India have beaten Pakistan in crucial match with the help of lusty blows by Harbhajan Singh and Suresh Raina towards the end, thus reached semi-finals of Asia Cup. The match offered nothing short of India-Pakistan match with lots of twists, turns, showdown and exchange of words between players. India won the match with just 1 ball to spare.
India on a whole played a absolutely played a better cricket than Sri Lanka in the fifth ODI match in tri-nation series in Dhaka by beating them clinically by 8 wickets when chasing a paltry 213. India reached the finals to meet the Sri Lankans again. Dhoni has dropped Virendra Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh and Ashish Nehra for Dinesh Karthik, Amit Mishra and Sudeep Tyagi. Incidentally, all the cricketers who came in have performed well.
Injury problem has surfaced in Australian camp after the first ODI match against India. Like Indians suffering from injures woes to their key players like Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh and Munaf Patel, Australian alrounder James Hopes, fast bowlers Brett Lee and Mitchell Johnson are affected by injuries in the on-going ODI series against India.
In the midst of controversies and apprehensions on the future of ODIs especially raised by the remarkable growth of T20 format, Haroon Lorgat CEO of ICC has told that upcoming Champions Trophy would definitely prove that 50-50 format is important one and that is here to stay.
Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar has smashed his forty fourth century to help India to break the jinx of not winning in the final in Sri Lanka for a decade now. India has beaten Sri Lankan by 46 runs to clinch the Compaq Cup.
Champions considered next big to world cup and the fever is catching up with all the eight test playing teams. Pakistan is always a team of talents and always unpredictable. Following the recent batting debacle by Pakistan, yesteryear’s batting mainstay of Pakistan has been appointed as batting advisor to Pakistan.
New Zealand and Sri Lanka alters bilateral ODI to tri series also featuring India which will be held between September 8 and 14. This tri series will have four matches including finals.
ICC Champions trophy of this year will be pre-poned by 2 days from original date it was slated. The tournament was about to play between September 24 and October 5.
Senior professionals Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Virendra Sehwag have been included in the squad for champions trophy to be held at South Africa in September.
