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.

India Vs England T20 Match Today

There are two T20 matches left for team India to end the disaster Series against England on a positive note. India have lost 4 test match series badly by 2-1 and now they have two twenty twenty matches left to give their fans something to cheer about. England team however would like to prove that they are good in the shorter versions of the cricket as well. England cricket team is already on a high,  winning a  test series India after a gap of 28 years.

The first T20 match between the two teams will be played today at Pune. Match will begin at 7 p.m. Indian time. Indian team might sound strong in the T20 format as hey have lots of young guns with great exposure to T20 format. Also the fact that only two England players ahve played in IPL so far will de helpful for team India.

However one must not forget that a great performance in India is the VISA to play the most lucrative domestic T20 tournament in the world known as IPL. For the visiting team players its a chance to get call from some of the IPL franchisee. So Indian team will once again may have to work hard to win the T20 tournament.

We are still not clear about the playing XI for both the teams, so you all are requested to catch all the live action of T20 match today from 7 pm onwards.

India & Pakistan play tough opposition today in ICC T20 world cup

Yesterday in the group stage two important games get spoiled due to rain but fortunately we'd results for both the games. South Africa won the rain hit match against Sri Lanka, the match was shortened to seven overs a side. In the second game which I think was the most interesting game of this T20 world cup far, Australia best West Indies by Duckworth Luis system. In the West Indies innings we saw West Indies post a total of 191runs against strong bowling of Australia. I now understand the difference Chris Gayle makes in a team.

Today India and Pakistan will play their respective matches against England and New Zealand. For India, England and New Zealand these matches are of less importance as both the teams has already qualified for the super eight. However Pakistan is playing their first match of the tournament thus they need to start it off in a winning fashion. We may expect some changes in the playing eleven for India,New Zealand and the defending champions England. However Pakistan team need to pick best eleven in the team and that's what the captain Mohammad Hafeez and coach Dav Whatmore might be thinking about. The match between Pakistan will start at 3:30 pm local time (+5:50 GMT) and though it forecasts about rains I am confident of a full play today.

The second match today between India and England will be played at 7:30 pm local time and this might be another interesting match to watch. England are the defending champions of the twenty twenty world cup while Indians are the winners of the first T20 world cup played.  One thing might be interesting to see is the battle between Stuart Broad and Yuvraj Singh. 5 years back in the history it was Yuvraj Singh who hit the England bowler for 6 consecutive sixes in an over. You can read more about it at this post
Lets wait and watch if something similar happens in the match today or we can see someone taking a ha-trick of wickets. Catch all the live scores and action of the matches in few hours from now. Stay tuned. 

India vs England Second Test Match Live - India in Trouble

Forget about team India winning the test this test match India is on the verge trailing series by 2-0. England has already taken 374 runs lead on day third and its most likely that they will add another 100 or 150 runs before declaring the inning. And at any cost a target of 500 or 450 will be difficult for India to achieve.

Indian batting line is already depleted and they need to bat 2 full days to save the test which is highly unlikely to happen. Indian batting opening is very weak right from the tour of West Indies and it would be very much if you can expect a 50 runs opening partnership and I bet if that happen tomorrow then definitely Indian can draw the test match.

Now once again debate of India being the number one test team and England claiming to be the number test team will become hot. But one must not forget that Indian team is already playing without leading fast bowlers Zaheer Khan and also missing regular openers Virendar Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir. I wonder if they all made to the this test match India will have a good chance to make a comeback in the series but also they need to save this match at any cost to keep the numero uno position safe.

All the best to team India go save yourselves :)

One thing I mention to forget to say, actually its a message for Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, sir this is the risght time for you to get the 100th century not better time than this, hope you get the much hyped test 100 in this match. All the best.



VVS Laxman - The DRS of India, DRS = Disaster recovery system, hope he will once again play a saving knock for India

Good start for India but still trail by 100 runs

Dravid and VVS Laxman gave India a good start after first ball dismissal of openor Abhimanyu Mukund. Together they both build the partnership of 93 runs, before Laxman got out after scoring 54 runs. It seemed like India can take advantage of the situation but Sachin Tendulkar fell right after lunch, in a situation India still trailing by 100 runs.

Dravid is still looking good and it all depends upon him and the fellow batsmen Raina, Yuvraj and Dhoni to bat well and take some substantial first inning lead even if they have to play some risky shots.

There are still 53 overs left for today but the way Indian team is batting its hard to say if they can take any lead all Indian fans can pray is that they don't loose lots of wickets.

India tour of England - Can India make a comeback in Second test

India got to a good start on the first day of the second test match however Indian bowlers took quiet longer time to get rid of tail of England batting. Thus a quick half century from Broad who was the top scorer for England sailed England to a respectable and sufficient total of 221 runs.

Had Indian bowlers handled the tail tactfully the score of the English team would have been much lower as at one point of time the scoreboard read Englang 85/6.

India got the terrible start with the only specialist test opener A. Mukund got out in the first ball of the innings. However both Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman rescued India for the remaining overs of the day and India end up with a score of 24/1 on day first. Trouble for India is that there batting line has been meshed up with both regular openers Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir not availalbe for the second test due to injuries. In the absence of the regular openers Indian batting line now is total mesh with Rahul Dravid opening the innings and if you see the stats he is the highest run getter at number 3. Same goes for VVS Laxman the number 6 specialist batsmen in made to bat at number 3 still we can expect good batting from Laxman, he is a class player.

India has also included Yuvraj Singh, the world cup hero in this test and we have to see if he can replicate the world cup magic in the test matches in England as well.

All will depend upon the batting of team India lets catch all the live action tomorrow.

Another Series, another opportunity for Sachin's 100 centuries

With every game Sachin Tendulkar plays a couple of records are broken or a new record is made. Now as he is back to the Indian cricket team and will play in the Test series against England. All eyes are again on Sachin to see if he will complete his 100th century in cricket in this series or not. A century of centuries will be a record that will allure lot of cricketers for decades to come if not centuries :) So far Tendulkar has 48 one day international centuries and 41 test centuries.

Sachin is a world class player and its just one good innings that is needed for his 100th century. So all of you just follow the fixtures below for the India tour of England:

Date and Time	Match	Weather
Fri Jul 15 - Sun Jul 17 10:00 GMT | 11:00 local 15:30 IST	Somerset v Indians County Ground, Taunton	11 - 17° C
Thu Jul 21 - Mon Jul 25 10:00 GMT | 11:00 local 15:30 IST	1st Test - England v India Lord's, London	N/A
Fri Jul 29 - Tue Aug 2 10:00 GMT | 11:00 local 15:30 IST	2nd Test - England v India Trent Bridge, Nottingham	N/A
Fri Aug 5 - Sat Aug 6 10:00 GMT | 11:00 local 15:30 IST	Northamptonshire v Indians County Ground, Northampton	N/A
Wed Aug 10 - Sun Aug 14 10:00 GMT | 11:00 local 15:30 IST	3rd Test - England v India Edgbaston, Birmingham	N/A
Thu Aug 18 - Mon Aug 22 10:00 GMT | 11:00 local 15:30 IST	4th Test - England v India Kennington Oval, London	N/A
Thu Aug 25 09:15 GMT | 10:15 local 14:45 IST	Sussex v Indians County Ground, Hove	N/A
Fri Aug 26 13:30 GMT | 14:30 local 19:00 IST	Kent v Indians St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury	N/A
Mon Aug 29 13:30 GMT | 14:30 local 19:00 IST	Leicestershire v Indians Grace Road, Leicester	N/A
Wed Aug 31 17:00 GMT | 18:00 local 22:30 IST	Only T20I - England v India Old Trafford, Manchester	N/A
Sat Sep 3 09:15 GMT | 10:15 local 14:45 IST	1st ODI - England v India Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street	N/A
Tue Sep 6 13:00 GMT | 14:00 local 18:30 IST	2nd ODI - England v India The Rose Bowl, Southampton	N/A
Fri Sep 9 13:00 GMT | 14:00 local 18:30 IST	3rd ODI - England v India Kennington Oval, London	N/A
Sun Sep 11 09:15 GMT | 10:15 local 14:45 IST	4th ODI - England v India Lord's, London	N/A
Fri Sep 16 13:00 GMT | 14:00 local 18:30 IST	5th ODI - England v India Sophia Gardens, Cardiff	N/A

Best wishes for both the teams and hope we will see the historic record being made in this series.

World Cup India Vs England Match Live

Well tomorrow Shahid Afridi once again bowled a magic spell and helped Pakistan defeat Sri Lanka. Shohaib Akhar also looked in good form and bowled superbly. Now Pakistan cricket team definitely looks like moving to the quarter finals easily.

Now wheather India will move to the next round i.e quarter finals of the world cup easily will be decided by todays match against England. Any of the the team who will will definitely be making and easy way to the world cup quarter finals.

Match was previously scheduled to be played at Eden Gardens Kolkata but later moved to Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore due to delay in construction workd at Eden Gardens. Now let see if this change of venue will prove lucky to team India or not. For India batting is the strength and it won't really matter if they bat first or bowl first in today match. Batting first they will require to post a total of somewhere aroung 300 and in case they are chasing any score less that 290 will be easily chased by team India.

Catch the live action of the match in 3 hours from now. Till then bye bye.

Match 11 ICC World Cup - India vs England

Another Sunday encounter for team 11, this match will definitely be one turning highest crowd in the group stage matches. India will take on England in the group stage on 27th Feb in a day night match. Match will begin at 2:00 pm local time (+5:30 GMT).

No matter England has won the Ashes test series but for me England is a team capable of performing against Australia and Ashes only. In one day format team lacks the discipline in both batting and bowling. Specially when you check bowling in the sub-continent team definitely require someone in the spin bowling capable to turning matches. India team on the other hand have already 3 regular spin bowlers in the 15 members squad and they have other part times like Yuvraj, Raina, Sehwag etc who can bowl couple of good overs and hence India team can have the option of playing one extra batsmen if needed.

In this match Indian team definitely looks strong and capable of winning the match. Let the match begin and catch all the live action.

England v India, 2nd Test, Trent Bridge India complete seven-wicket win

India
First Innings: 481 (Tendulkar 91, Ganguly 79, Karthik 77, Jaffer 62, Laxman 54)
Second Innings: 73 for 3 beat England 198

England
First Innings: 198
Second Innings: 355 (Vaughan 124, Collingwood 63, Strauss 55, Zaheer 5-75)

The victory means India have now won at least one Test in ten of their last 12 tours, but have only won two of those series against a team other than Bangladesh or Zimbabwe. With the last Test at The Oval - a venue which has traditionally produced belters - India have an excellent opportunity to go on and get that rare overseas series victory. England, on the other hand, haven't lost a series at home since the 2001 Ashes, which sets up the last game of this series quite splendidly.

Below are few pics from the match:


Mahendra Singh Dhoni



Rahul Dravid


Dinesh Karthick


Sachin