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Afridi Ready to Bangladesh league

2012-01-25T10:06:00.000-08:00

Karachi: Dashing all-rounder Afridi said Wednesday he will skip most of the well-paid Bangladesh league in sort to play Pakistan's imperfect over’s series against England.

The 31-year-old hard bass beat batsman and skilled leg-spinner was signed for $700,000 -- the highest salary accessible to any international player in next month's league -- but the fixtures concur with Pakistan's matches."The Bangladesh league clash with our one-day and T20 series next to England and for me national Pakistan's shahid Afridi

Duty has always remained the top precedence because Pakistan has given me a lot," Afridi told reporters.Afridi is known for his world record fastest one-day hundred, which he ended off 37 balls against Sri Lanka in Nairobi 1997. "I want to play for Pakistan because my team needs me and we want to keep the winning series intact," he said. Pakistan remains victorious in one-day series since losing 3-2 to South Africa in November 2010.

Afridi retired in anger at being deserted as one-day captain last May, but came out of retreat in October. "I have not as yet made up my mind when to call it quits. But definitely one thing I have decided is that I want to retire when I am the theater well so that people keep in mind me positively," he said.

I think I still have a lot to suggest to Pakistan cricket. I will leave when I feel I am at the peak of the career and have also contribute to Pakistan cricket as new legends of Pakistan cricket have done. I want to be remembering like Imran Khan, Javed Miandad and Wasim Akram are remembered today. And my aim remains to reach a steady scale of performance as these legends did in their careers."

Pakistan will publicize the restricted overs squad for the England series next month.

Cummins must be rested ensure his brilliant future: Clarke

2011-11-22T15:03:00.000-08:00

Melbourne: Australia batsman Michael Clarke has reckoned that pace bowler Pat Cummins must not be used in all format of cricket to make convinced him has a long career.

"He is as good a team member in the field as we've had come into this team for a while. We've got to be well-groomed, though. I don't think it's achievable for Patty right now to play all forms of the game for Australia. To play all single game I think would be mad. That's only my attitude," the Sydney Morning indication quoted Clarke, as saying.

"We need to speak to the selectors and we want to make a plan for him, since he's got a bright future. He's got the likely to be an amazing cricketer for Australia, and we have to be stylish and make definite we look after him," he added.Cummins, who was named 'Man of the Match' in his presentation Test match, took seven wickets and scored crucial runs in Australia's clash against South Africa in Johannesburg.

He becomes the second youngest player in history to take six wickets in an innings.
Cummins took 6-79 in the third innings to control South Africa at 339, and turn the match in Australia's favor.South Africa team had previous put up dreadful score on day four due to a 147-run partnership connecting AB de Villiers and Hashim Amla.

Johnson running out of final likelihood in Tests: Clarke

2011-11-16T10:57:00.000-08:00

Melbourne: Australia captain Michael Clarke have said that Mitchell Johnson is running out of last likelihood, as the left armer is all set to get a official pardon in the second Test in Johannesburg.

Johnson was basically ineffective in Australia's first-up loss to South Africa in wrap Town, lifelong his string of unsuited form over the past 18 months

With Pat Cummins likely to come into the attack, the skipper implied that Johnson's left-arm point-of-difference force save him further on of Peter Sidle who is also war for his spot, Fox Sports reports.

Still, Clarke made it clear to Johnson that the inimitability of his delivery won't be enough to save him for the Australian summer if he continues to fail.

Yeah, he knows. I talk to Mitch all the time. Mitch has no doubts about where he sits. He wants to be bowling at his greatest as well. He needs to be bowling fast and fluctuation the ball because he knows he's as good as any player in the world when he's responsibility that," he said.

With the exclusion of the Perth Ashes Test last December, Johnson has not managed a momentous wicket haul since he cracked New Zealand in March 2010.

The first Indian to win a new initiative

2011-10-14T14:17:00.000-07:00

In a topic of minutes, what was talented to be a contest ended in mortification for England, helping India end a winless line of 11 matches in 2011, and four games in Uppal?On a measured, low wicket at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, captain MS Dhoni (87) and Suresh Raina (61) motorized India to 300-8 with some strong hitting in the last 15 overs in which they complete 150 runs. India vs England first match

England was on line at 111-2 before Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja blow a hole all the way through their center order that was impractical against the spinners' subtle variation. The 126-run edge is India's second-biggest over England in ODIs, and didn't seem expected given how evenly the game was suspended through India's innings.

There were concern about Dhoni form from first to last for long, but they can be covered for now. The Indian captain posted his fourth ODI fifty on the trot, with scores of 69, 78 and 50 before in England. In the midst of Graeme Swann hurtle during his overs; India's score had come to a crawl. But when the set batting first Power play was claim in the 36th over, India's run-rate burst through the top.

Suresh Raina overcomes an irritating start, finishing a swift fifty by hitting Tim Bresnan over the sightscreen for an attractive six. He added 70 with Dhoni in 10 over’s, and India's revival was happening. Past in the innings, Ajinkya Rahane made a boring 15 (41b) after being drop on zero. Parthiv Patel was run-out for 9 runs. Then Gautam batted completely for 32 but fell LBW to a impractical full-toss ball from Jade Dernbach. It left India unsure at 79-3.

Virat Kohli (37) and Raina sought after relief by trying to punish Samit Patel. But Kohli was trapped at long-off trying one time as well many to push in the scoring against the left-arm spinner. A score of 250 would have been good from here on, but Dhoni and Raina exceed all prospect. Those companies provide India the force, but Raina fell on 61, trying to slog Steven Finn. Anything hopes this get through gave England were speedily quell by Jadeja's hectic 27 and a 65-run position with Dhoni in just seven overs, which bring India to the entranced of 300

Dhoni finished brilliantly, employing his helicopter whips and chips over cover. After a good start, England's seamers ended in waywardly.

With England captain Alastair Cook moving to a smoothly paced 60, the chase was well set-up. India's pace bowling attack with Vinay Kumar and Umesh Yadav was untested. But their swift crush to spin was classic. Starting with Jonathan Trott, consecutive batsmen failed to get forward and low to counter the turn and immerse.

Cook holed out to cavernous midwicket off Raveenndra Jadeja. Trott missed the line difficult to slog-sweep a at once ball in Jadeja's next. England struggled to read Ashwin's carrom ball and straighter ball.Ashwin also accounted for the wicket of Kevin Petersen, with a straight hit from mid-on. Petersen was concerned profusion by Vinay Kumar, who caught on to his convention of walking down the wicket to pacers. Vinay bounce him a couple of times, once outstanding him on the arm and once giving him a sore blow on the finger.

Dhoni had investigate the playing situation here days gone by and found out there was plenty of dew. Hence he went with three pacers today.Yadav wasn't always correct, but ended up with two not expensive wickets after the spinners had done most of the break.

In a jiffy, England had lost 6-37, and the game was every one of but in excess of in the 32nd over roundabout the time India begins their fight back in the first innings. This series began as a contest between India stressed to create impetus and England going through the form of their lives. At this rate, it may end up life form a contest between India's usual strength -- spin -- and England's classical helplessness to counter it.

Challenging India vs England series

2011-10-12T15:06:00.000-07:00

Hyderabad: India captain Dhoni gets a chance for revenge against England at what time he leads his team in a at some point series opening here Friday but his team is still handicapped by injuries.India was snowed under by injury on its latest tour of England at what time it failed to win a single game, and Dhoni must wish that person back on home soil will help restore the balance stuck between the two team.

Dhoni leads his team at home for the first time because India win the World Cup in April.opening Gautam Gambhir makes a comeback but others like batting star Sachin Tendulkar, big-hitter Virender Sehwag, pace head Zaheer Khan, all rounder Yuvraj Singh and seamer Munaf Patel are not in the group for the first two games in Hyderabad and New Delhi as of injury.

Spinner Harbhajan Singh has been drop after some nothing special performance in international cricket, send-off the bowling attack unhappily short of knowledge Selectors also overlooked pace bowlers Ashish Nehra and Shantakumaran Sreesanth, leaving India with only five players: Dhoni, Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina and Ravichandran Ashwin, who is in the World Cup squad.

Selectors comprise selected uncapped leg-spinner Rahul Sharma though prefer off-spinner Ashwin over Harbhajan.The pace bowling hit led by Praveen Kumar lack practice, with Varun Aaron and left-armer Sreenath Aravind still to be cap and Vinay Kumar and Umesh Yadav yet to bear out themselves.Compare to the past, they are an untried side and the bowling in fastidious looks used up in the want of Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh," Cook said on inward in India. "But their players know the conditions well."

England, which was complicated in a high-scoring last-ball attach in its last sport next to India on Indian soil all through the World Cup in Bangalore, has warm up well by winning two perform games played with new ICC rules that comprise the exercise of two new balls: one from each end.

The side is here without injured all-rounder’s Stuart Broad and experience seamer James Anderson who have be rested, leaving Tim Bresnan and Steve Finn to carry the task of bowling the length of with off-spinner Graeme Swann.England's batting while looks more developed with Kevin Pietersen receiving a chance to merge his situation after being rested for the home one-day succession against India.

Ravi Bopara strike a neat 73 in a 56-run win over local side Hyderabad XI in the team's first perform game, while Jonny Bairstow's scorching 104 not out off 53 balls cap a series of good batting performance by Cook (85), Jonathan Trott (74) and Craig Kieswetter (71) that help win the next by 253 runs.

In bowling, speed bowler Finn produced hat-trick wickets in the first match while future leg-spinner Scott Borthwick claim 5-31 in the second to test condition at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium which will crowd the first game on Friday.Then other ODI series will be detained in New Delhi(Oct. 17), Mohali (Oct. 20), Mumbai (Oct. 23) and Kolkata (Oct. 25). The tour culminates with a introverted Twenty20 game in Kolkata (Oct. 29).

West Indies to play first Test at Kotla

2011-10-11T11:04:00.000-07:00

Mumbai, Oct 11 Delhi's Feroz Shah Kotla ground will start the first test of the three Tests flanked series by India and the West Indies, start Nov 6.

The new two Tests will take place in Kolkata (Nov 14-18) and Mumbai (Nov 22 -26).grounds

India is also to play five One-Day Internationals (ODIs) next to the West Indies, list for which will be announced presently.

The series next to the West Indies begin a next week after England's tour of India.India vs England

England is at present in India to play five ODIs and one Twenty20 match. The first ODI begins Friday. The one-off Twenty20 resolve be played after the ODI series in Kolkata Oct 29.

INDIA VS ENGLAND Schedules:

1st ODI: India v England at Hyderabad
Oct 14, 2011

2^nd ODI: India v England at Delhi
Oct 17, 2011

3rd ODI: India v England at Mohali
Oct 20, 2011

4th ODI: India v England at Mumbai
Oct 23, 2011

5th ODI:India v England at Kolkata

Oct 25, 2011

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