Bradman's Centenary

Today is a very special day for all the cricketers and cricket lovers all over the world its the centenary of Sir Donald Bradman. The man who changed the way the batsmen looked at how to score runs and a reference book for all the cricketers in the world, Sachin must be the most lucky person to have got accolades from the great saying that he saw him bat when Sachin bats.









England Crush SouthAfrica

England beat SouthAfrica by 10 wickets in the 2nd ODI to lead the series by 2-0. Stuart Broad bowled his best to reduce SA to its lowest total in its ODI history. SouthAfrica was bowled out for 85 with S.Broad taking 5 wickets and FlintOff and Harmison picking the other 5 wickets. SA lost too many quick wickets in the initial overs and never inclined to come back to put up a decent score. Stuart Broad used the overcast conditions to full effect and the wicket was assisting seam movement of the pitch which made life difficult for the SA batsmen. Big Flintoff was in good form that he hit the deck and was able to produce fair amount of bounce and seam movement, Harmison had to bowl just 1 over and he took 2 wickets.

I think Smith and team is still to come out the hangover of winning the test series, there are few new faces but the core is from the Test team and the way the team crumbled looked like they are little too complacent about the ODI series. Not sure why on a overcast conditions one would want to bat first after winning the toss, may be the failed run chase in the previous match influenced the decision but it totally back fired. SA brought in Gibbs,Albie Morkel (IPL fame) and few other new comers in the side but none of them were successful. Hope SA puts up a better show in the next ODI.


Team India Praying for Rain

Dhoni and team must be praying for rain to go back winning the ODI series (2-1). Rain has washed out the 4th match and the Srilankan whether department has forecast rain for the rest of the week and hence there may not be any match even on the reserve day and the last ODI on Friday/Saturday. For once the Indian players must be wishing rain to make sure that they need not play the last 2 games to make sure that they go back with a series win after losing the Asia Cup and the KitplyCup.