Thursday, July 31, 2008

India was 214 for 4 at stumps on day one of the second test

India made a score of 214 for 4 at stumps on the first day of the second test match against srilanka.Shewag made a well deserved century he made 128 and stayed not out at stumps gautham gambhir gave him good support at the other end by scoring a half century.Once gambhir got out at 56 the wickets at the other end kept thumbling.Mendis took two wickets and vaas took two wickets.Laxman and shewag remained not out at the crease

Shewag scores a century in the first innings of the second test

Shewag made a comfortable century in the first innings of the second test match.But on the other end wickets kept falling.India was 151 for no loss at lunch but lost four wickets after lunch with score reading as 181 for 4.Shewag played the srilankan bowlers like school boys were bowling but at the other end wickets kept thumbling.Mendis took two wickets of gambhir and dravid.Vaas took two wickets of ganguly and sachin.

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Who is the first batsmen to score six sixes in an over in a first class match?
Ravi shastri

India makes 151 for 0 at lunch on the first day

India made 151 for 0 at lunch on the first day of the second test match against srilanka.India made a conflicting start to that of the first test by scoring 151 at lunch on the first day of the second test match.Shewag made 91 at lunch and gambhir gave him good support by scoring ahalf century at lunch.Srilankan bowlers was thrashed away by the indian batsmens.The ball was put away all over the park.
India should either draw or win the second test to stay live in the series.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Second test starts tomorrow between india and srilanka

Second test match between india and srilanka takes place tomorrow.Srilanka will have the advantage by leading the series 1-0.India will have to counter attack the srilankan spinners.The M factor will be playing a big factor in second test match as it did in first test match.I think dinesh karthick will be given a second chance.R.p singh or munaf patel will be included in the seond test versus srilanka.In order to win indian bowlers have to bowl well and restrict srilanka to a lower first innings score and want to bat well in the first innings.

Monday, July 28, 2008

Cricket news:Australia voice concerns over touring india

After pakistan its india.Australia raise concerns over touring india.After the serial blasts in ahemadabad and bangalore australian team raises concerns over touring india for the upcoming series.After saying that pakistan is not a safe place to tour now they are saying that india is not a right place to tour

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Cricket updates:India makes 223 in the first innings

India was all out for 223 in the first innings of the first test match against srilanka.India is following on the score of 600 by srilanka.
India is struggling at the first test by getting all out for only 223 in the first innings.Laxman is the only man in the indian team who scored a half century.Laxman made 53 runs.
First i thought this test will be a draw but i changed my decision i think this test will see a result.India was made to follow on.
Muralitharan took 5 wickets and young talent ajanta mendis took 4 wickets in the first innings

Friday, July 25, 2008

Cricket news:ICC champions trophy to be held in pakistan

ICC champions trophy to be held in pakistan still many players in the world is not ready to travel pakistan.Many players from the australian team and newzealand team is uncertain to travel pakistan for the champions trophy.
Icc also a bit of concerned about the security in pakistan but says its confident of the security services placed in pakistan.This indicates that BCCI supports pakistan to held champions trophy in pakistan.
As many players in the world is not certain to participate in champions trophy ICC is in a bit of headache.

cricket update:India in a struggling position on the third day of the test match

India struggle on the third day of the test match against srilanka.India made 159 for 6 at stumps on the third day.Earlier srilanka declared the innings at 600 for 6.Indians started their innings with a bit of hassle
Indian batsmen got out very cheaply shewag scored25 before he was caught by warnepura.
Gautham made was 39 before he was caught out on the bowling of muralitharan.Dravid came and went quickly he was bowled out by agenda mendis.Sachin was out on 27.Ganguly scored 23.
Muralitharan took four wickets.Mendis got only one wicket.
India is desperate to save the test match.Srilankan bowlers got the every bit off the wicket and they utilised the wicket than the indian bowlers.Laxman and kumble was at the crease at stumps of the third day

cricket news:Srilanka made 600 for 6 in first innings

Cricket news:Srilanka made 600 for 6 in the first innings of the first test versus india.Srilanka declared for 600 in the first innings.India started their batting with a bit of collapse.Shewag made 25 before he was caught by warnapura.Gautam gambhir made 39 before he was out in the bowling of muralitharan.
Mendis made a important breakthrough when he bowled dravid.The ball got through dravid's defence.The little master and former captain ganguly steadied the ship.Murali and mendis controlled the indian batsmen by bowling tight line.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Srilanka makes 422-4 on the second day of the test

Srilanka makes 422 for 4 on the second day of the first test match between india and srilanka.Srilanka in a strong position losing only four wickets and sameeraweera was not out at the crease.
Srilanka started their innings with their overnight score of 85 for two.Warnepura started at where he left and scored a deserving century before he was out.Srilankankan skipper made a well deserved 136 runs by putting up a patnership with samaraweera.Sammeraweera made a brilliant century in least balls he remianed not out at the stumps.
Indians bowlers toiled hard at the field picking up only four wickets.Ishant took two wickets,Zaheer khan and harbhajan singh took one wicket.Kumble bowled economically while zaheer bowled expensively.With three days remaining this test match will be surely a draw.