Thursday, January 30, 2014

Austrailia vs. England

Hi! Welcome back!  Australia is on a winning streak.  England lost the opening Twenty20 international in Hobart, Australia on Wednesday, 29 after narrowly failing to get close to Australia's massive 214-run target. Some prodigious got England to within 13 runs of the target at the finish. Ravi Bopara smashed seven sixes and two fours in his unbeaten 65 off 27 balls but paceman Nathan Coulter-Nile bowled the Australians to victory with four for 30 off his four overs. .Joe Root scored 32 off 24 balls and opener Alex Hales hit 22 off 12 balls for the beaten tourists, who have only won one limited-over international on their hapless tour of Australia. Australia won the Ashes Test series 5-0 and the ODI series 4-1 before the three-game T20 series began. "Ravi's performance was a positive, but if you lose three wickets in the first six overs you rarely win," said England skipper Stuart Broad. "We'll reflect and consider changes, but I err on the side of consistency and back these players to come back strong in Melbourne. "Cameron White was named man-of-the-match for his 75 off 43 balls as Australia set England 214 to win. England's previous highest T20 run chase was 181 against India in 2012 so their 200 for 9 was their highest score in the format. Australia’s team may become number one.  England wasn’t far behind in this match although. I have been surprised by the results. I expected more from some of the teams.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

    WELCOME!

Hi! Welcome to my blog! I am a huge fan of cricket. This is a brief description of how to play cricket if you don’t know much about the game. Cricket is a game played between two teams of 11 players on a field at the center. Each team takes it in turn to bat, attempting to score runs, while the other team fields. Each turn is known as an inning. The bowler delivers the ball to the batsman who hits the ball with his bat far enough for him to run to the other end of the pitch and score a run. The batsman has to get runs for his team, but at the same team he has to make sure the bowler doesn’t hit his wickets. The team that bats continues batting until ten batsmen are out, at which point the teams switch roles and the fielding team comes in to bat.Right now the Sri Lanka's team went against the Pakistan's team.  Sri Lanka battled against Pakistan's spinners led by Saeed Ajmal to reach 220-5 at close on the opening day of the third Test in Sharjah on Thursday. Ajmal took 2-62 to leave Sri Lanka struggling at 166-5 before Angelo Mathews and Prasanna Jayawardene saw off the day with a 54-run unfinished stand on a spin-friendly Sharjah stadium pitch. Tomorrow at 7:20 England will be going against Australia.  On Saturday India will be going against New Zealand. Also, on Saturday Australia is going against Australia against England. Best of luck to all of the teams. I am so excited. Tell me who you think will win.

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