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- Virat Kohli, Ravichandran Ashwin clash in war of words with Jonathan Trott in Nagpur Test #IndvsEng
- Ravichandran Ashwin optimistic about win for India in Nagpur Test #IndvsEng
- England close to create history, dent India’s hopes of victory in Nagpur Test #IndvsEng
- India vs England Day 4 Highlights 4th Test Nagpur 16 Dec 2012 #IndvsEng
- Australia on top despite Tillakaratne Dilshan ton on Day 3 of 1st Test #AusvsSL
- Australia vs Sri Lanka Day 3 Highlights 1st Test Hobart 16 Dec 2012 #SLvsAus
- Inzamam-ul-Haq advised his batsmen to play positively against India #IndvsPak
| Virat Kohli, Ravichandran Ashwin clash in war of words with Jonathan Trott in Nagpur Test #IndvsEng Posted: 16 Dec 2012 08:50 AM PST
Trott, then batting on 43 in England’s second innings total of 123 for three, tried to cut a short delivery from pacer Ishant Sharma which was taken behind the stumps by MS Dhoni who threw it high up in the air in delight only to see his claim rejected by Dharmasena. Following that, Kohli ran up to the batsman and exchanged a few words after which square leg umpire Rod Tucker summoned Dhoni. It was not clear from the TV replays whether Trott had edged the ball or not. Later, off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, too, got engaged in a verbal exchange with Trott when the one-down batsman backed up too early during the bowlers’ follow-through.
Ashwin stopped before delivering the ball once and warned Trott not to leave the crease or else he would run him out. Earlier, Trott had, in a clear sign of un-sportsmanship, struck a four off left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja when the ball slipped out of his hand and bounced thrice before rolling wide of the wicket. “It was nothing really. Just about the shot that he got away with the rolling ball. Just seem to us it was a little innocuous. When you talk about gamesmanship you should hold by yourself to take the same from the opponents,” Ashwin said of the incident. Trott remained unbeaten on 66 at stumps as England reached 161 for three in their second innings, an overall lead of 165 with just a day left in the Test at VCA stadium in Jamtha. Earlier, Cook had stood his ground when he was declared out caught behind for 13 by Dharmasena and left the field reluctantly after his first twin-failure in this four-game series. He was out for one in the first innings here.  |
| Ravichandran Ashwin optimistic about win for India in Nagpur Test #IndvsEng Posted: 16 Dec 2012 08:22 AM PST
“Strange things have happened. We are not trying to be too optimistic, but we have done it before in India and we can take six or seven wickets in a session. It’s just about trying to get a couple of wickets tomorrow morning,” Ashwin stated at the post-match conference on Sunday. Ashwin insisted that they have bowled well on Sunday. “We have bowled well today. We are pushing for a win nothing got out of hand and we just have to stick to it, try to see if we can squeeze in a couple of wickets early morning,” he added.
Questioned about India’s lack of urgency to get quick runs in the morning when he was at the crease with tail-enders Pragyan Ojha and Ishant Sharma before India declared at 326 for nine, Ashwin defended the strategy saying the aim was to get as close to the England total as possible. “We had to just wipe out the lead, eat as much into the lead as possible so that whatever they score after that it becomes an even game,” said Ashwin, who tried to shield the other two batsmen by farming the strike as much as possible in the one hour that India batted before the declaration. “(Strategy) was the same as the last game. Looking for the last two balls for the fielders to come in, but they had a different strategy. They didn’t bring the fielders up. After two overs we decided to take the singles,” he said.  |
| England close to create history, dent India’s hopes of victory in Nagpur Test #IndvsEng Posted: 16 Dec 2012 05:09 AM PST
Scorecard | Day 4 Highlights 4th Test India batted for one hour in the morning before declaring their first innings at 326 for nine, four runs behind England, but could not make sufficient inroads as England reached 161 for three at close of an absorbing fourth day’s play. The hosts needed quick wickets but the fourth day track at the VCA stadium did not show any signs of deterioration as England batted out the day without seeming to be under any major discomfort. Trott (66) and Ian Bell (24) were batting at stumps, with England having an overall lead of 165 runs.
With just one day let in the game, a draw appears to be the likely result though all four outcomes — an Indian win, England win, tie and a draw — can still be possible. India will need to dismiss England as quickly as possible on Monday and score the required runs to entertain hopes of a series-levelling win. England will be quite content with a draw which would be enough to give them their first Test series triumph on Indian soil in 28 years. The David Gower-led England team had last won a series in 1984-85. Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni kept shuffling his bowlers in a bid to break through the England innings but the English batsmen applied themselves well to keep the hosts at bay, much to the disappointment of a seizable holiday crowd. England were at a shaky 94 for three at one stage with captain Alastair Cook (13), Nick Compton (34) and Kevin Pietersen (6) back in the pavilion but Trott and Bell ensured that there were no further setbacks with a defiant 67-run partnership. Trott was however a little lucky as a confident appeal for caught behind off Ishant Sharma was turned down by umpire Kumar Dharmasena, leading to some heated words being exchanged between Trott and Virat Kohli after the over. Cook was controversially declared caught behind after making a painstaking 13 in 105 minutes, to Ravichandran Ashwin, while his opening partner Compton was given out leg before to Pragyan Ojha to leave England at 81 for two at tea. The England skipper seemed to have clearly missed edging the ball to Dhoni, but was given out wrongly by Kumar Dharmasena for the second time in the match. Replays also showed that Compton had been given out off an inside edge by Rod Tucker, though the ball was caught at slip by Virat Kohli at gully on the full. Soon after tea debutant Ravindra Jadeja disturbed Pietersen’s off stump when the England batsman offered no stroke expecting the ball to turn away. The visitors, clearly aiming to draw the match, added only 64 runs in 33.4 overs between lunch and tea after they were 17 for no loss in 13 overs at lunch. They were more attacking in the last session, scoring 80 in 32.2 overs. Before their debatable ejections from the crease, both Cook and Compton were bent upon defending everything. Runs came in a trickle though Cook was a bit fortunate. A delicate leg glance off Ojha struck Cook’s counterpart Dhoni’s right pad and went in between lone slip Virender Sehwag’s legs for his first four. In the same over, he tried to drive the left-arm spinner and missed the ball completely, but was lucky as it bounced over the stumps for four byes. Cook’s deadpan defense was always fraught with danger as Ashwin made a ball turn across the face of his defensive forward stretch and earned a caught behind decision in India’s favour. After Cook’s ouster, both Compton and Trott were also keen on defending rather than scoring runs, barring one occasion when a ball slipped out of Jadeja’s hand and was rolling wide when Trott hammered it for a ‘free’ four. It was clearly against the spirit of the game. The duo of Compton and Trott continued in the same vein as India tried to break their association without success till the stroke of tea, when Ojha successfully appealed for a leg before decision against the former. In the morning, India conceded a four-run first innings lead by declaring their first innings after an hour’s play. The hosts, replying to the visitors’ first innings score of 330 and resuming at an overnight 297 for eight, lost the wicket of Ojha, before closing their innings. Ojha, who had replaced Piyush Chawla after the latter was dismissed in the last over yesterday evening, played on to left-arm spinner Monty Panesar at the score of 317. He dragged a ball from Panesar – who had come into the attack in place of Graeme Swann – with his forearm on to his stumps. It was the spinner’s first and, what proved to be, only wicket of the innings in a total spell of 52 overs for 81 runs. Ashwin remained unbeaten on 29, adding 22 runs to his overnight score. James Anderson was the most successful bowler with a haul of four for 81, three of those claimed on the second evening, while Swann claimed three for 76.  |
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| Australia on top despite Tillakaratne Dilshan ton on Day 3 of 1st Test #AusvsSL Posted: 16 Dec 2012 12:36 AM PST
Scorecard | Day 3 Highlights 1st Test #AusvsSL Paceman Peter Siddle claimed the one wicket of the day when he trapped Angelo Mathews lbw for 75 shortly before tea, breaking up a record partnership of 161 with Dilshan and bringing wicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawardene to the crease. Australia’s frustration at failing to make further inroads into the Sri Lanka batting line-up after declaring at 450-5 and reducing the tourists to 87-4 on day two was compounded by an injury to paceman Ben Hilfenhaus. Dilshan had put on 100 runs with Mathews when lunch was taken early because of a heavy rain shower and the pair added another 61 in the second session when Siddle struck. Finally getting his reward for some fine bowling, Siddle sent down a sizzling delivery that caught Mathews on the back leg with the TV umpire confirming upon appeal that the ball would have clipped the top of the middle stump.
The 341-ball partnership was the highest for Sri Lanka in Australia, beating the 144 Aravinda da Silva and Ravi Ratnayeke put on for the seventh wicket at Brisbane in 1998. Hilfenhaus, recalled after being rested for the last test against South Africa, had earlier bowled two balls of the eighth over of the day before pulling up with a side strain. Cricket Australia confirmed the big Tasmanian had been taken to hospital for scans on the injury. Australia have already lost young quicks Pat Cummins and James Pattinson to injury for the season. Barring a couple of run-out chances and a few loose shots, the remaining Australian bowlers failed to create many opportunities, even if they made life difficult for the batsmen at times. Tempering his aggressive instincts, Dilshan had spent a nervous half an hour in the nineties before finally graduating to his 15th test century with a four to third man. The 36-year-old’s delight at completing his first century in Australia was made clear to everyone in the ground by the huge yelp he emitted as he skipped down the wicket in celebration. The hundred came off 148 balls and included 16 fours but its importance to his country in the context of the first match of the three-test was hard to overstate. Dilshan watched on Saturday afternoon as Australia rammed home their declaration by removing key batsmen Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene and Thilan Samaraweera cheaply. The fall of Samaraweera’s wicket brought up stumps, leaving the tourists, who have never won a test in Australia, facing an uphill task to save the match over the last three days.  |
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| Inzamam-ul-Haq advised his batsmen to play positively against India #IndvsPak Posted: 15 Dec 2012 10:37 PM PST
“The mood I saw today in the camp is very positive and energetic and it is obvious that the players are very happy with all that the cricket board is doing for the team at the moment,” Inzamam said. “During my entire career I learnt one thing that when relations between the board and players were good the team always responded well and played positively,” Inzamam told reporters at the Gaddafi stadium. Inzamam, who will spend a week with the players at the training camp before the team leaves for India on December 22, said his focus as a batting consultant would be on training batsmen to deliver under pressure situations.
“After my retirement this is my first experience in a different role. So, it is going to be a new experience and challenge for me. I just hope that I can deliver the results the board wants from me,” he said. The 42-year old, who has been appointed by the PCB on a series-to-series basis, said he will teach the batsmen on how to respond in different situations. “I want to pass on my experience to the next generation of our batsmen. I want to advice them on how to respond when under pressure, how to change a match situation and how to chase totals,” he said. He said the mood in the Pakistani camp is upbeat for the upcoming series against India.  |
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