A new pink cricket ball will give a new color to a game of cricket. The ball is under prototype and have not been use in any kind of domestic or international cricket yet.
The pink ball will have advantage on white ball of having color stability. The ball can be use for long and no need to change the ball during a match due to de colour or non visible to batsmen. The white ball is less visible in flood lights.
The experiments are on the way to introduce the ball in short form of game soon. Mcc intends to use this ball during the net practice in lords and later on will be use in 2008 for women cricket competition.
India 2 - 1 after beating the arch rival in the third one day international. Dhoni and Yuvraj put India in a reasonable total to defend while on other hand Salman Butt century also did not save the match.
India started with a luck when Ganguly was dropped by the out of form Pakistani wicket keeper on the very first ball which creates uncertainty for Kamran Akmal to continue his tour. He continue to drop the catches sice last series with South Africa. This was the main factor of Pakistan defeat. Later on Yuvraj and Dhoni manage to put a partnership to avoid early exposure of tail enders.
Pakistan batted in the similar fashion as the previous match but every day is not Sunday in cricket. Some times the planning goes wrong and it happened, the whole team was out 248 runs.
The next match will be crucial for both teams and will be the game of nerves.
Australia showed an impressive cricket show by beating Sri lanka by an innings 40 runs in the first test match played at Brisbane. Australia started pshing pressure from the first day and keep on exerting as the match moves on which resulted in a rompin stompin victory for the home side.
Now Australia is leading the series by 1 - 0 and leading the world ranking table too. Lee was awarded with the man of the match for his outstanding bowling performance.
Summary of the match is Sri Lanka won the toss, elected to field, and let Australia get up to 551 for 4, with hundreds to Jaques, Hussey and Clarke. Then they struggled, bowled out for 211 and following-on, being dismissed for 300. Not a lot to speak about with the bat, bar a battling first-innings half-century from Atapattu, back in the Test XI after two years and censured for his comments about the national selectors, a couple of aggressive 40s from Silva, and Vandort’s well-composed 82 in the second innings, which denied Australia on day four. Sri Lanka’s bowlers had a bad time too.
Sania Mirza a tennis star of India enjoyed the match between India and Pakistan played at Mohali. She is on holidays now a days after an injury. Watch here how she loves cricket.
She told that Shoaib akhtar and Shahid Afridi is her favourite along with Shoaib Malik. She also said before if she were a boy, he might be a cricketer. She was interested in meeting the players but due to some reasons she was unable to fullfil her desire.Shahid Afridi also her sad concern of not meeting the tennis star. Hopefully in other occasion she will manage to have some time with pak players.
Pakistan beat India by 4 wickets in a sensational match played at Mohali India. Pakistan stars spoils Indian diwali fun by showing an extra ordinary perfoemance. Both the team played a very good cricket and at the end the success hug Pakistan.
The match was senational throughout the game, India was always above Pakistan throughout but Pakistan team came back to match in the last overs. which Shahid Afridi and Sohail Tanvir take out out the win from India jaws.
Little master Sachin Tendulkar shows no mercy to pakistan bowlers and he scored 99 in 25 overs. He was brilliantly caught by Kamran Akmal on the bowling of Omer Gul. India manage to post a big total of 321.
Pakistan was not in able to catch that figure through out the match but the last overs totally change the game. Younus Khan hit a century and put a platform for victory. Later on Misbahul Haq, Shahid Afridi and Sohail Tanveer knocks bring Pakistan in to a position to level the series.
It was a great game. I love to watch that kind of close contests in cricket.
PCB is enquiring about new activities of Shoaib Akhtar in India. Shoaib Akhtar was shown in an Indian channel with other girls dancing in a disco. PCB dont like Shoaib to involve in these activities.
Why PCB is limiting his personnel activiti4es?
He is an independent person off the field. His activities in the field can be monitored but off the field he has his private life. Pcb should not impose restrictions in this way. Let him do what he wants. His activities does not harm any body. He have right of enjoyment after his job is done.
If he do any mischief in the game or performing his duty then PCB can prohibit him. Hopefully the board members understand his situation. If he dont have extra curricular activities then his performance will be affected too.
First match between Pakistan and India remained one sided most of the time during the game. Pakistan one the toss and elected to bat first. After losing two wickets Pakistani batsmen were never in a postion to charge the Indian bowlers to post a handsome total. The moderate runs on the board was easy for India to made it 1-0.
Although the match was one sided but still the young captain Shoaib Malik did not attack the Indian batting lineup. In the last 15 overs he should attack with Shoaib Akhtar early to take few wickets and put pressure on the host. He did mistake by not charging the opponents.
The Indians played a decent cricket and especially Dhoni and Yuvraj showed no hurry to chase that moderate total.
The series between India and Paksitan will go on despite the emergency declaration in Pakistan. Dr Naseem Ashraf the president of Pakistan cricket board in a recent press conference confirm that the cricket will be carry on according to the schedule. The fans can enjoy the ball and bat competition according to the schedule.
