India Vs Sri Lanka - India tour of Srilakna

India beat Sri Lanka in the first one day by Six wickets (India 247 for 4 (Gambhir 62, Raina 54, Dhoni 61*) beat Sri Lanka 246 for 6 (Jayasuriya 107, Ishant 3-51) by six wickets). highlights of the match was century by Sanath Jasurya who was also selected man of the march.

Highlights from the match:

• Sanath Jaysurya now holds the world record for being the oldest cricketer to score a century t the age of 39 in one day cricket.
• On reaching the score of 37, Jaysurya also became the second man to reach the 13,000 runs mark.
• Jaysurya crossed the score of 50 runs for the 95th time in his career goin ahead of Saurav Ganguly and now only Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar is ahead him who has 132 times crossed the score of 50.
• Highest individual score at Dambulla cricket stadium.

Wallpapers and pictures from the match:

Sanath JaiSurya on his way to century

Jaisurya sweeping a ball of Pragyan Ojha

Ishant Sharma in action

Sachin Tendulkar dismissed early in the innings.

Highest Wickets takers in One day international cricket

With SriLanka winning the 3 ODI against Pakistan and clinching the series one another milestone was achieved by Muthiah Muralitharan yes in this match Murali claimed 2 wickets by and become the second bowler in the history on one day cricket to claim 500 dismissals. Only Pakistan's Wasim Akram has got 500 + wickets. Akram has 502 wickets in his list and is not playing International cricket now thus Murlitharan will soon break his record in a match or two.

Video of Murali taking his 500th wicket.



Also Murali is the highest wicket taker in test matches, in 125 test he played, Murali has 769 wickets at an average of 6 wickets per test. Now players closer to his record like Shane Warne, Anil Kumble and Glenn McGrath, has retired already. Only player close to his record and playing cricket currently is Chaminda Vaas that to in the twilight of his career. It seems it will take a long long way to break his records.

In recent interview Murali told the reporters, "If I have an ambition it is to play until the next World Cup. After that I will call it quits."

Murali is the only crickter to have 500 wickets in both form of cricket.

Rank Wickets Player Period
1 502 (356 mat.) Flag of PakistanWasim Akram from 1984 to 2003
2 500 (324 mat.) Flag of Sri LankaMuttiah Muralitharan from 1993 to -
3 416 (262 mat.) Flag of PakistanWaqar Younis from 1989 to 2003
4 400 (322 mat.) Flag of Sri LankaChaminda Vaas from 1994 to -
5 393 (303 mat.) Flag of South AfricaShaun Pollock from 1996 to 2008

India tour of Sri lanka: Indian Team Announced

Ravindra Jadeja's has been selected in Indian Cricket team for the tour of Sri Lanka also medium-pacer Praveen Kumar been able to make a return to Indian cricket team after being dropped out for one day servies against England. The selectors have made only two changes from the 15-man squad that plyed against England, with Jadeja and Praveen replacing Harbhajan Singh and Virat Kohli both out of the team due to injuries.

Full Indian Cricket team for Sri Lanka series: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt & wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Praveen Kumar, Irfan Pathan, Pragyan Ojha.

India agrees to play five ODIs in Sri Lanka

Colombo, Jan 13 (IANS) The Indian cricket team will play five One-Day Internationals (ODI) and a Twenty20 match against Sri Lanka in Colombo in January-February.

The decision was taken at a meeting here Tuesday between the officials of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) led by secretary N. Srinivasan and Sri Lanka's sports minister Gamini Lokuge.

'We are very happy that BCCI has agreed to our request to play five ODIs and a Twenty20 here later this month. The detailed itinerary will be released shortly,' Minister Lokuge told reporters at the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) headquarters.

'In future we are going to be with the BCCI. We have decided to allow our players to play in the forthcoming Indian Premier League (IPL),' Lokuge said, adding that a 10-year agreement has been signed with the IPL.

Source: http://beta.cricket.yahoo.com/cricket/news/article?id=item/2.0/-/cricket.indiaabroad.com/235c49eaad358e618329a058fa88ea5e/

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).

India tour of New Zealand - 2009

In march Indian cricket team will play the first cricket series of the year 2009 and its going to be a tough one and real test for team India as Indian cricket teams performance overseas in not so very good. wishing team India starts the year 2009 on a winning note.

Below is the match schedule for India tour of New Zealand 2009

March 2009
Fri 6 Floodlit Match
19:00 local, 06:00 GMT Only Twenty20 International - New Zealand v India
Westpac Stadium, Wellington

Sun 8 Floodlit Match
14:00 local, 01:00 GMT 1st ODI - New Zealand v India
McLean Park, Napier

Wed 11 Floodlit Match
14:00 local, 01:00 GMT 2nd ODI - New Zealand v India
Seddon Park, Hamilton

Sat 14 Floodlit Match
14:00 local, 01:00 GMT 3rd ODI - New Zealand v India
Eden Park, Auckland

Tue 17 Floodlit Match
14:00 local, 01:00 GMT 4th ODI - New Zealand v India
Westpac Stadium, Wellington

Fri 20 Floodlit Match
14:00 local, 01:00 GMT 5th ODI - New Zealand v India
AMI Stadium, Christchurch

Sun 22 - Tue 24
10:30 local, 21:30 GMT New Zealand XI v Indians
Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln

Thu 26 - Mon 30
11:00 local, 22:00 GMT 1st Test - New Zealand v India
Seddon Park, Hamilton

April 2009

Fri 3 - Tue 7
11:00 local, 22:00 GMT 2nd Test - New Zealand v India
Basin Reserve, Wellington