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Monday, July 2, 2012

C r i c H o t L i n e

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Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Day 3 Highlights 2nd Test Colombo 2012

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 05:46 AM PDT


Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Day 3 Highlights 2nd Test 2012. Pakistan vs Sri Lanka 2nd Test Cricket Highlights. Watch Pak vs SL Day 3 Highlights 2nd Test Colombo 2012. Sri Lanka vs Pakistan Cricket Highlights 2nd Test played at Colombo on 02 July 2012.

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West Indies announce ODI squad for New Zealand series

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 03:15 AM PDT


West Indies selectors have largely kept faith with the players that won 2-0 in a Twenty20 series against New Zealand in Florida at the weekend for the first two one-day internationals against the same opponent.

The only players in the 13-man Twenty20 squad to miss out are legspinner Samuel Badree and paceman Fidel Edwards. Another Barbadian fast bowler Tino Best has been included, along with allrounder Andre Russell. The series starts on Thursday in Jamaica.

West Indies beat New Zealand by 61 runs on Sunday and by 56 runs on Saturday to sweep the Twenty20 series.

Squad: Darren Sammy (capt), Tino Best, Dwayne Bravo, Johnson Charles, Chris Gayle, Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Andre Russell, Marlon Samuels, Lendl Simmons, Dwayne Smith.

Ross Taylor likely to miss West Indies due to shoulder injury

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:46 AM PDT


New Zealand may suffer a serious blow as captain Ross Taylor is likely to miss the tour of the West Indies after hurting his shoulder in the first Twenty20 International at Lauderhill last weekend.

Taylor missed the second match of the series as the Caribbean side completed a 2-0 win on Sunday at the same venue.

The 28-year-old has suffered a grade two AC displacement in his left shoulder, and has revealed that he might have to return home.

“Depending on the severity of the injury, [I'll miss] anywhere between two and six weeks but hopefully I’ll be going for the closer time. I haven’t given myself a timeframe, hopefully no longer than the Test matches.

“We’ll have a better assessment in the next week or so, then I’ll have a better idea of where I’m at. If I’m looking positive then I’ll stay on, if not then I’ll obviously come home.”

The Kiwi selectors feel their side have ample batting resources, and have selected Northern Districts' pacer Trent Boult for the Caribbean tour, nzherald reported.

The New Zealand captain has had a poor past in terms of injuries as he was out of action for four weeks in January after straining his calf during a Test match against Zimbabwe, after which he suffered a broken arm in the third Test against South Africa in March, which also ruled him out from the Indian Premier League.

“It’s been a frustrating six months for me, to be honest,” he said. “I haven’t spent a lot of time on the paddock and missed a lot more cricket than I would have liked.”

PCB in favour of DRS for series against Australia

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:45 AM PDT


The PCB will continue to support the implementation of the Decision Review System (DRS) and is trying to have it employed for their one-day series against Australia in August.

A senior PCB official said that although the ICC executive board decided against having mandatory use of the DRS but Pakistan continued to support the system.

ICC has left it to Boards to decide if they want to use DRS in a bilateral series.

“We are trying to obtain sponsorship to use the DRS against Australia in the one-dayers as we feel it is a system that has helped the game and umpires,” PCB chief operating officer Subhan Ahmed said.

Pakistan suffered during the first Test against Sri Lanka at Galle due to some contentious decisions by umpires Steve Davis and Ian Gould as the Sri Lankan board has deciding against having the DRS in the ongoing home series.

“We had the DRS for our home series against Sri Lanka that was played last year in UAE because we obtained sponsorship but we can understand there are high costs involved in using this technology,” Ahmed said.

The BCCI has been the biggest opponent of making the DRS use mandatory in international cricket and managed to put off a ICC move to make it mandatory at the board meetings held in Kuala Lumpur late last month.

Ahmed, who attended the ICC chief executives meeting in Kuala Lumpur which recommended mandatory use of the DRS, said Pakistani players had positive views about having the DRS in one-dayers and Tests.

“As far as India is concerned they have their views on the DRS,” he added.

Commenting on the ICC decision to encourage day-night Test matches, Ahmed said Pakistan was the only country to have officially twice staged the final of its premier domestic first class competition (Quaid-e-Azam trophy) as day-night encounters for last two years.

“We had day-night finals and the experiment was pretty successful. But at the international we do feel that day and night Test matches should first be experimented with in series between weaker nations before they can be tried in bigger matches,” he said.

Ahmed said so far Cricket South Africa which will host Pakistan for a test series early next year had not spoken about any possibility of experimenting with a day and night test in that series..

“We think it would be too early,” he added.

© PTI

Australia to play ODI against Afghanistan ahead of Pakistan series

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:20 AM PDT


Top-ranked Australia will play emerging cricket nation Afghanistan for the first time in a one-day international in the Middle East next month, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Monday.

The game will serve as a warm-up for Australia’s series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates, which immediately precedes the ICC World Twenty20 tournament in Sri Lanka in September-October.

CA chief executive James Sutherland said Australia had been looking for a chance to play Afghanistan and saw the opportunity once details of the the Pakistan ODI and Twenty20 series in the UAE had become clear over the weekend.

While no venue has been yet finalised for the Afghanistan ODI, CA said the game was being scheduled to allow the Australian team time to acclimatise before taking on Pakistan in three ODIs and three T20s in August.

“Everyone in world cricket have been really impressed with how cricket has flourished in Afghanistan, despite its pressing national problems,” Sutherland said in a statement.

“As an ICC member, CA strongly supports world cricket’s ambition for cricket to continue to develop as a global sport and that, combined with the strong relationships between our two countries, encouraged us to look at how we might recognise and encourage Afghanistan by playing them on the field.”

Sutherland said Australia were also looking forward to hosting Afghanistan in the ICC Under-19 World Cup in Australia in August.

He said the details of the Afghanistan fixture had been finalised in discussions at last week’s annual meeting of the International Cricket Council in Malaysia.

Afghanistan became an ICC affiliate member in 2001 and a national team was formed in the same year, when US-led forces invaded the country to oust the Islamist Taliban regime.

Afghanistan failed to qualify for the 2011 World Cup, but have ODI status until 2013 and have also qualified for this year’s ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka.

© AFP

West Indies vs New Zealand 2nd T20 Post Match Presentation Lauderhill 2012

Posted: 01 Jul 2012 03:16 PM PDT


Chris Gayle: I am very happy. It’s a good start to the tour. I don’t know what’s happening. New Zealand bowled well. I adapted to the situation. Charles played well and Bravo did well to give us a good total.

Chris Gayle is the Man of the Series.

Sunil Narine: It’s better to be home. England was a bit tough. The pitch is conducive, but you still need to bowl in the right areas. Hopefully I will adapt to the longer version with some more experience.

Sunil Narine is the Man of the Match for his spell of 4/12.

Darren Sammy: The series victory feels good. It’s a good start for us. We have good depth in our batting. We bowled better today. We all know what Chris is capable of. Today Bravo played a blinder at the end. It was a professional display. Narine is back to his self, in England even Swann struggled. In home conditions Narine will be lethal.

Williamson: We are disappointed. We have not made an improvement. We improved in the bowling department. It was a real shame that we could not pitch in with the bat. Yesterday was a bowling issue, today it was the batting.
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