Rankings and Players

Rankings:

India’s performance in the current tour of New Zealand may cost them their second spot in the rankings table. India will be replaced by Australia if the latter manages to win their away series against South Africa, starting on Thursday. Australia will move into second position if they win the series, the result of the second Test between India and New Zealand in Wellington. If India does not win the second Test, Australia need only to draw the series to move into second place. What do you think is going to happen. Will Australia replace India in the rankings? I think Australia may replace India. Tell me what you think will happen. I look forward to reading about your opinion.  In the next section I will write about the players on different teams.

Players: (Bowlers)

Cheteshwar Pujara and R. Ashwin (Indian team) managed to remain the best-placed Indians by keeping their place inside the top-10 of the batting and bowling charts, but slipped a rung each in the latest rankings issued on Monday. Pujara (on the Indian team ) was placed sixth in the batting list while Ashwin was eighth among the bowlers. Among other Indians, Virat Kohli remained in 11th place in the batting rankings followed by Mahendra Singh Dhoni at the 33rd spot. Pragyan Ojha was the next best-placed Indian after Ashwin at 11^th. Kumar Sangakkara’s historic effort of 424 runs in the second and final Test in Chittagong against Bangladesh saw him jump five places to second in the rankings for Test batsmen. These are the latest updates.

-Cricket Fan

One Day International
 
Hi! Here are the latest updates on cricket. India has lost six of their last seven completed ODIs. (If you don’t know what an ODI is it is short for One Day International. Two teams with an international status go against each other, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, usually fifty. An over is a set of six balls thrown to a batsman.) India has also lost nine of their last 10 Tests. (Test matches are played between national representative teams, as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The two teams of 11 players play a four-innings match, which often lasts up to five days.) I personally love these matches! There was a draw at Johannesburg, where MS Dhoni’s men dominated only to be deprived by Faf du Plessis and AB de Villiers on the final afternoon. Now that the latest match in New Zealand has dislodged India from the No.1 spot. The team has lost a lot of matches. I don’t know why though, I thought the team was very good. They used to win a lot of matches. These last few matches have been very disappointing for me. I think a lot of people were probably disappointed.  The general tone going into the two-Test series against New Zealand is that this Indian team overseas is more competitive in the longest format than it is in ODIs. New Zealand’s team however has been doing very well. They have won many matches against India and other teams as well.

-Cricket Fan