India Vs south Africa Match Live Updates

Today will be the real test of team India as they take on South Africa in the world cup group matches. Though India have already qualified for the quarter finals it wil be very much important if team India can attain the top sport in the points table so that they have to play relatively less competitive team in the quarterfinals.

Lets wait and watch as the match will begin in one hour from now. It'd be interesting to see which players will be choosen for playing 11 for the Indian team.

Yesterday I was expecting Ireland to win the game against West Indies but one decision changed the game for Ireland and Bangladesh win over England made the tournament matches more intersting oncxe again. Now Englan and Bangladesh both will have to win the next matches so as to secure the place for the next round.

India vs South Africa - day 1

South Africa won the toss and selected to bat first. Current score is South Africa 97/2 in 33.4 overs. Zaheer Khan got the initial break ups and picked up two wickets in the opening spell. For spineers pitch is making the ball turn and hope this will help India to restrict South africa somewhere beteween 300 to 370. India's battin line looks little weak with absence of Dravi and Laxman, lets see how other batsmen make use of this.

Good luck India maintain the number one positions in the test rankings.

Sydney Test: SA 62/1, need 314 runs for whitewash

Ricky Ponting's bold declaration on Tuesday injected drama into the third and final cricket Test which seems headed for a nail-biting finish with South Africa needing 314 runs on a tricky fifty day track to complete a rare 3-0 whitewash.

Set a daunting target of 376 runs, South Africa lost makeshift opener Morne Morkel for a second ball duck before reaching 62 for one at stumps on day four of the match.

South Africa on itw way to rank 1 in ICC test rankings

Australia v South Africa, 3rd Test, Sydney, 1st day

Its first day and within next four days South Africa can become the number one team in test cricket. Already won the series and leading y 2-0 South Africa can become the number one test team if they beat Australia in this test match also. At the end of day first Australia is on 6 for 267 (Clarke 73*, Johnson 17*, Steyn 2-71).

Shaun Pollock career through cricket wallpapers

Cricket Wallpapers and pics saying career of Cricketer Shaun Pollock

Shaun Pollock : cricket career, records, stats

Shaun Pollock today played his last international cricket match for South Africa at his home town Durban against West Indies. Shaun Pollock was the one to hit winning stroke in this match. One of the greatest record for Shaun Pollock would be his bowling avarage i.e. lower than 4 runs per over. below are the sats

Most economical bowlers in ODIs (at least 150 ODI wickets) Player Matches Runs conceded Wickets Average Economy-rate
Richard Hadlee 115 3407 158 21.56 3.30
Curtly Ambrose 176 5429 225 24.12 3.48
Malcolm Marshall 136 4233 157 26.96 3.53
Shaun Pollock 302 9598 392 24.48 3.67
Kapil Dev 225 6945 253 27.45 3.71

3509 runs and 392 wickets from 302 ODIs, making him only the second player after Wasim Akram to complete the double of 3500 runs and 350 wickets in the limited-over version.

Player Matches Runs Average Wickets Average
Sanath Jayasuriya 403 12207 32.63 307 36.37
Wasim Akram 356 3717 16.52 502 23.52
Shaun Pollock 302 3509 24.48 392 26.38
Kapil Dev 225 3783 23.79 253 27.45