Thread: Cricket scores around the world

Superb innings by AB
SA win

Watson's return to international cricket marred by failure
Australia 5/1

Aussies serve out India another thrashing with Watson bowling well and getting 2 wickets for 9 runs from 5 overs.

He will start scoring runs soon.

Well do or die for India today
need the bonus point
In Dubai Saeed Ajmal's 4/23 was not enough to stop England in the 3rd T20I

India require 321 in 40 overs
a double T20 score
108/2 off 13

^ Tendulkar looked good but then got a Malinga sand-shoe crusher, out LBW for 39.

"England eventually triumphed by five runs."

"Pietersen, who crucially hit the final ball of England's innings for six..."

From the BBC sport website.

India 160/2 off the first 20 overs
need 161 off the next 20

257/3 after 32

Kohli takes 24 off a malinga over!

303/3 after 35

I like to know how a shit team proformace & turn around.
It is all about getting bums onto seats.
There are many Indian supports & if India are not in the final then there would be less bums on seats,
Ching Ching

36.4 overs

vital match for SL in Melbourne
win or a tie

Australia to chase

Daniel Christian bags a hat-trick
239 is all that is required

Aussie 6/151

It's a close one: 215 - 8 after 46 ish overs; needing 239.

Australia now need 14 to win off 2 and a half overs (2 wikets in hand - looks like they will do it).

No runs off the last 3 balls; 2 overs to go... 14 needed...

Aussies 13 to win, but just lost a wicket - last man in 1.4 overs left...

Thew last 4 or 5 balls turned the match around; if lony the Aussies had run a single per ball - should've been possible with the field mostly out...

Last over, 10 to win, let's see what Hussey is made of...

Good night Australia... India v SL for the mini-t final.

Good game, Aussies could've got there by playing for the singles, imo.

looks like SL are going west in the first final

Aussies win but the bowling needs to improve especially in Adelaide.


Australia are a match away from sealing a dramatic and entertaining triangular series, but it is all too apparent that Michael Clarke's team is staggering towards the finish line. To wrap up the finals 2-0 the hosts will have to win two in a row for the first time since games one and two of the series, and do so on an Adelaide surface far more amenable to Sri Lanka than Brisbane's was supposed to have been. Mahela Jayawardene's Sri Lankan team, meanwhile, carries plenty of momentum from the Gabba, not least in terms of the fight shown by a lower order that was about as inclined to quit as the American revolutionaries at the battle of Bunker Hill in 1775.

Clarke's concerns entering the second final revolve principally around his bowling, which lurched into indiscipline as Nuwan Kulasekara and others provided an unexpected fright. It was not the first time the home attack had been exploited in the later overs this series, something Clarke was at pains to address in the aftermath of the match, when he spoke less as a victor than as a leader wary of how his men are flagging. Ben Hilfenhaus and James Pattinson were particularly loose, and only Shane Watson looked entirely in command of his length and direction. David Warner's fitness is also a problem following his match-shaping 163, and will likely force a change in the batting order.

While Sri Lanka's attack looked powerless at times on a flat surface in Brisbane, they can expect a little more help in Adelaide, on a pitch that may slow up and turn in the evening. Most pressing among Jayawardene's requirements will be that one or more of his team's vaunted top order provides a more worthy contribution than they managed at the Gabba, where the late fightback masked the earlier inattention that made such a stirring rearguard necessary.

2nd Final
Australia bat
Wade falls early