Bangladesh complete West Indies whitewash

A stunning performance from the stand-in captain Shakib Al Hasan and brilliant innings from Rokibul Hasan led Bangladesh cricket to a historical moment by clinching the away test series 2-0 against West Indies.

Sakib's unbeaten 96 of 97 balls and rokib's 65 of 99 balls gave no chance to West Indies to fight against Bangladesh.

Sakib's five wicket haul in the second innings restricted West Indies only for 214 at the 1st session of fourth day.

"This is the best day for Bangladesh cricket. The guys have been supporting me very well so I don't feel any pressure. Raqibul played a gem of an innings. I thought attack was the best form of defense.", Sakib's reaction after the win.

Having more than 150 overs in hand to chase a silly target of 215 in the 4th innings, bangladesh top order frustrated once again leaving Bangladesh 67-4.

But 100 run partnership from middle order batsman rokib and captain sakib lead Bangladesh win the 2nd test by 4 wickets on the 4th day.

Winning the test match, Bangladesh sealed their first test series win in overseas.

Beating west indies in the first test Bangladesh won their first away match in the history of Bangladesh cricket.

Sakib judged for both Man of the Match and Man of the Series.

England’s Cricket Victory Over Australia at Lord’s a First in 75 Years

History was going to be made either way Monday on the final day of the second five-day Ashes test between England and Australia at Lord’s ground.

England was aiming to end 75 years of futility against its oldest and most cherished rival on its most historic ground. Australia’s quest was to smash the record for the highest successful final innings run-chase in 132 years of test cricket.

Needing 522 — a record for a last innings — it had scored 313 runs for five wickets on Sunday.

England got what it wanted, and in the manner most fans would have asked for. Andrew Flintoff, a much-loved all-rounder who announced last week that he will retire from test cricket at the end of this five-match series, had a partisan crowd roaring as he charged in from the end dominated by Lord’s famous pavilion to wreck Australia’s hopes.

In his first over he ended the 185-run sixth wicket stand that had become a real threat to England’s hopes, inducing Brad Haddin to edge the ball to slip-fielder Paul Collingwood for 80.

Every ball bowled by Flintoff promised fresh drama as he threatened the wickets and the bodies of Australia’s batsmen, hitting Michael Clarke on the shoulder.

Flintoff bowled 10 six-ball overs unchanged, a marathon for a big man who has suffered endlessly with injury. He bowled tail-enders Nathan Hauritz and Peter Siddle to end with five wickets in his last test match at Lord’s.

That earns him a permanent entry on the ground’s honors board which lists such feats.

Clarke said Flintoff had bowled as well as anyone he had faced in his 49 test matches.

Flintoff found a fine, contrasting, bowling partner Graeme Swann. The spinner struck in his first over, removing Clarke for a magnificent 136. Swann ended the match when he bowled Mitchell Johnson, who had produced Australia’s best batting of the morning, for a well-struck and spirited 63.

It was all over in a little under two hours, the final margin in England’s favor 115 runs.

Australia fell short of its ultimate target but still recorded its own highest-ever final innings score and the best ever in a test match at Lord’s.

England’s first victory over Australia in eight matches means it leads the series, which it must win to reclaim the Ashes trophy, 1-0 with three games to go.

A contest between well-matched but fallible teams, neither as strong as when they last met in England four years ago, seems unlikely to be resolved before the final match at the Oval, London next month.

Ricky Ponting, the Australian captain, conceded that “England were much the better team and deserved to win. We were outplayed from the first ball until the end.”

He chose not to reiterate complaints about the dubious umpiring decisions that cost Australia three of its top four batsmen in the final innings.

The choice of Flintoff as Man of the Match was essentially sentimental, taking one of the few remaining opportunities to garland a national hero.

Andrew Strauss, the England captain, had set the tone for the victory from the start with his first-day innings of 161, batting his team into a dominant position that it never subsequently lost.

England’s concerns ahead of the next match in Birmingham, starting on July 30 are with the fitness of key players. Kevin Pietersen, the star batsman who missed much of the early season with an Achilles tendon problem, looked uncomfortable throughout and must be a doubt.

Flintoff was bullish about his chances of playing the remaining three matches, saying that while he had felt some pain while bowling, “I’ve played in discomfort for most of my career.”

Australia’s difficulties appear more fundamental. Its most experienced fast bowler Brett Lee is likely to return after missing the first two matches injured. What nobody would have predicted before the series started is that this could be at the expense of Johnson.

The left-armer from Queensland is probably the best No. 8 batsman in the world, but is failing in his primary task as spearhead of the fast bowling. Johnson conceded an average of more than five runs per over at Lord’s and his inaccuracy gave England flying starts in both innings.

Philip Hughes, the rookie opener, also has to find an answer to an apparent weakness against the fast short-pitched ball — Flintoff’s stock-in-trade — that gives him little scope for footwork. Here Australia has two difficulties — not wanting to inhibit a vividly original talent and the absence of a reserve top-order batsman in an eccentrically chosen tour squad.

Vaas Confirms Retirement, Pak Hope to Make Amends

The agreement appears sealed. Chaminda Vaas will play the third and final Test against Pakistan in Colombo. But it will be his last.
Just prior to the start of the series, Vaas had denied speaking to the selectors about an impending retirement or of not wanting to play Test cricket anymore. But the announcement was not much different.
Vaas has confirmed that the final Test against Pakistan will be his final Test appearance although he intends to continue playing ODI’s and Twenty20 matches until the 2011 World Cup.
Meanwhile Kumar Sangakkara will be feeling the pleasant cushion of his team being 2-0 up on the visitors. Rangana Herath has created quite a name for himself in the absence of Muttiah Muralitharan and countering Ajantha Mendis’ lack of form. He will be expected to continue the trend.
Pakistan captain, Younis Khan, on the other hand, has a host of problems. Pakistan’s batting fell apart in three of the four Test innings and he has asked for more time with his team stating that a captain cannot be blamed because he cannot bat for all of them. He also cited the lack of cricket as a reason for Pakistan’s debacle. But there is experience in this team with Mohammad Yousuf and Fawad Alam made a fine century on debut in the second Test only for Pakistan to throw it away.
Pakistan will want to address a few issues while Sri Lanka would enjoy nothing more than continuing to strangle their visitors.

England And Australia Alternate Fortunes

It is almost as if England were paying the price for getting wickets a little too cheaply. The honours of the day shifted from England to Australia as day four drew to a close at the second Test at Lord’s.
England would certainly not be feeling as comfortable as they did in the session before lunch or even tea. And the 521 target would not appear as a sufficient target for the Australia the way Michael Clarke and Brad Haddin batted in the final session after tea.

England are only five balls away from their first win in the Ashes of 2009. But between their last wicket and possibly the next, the time interval lapsed has been long and testing with no respite in sight.
Australia were perilously close to the end at 128 for five but that was in the session before tea. Thereafter, Clarke and Haddin stitched a valuable and more importantly unbeaten 185 run partnership for the sixth wicket that frustrated England captain Andrew Strauss and England no end. Clarke though had a valuable century to his name as Haddin did with his half century.
Earlier in the day, Australia began the day batting after England declared overnight on 311 for six. Andrew Flintoff won the battleagainst the Australian openers, Phillip Hughes and Simon Katich, but it was not without controversy.

Katich was dismissed off a delivery that clearly appeared to have been a no ball as Flintoff overstepped. Hughes was sent off by umpire Rudi Koertzen officiating in his 100th Test for a catch that appeared unclear, caught by Strauss.
But thereafter Graeme Swann effected two splendid wickets for England to feel vindicated about their efforts and their chances. Australian captain, Ricky Ponting, was bowled by Stuart Broad for thirty-eight and thereafter, Mike Hussey was caught by Paul Collingwood off Swann for twenty-seven runs. Marcus North made the day for Swann again after being bowled and Australia in deep trouble at 178 for five at tea.
The session thereafter belonged to the Australian batsmen altogether as their partnership not only denied England the opportunity to make further inroads but also, pushed Australia into the realm of thinking that if England could have a miracle at Cardiff in the first Test, they are not far from one, needing 209 runs with five wickets in hand.

WI Go About Setting Bangladesh Enticing Target

It has been a topsy turvy Test match thus far with neither team in particular hurry to stamp their mark. And the outcome, therefore, continues to remain an intriguing mystery on the third day of the second Test at Grenada.
Kemar Roach was having the time of his life. His six wicket haul meant that Bangladesh did not get away from West Indies despite restricting them to 237, that too because of Travis Dowlin’s outstanding effort to get to ninety-five.
Bangladesh had plenty of fits and starts but none that went beyond Raqibul Hasan’s forty-four and Mushfiqur Rahim’s forty-eight. It helped Bangladesh recover from seven for 157 to 232 all out, just five runs short of West Indies’ first innings score.
What it meant that West Indies would have to significantly improve from their first innings batting if they were to bat Bangladesh out of the match.

Once again Dowlin was pressed into action, making forty-nine runs as Bangladesh’s stand in captain, Shakib Al Hasan for Mashrafe Mortaza, picked up four scalps. Enamul Haque Jr picked up the key wicket of Dowlin as well as that of Darren Sammy who partnered briefly with David Bernard, batting on his Test half century, that took West Indies from five for 110 to 166.
Bangladesh were unhappy over the West Indies’ running on the field as the match assumed tenseness. Rain intervened in the final over before tea, taking West Indies to 192 for eight,just two short of the 200 target with two wickets remaining.

Cricket World Cup History And Cricket World Cup Winners

In the Cricket history, the ICC Cricket World Cup is the biggest Cricket tournament of one day cricket matches. So far 8 such tournaments are held in Cricket world cup history. The winners of these tournaments are: Australia winner for the most 3 times, West Indies won 2 times while India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have won one time each. The other form of cricket are test match cricket played on 5 day span and consists of two innings from each team. There exists another short form of cricket, the twenty20 cricket, is limited 20 overs single innings game. ICC is also thinking to held twenty20 world cup tournaments.

The ODI Cricket World Cup History begun in 1975 when England held the first world cup sponsored by Prudential Insurance Company and so named Prudential World Cup. This tournament is played between cricket Test playing nations and qualifiers. Forthcoming Cricket World cup 2007 is hosted by West Indies and 16 teams will play in this tournament. Following is the summary history of each of the tournaments held so far.

First Cricket World Cup, 1975, England - Winner: West Indies
In the Cricket World Cup History first ever tournament was hosted by England. This was played between England, Australia, New Zealand, West Indies, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and East Africa. This was sponsored by Prudential Insurance Company and hence named Prudential World Cup. West Indies won this first ever held tournament beating Australia by 17 runs. West Indies made 291/8 in 60 overs with Clive Lloyd 102 runs off just 85 balls but Australia fall short by 17 runs.

Second Cricket World Cup, 1979, England - West Indies won
This was the second World Cup tournament played in 1979, once again hosted by England. And once again was sponsored by Prudential Insurance Company and hence named Prudential World Cup. This was played between Australia, Canada, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri lanka and West Indies. By first batting in final West Indies made 286/9 with the help of superb batting from Sir Vivian Richards 138*. England could not achieve this score and lost the game by 92 runs.

Third Cricket World Cup Winner India, In 1983, at England
The third tournament was played in 1983, once again hosted by England and was sponsored by Prudential Insurance Company. This was played between Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Srilanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe. This tournament is remembered in the histroy of Indian cricket and in the history of world cricket too. The final was played between India and West Indies. In the first innings India made only 183 in 54.4 overs. No one hope that the India could win this game with such low score of 183. But it was surprise for all the cricket fans and India restrict West Indies to only 140 and won the world cup by 43 runs. Mohinder Amarnath named man of the match for his all rounder performance.

Fourth Cricket World Cup, 1987, India and Pakistan - Australia won
This is the first time the Cricket World Cup hosted out side England in Cricket History. This was jointly hosted by India and Pakistan and sponsored by Reliance company and so named Reliance World Cup. It was played between Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe. The final was played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India between Australia and England. Playing first Australia made 253/7 in 50 overs and win the tournament by 7 runs to England. David Boon was named man of the match for his 75 runs.

Fifth Cricket World Cup, 1992, Australia and New Zealand - Pakistan won
The Fifth time it was played between Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Zimbabwe and South Africa. It was Jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand called the Benson and Hedges World Cup. Final was played between Pakistan and England and Pakistan win the game by 22 runs, Wasim Akram named man of the match.

Sixth Cricket World Cup, 1996 - Winner Sri Lanka
The Sixth tournament was jointly hosted by three countries India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It was called Wills World Cup. It was played between Australia, England, India, Kenya, New Zealand, Netherlands, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates, West Indies and Zimbabwe. This tournament was remembered for three things in Cricket World Cup History, first the winner is one of the hosting nations, second first time win by the team batting second in world cup final and the third they are the winner throughout without loosing single match. Srin Lanka won the world cup beating Australia by 7 wickets. Aravinda da Silva named man of the match for his 107*.

Seventh Cricket World Cup, 1999, England - Australia wonSeventh Cricket World Cup was called ICC World Cup and hosted by England again. It was played between Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Kenya, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Scotland, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe. The final was played at Lords between Australia and Pakistan. Australia easily win over Pakistan by 8 wickets in the low scoring game. Batting first Pakistan made only 132, the lowest total ever recorded in final in Cricket World Cup History. Shane Warne named man of the match for his superb bowling performance.

Eighth Cricket World Cup, 2003, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya - Australia wonThe Eighth tournament was played between Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, England, India, Kenya, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Scotland, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe. It was jointly hosted by South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya. It was also called ICC Cricket World Cup. The final was played between Australia and India, with Australia win the match by 125 runs. This is the third time Australia win the world cup, the highest number of time any nation who won the world cup in Cricket World Cup History.

Forthcoming Ninth ICC Cricket World Cup, 2007, West Indies - (Who will win?) Forthcoming ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 will start from March, 2007. This is the first time in Cricket World Cup History hosted by West Indies. It will be contested by 16 teams divided into 4 groups.
A. Australia, South Africa, Scotland, Holland
B. Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Bermuda
C. New Zealand,England,Kenya,Canada
D. Pakistan, West Indies, Zimbabwe, Ireland
Top two teams from each group will then be taken to Super 8 formate group. From these top 8 teams semi-finalists will be decided.

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India beat West Indies in first ODI by 20 runs

Spearheaded by Yuvraj Singh’s scintillating 131 of 102 balls, India beat the West Indies by 20 runs in the thrilling first cricket one-day international here to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series on Friday.

The Indian batsmen scored an intimidating 339 for six after opting to bat at Sabina Park. The hosts responded with 319 in 48.1 overs.

For the West Indians, Shivnarain Chanderpaul top scored with 63, while wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin played a sparkling 29-run knock.

Earlier, Yuvraj treated the West Indian bowlers with utter disdain, clobbering them for seven huge sixes and 10 boundaries apart from sharing a crucial 135-run stand with Dinesh Karthik (67).

Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (41), Yusuf Pathan (40 unbeaten) and Harbhajan Singh (21 not out) also chipped in with useful contributions.

With the wicket of Chanderpaul in the 36th over it looked all over for the hosts but their lower order batted with steely resolve and made it an edge-of-the-seat contest.

West Indies required 21 off the last two overs with one wicket in hand but Ashish Nehra removed Ramdin in the first ball of the 49th over to bring a huge relief for his side.

Ramnaresh Sarwan (45) and Runako Morton (42) did well and got the starts for the West Indies but could not convert those into big knocks.

Jerome Taylor (21) and David Bernard (19), batting at number seven and nine respectively did their best but their effort went in vain in the end.

For India, Nehra (3/49) and Yusuf Pathan (3/56) took three wickets each. It was raining sixes as 23 of them were hit in the match.