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

ricky Ponting Century and records associated

the fourth ODI between Australia and West Indies saw Ricky Ponting scoring a 106 runs knock. This century knocks has lots ok crickets records assocated with it and here are the ICC Cricket Stats:

1. RT Ponting' s 106 in this game provide the 1048th occasion of a batsman scoring a hundred in the history of one day games.
2. RT Ponting' s 106 in this game provide the 152nd occasion of an Australian batsman scoring a hundred in one day games.
3. RT Ponting' s 106 in this game provide the 16th occasion of an Australian batsman scoring a hundred in one day games against West Indies.
4. RT Ponting' s 106 in this game provide the 78th occasion of a batsman scoring a hundred in one day games against West Indies.
5. RT Ponting' s 106 in this game provide the second occasion of his scoring a hundred in one day games against West Indies. The other occasion was at Jaipur on 04.03.96 when he had scored 102.
6. Thus RT Ponting' s 106 in this game represent his highest individual score against West Indies.
7. RT Ponting became the fourth Australian batsman to score two or more one day hundreds against West Indies. Others are - ME Waugh (03), DS Lehmann (02) and GR Marsh (02)
8. RT Ponting with his 106 in this game became the third Australian captain to score a hundred against West Indies. The other two captains are - AR Border (127* at Sydney on 06.02.85) and MEK Hussey (109* at Kuala Lumpur on 18.02.06).
9. RT Ponting' 106 in this game represents his highest individual score as captain against West Indies. The previous best was 79 at Johannesburg on 26.09.09.
10. RT Ponitng' s 106 in this game represent the 29th one day hundred of his career. SR Tendulkar (45) has scored more hundreds than RT Ponting.
11. RT Ponitng' s 106 in this game represent the 21st one day hundred as captain. He holds the record for most hundreds by a captain in one day games.
12. RT Ponting' s 106 in this game represent the 20th one day hundred in winning games as captain. He earned the distinction of becoming the first captain to score 20 hundreds in winning games.
13. RT Ponting became the first captain to aggregate 6500 runs as captain in winning matches. He reached the milestone when he was on when he was on 33 during the course of his knock of 106 in this game. At the end of the game, his run aggregate stood at 6573.
    RT Ponting and CL White added 131 runs for the third wicket in this game providing the 288th occasion of Australian batsmen posting a three figure partnership in one day games. Only India with 291 three figure partnership is ahead of Australia in terms of three figure partnerships.