India and Sri Lanka to chase 300 plus scores on same day

It was tough day for the bowlers of the 2011 world cup finalists. Yes I am talking about India and Sri Lanka, both these teams play their respective ODI matches today against England and Australia respectively. Firstly Aussies batter very well against Sri Lanka, posting a total of 305 runs. Sri Lankan team in return made a mesh of the chase and they are already struggling at 194 with all the specialist batsmen gone back to pavilion. They already have lost 8 wickets in 40 overs thus they only can delay the loss and lessen the defeat margin.

Now if we take a look at match between India and England, this was one of the most solid batting display I've every seen by England team. They have posted 325 runs and India needs to score one run more to win the match. Given the form of team India its unlikely they will cross 250 runs today.

Indian cricket team is all set to chase the target of 326 in few minutes from now. So lets finish your tasks quickly and watch the team India batting.

Good luck to both the teams.

Cricket Matches Today - ODI cricket Match Update

Today two cricket matches are scheduled to be played. One Between Australia and Sri Lanka and then second one between India and England.

Australia vs Sri Lanka Match today: The match between Australia and Sri Lanka is being played right now at Melbourne. Australia won the toss and decided to bat first. So far the Aussie team have a good start of the match and they are on the way to post a competitive total on the score board. The debutant batsmen Phillip Hughes  got a good start and is playing currently at 84, I predict he is all set to create a record for highest score on debut for Australia and in case he score more than 115 today, then he can set to records i.e. highest debut sore for Australia and highest debut score against Sri Lanka. Good luck for this young left handed batsmen. As you can see over the live score board widget above 31 overs have been bowled and Australia have scored 156 runs for the loss of 2 wickets.  Stay tune to this blog for more updates.

India Vs England Match Today: Match between India and England is scheduled to start at 12 noon IST, which is about one hour from now. Indian team has rested Virender Sehwag cause of poor form, they don't have any Tendulkar either. Cricket experts are calling for M S Dhoni to quit captaincy. They have lost test, ODI and T20 series recently at home. So its not predictable if declining team India can do some good performances in the ODI series or they are on the way to loose one more. We have to wait and watch for the three matches at least. However I pray that series must be live till the last ODI which in on the 27th Jan at Dharamshala, the lovely stadium with snow laid mountains in the background.

2013 first day of cricket on Jan 3

Cricketing worlds will start the new year on Jan 3, 2013 with two interesting matches being played on the day. Sri Lanka will play third and the final test against Australia on Jan 3 and on the same day Indian will face Pakistan in the second one day international (ODI)  match of the three match series.

Both India and Sri Lanka are behind in their respective series. Sri Lanka already lost the series and all they can do now is to keep the defeat margin to 2-1, 2-0. Ausralia on the other hand wil try to go by their reputation and win the series by clean sweep i.e. 3-0.

Now if we analyze the India Pakistan series, the Pakistan team is looking strong here and its 90% likely that Pakistan will win the series as they need to win only one of the remaining two matches. India can only hope for a dramatic change in the fortunes that can lead them to win the remaining two matches.

Still there is one day left for all the teams to make the strategies for the matches. I'd like to wish all the cricket fans in this world a very happy new year. Hopefully we will see more interesting matches in 2013 and I am expecting a handful of players declaring retirements from International cricket.

Australia Vs Sri Lanka CB series Final Match Live

Only these two teams deserved to be in the final of the CB series (Tri-nation cricket ODI tournament that include India, Sri Lanka & Australia) and what a tournament both the teams are having. After pushing India our of the finals both the team have played two matches of the best of three finals. Australia won the first final match whereas Sri Lanka won the second final match played today. Now both the teams will play each other again on the third final of the tournament which is also the decisive final. Which means team winning the third final will take home the CB series trophy along with the winning amount ;)

For Sri Lanka this win will be a consolation win after losing two successive world cup finals; both times to the other teams in the series i.e India and Australia. Please also note that this performance from the Sri Lankan cricket team is coming from a time when their payments are on hold. Yes you read this right, due to financial crisis in Sri Lankan cricket board the team is not being paid their wages, reports were that they have not got their dues for the world cup 2011 as well. Salute to the players of team Sri Lanka. I also predict today Sri Lanka playing the final of next tournament Asia Cup as well.

Australian team on the other hand is building up again slowly and recovering from the transitioning phase of the seniors from the team. A win here will be a boost for the young Aussie team. Let’s wait and watch the third final match of the CB series between

Australia and Sri Lanka for the results.

Other news from the cricket: IPL is back in April and will rock the cricket crazy India once again Asia Cup featuring the Asian cricket teams i.e. India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to be held in Bangladesh

Day 1 Score Australia Vs Sri Lanka - Test Match 1

Sri Lankas bowlers get two quick wickets at the start fo day first and gave Sri Lanka the start the needed. Now for Australia its the taks of ex-skipper Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke to build a storng partnership to get Aussie team back in the match.

So far both are playing sensibly and have scored 21 runs each and scoreboard reading - Australia 76/2 in 22 overs. Still lots of play to be left in the day so we can actually know which team in in better position at the end ot play today.

Also don't forget to catch the live score of T20 match between India and England today.

Zimbabwe, Australia take 2-0 lead in their respective ODI series

Yes both Zimbabwe and Australia and leading the 5 ODI series by 2-0 against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka respectively. The only difference in that Zimbabwe is leading the series in the home, whereas Australia is touring Sri Lanka.

If we look at Australia and Sri Lanka series, Sri Lanka batter first in both the matches and was unable to score a high score and all the team got out cheaply, thus Australian cricket team didn't have any problem chasing the small totals.

On the other hand Zimbabwe has two easy wins thanks for some very good bowling from Brian Vitori who is so far having a dream first series with 10 wickets in his first 2 ODIs.

Now lets also come to unforgettable series for team India the test series against England. India not only lost the series but they also lost the number 1 rankings in test cricket and they are on the verge to slip to the position number 3 if they loose the 4th match as well.

Sri Lanka Lost Dilshan Batting first

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat start but they didn't get the start they might have wanted and the opener Dilshan was out in second over scoring just 4 run in as many deliveries. Current score for Sri Lank is 20/1 in 3.3 overs.

As expected sri Lanks is playing with 3 spin bowlers, Latish Malinga in for this match while Kuleskera has benn rested.

Aussies are playing with full pace attack and one spinner. Pitch is a good batting track let see how thing progress from here.

Australia Vs Sri Lanka World Cup Match Preview

After the Pakistan and Sri Lanka game the tomorrows match between Sri Lanka and Australia is being considered to be one of the match that will test the real strength of the world cup favourites. For Sri Lanka this match is a must win match not only just to keep hopes for next round of the world cup alive but also to keep the team morale high. If Sri Lankan team loses the match to Australia then I can definitely say world cup is not for this Sri Lankan team. On the other hand for Australia the match will be the real test of the batting and bowling skills against the team in the sub-continent.

No doubt tomorrows match will also decide the fate for Australian fourth consecutive world cup title. Lasith Malinga, Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis are three top guns in bowling Sri Lanka have, I am not sure how many of Australian batsmen will have any special plans to handle the 30 overs to be bowled by these three bowlers.

Though Australia have won the matches against New Zealand and Zimbawe but one should keep in mind the fact that Ausralia lost both the warm up matches hey played against world cup favorties South Africa and India. Luckily for Ricky Ponting both the teams are not in the same group.

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