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February 5, 2010

Ind vs SA live update – Zaheer took early wickets

Filed under: Cricket,sports,World — Tags: , , — admin @ 9:41 pm

Injury-hit Indian Cricket team is on their way through the first test match against South Africa in Nagpur today. India is playing with their two first debutants Wriddhiman Saha and Badrinath. Conditions are quite good for early batting side, but still India managed to get early breakthrough.

Zaheer Khan ( fast pace Indian bowler) got two early wickets for India. he took his first wicket in form of AG Prince who was caught by skipper M S Dhoni. He bowled a well-directed bouncer at his face, Prince got stunned and give a simple catch to Dhoni.

Second wicket was a huge blow to South Africans as they lost their skipper Graeme Smith. The fast moving ball moved through the bat and pad gap and cleared the stumps. A bad defense shown by captain Smith.

Ashwell Prince got caught without opening his account while the South African Captain only managed sis runs before he got clean bold by Zaheer Khan.

At present Amla and kallis are playing pretty well and playing mostly defensively due to their early quick loss. Amla is at 19 and Kallis at 21. South Africa on a whole at 47 for the loss of two wickets.

After the initial six overs for each Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma, Harbhajan Singh and Mishra has been called to bowl. Lets see who will get third breakthrough for India and who will hold the falling wall for South Africa.

India vs South Africa live – 1st test match

Filed under: Cricket,sports,World — Tags: , , — admin @ 8:04 pm

After the successful test series against Bangladesh, India is taking on South Africa in their first test match today in a short moment from now. India has introduced Saha, Badrinath and M Vijay today in the first test match against South Africa. VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid are not in for this match. Rohit Sharma also not included due to injury during practice session.

This match will be played at Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur. This match will start from 9:30 AM local time in India live on many sports channel.

Here is the list of both team squad’s for today’s match.

India team
V Sehwag, G Gambhir, M Vijay, SR Tendulkar, S Badrinath, MS Dhoni( captain and w/k), WP Saha, Harbhajan Singh, Z Khan, A Mishra, I Sharma

South Africa team

GC Smith( captain), AG Prince, HM Amla, JH Kallis, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, MV Boucher (W/k), DW Steyn, WD Parnell, M Morkel, PL Harris

As per the speculation pitch is very fast and good for batting. So whoever won the toss should bat first. So after winning the toss, South Africa has decided to bat first. As the pitch will dry, ball is going to spin. So simple decision by S. Africans – bat first.

Some detail regarding the match .

Umpires – SJ Davis (Australia) and IJ Gould (England)
TV umpire – AM Saheba
Match referee – AJ Pycroft (Zimbabwe)
Reserve umpire – S Rao

Match is going to be played in short while from now. Will be providing time to time updates for this match live.

January 31, 2010

Roger Federer won Australian Open tennis 2010

Filed under: sports,Tennis,World — Tags: , — admin @ 3:52 am

Today at the Rod Laver Arena Roger Federer again proved his might by defeating Andy Murray in straight three sets. He defeated Andy Murray by 6-3, 6-4 , 7-6. And this victory brought him his 16th Grand Slam title.

After this huge and easy win, Federer has become the fifth man to win four or more Australian Open titles, joining Roy Emerson (six), Andre Agassi, Jack Crawford and Ken Rosewall.

Roger Federer shattered the dream of Andy Murray of becoming first British to win Big Grand slam title since Fred Perry won the US Open in 1936.

At no instance in the match Federer found difficulty to make his way through. it was expected that Murray will give a good upset to World Rank 1, but Federer as usual thrashed him in three easy sets.

Federer won a total of 116 points in the match while Murray only managed 100 points in the whole course of the match. Also Federer maximum speed of serve was 5 km less than Murray, but nevertheless Murry didn’t succeededand Federer won with great ease.

Leander Paes won Australian open mixed doubles finals

Filed under: sports,Tennis,World — Tags: , — admin @ 2:26 am

In mixed doubles finals, that ended just few minutes back from now, leander paes with his partner Cara Black from Zimbabwe won the Mised doubles finals championship.They defeated Ekaterina Makarova of Russia paired with Jaroslav Levinsky of Czech. They marked an easy win against both by 7-6, 6-3.

Paes and Black Pair was top seeded in this event and they did as per expectations. This win gave Paes and Black another grand slam title for him as well as for India. Paes has a total 46 doubles titles including six Grand Slam doubles and 5 Grand Slam mixed doubles crowns.

Cara Black also reached the Women’s doubles finals paired with Liezel Huber where she was easily defeated by Williams sister.

Leander Paes told that they were able to have 45 minutes practice before match and that was all required to warm up and sync with his partner Cara Black.

After winning this 11th Grand Slam title Paes equals the record of Mahesh Bhupathi being the India’s most successful player in Grand Slam Tennis.

In today’s match, Paes and Cara Black broke their opponents’ serve five times, but had their serve broken just two times.

January 30, 2010

Pakistan vs Australia 5th ODI live – Pak lose early wickets

Filed under: Cricket,sports,uncategorized — Tags: , , — admin @ 9:04 pm

Today Australia and pakistan are playing their 5th match in this series. Australia has already won first four matches against them, and waiting for a yet another clean sweep 5-0.

Today Shahid Afridi has been made captain and after winning the toss, he has elected to bat first. he has been made captain because Pak Captain Mohammad Yousuf has knee problem due to which he has been declared unfit for the game.

Pakistan has brought Khalid Latif for the top order batting in replacement Of Kamran Akmal.  Sarfraz Ahmed and Saeed Akmal are also playing this match. Australia has made one change, they have brought Mitchell Johnson in place of Peter Siddle.

The team squad for today’s match are
Pakistan: 1 Salman Butt, 2 Khalid Latif, 3 Younis Khan, 4 Shoaib Malik, 5 Umar Akmal, 6 Fawad Alam, 7 Shahid Afridi, 8 Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), 9 Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, 10 Rao Iftikhar Anjum, 11 Mohammad Asif.

Australia: 1 Shaun Marsh, 2 Brad Haddin (wk), 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Michael Hussey, 5 Cameron White, 6 Adam Voges, 7 James Hopes, 8 Mitchell Johnson, 9 Nathan Hauritz, 10 Ryan Harris, 11 Clint McKay.

Match has already been started and Pakistan has already lose their first two important wickets. Khalid Latif and Salman Butt are out for a duck and pressure again mounting on Pakistan team.

To watch this match live stream. Click here

Australia won u19 world cup cricket – Thrashed Pak

Filed under: Cricket,uncategorized — Tags: — admin @ 2:05 am

Australia won U19 world cup today for the third time by defeating their strong opponent Pakistan. Australia set a target of 208 for a loss of 9 wickets, but Pakistan  only managed to make 182 runs. Australia defeated Pakistan by 25 runs. Pakistan were all out at 182 only.

Australia has previously won this title in 1987-99 and also in 2001-2002. While Pakistan has won back to back title in 2004 and 2006.

Today the highest scorer from Aussie’s side was tail end Batsmen richardson who made 44 out of 38 and helped Australia have a decent score. None of the Batsman made even a half century, the batting line up was quite lose today, but nevertheless Australia bowling part is their Strength who proved their might by stopping Pakistan at 182 only.

From Pak side Sarmad Bhatti took highest 3 wickets and Butt managed to take 2 wickets. From Pakistan side, Ahmed Shehzad mad highest of merely 36 runs and thus there non of the batsmen shown their batting performance at the required place. From Australian side JR Hazlewood took 4 wickets while L A Doran took 3 wickets.

JR Hazlewood was judged as man of the match while man of the series was given to DA Hendricks.

January 29, 2010

Australia Vs Pakistan 4th Odi live – Pak top order fails

Filed under: Cricket,sports,uncategorized,World — Tags: , — admin @ 2:01 am

Fourth ODI match between AUstralia and Pakistan is going on at Perth Australia. As usual Australia seems to be a stronger side in this match too.
First inning has been completed, Australia have set a target of 278 for Pakistan. Pakistan top order batsmen has fallen chasing this target.

In the first inning, Australia managed to score with a loss of 5 wickets. Hussey made the highest with 67 runs out of 75 balls and Hauritz made 53 not out, otherwise no batsman was able to cross the half century mark, but nevertheless they managed to make decent score. Ponting and Haddin made 30 and 32 respectively.

Pakistan kicked their batting with a poor start losing first wicket very early. Salman But caught to White at a ball of Harris without opening his account. Kamran Akmal made 17 while Younis Khan and Yousuf made 6 and 10 respectively.

At present drinks have been called and at this point Pakistan is 48 for 4 at 16 overs. Pak has very far to go with only six wicket remaining which mainly consists of bowlers. You can see the latest score here at cricinfo.

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