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India vs England Day 2 Statistical Highlights 4th Test Nagpur 2012 #IndvsEng
England bowling reverse swing better than India: Wasim Akram #IndvsEng
Saeed Ajmal trump card against India: Dav Whatmore #IndvsPak
India batting woes continues, England dominate on Day 2 of 4th Test #IndvsEng
India vs England Day 2 Highlights 4th Test Nagpur 14 Dec 2012 #IndvsEng
Philip Hughes, Michael Clarke guides Australia to 299/4 on Day 1 of 1st Test #AusvsSL
Australia vs Sri Lanka 1st Test Scorecard Hobart 2012 #SLvsAus
Australia vs Sri Lanka Day 1 Highlights 1st Test Hobart 14 Dec 2012 #SLvsAus
Australia wins toss, opts to bat in 1st Test against Sri Lanka – Hobart 2012 #SLvsAus

India vs England Day 2 Statistical Highlights 4th Test Nagpur 2012 #IndvsEng

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 09:45 AM PST

Statistical highlights of the second day’s play of the fourth and final cricket Test between India and England on Friday.

# James Anderson’s tally of 47 wickets at an average of 28.91 in 14 Tests is the third highest this year, behind Graeme Swann’s 57 at 29.80 runs apiece in 14 Tests and Rangana Herath’s 55 at 21.80 runs apiece in nine Tests.

# Anderson has bagged Sachin Tendulkar’s wicket on nine occasions in Tests – the most occasions a bowler has taken his wicket. Anderson’s tally of nine Test dismissals is the highest he has claimed a player’s wicket.

# Gautam Gambhir is the 12th Indian player to complete 4,000 runs in Tests, totalling 4021 at an average of 44.18 in 54 Tests.

# Gambhir’s average of 41.83 in the present series is his highest in five Test series. He had recorded 17.00 against England in 2011; 39.00 against the West Indies in 2011-12; 22.62 against Australia in 2011-12 and 19.33 against New Zealand in 2012.

# Graeme Swann (56 off 91 balls) has posted his fifth fifty in Test cricket – his first against India. The said knock is the highest innings by number nine batsman for England against India on Indian soil, eclipsing John Lever’s 53 in the 1976-77 Delhi Test.

# Swann’s only other Test fifty away from home is 85 against South Africa at Centurion in December 2009.

# Joe Root’s superb innings of 73 is the sixth highest by an England batsman on his Test debut against India. He had faced 229 balls – the sixth highest by an England player in his debut innings in Tests.

# Piyush Chawla (4/69) has produced his best bowling figures in Tests.

# Pragyan Ojha finished wicketless. For the first time, he has failed to take a wicket despite delivering 35 overs in an innings.

* # Allan Border and Tendulkar have been dismissed as ‘bowled’ 53 times in Tests – the second highest in Tests, behind Rahul Dravid’s 55.

# Matt Prior (57 off 142 balls) has registered his fifth fifty against India – his 24th in Tests.

# Sachin Tendulkar has produced his worst performance in a four-Test series, averaging 18.66 while aggregating 112 runs in six innings.

# Prior and Root have recorded a partnership of 103 – England’s sixth century stand for the sixth wicket against India.

# Ishant Sharma (3/49) has recorded his best bowling figures in five Tests this year and has claimed three wickets in an innings for the first time in eleven games.

# Virender Sehwag has registered his 16th duck in Tests – the most by a recognised batsman for India.

England bowling reverse swing better than India: Wasim Akram #IndvsEng

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 09:15 AM PST

One of the finest exponents of reverse swing, former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram feels the Indian bowlers have not been able to use the art as well as their English counterparts are, in the ongoing Test series.

“Look at the state of the ball in Calcutta when the two teams were bowling. When India had the ball it was average looking. Nobody was bothering to shine the ball, or take responsibility for keeping it dry.

“When England bowled it was different. One side of the ball was shiny and the other dry,” Akram said.

The 46-year-old thought the Indians are not running in hard enough to get the delivery going.

“I think England have realised that you have to sprint in to bowl reverse swing. Compare them both to Ishant and Zaheer. England’s bowlers were sprinting.

“You have to put that effort in to bowl reverse swing. Wasim, Waqar (Younis) and Imran (Khan), we reversed it because we ran in hard,” he said.

Akram said a pacer should know his ball well in order to bowl reverse swing.

“Learn how to look after the cricket ball itself and also know your ball. The Kookaburra will take 40-50 overs to reverse, the Duke about 30 overs and the SG (which is used in India) will take about 10-15 overs. All these details every bowler should know,” he told a newspaper.

James Anderson and Co, according to Akram, is bowling more like the Pakistan team.

“The way they bowled tells me England will only get better in this series because they have the knowledge of reverse swing. To me it looked like the Pakistan team were playing out there, it really did.

Akram is especially impressed with spearhead Anderson. “The skill is phenomenal. James Anderson has got the knack of reverse swing and will only get better. I reckon he is on a par with Dale Steyn.

“Finn is raw and a bit wayward but he has the pace and just needs to spend more time with Mushy (bowling coach Mushtaq Ahmed.”

Saeed Ajmal trump card against India: Dav Whatmore #IndvsPak

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 08:45 AM PST

Off-spinner Saeed Ajmal will be Pakistan’s “trump card” during their short cricket tour of India this month, coach Dav Whatmore said on Friday.

The 35-year-old Ajmal is ranked No. 1 in one-day internationals and Twenty20s, with 109 wickets in 71 ODIs and 69 wickets in 48 T20s.

“Saeed Ajmal will always remain a trump card for us as we all know he’s a wonderful bowler,” Whatmore said in Lahore. “He’s very much needed, and he will always remain a threat.”

Ajmal’s doosra that turns away from the right-handers continues to baffle batsmen. But he’s expected to have to share an extra workload in the one-dayers after enigmatic all-rounder Shahid Afridi was dropped by the selectors due to poor form.

Pakistan’s short training camp was confined to the National Cricket Academy in Lahore due to rain on Friday. Former captain Inzamam-ul-Haq was expected to pass on batting advice before the team leaves for India on Dec. 22.

“He’s been a stalwart for Pakistan cricket and he’s only recently retired so he’s able to pass on some knowledge against contemporary bowlers he has faced,” Whatmore said.

Inzamam has been appointed as a batting consultant on a series-to-series basis by the Pakistan Cricket Board.

“He has faced the Indian bowlers so he is able to work with our players and discuss and let them know how he approached the same bowlers that we are going to approach.”

The series, the first between the neighbours in five years, features two T20s and three ODIs beginning at Bangalore on Dec. 25.

Tours between them were suspended when 166 people were killed in the 2008 terror attack in Mumbai, which India blamed on Pakistan. Since then, they have met in tournaments, including the 2011 World Cup semifinals at the northern Indian city of Mohali. India beat Pakistan then, and went on to win the World Cup.

Whatmore said no matter what type of pitches they met in Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Calcutta and New Delhi, he just hoped they were conducive to good matches.

“We’ve got five different venues, the pitches at those venues, I think, are slightly different,” he said. “Inherently you have certain venues that will play in a certain way … both sides have decent players of all conditions. But, you know, the conditions in India are fairly well known to our boys and it will be a good contest.”

Whatmore was appointed coach in March and soon after the former Australia test batsman guided Pakistan to victory against India in the Asia Cup in Bangladesh. India got the better of Pakistan in the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka.

“This will be the first time we’ll play more than two or three times in a small series, it’s an honor to be part of that,” he said. “It will be an experience.”

India batting woes continues, England dominate on Day 2 of 4th Test #IndvsEng

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 08:15 AM PST

India’s batting woes continued to haunt them with the top-order batsmen succumbing tamely yet again as England snapped up four quick wickets to gain firm control of the crucial fourth and final Test on Friday.

Scorecard | Day 2 Highlights 4th Test

After posting a decent score of 330 in the first innings, the visitors exploited the slow and uneven bounce of the track to leave India gasping at a precarious 87 for four at close on an eventful second day which saw nine wickets fall.

Paceman James Anderson (3/24) did the bulk of the damage while Graeme Swann chipped in with a wicket as the out-of-form Indian batsmen put up another pathetic display with none of them willing to show the application and temperament to hang in there.

Virat Kohli (11) and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (8) were at the crease when stumps were drawn for the day, with the hosts still trailing by 243 runs.

Earlier, resuming at the overnight score of 199 for five, England did well to stretch their first innings total to 330 with debutant Joe Root (73), Matt Prior (57) and Swann (56) being the notable contributors.

Leg-spinner Piyush Chawla was the pick of the Indian bowlers with a career-best haul of 4/69 while paceman Ishant Sharma (3/49) and R Ashwin (1/66) were the other wicket-takers.

The failure of India’s famed batsmen again let the team down badly as Virender Sehwag (0), Gautam Gambhir (37), Cheteshwar Pujara (26) and Sachin Tendulkar (2) could not stay for long. Tendulkar was bowled by Anderson who has now dismissed him nine times, the highest by any bowler.

With three full days left in the match, England have put themselves on course for their first series win on Indian soil in 28 years. India, on the other hand, will have to bat out of their skins to save the ignominy of their third successive humiliating defeat.
England struck in the very first over when Anderson broke through the tentative defense of Sehwag with an in-swinger before the hosts adjourned for tea at a nervous 32 for 1.

The opener, who made a two-ball duck, was completely beaten for pace and bowled, his middle stump ripped out of the ground as his lack of footwork let him down.

Gambhir, looking in good touch but for his poor judgment of a run, and Pujara looked well in control of the proceedings when they added 58 runs in 132 balls before the sudden slump when India lost both these batsmen and Tendulkar for just 12 runs and in 9 overs.

Pujara could be termed unlucky to have been declared out by umpire Rod Tucker as the ball seemed to have missed the glove, hit his forearm and bounced off his pad for Ian Bell to take a superb, diving one-handed catch at forward short leg.

The right-handed Saurashtra batsman looked quite composed despite Anderson trying to hustle him with his bumpers in his 89-minute stay during which he also drove the fast bowler to the straight field and hooked him for two fours.

But Swann’s entry into the attack after 20 overs accounted for his wicket.

Tendulkar, whose career is on the line after a string of poor scores, appeared ill at ease and was beaten twice by the sudden turn extracted by his nemesis in the series – left arm spinner Monty Panesar – but it was his other career nemesis – Anderson – who got his wicket for a record 9th time.

Anderson, brought back into the attack after the drinks break, made two balls go away and then brought one back to bowl Tendulkar.

Tendulkar was beaten by the pace and inward movement and inside edged the ball that also kept a bit low which crashed into his middle and leg stump to leave the batsman flabbergasted and thoroughly distraught.

Gambhir, who had batted resolutely for 137 minutes and 93 balls, attempted an ill-advised drive away from the body to offer a catch to wicketkeeper Prior.

Kohli and Dhoni managed to see off the day without further setbacks.
Earlier, leg spinner Chawla hastened the end of the England first innings for 330 after lunch by grabbing the visitors’ last three wickets in only 25 balls in the fourth and final Test on Friday.

Chawla, who finished with his best figures of 4 for 69 in his three-Test-old career, snapped up the wickets of Joe Root (73), to end the eighth-wicket stand between the debutant and Graeme Swann, the latter batsman too for 56 and James Anderson for 4 in a superb post-lunch spell of 4.5-0-17-3.

The 23-year-old Aligarh-born Chawla thus bettered his earlier best figures of 2 for 66 versus South Africa at Kanpur in 2008, his previous appearance in a Test.

Chawla’s excellent spell, after England resumed at the lunchtime score of 277 for 7, helped India wrap up the visitors’ first innings within the first hour of play after lunch.

England had resumed at the overnight 199 for 5 in the morning, added 78 runs in 32 overs while losing the wickets of Matt Prior for 57 – bowled by Ashwin for his only wicket of the innings – and Bresnan who was bowled for a duck by Ishant Sharma.

Sharma, who bowled with a lot of fire on the low and slow track sporting cracks, finished with fine figures of 3 for 49 in his second match of the series while Ravindra Jadeja (2 for 58 in 37 overs) and Ashwin (1 for 66) were the other successful bowlers.
India’s leading wicket taker in the series, left arm spinner Pragyan Ojha, ended wicket-less after conceding 71 runs in 35 overs.

Chawla, who had dismissed Ian Bell on Thursday, accepted a return catch from Root after the batsman had a sudden rush of blood – after having plodded for nearly six hours in his 229-ball essay in which he hit just 4 fours.

It ended the stubborn 8th wicket partnership between Root and Swann, who faced 91 balls and struck six fours and two sixes, after the duo added an invaluable 60 runs after joining hands at 242 for 7 at the fall of Bresnan before lunch.

Two overs later, the leg spinner then trapped the dangerous-looking Swann leg before for 56 with a quicker ball that went straight and hit him on the pads as he attempted a reverse sweep.

India vs England Day 2 Highlights 4th Test Nagpur 14 Dec 2012 #IndvsEng

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 03:05 AM PST

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Philip Hughes, Michael Clarke guides Australia to 299/4 on Day 1 of 1st Test #AusvsSL

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 12:05 AM PST

Phil Hughes made a solid 86 on his return to Test cricket before Michael Clarke and Mike Hussey took up the running and steered Australia to 299 for four at close of play on the first day of the first Test against Sri Lanka on Friday.

Scorecard | Day 1 Highlights Aus vs SL 1st Test

Hughes was the only batsmen to fall in the final session, lasting only a couple of overs after lunch before being bowled through the gate by Chanaka Welegedera, giving the Sri Lankan seamer his third wicket of the day.

Clarke, who had made 70 not out, and Hussey, unbeaten on 37, batted through the remainder of the day and if the evidence of their prolific partnerships in the recent series against South Africa is anything to go by, will take some shifting.

Sri Lanka’s bowlers, dubbed this week as the worst pace attack ever to tour Australia by former Test bowler Rodney Hogg, made life uncomfortable for the batsmen at times but struggled for any real penetration under cloudy skies at Bellerive Oval.

Clarke, who passed 1,400 runs for the year, has now put on 731 runs in partnerships with Hussey in the last four Tests and will be looking to plunder a few more on Saturday despite taking a knock to his ankle.

Friday, however, belonged to Hughes. The lefthander was recalled to the side on the back of good domestic form following the retirement of Ricky Ponting at the end of the series against the Proteas.

The 24-year-old reached his fourth Test half century with a square drive for three runs and then initially accelerated towards a century, most notably with an ugly but effective slog for six off spinner Rangana Herath.

On the ground where his second spell as a Test batsman ended amid questions about his technique after two failures against New Zealand last year, Hughes scored eight fours and one six in his 166-ball knock before Welegedera struck with a superb ball.

Australia had lost openers Ed Cowan (four) and David Warner in the opening session, the latter run out for 57 on the stroke of lunch after a calamitous misunderstanding with Hughes.

Shane Watson, dropping down to fourth in the batting order to allow Hughes to come in at number three, followed them to the pavilion for 30 shortly before tea, the victim of an exceptional diving catch in the slips by skipper Mahela Jayawardene.

That was a second wicket for Welegedera and a measure of redemption for the bowler after he had Hughes caught behind for 77 only for the umpire to call a no ball.

Welegedera had also made the early breakthrough for the tourists when Cowan tried to pull a short delivery only for the ball to catch him high on the bat and carry to mid-on where Shaminda Eranga took a simple catch.

It could have been even better for the Sri Lankans, who were only centimetres away from the perfect start to the morning after Clarke had won the toss and elected to bat.

Cowan edged the second delivery of the day from Nuwan Kulasekara to the slips but Angelo Mathews was just unable to get his hands to it, despite an athletic dive.

Australia vs Sri Lanka 1st Test Scorecard Hobart 2012 #SLvsAus

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:16 PM PST

Warne-Muralitharan Trophy 2012/13

Australia vs Sri Lanka – 1st Test

Played at Bellerive Oval, Hobart, 14 – 18 Dec 2012

Toss -Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

Stumps – Day 1

Australia 1st Inn

Australia 1st Innings		R	B	4s	6s	SR
David Warner	run out (A Mathews/T Dilshan)	57	89	8	0	64.04
Ed Cowan	c S Eranga b C Welegedara	4	17	0	0	23.53
Phillip Hughes	b C Welegedara	86	166	8	1	51.81
Shane Watson	c M Jayawardene b C Welegedara	30	61	3	0	49.18
Michael Clarke (C)	Not Out	70	136	7	0	51.47
Michael Hussey	Not Out	37	81	1	0	45.67
Matthew Wade (wk)
Mitchell Starc
Peter Siddle
Ben Hilfenhaus
Nathan Lyon
Extras	(b 1,lb 3,w 1, nb 10)	15
Total	(4 wickets; 90 overs)	299	(3.32 runs per over)

Fall of Wickets (Australia):

1-18 (Cowan, 5.3 ov), 2-97 (Warner, 26.2 ov), 3-183 (Watson, 50.4 ov), 4-198 (Hughes, 58.1 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
Nuwan Kulasekara	22	2	51	0	2.30	(nb 5 w 1)
Chanaka Welegedara	20	1	99	3	4.90	(nb 3)
Shaminda Eranga	16	3	52	3	3.20	(nb 2)
Angelo Mathews	11	2	35	0	3.20
Tillakaratne Dilshan	4	0	11	0	2.80
Rangana Herath	17	3	47	0	2.80

Teams:
Australia (Playing XI): David Warner, Ed Cowan, Shane Watson, Phillip Hughes, Michael Clarke(c), Michael Hussey, Matthew Wade(w), Mitchell Starc, Peter Siddle, Ben Hilfenhaus, Nathan Lyon

Sri Lanka (Playing XI): Tillakaratne Dilshan, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene(c), Thilan Samaraweera, Angelo Mathews, Prasanna Jayawardene(w), Nuwan Kulasekara, Rangana Herath, Shaminda Eranga, Chanaka Welegedara

Australia vs Sri Lanka Day 1 Highlights 1st Test Hobart 14 Dec 2012 #SLvsAus

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:15 PM PST

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