Posted on 22nd February 2011 by vcode in Cricket News |Group A Match Reports |World Cup 2011
Australia survived some agonizing moments in their inaugural match of ICC World Cup. Aussies recovered from a slow start to post 262 for six against Zimbabwe in the World Cup Group A match here Monday. For Australia Shane Watson and Michael Clarke starred with half centuries and later Mithchell Johnson with four wickets shared the success. Best thing of the match: It lasted more than 90 overs unlike the first two matches.
This innings should be seen in the light of what happened to the middle order once the openers were back in the pavilion. Watson and Brad Haddin provided a sedate start contributing 61 runs in 18.5 overs. Haddin made 29 runs in 66 ball hitting just three fours. Ricky Ponting joined Watson and both of them accelerated the scoring.
This showed how tough it was to score freely against not so formidable bowling line up of Zimbabwe. Australia ended up with 262 for six wickets in fifty overs which should have been at least three hundred. Australia had made 140 runs in the thirty second over and it is generally considered that this score should be doubled.
For Zimbabwe Chris Mpofu took two wickets for 58 runs in nine overs. Ray Price, P Utseya and Graeme Cremer took one wicket each.
Posted on 26th June 2008 by vcode in Cricket News |Group A Match Reports
LAHORE, June 25: Hundreds from Suresh Raina and Mahendra Singh Dhoni and four wickets from teenage leg spinner Piyush Chawla helped India to a thumping 256-run win over Hong K
ong in the Asia Cup one-day tournament in Karachi on Wednesday.
Chawla bamboozled the Hong Kong batsmen, whose inexperience at international level was exposed as they were bowled out for just 118 after being hammered for 374 for four by the Indians.
Raina struck his maiden one-day century, scoring 101, and captain Dhoni hit an unbeaten 109 as their fourth-wicket partnership put on 166 runs in 123 balls.
India got off to a breezy start, with Virender Sehwag (78) and Gautam Gambhir (51) reaching 100 in 65 balls in a 127-run opening stand.
Raina, in Asia Cup, savaged the Hong Kong bowlers, racing through his second 50 in only 16 balls with five sixes and three fours.
Dhoni’s fourth one-day hundred came from 90 balls with six sixes.
Chawla took career-best figures of four for 23, while Sehwag wrapped up the match by taking wickets off successive balls, the Hong Kong innings lasting just 36.5 overs.
Chawla dismissed captain Tabarak Dar, who batted resolutely for 21 runs, Hussain Butt and Courtney Kruger, all stumped by Dhoni. His fourth victim was Munir Dar, caught by Yusuf Pathan.
Posted on 19th June 2008 by vcode in Cricket News |Group A Match Reports
Indian paceman Shanthakumaran Sreesanth has been asked by the national cricket board to explain an altercation he had with the staff of a Bangalore hotel during the weekend.
Domestic media reported Sreesanth, out of this month’s Asia Cup due to injury, got into 
an argument at the hotel where he was staying to attend a camp at the national cricket academy.
“We have written to Sreesanth and the hotel management seeking details about what exactly happened,” the board’s chief administrative officer Ratnakar Shetty told Reuters on Wednesday.
The player shifted to another hotel the following day.
An executive at the hotel confirmed to Reuters on Wednesday the incident involving Sreesanth took place and that he had lodged a complaint against the Cricket player with his supervisor. Sreesanth could not be reached for his comments.
Last month, the board warned Sreesanth to improve his behaviour following an incident where he was slapped by India team mate Harbhajan Singh at the end of a domestic Twenty20 league game.
Off-spinner Harbhajan was banned for the rest of the league games and then suspended for five one-dayers.