Pakistan got a good start in the second ODI agains India

Indian team made a change and replaced batsmen Rohit Sharma with All rounder Ravinder Jadeja. As per M S Dhoni the Indian cricket team captain the change was made in order to strengthen the team bowling. We'll get to knwo in nest 3-4 hours if the change will do team India some good or not.

Indian team won the toss today and decided to bowl first. Being invited to bowling Pakistan openers are batting beautifully and Pakistan team looks all set to put a strong total on the board.  So fat the openers have added 98 runs in 16 overs. Only Ishant Sharma is balling well,remaining Indian bowlers are looking ordinary for the moment.

Score updates from other cricket matches going around the world
India vs Pakistan is the only ODI match series being played currently. Rest two matches in progress are test matches being played between Australia, Sri Lanka and South Africa, New Zealand.

New Zealand Vs South Africa, 1st Test score update: South African fast bowlers were lethal on day one and got the New Zealand team out at just 45 runs. In return the South Africa were comfortably ahead in the close of day one with 252 for loss of three wickets.

Highlight of the match: J. Kallis completes 13,000 runs in test matches. Congrats to him from ICC Cricket Blog.

Sri Lanka Vs of Australia, 3rd Test score update: Though Sri Lanka has already lost the test series, they might want to win the third test here. On the day first of third test Sri Lanka got all out at 294 runs. Not a good score but still a better performance from the previous matches.

New Zealand Vs South Africa - 3rd Quarterfinal Match

Well unlike the first quarter final of the world cup, second one between Australia and India was a thrilling one day cricket match many one will remember for years to come. Till the last half an hour of the match it was hard to decide which team is going to win the match and no doubt Australia looked better in most of the match but 2 over is a row that cost 25 runs to Australia changed the game. Not only they eased the pressure off for both Yuvraj and Suresh Raina but also bring the required run rate under 6 runs.

It was third man of the match for Yuvraj Singh in this world cup and he is having a wonderful world cup so far. He has been second highest wicket taker for India in the world cup after Zaheer Khan and he has batted sensibly also. So far he has got more than 300 runs in the tournament. Even Suresh Raina proved that his inclusion for today s match was not wrong. The only thing that went wrong for India today and which might be an area of concern to the think tank is the bowling of Munaf Patel. Munaf is neither picking up wicket nor containing the batsmen. It might be good if Indian cricket team can take risk in including Sreesanth who played only single match in the world cup so far.

Now it’s confirmed that India will play Pakistan in the semi-final match at Mohali on 30th March.

Till then we have two more quarter finals and important one comes tomorrow between South Africa and New Zealand at Dhaka. New Zealand has been responsible for sending South Africa out of the world cup tournaments in the past but this time South Africa seem to have learned from their past and it looks more balanced team now. It would be interesting to see the competition between Imran Tahir and Daniel Vettori.

South Africa Vs New Zealand - Super Eight Match live score

Inthe second match od the ICC t@) world cup South Africa had posted a competitive total to chase for New Zealand and it seems to me South Africa will win this match. Target for New Zealand is 171 in 20 overs. Tagrget may have been more but thanks to a great last over by shane bond giving only 5 runs. Fill score board of South Africa innnings:


South Africa innings (20 overs maximum) R B 4s 6s SR
View dismissal JH Kallis c Southee b Oram 31 26 1 2 119.23
7.5 126.3 kph, What a catch by Southee, as good as the one Tait took yesterday at third man, Kallis played a good-looking uppercut to a shortish ball, the ball flew to the right of third man, Southee hared across and dived to pluck a low two-handed catch 55/2
View dismissal GC Smith* c Guptill b Southee 14 12 2 0 116.66
4.5 126.1 kph, a bit of swing for Southee, who strikes with a not-particularly-good delivery, fullish on the pads, Smith hoicks it to deep midwicket where Guptill pouches the catch 40/1
View dismissal HH Gibbs c BB McCullum b NL McCullum 30 24 1 2 125.00
13.3 84.8 kph, jinxed him, Gibbs is gone, he looks to repeat the stroke, but gets a top edge to a legstump delivery, Brendon McCullum runs across from midwicket to take a simple catch near square leg 97/3
AB de Villiers not out 47 39 1 2 120.51

View dismissal JA Morkel run out (†Hopkins) 40 18 0 5 222.22
19.5 Bond to de Villiers, shorter this time and outside off, de Villiers misses again, this time they go for the bye, Albie is run out by a direct hit from Hopkins, end of just the innings he's in the team for 169/4
MV Boucher† not out 0 1 0 0 0.00

Extras (b 6, w 2) 8

Total (4 wickets; 20 overs) 170 (8.50 runs per over)
To bat JP Duminy, DW Steyn, J Botha, M Morkel, CK Langeveldt
Fall of wickets1-40 (Smith, 4.5 ov), 2-55 (Kallis, 7.5 ov), 3-97 (Gibbs, 13.3 ov), 4-169 (JA Morkel, 19.5 ov)

Bowling O M R W Econ
View wicket NL McCullum 4 0 35 1 8.75 (1w)


13.3 to Gibbs, 84.8 kph, jinxed him, Gibbs is gone, he looks to repeat the stroke, but gets a top edge to a legstump delivery, Brendon McCullum runs across from midwicket to take a simple catch near square leg 97/3
SE Bond 4 0 33 0 8.25

View wicket TG Southee 3 0 39 1 13.00


4.5 to Smith, 126.1 kph, a bit of swing for Southee, who strikes with a not-particularly-good delivery, fullish on the pads, Smith hoicks it to deep midwicket where Guptill pouches the catch 40/1
View wicket JDP Oram 3 0 22 1 7.33


7.5 to Kallis, 126.3 kph, What a catch by Southee, as good as the one Tait took yesterday at third man, Kallis played a good-looking uppercut to a shortish ball, the ball flew to the right of third man, Southee hared across and dived to pluck a low two-handed catch 55/2
DL Vettori 4 0 21 0 5.25

SB Styris 2 0 14 0 7.00