hussey	b G Swann	8	14	0	0	57.14
James Hopes	lbw b G Swann	11	19	1	0	57.89
Mitchell Johnson	not out	43	23	5	0	186.96
Brett Lee	c O Shah b R Sidebottom	0	3	0	0	0.00
Nathan Hauritz	not out	10	13	0	0	76.92
Nathan Bracken
Extras:	b – 0, w – 8, nb – 0, lb – 8	16
Total:(249 for 8 in 50 overs)		249	Run Rate: 4.98

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England-Australia T20 Match Abandoned Due to Rain

Posted by admin on August 31st, 2009

England-Australia-cricket Heavy rain forced the first of two Twenty20 internationals at Old Trafford between England and Australia to be abandoned on Sunday.

Australia notched up 145 for four wickets from their 20 overs and had reduced the hosts to four for two before rain intervened.

The visitors found themselves 54 for three but Cameron White smashed 55 from 36 balls and added 78 for the fourth wicket with captain Michael Clarke who compiled a watchful 27 not out.

White, dropped on 12 by debutant Joe Denly, made 55 and shared a fourth-wicket stand of 78 with Michael Clarke, Australia’s captain in the absence of the resting Ricky Ponting.

The duo came together after England captain Paul Collingwood took two wickets in three balls to leave Australia struggling at 54 for three in the ninth over. (more…)

The Entire Oz Team let Ponting Down Says Katich

Posted by admin on August 28th, 2009

Simon_Katich Australian batsman Simon Katich sought to defend his underfire captain Ricky Ponting, saying the “players let him down” in the lost Ashes series by failing to perform at crucial moments.

“We probably let him (Ponting) down. We all had opportunities to help him get the right result and we didn`t do that,” Katich said at a Bradman Foundation lunch to celebrate the legend`s 101st birth anniversary.

“I guess, having been involved in 2005, I thought I`d let him and the team down then… this time around, even though the tour went a bit better, I still feel there were things that I could have done better to have helped us win Test matches – and unfortunately I`m going to live to regret that,” he was quoted as saying in the Australian media.

Katich, who scored 122 in the first Test and aggregated 341 runs in the entire series, said he was disappointed that he could not contribute with bigger totals more often.

“I was disappointed I didn`t convert a lot more of my starts. I felt like I was in pretty good form and, after the hundred (at Cardiff) I missed out on opportunities to convert more 40s and 50s into hundreds,” he said.

Katich, who has played 43 Tests, said Australia had many good performers but they failed at the crucial moments.

“Even though they (England) might not have done it consistently throughout the five Tests, they did it at the crunch times when the games were up for grabs. And that`s the difference in Test cricket: those moments came around and we didn`t grab them,” he said.

Katich also backed the selectors and said “They backed us and we didn`t get the job done. Criticism is warranted and we have to grin and bear it now.”

Ponting Ready to Play Under Michael Clarke

Posted by admin on August 27th, 2009

ricky vs clarke Australian cricket skipper Ricky Ponting has returned home and declared he would not walk away from international cricket even if he was stripped of his captaincy. He said he would be happy to play under deputy Michael Clarke.

Ponting said the stunning Ashes loss had made him more determined than ever to shine with the bat and restore Australia to its status as a world cricketing power.

Ponting, who arrived in Sydney just after 7 p.m., said he accepted responsibility for the 2-1 series defeat – team selections remained a sticking point with critics – before hinting he would play on if Cricket Australia officials elevated Clarke to the top job.

“I still think I`ve got a lot to offer the team as a batsman and captain and leader. If that`s with a `c` next to my name well and good, if not, I still think I`ve got a lot to offer, particularly to the younger guys who are in and around our set-up. (more…)

Ponting appeals for support from Aussie Fans

Posted by admin on August 26th, 2009

pointimng Ricky Ponting is appealing to Australian cricket fans to stick with his inexperienced Test line-up, forecasting more peaks and troughs until it gathers momentum.

Ponting became only the second Australian captain to lose two Ashes series in England in 119 years following a heavy defeat at The Oval on the weekend.

“We`re all in this together, working through a difficult transition period,” Ponting wrote in a column on Wednesday, after the first of the Australian Test players returned to Sydney. “It`s going to be a roller-coaster ride for a while.”

The 2005 loss was a huge upset, with the Australian team brimming some of the modern greats of the game.

But the 2009 series was expected to be a tighter contest between two moderately talented teams.

Even so, the harshest critics have called for Ponting`s dismissal as national captain in the wake of the 2-1 series loss. Cricket Australia responded by backing the 34-year-old batsman as the leader of a rebuilding team. (more…)

Ponting shows his class

Posted by admin on August 25th, 2009

Ricky-Ponting-day-three-fifth-Ashes-Test-The-_2351298 Ricky Ponting, Australia’s losing captain, standing on the presentation float with a smile on his face as the crowd cheered appreciatively.

He’d turned himself from villain to hero in the space of a month, and even the grumbling element of the Australian press have had the good grace to back him up in the papers this morning.

The change in the reactions from England’s crowd has surely been a result of the slow realisation that Ponting is not such a bad guy after all. He’s been magnanimous in defeat, humble in victory and candid in every interview he’s given.

It’s an entirely different Ponting from the one we’d become accustomed to – the one we saw in 2005 – and the change has not come over the past month but over the past year.

The difference is, quite simply, that Ricky Ponting has learnt to lose. (more…)

Cricket Australia Defends Ponting and Selectors

Posted by admin on August 24th, 2009

james_sutherland_narrowweb Cricket Australia boss James Sutherland has pointed to team inexperience and defended captain Ricky Ponting and the selectors following the Ashes series loss to England.

Sutherland said on Monday CA would conduct a review of the series, but he doesn’t expect any sweeping changes.

He pointed to the relative inexperience of the team and said ebbs and flows in form had to be expected in a rebuilding phase.

Ponting became only the second Australian captain to lead his country to two Ashes losses on England soil, with Australia also dropping from first to fourth on the world Test rankings.

Australian selectors, led by chairman Andrew Hilditch, have been slammed for the decision to leave spinner Nathan Hauritz out of the line-up for the fifth and deciding Test on the dry, spin-friendly Oval pitch.

But Sutherland said any call for Ponting’s sacking would be “completely unfair”.

“Ricky’s had a very, very good series,” he said. (more…)

Archive for the ‘Australia’ Category

Australia 2-1 lead against New Zealand

Brian Lara wants to help Windies

“India-Oz series will be hard-fought”

England vs Australia 2nd ODI Score Card

England-Australia T20 Match Abandoned Due to Rain

The Entire Oz Team let Ponting Down Says Katich

Ponting Ready to Play Under Michael Clarke

Ponting appeals for support from Aussie Fans

Ponting shows his class

Cricket Australia Defends Ponting and Selectors

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