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Ind vs SA will play the 1st ODI at Jaipur.

Watch Live streaming and Live scores of the 1st ODI  between India vs south Africa (IND vs SA) which will be played at Jaipur on Feb 21 2010. The  Day/Night match start time is 2-30 pm local (09.00 GMT.

The match is telecasted live on Neo Sports TV Channel.

After the intense 2 tests which each team won a piece, the focus now shifts to the 3 ODI series.

Reportedly  there will be unprecedented security to this match due to the terror threats to disrupt this match: the Indian Air Force will be manning the skies and the police department has divided the city into five centers – the airport, the route leading to the hotel and stadium, the team hotel, and one each inside and outside the stadium.

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The 1st Twenty 20 international match between India vs SriLanka will begin in Nagpur on Wednesday, Dec 9th, 2009. Start time 17-30 (12.00GMT). Watch Live Streaming and Live Scores.

This is only the 2nd T20 to be played in India.

Both the teams enter into the 2 Twenty20 matches with a loosing streak, India have lost their past 3 matches and Srilanka have lost 4 in a row.

The Indian players are stars in their respective IPL teams but their results have been ordinary when playing together, in past nine T20’s , they have lost six and won only three.

Sri Lanka, on the other hand, had a terrific World Twenty20 and were unbeaten until the final, which they lost to Pakistan.

India have rested Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh from the Twenty20.

Srilankan spinner Muralitharan has injured his fingers while practising  during the third Test and is likely to be rested.

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The possible teams are as follows

India (possible): 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 6 Rohit Sharma, 7 Yusuf Pathan, 8 Pragyan Ojha, 9 Sreesanth, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Ashish Nehra.

Sri Lanka (possible): 1 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 2 Sanath Jayasuriya, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (capt & wk), 4 Mahela Jayawardene, 5 Chamara Kapugedera, 6 Angelo Mathews, 7 Kaushalya Weeraratne, 8 Nuwan Kulasekara, 9 Ajantha Mendis, 10 Lasith Malinga, 11 Chanaka Welegedara.

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Indian opening batsman Gautam Gambhir scored his fourth century in as many test matches, when he smashed his century on the first day of the second test match against Sri Lanka to create a record of sorts. There have been three batsmen who have scored a hundred in four consecutive test innings, and only one batsman who has done it in five test innings in succession.

However, Gambhir’s centuries have been punctuated by innings of relative failures – that is, in every test match his century has been followed or preceded by a lower score.

The players to score successive test hundreds are Rahul Dravid, Alan Melville, Jack Fingleton and Everton Weekes. Weekes scored five in a row, before he followed it up with four successive half centuries, including a 90. In fact, such was a golden period during his career that time that he smashed 12 at least-half centuries out of 13 successive innings.

In fact, looking back at Gambhir’s career, he has had at least one score of more than fifty in the last nine test matches, including seven centuries and four fifties. The four half centuries included a 97 that could have been his eighth century in the nine games!

Continuing with Gambhir’s purple patch, he averages 80 runs per innings in the last two years of test match cricket, and more than 100 in 2009 alone!

Also, in the 49 ODIs that he has played since 1st January, 2008, he averaged more than 42, which is at par with some of the best cricketers in the business.

As an opener, the best ever average in test matches has been Herbert Sutcliffe, who had a mean of around 61. Gambhir, so far in his career, has batted in 27 test matches and averages 58 runs per innings, making him one of the best in the business as an opener as well!

Muthiah Muralitharan has said that he may not be able to play for Sri Lanka for too much longer as the continuous cricket seems to have taken toll on his body.

Earlier the ace bowler from Sri Lanka announced his intentions of playing in the 2011 version of the World Cup, and said that he would retire from the test match cricket in order to do that.

However, in the latest chat with the media, he said that there is a chance that he may not be able to even play in the ODIs given his fitness woes. Muralitharan has scalped 788 wickets in test match cricket – updated up to the second test match between India and Sri Lanka at Kanpur – and is the leading wicket-taker in the history of test match cricket. Shane Warne is some distance away at 708 wickets, but he has already announced his retirement from the game, as have the likes of Anil Kumble (number 3 with 619 sticks), Glen McGrath (4th with 563), Courtney Walsh (5th with 519), Kapil Dev (6th with 434), Sir Richard Hadlee (7th with 432), Shaun Pollock (8th with 421), Wasim Akram (9th with 414), and Curtly Ambrose (10th with 405).

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Watch Live streaming and live scores of the 2nd test match between Australia vs West Indies which will begin in Adelaide from Dec 4-8, 2009 , Start time 10 30 am (00.00 GMT)

West Indies have lost their last 5 test matches on the trot. The big loss of West Indies in the 1st test at Brisbane where their innings loss within three days suggested a huge gap between the teams.

Now to add to their problems, their fast bowler Jerome Taylor has been ruled out of the series with a back injury. Australia have lost one Test at Adelaide Oval in the past 14 years – against India in 2003-04

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At 1-0 down, their chances of regaining the Sir Frank Worrell Trophy are very slim.

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The Probable teams are as follows

Australia 1 Simon Katich, 2 Shane Watson, 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Michael Hussey, 5 Michael Clarke, 6 Marcus North, 7 Brad Haddin (wk), 8 Mitchell Johnson, 9 Nathan Hauritz, 10 Peter Siddle, 11 Doug Bollinger.

West Indies (possible) 1 Chris Gayle (capt), 2 Adrian Barath, 3 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 5 Dwayne Bravo, 6 Brendan Nash, 7 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 8 Darren Sammy, 9 Sulieman Benn, 10 Kemar Roach, 11 Ravi Rampaul.

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The 3rd cricket test match between India vs SriLanka will be played in Mumbai from Tuesday, Dec 2nd-6th, 2009. Start time 09.30 (04.00GMT). Watch Live Streaming and Live Scores.

Sri Lanka inspite of being the second-ranked test team in the world have never ever won a test mat ch against India in India, not they have played in Mumbai before.

While SriLanka look to win this match and Square this series , India will look to win or draw this match and win the series.

Eleven out of 17 Tests at the Brabourne have been drawn, but four out of the last six have yielded results.

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Pitch and conditions

Normally a pitch hosting a Test for the first time in 36 years would be a big unknown, but this one seems to have come as a pleasant change for both captains.

Both expect nice bounce, help for fast bowlers in the earlier stages, and spin in the latter.

The teams are as follows

India : (probable) 1 M Vijay, 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Sachin Tendulkar, 5 VVS Laxman, 6 Yuvraj Singh, 7 MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Sreesanth, 11 Pragyan Ojha.

Sri Lanka: (probable) 1 Tharanga Paranavitana, 2 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (capt/wk), 4 Mahela Jayawardene, 5 Thilan Samaraweera, 6 Angelo Mathews, 7 Prasanna Jayawardene (wk), 8 Nuwan Kulasekara, 9 Chanaka Welegedara, 10 Muttiah Muralitharan, 11 Rangana Herath.

The 4th ODI between England vs South Africa (Eng vs SA), will begin at Port Elizabeth on Sunday, Nov 29, 2009.

Start time 10.00 (08.00GMT). Watch Live Streaming and Live Scores.

After 3 odi’s the series is placed at 1-1 with two more matches remaining. The first ODI was washed out due to rain.

The scoreline says the series is all-square, but after such a convincing 112-run victory at Cape Town South Africa are now the side with the momentum

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Watch Live Streaming and cricket scores of the 1st cricket test match between Australia vs West Indies which will begin in Brisbane from Nov 26-30, 2009 , Start time 10am (00.00 GMT), Watch Live Streaming and Live scores

West Indies team has arrived in Australia to play a 3 test match series, Interestingly the West Indies team looks very weak against the mighty Australians , WI has lost the past 8 cricket test matches they have pleayed in Australia

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The Probable teams are as follows Australia 1 Simon Katich, 2 Shane Watson, 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Michael Hussey, 5 Michael Clarke, 6 Marcus North, 7 Brad Haddin (wk), 8 Mitchell Johnson, 9 Nathan Hauritz, 10 Peter Siddle, 11 Ben Hilfenhaus.

West Indies (possible) 1 Chris Gayle (capt), 2 Adrian Barath, 3 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 5 Dwayne Bravo, 6 Brendan Nash, 7 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 8 Sulieman Benn, 9 Jerome Taylor, 10 Ravi Rampaul, 11 Kemar Roach.

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The 2nd Test match between Inda and Srilanka began at Kanpur on 24th Nov 2009. India captain M Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat. Watch the highlights of the 1st day. Plenty of records tumbled, including the most runs scored in a day by India, as the home side amassed 417 for 2, with the help of quick centuries from Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag. This is the fourth Test in a row in which Gambhir has scored a century, and this was the first time that Sehwag has been made a sub-150 triple-digit score since 2003. Rahul Dravid has also closed in on yet another century, while Tendulkar was solid after coming in late in the day.

The 2nd cricket test match between India and SriLanka will begin in Kanpur from Tuesday, November 24th – 28th, 2009. Start time 09.30 (04.00GMT). Watch Live Streaming and Live Scores.

Sri Lanka started very well in the first test but were thwarted first by Indian wall Rahul Dravid and then the pitch in Ahmedabad. There were concerns over the fitness of Indian captain MS Dhoni for the 2nd test but he has been cleared to play 20 Tests have been played in Kanpur so far, of which 12 have been drawn. but the recent games have been result oriented with only three draws in the last seven Tests. India have a good record here, winning three of the last six Tests and drawing the others. The No.1 spot in the ICC Test rankings is up for grabs. Sri Lanka are No. 2 and India No. 3, separated by one point. continue reading…