Published on Thursday 29 July, 2010 at 4:53 am.
England vs Pakistan, 1st Test Match, Trent Bridge, Nottingham
England vs Pakistan 1st Test Match, Trent Bridge, Nottingham, On Jul 29, 2010 from 10:00 GMT | 15:30 IST Onwards
Pakistan will begin a four-Test series against England on Thursday in the belief that its young side is about to start a new era in the national game. Pakistan will be back in action just five days after securing a tense three-wicket triumph over Australia at Leeds which squared that Test series 1-1.
Many observers had predicted that Salman Butt’s team, playing as the ‘home’ side due to security concerns in Pakistan, would have collapsed in pursuit of a modest target of 180 on Saturday. Instead, his side came through for an exhilarating victory.
“It’s a new beginning for Pakistan cricket, and especially for a young side,” Butt said as he prepared for Thursday’s start. “To win against the world’s best is always an achievement. We would have loved to have done it in front of our home crowd, but we need to tell them that we love them and we hope we will be playing in front of them soon.” Continue reading…
Published on Monday 26 July, 2010 at 4:32 am.
India vs Sri Lanka, 2nd Test Match, Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo
India vs Sri Lanka, 2nd Test Match, Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo, On Jul 26, 2010 from 04:30 GMT | 09:00 IST Onwards
The dreaded duo of Lasith Malinga and Muttiah Muralitharan would be missing from the Sri Lankan bowling attack but Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Sunday said their absence does not make his batsmen’s job any easy in the second cricket Test starting here on Monday.
Pacer Malinga and off-spin genius Muralitharan shared 15 of the 20 Indian wickets among them and played a major role in inflicting a crushing 10-wicket defeat on the visitors in the first Test in Galle.
Malinga has been ruled of the match due to a knee injury and Muralitharan has just retired from Test cricket. “Nothing is easy in international cricket. You may miss the most experienced bowler but at the same time there will be a youngster standing up saying that I will try to fill in the shoes and he may be a good talent,” Dhoni said at the pre-match press conference.
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Published on Wednesday 21 July, 2010 at 4:55 am.
Pakistan vs Australia, 2nd Test, Headingley, Leeds
Pakistan vs Australia 2nd Test, Headingley, Leeds, On Jul 21, 2010 from 09:30 GMT | 15:00 IST Onwards
Michael Clarke may be Australia’s captain in waiting but for now the batsman is adamant his main priority is to focus on making a success of his new role at number four. Clarke was made captain of Australia’s Twenty20 side after star batsman and Test captain Ricky Ponting opted out of that format.
But the responsibility of leading at the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean did not appear to do too much for his run-scoring, with Clarke averaging 15.33 in a tournament where Australia lost to England in the final in Barbados in May.
Clarke has spent the bulk of his Test career at five but, such has been his form over the past 12 months, Ponting has asked him to move up a spot and so swap with Michael Hussey.
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Published on Tuesday 20 July, 2010 at 4:45 am.
Netherlands vs Bangladesh, 1st ODI Match, Titwood, Glasgow
Netherlands vs Bangladesh 1st ODI Match, Titwood, Glasgow, On Jul 20, 2010 from 09:45 GMT | 15:15 IST Onwards
Bangladesh will play Holland in what will be the last game of their tour of the UK. The Bangladesh side has had a reasonable tour so far, but they would have hoped for something more than a 1-1 result that they got from the Ireland series. What will augur well for the Bangladeshi side is, however, the win that they achieved over England.
Holland, on the other hand, goes into this game after having finished fourth in the recently concluded ICC World Cricket League Division One tournament. They had a decent tournament, but lost to the likes of Afghanistan, Scotland and Ireland before overcoming Canada and Ireland.
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Published on Monday 19 July, 2010 at 5:13 am.
Scotland vs Bangladesh, 1st ODI Match, Titwood, Glasgow
Scotland vs Bangladesh 1st ODI Match, Titwood, Glasgow, On Jul 19, 2010 from 09:45 GMT | 15:15 IST Onwards
Mashrafe Mortaza the Bangladesh allrounder, has been named captain of the squad for the ODI tour of the United Kingdom in place of Shakib Al Hasan, who will be the squad’s vice-captain.
The surprise move was announced in a BCB press release on the eve of the team’s departure from Dhaka, two days after the squad for the tour had been released, and comes as a significant snub to Shakib, who led the team with determination during an arduous Test series against England last month.
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Published on Saturday 17 July, 2010 at 1:44 pm.
India vs Sri Lanka, 1st Test Match, Galle International Stadium, Galle
India vs Sri Lanka, 1st Test Match, Galle International Stadium, Galle, On Jul 18, 2010 from 04:30 GMT | 09:00 IST Onwards
India on Sunday embark on a third Test series in two years against Sri Lanka, with the world’s top-rated side hoping to end their 17-year drought in the island nation. The Indians have not won a Test series in Sri Lanka since a 1-0 success by Mohammad Azharuddin’s team in 1993, despite playing on similar slow wickets at home.
India lost 2-1 the last time they played in Sri Lanka, in August 2008, but gained revenge with a 2-0 victory at home a year later that propelled Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s men to the top of the official Test rankings.
India’s new-found love for Test cricket over the more lucrative one-day matches saw them pencil in the three-Test series against Sri Lanka — and another chance to defend their ranking. It was an offer too good to refuse for Sri Lanka, whose only scheduled Test series this year would have been at home against the West Indies in November.
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Published on Friday 16 July, 2010 at 6:14 am.
Ireland vs Bangladesh, 2nd ODI Match, Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast
Ireland vs Bangladesh 2nd ODI Match, Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast, On Jul 16, 2010 from 09:45 GMT | 15:15 IST Onwards
Bangladesh will have to wait and see how many of the reserves arrive in Bristol in time for the game. Mohammad Ashraful, Naeem Islam and wicketkeeper Saghir Hossain are jetting over and without them the squad is down to the bare bones.
If Saghir doesn’t reach in time for the match, Jahurul Islam will keep wicket.
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Published on Thursday 15 July, 2010 at 5:52 am.
Ireland vs Bangladesh, 1st ODI Match, Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast
Ireland vs Bangladesh 1st ODI Match, Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast, On Jul 15, 2010 from 09:45 GMT | 15:15 IST Onwards
Bangladesh takes on Ireland in 1st ODI match on Thursday, July 15, 2010 at Belfast. Bangladesh have lost the ODI series against England recently and they need to overcome by winning the 2 match ODI series against Ireland.
While Ireland have won the last match against Scotland by six wickets and they will be looking forward to defeat Bangladesh in the 1st ODI also on Thursday.
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Published on Tuesday 13 July, 2010 at 4:48 am.
Pakistan vs Australia, 1st Test, Lords, London
Pakistan vs Australia 1st Test, Lords, London, On Jul 13, 2010 from 09:30 GMT | 15:00 IST Onwards
On the eve of his first test match as captain, Shahid Afridi insisted on Monday that his Pakistan side is united and that the disciplinary issues that marred its Australia tour seven months ago are a thing of the past.
Pakistan meets Australia — which has not lost a test to Pakistan for 15 years — at Lord’s on Tuesday in the first of two test matches. The matches will be played at a neutral venue, but are considered a home series for Pakistan, which is playing its home internationals on neutral territory because of ongoing concerns about the security of teams touring the country.
As a captain I am trying to keep the guys as close as I can,” Afridi said. “Normally, I will take the boys for a dinner together. The communication problem is not any more now.
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Published on Monday 12 July, 2010 at 4:51 am.
England vs Bangladesh, 3rd ODI Match, Edgbaston, Birmingham
England vs Bangladesh 3rd ODI Match, Edgbaston, Birmingham, On Jul 12, 2010 from 09:45 GMT | 15:15 IST Onwards
Andrew Strauss insisted he felt no shame at being the first England captain to lose to Bangladesh after the Tigers at last won a match in 2010. Bangladesh’s dramatic five-run success in the second one-day international at Nevil Road here on Saturday, saw them level the three-match series at 1-1 and end a run of 24 consecutive defeats across all formats stretching back to November last year.
It also meant they had defeated England for the first time, having lost all of the previous eight Tests and 20 ODIs between the two countries. “They were going to beat us at some stage and we were just hoping it would be some stage in the future,” Strauss, who had the meagre consolation of knowing England were the last major nation to succumb to Bangladesh, told a post-match news conference.
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