India win in Quandrangular Series u-19

Carters ton denies India victory



A battling century from captain Ryan Carters helped Australian Institute of Sport force a draw against India Emerging Players at Endeavour Park No.2
in Townsville. However, India finished on top in the points table,
thereby capping a successful series for them - they were also victorious
in the Twenty20 tournament that preceded the three-day games.

Ryan Carters' 115 helped Australia earn a draw



Australia ended the second day at 93 for 2, still 236 runs adrift of
India. Carters, who was unbeaten overnight on 56, continued to look
solid. He and Glenn Maxwell had added 65 before stumps on day two, and
they carried on the good work on the final day, adding a further 55
before Maxwell was dismissed for 73. Any hopes that India might have had
of causing a collapse were dented as Tim Armstrong joined his captain
and the duo put on 87 for the fourth wicket. Carters was finally
dismissed for 115, but Armstrong (75) featured in handy partnerships for
the fifth and sixth wickets to deny India a win, as Australia ended the
day on 328 for 7.




Reeza Hendricks completed his double-century and Richard Levi reached a century but South Africa Emerging Players were not left with enough time to bowl New Zealand A out at Endeavour Park in Townsville.
South Africa's only hope of notching up their first win of the
three-day leg of the tournament was to score quickly on the final day
and then hope for a New Zealand collapse. But Hendricks and Levi took
their time, and South Africa used up 54.2 overs in the day to get 177
runs, which put them 169 runs ahead. New Zealand lost two wickets in the
34 overs they had to bat.




Hendricks' 218 was his second double-century of the tournament and his
566-run aggregate earned him the Batsman-of-the-Tournament as well as
the Player-of the-Tournament awards. India's Iqbal Abdulla was named
Bowler of the Tournament for his nine wickets.

England's rise to Test No. 1



Short-term goals will keep England at top - Flower



Andy Flower says that England will seek to defend their new status as
the world's No. 1 Test side by attacking a series of short-term goals,
starting with the winter tours of Pakistan and Sri Lanka, as they set
about reassessing their priorities in the wake of a crushing
innings-and-242-run triumph against India at Edgbaston on Saturday.



That performance, which was built on the back of Alastair Cook's
career-best 294, took England to an unassailable 3-0 series lead with
just the Oval Test to come later this week, and ensured that, in little
more than two years since the squad was torn apart by the falling-out
between the then-captain and coach, Kevin Pietersen and Peter Moores,
England have surged to the top of the world Test rankings.



Flower, however, is already looking to the future as he plots a means to
turn England's spell at the top into something longer lasting. Writing
in his Daily Telegraph column, Shane Warne conceded that the
current England team has the look and feel of long-term champions, with
big-match temperaments in every position from 1 to 11.



Such heightened new expectations will be tough for Flower's men to live
up to, but he believes that two challenges in particular - the
forthcoming challenge in the subcontinent, and the inaugural World Test
Championship in 2013 - will provide all the focus his players need to
ensure their ranking looks after itself.



"I always think it is very dangerous to try to hold on to what you have
got," Flower told reporters after the Edgbaston Test. "We used that goal
- to be No1 - as a motivational tool that drove us in training and in
matches. Now that we have achieved that, what [Andrew] Strauss and I
don't want to do is hang on to No. 1 status. That's not a very exciting
way to go about our business. We are going to have to reset our goals.



"This winter we go to play against two countries that the last time
England toured those countries, we lost. We want to go away and play
Pakistan and Sri Lanka away from home and win those series. Ignoring the
ranking, those series will have their own importance.



"We've also got the World Test Championship for the first time in 2013
and that's in our own country. That is certainly something we are
striving for - we have to be in the top four to get into the semi-
finals of it and we are going to be working hard between now and then to
ensure we are a strong unit ready for that semi-final."



It was a tour of Pakistan that ended England's last comparable run of
sustained form six years ago, when the 2005 Ashes winners were stunned
by an unlikely defeat in Multan then crushed by an innings in Lahore.
The squad never recovered its momentum after their run of six
consecutive series wins had been ended, and Flower is wary that a
similar fate can still await this team if they allow their guard to
drop.



"Now we are ranked No.1, people will be very hungry to knock us off that
perch. There is no doubt about that," said Flower. "It is one thing
being good for a short period of time - but having a side that delivers
some special results and has some special times together that they will
remember for the rest of their lives, that will be a much better thing
to look back on than a few victories here and there."



To that end, Flower heaped praise on his Test captain, Strauss, whom he
lauded as a "an outstanding leader and a special man". The pair bonded
in the Caribbean during England's tour in the spring of 2009, where a
disastrous collapse to 51 all out in the first Test in Sabina Park gave
both men the licence they needed to mould the team in their own driven
images. "The players, after being asked to embrace responsibility, have
delivered," he said. "Strauss asked that of them when he took over the
captaincy a couple of years ago, and they are repaying him."



At the age of 34, Strauss may not have many more series left at the
helm, and so the prospect of taking part in the Ashes double-header in
2013-14 could prove to be a very personal motivation for the final stage
of his career. However, his deputy, Cook, has enhanced his credentials
as a leader, both through the sheer weight of his batting performances,
and latterly through his impressive series win over Sri Lanka in the
ODIs. The succession, it would appear, is in safe hands, which lends
weight to the perception that England could yet establish a dynasty to
rival those of West Indies and Australia in the past 30 years.



Flower, however, does not want to address such grandiose ambitions, and
prefers to keep his goals closer to home. "That isn't a very clear
target as yet," he said. "I like goals to be fairly specific. I don't
think we can compare ourselves to those sides, to be quite honest. They
dominated world cricket for lengthy periods. We have been playing well
for a little while now but only for a short time in cricketing history
terms.



"Who knows what the future holds though? That is going to be up to us."






England will seek to defend their status against Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the winter

Former Australian umpire DarrellHair, who triggered a storm by accusing Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan of chucking 16 years ago, says Indian tweaker Harbhajan Singh is also among the bowlers with"highly suspicious action".
In his book The Best Interests OfThe Game , the excerpts of whichwere published in the Daily Telegraph , the controversial Hair said despite suspecte action, it was unlikely that any action would ever be taken against erring bowlers.
"I noted that Harbhajan Singh, Shoaib Akhtar, Mohammad Hafeez, Johan Botha and Abdur Razzaq all bowl with a highly suspicious action that may or may not fall within the 15 degrees of tolerance," he wrote.
"But the chances of their being reported are slim. As to the chances of their being actually called during a match, absolutelyzero."
Harbhajan's action has been under the scanner in the past with former Indian spinner Bishan Singh Bedi being among those who have raised question marks about its legality.

Hair, who was asked to step down after a 78-Test umpiring career from 1992 to 2008, routinely hit the headlines for various controversies during his tenure, the biggest of them being the Muralitharan episode.
"Muralitharan was reported by match referee Chris Broad during Australia's tour of Sri Lanka in 2004 for illegal straightening of the arm at the elbow during his bowling action," Hair wrote.
"Tests on 1 April 2004 at the University of Western Australia revealed that he straightened hisarm by an average of 14 degrees, which was 9 degrees in excess of the tolerance level for spin bowlers mandated by the ICC at the time. On 5 February 2005 the ICC's Chief Executive Committee approved proposals aimed at ending the 'malaise' over illegal bowling actions.
"Under the new proposals, the tolerance limit for straightening of the arm for all bowlers was tobe set at 15 degrees, which studies had shown is the point at which the naked eye can make out excessive straightening," he recalled.
"Amazingly, this was one degreemore than the average of Muralitharan's arm straightening!"
Hair was asked to leave the ICC panel of umpires after Pakistan criticised him for awarding a Test to England against in 2006.
The umpire had accused Pakistani players of tampering with the ball which prompted their then captain Inzamam ul Haq's refusal to lead the side outin protest.

I just want to abuse him now but cant as it is not allowed,that stupid umpire-Just Go to Hell!

dareel hai--mr supscious..may be his father was CID

There Australians are SUCKERS

These Australians are SUCKERS

Suckers ..m feeling suspicious weather they are suckers or f***rs..ohh m being darell.....s**t s**t s**t

Cool down Shailesh

m cool ..................
lol

well palyed lads

England deserves that ...NO 1 suits best to them

Who says

Pakistan Test Squad:
Squad: Mohammad Hafeez, Taufeeq Umar, Imran Farhat, Azhar Ali,
Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-haq (capt), Asad Shafiq, Adnan Akmal (wk), Shoaib
Malik, Saeed Ajmal, Abdur Rehman, Aizaz Cheema, Wahab Raiz, Umar Gul,
Junaid Khan

Sri Lanka Test Squad:
Squad: Tillakaratne Dilshan (capt), Angelo Mathews (vc), Tharanga
Paranavitana, Lahiru Thirimanne, Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene,
Prasanna Jayawardene (wk), Dinesh Chandimal (wk), Rangana Herath, Suraj
Randiv, Chanaka Welegedara, Suranga Lakmal, Shaminda Eranga, Dammika
Prasad, Nuwan Pradeep, Kaushal Silva (wk).

Series Starts from 18th October

It will be played in UAE. In UAE, pitches are evn more flatter than India. I expect the result to be 0-0.Its 3 test match series

It will be an interesting match

viresh mathad wrote:It will be an interesting match

I expect a boring series.Last Pak vs Sa test series in UAE was so boring.Even Dale Steyn was useless on those pitches

Is it ? THEN IT WILL BE BORING

viresh mathad wrote:Is it ? THEN IT WILL BE BORING

yes,the result of that series was 0-0

The jury in the alleged spot-fixing trial involving Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif heard on Thursday in-depth information on legitimate payments made to the players and the breakdown of how their earnings were distributed, including a loyalty payment of £22,000 for declining the Indian Cricket League.
Those payments and method of distribution is significant to the case, as large amounts of cash were found in the hotel rooms of the two playersduring police raids in August last year, on their tour of England. The players attempted to account for the money during police interviews at the time.

On the seventh day of the trial at Southwark Crown Court, the prosecution called the former PCB director of cricket operations, Zakir Khan, to detail all of the various payments made to their contracted players.

Zakir, appearing via a video link fromthe PCB offices in Lahore, forensically explained the breakdown of pay when prompted by Aftab Jafferjee for the prosecution and then the two players' legal representatives.

The most interesting aspect was perhaps a fee of three million Pakistani rupees made to players to deter them from signing up to the so-called 'rebel' ICL. That amount equates to about £22,000. That nugget of information was brought to the court by Butt's barrister Ali Bajwa QC and confirmed by Zakir.

Pakistan were the worst affected by the breakaway league and a team in the ICL even carried the name the Lahore Badshahs, captained by former Pakistan star Inzamam-ul-Haq and coached by ex-wicketkeeper Moin Khan.

The ICL, which has since disbanded, was unsanctioned and not officially supported by the ICC and its members. With an exodus of Pakistan players to the ICL, also including players like Mohammad Sami, Abdul Razzaq and Mohammed Yousuf, the PCB made loyalty payments to players they did not wish to lose the ICL - Butt being one of them.

I dont know where is case going.SO many things are coming out.

It going somewhere Else

Stard somewhere and Ending Somewhere