Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Sangakkara's new record
Bad news for Bangladesh cricket
Bangladesh's slow left arm bowler Taijul Islam injured during practice camp for ICC CWC 2015. Taijul Islam started with his ODI cricket with hat trick. Team Bangladesh will fly to Australia on Jan 24, 2015.
James Anderson is back
England's fast bowler include in playing XI in the today's match against India for the 3rd match of Tri-series. Both team get defeat from the Australia side.
Team Pakistan takes a flight today for event
Pakistan cricket team will fly today to New Zealand for 2 one day internationals. After 2 ODI team will go to Australia and play two warm up matches against England and Bangladesh before world cup. Pakistan's world cup campaign will started on Feb 15, 2015 in the match against rivalry team India.
Shirt numbers of Pakistani players
Shirts numbers revealed of Pakistan cricket team players for ICC CWC 2015 starting from Feb 14, 2015.
#AhmedShehzad - 19
#MHafeez - 8
#UAkmal - 3
#WahabRiaz - 47
#MIrfan - 76
#ShahidAfridi - 10
#YasirShah - 86
#EhsanAdil - 91
#YounusKhan - 75
#HarisSohail - 89
#JunaidKhan - 83
#SohaibMaqsood - 92
#Sarfaraz - 54
#Misbah - 22
#SohailKhan - 14
Stuart MacGill sues Cricket Australia
Cricket Australia says it is aware of media reports suggesting former player Stuart MacGill has issued a writ in the Victorian Supreme Court setting out a claim against the governing body of cricket in Australia.
Reports suggest MacGill is claiming he is owed $1.6 million in match payments and prize money.
The right-arm leg-spinner is also seeking costs and $984,534 in interest, bringing his total claim to more than $2.6 million.
“We are aware of the media reports but aren’t in a position to comment further,” a CA spokesman said on Monday afternoon.
MacGill took 208 test wickets for Australia at an average of 29.02.
George Bailey suspended for slow over-rate
Australia will need a new one-day captain for their third Carlton Mid ODI Tri-Series match after George Bailey was suspended for his side’s slow over-rate in yesterday’s tense win over India.
International Cricket Council match referee Andy Pycroft ruled that Australia were one over short of their target at the conclusion of India’s innings when time allowances were taken into consideration, and in doing so suspended Bailey from Australia’s next ODI in Hobart on Friday.
It was Bailey’s second slow over-rate offence in the last 12 months after he was fined in the first ODI in Perth against South Africa on November 14, and pleaded guilty to the offence, accepting the sanction without the need for a formal hearing.
Monday, January 19, 2015
De Villiers blasts fastest ODI century
AB de Villiers smashed the fastest century in ODI history - from just 31 balls - to propel South Africa to 2-439 from their 50 overs in the second One-Day International in Johannesburg.
Opening pair Hashim Amla (153 not out) and Rilee Rossouw (128) also made centuries, the first time three players have reached three figures in the same ODI innings.
But it was all about De Villiers, who didn't arrive at the crease until the 39th over but went on to make an astonishing 149 from 44 deliveries, equalling the world record mark of 16 sixes in an ODI innings in the process.
De Villiers and Amla put on 192 for the second wicket, from just 68 balls, as South Africa eclipsed their highest-ever ODI total by a single run.
Friday, January 16, 2015
Amla makes history
Amla made a run-a-ball 66 at the top of the order to reach the 5,000 ODI run mark in his 101st innings, comfortably quicker than the legendary Viv Richards and current Indian superstar Virat Kohli, both of whom took 114 innings to get to the milestone.
Amla and de Villiers sets up easy SA win
Hashim Amla became the fastest South African batsmen to reach 5000 ODI runs a run-a-ball 66 in his 101st innings and set South Africa up to take the series lead. He starred in a 99-run third-wicket stand with AB de Villiers, in which runs were scored at 6.82 to the over before de Villiers and David Miller posted 123. That ensured even when South Africa fell away and lost 5 for 34, they still had enough despite the two-hour-45-minute rain interruption.
West Indies' target was adjusted to a 229 off 33 overs and then 226 off 32 overs when rain returned again but they were only in with a chance of chasing it when Chris Gayle was at the crease. He plundered 41 runs off 24 balls but his high-risk style of play left him vulnerable to an early dismissal. When it came in the sixth over, it sparked a top-order collapse of 4 for 38 which gave way to a lower-order folding of 6 for 46. Imran Tahir claimed three of those wickets chiefly through well-executed googlies and sliders to bring up his 50th ODI scalp.
Jason Holder, in his first match as captain, would have wanted more from the men he said were ready to show fight. He shouldered the bulk of that responsibility when he opened the bowling, brought himself back on at crucial times, tasked himself with targeting the South African lower-order and ran an impressive 9.8 kilometres in the field but he learnt that one man cannot do the job on his own. Just ask Gayle.
After missing out on Wednesday night's T20, also at Kingsmead, with a recurrence of his back problem, Gayle approached this innings as though it was two days' ago. He flung his bat at everything, despite the steep target. "I am trying to understand it, but I can't," Michael Holding lamented, when discussing Gayle's strategy, or lack thereof. It only took the introduction of Dale Steyn to cause Gayle to run out of luck and allow South Africa the only inroad they needed.
Gayle should have modelled his innings on Amla's to start with. He saw off a tricky opening period, when Jerome Taylor found the right length to dismiss both Rilee Rossouw, who racked up a fifth duck in 10 innings, and Faf du Plessis, a first duck in 61, in the Powerplay. But West Indies failed to cash in on their early breakthroughs and lost their lines.
They offered so much width. Amla was able to treble his score from 13 off the first 19 balls he faced to 39 by the time he'd faced 40. AB de Villiers, sent in earlier than usual at No. 4, was also off to a speedy start. 17 runs came off 15 balls.
Andre Russell tried to make the extra bounce work in his favour by holding back his length but the South African pair were quick to pounce on anything short. They brought up a hundred inside 17 overs and a massive total was looming but Amla was in such a hurry to get there, he underestimated Russell's arm. He was run-out but South Africa's momentum was not.
They promoted David Miller ahead of JP Duminy and de Villiers immediately adjusted his pace. He slowed down to allow Miller to settle and the pair formed the spine of South Africa's total. They shared the highest partnership of the innings of 123 runs and batted for a ball shy of 20 overs, to take South Africa to the brink of a flourishing finish as West Indies flagged in the searing heat.
It was only when both holed out that West Indies had the opportunity to come back into the match. Russell used fancy footwork to run Farhaan Behardien out - the second time on this tour his boot has ushered the ball on its way to breaking the stumps - had Duminy caught behind off a short ball and Philander in the deep before a storm swept through.
It was accompanied by gale-force winds, of the literal kind, which only made it more difficult for South Africa when they took the field and met the other Gayle-force. West Indies were off to a flier but they needed support from the rest of the line-up, particularly the experience.
But Marlon Samuels was run out lazily, Dwayne Smith was deceived by a slider and Jonathan Carter beaten by the googly. Vernon Philander was rewarded for consistent effort towards the end and Steyn cleaned up the tail as the inevitable outcome was completed.
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