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Bangladesh Won By chasing 313 against Zimbabwe

2009-08-16T13:41:00.001-07:00

Today (16Th August) Bangladesh made a victory against Zimbabwe. At first Zimbabwe won the toss and chose to bat first. The gathered a huge run of 312. CK Coventry Made a record breaking innings by doing 194 runs. He break the record of sayed anwer.

In the reply of Bangladesh innings they gathered 313 runs by losing only 6 wickets in 47.5 over. Tamim Iqbal done a winning innings for Bangladesh by doing 154 runs by playing 138 balls with the help of 7 4s and 6 6s.Players of the match CK Coventry (Zimbabwe) and Tamim Iqbal (Bangladesh). By wining this match Bangladesh won the series.

Sports new available here...: Injured Lee is out of Ashes for first two Tests

2009-07-08T09:08:00.001-07:00

Sports new available here...: Injured Lee is out of Ashes for first two Tests

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Injured Lee is out of Ashes for first two Tests

2009-07-08T00:53:00.000-07:00

Brett Lee is one of the main bowler of australian team. But may be

he is out of the first two Tests of the Ashes series with a low-grade abdominal tear and is no guarantee to play thereafter. The Australian fast bowler experienced pain down his left side following last week's tour game against England Lions in Worcester, and will be sidelined for the Cardiff and Lord's Tests at the very least.

Brett Lee was absent from Australia's training session at Sophia Gardens on Monday. He is being sent to London for scans, which revealed a small tear in an abdominal muscle.

"There probably is a bit more disappointment that it is an Ashes Test," Lee said. "I'm extremely disappointed. I'm gutted that I won't be there for that first Test match. But I'll find a way to bounce back. I've gotten back from five ankle surgeries so I'm sure one little muscle strain won't keep me out for too long.

"I still see myself hopefully playing a major role for Australia through the end part of the series, whether that's the second, third, fourth or fifth Test match, depending on how things go. I'm very disappointed but it's not the end of the world. I've got a couple of weeks now to get it right. I'll be hopefully running in a couple of days if [the physio Alex Kountouris] lets me. I'll be working on my fitness ... and hopefully I'll be back shortly."

Wimbledon Fixtures 2009

2009-06-23T06:16:00.000-07:00

The season 2009 of the Wimbledon is about to begin on June 22, 2009. The fixtures of the Wimbledon was recently announced. Rafael Nadal withdraw from Wimbledon. It is a greatest disappointment to all the tennis and it will be a narrow slot for Federer.

Follow the link below to view the Wimbledon fixtures:

Wimbledon Fixtures 2009

FIFA confederations cup 2009: Italy vs Brazil (0 - 3) Goals Highlights

2009-06-22T07:07:00.001-07:00

Italy is suffering a painful 3-0 defeat to group winners Brazil in the semi finals of the Confederations Cup 2009. As the United States beat Egypt 3-0 in the other group match, the Americans finish second based on goal record. Brazil comfortably win this group and face hosts South Africa in Thursday's semi final.

Here is the highlight of Italy vs Brazil (0 - 3) :

FIFA confederations cup 2009: Egypt vs united states (0-3) goals highlights

2009-06-22T06:37:00.000-07:00

In the semi finals of 2009 Confederations Cup in South Africa The United States have done the impossible by beat Egypt by 3-0. Charlie Davies,Michael Bradley and Clint Dempsey made one goal each for United stats.

Here is the highlight of Egypt vs united states (0-3) in FIFA confederations cup 2009:

ICC T20 worldcup: Pakistan vs Sri lanka T20 worldcup final highlight

2009-06-22T06:21:00.000-07:00

Yesterday In T20 worldcup final Pakistan defeat Sri Lanka By 8 wicket. Afridi and Razzak help Pakistan to do this victory.

Here is the Full highlight of Pakistan vs Sri Lanka T20 worldcup final on 21Th June:

ICC T20 worldcup: Afridi's fifty help Pakistan to defeat Sri lanka

2009-06-21T11:13:00.000-07:00

Today(21th June) in ICC T20 world cup final Pakistan played against sri lanka. In this match Pakistan beat Sri lanka by 8 wicket. At first Sri lanka won the toss and choose to bat first. At the starting of the sri lankan innings sri lanka gathered a total of 138 runs of 6 wicket in 20 overs. A captain's innings from Kumar Sangakkara(62 runs of 52 balls) and a late charge by Angelo Mathews boosted Sri Lanka to 138 for 6 in the ICC World Twenty20 final after the top order were blown away by Abdul Razzaq. Razzaq takes 3 wickets in 3 overs for 20 runs. In return Pakistan full fill their their target in 18.4 overs by losing only 2 wicket.Afridi made 54 runs of 52 balls to help Pakistan to make the victory.Man of the match Shahid Afridi.Player of the series TM Dilshan.

Here is the wining moment of Pakistan:

US Open: Ricky Barnes Sets 36-Hole Scoring Record

2009-06-20T11:55:00.000-07:00

Ricky Barnes has clearly regained his USGA championship stroke With a record-setting show,

Tiger Woods, meanwhile, was trying to fight his way into contention as rain returned to still-soggy Bethpage Black.

Barnes, the 2002 U.S. Amateur champion, set the U.S. Open 36-hole scoring record by finishing two trips around the course in 8-under 132. He completed his second round Saturday morning, making three birdies in nine holes for a 65.

The previous 36-hole record was 133, set by Jim Furyk and Vijay Singh at Olympia Fields in 2003. Barring someone in the second half of the draw going on a birdie barrage, Barnes was almost certain to be the midway leader.

"It's pretty cool," Barnes said. "Obviously at the beginning of the week you didn't think that score was out there. Obviously with some tees moved up and the soft greens helped it out. And obviously with my ball-striking was the most probably impressive part of the first 36 holes."

Barnes has hit 31 of 36 greens this week; the rest of the field is only hitting the green in regulation about half the time.

"If you would have told me I would have been 8 under and only (a) one-shot lead, I would have said, 'You're kidding me,'" Barnes said. "But I'll take it. It was solid play. And I'm happy with the position I'm at."[collected from www.huffingtonpost.com]

USC Basketball: USC hired Kevin O'Neill as basketball coach

2009-06-20T11:38:00.000-07:00

Kevin O'Neill has been hired by USC as basketball coach, the school announced today on its website.

O'Neill's hiring came a day after USC representatives made a final run at Pittsburgh Coach Jamie Dixon, who again declined to leave the Big East powerhouse to take over a beleaguered Trojans' program that is under NCAA investigation.

O'Neill, 52, replaces Tim Floyd, who resigned June 9 in the midst of a tumultuous off-season that included allegations that he hand-delivered a payment in 2007 to an associate of former USC star O.J. Mayo.

The salvage operation O'Neill faces is immense. USC had its three top returning players declare their intent to turn professional, and five recruits either asked to be let out of their scholarships or change their verbal commitments. Only nine scholarship players remain on the roster.

"I'm very excited about this opportunity to coach at such a great institution as USC, with its tremendous athletic and academic tradition," O'Neill said in a statement released by USC. "I appreciate [Athletic Director] Mike Garrett's confidence in me. I will work my hardest to coach us to a championship level every single day. I can't wait to get started."

O'Neill also sounded like a coach who knew what he was getting into at USC.

"I recognized that USC basketball has been through a tough time lately," he said. "Like many college basketball fans, I have been following the developments in the media. One thing I expect people might second-guess me on is whether I made the right call in taking this job.

" . . . I want to assure you that I made my decision only after a thorough evaluation. . . . If I didn't believe in USC -- and all of the people involved -- I wouldn't be putting my name and reputation on the line. But I do and I am. Enough said.

"I'm sure I am also going to be asked whether the NCAA investigation involving basketball is going to hurt recruiting or the program in general. Let me just say that if I thought I wouldn't be able to do my job -- do the job that the University expects of me and equally important that I expect of myself -- I wouldn't have taken the job."

O'Neill spent last season as an assistant coach and special assistant to the general manager for the Grizzlies. He was the interim coach at Arizona, filling in for Lute Olson, during the 2007-08 season. Arizona reached the NCAA tournament and finished with a 19-15 record. Although O'Neill was designated as Olson's successor by Athletic Director Jim Livengood, he was pushed out when Olson announced his return in April 2008.

O'Neill was the Toronto Raptors head coach in 2003-04, when they finished with a 33-49 record. He has been an assistant with the Detroit Pistons, New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers.

On the college level, O'Neill has been the head coach at Marquette, Tennessee and Northwestern. Marquette made the NCAA tournament in 1993 and 1994 under O'Neill.[collected from www.latimes.com]

Confederations Cup: USA vs Italy States (1 - 3) highlight

2009-06-18T12:00:00.000-07:00

In Confederations Cup On 15th june USA played against Italy. In that match of FIFA Confederations Cup South Africa 2009 Italy defeat USA by 3-1 goals. Here is the match highlight:

Confederations Cup: Brazil vs United States (3-0) All Goals

2009-06-18T11:54:00.000-07:00

Today in Confederations Cup Brazil played against United states. In tish game Brazil defeat USA by 3-0 goals. These are all the goals from the game in High Quality, Brazil vs United States, for the Confederations Cup.Here is the goals highlight:

T20 match preview: Pakistan "crush" Ireland by 39 runs

2009-06-15T11:28:00.000-07:00

Today Pakistan played against Ireland in t20 world cup. In this t20 match Pakistan defeat Ireland by 39 runs. Here is the match report prvied by www.cricket20.com:

Saeed Ajmal took 4 wickets as Pakistan stunned Ireland with a purple patch of four wickets in nine balls late in the innings to close the game off comfortably.

Ireland started well, matching Pakistan's opening stages in the previous innings of 37-1 by the end of the power-plays.

But the superior Pakistani bowling was evident from start to finish as Afridi keenly bowled out Peter Stirling for 17 with a powerful ball straight down the middle that the teenager missed to bring his good innings to an end and left Ireland on 42-2.

Ireland never seemed to step into the higher gear that that desperately needed with a target of 159 to chase, but that was not entirely their fault.

All-rounder Afridi continually confused the Irish batsmen with diverse and precisely deliveries.

Even when Afridi retired from his bowling duties, the next Pakistani to take over just continued the excellent bowling and an Saeed Ajmal delivery teased Williams Porterfield into chipping the ball straight to Khan for an easy catch and Ireland were trailing 87-3 with 12 overs gone.

It seemed only a matter of time before another wicket was taken and two more came very soon after. First John Mooney was dismissed by Umar Gul, then Trent Johnson came in after a mixed first innings, and he was sent straight back out again as Gul took him for a duck to take him to the top of the leader board for wicket-taking in the tournament.

Suddenly the gates seemed to open the wickets never seemed to stay up right for longer than a couple of balls each time as Pakistan absolutely stunned Ireland with four wickets in the space of nine balls.

First, clever play from Ajmal and wicket-keeper Akmal leads to the Akmal stumping both O'Brien and Cusack for 26 and 2 respectively. Then Gul came into the fold again and got his twelfth wicket of the tournament with a brilliant, full, fast delivery.

Ireland were absolutely shell-shocked and hesitation between their batsmen led to further embarrassment, and a run-out for Regan.

After this frenzy of excitement, Ireland were lost and saw out the remaining over to end with a score of 120-9, when only three overs previously they found themselves on 99-5.

After a fairly slow start for Pakistan in the first innings, Kamran Akmal smashed a Trent Johnston delivery over the mid-wicket boundary for a six.

Akmal's batting partner, Shahzaib Hasan, went even better hitting a fantastic 94-metre six into the second tier at The Oval as question marks started to be raised of the quality of Johnson's bowling.

Pakistan suddenly found themselves a wicket down as new bowler Alex Cusack saw his effort needlessly flicked on by Hasan for a tame dismissal. It was a disappointing end to a promising innings for Hasan.

Shahid Afridi then came into replace the departed Hasan and proved his worth with a respectable 24 off 13 balls before some wonderful bowling by Ireland saw a slightly over-confident Afridi mis-judge a McCallan delivery for a wicket.

Akmal continued his impressive run to collect his half-century and push Pakistan to 117-3 at the beginning of the sixteenth over but Pakistani's best performer came up against Ireland's worst and lost by the end of the same over.

Trent Johnston came back for a third stint and immediately started throwing strong balls at the stumps, only for one of them to sneak through Akmal’s bat to see him dismissed for 57 off 51 balls.

Akmal's dismissal then saw the return of Abdul Razzaq to the Pakistani cricket team, having not seen action for two years. Johnston continued his upturn in delivery quality to test Razzaq with his first ball being a wonderful delivery that Razzaq could only toe-end back to the Irish bowler.

McCallan then came in to replace Johnston and gifted a six to Khan's replacement Misbah Ul-Haq, who clouted the ball a tremendous 98 metres. But his happiness was short-lived as McCallan got his revenge soon after as the Irishman bowls the slowest ball of the tournament so far at 48 mph, which Ul-Haq had to wait for an eternity for, swung far too early and just toe-ended it to the Irish wicketkeeper Niall O'Brien to make the score 141-5.

Pakistan brought their innings to an end as Razzaq enjoyed his return to action with a six.

NBA: Andrew Bynum remain scoreless in Game 6

2009-05-14T23:35:00.000-07:00

The Lakers' center did not score in 19 minutes of the Lakers' 95-80 loss Thursday to the Houston Rockets in Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals.

He missed all three of his shots, had three fouls and seven rebounds.

"I did the same things," Bynum said. "I got offensive rebounds. Last game I made the put-backs. This game I didn't make my put-backs. I played the exact same way."

He appeared to take a step toward relevance in this series after compiling a 14-point, six-rebound effort in Game 5.

In Game 6, he was held scoreless for the third time this series. He might have also lost his starting job, again.

"We'll look at the tape and make a decision, see how much Lamar [Odom] improves over the course of the next three days," Lakers Coach Phil Jackson said.

The other issue nagging the Lakers is Odom's health.

Odom didn't seem to be himself in Game 6, unable to react quickly on defense or drive to the basket often because of a bruised lower back, an injury that will take some time to heal.

He had eight points before fouling out. He had a noteworthy 14 rebounds but no assists in 28 minutes as a reserve.

Jackson said Odom was only "half a guy right now."

Odom will have two full days to rest before the Lakers play Game 7 on Sunday.

"I'll just take my time, and whatever I can give, I'll give," Odom said before the game. "It's less pain, but it's there when I'm jumping. That means I will jump, but it'll hurt."

[collected from www.latimes.com]

NBA: James and Bryant Heads to All-Star Selections

2009-05-14T23:30:00.000-07:00

Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James continued to pile up NBA awards, adding a first team all-star selection on Wednesday to the most valuable player honors he claimed last week.

James, who also picked up an Olympic gold medal in Beijing and has his Cavaliers closing in on an NBA title after sweeping through their first two series, was a unanimous selection earning first team honors for the second consecutive year.

Joining James are Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers, Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic, Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks and Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat.

James, who guided the Cavaliers to a franchise-best 66-16 record, finished the regular season ranked second in scoring (28.4 points per game), eighth in steals (1.69) and 10th in assists (7.2).

Bryant, the 2007-08 NBA MVP, earned his seventh first team selection and fourth straight while Wade, who led the league in scoring with 30.2 points per game, makes his first appearance on the first squad.

The All-NBA second team includes Chris Paul of the New Orleans Hornets, Brandon Roy of the Portland Trail Blazers, Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs, Paul Pierce of the Boston Celtics and Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets.

The third is made up of Denver's Chauncey Billups and Carmelo Anthony, Tony Parker of the Spurs, Lakers' Paul Gasol and Shaquille O'Neal of the Phoenix Suns.

[collected from www.octansports.com]

Barcelona vs Villareal 3-3 Goals and Highlights

2009-05-11T11:44:00.000-07:00

Yesterday on 10th may Barcelona played against Villareal in the Spanish Primera Division. The match was draw. Here is the goals and highlight :

IPL 2009:Deccan Chargers vs Kings XI Punjab match report

2009-05-09T13:18:00.000-07:00

Today (9th may) in 36th match of IPL Deccan Chargers played against Kings XI Punjab.In this match Kings XI Punjab won by 3 wickets. The match was so close. Here is the match report:

A powerful start from the top four, followed by nerveless hands from Mahela Jayawardene and Brett Lee stole the thunder from Andrew Symonds' first IPL game, setting up Kings XI Punjab's win over the Deccan Chargers at the Kimberley Oval. The win won't take Punjab into the top four but they will hope it is an end to their poor run of three losses in the last four games. This was the game of the two returning Australians, Symonds and Lee, and though both starred, only one prevailed as the match went down to the final over.

Jayawardene had taken Punjab to 20 short of the win in the 18th over when he was run out for a measured 43, setting up a tense finale. Nineteen were required off 12 balls; Piyush Chawla and Lee collected three runs off the first three before Lee eased the pressure with a searing six over long-off. Two more singles meant Punjab needed eight off the last over and the game looked over as Chawla hooked a four off RP Singh's first ball. But RP hit back, leaving three needed off the final three. Lee scrambled two to long-off before finishing it off with one ball left.

Punjab's top four had added runs and lost wickets in pairs, but they set up the chase with 86 in first ten overs. The openers, Sunny Sohal and Simon Katich, gave their side an explosive start of 44 in four overs, before falling within two balls of each other to Rohit Sharma, fresh from four wickets in five balls earlier this week. Kumar Sangakkara and Yuvraj Singh diluted his effect, milking 11 from his second over. They also went after Symonds - taking 20 in one over - before being dismissed within two balls of each other to Shoaib Ahmed just before the strategy break. In trying to contain them, Deccan had used seven bowlers by then, with only Rohit bowling two successive overs.

After the break, Pragyan Ojha bowled two tight overs after which Gilchrist brought T Suman into the attack and was immediately rewarded with Irfan Pathan's wicket, swinging the game in Deccan's favour once again. But Jayawardene kept Punjab in the hunt with successive sixes, before Lee finished it off.

Earlier, Symonds' power-hitting had taken Deccan to a competitive 168, though a slow-down mid-innings - they added four runs for the loss of two wickets between overs 10 and 12 - was probably the eventual difference. Deccan owed their quick start - 44 in the first five overs - to Gilchrist, Suman and several Punjab misfields. Gilchrist hit Pathan for two fours in his first over, then pulled Sreesanth's first ball for a six before falling in the same over.

Suman came in and attacked right from the start, picking Pathan off his pads for six and also getting runs off edges. After Herschelle Gibbs fell, cutting Chawla to Jayawardene at backward point, Suman and Rohit began building on the quick start. They rotated the strike and picked boundaries off anything short - Chawla was hit for a six to long-off by Suman and lofted for four to wide midwicket by Rohit in an over that cost 12 runs.

A bowling change in the tenth over ended Suman's innings and it looked like Deccan were losing the plot before Symonds broke the shackles. After Yuvraj Singh missed a caught-and-bowled chance off him, Symonds picked a short ball by Piyush Chawla for a six over midwicket. Deccan crossed 100 in the 15th over after which he began attacking in earnest. Irfan Pathan went for 13 runs and Sreesanth for 20 - including consecutive sixes over long-on and long-off -as Symonds reached his fifty off 29 balls.

But for the second time in the IPL, Symonds played a big innings and ended up on the losing side.

[The report is written by Nishi Narayanan adn collected from cricinfo]

IPL 2009: Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals match report

2009-05-09T13:07:00.000-07:00

Today in 9th may in the 37th match of IPL Chennai Super Kings played against Rajasthan Royals. In this match Chennai Super Kings won by 7 wickets . Here is the match report :

Matthew Hayden and Shane Warne. Sixty-nine Tests together, the last 12 of them wins, but today they would decide who'd win this IPL game and go to the top of the table. There could be only one winner, and on the night it was Hayden. Chasing 141 Chennai Super Kings were in for a tough one, with the pitch turning square and staying slow and Warne looking like pulling off something special. Hayden, though, attacked clinically, played like a workman in between those assaults, and ensured Chennai beat Rajasthan for the second time in this IPL. He had with him S Badrinath, who went from being a supporting act to a lead player towards the end.

The two teams seemed inseparable till Hayden's one-on-one with with Warne. A disciplined Chennai, with a varied attack and well captained, had kept Rajasthan down to a total that - at the half-way mark - they would have backed themselves to chase. But Rajasthan were equally disciplined, smart, and well led. In the first eight overs, they had limited Chennai to 49 for 2, including Suresh Raina's wicket. Yusuf Pathan was bowling big turners at 95kmph.

More importantly Hayden had faced just 15 of those 48 deliveries. Even more importantly Warne had bowled an over of dip, drift and break when Badrinath couldn't even lay bat to ball. In the ninth over Warne bowled to Hayden for the first time, throwing the first ball wide, which was called wide despite big turn. The next one was flighted wide again, and Hayden decided to reverse-sweep late but perfectly. He then walked down to Warne, as if the keeper was standing back, and got to the pitch and hit him flat over long-on.

That over may have got Chennai only 12 runs, but the statement that Hayden made was huge. Warne was playable again, the required run-rate came back within manageable proportions, and soon Badrinath became comfortable too.

It showed in how Badrinath overtook Hayden's pace in the 16th over, bowled by Shane Harwood. The first ball he scooped over fine leg for six, steered one wide of point for four, whipped another over fine leg, and then upper-cut one over the keeper. This was a man bracketed as a Test batsman yet improvising to each and every delivery of an over, and providing the final game-breaker. He had come a long way in one innings, from looking out of sorts against Warne to finishing the game off.

Warne finally got Hayden with a stumping down the leg side when Hayden walked down once again, but by then - in the 17th over - the game had been decided.

This was also a battle between the two best captains in this tournament. And they had set the tone by exchanging indirect sledges at the toss. Warne had a go at Chennai, saying they were not good chasers. Dhoni retorted, saying given his strong batting line-up, the Rajasthan batsmen would be under immense pressure to set a defendable total.

The Chennai bowlers did their bit in accentuating that pressure. Rajasthan struggled for momentum right from the start, when Albie Morkel struck in his first over - for the third time in three matches. Dhoni rotated his bowlers around smartly, using seven of them in first 10 overs, who gave away only five boundaries.

Swapnil Asnodkar and Graeme Smith added 53 in 50 balls, but there was no sense of restlessness because of the slow run-rate. The key moment came in the third quarter of the innings, when after both Asnodkar and Smith had wasted those slow starts, Pathan and Ravindra Jadeja looked to open up, hitting Shadab Jakati for a six each in the 14th over, but Chennai accounted for both of them in the next two overs.

Dhoni made two smart moves then - he brought in L Balaji from the other end, and let Jakati continue despite that over. Balaji, helped by a superb diving-in-front catch by Raina at point, accounted for Jadeja, and Jakati got Yusuf who went for a repeat of the six in the next over. Again this dismissal was made possible by smart work from Jacob Oram at the long-on boundary.

Dhoni went back to rotating his bowlers, the fielders stayed sharp, and Rajasthan struggled to get going again. Dhoni himself made two stumpings. Warne hit 21 off 11 deliveries to give Rajasthan something to bowl to. As far as the battle of captains goes, they were probably locked, but Dhoni was leading the better side on the night.

[the report is writen by Sidharth Monga and collected from cricinfo]

NBA West playoff : Lakers vs Rockets (111-98) highlight

2009-05-07T06:42:00.000-07:00

The Los Angeles Lakers win over the Houston Rockets by 111-98 in a testy playoff battle that included ejections, numerous fouls and words exchanged between both sides.Houston's Ron Artest and Lakers guard Derek Fisher were the two biggest combatants and were thrown out for separate incidents as the Lakers levelled the best-of-seven series at 1-1. Here is the highlight of the match:

UEFA Champions League: BARCELONA vs CHELSEA goals highlight

2009-05-07T01:39:00.000-07:00

Yesterday on 6th may BARCELONA played against CHELSEA in UEFA Champions League. The match was unfinished with 1-1 goals. For playing final of UEFA Champions League Barcelona's minimum need only is 1 goal with draw. So Barcelona will play with Manchester united in the final matrch on 27 th may. Here is the match highlight of BARCELONA vs CHELSEA goals:

UEFA Champions League:Arsenal vs Manchester United 1-3 goals highlight

2009-05-05T14:09:00.000-07:00

Yesterday on 5th may Arsenal played against Manchester United in UEFA Champions League. In this match Manchester United win by 3-1 goals. Here is the match's goal highlight:

Twenty20 World Cup Fixtures

2009-05-05T12:49:00.000-07:00

Recently Twenty20 World Cup will be start. I think it will be very exciting. Here is the fixtures of Twenty20 World Cup:

Twenty20 World Cup Fixtures - England 2009

Monday, June 1st 2009

Ireland v Netherlands

13.30

Lords

Australia v Bangladesh

13.30

Trent Bridge

New Zealand v India

17:30

Lords

Pakistan v South Africa

17:30

Trent Bridge

Tuesday, June 2nd 2009

Ireland v West Indies

13.30

The Brit Oval

Australia v New Zealand

17:30

The Brit Oval

England v Scotland

17:30

Lords

Wednesday, June 3rd 2009

Sri Lanka v South Africa

13.30

Lords

Netherlands v Scotland

13.30

The Brit Oval

England v West Indies

17:30

Lords

India v Pakistan

17:30

The Brit Oval

Thursday, June 4th 2009

Bangladesh v Sri Lanka

17:30

Trent Bridge

Friday, June 5th 2009

England v Netherlands

17:30

Lords

Saturday, June 6th 2009

Australia v West Indies

10.00

The Brit Oval

New Zealand v Scotland

13.30

The Brit Oval

India v Bangladesh

17:30

Trent Bridge

Sunday, June 7th 2009

South Africa v Scotland

13.30

The Brit Oval

England vs Pakistan

17:30

The Brit Oval

Monday, June 8th 2009

Ireland vs Bangladesh

13.30

Trent Bridge

Australia vs Sri Lanka

17:30

Trent Bridge

Tuesday, June 9th 2009

Pakistan vs Netherlands

13.30

Lords

New Zealand vs South Africa

17:30

Lords

Wednesday, June 10th 2009

Sri Lanka vs West Indies

13.30

Trent Bridge

India vs Ireland

17:30

Trent Bridge

Thursday, June 11th 2009

TBA vs TBA

13.30

Trent Bridge

TBA vs TBA

17:30

Trent Bridge

Friday, June 12th 2009

TBA vs TBA

13.30

Lords

TBA vs TBA

17:30

Lords

Saturday, June 13th 2009

TBA vs TBA

13.30

The Brit Oval

TBA vs TBA

17:30

The Brit Oval

Sunday, June 14th 2009

TBA vs TBA

13.30

Lords

TBA vs TBA

17:30

Lords

Monday, June 15th 2009

TBA vs TBA

13.30

The Brit Oval

TBA vs TBA

17:30

The Brit Oval

Tuesday, June 16th 2009

TBA vs TBA

13.30

Trent Bridge

TBA vs TBA

17:30

Trent Bridge

Thursday, June 18th 2009

TBA vs TBA

17:30

Trent Bridge

Friday, June 19th 2009

TBA vs TBA

17:30

The Brit Oval

Sunday, June 21st 2009

TBA vs TBA

15:00

Lords

From www.cricket20.com

IPL 2009:Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians match report

2009-05-03T13:15:00.000-07:00

In the 28th match of IPL (Indian Premier League) on 3 May the match was held between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians Riders. The match was Played at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg (neutral venue). In this match Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 9 wickets.By wining this match, Royal Challengers Bangalore gathered 8 points in 8 matches.At first Mumbai Indians won the toss and chose to bat first. At the end of their batting they gather 149 runs by 4 wickets. In reply Royal Challengers Bangalore made 150 runs by losing 1 wickets in 18.5 overs.Player of the match JH Kallis (Royal Challengers Bangalore). Here is the match report by cricinfo:

What a difference a week makes. Last Sunday,

Royal Challengers Bangalore were at the bottom of the table, had slumped to their fourth consecutive defeat, and were looking ahead to surviving without two key batsmen, Rahul Dravid and Kevin Pietersen. Now, after a thoroughly dominant performance against Mumbai Indians they are jostling for a share of the top spot. The reversal of fortunes was illustrated by the two men who blunted the powerful Mumbai bowling, Jacques Kallis and Robin Uthappa, who shrugged off their forgettable starts to the tournament with superbly paced half-centuries.

The star of the first half for Bangalore was little-known South African allrounder Dillon du Preez who had an IPL debut to tell the grandkids about, taking three early wickets with his medium-pacers. A resilient Mumbai showed why they are among the favourites for the title; Sanath Jayasuriya started the recovery before Dwayne Bravo and Abhishek Nayar slammed 48 runs off the last three overs to lift their side to what-had-seemed a competitive total.

du Preez started off with that rarest of beasts in Twenty20s - the double-wicket maiden, and it included the scalp of Sachin Tendulkar. Handed the ball in the fourth over there were a quiet couple of balls before he induced an outside edge off Tendulkar to the safe hands of Rahul Dravid at slip, to spark wild celebrations. The hint of away movement in the next delivery had Ajinkya Rahane giving catching practice to slip.

The Boys' Own story continued for du Preez in his next over, with his first poor delivery also fetching him a wicket; Duminy went for an ill-advised pull to a long hop angling away from him, only under-edging it to the wicketkeeper. du Preez's figures were a scarcely believable 1.2-1-0-3, and Mumbai were gasping at 23 for 3.

Jayasuriya then began reviving Mumbai with a steady partnership with Bravo. After a watchful beginning - he was on 11 off 20 at one stage - he broke free in the eighth over, muscling a fractionally short ball over mid-on's head, and then hammering the next delivery into the crowd behind midwicket. There were also the Jayasuriya trademarks, powerful slaps over point and some nimble running between the wickets. Despite all that, Mumbai reached the strategic time-out at an unsatisfactory 53 for 3.

Bravo was following the Jayasuriya method of taking his time to gauge the pitch. There were some stylish flicks, and deft dabs to third man but it wasn't till the 18th over - 12 overs after he came in - that he hit his first boundary. Mumbai were 101 for 4 after 17 overs, but a spell of frenetic hitting from Bravo and Nayar took them towards 150, a score which has proved eminently defendable in this tournament.

As usual, Bangalore had a new combination at the top of the order, Kallis and Wasim Jaffer, but the start was completely different from those earlier in the tournament. Kallis began aggressively, with a couple of boundaries off the first over, and his response when the bowler of the series so far, Lasith Malinga, was exceptional. He was welcomed with a clip over midwicket for six, and two balls later there was a powerful uppercut - a shot Kallis used frequently all innings - for six more. Seventeen came off the over, and Bangalore had sprinted to 41 for 1 after four overs.

Jaffer fell early, bringing in Uthappa, who started scratchily against the side he represented last season. It wasn't till the spinners came on that he found his touch. On 5 off 11 balls, the pressure was beginning to tell on him but a loose over from Harbhajan Singh gave him confidence. With the asking-rate in check, both Uthappa and Kallis were content to nudge the ones and twos - there were no boundaries for nearly four overs till the 13th, but they never needed more than eight an over.

Uthappa feasted on some buffet bowling from Tendulkar in the 14th - helping himself to three boundaries - after which the result wasn't in doubt. Bravo was pounded over midwicket by Uthappa for the biggest six of the tournament in the next over, and it wasn't long before a six and a four off Jayasuriya sealed one of the biggest wins of the season.

IPL 2009: Kings XI Punjab v Kolkata Knight Riders match report

2009-05-03T13:03:00.000-07:00

In the 27th match of IPL (Indian Premier League) on 3 May the match was held between Kings XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders. The match was Played at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth (neutral venue). In this match Kings XI Punjab won by 6 wickets.by wining this match Kings XI Punjab gathered 8 points in 7 matches.At first Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and chose to bat first. At the end of their batting they gather 153 runs by 3 wickets. In reply Kings XI Punjab made 154 runs by losing 4 wickets in 20 overs.Player of the match DPMD Jayawardene (Kings XI Punjab). Here is the match report by cricinfo:

Four dropped catches undid Brad Hodge's impressive half-century and took Kings XI Punjab back into the top four of the IPL table after they chased down 154 to beat the Kolkata Knight Riders by six wickets. The match went to the final ball but Punjab clearly outperformed Kolkata through the chase. Mahela Jayawardene, who scored an unbeaten 41-ball 52, and Irfan Pathan held their nerve to ensure the match didn't need the Super Over.

The chase was set up by Simon Katich and Sunny Sohal's frenetic partnership - 43 balls off 26 balls - after Punjab lost Kumar Sangakkara in the first over. Their stand, and one between Jayawardene and Katich - 33 off 25 balls - put Punjab ahead of the eight-ball even after they lost Katich and Yuvraj Singh before the end of the 15th over. Kolkata's bowlers, like Punjab's, conceded full tosses at the death and the final tight over from Ajit Agarkar was too little too late. Kolkata used eight bowlers and may need to review the logic of bringing in left-arm spinner Murali Kartik as the final change.

Sohal was dropped twice in two balls after which he and Katich unleashed a shower of fours and sixes - top edges and mistimed shots included - as Kolkata's bowlers struggled to keep a tight line. Chris Gayle ended his role in the tournament by making a mess of collecting a leading edge off Katich's bat when he was on 5. Kolkata's most productive over had been their final one where Brad Hodge and Morne van Wyk took Irfan Pathan for 21 runs; Punjab managed that in their fourth over, with Katich and Sohal hitting 22 off Ashok Dinda,.

Punjab's bowling had been equally ordinary but Kolkata's batsmen, barring Hodge, could not hit over the top. Brendon McCullum struggled to pick the gaps and Gayle failed to build on his steady start. The run-rate did not improve significantly even after Hodge joined McCullum at the crease after Gayle's fall.

McCullum ground out his 19 runs off 31 balls before pulling a short and wide delivery off Chawla straight to Vikramjeet Malik at deep backward square-leg. His dismissal brought a spurt of energy to the innings, due mainly to Hodge. At first he rotated the strike with Sourav Ganguly and converted the loose deliveries into boundaries. He pulled Yuvraj for two consecutive fours to midwicket and then hit Abdulla over his head for a six; Ganguly opened the face of his bat to guide a four to third man and then slogged a huge six off Chawla to square leg. That seemed to energise Ganguly and he tried to attack every subsequent delivery. It didn't work and three balls later Ganguly top-edged a sweep to Kumar Sangakkara for a 23-ball 22.

After Ganguly's dismissal, Hodge threw his bat at everything and the 21 runs off the final over would have given Kolkata the game if it hadn't been for those dropped catches.

English Premier League: Porthsmouth vs Arsenal highlight

2009-05-03T05:15:00.000-07:00

Yesterday on 2nd may Arsenal playrd against Porthsmouth. Few days ago Arsenal was bit by Manchester United in Champions League semi-final second leg, but were still too strong for Portsmouth as they won 3-0 at Fratton Park.Arsene Wenger made eight changes from the starting XI at Old Trafford, with the likes of captain Cesc Fabregas, Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor and regular goalkeeper Manuel Almunia all rested. Here is the match highlight: