Published on Saturday 10 July, 2010 at 7:06 am.
England vs Bangladesh, 2nd ODI Match, County Ground, Bristol
England vs Bangladesh 2nd ODI Match, County Ground, Bristol, On Jul 10, 2010 from 09:45 GMT | 15:15 IST Onwards
Bangladesh recalled former captain Mohammad Ashraful and all-rounder Naeem Islam on Friday after batsman Roqibul Hassan and wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim were ruled out of the ongoing one-day series against England.
Roqibul, who top scored for his side with 76 in the first ODI, was injured after being struck by the ball on the left toe while Mushfiqur was hit in the face by left-arm spinner Faisal Hossain and had to be stretchered off the field.
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Published on Thursday 08 July, 2010 at 4:51 am.
England vs Bangladesh, 1st ODI Match, Trent Bridge, Nottingham
England vs Bangladesh 1st ODI Match, Trent Bridge, Nottingham, On Jul 8, 2010 from 13:30 GMT | 19:00 IST Onwards
England captain Andrew Strauss insists he has no qualms about leading a side without Kevin Pietersen. The star batsman will miss the three one-dayers against Bangladesh, starting at Trent Bridge here on Thursday, with a thigh injury – although England selection chief Geoff Miller said the South Africa-born shotmaker would have been rested in any event.
Pietersen has gone 16 ODI innings without a fifty and while his place, when fit, is not yet under threat, the loss of arguably their most talented player means England are set to give one of the Warwickshire duo of Ian Bell and Jonathan Trott a chance to fill the gap.
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Published on Tuesday 06 July, 2010 at 6:33 am.
Pakistan vs Australia, 2nd T20 Match, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Pakistan vs Australia 2nd T20 Match, Edgbaston, Birmingham, On Jul 6, 2010 from 16:00 GMT | 21:30 IST Onwards
Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi is hoping that curators in England will make pitches that suit the team’s Test series against Australia this month. Due to security fears, Pakistan is hosting the series against Australia in England and Afridi is looking for spinner-friendly tracks for the two Tests at Lord’s and Leeds later this month.
“It’s supposed to be our home series, so naturally we believe that we can get pitches that suit us,” Afridi told The News. “As the host team, you can exploit home advantage which at times can play a big role in the final outcome of the series,” he added. However, Pakistan’s initial bid to get ‘suitable’ pitches prepared the series was rejected a few days back.
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Published on Monday 05 July, 2010 at 6:18 am.
Pakistan vs Australia, 1st T20 Match, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Pakistan vs Australia 1st T20 Match, Edgbaston, Birmingham, On Jul 5, 2010 from 16:00 GMT | 21:30 IST Onwards
Mitchell Johnson believes Australia will be able to overcome the loss of fellow pace bowler Ryan Harris in their series with Pakistan.
Harris has been ruled out of the remainder of Australia’s tour with a knee injury suffered in a 42-run win in the fifth and final one-day international against England at Lord’s on Saturday.
That means the 30-year-old will miss the two Twenty20 internationals against Pakistan at Edgbaston here on Monday and Tuesday and the teams’ subsequent two Tests at Lord’s and Headingley. The matches being played in England because of concerns about the security situation in Pakistan.
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Published on Saturday 03 July, 2010 at 5:28 am.
Australia vs England, 5th ODI Match, Lords, London
Australia vs England 5th ODI Match, Lords, London, On Jul 3, 2010 from 09:45 GMT | 15:15 IST Onwards
Australia will look for more “pace and fire” from fast bowler Shaun Tait when they face England in the fifth and final one-day international at Lord’s here on Saturday.
World champions Australia may have lost the series, at 3-1 down, but they have been a transformed side since Tait, playing for county side Glamorgan, was drafted in after the second one-dayer in Cardiff following an injury to off-spinner Nathan Hauritz.
Australia came to Britain without several injured quicks in Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee, Peter Siddle and Ben Hilfenhaus. Thoughts that England had only gone 3-0 up because they were facing an under-strength and under-prepared side were strengthened when they crashed to a 78-run defeat against Australia in the fourth ODI at The Oval on Wednesday.
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Published on Wednesday 30 June, 2010 at 6:12 am.
Australia vs England, 4th ODI Match, Kennington Oval, London
Australia vs England 4th ODI Match, Kennington Oval, London, On Jun 30, 2010 from 12:00 GMT | 17:30 IST Onwards
Kennington Oval, London
England left-arm spinner Michael Yardy insists the team can play better despite going an unbeatable 3-0 up in their one-day series against Australia.
The hosts’ run has prompted talk of a clean sweep ahead of the fourth of their five-match series with the Aussies here at the Oval on Wednesday. Yardy, a member of the England team that beat Australia in last month’s World Twenty20 final in Barbados, was adamant the team’s current success was in no way diminished by Australia having come to England without injured first-choice quicks Mitchell Johnson, Peter Siddle and Ben Hilfenhaus.
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Published on Sunday 27 June, 2010 at 7:20 am.
Australia vs England, 3rd ODI Match, Old Trafford, Manchester
Australia vs England 3rd ODI Match, Old Trafford, Manchester, On Jun 27, 2010 from 09:45 GMT | 15:15 IST Onwards
Tim Bresnan has told his England teammates to maintain the standard they’ve set for themselves when they face Australia in the third of five one-day internationals on Sunday.
England are 2-0 up against the world champions and victory at Old Trafford would give them an unbeatable lead. But Bresnan, a member of the England team that beat Australia in last month’s World Twenty20 final in Barbados, told reporters here on Saturday: “We haven’t achieved anything yet. We’ve still got a lot of hard work to do.”
The Yorkshire seamer added: “There’s three games left and we’d like to wrap it up in style. There’s a lot of confidence about, the guys are playing well, dovetailing quite nicely and that’s how you win cricket matches as a team.
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Published on Saturday 26 June, 2010 at 5:25 am.
West Indies vs South Africa, 3rd Test Match, Kensington Oval, Bridgetown
West Indies vs South Africa, 3rd Test Match, Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, On Jun 26, 2010 from 14:00 GMT | 19:30 IST Onwards
Looking to save their face after the disappointing series so far against South Africa, West Indies have axed opener Travis Dowlin and replaced him with Dale Richards for the third Test match starting on Saturday at the Kensington Oval.
Fast bowler Ravi Rampaul was also not included in the squad of thirteen because of an injury.
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Published on Thursday 24 June, 2010 at 5:39 am.
Australia vs England, 2nd ODI Match, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
Australia vs England, 2nd ODI Match, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, On Jun 24, 2010 from 13:30 GMT | 19:00 IST Onwards
England captain Andrew Strauss refused to get carried away after seeing his side take a 1-0 lead in their one-day international series against old rivals Australia. It seemed world champions Australia were about to inflict fresh one-day misery on England as the hosts, chasing 268 for victory under the Rose Bowl floodlights here on Tuesday, slumped to 97 for four.
But a superb 103 not out from left-hander Eoin Morgan, a Middlesex colleague of Strauss, turned the tide and saw England to a four-wicket win in the opening fixture of a five-match series. Last year Australia, after losing the Ashes, thrashed England 6-1 on English soil in a one-day series and followed that up with a nine-wicket semi-final win en route to lifting the Champions Trophy in South Africa.
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Published on Thursday 24 June, 2010 at 4:15 am.
India vs Sri Lanka, Final ODI Match, Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla
India vs Sri Lanka, Final ODI Match, Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla, On Jun 24, 2010 from 09:00 GMT | 14:30 IST Onwards
As the countdown to the World Cup looms ever closer, India face more than a moment of truth at Rangiri Stadium on Thursday. Attempting to wrest the Asia Cup from the sweaty hands of holders Sri Lanka in the final is a lot tougher than merely turning up to the venue in the heart of the emerald isle’s cultural triangle.
Flaws in the batting techniques have been woefully exposed yet again as the trio of hope battle with certain doubt about how they handled the bowling in the dress-rehearsal on Tuesday. This was a game notable for the first hattrick of the Asia Cup by a Sri Lanka bowler, Farveez Maharoof, who ended with an impressive five wickets haul.
It was a spell that destroyed India’s batting and they will need to lift their mental approach for the final. Their implosion, engineered by the impressive bowling of Maharoof, saw the side slump from 189 for five to 210, with only Rohit Sharma passing the half-century mark as Sri Lanka’s fielding and bowling disciplines were far sharper to those of India.
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