2nd Edition of IPL 1st round

I think for the IPL to be shifted to South Africa has done good for the cricket fans who want to see the balance between bat and ball.

Till know the IPL 2nd edition has been fine and it is was also good to see that the teams on the top are not the same as the last time.Deccan Chargers who were last in the 1st edition of the IPL are one of the top teams till know.

Rajistan are not as good as the last time may be because they are missing players like Sohail Tanveer and Shane Watson.Shane Watson would be back after the pakistan tour but there is Sohail Tanveer would be missed by Rajistan.Also the KKR would also be missing bowler like Umer Gul is one of better bowlers for Pakistan.

I think Lalit Modi the Cheft IPL should have allowed Pakistani players to IPL because first Pakistan Government stoped their players because of Security concern and it was just like others teams say they dont want to come Pakistan.So after the shift of the venue they should have been allowed.May be Cheif of the IPL would have some excuses for that.But still IPL till know was a fun to watch.
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West Indies won the 2nd ODI

West Indies won the toss and chose to bat first.They didn't had a good start again as they lost their both their openers early in day but Sarwan and ChanderPaul then had a good partnership and both carried their partnership till 35thover when Sarwan scored 74.ChanderPaul remained not out till the end and scored 264.West Indies out up the total of 264 in their 50 overs.

Chasing the target of 265 England kept losing their continuously and Captain Strauss was the one who carried the inning till the end but could not manage to take his team to victory.Strauss made 105 and was the 9th man to dismiss , thus resulting a loss for the English team as they lost by 21uns.The series is level 1-1 and ChanderPaul was given the man of the match.

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England won the 1st ODI

England after playing 4test and 1T20 have still no win in the tour of the Caribbean till know.England won the toss and chose to bat first.Strauss and Bopara were the two openers for the England.They had the opening stand of 28.Peterson dint played big inning too.Bapara played a good hand and scored 43.Shah and Collingwood had a good partnership and were also the two highest scorers of the innings.They shared the partnership of 98.Shah made 62 and Collingwood made 69.In the last over Matt Prior played a fast little inning scoring 26 of 21.England made 270 in their 50 overs with the loss of 7 wickets.For West Indies Bravo and Pollard both took 2 wickets.

Chasing the target West Indies lost their Captain Gayle in the third over then Sarwan and Simmons had a very good 2nd wicket partnership They shared the partnership of 125.Simmons made 62 and Sarwan made 57.ChanderPaul and Pollard both scoring 40s in a fast time but their wickets cost the West Indies team the match because West Indies lost the match by 1 run by D/L method as match was stopped 22 balls before and West Indies were 1 runs behind.They were 244 in their 46.2 overs and they needed to be on 245 , so England won the match.For England Broad took three wickets and Anderson took 2.Collingwood got the man if the match.

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South Africa V Australia 3rd Test

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Day 1

As Australia had already won the series but defiantly and South Africa would want to win to save some pride and if South Africa win this match then these two teams would both have 3 win against each other in the summer.

Ricky Pointing won the toss and chose to bat first again.This time Kallis was the captain of the South Africa and Price was back in the side and another new batsmen from Durban Imran Khan was given chance to play for his country and another change of M Morkal was replaced by his brother A Morkal.Australia started well with their opening batsmen getting good start.They stand the opening stand of 58 till Hughes got LBW at the bowling of Harris.Rickey Pointing got out without scoring but they lost only two wickets in the first session.2nd session was totally dominated by as they lost 3 wickets in it.Simon Katich got out just before tea scoring 55.After the tea in the very first over Australia lost Haiden and soon after they got all out with the score of 209.Steyn took 4 wickets , Ntini took 2 ,A Morkal 1 and Harris took 3.

South Africa started with their two new openers Prince and Imran Khan and dint lost any wicket in their 14 overs and made 57.

Day 2

Starting day 2 South Africa were confident that they would have a good lead against the Australians and then put pressure on them in the 2nd inning.Starting the day South Africa lost their first wicket as Imran Khan was caught and bowled of Siddle and it was only wicket to fall in the first session for the South African and then they lost their 2nd wicket in the 2nd session as Amla was caught by Haddin on the bowling of Johnson.Amla made 44 and 2nd wicket partnership was of 97.Prince brought up his hundred in the 2nd session and South Africa also lost only 1 wicket in the 2nd session.And in the third session again same story continued , South Africa only lost the wicket of Prince in the third session after he scored 150.Kallis completed his hundred just before the end of the day.So Australia just took three wickets in the day and South Africa know 195 runs ahead at the end of day 2.

Day 3

Starting the day 3 Kallis got out in the morning without adding any run to his over night score of 102.But AB De Villiars took the things in hand and played a great innings.He scored hundred and gave Australians no chance to have an momentum on the game.Although South Africa took 3 wickets in the first session but the scoring rate was kept up by De Villiars so South Africa was feeling no pressure.A Morkal scored 50 in his 1st test inning and scored it in a quick rate.McGain had the worst figures in the Australian team giving away 149 in his 18 overs.For Australia Mitchell Johnson took 4 wickets.AB De Villiars made 163 with 12 fours and 7 big sixes.South Africa were bowled out at tea and managed to make a huge total of 651 and were 442 run ahead.Australia batted in the last session and lost their 2 wickets and had made 102 runs with Simon Katich and Hussey batting.

Day 4

South Africa were entering the 4th day hoping that they would win the match by an inning and Australians were in fear of having their worst defeat of the decade.Australia started the day too slow and they scored only 42 on their 1st session and losing 1 wicket of Simon Katich but still South Africa was in commanding position and in the second session they took three wickets and all the key batsmen of the Australian team were back in the dressing room.But the partnership of McDonald and Mitchell Johnson made the third session interesting and it was looking that South African might have to come again on day 5 to bowl out the Australians but Paul Harris broke the partnership by dismissing McDonald and on the very next delivery he got out Siddle.Johnson scored his 1st international hundred but the lead was too much he could not save his team from innings defeat.South Africa won the match by inning but they lost the series 2-1.Johnson also got the man of the series.

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India winning the 1st Test

Day1

After winning the ODI series Indian team was starting the test series with a very high confidence to win the three match test series.New Zealand I think always have doubts about the selections in their team.

India won the toss and chose to bat first.Indian decision to bowl first proved great when the New Zealand wickets started to tumble.New Zealand lost their 6 wickets in the first session.But New Zealand recovered with the partnership of Ryder and Vettori.They started the partnership when the score was 60 and had a partnership of 186.Vettori made his 3rd test hundred and scored 118 and Ryder scored his 1st test and made 102 and was the last man to be dismissed.New Zealand were able to make a total of 279.For India Isant Sharma took 4 wickets , M Patel took 3 and Z Khan took 2 wickets.Indian team started their innings and were 29 for no loss.

Day 2

India started day 2 with all their wickets in hand.1st session totally belonged to India because they lost just one wicket which was of Sehwag who was run out.In the 2nd session India again lost just two more wickets two wickets of Gambhir and Rahul Dravid.Gambhir made 72 and Rahul Dravid made 66.New Zealand were never on the top on the whole day and till the end of the day India had lost only 4 wickets with Tendulkar and Yuvraj of the crease.

Day 3

India again dominated the Day 3 and Tendulkar was the main star of the Day 3 scoring 160.New Zealand also were not able to get even the tale enders cheaply , Z Khan scored 51.India scored their highest total in the New Zealand making 520 which gave them the lead of 241.New Zealand with huge runs behind wanted good start from their openers but they lost McIntosh in the first over.New Zealand were till the end of the day 75 with the loss of three wickets and they need big performance from their batsmen to save the match.

Day 4

New Zealand had to bat well on day4 to save the game but their batsmen had no answer of the bowling of Harabajan Singh and it was looking that they would loss the game by inning but McCullum helped them the make of lead of 38 and McCullum made 84 .Harbajan Singh took six wickets.India chased 39 easily without losing any wicket. Tendulkar got the man of the match.

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West Indies V England T20

This was only a one T20 match before a 5 match ODI series.West Indies captain Gayle was not available due to injury so Ramdin was the standing captain.For England they had new wicket keeper Steve Davies.

West Indies won the toss and chose to bowl first.England lost their first wicket in just the 4th over and kept losing wickets with regular intervals.Steve Davies was their highest score with 27 and only other player to reach more then 20 was Captain Strauss.England made 121 and were bowled out in the 20th over.Suleman Benn took 3 wickets for his team.

So, 122 was always a easy target for any team and only chance for England was to take wickets.Sarwan made 59 and carried his team to victory.England chased the score in 18 overs with the loss of 4 wickets.Amjad Khan took 2 wickets for England but target was not enough to be defended.Sarwan got the man of the match.

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New Zealand V India 5th ODI

India had already won the series by 3-0 but still they would had liked to won another match and on the other hand Kiwis wanted to win this match for some respect.India played the game unchanged and in New Zealand side Styris was back for unfit Thomson.

Rain delay made the match 43 overs for each side.India won the toss and chose to bat first.Sehwag again started with some big blows but Ghambhir was dismissed early.Sehwag managed to score 40 of 27 balls with 3 sixes and 3 4s.India kept losing wickets continuously on a track with a little bit of help for the bowlers.Apart from Sehwag , Rohit Sharma was the other batsmen to stay for a long time on the pitch.Rohit Sharma remained not out till the end of the innings and made 43.India got all out for 149 in 37th over.Ryder took three wickets for his team.

This target was always easy for the Kiwis but they lost their premier batsman McCullum early but it did not effected Ryder and he continued his form , and score 63 of 49 , Gubtill also scored 50 and Kiwis won the game in 24th over with the loss of just two wickets.Ryder got the man of the match but India won the series by 3-1.Test Series will start form this wednesday.

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New Zealand V India 4th ODI

India had won the 1st and 3rd ODI and 2nd ODI was washed out , New Zealand must win the other two remaining matches to draw the series.Captain Vettori was also coming back in the 4th match.

Vettori won the toss and chose to bat first.Again Ryder and McCullum had a good opening partnership and they had a partnership of 102.But after the fall of first wicket New Zealand started to loss their wickets quickly.Then in the last part of the inn Elliot and McGlashan had a partnership of 95 in last 10 overs.McCullum made 77 and McGlashan 56.Ishant Sharma took 2 wickets.New Zealand inning was also interrupted by rain.New made 270 in their 40 overs.

So , while chasing India had to also take care of the D/L,but Sehwag and Gambhir had no worries and they took their team to victory and Sehwag scored the fastest 100 of the Indian history.India won the D/L method after they had scored 201 in 23.3 overs and the match was closed because of rain.Sehwag got the disserved man of the match.

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New Zealand V India 3rd ODI

After the 2nd ODI was washed out know in the 3rd ODI it was very important for Kiwis to come back in the third ODI.The real problem for the Kiwis in the first two games was that they were not able to slow down the rate of the India batsmen.And one more question was that why they are making batting wickets , if they make green wickets Indian team may struggle.

Indian Captain won the toss and chose to bat first.This time Kiwis got the wicket of Sehwag early which has been the real danger man.Gautam Gambhir also got our early.Then Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh had a great partnership of 138.India took their batting powerplay from 23rd over and this was the time India totally took game from New Zealand.Indian batting dominated the kiwis bowling during the whole inning.One more thing effected the Kiwis bowling that Butler could not bowl his 10 overs because he got injured.Yuvraj Singh made 87 , Dhoni scored 68 and Sachin Tendulkar made 163 and was retired hurt.Tim Southee gave 105 runs in his 10 overs.India managed to make 392 of their 50 overs with the loss of only 4 wickets.

So Kiwis had to score 8 runs per over to win the match and surely it was a very tough ask for them.New Zealand had a great 1st wicket partnership between BB McCullum and Ryder.They shared the partnership of 166 and they were looking good and were in a position to win the match for their team until BB McCullum got run out and then wickets started to tumble and after some time they were 251 for 8 down.Then Southee and Mills tried to take their team to victory but the Indian total was too much for them.For New Zealand Ryder scored 105 , BB McCullum scored 70 and Mill made 54.Harbajan Singh,Yuvraj Singh and Z Khan took 3 wickets each.Sachin Tendulkar got the man of the match and India are now 2-0 up in 5 match series after 3 game.

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West Indies V England 4th Test

Day 1

England Captain Straus won the toss and chose to bat first. This is a very important test match for both the teams. If West Indies wins then they would win the series or if England wins then they would level the series and of the match draws then West Indies would win the series.

Cook and Straus started the Inning with the opening partnership of 26.Cook got out caught behind on 12 on the bowling of Powell.Then Strauss and Owais Shah had a good partnership until Owais Shah got Injured. Strauss again scoring a century and remained not out till the end of the day. Till the end of the day England was 258/2 with Straus on 139 and Collingwood on 54.

Day 2

At the start of day 2 I think West Indies team had gone totally in the negative mind and their bowling showed.Ryan Hinds was bowling most of his deliveries outside the leg stump.But England after losing 2 early wickets in start of the day Collingwood and Matt Prior had a good partnership.They shared partnership of 220.Collingwood scored 161 and Matt Prior scored 131 not out.England declared their innings at the scored of 546.

West Indies started their innings with the string aggressive batting from Chris Gayle who scored 49 of 64 balls till the end of the day.West Indies loosed their one wicket and their score was 92 till the end of the day.

Day 3

West Indies lost their night watchman Powell early in the day.Sarwan was also dismissed cheaply.Then Gayle and Simmons had a nice partnership.When Gayle was on 99 he tried to take a sharp single and in the process pulled his hamstring and was retired hurt on hundred.Simmons was LBW by Panesar then ChanderPaul and Nash remained not out till the end of the day.Nash was on 70 , ChanderPaul was on 52 and West Indies are still trailing by 197 and have 6 wickets in hand.

Day 4

This was again I can say a boring day in the test.Nash and ChanderPaul scored hundreds.Nash got out at 109 just after the lunch and ChanderPaul remained not out at 147.ChanderPaul was out on 92 but he referred to third umpire and was given not out.West Indies scored 544.For England Swann and Broad both took three wickets.Then England in their 15 overs lost three wickets with the score of 80.I this this will be again result in draw.

Day 5

Pietersen and Prior had fast partnership in the 1st session of day 5 which enabled England to declare the inning at lunch and gave target of 240 to West Indies.But West Indies just had to draw the match to win the series.England took 3 wickets in the second session then England had to take 7 wickets more to win the match and draw the series.But this was too much for the England bowlers to ask for 7 wickets in a session and then West Indies lost 8 wickets and they won the series by 1-0.Prior got the man of the match and Sarwan got the man of the Series.

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Australia V South Africa 2nd Test

Day 1
Australian Captain Ricky Pointing won the won the toss and choose to bat first on a flat batting track. Australian team had a little doubt about the fitness of their both the opening bowlers but they were still in the team. Both the teams were playing with unchanged side.

Australian had a very good start. They had the opening partnership of 184.Hughes scored his 1^stKatich also scored more then hundred. Australia finished the first day at the score of 303 with the loss of 4 wickets. Paul Harris took 2 wickets and Steyn and Kallis both got 1 wicket each. So day 1 certainly belonged to Australian. test hundred and was out on the score 115.Other opener

Day 2

Australia resumed their innings on day 2 and were not able to score as much runs as they would have liked and they got all out at the score of 352.M.Hussey scored 50 and Steyn got three wickets for South Africa.

South Africa started their batting with the hope that their captain would give then a good solid start but it got all wrong for South Africa till the end of the first over, Grame Smith got injured of the bowling of Mitchell Johnson and also Hamish Amla got LBW in the same over with only 2 runs on board.Mitchell Johnson bowled really well and took three wickets till the end of the day , also McDonald took three wickets.No South African batsmen was looking comfortable apart from JP Duminy.Till the end of the South Africa were 138/7 with JP Duminy on 73 and Steyn 8.

Day 3

It took just 3 balls from Peter Siddle to dismiss the two remaining wickets of South Africa and JP Duminy just watched them get out.South Africa was bowled out for 138 means they were 254 short of the Australian score.

So again Australia got lead of more then 200 but they didn't followed on South Africa and chose to bat.Katich and Hughes again had nice opening partnership.They shared the opening partnership of 55.And after the fall of the first wicket Pointing and Hughes shared the partnership of 164.Pointing fall short of hundred making 81 and was out caught in the deep at the Bowling of M Morkel.Hughes again scored hundred and became the youngest player to make hundreds in the both innings of the match.Till the end of the day Australia were 292 with the loss of 3 wickets with Hughes on 136 and M J Clarke on 14 and they are leading by 506 runs.

Day 4

Australia added 44 to their over night score and then declared their inning.Hughes got out on the score of 160 and M J Clarke was not out 23.

With a big target of 551 to chase Australia didn't their captain to bat , so the openers were McKenzie and Amla.They shared the opening partnership of 63.McKenzie got out at 31 and Amla got out at 43 , both of these wicket were taken by Siddle.Then Kallis and AB de Villiers had a partnership till the end of the day.At the end of the day 4 South Africa were 301 runs behind with the loss of three wickets and their would not be able to bat.AB de Villiers was not out on 68 and Kallis was not out on 84.

Day 5

South African team was hoping that AB de Villiers and Kallis may be able to bat for a long time and save the game for their team.But Kallis and AB de Villiers were removed early in the day by the Australians.Dumminy also got a good one from Siddle and thus South Africa lost their 9 wickets before and and Grame Smith was not able to bat because of injury.

So ,Australia won the series and Hughes got the man of the match.

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New Zealand Starting the ODI seires with a loss

After winning the two t20s kiwis were defeated by the Indian team comfortably.New Zea Land were never in the winning position in the whole match.

Indian Captain Dhoni won the and chose to bat on a batting friendly track.As the match was affected by rain so the Indian inning was reduced to 38 overs per side.Indian openers Tendulkar and Sehwag had a good opening partnership.Every batsmen chipped in with score apart from Yurraj Singh who was just able to score 2 runs.Dhoni Made 84 and Sehwag 77.India made 273 in their 38 overs and this was a very tough ask for the Kiwis to win this match.

Starting their big run chase kiwis loosed their opener BBMcCullum in the very first over for 0.Kiwis innings was again rain affected.No kiwi batsmen was able to play well apart from M J Guptill who scored 64.India won the match comfortably and Indian captain Dhoni got the man of the match.
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