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India vs Australia Day 4 LIVE Streaming 2nd Test Sydney 2012

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 10:17 AM PST


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Match Timings: Jan 06, 2012 (23:30 GMT | 10:30 local | 05:00 IST)


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Sri Lanka vs South Africa Day 3 Highlights 3rd Test Cape Town 2012

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 09:38 AM PST


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Sri Lanka on the verge of series defeat against South Africa: 3rd Test

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 09:24 AM PST


Sri Lanka were in danger of an innings defeat after losing 12 wickets on the third day of the third and final Test against South Africa at Newlands on Thursday.

Sri Lanka were 138 for four in their follow on innings at the close, still 203 runs short of making South Africa bat again.

South Africa's fast bowlers, backed by the leg spin of Imran Tahir, put Sri Lanka's batsmen under inexorable pressure after the first two days of the decisive Test were dominated by batsmen.

Only six wickets fell while 729 runs were scored in the first two days but it was a complete contrast on Thursday as 12 wickets fell for 228 runs despite conditions remaining largely favourable for batting.

Sri Lanka were bowled out for 239 in their first innings, with fast bowlers Dale Steyn and Vernon Philander taking three wickets apiece.

Philander struck again in the fourth over of the follow on when Tillekeratne Dilshan drove loosely at a ball which moved away, edging a catch to wicketkeeper Mark Boucher.

Lahiru Thirimanne and Kumar Sangakkara showed some fight in a second wicket stand of 67, although Thirimanne should have followed his fellow opener to the pavilion when he was on 10. He edged Morne Morkel and Boucher put down a straightforward chance.

Thirimanne made 30 before he was caught at short leg off Jacques Kallis after umpire Richard Kettleborough initially gave him not out.

South Africa asked for a review and the 'hot spot' revealed a faint edge from his bat before the ball looped from his thigh pad to Hashim Amla.

Tahir gave Sangakkara a difficult time, bowling into rough outside the left-hander's off stump, before having the batsman caught at slip for

34 when he went back to a ball which bounced sharply.

Morkel claimed the key wicket of Mahela Jayawardene with the assistance of a diving catch at second slip by Kallis.

Thilan Samaraweera and Angelo Mathews added an unbeaten 40 for the fifth wicket before the close.

Sri Lanka collapsed in their first innings, losing eight wickets for 90 runs after resuming on 149 for two.

Steyn took three for 56 and Philander three for 46. Both bowled superbly on Thursday, with Steyn's figures for the day an impressive three for 16 off eight overs, while Philander was even better, his three wickets costing 12 runs off nine overs.

Steyn struck with the third ball of the day when Sangakkara sliced a drive to point without adding to his overnight score of 35.

Jayawardene and Samaraweera stayed together for more than an hour before Philander accounted for Samaraweera, who was caught at second slip for 11.

Steyn came back for a second spell and had Jayawardene caught at second slip for 30 with his third ball and Mathews caught behind for a single in his next over.

Dinesh Chandimal, who made two half-centuries on debut in the second Test in Durban, hit 35 off 45 balls but the tail crumbled before he was last man out.

© AFP

Statistical Highlights Day 3 of India vs Australia 2nd Test Sydney 2012

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:33 AM PST


Statistical highlights of the third day’s play in the second Test between India and Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground on Thursday.

# Michael Clarke has become the seventh captain to hit a triple century in Tests. He has joined Bobby Simpson, Younis Khan, Graham Gooch, Brian Lara, Mahela Jayawardene and Mark Taylor.

# Clarke’s career-best (329 not out) is the 25th triple century in Tests. The last batsman to accomplish the feat was Chris Gayle (333 against Sri Lanka at Galle in November 2010).

# Four batsmen have achieved the distinction twice in Tests – Don Bradman, Brian Lara, Virender Sehwag and Chris Gayle.

# Clarke’s marvellous unbeaten knock is the fifth highest by a captain in Tests behind the 400 not out by Brian Lara for West Indies against England at St.John’s in 2003-04, 374 by Mahela Jayawardene for Sri Lanka against South Africa at Colombo, SSC in 2006, 334 not out by Mark Taylor for Australia against Pakistan at Peshawar in 1998-99 and 333 by Graham Gooch for England against India at Lord’s in 1990.

# Australia (659 for four wickets declared) have emulated their highest total at SCG. In the 1946-47 Test, they had recorded 659 for eight wickets declared against England.

# Overall, eight totals of 600 or more have been registered at SCG. Australia have now recorded three such totals (one each against India, England and West Indies) while India and England have posted two each and one by the West Indies.

# Australia’s aforesaid total is their second highest against India, next only to the 674 at Adelaide in 1947-48.

The said total is the seventh highest in an overseas Test against India – the all-time highest is 952 for six wickets declared by Sri Lanka at Colombo RPS in August 1997.

# Michael Clarke holds a record for registering the highest individual innings at SCG, surpassing the 287 by England’s Tip Foster against Australia in December 1903.

# Clarke became the third Australian skipper to register a triple hundred in Tests, joining Mark Taylor (334 not out against Pakistan at Peshawar in 1998-99) and Bobby Simpson (311 against England at Manchester in July 1964).

# Clarke’s excellent innings is the highest in India-Australia Tests, eclipsing the 281 by VVS Laxman at Eden Gardens, Kolkata in March 2001. Ricky Ponting’s 257 at MCG in December 2003 was the previous highest by an Australian player against India.

# For the fifth time, three Australian batsmen have recorded centuries in the same innings against India – twice at Adelaide in 1947-48 and 2007-08 and once each at Melbourne, Sydney and Chennai.

# Three hundreds in an innings have been registered by Australia for the second time in a Test match at SCG – the first occasion being against South Africa at Sydney in 2001-02.

# Clarke became the sixth Australian player to post a triple hundred, joining Don Bradman (twice), Matthew Hayden, Mark Taylor, Bobby Simpson, Bob Cowper. He became the third player to register triple hundred against India – the first two are 333 by Graham Gooch for England at Lord’s in 1990 and 340 by Sanath Jayasuriya for Sri Lanka at Colombo RPS in 1997.

# Clarke, in the course of his first triple hundred in first-class cricket, had set a record for the highest individual innings by an Australian captain in Tests in Australia. Don Bradman had recorded 270 against England at MCG in January 1937.

# Michael Hussey (150 not out) has posted his highest innings against India – his 16th century – his third and the highest against India. The said knock is his third highest in Tests – the two highest innings are 195 against England at Brisbane in 2010-11 and 182 against Bangladesh at Chittagong in 2006.

# Hussey has recorded three hundreds at Sydney – two against India (150 not out in January 2012 and 145 not out in January 2008) and 134 not out against Pakistan in January 2010. .

# Hussey has recorded eleven centuries in Tests in Australia.

# Hussey’s record in Tests in Australia is excellent, aggregating 3213 (ave.61.78) in 37 Tests.

# The 334-run unbroken partnership between Hussey and Clarke is the highest for any wicket for Australia against India, bettering the 288 between Michael Clarke and Ricky Ponting for the fourth wicket in the present Test.

# The aforesaid partnership is the highest by any pair for the fifth wicket against India in Tests, surpassing the 293 between Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Carl Hooper for the West Indies at Georgetown in 2001-02.

# Two stands of 250-plus in the same innings have been registered for the first time – 288 for the fourth and 334 (unbroken) for the fifth.

# Australia have recorded 200-plus stands for the successive wickets in the same innings for the first time.

# Gambhir has posted his 19th Test fifty – his second against Australia.

# Gambhir’s 68 not out is his first fifty in Tests in Australia.

# Umesh Yadav has recorded his worst bowling figures in a Test match — 24-2-123-0.

# In his last eight Test innings, Dravid has been clean bowled six times, including three times in the present series.

# India took a first innings lead of 468 – the fourth highest by India, next only to the 490 to West Indies in Kolkata in 1958-59, 486 to England at Birmingham in 2011 and 484 to South Africa at Centurion Park in 2010-11.

# Hilfenhaus has bagged 12 wickets at an average of 16.83 – the most by a bowler in the present rubber.

# Ravichandran Ashwin (44-0-157-0) conceded 157 runs without taking a single wicket off 44 overs – his worst ever figures. He became the first bowler to concede 150 runs in an innings without capturing a wicket in India-Australia Tests.

© PTI

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India vs Australia Day 3 Highlights 2nd Test Sydney 2012

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 04:25 AM PST


India vs Australia Day 3 Cricket Highlights 2nd Test Sydney (SCG) watch online 2012. Watch Cricket Highlights of India vs Australia 2nd Test Online on 05 January, 2012. Watch Border-Gavaskar Highlights from the 2nd Test of India vs Australia Day 3 online for free. Australia vs India 2nd Test Highlights 2012. India tour of Australia 2011-12 is covered on Star Cricket. Cricket highlights of 2nd Test India vs Australia Day 3 will be posted below.

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Virat Kohli fined for finger gesture: Sydney test

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:14 AM PST


India’s middle-order batsman Virat Kohli was fined 50 per cent of the match fee for showing his middle finger to the crowd on the second day of the second Test at the SCG.

“Mr Kohli, along with the manager of the team, Mr Shivlal Yadav, were summoned by match referee Ranjan Madugalle this morning. The player pleaded guilty and accepted his mistake. The matter is now closed,” said media manager GS Walia on Thursday.

Kohli was pictured showing his middle finger to the crowd on the second day when Indians were on the ropes and Australians were piling runs by hundreds in the middle.

The level two offence for breaching the ICC’s code of conduct relates to “using language or gesture(s) that is seriously obscene, seriously offensive and of a seriously insulting nature to another player, player support personnel, umpire, match referee or any other third person during an international match.

The minimum punishment for such an offence is 50 per cent of the match fee or a maximum penalty of a one-Test suspension.

Kohli had earlier used twitter to present his personal viewpoint on the matter.

“I agree cricketers don’t have to retaliate, what when the crowd says the worst things about your mother and sister, the worst I’ve heard,” tweeted Kohli.

Former England skipper and one-time team-mate of Kohli in the IPL side Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kevin Pietersen offered a word of sympathy to the young batsman on twitter.

“Welcome to Australia buddy … you beat them and they start abusing their own.”

It seems a Sydney Test between the two nations can’t pass without a controversy.

During India’s last tour of Australia in 2007-08, a massive row erupted on the “monkeygate” issue and nearly led to the abandonment of the tour and a diplomatic row between the two nations.

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Heartbroken Afridi decides never to be captain again

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:04 AM PST


“Heartbroken” after his controversy-marred stint as skipper last year, flamboyant Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi has vowed never to accept the national cricket team’s captaincy again.

“I don’t want to be sacrificed time and again over the captaincy issue and this time I have decided to just continue playing as a member of the team and enjoy my cricket,” Afridi told Geo News from Australia.

Afridi said whatever he could do for the team as captain he had done during his tenure.

“After the way I was treated last year I was heartbroken and I have decided never to be the captain again and to just carry on as an ordinary member of the team and do whatever I can for the team as senior player,” he said.

Afridi is presently playing in the Australian Big Bash Twenty20 league.

“I am happy with my present status and I want to continue with it in the future as well. No captaincy for me.”

Afridi was sacked as captain last year in May after the manager Intikhab Alam reported to the Board that Afridi had twice walked out of team meetings due to differences with the then coach Waqar Younis during the one-day series against the West Indies.

Later, PCB Chairman Ijaz Butt also held Afridi responsible for the defeats in the last two ODIs.

Although the board selected Afridi for the one-day series in Ireland, he announced his retirement in protest over the treatment meted out to him by the board.

The all-rounder also filed a case in the Sindh High Court against the Board but agreed to appear before the disciplinary committee and pay a fine of Rs 4.5 million for breaching the code of conduct.

It was only after Butt’s tenure ended and Zaka Ashraf took over as new Chairman that Afridi met him and announced he was taking back his retirement decision paving the way for his comeback to the national team during the series against Sri Lanka in the UAE late last year.

Afridi said the atmosphere of the dressing room has improved with a new management.

“While playing in the UAE I did my best to ensure the environment remained good and even when I was captain I used to make every effort to ensure that the dressing room atmosphere remained good.”

© PTI

Clarke, Hussey put Australia in command against India in Sydney Test

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 11:37 PM PST


Riding on a gritty half-century by Gautam Gambhir, India reached 114 for two at stumps on day three of the second Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Thursday. The visitors still trail Australia by 354 runs.

Gambhir was unbeaten on 68, While Sachin Tendulkar was not out on 8 at end of days play.

The opener stitched a crucial 82 run partnership with Rahul Dravid after India lost Virender Sehwag early.

Sehwag once again fell cheaply when he was caught by David Warner off Ben Hifenhaus for four.

Hilfenhaus, latter on provide Australia with a crucial breakthrough when he breached the defence of Dravid to disturb his woodwork.

Earlier, Australia took a massive 468 runs first innings lead after they declared their innings on 659.

Australia, resuming at overnight 482 for four, declared their first innings at 659/4 with skipper Michael Clarke unbeaten on 329; Mike Hussey became the third centurion of the innings with 150 not out. Clarke and Hussey stitched a 334-run stand as Australia declared their innings an hour after lunch.

Clarke became the first cricketer to score a triple century at the SCG, which is hosting its 100th Test match. Clarke was five runs shy of Mark Taylor and Don Bradman’s 334.

Clarke got his maiden triple century just after lunch with a trademark flick off his pads off Indian pacer Ishant Sharma. Clarke dropped his bat after scoring the run and punched the air in delight earning a standing ovation from the SCG crowd that also included Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

Australia resumed the day at 482 for four and none of the two batsmen were in hurry. Both Clarke and Hussey took their own time to find their way as Australia reached 583 at lunch.

Clarke surpassed Englishman Reg Foster’s 287 at the SCG in 1903-04, with a drive forward of point for four.

Hussey also joined the party and brought up his 16th Test century just before lunch off part-time off-spinner Virender Sehwag.

Clarke has now passed V.V.S. Laxman (281) to become the highest run scorer in Tests between Australia and India.

© PTI

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Ryan Harris likely to play against India in Perth Test

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 11:18 PM PST


Buoyed by the resounding success of their pacers, Australia are expected to play four fast bowlers in the third Test against India at Perth by drafting in Ryan Harris into the playing XI.

An indication to this was noted when Australia flew Harris to Sydney to join his teammates rather than letting him play for Brisbane Heat in Friday’s Big Bash match at the Gabba.

Harris, who is recuperating from chronic knee and hip injuries, has 35 wickets at 21.37 from eight Tests.

Australia is keen to play him on the bouncy WACA Ground pitch where he took nine wickets against England last year, including 6-47 in the second innings, a report in the ‘Herald Sun’ said.

The trio of James Pattinson, Peter Siddle and Ben Hilfenhaus have dominated the famed Indian batting in the two Tests so far.

Harris, whose last Test was in November against South Africa, has taken two wickets in three Big Bash matches for Heat since returning from injury in December, with a best haul of 1-31 against Melbourne Stars at the Gabba. Perth Test starts from January 13.

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Live Scores – Day 3 India Vs Australia 2nd Test Sydney 2012

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 04:18 PM PST


Watch Live Scores of India Vs Australia Day 3 of 2nd Test played at Sydney (SCG) on 5th Jan 2012.
Australia 1st Innings

  • Australia: 500 runs in 123.6 overs (747 balls), Extras 18
  • Drinks: Australia – 519/4 in 132.0 overs (M Clarke 264, M Hussey 77)
  • 5th Wicket: 200 runs in 307 balls (M Clarke 112, M Hussey 84, Ex 7)


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South Africa vs Sri Lanka Day 3 LIVE Streaming 3rd Test 2012

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:42 PM PST


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