India announced squad of 30 men for World Twenty20 Championship 2009

 India has announced a squad of 30 crickets’ names for the World Twenty20 second season that will be held in England this year. India, the World Twenty20 champions of inaugural tournament that kicked off in South Africa and when Indian squad was very strong. In the last two years, India played the best cricket in for Twenty20 formatted international. They are confident to take the T20 world cup 2009 too.

 

The 30 men squad is not final at all but the complete squad will be announced in the earlier of the June. You all know that the some of India players, who played the key rolls in the Twenty20 in 2007, are not in the announced squad. Sreesanth, Joginder Sharma, Ajit Agarkar and Piyush Chawla were the important players.

 

"We looked at performance and experience," the source said. Joginder, Agarkar and Chawla were left out because they did not impress during the domestic season.

 

Squad: Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Pragyan Ojha, Harbhajan singh, Praveen Kumar, Dinesh Karthik, M Vijay, Ajinkya Rahane, S Badrinath, Robin Uthappa, Virat Kohli, Manoj Tiwary, Wriddhiman Saha, Abhishek Nayar, Amit Mishra, R Ashwin, RP Singh, L Balaji, Dhawal Kulkarni, Naman Ojha.

South Africa vs Australia 2009: 1st T20 Preview and live score

The fist twenty20 match will telecast live is Super Sports in South Africa but the people who live in Asia can watch the match in Ten Sports. The live commentary will be broadcasted at 18:00 according to local time.

 

Match facts:

Twenty20 international Cricket tournament

March 27, 2009

Start time 18.00 (16.00 GMT)

Live TV: Super Sports Ten Sports

Text commentary: Cricinfo.com, Circbuzz.com, Vcricket.com

 

I thing South Africa is not satisfy about their pervious fiver matches performances because they just secured one victory. But the opposition Australia just lost one of five. Even, when South Africa visited to Australia they got a tremendous victory over the host in Test and one-day series but lost in Twenty20 series. South Africa played more that a dozen of T20 international matches and got one third of victory. They took on Australia 4 times but secured one win but the opposition has a strong records. In the last they got win by beating Bangladesh.

 

Australia played 13 twenty20 international tournaments and winning records is more that 65%. Previously, Aus met in encounter with SA in four International Twenty20 tournaments Australia won 3time and SA just one. And this is the fifth time they both going to meet in an encounter.

 

 

South Africa v Australia T20 Time schedule and fixture 

There are two twenty20 tournaments between South Africa and Australia scheduled during the tour. The Test series result went to Australian for 1-0. The first twenty20 is going to hold on March 27, 2009 at Johannesburg and the second one will be held on just after two days on 29 March 2009 at Centurion. Both the matches will be kicked off at 18:00 local time and the 16:00 GMT.

 

Timetables and fixtures of Twenty20 between South Africa vs Australia

 

1st T20I Australia v South Africa at Johannesburg - Mar 27, 2009

Match scheduled to begin at 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT).

 

2nd  T20I Australia v South Africa at Centurion - Mar 29, 2009

Match scheduled to begin at 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT).

 

Although this is very odd time Australian fans but for the cricket lovers who lives in other countries over the world will be good times. According to US time the fans can watch tie match live at 12:00 and the UK people will able to enjoy at 16:00.

South Africa vs Australia 2009: who will win first T20? 

Earlier the year 2009, South Africa played two Twenty20 matches when South Africa visited Australia. That time the visitors defeated in both tournaments. Now, Australia is visiting South Africa. They already has won the Test series and now they will meet for the most exciting cricket match Twenty20 tournament on 27 March, 2009 at  New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg and according toe the local time 18:00 and 16:00 GMT.

 

 

 

So, this is a big opportunity for South Africa to take the revenge of defeat. They beat to Australia in the first Twenty20 match for 52 runs and for 6 wickets (with 7 balls remaining) in second one. It is clear that SA could not dominate Aus bowlers in both matches. But, hope that they could do well in their home grounds. 

 

No doubt that that host has to prepare themselves very strong in all sides. Australia is the best cricket playing nation and it is tough to bead them although they are in not in good form now. But the SA are mentally very strong because they won the T20 trophy in Aus. But it is very clear that they have overcome their lacking of the previous test series.

South Africa v Australia T20 Time schedule and fixture

There are two twenty20 tournaments between South Africa and Australia scheduled during the tour. The Test series result went to Australian for 1-0. The first twenty20 is going to hold on March 27, 2009 at Johannesburg and the second one will be held on just after two days on 29 March 2009 at Centurion. Both the matches will be kicked off at 18:00 local time and the 16:00 GMT.

 

Timetables and fixtures of Twenty20 between South Africa vs Australia

 

1st T20I Australia v South Africa at Johannesburg - Mar 27, 2009

Match scheduled to begin at 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT).

 

2nd  T20I Australia v South Africa at Centurion - Mar 29, 2009

Match scheduled to begin at 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT).

 

Although this is very odd time Australian fans but for the cricket lovers who lives in other countries over the world will be good times. According to US time the fans can watch tie match live at 12:00 and the UK people will able to enjoy at 16:00

South Africa vs Australia 2009: who will win first T20?

Earlier the year 2009, South Africa played two Twenty20 matches when South Africa visited Australia. That time the visitors defeated in both tournaments. Now, Australia is visiting South Africa. They already has won the Test series and now they will meet for the most exciting cricket match Twenty20 tournament on 27 March, 2009 at  New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg and according toe the local time 18:00 and 16:00 GMT.

 

So, this is a big opportunity for South Africa to take the revenge of defeat. They beat to Australia in the first Twenty20 match for 52 runs and for 6 wickets (with 7 balls remaining) in second one. It is clear that SA could not dominate Aus bowlers in both matches. But, hope that they could do well in their home grounds.

 

No doubt that that host has to prepare themselves very strong in all sides. Australia is the best cricket playing nation and it is tough to bead them although they are in not in good form now. But the SA are mentally very strong because they won the T20 trophy in Aus. But it is very clear that they have overcome their lacking of the previous test series.

Twenty20, Live streaming, Score, West Indies vs England from Port of Spain

The Test series of England-West Indies has been over and both the cricket teams are all set to meet in an encounter to meet the most exciting Twenty20 (T20) cricket tournament. West Indies has won the five matches Test series by 1-0. The only T20I England v West Indies is going to take place in Port of Spain on Mar 15, 2009. According the local time the cricket match will be commenced on at 14:00 local time (18:00 GMT). After the single T20 both the team will play five one-day international cricket match series too. 

Match Type: Twenty20 (T20I)

Played teams: West Indies vs England

Venue and Date: Port of Spain - Mar 15, 2009

Match time scheduled: 4:00 local time (18:00 GMT)

Live on TV: TEN Sports

Online Live score: Cricinfo, Sify sports, action8cricket, cricketnext, Headlinesindia.com, CRICBUZZ, 123INDIA.COM, Cricket365, Thatscricket 

Winning records of the two teams: By winning the first test, WI took the series but when England played comfortably along with the home XI. But, aside of the national team they totally failed to show performances. England and WI met two times for Twnty20 international cricket match when both the teams win one time each. It the next T20I match that is going to hold on 15 March is the third match as well as the fist T20I match in WI home ground. The rest Twenty20 international was held in The Oval in 2007. So, two years later the fans of both teams will enjoy Eng vs WI match. 

Most runs England v West Indies - Twenty20 matches: PD Collingwood, the former captain of England cricket team is the top scorer in T20I match. Here are the five men who are in the top fiver fro the last two matches. PD Collingwood scored 106 runs and his highest score was 79. To score this runs he had to send the ball 6 times out of the rope and 4 times over the ground. MN Samuels is the second highest most run scored just cashing 93 runs whenever he sacked a 51 runs. CH Gayle is in the 3^rd, OA Shah is in the 4^th and DS Smith is in the fourth. They scored 66runs, 62 runs and 61 runs. There is a big similarity of the all batsmen that they have one half-century but only OA Shah is the only batsman who was unbeaten in an innings. 

In the list of most wickets takers DR Smith, JM Anderson DJG Sammy RJ Sidebottom and SCJ Broad listed in the top five wicket takers by analyzing all the areas. Although three bowlers picked up 3 wickets each but West Indies bowler DR Smith is in the top position who picked up 3 wickets form 24 runs. The second position holders picket up 2 wickets each and they are four in numbers. 

If you search on web by using Google search engine or others you will get millions of websites that are informing about which sites are showing the match between England vs West Indies. There are many ways to show the match live in online. For example; Test Live score, ball by ball commentary, live video, video steaming. 

You can watch the match live by assist some websites but you have to pay to watch for match. Here are some addresses in where you can enjoy the twenty match Cricinfo, Sify sports, action8cricket, cricketnext, Headlinesindia.com, CRICBUZZ, 123INDIA.COM, Cricket365, Thatscricket.

Can India win the series? India vs New Zealand 2009 Twenty20

India is the Twenty20 world champions and it is nothing to highlight more because it can be changed anytime any moment. The next world cup T20 cricket will be held on June-July this year. Now, India is tour on New Zealand and they are going to start their tour with the Twenty20 tournament on 24 February 2009 at AMI Stadium, Christchurch.

According to the local time the match timing is 19:00, according to GMT is 06:00 and for Indian it will be taken place at 11:00. So, this is a very good time for Indian people who are eagerly waiting for the India vs New Zealand series.

India has archived strength from the last matches from where they secured victories and its bowling line-up and batting capability is doing best ever. As the opening batsmen Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag perhaps the top opening pairs of the world at this moment. Captain MS Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh will lead the middle order who has a strong stroke and emphasize to score a good run. The bowling side is also providing strength too. The bowling pair Zaheer Khan-Ishant Sharma is considering as a best pair at this moment.

The New Zealand also has emphasized with Ross Taylor and Jacob Oram. After overcoming injury the duo has joined in the team. There is nothing explain about Ross Taylor newly. He was one of the top players in the inaugural IPL T20 tournament.

Source: Cricinfo

New Zealand vs India timing of the Twenty20 matches

A cricket clash between India and New Zealand is going to taken place on Wed 25 February 2009. The tour will be started with Twenty20 match and will be closed with Test. Most probably, it is five year later India tour of New Zealand. That time, India returned home with excruciating recollections. That time India lost to New Zealand both test and one-day internationals. That time there was no Twenty20 tournament because it was included in ICC diary with the inauguration of Twenty20 world cup 2007 in South Africa.

India has good earnings in its sacks in all areas (Twenty20, One-Day International and Test cricket) of crickets. So they are thinking positive way for series victory. But, all fans have to remind that New Zealand is very strong team in its home ground. Even if you look over the last tour of Australia, they secured the winner title. Important things are that Australia is in very bad position in winning rainmaking.

The first Twenty20 tournament between India and New Zealand will be encountered just one day later. Here is a small time schedule of the twenty20 tournament.

When New Zealand host any cricket tournament it always odd time for Indian cricket fans. May be, India always visit New Zealand during the summer season and the limited over matches arranged as a day-night match. Here is the fixture of Twenty20 matches.

February 2009

Wed 25

19:00 local, 06:00 GMT 1st T20I - New Zealand v India

AMI Stadium, Christchurch

Fri 27

19:00 local, 06:00 GMT 2nd T20I - New Zealand v India

Westpac Stadium, Wellington

Originally scheduled for March 6, 2009

Colombo T20 live score time schedule web sites India vs Sri Lanka

The only twenty20 T20 match between India vs Sri Lanka will be taken place at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo. The match will be held on a very reliable time when everyone will return home after their working place. The timing of the T20 (twenty20) India and Sri Lanka will be held at 19:00 local, (13:30 GMT).

According to Indian time it will be at 18:30 and according to the USA time it will be grounded at 08:00. The first Twenty20 (T20) will be clashed between the host Sri Lankan and the neighboring country and Twenty20 world Cup champion India. India will be leaded by MS Dhoni but Sri Lankan captain M Jayabardhane may not play in the Twenty20 (T20) match in stead TM Dilshan supposed to be leaded the team.

Sri Lanka squad
TM Dilshan, CK Kapugedera, CM Bandara, SI de Saram, LHD Dilhara, CRD Fernando, ST Jayasuriya, HGJM Kulatunga, MF Maharoof, SL Malinga, J Mubarak, LPC Silva, T Thushara, ML Udawatte, K Weeraratne

India squad
MS Dhoni, L Balaji, G Gambhir, RA Jadeja, Z Khan, P Kumar, PP Ojha, IK Pathan, YK Pathan, SK Raina, V Sehwag, I Sharma, RG Sharma, Yuvraj Singh

You can visit the website below where you can get live India vs Sri Lanka twenty20 T20 match live.

http://content-ind.cricinfo.com
http://www.cricketnirvana.com

Tweny20 Live score and preview Sri Lanka vs India 2009

After a five match ODI series, the Twenty20 clash between Sri Lanka and India will be kicked-off at afternoon. This is the first Twenty20 that is going to hold in Sri Lanka ever. No doubt the India is the most favorite team in the world in very recent time. It is the most successful Twenty20 team among the teams and the winner of inaugural Twenty20 World Cup. The second season of Twenty20 World cup will be taken place in England.

Match facts
Teams: Sri Lanka v India
Match venue: R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Start time 19:00 local, (13:30 GMT)

India titled the series victory trophy and the result came 4-1. Earlier, India won nine One-Day international in a row. All Indian vision was to take-off Sri Lanka and will be a record holder in the ODI cricket history.

The main cause of defeat in the 5th one-day international was Indian batting letdown. Indian top order batsmen G Gambhir, V Sehwag and SK Raina went back to the green-room within 51 runs. This was the big pressure for the team and that become impossible to recover at the last moment.

If you look over the Indian batting in the last four matches, that impressed all the cricket lovers all over the world. It seems that India could do everything possible and can overcome the previous tendency and proved that the batsmen like Sachin Tendulkar are now useless. But the 5th match again reminded the previous propensity.

The host Sri Lanka played really well in the last match and brought the absolute result after a long time. Sri Lankan reminded India about the last final in Asia Cup Cricket. The bowlers also performed well.

Live streaming is very popular in the day-today life for the cricket lovers. There are many websites that will show live video streaming. At the same time they will show live text commentary too. The satellite pay TV channel NEO Cricket has secured the broadcast right. Later it has sold the right to other television channels which are showing live Sri Lanka vs India cricket match.

www.Cricinfo.com
http://india-srilanka.cricket.deepthi.com
www.action8cricket.com

These are some websites where you will able to watch Live Sri Lanka vs India match.

MS Dhoni’s captaincy and Indian consecutive victories

Indian batting is articulating that noting will make barrier to them. It’s really a dramatic change on the site on Indian team. If you look over the previous tournaments before the home series along side England India was combating about the leadership internally. There was a big controversy about the captainship and who will lead the team during the test match. I think Indian selection committee turned down a positive conclusion by removing Anil Kumble and Kumble’s pronouncement step down brought India in this situation.

Now, there is no hesitation that MS Dhoni is one of successful Indian cricket. He got the responsibilities after the England tour to lead the Indian team during the inaugural Tweyty20 World Cup 2008 in South Africa. MS Dhoni along with some young flock leaded the team like magic stick. As a result, India titled the Twenty20 World Cup with MS Dhoni’s clever leadership.
Indian selection committee realized after one year that Dhoni is the perfect man who can lead the India team in both areas Test cricket, one-day internationals and Twenty20 tournaments too.

At this moment, India is leading the No-2 positing of one-day international ICC Cricket rankings and in the 3rd position in Test. The team is just 3 points behind South Africa who has achieved the top position by beating the world ODI champion Australia. If India can win the 5th match against Sri Lanka of the ongoing series then India will climb on the number one at ICC ODI cricket ranking.

This is not end for Indian team. If India able to secure the victory than it will touch another record of 10 matches consequent victories in the world after Australia.

Indian captain MS Dhoni already has reached the top position as a number one batsman of the world after scoring 96 runs during the 4th ODI at Colombo. Previously, West Indies crickets Chris Gayle was that title holder.

Source: cricket360

NEO Cricket will telecast Sri Lanka vs India cricket series

to get Sri Lanka vs India ODI live score go through the link below 

http://www.all37.com/2009/01/sri-lanka-vs-india-2nd-odi-live-score.html

Sri Lanka vs India 5 ODI series and one Twenty 20 match will be started on 28^th January in Sri lanka’s with the match at Dambulla ground. Nimbus owner’s satellite television channel will broadcast the ODI series and one twenty20 match. 

Cricinfo reported:

Nimbus Sports executive vice- president hoped "As a sportsmarketing and production company, it has always been our aim to provide quality sports and cricketing action to the subcontinent and to the cricket fan worldwide." 

If you visit the NEO Cricket web site you will see add that is showing the time of live telecast. NEO has secured the broadcast right for tune of six million dollars. With this contact it will get permission to telecast the five matches ODI and a single Twenty20 international match. May be another two television channels took parts in this bid.

England Tour of West Indies under Andrew Strauss’ leadership

Andrew Strauss is new captain of England team after Kevin Petersen. As a new captain at first Andrew Strauss leads the forthcoming coming West Indies tour. England team will play against West Indies a four test series, five one day international match and only a twenty20 international match.        

ECB managing director Hugh Morris said, "Andrew Strauss has agreed to lead the team to the Caribbean. He led the England team with distinction in 2006 when Michael Vaughan was injured." Andrew Strauss is a 31 years Middlesex batsman.             

England team will arrive on 21st January in West Indies. First test match will be played on 4-8 February in Jamaica. 2^nd test will be Antigua till 13-17 of February, 3rd and 4^th test will be 26 February to 2^nd March at Barbados and 6-10 march at Trinidad. Before one day series they will play a Twenty20 match on 15 February at Trinidad. First and 2^nd ODI will be Guyana ground on 20 March and 22 March 27 and 29 march will be 3^rd and 4^th match at Barbadose. The tour will be finished with the last one day match on 3 April 2009 at St Lucia. 

Andrew Strauss said,”The players are excited about going to West Indies, which is a great tour. No-one likes reading these things in the press and a tour is a great way to bring people closer together." 

There was news in media the Kevin Petersen was forced to step down from the captaincy. Now it is time to see how the success comes with the new captain. 

India vs Sri Lanka: Five ODIs and one Twenty20 in Rangiri and Colombo

India tour is totally confirmed and the team will reach in Dambulla, Sri Lanka on 24 January 2009. The tour was not fixed according the international cricket council. But, after the terrorist attacks in Mumbai the India cricket authorities has stopped to tour of Pakistan where they had a long tour. In stead of this tour Indians conversed with the SLC to host an ODI series and a twenty20 match.

The ODI series will be held between the gap of Sri Lanka-Pakistan ODI and Test series. After the Tri-Nation series in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka has flown away to Pakistan for a short tour to play ODI series. Then they will back to home to host India.

Sri Lanka is not in good form now but they beat India in the Asia Cup Cricket with the magic spin bowl of Mendis. On the other hand, India is bearing very good records in the last matches, especially in the last test and ODI series. Now, in the unscheduled matches form 27 January will draw the notice of all the cricket fans. They will enjoy the flavor with the match India-Sri Lanka in stead of India-Pakistan matches.

The venues are all set to host the matches between India and Sri Lanka. The first two matches will be held at Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Rangiri and the last three ODI with one Twenty20 international match at R.Premadasa Stadium (Khettarama), Colombo.

Australia v South Africa: Tweny20 and ODI Fixture and Timetable

South Africa has secured a record breaking viceroy over Australia in Australian land. The last or 3rd Test that brought a satisfy victory on 7 January 2009 and that was started from 3^rd January.

South Africa confirmed the series victory during the 2^nd test. By acquiring victories in the Perth and Melbourne tests they crowned the big record that South Africa did in Gram Smith’s captaincy.

After Test drama, there are still two tournaments re knocking at the door; one is Twenty20 international tournament and One Day International tournament.

 

Fixture and Timetable:

 

Sun 11 D/N 19:35 local, 08:35 GMT	1st Twenty20 International - Australia v South Africa Melbourne Cricket Ground
Tue 13 D/N 18:35 local, 08:35 GMT	2nd Twenty20 International - Australia v South Africa Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane
Fri 16 D/N 14:15 local, 03:15 GMT	1st ODI - Australia v South Africa Melbourne Cricket Ground
Sun 18 10:00 local, 23:00 GMT	2nd ODI - Australia v South Africa Bellerive Oval, Hobart
Fri 23 D/N 14:15 local, 03:15 GMT	3rd ODI - Australia v South Africa Sydney Cricket Ground
Mon 26 D/N 13:45 local, 03:15 GMT	4th ODI - Australia v South Africa Adelaide Oval
Fri 30 D/N 13:30 local, 04:30 GMT	5th ODI - Australia v South Africa Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth

 

Here is the complete schedule of the next T20 and ODI tournaments. The two Twenty20 and four One International matches will be taken place as a Day-Nigh match. The two T20 matches will be grounded 19:35 local time and 18:35 local. One ODI the will be as a Day light match will be taken placed on 10:00 and others matches will be held during 13:30 to 14:15.

Australia vs South Africa 1st Twenty20 2009: Preview, Live Score

If you want to get the live score and updates of the first twenty20 match between Australia and South Africa, then visit the following link:

Australia vs South Africa 1st Twenty20: Live Score, Updates

Following a rare test series defeat at home, Australia is going to take on visiting South Africa in the first of the two-match Twenty20 series in Melbourne on 11 January 2009 (Sunday). South Africa is full of confidence after clinching a historic test series victory on Australian soil recently, even though they lost the third and the final test of the series. Australian team regained some of their lost confidence by wining the third test match at Sydney. So, Australian team will now look to take revenge in the upcoming Twenty20 and ODI series and they would like to kick off their revenge program right from the first Twenty20 which will take place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Match: Australia vs South Africa, First Twenty20, Australia vs South Africa Twenty20 Series 2009

Date: 11 January 2009, Sunday

Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia

Kick off: 19:35 local time (08:35 GMT)

Australian selectors recently named 13-member Twenty20 squad with Mathew Hayden being the notable exclusion. This hard-hitting opener is going though a bad patch of time and Australian selectors indicated that they are looking for a young player who would be part of Australian team for World Twenty20 which will take place in England in June this year. New South Wales opener David Warner has been rewarded a call in Australian twenty20 team for the first time. Warner, who has been in an excellent form in Australia’s domestic cricket this season, is expected to open with hard-hitting batsman Shaun Marsh followed by Ricky Ponting, David Hussey, Michael Hussey, and Brad Haddin (wk) in the batting line up.

There are three all rounders in the squad: James Hopes, Ryan Harris and Cameron White. Pacer all-rounder Hopes and leg-spin all rounder White are expected to make it to the final eleven. Pacer Shaun Tait has been back into Australian squad after 12 months since he walked away from cricket because of exhaustion (both physical and mental). Left arm pacer Nathan Bracken and Tait are expected to lead Australia’s pace attack, while Hopes’ handy medium pace could be pretty effective for hosts. Now, there is another place left to make it eleven and the place could most probably go to off spinner Nathan Hauritz in what pacer Ben Hilfenhaus and uncapped all rounder Ryan Harris would be left out of the first eleven. So, Australian has a very balanced Twenty20 squad in the presence of a number of all rounders as well as hard hitting batsmen who have been in excellent form in recent time.

Australia’s Twenty20 Squad

Ricky Ponting (capt), Michael Hussey, David Hussey, Ben Hilfenhaus, James Hopes, Nathan Bracken, Brad Haddin (wk), Shaun Marsh, Shaun Tait, David Warner, Ryan Harris, Cameron White, Nathan Hauritz.

Well, South Africa also has very strong squad which would definitely take a stern test of the host side. Even though they would miss their inspirational Captain Graeme Smith who is currently injured out for the Twenty20 and ODI series against Australia. Some of the important players of South African are Johan Botha, Herschelle Gibbs, Morne Morkel, Albie Morkel, Dale Steyn, Makhaya Ntini, Jean-Paul Duminy, AB de Villiers and there are some promising uncapped players like left arm pacer Lonwabo Tsotsobe, hard-hitting batsman Vaughn van Jaarsveld and young all rounder Wayne Parnell who starred in 2006 U-19 World Cup.

South Africa’s Twenty20 and ODI Squad

Johan Botha (c), Hashim Amla, Mark Boucher (wk), AB de Villiers, Jean-Paul Duminy, Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, Neil McKenzie, Albie Morkel, Morne Morkel, Makhaya Ntini, Wayne Parnell, Dale Steyn, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Vaughn van Jaarsveld.

Australia and South Africa faced each other in Twenty20 internationals twice so far with both sides winning once each. Both the matches were held way back in 2006. No doubt, both the teams have gone though many changes in these three years. Australia’s dominance in world cricket is gradually being faded away, while South Africa’s dominance is rising day by day. Australian will definitely miss the service of injured all rounders Andrew Symonds and Shane Watson. On the other hand, South Africa will not get Captain Graeme Smith.

Twenty20 cricket is always full of entertainment. It is, in fact, a complete package of excitement and enjoyment for three hours. Twenty20 cricket is more uncertain than any other version of cricket as a Twenty20 match can take an abrupt turn at any situation. So, the upcoming match is also expected to be a highly competitive affair with both Australia and South Africa looking to start the twenty20 series with a win in Melboune.

Online Live Score and Updates

Here, I am giving some website links from where you can get to know the live score and updates of the match between Australia and South Africa:

Cricinfo

Espnstar.Com

Cricket Next

Predicting for a cricket match is always very hard because cricket is a game of uncertainty, and when it comes to Twenty20 cricket, making prediction is as hard as facing the speediest bowler in the world with a bat made of plastic. Both Australia and South Africa have 50-50 chances to win the match as both sides include some match winners. I just hope that the first twenty20 match of the series will be as exciting as the test series.

England vs. New Zealand: ODI and Twenty20 matches Fixture and timetable

New Zealand is touring on England now. They have been playing three Test Matches form 15 May 2008 and the 3^rd Test Match already has started from 5 June 2008.

After this Test Series New Zealand will play a Twenty20 formatted international match on 13 June 2008 and a five matches ODI series from 15 June 2008.

The result of the previous two matches is host England has a step in the way of victory. The first match was drawn and the second match England won by 6 wickets.

England Vs New Zealand Tewnty20 International Schedule/Fixture:

New Zealand Tour of England (Twenty20 International)
13 Jun 2008	England vs New Zealand Only Twenty20 International, Old Trafford, Manchester Live action starts from: 16:30 GMT (22:00 IST)

England Vs New Zealand ODI International Schedule/Fixture:

New Zealand Tour of England ( One Day International )
15 Jun 2008	England vs New Zealand 1st One Day International, Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street Live action starts from: 09:45 GMT (15:15 IST)
18 Jun 2008	England vs New Zealand 2nd One Day International, Edgbaston, Birmingham Live action starts from: 09:45 GMT (15:15 IST)
21 Jun 2008	England vs New Zealand 3rd One Day International, County Ground, Bristol Live action starts from: 09:45 GMT (15:15 IST)
25 Jun 2008	England vs New Zealand 4th One Day International, Kennington Oval, London Live action starts from: 09:45 GMT (15:15 IST)
28 Jun 2008	England vs New Zealand 5th One Day International, Lord"s, London Live action starts from: 09:45 GMT (15:15 IST)

The 5 ODI matches will be commence on different venues. The last and 5^th ODI will be held on Lord’s. All the matches will be held as a day match and will held on 9:45 GMT.