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- Statistical Highlights Day 4 India vs England 1st Test Ahmedabad 2012
- Sri Lanka-New Zealand 1st Test evenly poised after Day 2
- Alastair Cook, Matt Prior leads England fightback on Day 4 of 1st Test
- Sri Lanka vs New Zealand Day 2 Highlights 1st Test Galle 18 Nov 2012
- India vs England Day 4 Highlights 1st Test Ahmedabad 18 Nov 2012
| Statistical Highlights Day 4 India vs England 1st Test Ahmedabad 2012 Posted: 18 Nov 2012 11:23 AM PST
# Matt Prior’s excellent 84 not out off 190 balls is the second highest by an England wicketkeeper in a Test innings in India. Dick Spooner had posted 92 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata in 1951-52 # Prior has posted his highest score in Tests in India. His 23rd fifty in Tests is his fourth against India. # Thanks to his unbeaten innings, Prior is averaging 73.33 in Tests in India – his aggregate being 220 in five innings (twice not out) # Prior’s run-aggregate of 132 (48 + 84 not out) is his highest in a Test match on Indian soil.
# Compton and Cook put on 123 – England’s second highest for the opening wicket against India at Sardar Patel Stadium – the highest is 124 between Butcher and Trescothick in December 2001. # Alastair Cook’s brilliant unbeaten 168 is the highest individual innings by a visiting England skipper and the fourth highest by a visiting captain in India. West Indian, Clive Lloyd, with an unbeaten 242 in the 1974-75 Mumbai Test, is the only one with a double hundred as captain in a Test match in India. # Cook (41 + 168 not out) became the first England captain to register 200 runs or more in a Test match against India in India. # Cook’s unbeaten 168 is his 21st Test hundred – his third against India and his eleventh away from home. The said innings is his highest against India in India in Tests apart from the seventh highest for England in India in Tests. Mike Gatting (207) and Graeme Fowler (201) had scored double hundreds in India, both registering the feats in the same innings in the 1984-85 Chennai Test. No other England batsman has recorded double hundred in a Test innings in India. # Cook’s brilliant feat of 21 hundreds is the joint second for England. Wally Hammond, Geoff Boycott and Colin Cowdrey have recorded 22 hundreds each. # During the course of his above century, Cook became the ninth English batsman to manage 1,000 runs against India in Tests, totalling 1084 at an average of 54.20 in 12 Tests. # Cook has registered his third consecutive century as England captain – his scores being 173 & 39 at Chittagong, 21 & 109 not out at Mirpur – against Bangladesh in March 2010 and 41 & 168 not out against India at Ahmedabad in the current Test. # Cook is the fifth England skipper to record a hundred in a Test in India, joining Ted Dexter, Tony Lewis, Tony Greig and Kevin Pietersen.  |
| Sri Lanka-New Zealand 1st Test evenly poised after Day 2 Posted: 18 Nov 2012 09:52 AM PST
Sri Lanka were in deep trouble at 50-5 following fast bowler Tim Southee’s three-wicket burst in the morning before posting 247 in their first innings in reply to New Zealand’s 221. The tourists reached 35-1 in their second innings at stumps after losing hard-hitting opener Brendon McCullum, caught by Nuwan Kulasekara off left-arm spinner Rangana Herath who was pressed into the attack after three overs. The match is evenly poised at this stage, with New Zealand nine runs ahead with as many wickets in hand.
Skipper Jayawardene and vice-captain Angelo Mathews (79) earlier propped up the innings with a 156-run stand for the sixth wicket. The hosts looked like gaining a big lead when they reached 206-5 but lost their last five wickets, including those of well-set Jayawardene and Mathews, for 41 runs. The tourists, who went wicketless in the afternoon, came back strongly to take five wickets in the last session, with off-spinner Jeetan Patel striking three times to finish with 3-55. Jayawardene looked set to complete his 32nd Test century when he was caught behind while trying to sweep Patel. He hit one six and 11 fours in his 176-ball knock. Mathews fell soon after the tea-break, caught by wicket-keeper Kruger van Wyk off seamer James Franklin after hitting one six and 12 fours in his 154-ball knock. Jayawardene and Mathews defied the tourists’ attack for more than a session with their sensible batting, confidently gathering runs against both pace and spin. Mathews was more aggressive in the second session, smashing a six over deep mid-wicket off Patel and then flicking paceman Doug Bracewell for a four to complete his ninth Test half-century. The New Zealand fast bowlers exploited the morning conditions well as they took four wickets in the opening hour to put the hosts under pressure, with Southee grabbing three and Trent Boult one. Southee dismissed Tharanga Paranavitana and nightwatchman Suraj Randiv in his opening two overs before accounting for Thilan Samaraweera, while Boult got a big wicket when he had Kumar Sangakkara (five) caught by McCullum at third slip. Southee, who took one wicket on Saturday, struck with his fourth delivery in the morning when he bowled Paranavitana for no score. He got the third wicket in his next over, having Randiv caught by Martin Guptill at second slip. He then trapped Samaraweera (17) leg-before, the batsman offering no stroke to a delivery that came in.  |
| Alastair Cook, Matt Prior leads England fightback on Day 4 of 1st Test Posted: 18 Nov 2012 05:06 AM PST
The 27-year-old Cook displayed immense concentration and skill to not only notch up his 21st Test century under pressure but also keep his team in the game as he steered England to 340 for five at close on the penultimate day which saw the Sardar Patel track ease out quite a bit. The England captain found an able ally in Matt Prior (84) as the duo put on an unfinished 141-run partnership to leave the Indians frustrated. The spinners, who were expected to do the bulk of the damage, found it difficult to get the wickets.
England, who conceded a mammoth 330-run first innings lead and were asked to follow-on, have now taken a lead of 10 runs, setting the stage for an interesting fifth day`s play tomorrow with all three results possible. India will look to claim the remaining five wickets as quickly as possible tomorrow and push for a 1-0 lead in the four-match series. England, on the other hand, will try to bat as much as possible and may even put pressure on India by taking a substantial lead on a tricky fifth day track. Resuming at the overnight score of 111 for no loss, England lost the wickets of Nick Compton (37), Jonathan Trott (17), Kevin Pietersen (2), Ian Bell (22) and Samit Patel (0) but it was Cook who stood like a rock to hold the English innings together showing superb endurance. Cook batted the whole day with exemplary patience, determination and composure to remain unconquered. Cook, who has faced 341 balls and struck 20 fours, was given splendid support by Prior, who was not out on 84 that came off 190 balls and contained 10 fours. The duo batted resolutely even as Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni constantly shuffled his bowling attack that lacked the bite of the first innings. India can still come back strongly with a few quick blows tomorrow morning and press for victory on a track which is offering slow turn. But the day belonged entirely to Cook after a couple of quick blows by left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha and wickets off successive balls by pacer Umesh Yadav on either side of lunch. Prior, on the other hand, played the ideal foil to his captain. It was the sixth 150-plus score by Cook who had scored a century on debut in Nagpur in 2006. His other three-figure effort against India (294) was made at Edgbaston in the last series between the two teams in 2011. Cook also became the eighth English batsman to score more than one hundred on Indian soil, by joining the ranks of Ken Barrington (3), Andrew Strauss (3), Colin Cowdrey (2), Tony Greig (2), Mike Gatting (2), Ian Botham (2) and Paul Collingwood (2). The Indian bowlers toiled hard throughout the day against the resolute England skipper and, after lunch, against his more aggressive partner Prior without success. Cook`s composure and patience was creditable right through and he hardly played a false shot. While Ojha was easily the more impressive of the two Indian spinners, getting some bite with his flighted deliveries, Ashwin bowled mostly flat through the air but was also guilty of not maintaining a tight line outside the off. Ojha ended the day with figures of 2 for 102 in 44 overs to add to his 5-45 of the first innings while Ashwin, who got three in the first innings, went wicket-less in his 41 overs in which he gave away 104 runs. Yadav, another successful bowler of the day, had 2 for 60 in 19 overs. Zaheer Khan bowled economically, giving away 38 runs in 18 overs for the wicket of opener Nick Compton in the first session. Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni brought on Yuvraj Singh to bowl his first over in the England second innings after 10l overs without success in breaking the sixth wicket partnership. In the second session, Yadav struck two body blows by making the ball reverse swing to trap Ian Bell (22) and Samit Patel (0) leg before wicket off the fifth and sixth balls of his first over of a new spell to leave the tourists gasping at 199 for 5 in the first hour. Ojha had done similar damage in the first session by dismissing Jonathan Trott (17) and Kevin Pietersen (2) within a space of seven balls spread over two overs to push England on the back foot after Cook and Nick Compton (37) had put on a stand of 123 runs. These four batsmen’s dismissal by Ojha and Yadav on either side of lunch, in the space of 20 overs and for the addition of only 45 runs, pushed England firmly on the back foot. But Cook stood tall with his reach, excellent technique and calm demeanour against the spinning ball as he cracked his third century against India and the 21st in his 84th game. Cook, who made 41 in the first essay, and Prior prevented further damage till close to renew the battle on Monday. Prior edged Ojha once but the catch fell short of a diving Virender Sehwag at slip while Cook’s edge also fell short once off Ashwin. But otherwise they batted without much trouble. Dhoni took the second new ball in the 83rd over when England were 219 for 5 just before the end of the first hour in which the visitors added 42 runs in 14 over for the loss Bell and Patel. Earlier, in the first session, some tight bowling by Zaheer Khan and Ojha kept them down to 71 runs from 31 overs for the loss of Compton, Trott (17) and Pietersen (2), the opener falling to Zaheer and the last two to Ojha. Senior pacer Zaheer Khan gave the initial breakthrough after 28 minutes into the fourth morning by dismissing debutant opener Nick Compton, who had a charmed life, for 37. Compton was lucky not to be declared out when he was rapped in front by Ashwin and then survived a clear stumping chance off the same bowler before he fell to Zaheer. Cook and Bell, who was out first ball to Ojha in the first innings when he charged out to the bowler, prevented further damage after the fall of Trott and Pietersen in quick succession. Compton, 34 last evening, was lucky to escape a leg before appeal off Ashwin, umpire Aleem Dar turning down the vociferous shout from the Indians. The right handed debutant was again fortunate when on 36, wicketkeeper Dhoni missed an easy stumping chance off Ashwin who drew him well out of the crease. However, his luck did not hold out for long as after the addition of one more run he was trapped leg before by Zaheer when he played across.  |
| Sri Lanka vs New Zealand Day 2 Highlights 1st Test Galle 18 Nov 2012 Posted: 18 Nov 2012 01:43 AM PST
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| India vs England Day 4 Highlights 1st Test Ahmedabad 18 Nov 2012 Posted: 18 Nov 2012 01:42 AM PST
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