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

India Australia Sri Lanka Tri Series Match 2

India will play the second match of the tri-series against Sri Lanka tomorrow at Perth. Indian cricket team lost the first match to the hosts Australia by some 60 odd runs. Indian team will be facing Sri Lanka first time after they played each other in the world cup 2010 final, which India won. However Indian team has been on a depletion road after the world cup victory and same is the story with Sri Lankan cricket team as well. Now let’s see which of the two struggling world cup finalists will the match tomorrow.


One another important fact I’d like to mention is that since the world cup Virendar Sehwag and M.S. Dhoni have never featured together in an one day international match. This is something strange and interesting as well; let us see if Sehwag will play in tomorrow’s match against Sri Lanka and if the captain of the team will also play.

Both the teams need to take this series seriously and a chance for the youngsters to experience the nature of play in Australia as it’s the co-host along with New Zealand for the next world cup. I wish I’ll get a chance to see both the countries in the Finals of ICC world cup 2015 also.

From Test to T20 Mode – India Vs Australia First T20

Test Whitewash: Though Indian batsmen have failed individually and as a unit to perform wll in the test series, they still got a chance to impress the fans, media and the selectors by playing well in the two T20 (Twenty twenty matches) against Australia. Please don’t forget that the T20’s will be followed by ODI tri –series that will include Sri Lanka as a third team.


The T20 Mode: The first T20 match between both the teams will be played tomorrow at Sydney. If we take a look at the team Aussies are strong on confidence after defeating India 4-0 whereas Indian team looks nowhere to the International standards. But in shorter forms of the game Indian cricket team can be lethal thus we can hope for a better performance from Indian players.


Indian and Australia T20 Teams: For Australia 40 years old brad hogg makes a comeback in T20 team after nearly 4 years. This comeback has been results of his strong performance in the Australian IPL i.e. Big Bash League. Fast bowler James Faulkner may mark his T20 debut if selected in playing eleven. For India it can be chance of inexperienced Rahul Sharma and Manoj Tiwary to play and offer their candidacy for the T20 world cup to be played in Sri Lanka in September this year. Suresh Raina will be back in the shorter version of the game. Aussies also got a new captain for the T20s


Below are the most probable playing eleven for both the teams for the first Twenty twenty match:


India: Vinay Kumar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, MS Dhoni (capt, wk), Irfan Pathan, R Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Virat Kohli


Australia: David Hussey, George Bailey (capt), Travis Birt, Matthew Wade (wk), Brett Lee, James Faulkner, David Warner, Shaun Marsh, Aaron Finch, Daniel Christian, Brad Hogg


So now be prepared to switch from test match to the T20 mode of cricket.

ICC Cricket Records - Most Consecutive tst wins against an opposition

Most consecutive Test wins against a team record is no held by Australian team with 13 consecutive test wins against Pakistan. The record was previously held my Sri Lanka with 12 wins against Bangladesh (A record Sri Lanka can better with time). Even South Africa, England and Pakistan has chances to hold this record in future if they play few test match against Bangladesh. South Africa and England have won 8 matches whereas Pakistan have won six consecutive matches against Bangladesh.


More stats below:

Australia v Pakistan 13*

Sri Lanka v Bangladesh 12*

West Indies v England 10

Australia v West Indies 9

England v South Africa 8

Australia v England 8

South Africa v Bangladesh 8*

England v Bangladesh 8*

England v Australia 7 Mar 21, 1885

England v South Africa 7

Australia v South Africa 7

England v New Zealand 7

West Indies v India 7

New Zealand v Bangladesh 7

Australia v South Africa 6

Australia v England 6

England v New Zealand 6

England v India 6

West Indies v Australia 6

Pakistan v New Zealand 6

Pakistan v Bangladesh 6*