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Showing posts with label cricket news. Show all posts
Saturday, 15 September 2012
Pathan bowls India to win in warm-up
COLOMBO: Irfan Pathan grabbed five wickets as India prepared for the World Twenty20 with a 26-run victory over hosts Sri Lanka in a warm-up match in Colombo on Saturday.The paceman finished with 5-25 off four overs as India bowled Sri Lanka out for 120 after posting 146-5. He was superbly backed by fast bowler Lakshmipathy Balaji, who took three wickets for 28 runs.
Kumar Sangakkara top-scored for Sri Lanka with 32.
India were struggling at 51-4 before skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (55 not out) and Rohit Sharma (37) propped up the innings with a 78-run stand for the fifth wicket.
Dhoni cracked three sixes and four boundaries in his 42-ball knock.
India are in Group A with England and Afghanistan while Sri Lanka are in Group C with South Africa and Zimbabwe. The top two teams from each group advance to the Super Eights round.
In another practice match in Colombo, Brad Hogg took three wickets to bowl Australia to a 56-run win over rivals New Zealand.
The 41-year-old spinner finished with 3-23 off four overs as Australia dismissed New Zealand for 83 after scoring 139-6.
Pacemen Shane Watson, Clint McKay and Pat Cummins each bagged two wickets for Australia.
Australia are in Group B with the West Indies and Ireland, while New Zealand are in Group D with Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Bangladesh defeated Zimbabwe by five wickets and Afghanistan beat Sri Lanka A by 51 runs in other warm-up games.
The World Twenty20 starts on Tuesday. (AFP)
No ICC award for Pakistan this year
COLOMBO: Pakistan’s T20 captain Mohammad Hafeez and international umpire Aleem Dar, could not win the ICC awards this year, at a ceremony held in Colombo on Saturday..They were the only Pakistanis nominated for the awards of the Spirit of the Year and the Umpire of the Year, respectively.
Instead, New Zealand left-arm spinner,Daniel Vettori won the ICC Spirit of Cricket award while the David Shepherd trophy for the Umpire of the Year went to Sri Lankan umpire Kumar Dharmasena..
The New Zealand left-arm spinner won the Spirit of Cricket award, for a sporting gesture during a Test against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo last November.
The match was heading to a tight finish, when Vettori accidentally collided with the non-striker Malcolm Waller during his follow-through. The clash hindered Waller from taking a single, and by that time the striker Regis Chakabva was too far down the track to get back. Though the wicketkeeper Reece Young took off the bails, Vettori immediately indicated that he had blocked Waller, and New Zealand decided to not appeal for Chakbva's wicket.
Vettori’s gesture earned him the award ahead of Pakistan's Mohammad Hafeez and the South African pair of Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers. MS Dhoni had taken the award last year, for recalling Ian Bell after a controversial run-out during the Trent Bridge Test.
Dharmasena won the umpire of the year award for the first time. The other nominees were five-time winner Simon Taufel, three-time winner Aleem Dar, along with New Zealand's Billy Bowden, England's Richard Kettleborough and Australia's Rodney Tucker.
آئی سی سی نے سعید اجمل کے ساتھ زیادتی کی ہے،سلیم یوسف
کراچی…سابق ٹیسٹ کرکٹرسلیم یوسف کا کہنا ہے کہ آئی سی سی نے سعید اجمل کو ٹیسٹ ون ڈے اور ٹی ٹوئنٹی کی کٹیگری سے باہر کرکے زیادتی کی ہے ، پی سی بی کی جانب سے جزوی بائیکاٹ کا فیصلہ درست ہے وطن واپسی پر پوری قوم سعید اجمل کو ایوارڈدے گی۔سابق ٹیسٹ کرکٹرکا کہنا تھا کہ پاک بھارت کرکٹ مقابلہ کسی بھی سطح پر ہو،اس کا پریشر دونوں ٹیموں پر برابر کا ہوتا ہے،وارم اپ میچ میں پاکستانی ٹیم بھارت کو شکست دینے میں کامیاب ہوجائے گی۔
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