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.

Boxing Day Test Series – Test Match 2

India will play second test match of the 4 match Gavaskar Border test series (also called Boxing Day test series) tomorrow at SCG (Sydney cricket ground). According the curators the pitch conditions will be beneficial to both the teams. Its means, we can expect both Indian spinners and Australian speed bowlers to pick up wickets.

Historically this ground has been lucky or team India and they have won a couple of matches here. This is the same venue where Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Aymonds have some firing moments at the ground and allegation of racial comments etc after that. Coincidently both the players are not playing in this series. Among Indian batsmen VVS Laxman and Sachin Tendulkar have shown excellent batting record here. Sachin has even scored a double hundred here.

Now let’s discuss something about the most awaited century. If Sachin Tendulkar scores a test hundred in this match it would be a golden not because it is the 100^th test century by the little master but also because it will be scored in the 100^th test match played at the Sydney cricket ground.

Let see what happens from hew hours from now.

India Vs Australia – Boxing Day Test Match 1

Australia looks like a team that has a slight upper hand on the first test match of the Boxing Day (Border - Gavaskar) test series between Australia and India. From the first day till the end of day 3, match has been going from one team to another. And what a wonderful test match you can see other than this one, moment one team starts looking taking the grasp on the match other team pulls it off.


Now at stumps day 3 Australia has taken a healthy lead of 230. Michael Hussey is still batting and it’d be interesting to see how much lead he can provide to the Aussie team with 2 wickets still remaining.


In case Australia got a lead of 270 plus runs then it’d be very difficult for India to win or draw this match. Only one person can win match for India in this situation and that is the opener Virendar Sehwag. Let’s hope India can wrap up the Australian inning somewhere around the score of 250.


Today it was purely bowlers day and total of 15 wickets fell today and somewhere around 241 runs were scored. Now with pitch detoriating and match entering the 4th day of play the first 2 sessions will be match decider and we can see who will win this match. A draw is not anywhere in the sight here.

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.

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.

India look for Test Series Clean sweep against West Indies

India have won the test series against West Indies by wining the second test match and Eden gardens Kolkata. However for both the teams it is a right opportunity to improve the performance levels and go to test series with a positive frame of mind.

Specially West Indies need a draw or win in the third and the final test match that begins 22-Nov at Mumbai. We can hope to see a completely different West Indies team in the ODI series with players like K. Pollard joining the team. Yes I must mention that India will not play Yuvraj Singh in the final test match. Thus a setback for Yuvraj who wants to establish himself as a test cricketer. Perhaps he can focus on domestive test cricket for some time. He is a wonderful player for shorter version and theres no doubt about it.

For India I am not sure but a clean sweep can be little helpful for them to improve the test rankings. Still getting back the Numero Uno position is very far and difficult journey.

Now a quick summary of cricket from other parts of the world:

• South Africa Vs Australia: Match is going in interesting phase on day 4 with Australia picking 4 quick wickets and mark a comeback in the test match. Still South Africa lead by 264 runs and have 3 wickets in hand which means if they manage to take the lead for more than 300 runs match will be evenly balanced.
• Pakistan Vs Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka need to win the match number 4 of the series to stay alive in the series. Let wait and watch all the live action from few hours from now.
  

India Vs West Indies Test Match Series - First Test Match

West Indies finished the first day day of first test match against India at Delhi with socreboardh reading 256/5. Indian bowlers did a good job getting 5 wickets on the track and have it one wicket more the days was for India. However splendid century from Shivnarine Chanderpaul made sure that West Indies have the upper hand at the end of day. Chanderpual is still not out and it'd be interesting to see if West Indies manage a big first Innings score OR if India can turn things dramatically taking quick wickets.

Keep on watching the live action of the match tomorrow and we can have a clear picture after the morning session.

Another test match going on between Sri Lanka and Pakistan is all set for a draw with Sri Lanka leading by 237 runs for the loss of 5 wickets at stumps day 4.