West Indies vs South Africa 1st ODI– West Indies will match up South Africa in the first ODI match on Saturday, May 22, 2010. 2010 Football World Cup
Match Venue: Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.
Time: 19:00 I.S.T
Teams:
West Indies: Chris Gayle(c), Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Narsingh Deonarine, Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin(w), Darren Sammy, Sulieman Benn, Jerome Taylor, Kemar Roach, Ravi Rampaul, Andre Fletcher, Nikita Miller. (more…)
MS Dhoni is a very well known player in the Indian Cricket and had a safe place in every Indian’s heart.
MS Dhoni became Indian Cricket team captain for the first ICC World Twenty20 in the year 2007 and he was the reason for team India to acquire a title ‘World Champions’ in Twenty20. After that, he has taken the responsibilities of the Indian One-Day International team and test Cricket captaincy.
MS Dhoni succeeded in both the formats as a captain and played an important role in the Indian team victories. He was great till then and later Dhoni failed which resulted the early exit of 2009 ICC World Twenty20. (more…)
Alastair Cook gritted his teeth and bedded in for the long haul on the third morning at Durban, as he compiled a gutsy half-century to settle England’s innings after the early dismissal of his overnight partner, Jonathan Trott. Cook went to the break on 75 not out, having added 44 runs to his overnight 31 in an attritional session in which Kevin Pietersen was the other big wicket to fall, pinned lbw by Paul Harris while sizing up an ambitious sweep.
In the final half-hour before lunch, Cook began to open his shoulders and go for his shots, cracking Harris out of the attack with a brace of fours through the off-side, before rocking back in his stance to pull Morne Morkel through square leg. But until that late flurry (which was punctuated by a reprieve from the third umpire on 64 when a catch at short leg was shown to have flown straight off the pad), he opted to survive entirely on his wits. (more…)
Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh has been ruled out of the ongoing one-day international series against Sri Lanka because of a finger injury. Yuvraj had picked up the injury while fielding during the second Twenty20 in Mohali and was subsequently unavailable for the first two ODIs.
He has been advised rest for the next two matches of the ODI series after aggravating the worrisome finger and his participation in the forthcoming tri-series in Bangladesh remains in doubt. Yuvraj returned to the starting XI for the third ODI in Cuttack yesterday and scored 23 from 40 balls as India took a 2-1 lead in the five-match contest. (more…)
Graeme Swann chiselled away with skill and diligence to claim a richly deserved five-wicket haul, but South Africa’s lower-order took the honours on an attritional second day at Centurion. They made light of the early loss of their overnight stalwarts, Jacques Kallis and JP Duminy, to grind out a competitive first-innings 418 on a pitch that offered little of the spice it had promised in the build-up to this match. By the close, England had overcome a jittery new-ball spell to reach 88 for 1 in reply, with Andrew Strauss and Jonathan Trott unbeaten in an 63-run stand for the second wicket. (more…)
Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s India ended 2009 as the number one Test side in the world, but the militant attack on Sri Lanka’s players in Pakistan changed cricket’s landscape in Asia.
The horrifying attack which injured seven Sri Lankans and eight locals as armed militants opened fire on the team bus in Lahore on March 3, saw security dominating the agenda for the rest of the year.
The attack, the worst on sportsmen since the massacre of Israeli athletes by Black September guerrillas at the Munich Olympics in 1972, ensured Pakistan was blacklisted as a major cricketing venue. (more…)
Kemar Roach woke West Indies from their morning of slumber by sending Ricky Ponting for x-rays and removing the dangerous Shane Watson, but the Australian innings was still in good health at 1 for 217 at tea. In the second session Ponting was struck on the left elbow second ball, staying until he was 23 before retiring hurt, while Watson missed a century again when caught behind for 89.
Ponting headed for a Perth hospital shortly before the tea break for a precautionary x-ray that showed no bone damage and he will be available to bat again later in the day if required. (more…)
Fresh after claiming the number one Test spot, India can narrow the gap with ODI table-topper Australia if they win the one day series against Sri Lanka but they also risk going down the list if they lose the five-match series starting in Rajkot on Tuesday.
In the individual rankings, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has to perform very well to defend the number-one spot in batting list while Yuvraj Singh can return to the top-three and Virender Sehwag can regain a top 10 spot with some stellar performance in the series. (more…)
Danish Kaneria spun a web around the New Zealand batsmen to leave the Test hanging in the balance at tea on the second day in Napier. New Zealand’s progress was slow, at times it was painstaking, but for a team that collapsed for 99 last week, they had done well to reach 88 for 2 at lunch before Pakistan roared back into the game.
Tim McIntosh’s defiance was the primary feature of the morning session but Kaneria eventually broke his resistance and that of several others as well after lunch. Kaneria was allowed to settle into a rhythm because of New Zealand’s defensive approach and it was his googly that caused batsmen the most trouble. (more…)
The thrashing in Nagpur was just the latest in a series of embarrassing losses in T20 cricket for the Indian team in recent times.
Many wonder why is it that the same players who do so well for their IPL franchises, fail badly when they come together as a unit under the India crest.
For the team management and their millions of fans and the players themselves, this question must surely lead to plenty of scratching of heads. (more…)