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.

Must win Match for West Indies - India vs WI Third ODI

After defeat in the test series, West is on the verge of loosing the one day series against India as well. To keep their chances in the series West Indies need to win the third ODI match that will be played at Ahmedabad.

For India it's time to keep the momentum going and carry on the series win with a clean sweep. Let see what happens tomorrow, we will bring you updates from the match :).

For West Indies team the matter of worry is that they are unable to finish the match on winning end, both the ODI matches they lost were close matches and had the West Indies bowler been able to keep the pressure on the strong middle order batting line.

To win the third ODI west Indies strongly need a very good score to defend and make sure they can build pressure on the batsmen and not give easy singles that became the main cause of loosing the match.

One man who I think can help WI win the match in K Pollard, he definitely need to get a good start to finish the game for his team.

Series Live Scores - India Vs England First ODI

After defeating India at their home page now its England turns to prove that they can do the same in India as well. However England was defeated 5-o in the previous series against India in India. But a positive point for England is that Indian team is still depleted one due to the injuries and fitness issues.

For India Gautam Gambhir makes a come back to the side thus opening issues seems to be resolves to some extent. Indian team also have the opportunity to enhance the ICC ODI rankings if they beat England in the series. Current world champions are at number 4 in the rankings and just one point behind 3rd ranked England team.

England has to win this series and the test series in India to prove that they really belong to the number one position. A defeat here means there is still a long way to go for England to be called the world champion in tests and ODIs.

Please catch all the live action of tomorrows match and share your feedback with us.

India Vs England Second ODI Match

For the first time since team India landed in England it looked like they gave a team performance and team India was in a strong position in the match at the time rain abandoned the match resulting both teams will head to the second one day international match 0-0.

Debutant Rehane played a nice knock of 40 runs and this guy may be part of the dressing room for a long time. Parthiv Patel may not be a regular members of the Indian cricket team now a days but if you look at his performance in the last couple of series in which he has played around 11 matches this once wicket keeper batsmen for team India has played 4 50+ inning and a couple of 30 and 40+ innings all in the opening slot. Perhaps he is a good alternate in case M. S. Dhoni got injured or ruled out of the team due to poor performances. Also it was a sad to see this batsmen falling 5 runs short of his maiden century, perhaps there is a more better time for it to come.

Parthiv Patel during his knock of career best 95 runs.

Injuries are consistent for India and now Sachin Tendulkar and Rohit Sharma got injured and its not sure if any of them will feature in the second ODI tomorrow.

Cricket Updates for today - Current Matches

Today cricket lovers can enjoy three matches on the weekend i.e.

1. Australia Vs Sri Lanka Test Match Day 4 - Australia is just 1 wicket away to win the first test match of the series. Whereas Sri Lanka need 130 runs. Thus all Sri Lanka can hope for a century of .... nothing Its a matter of one ball while I was updating the blog. Australia has won the match by 129 runs.
   
   
2. Pakistan Vs Zimbawe Test Match Day 3 - This is the only test match to be played between two teams and Zimbawe is once again on the track to improve their cricket. They scored 412 runs in first innings. However Pakistan batsmen are quick in scoring runs and scoring runs quickly. So far result for this match seems to be impossible untill we see some magical spell by Zimbabwe bowlers. Even a drwa would be satisfactory for Zimbabwe.
   
   
3. India Vs England Frist ODI - India lost test series 4-0, they also lost only Twenty twenty match and now they have to play the five match one day series. If India get defeated here then this means the bad phase on Indian cricket has begun. But as India are the world champions one can expect them to win this series, one must not forget they were number one test team in the world before the our of England.
   

4th One Day Match India Tour of West Indies

India has already won the tournament and is leading the 5 match series with 3-0. Thus many of the visitors this may not be a match worth watching, but realty is that the remaining 2 matches of the series will be more interesting than the previous 3.

Reason number one both the teams will have their own targets for the rest 2 matches, West Indies team will have to play to save the pride of the country and India will play for a clean sweep thus they can take the revenge of home series clean sweep defeat of the 70s.

Also we can expect many changes in the playing eleven from both the sides. Soon we will also launch a Cricket quiz, keep visiting for more updates.

India Vs West Indies Match 2 live

Lots of improvement areas for both the teams. Though Indian team managed to win the T20 match and the first ODI, the team top order (opening batsmen specially) failed on both the occasion. It was depth in the batting that saved the team along with the bowling. But think of the scenario when West Indies team post a competitive total then a top order disaster will be enough for the defeat.

West Indies team is bowling well but they need to learn the art of playing spin and for that they need specialist like Chris Gayle and Pollard to strengthen the batting line up.

The second ODI will be enough to tell us what the result of the ODI series would be.

India Vs West Indies - First One Day Match Live

India won the first match and will be looking forward to success in their first series after world cup win. But if we go by the stats from the last match then it won't be easy for team India to win today's match and series easily. Batting which has been strength of team India looks little inexperienced and as we have seen in the T20 match between India and West Indies the top order didn't gave an expected start.

However in bowling team India can rely on the spin attack which is a weak point of West Indies batting. They never look comfortable playing spinners. Good news for West Indies team is that players like Bravo, Pollard and Chanderpaul are back in the team which will add to the experience of the team.

Lets catch all the action from few minutes from now.

Inda Vs Aouth Africa - Sachins hit one more century

India has got to a excellen star and they way Sachin and Karthik are batting Indai is going to post a huge total here. With 20 overs more to be left to bowl, India will easilt get past 300 runs mark ans 9 wickets are still in Hand. Tendualkar has added one more century to his stats and this one is century number 93 overall (tests and ODIs) and his fourht against South Africa. Below are the few wallpapers and pictures:

India Current score 198 for one in 30 overs.

India v South Africa second ODI at Gwalior

Though India manage to win the first one day international but it was not an comprehensive win, Indian gave a poor show both in batting and bowling. However as predicted by winning the first match India have secures the chances to win the series as well. Good luck to both the teams for secone one day internation. To the reader I am also shareing a good news that keep updated on twenty twenty fever with IPL starting on March 12.

India Vs South Africa One day match

India vs South Africa first one day match at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur. This will be the first mathc of the three one day match series and the first match will also decide the winner of the series. South Africa will not be satisfied with 1-1 drwa in tet series and will be looking forwars to win the one day series. This will also boost there chances and preparation for world cup 2011.

On the other hand despite being number one team in tests India has been inconsistent in shorter format of the game. South Africa will miss their captain Graeme Smith due to a finger fracture and veteran Jacques Kallis will lead the side. But wicketkeeper Mark Boucher is set for a return after sitting out of the Kolkata Test with a back spasm. India also play without top players like Yuvraj, gautam Gambhir ,Harbjahan nad Zaheer Khan

India vs South Afrcia one day series

Indian Squar for one day series against South Africa:

MS Dhoni (capt/wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Sudeep Tyagi, Praveen Kumar, Abhishek Nayar, Yusuf Pathan, Amit Mishra.

First match will be played on Sunday 21 February. For India Yusuf Pathan makes comeback after some strong performances in doemstics Dulip trophy matches.

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.

South Africa tour of India - Fixtures

South Africa will be touring India and will play two test matches and three one day matches. Now this will goinf to be a real challenge for team India. Now this will really determine if Indian cricket team is worth number one team in Test cricket or not.

Below are the tournament fixtures:
Tue Feb 2 - Wed Feb 3 04:00 GMT 09:30 local09:30 IST TBC v South AfricansVidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
Sat Feb 6 - Wed Feb 10 04:00 GMT 09:30 local09:30 IST 1st Test - India v South AfricaVidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur
Sun Feb 14 - Thu Feb 18 04:00 GMT 09:30 local09:30 IST 2nd Test - India v South AfricaEden Gardens, Kolkata
Sun Feb 21 09:00 GMT 14:30 local14:30 IST 1st ODI - India v South AfricaSawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Wed Feb 24 03:30 GMT 09:00 local09:00 IST 2nd ODI - India v South AfricaGreen Park, Kanpur
Sat Feb 27 09:00 GMT 14:30 local14:30 IST 3rd ODI - India v South AfricaSardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad


Below are few wallpapers and pictures for your to enjoy:

Sachin Tendulkar Practicing
Yuvraj Singh

Virendar Sehwag

Lady Cricketer in Bikini

Ricky Ponting

Sri Lanka 60 for 4 in 15.4 overs

This pitch is totally different from the others. Jaysurya just got out bt harbhajan Singh. Now its looking really difficult for Sri Lanka to get a really competitive total to chase for India and given the Indian batting line it will be difficult to defend a small total. May be the pitch not change the behaviour then SL bowlers have to do the task.

5th ODI - India vs Sri Lanka

India have alredy won the series and have got a good start in the todays match also. last mactch century marker from Sri Lanka Tharanga has gone for a duck, and cureently Zaheer Khan is bowling very accurately. India won the toss today and elected to bowl first.

Current score of SL is 21 for the loss of one wicket both Dilshan and Jaysurya and battin at 9 runs each, looking like it will be a low scoring match as compared to other matches in the series. 250 to 280 is the score I am eexpecting.

India Vs Sri Lanka 4th One Day

india have got to a good start by gettti early 2 wickets, Dilshan and Jaysurya both are back to the pavillion. However Sri Lanka is alos looking good ith 91 for 2 in 15 overs . Today Indian fielding is also not of International quality dropping 2 catches.

I think India has chnced of wining todays match as bowling may be difficult in the second half of the play.

India to Bat First in second one day match

India have won the match and will bat first on second one day international at Nagpur. Let see how much total India can post as a target for Sri Lanka. What is special about this match is Today Sachin Tendulkar will complete his 20 years in International cricket. in the meantime India has lost Virendar Sehwag in the very first over. Score in 4-1 in one over.

India Vs Sri Lakna great one day encoutner

What a match this is!!!! Sri Lanka is not only giving a close fight but they are on the way to win the match. The current run rate is 8.44 and required one is 8 runs pe over. With 128 run required in in last 16 over all they need to do is play they way they are playing. And for India, they ned a really good spell from any of the bowler otherwise they have already lost the batle

India Vs Sri Lanka ODI series - Yuvraj to miss first one day

First match of the ODI series between India and Sri Lanka will be played ot Rajkot on 14 December, Monday and Yuvraj Singh is unlikely to play the match as the batsmen injured his little finger during the second twenty twenty match.