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- AB de Villiers worried about the over-rate in ODIs #PakvSA
- India vs Australia 3rd Test Live Streams – Mohali 2013 #IndvsAus
- England vs New Zealand 2nd Test Live Streams 2013 #EngvsNZ
- England vs New Zealand – 2nd Test – Wellington – Preview #EngvNZ
- Cheteshwar Pujara is fit to play Mohali Test, says Shikhar Dhawan #IndvAus
- Preview : India vs Australia – 3rd Test – Mohali 2013 #IndvsAus
- Tide turns against Shane Watson in Australia’s ‘homework-gate’ #IndvAus
- Mohammad Hafeez dismisses reports of rift with Misbah over captaincy #PakvSA
- Michael Clarke warns Oz players to be fully committed or perish
- Katrina Kaif and Priyanka Chopra to perform at IPL 6 opening ceremony
| AB de Villiers worried about the over-rate in ODIs #PakvSA Posted: 13 Mar 2013 06:42 AM PDT
De Villiers was banned for South Africa`s last two ODIs against New Zealand earlier this year after his team failed to complete their overs in the time allowed. The players were also fined 100 percent of their match fees for the game in Paarl in January, Sport24 reports. The skipper said they really tried to up the tempo against Pakistan on Sunday, yet were still an over behind the allotted time, and he admitted he hates the word over-rate. De Villiers said he gave his best, they worked hard on it to stay with the tempo and halfway through our overs they were still behind, adding it`s worrying because in the last 15 overs, when the ball gets hit out the park and you have to think about field placing and time gets lost.
De Villiers added they were slightly behind, and it`s tough to determine exactly what the problem is. De Villiers added they are still working on the problem, and at least it was much better against Pakistan than in Paarl where they were six overs behind. A similar transgression in the next 11 months could land De Villiers in more serious trouble though, and he and his team will be eager to further work on the problem when they gather in Centurion on Wednesday ahead of the second ODI there on Friday.  |
| India vs Australia 3rd Test Live Streams – Mohali 2013 #IndvsAus Posted: 13 Mar 2013 04:52 AM PDT India vs Australia 3rd Test Live streams online on star cricket, sky sports and willow cricket hd. Australia tour of India 3rd test live streams online at thecrictv.com or thecricket-tv.info. India with a 2-0 lead in the series and Australian team under deep pressure the odds are in favour of the home team for the 3rd Test at Mohali. So far the tour has been the worst performance by Australians in recent times and to add to it four of players have been suspended from the 3rd test. Australia vice captain Shane Watson along with James Pattinson, Mitchell Johnson and Usman Khwaja are axed which means more pressure for Australians and fewer options to choose from. Michael Clarke is likely to bat up the order to provide strength to the middle order and with Pattinson axed the bowlinf will be handled by Mitchell Starc and Peter Siddle. The pitch at Mohali do assist seamers and loosing Pattinson can be a big blog for Australia. Now coming to Indian camp, Sehwag was axed from the remaining series which means Shikhar Dhawan is likely to debut in test for India. There were also news about Cheteshwar Pujara getting injured but all that is cleared up. India will definitely be looking to claim the Border-Gavaskar trophy in the 3rd test. In bowling the main question arises on Harbhajan Singh, who haven’t been very effective so far but MS Dhoni doesn’t like to tinker the winning combination which means we will see only one change at the top only. India vs Austraia Live Streams links: 1. TheCricTV.com –>> http://thecrictv.com 2. TheCricket-TV.info –>> http://thecricket-tv.info  |
| England vs New Zealand 2nd Test Live Streams 2013 #EngvsNZ Posted: 13 Mar 2013 03:45 AM PDT England vs New Zealand 2nd Test Cricket Live Streams online. Sky Sports Live streams New Zealand vs England 2nd Test match live online. Watch England tour of New Zealand 2013 cricket live streams online. The first of the three match test series may have been drawn but a lot of positives came for both the teams. New Zealand bundled out England for 167 in first innings and then it was all the batsman game in the later part of the game. Brendom McCullum said he would like to bowl first if he wins the toss in the pre match interview as the pitches in New Zealand doesn’t open up much in day 4 or 5. McCullum thinks the pitch at Wellington will be assist more of seam and bounce to the bowlers and bowling first will be a good options for them. England too have a splendid bowling attack and will also be looking to exploit the conditions. The teams have played a T20 match on the ground where Broad and Finn bowled exceptionally well against them. So it will be another exciting match to watch out for. England vs New Zealand 1st Test Live Streams links: 1. TheCricTV.com –>> http://thecrictv.com 2. TheCricket-TV.info –>> http://thecricket-tv.info  |
| England vs New Zealand – 2nd Test – Wellington – Preview #EngvNZ Posted: 13 Mar 2013 03:00 AM PDT New Zealand will stick with the same team that drew the first Test against England and are likely to ask the tourists to bat in the second Test if they win the toss, captain Brendon McCullum said on Wednesday. “I don’t think New Zealand pitches break up a great deal and if there is any advantage it’s on day one,” McCullum told reporters on a sun-drenched Wellington day. “I think that’s probably a trend with New Zealand pitches at the moment. “We’ve seen some huge runs scored domestically, even on wickets that are four, five, or even six matches old. “I wouldn’t expect this one to break up a great deal. Then again if you cop a decent swinging day, then you can knock the top off reasonably quickly.”
McCullum’s reasoning is based on the Basin Reserve wicket likely to offer a bit more bounce than they experienced in the drawn first Test in University Oval. By bowling first he would take the ball out of the hands of James Anderson and Steven Finn in favourable conditions. Both were particularly impressive in the limited overs series last month when they bowled back of a length and restricted New Zealand’s attacking shots. “The thing about the Basin is that you can go a whole session where you keep beating the bat and don’t pick up a wicket and then very quickly you can pick up five or six in a session. “You try to gain some ascendancy early in the Test match, hence why I’m looking at bowling first.” TIRED BOWLERS Should McCullum win the toss against Alastair Cook on Thursday and choose to bowl, the onus will fall on his young pace trio who bowled 114 of New Zealand’s 170 overs in England’s second innings of 421 for six in Dunedin. None had a particularly heavy workload at training over the past three days, McCullum said, though he doubted they would need much motivation should they be required first thing on Thursday. “It was a little bit of a concern, knowing the volume of overs they were getting through in that last day,” he said. “When you’re bowling for a Test win you pull out all stops and those guys, I couldn’t get the ball out of their hands to be honest. “I was concerned about them on that last day, how they’d pull up, but the last three days they’ve rested up and all three are champing at the bit for another crack with the ball.” New Zealand did surprise England in Dunedin, bowling them out for 167 in the first innings then applying themselves on a pitch that got progressively better to score 460 for nine. While the visitors batted themselves into a position of safety by the final session of day five, McCullum was ruing the loss of the entire first day and the final session of the third day due to rain. “I think we were close the other day. Obviously we got 16 and we lost that day at the start of the Test match as well,” McCullum said. “If we’d seen that extra day, we may have been able to pick up those few extra wickets in the morning and given ourselves a red-hot crack at it with the bat later in the day. “We could have chased 240, 220 on that last day and it would have been a great Test match. “The challenge for us now is how we back that up and how we do it consistently. Not just this Test match but the ones to follow as well.”  |
| Cheteshwar Pujara is fit to play Mohali Test, says Shikhar Dhawan #IndvAus Posted: 13 Mar 2013 02:17 AM PDT
“Pujara is fit and ready to play,” Dhawan, who will be making his Test debut tomorrow, told reporters. Initially though, the Delhi left-hander was reluctant in answering Pujara`s status. “You have to ask the physio for that,” was Dhawan`s answer. Architect of India`s victory in the second Test in Hyderabad, Pujara was hit on the left knee by a local pace bowler while batting in the nets yesterday. The batsman, who had cracked a magnificent double century in Hyderabad, looked in considerable pain and he was forced to leave the nets.
After getting medical attention, Pujara had his left-knee strapped and didn`t take any further part in the training session. He was seen initially walking with a slight limp before choosing to lie on a bench adjacent to the nets. As the net session ended, he got up and was seen walking back with his gears into the dressing room. However, today morning, the batsman batted in the nets for a while before going for a catching practice session with the fielding coach Trevor Penney, almost putting to rest speculations about his participation. The conformation came a little while later. Pujara has been a bane for the Australian bowlers so far in the series, scoring runs at the crucial number three position.  |
| Preview : India vs Australia – 3rd Test – Mohali 2013 #IndvsAus Posted: 13 Mar 2013 01:30 AM PDT In the driver`s seat after two convincing wins, the stage is perfect for India to record their biggest-ever series win over a depleted Australia, who have been rocked by off-field controversies and dissensions, ahead of the third cricket Test starting here from Thursday. If the humiliating losses in Chennai and Hyderabad were not enough, the once mighty Australians were dealt a body blow with the expulsion of four key players, including vice-captain Shane Watson, for breach of discipline, ahead of their must-win game at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium. While India had been whitewashed on quite a few occasions by the Kangaroos, the hosts` best efforts so far had been the 2-0 wins in 1979-80 (out of six Tests under Kim Hughes), 2008-09 (four matches) and 2010-11 (two games ? both under Ricky Ponting`s captaincy).
This time around, if they are able to make it 3-0 in Mohali, it will be a welcome first for Indian cricket, against Australia, who had thrashed them 4-0 the last time they met at the Aussies` den. India have never won more than two Tests in a series against Australia. In the ongoing rubber, the visitors had been easily beaten by eight wickets in the opening Test in Chennai, before being inflicted an innings and a 135-run defeat in the second game in Hyderabad. And Australia`s expulsion of four key players — Watson, pacers James Pattinson, Mitchell Johnson and batsman Usman Khawja — have only brightened India`s chances of scripting their best ever result against an opponent, who are going through a crisis situation. Going into the match, India`s primary cause of concern, though, could be the blow star batsman Cheteshwar Pujara suffered during a net session on Tuesday. Architect of India`s victory in the second Test in Hyderabad with a magnificent double ton, Pujara was hit on the left knee by a local pace bowler as he was batting in the nets. The batsman looked in considerable pain as he was forced to leave the nets. After getting medical attention, Pujara had his left-knee strapped and didn`t take any further part in the training session. But, indications are that the Saurashtra batsman would be part of the playing XI, much to the chagrin of the Australian bowlers who have so far struggled to contain the technically solid India number three. Even as the Australians will have some thinking to do as far as selecting their playing XI is concerned, India, save for the dropped Virender Sehwag, might be tempted to take the field with more or less the same winning combination. Of course, getting left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha for off-break bowler Harbhajan Singh, is one option the hosts, led admirably by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, will ponder over ahead of the penultimate match. With Sehwag out of reckoning, Delhi boy Shikhar Dhawan — who is waiting for his maiden Test call-up -could also get an opportunity to open the batting alongside Murali Vijay, who slammed a big century in the last Test to cement his place for the time being after a run of poor scores. The middle-order wears a settled look with the young Pujara, Virat Kohli and veteran Sachin Tendulkar holding fort. In the nets, Tendulkar concentrated on playing the spinners mainly and faced a lot of deliveries from Harbhajan and Ojha. Dhoni also enjoyed his batting session as Ishant Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja sent down a number of deliveries to the big-hitting captain. In the kind of batting form the hosts are in at the moment and with the cushion of a 2-0 lead, an attacking batsman like Dhoni will relish the prospect of taking on the Aussie bowlers. An unbeaten double century in the opening Test only adds to the belief that Dhoni, in fact, is the man to lead India to a massive win after a disappointing run in the last two years, which included defeats against England and Australia. With the curator of the PCA stadium, Daljit Singh, who also happens to be in charge of the BCCI grounds and pitches committee, claiming that the track will assist the spinners, India will, in all likelihood, again pack their attack with slow bowlers. The ploy has, so far, worked for the hosts, and they are unlikely to disturb the combination, despite Mohali`s tradition of providing wickets that favoured the fast bowlers. All seems well in the Indian camp and the hosts are assured that everything is under control. The pitch has been the centre of much speculation over the last few days. Surely it will favour the spinners, but the Aussies can take heart from the fact that it won`t be the crumbling tracks they endured in Chennai, and to a lesser extent, Hyderabad. But with four of their players gone, the options are very limited for the Aussies. Ed Cowan and David Warner will open the batting, with the out-of-form Phil Hughes coming in at number three. Both Cowan and Hughes figuring in the XI, despite a run of poor scores, will surely somewhat expose Australia`s weaknesses even more. The indomitable Michale Clarke, as in the first two matches, is again expected to shoulder the bulk of responsibility in batting considering Australia`s thin experience in that department. Doughty is the appropriate word that best describes the Australian skipper`s knocks in the first two Tests in Chennai and Hyderabad, but hopes of making a comeback in the four-match series will also hinge on others. IPL`s latest million dollar baby, Glen Maxwell, who made his debut in the last Test in Hyderabad, is not a sure-shot starter but Moises Henriques, Peter Siddle, Mitchell Starc are again certainty. One is yet to get a definitive answer on wicketkeeper-batsman Matthew Wade`s fitness, but his cover Brad Haddin, is also set to be included in the line-up, with Xavier Doherty and Nathan Lyon as the two sinners. Even though they are set to miss the services of a few key players, Australia can only hope that the extraordinary turn of events off the field don`t impact their performance in the match, which is a must-win one for them. Squads: India (from): Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Virender Sehwag, Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Cheteshwar Pujara, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Harbhajan Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Ishant Sharma, Ashok Dinda, Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Australia (from): Michael Clarke (capt), Ed Cowan, David Warner, Phil Hughes, Matthew Wade, Glenn Maxwell, Peter Siddle, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Moises Henriques, Xavier Doherty, Steve Smith, Brad Haddin. Match starts at 9.30 am (IST).  |
| Tide turns against Shane Watson in Australia’s ‘homework-gate’ #IndvAus Posted: 13 Mar 2013 12:30 AM PDT
Australian cricket was plunged into crisis on Tuesday after Watson, James Pattinson, Mitchell Johnson and Usman Khawaja were banished from the team for the third Test in India for failing to provide their thoughts on how Australia could improve. Former Test greats lined up to pour incredulous scorn on coach Mickey Arthur and captain Michael Clarke for taking such strong action for an offence likened by many commentators to a schoolboy forgetting to do their homework. Watson, the most senior of the players and the team’s vice captain, arrived back in Australia to be with his pregnant wife late on Tuesday and dubbed the punishment “extremely severe”.
The 31-year-old sometime all-rounder’s assertion that he still wanted to play Test cricket for his country was reassuring with back-to-back Ashes series coming at the end of year. After the recent retirements of former skipper Ricky Ponting and Mike Hussey, the prospect of losing a third top batsman, albeit one as injury-prone as Watson, for such a trivial offence was startling to many. Word from team management on the sub-continent that the punishment was not isolated but the culmination of a build-up of minor disciplinary issues helped start the turning of the tide. DEFINING MOMENT? Arthur, in his blog on the Cricket Australia website, said his team had given a fair amount of “laxity and flexibility” to the players because of their youth and inexperience. “This decision was about sending a strong message that it is about time all players had some accountability for their actions,” he wrote. “Being late for a meeting, high skinfolds, wearing the wrong attire, back-chat or giving attitude are just some examples of these behavioural issues that have been addressed discretely but continue to happen. “If we’re deadly serious about getting back to number one in the world, all players need to raise the bar and lift their game. “This is a line in the sand moment,” he added. “A point we’ll look back on in a couple of years’ time when we’re back to number one in the world and say was a defining moment.” Well-respected cricket journalist and author Gideon Haigh had already laid out his views in a column entitled “Coddled boys who expect it all laid on”, in which he said it was no surprise that Watson had been one of those punished. “Probably more coaching and management resources have been poured into him than any cricketer of his generation – for the dividend of two centuries in 40 Tests,” he wrote in the Australian. “He is a handsome player of abundant talent. He is also wealthy, pampered, immature and self-involved. That’s what a life in modern professional sport can make of you.” Richard Hinds in the Age said the failure of the quartet to perform the simple task of offering, via e-mail, their opinion on team improvements would invite questions as to whether they would follow more important instructions. “If it has a positive impact on long-term performance, this might be considered a vital moment for a team in transition,” he wrote. “One that has struggled to adapt to an age when a team is a collection of similarly gifted individuals with often different outlooks. “Not the joined-at-the-hip band of mates who wouldn’t dare shave a hair off a moustache for fear of being considered a freak or a lone wolf.” Clarke has shown a marked ruthless streak in his bid to take Australia back to the top of the world rankings since assuming the captaincy in the wake of the 2010-11 Ashes drubbing. Far from being forced into a conciliatory position by the abuse he has suffered over the last two days, the 31-year-old was strident in his view that punishing the four players was the correct decision. “This game owes us, the players, nothing. We owe it everything,” he wrote in his column in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph. “It’s time we showed it the due respect for all the opportunities it has given us. I hope that in time this will be viewed as the boot up the backside we needed.”  |
| Mohammad Hafeez dismisses reports of rift with Misbah over captaincy #PakvSA Posted: 13 Mar 2013 12:00 AM PDT
The clarification comes as reports of infighting in the team surfaced last week, suggesting a rift between ODI captain Misbahul Haq and Hafeez, reports The Express Tribune. Hafeez, however, dispelled the speculations, saying that he has brotherly relations with Misbah, and added that he has no obsession to become captain. He said captaincy cannot be snatched, and that hatching conspiracies has never been a part of his career. Hafeez also denied that he had any altercation with Misbah over the batting order. He said he would willingly play even at seventh position if he is asked to do so. Hafeez added that his priority is the team.
Hafeez also ridiculed the impression that he was interfering in selection matters of the playing XI.  |
| Michael Clarke warns Oz players to be fully committed or perish Posted: 12 Mar 2013 11:19 PM PDT
“This was simply the last straw. It was a message to everyone involved in Australian cricket that, if you want to play at the elite level, you need to be fully committed or you will struggle to be part of this team,” Clarke wrote in his column for News.com.au. “We need to show fight. I have no doubt in my mind that there is enough talent in this squad to take back our position as the world’s No. 1 Test team. If we had continued to allow things to drift on, we’d never rise above our current ranking of third. That’s not good enough for an Australian team,” he added. “There are millions of people at home and around the world supporting us and we owe it to them to be 100 per cent committed every time we take the field,” he further wrote.
Clarke further added: “I understand and accept that sometimes you lose, but what’s important in those cases is how you lose. We need to fight. That’s the Australian way. We fight for every run and wicket and dive for every ball in the outfield. That’s what we’ve always been about and it’s what we need to be in the future.” “There are some members of the squad who, if they looked themselves in the mirror, couldn’t honestly say that they were doing everything they could to get the best out of themselves,” he wrote. “The last thing I want as captain is to have a limited squad to call upon for a Test match. But enough’s enough and sometimes you have to make a stand to change things,” he concluded. (ANI)  |
| Katrina Kaif and Priyanka Chopra to perform at IPL 6 opening ceremony Posted: 12 Mar 2013 10:52 PM PDT
The opening ceremony would be organised by the Kolkata Knight Riders owner Shah Rukh Khan’s firm Red Chillies Entertainment, Sports Minister Madan Mitra told reporters in Kolkata on Tuesday. KKR were the winners of last year’s IPL. They had defeated Chennai Super Kings in the final. The minister said that there was no problem in allowing the stadium to host the function as there were no matches scheduled before and after the programme.  |
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