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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.

India tour of Australia and Super Century

Indian team arrived in Australia well in advance this time and also has played 2 practice matches. This show that team India and BCCI is really looking forward to perform well in the test match series. Because another tour like one team Indian had in England will mean the team is good at home grounds only.

We will get to know how team India will perform against slightly inexperienced Australian squad one day after Christmas, when the first test match will begin. But one thing that has been wondering cricket fans is will Sachin Tendulkar score the super century or not. Historically Sachin has scored one century on every tour of
Australia thus we can believe that this time too he will score a century and complete his century of centuries in international cricket.

Lets wait for watch for all the live action of India Vs Australia test cricket after Christmas.

444 Posts at ICC Cricket Blog

This is the 444th post at the ICC Cricket Blog. It has been wonderful 4 and half years journey. We started the blog in October 2006. And sooner this blog became very popular and recorded 9000+ unique visitors a day record traffic on some matches, which is sufficient evidence for the popularity of the blog. You may visit our Archives to see the success of the blog post by post, day by day, month bye month and year by year.

2011 cricket world cup and the IPL seasons have been one of the most successful Cricket tournaments for us. Today I'd like to thank all of the visitors, blog members for making this blog a success. Also we have planned to open this blog for guest posts till October 2011, the month we will celebrate our 5th B'day. All of you who want to share any post with our visitors can feel free to contact us, we'd feel grateful to publish the post.

Another IPL Match for Delhi to move from the bottom

Delhi has got another match today to move from the bottom of the points table. But today also Delhi Daredevils got a poor start as they have lost two batsmen in just second over of the match. Sreesanth gave the two blow in his first over of the match.

Good thing for Delhi is that captain Virendar Sehwag is still at the crease and he can change the course of the match at any point of time. Let see what target Delhi will set for the Kochi Tuskers. Kochi team also needs a win to move ahead in the point table. Place in the bottom three they are not too far from Delhi team and this match we can see swap of places for both the teams.

Other IPL match to be played today is between Kings Xi Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders. A win here for any of the team will make the way for the next round easier.

Also I am posting few wallpapers from the IPL 2011 below:

World Cup Final Match Today - Sri Lanka to Bat First

Today is the ICC world cup final match between India and Sri Lanka and the latest news is that Sri Lanka has won the toss and elected to bat first. The pressure and intensity of the match can be realised from the fact that when M S Dhoni tossed the coin first the match refree, Ravi Sastri and Dhoni were unable to hear the voice of Sri Lankan Cpatain Sangakara. M. S. Dhoni has to toss the coin again and toss was won by Sri Lankan captain who immediately said they are gonna bat first. You must also not forget his statement in the toss when asked by Ravi Sastri what score he think will be good enough to which Sangakar replied, "anything we score will be sufficient enough" As far as teams are concerned India is playing Sreesanth in place of injured Nehra, whereas Sri Lankan has a different team today they are playing 6 batsmen and 5 bowlers to tackel stron Indian battign line. Mathews, Mendis, Herath and Chamara Silva are not included in the playing 11 today and Perera, Randiv, Kulasekara and Chamara Kapugedera replace them for the finals.

Sri Lanka v Pakistan World Cup Match Live

This is definitely one of the most exciting matches of the group stage in the world cup 2011. Sri Lanka and Pakistan, both one time champions taking each other in the group stage of 2011 world cup. Both the team have good combination of spin and pace bowlin atttack and some very good batsmen in the world. This match between the two team will be goin to be a high scorig match.

As this is going to be a day nigh t match I guess toss may play a littly role guessgin the due factor which can make fielding and bowling little difficult under lights.

You can catch all the live action of the match here at the ICC Cricket Blog. Thanks was visitng and enjot the world cup :)

World Cup Updates - Nations start declaring 15 members squad

With just 30 days left for the world cup to start. Masimum number of the particiapting nations selecting commitees have declared the team for the world cup. Few nations like Canada were quick to declated the teams and that I have already posted on the ICC cricket Blog.

Blow the the teams of other nations who just declared the 15 members world cup squad:

1. NewZealand World cup squad:
Daniel Vettori, Hamish Bennett, James Franklin, Martin Guptill, Jamie How, Brendon McCullum, Nathan McCullum, Kyle Mills, Jacob Oram, Jesse Ryder, Tim Southee, Scott Styris, Ross Taylor, Kane Williamson, Luke Woodcock.
Players to watch for: Daniel Vettori and Jesse Ryder

2. England: Andrew Strauss (capt), James Anderson, Ian Bell, Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Paul Collingwood, Eoin Morgan, Kevin Pietersen, Matt Prior, Ajmal Shahzad, Graeme Swann, James Tredwell, Jonathan Trott, Luke Wright, Michael Yardy
Players to watch for: Kevin Pietersen and Paul Collingwood

3. Ireland world cup squad: William Porterfield (capt), Andre Botha, Alex Cusack, Niall O'Brien (wk), Kevin O'Brien, George Dockrell, Trent Johnston, Nigel Jones, John Mooney, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Albert van der Merwe, Gary Wilson (wk), Andrew White, Ed Joyce.

4. India world cup team: MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Praveen Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Munaf Patel, Piyush Chawla, R Ashwin
Players to watch: Sachin, Sehwag, Yusuf Pathan

5. Australia squad : Shane Watson, Brad Haddin (wk), Ricky Ponting (capt), Michael Clarke, Michael Hussey, David Hussey, Cameron White, Tim Paine (wk), Steven Smith, John Hastings, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Hauritz, Brett Lee, Shaun Tait, Doug Bollinger.
Players to watch: Hussey brothers

6. South African team for the world cup: Graeme Smith (capt), Hashim Amla, Johan Botha, AB de Villiers (wk), JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Colin Ingram, Jacques Kallis, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Robin Peterson, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Morne van Wyk (wk)
Players to watch: Hamla, Duminy, Kallis, Steyn

ICC World Cup 2011 gets insured for Rs 600 crore

Ahead of the cricket world cup this year in the Indian subcontinent, ESPN has taken insurance cover for the ICC World Cup 2011 for Rs. 600 crore.

New India Assurance will provide insurance cover against terror and adverse weather. BCCI will take additional insurance cover for all 8 Indian venues. The World Cup begins on February 19.

The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup will be the tenth Cricket World Cup, and will be hosted by three South Asian Test cricket playing countries; India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It will take place during the months of February and March 2011, with the first match being played on 19 February 2011.

29 matches out of 49 will be played in India including one quarterfinal, semi-final and final, 12 matches in Sri Lanka including one quarterfinal and semifinal and eight matches in Bangladesh including two quarterfinals.The tournament begins in Mirpur, Dhaka, on 19 February with the much-anticipated opener between co-hosts Bangladesh and India.

News Source: http://profit.ndtv.com/news/show/icc-world-cup-2011-gets-insured-for-rs-600-crore-134155?pfrom=home-Business&cp

Match 4 - Australia vs Zimbabwe -Ahemdabad

Fourth match of the ICC cricket world cup will be a group A match played between
Australia v Zimbabwe at Ahmedabad. Given the fact that Australia has won the world cup maximum number of times and Zimbabwe is a troubled nation team, this match is also going to be a one sided match. Now till now we have seen that all the 3 previous matches also seem to be one sided affairs. Her is the pre-match review of the first three matches of the 2011 world cup:

Perhaps this is the trend of all worl cup tournaments be it hockey, cricket, soccer or any other game. Games get exciting as the competition goes by. My best wishes to the zimbabwe team this nation definitely needs a world cup win fo rthe game to survie and grow in the nation. I really wnat them not to exit in the first phase of the tournament.

ICC Cricket World Cup Opening Match - World Cup 2011

ICC Cricket World Cup Opening Match - World Cup 2011
Feb 19, 2011 will be the day when the opening match of the ICC cricket world cup 2011 will be played between the two co-hosts India and Bangladesh at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Bangladesh. Sri Lanka is the third hosting country, initially the other country Pakistan was also one of the co-hosts for the world cup but later ICC ruled out any possibility of world cup matches in Pakistan due to security concern, remember Sri Lankan cricket team was attacked by terrorists in Pakistan while they were on there way to the Stadium and many players had a narrow escape.

Coming back to the first match of the cricket world cup 2011 between India and Bangladesh. Both the teams are in Group B. England, West Indies, Ireland, Netherlands and South Africa are the other teams in the Group B.

India may seem to be the favorites for the world cup opener match however If you go by stats then the only world cup match played between India and Bangladesh was won by Bangladesh, also match in being played in Bangladesh thus the Bangla team can be a surprise package in the opening of the 2011 cricket world cup.

ICC awards - Sachin, Dhoni & Sehwag nominated

Dubai: India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, senior batsman Sachin Tendulkar and opener Virender Sehwag are among the eight cricketers who have been nominated for the October 6 ICC Awards 2010. Eight players from four teams have each been nominated in three different categories for the award which is scheduled to be held in Bangaluru later this year.

Besides the Indian players, Hashim Amla and Jacques Kallis from South Africa, Shane Watson and Doug Bollinger from Australia and Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardena will feature prominently in the long-lists for the awards. In addition, there are nine players who are nominated in two distinct categories."The LG ICC Awards are an opportunity for the ICC and FICA to acknowledge and celebrate the remarkable performances of the world's top players," said ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat."It is also a chance for followers of our great sport to reflect on some of the great cricketing feats they have witnessed over the past year. This will be the seventh time the awards have been handed out and picking the winners will not be an easy task for the voting academy," he said.

The seventh annual LG ICC Awards, presented in association with the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA), includes nine individual prizes and also features the selection of the Test and ODI Teams of the Year.Also there will be an award for the side that has adhered most to the Spirit of Cricket. For the first time, this year's awards feature a new category, the People's Choice Award, which will be chosen by cricket fans around the world who will get a chance to vote for their favourite player online from a short-list of five cricketers selected by the ICC selection panel.The long-lists of nominations were made by a five-man ICC selection panel chaired by former West Indies captain and current chairman of the ICC Cricket Committee Clive Lloyd.

The panel also includes former international players Angus Fraser of England, Matthew Hayden of Australia, Ravi Shastri of India and Zimbabwe's Duncan Fletcher.The LG ICC Awards ceremony is now in its seventh year and this year it will be held in Bengaluru, India. Previous ceremonies were held in London (2004), Sydney (2005), Mumbai (2006), Johannesburg (2007 and 2009), Dubai (2008).

ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 official mascot

Stumpy is the official mascot for ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. Have look at the pics below for stumpy cricket worlc cup 2011 mascot.

Day 5 Test 1 India vs Sri Lanka

Hi All,

In my last post Can India save first test match - India vs Sri Lanka I depicted India will hardly be able to save the test and things going as predicted. MS Dhoni hot out quickly, so did Harbhajan Singh, however VVS Laxman is still fighting the battle with some good support by Mithun and now by Ishant Sharma. By some good partner ships among these three India have avoided an innings defeat, this means Sri Lanka will have to bat again now, In case they are able to pick two wickets quickly.

My prediction was that if India batting can last for three session, so far they have survived till lunch with 70 runs lead. In case this pair and Ojha who is still to come can survive anothe 80 runs India can definitely save this test Match. One good thing I am looking is that Sangakara wants Muralitharan to complete 800 wickets so he is made to bowl longer spells and other bowlers didn't want to pick a wicket.

ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 - Revised format for the world cup

The 2011 worl cup will have a new format, unlike the previous format that saw exit of asian teams India and Pakistan out of the tournament and caused low earnings. This time format is designed so that the major teams will stay longer and don't have an unlikely exit of main teams.

Total 14 teams will be participating which includes 10 test playing nations and Kenya (ODI status) and three qualified teams (Canada, Netherlands and Ireland). All fourteen teams are divided in two groups of 7 teams each:
Group A: Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Canada, Kenya
Group B: India, South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland and Netherlands

I hardly saw the major teams exiting from the group stage as top four team from both groups will qualify for the quarter finals. The winners of the quarterfinals would face off in the semi-finals, with the winners meeting in the grand final.

ICC World Cup 2011 and Umpire review system

The Internation Cricket Council (ICC) has approved the use of controversial umpire review system for the cricket world cup 2011. The rule had a mix reviewd from the players and the experts. It was also announced that the review system will be implemented in the test cricket also wherein each team can have the option of two referrals per innings. This means a total of 8 umpire decisions can be reffered to third upmire in a test match by the players.

Like previous world cup matches the world cup 2011 will have two pools of teams i.e. group A and group B.
Here are the team groupings:

Group A: Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Canada, Kenya.
Group B: Bangladesh, England, India, Ireland South Africa, West Indies, Netherlands.

ICC also pointed out a reductionin the number of teams playing in the future world cups.

T20 World Cup Second Semi final Live Score

In the mens T20 World Cup England made it to the Finals and In womens T20 world Cup Australia is in the finals by defeating India in the first semi finals. Now both these team will play the winners of the second semi finals that will beplayed today .

In the mens T20 world cup Australia will play against last time champions Pakistan, Australia seem to have upper hand as they defeated Paksitanin the league stage also. Pakistan cricket team will though want to make it to the finals and retain the world cup trophy with them, but Australian have the more solid reason to win the semi final as its the only tournament Australiand haven't won so fay but wny of the team which win the match they will have problems with England in the final as it has been very long since England reached the finals of any major tournament.

In womens T20 worls cup second semi final today West Indies will play New Zealand today and winner will face Australia in the finals. on Sunday.

T20 live score Semi final match

England has made a slow but steady start for chasing a low score of 128. If they score at a rate of around 6 rums per over without loosing any wicket for first ten overs they can easilt accelerate later and make it to the finals of the ICC Twenty twenty world cup 2010.

Till now England has scored 38 runs in the first 5 overs without loosing any wickets, Now lets see will Sri Lankan spin or pace attack can create any magic here.

Keep watching live score here and also don't miss out the Women T20 world cup semi final between Australia Women and India Women that will follow few minutes from now

Twenty Twenty Live - Super Eight Matches today

2 matches will be played to decide fate of three teams India, West Indies and Sri Lanka. Both India and West Indies will be playing in one match of the two. For West Indies victory will mean they will move to the next round, however even if India win they match first point os to win with a good margin and second one is that West Indies loose to Australia. Given the form of Australia it looks very rare they will loose to West Indies.

I forget to mention Sri Lanka for them Victory will make it to the semi finals of the T20 world cup however even if they loose but manage to score 144 runs they will knock India out of the tournament.

India have set a target of 164 but for Sri Lanka 144 will be enough to move to the next round. So what will team India play for a win of restrict Sri Lanks for a score less than 144.

Nothing I think because even doing so much hard work will get in vain if West Indies win the next match so Indian just pack up.

Twenty 20 World Cup Match - India Vs West Indies Live

Todays mathc in T20 is crucial for both the teams they must win this match to survive in the tournament. The team whic loose todyas match will be out of the tournament and will have to play the one more formality match left. where India will play Sri Lanka and West Indies will play Australia. for any of the today's winner wining the next game will also be crucial. I am sure net run rate will come to play in deciding who moves to next round.

In another match today Australia will play Sri Lanka both the teams have won one match in the super eight league and will look forward to win this one also to make sure they move to te next round .

Results of yesterdays matches:

1. England 168 for 7 (Pietersen 53, Botha 2-15) beat South Africa 129 (Duminy 39, Sidebottom 3-23) by 39 runs

2. New Zealand 133 for 7 (Vettori 38, B McCullum 33) beat Pakistan 132 for 7 (Butt 67*, Butler 3-19) by one run

The New Zealand and Pakistan match was a close thriller and it reminded me of ICC T20 world cup final where India beat Pakistan in tha last ball of the tournament. Till the 4th ball of the last over Pakistan was looking strong and it seem they will win the match but last 2 balls changes the face of the match.

Aurstralia Vs Bangladesh - Who will move to next round Australia, Bangladesh or Pakistan

Bangladesh made an excellent start in the todays match but lost the hold in last seven matcehs otherwise Australia might have been in trouble. Still Bangladesh can chase the target of 142 I think and in case they manage to do it in less than 19 overs Pakistan would be out of the tournament and in rarest conditions if they chase it in 14 overs Australia woud be out of the tournament.

But I doubt the batting of the Bangladesh team but still hope they can win this match. In another important match Afghanistan will take on South Africa in a do or die match for both the teams.