Aus won the low scoring T-20 by 2 runs!

Pakistan almost won the game, but lost by 2 runs in a low scoring T-20 match. After winning the toss Australia selected to bat first. But they manages to score only 127 runs in the board. David Hussey took the roll of giving lead in the front. He scored 40* from 31 balls. While Captain Michael Clarke scored 32 runs also. Pakistani pace bowler Umar Gul took 3 wickets while Shoaib Malik took 2.

In reply Pakistan was loosing wickets in regular interval. Kamran Akmal kept one side but did not get a good partner. He scored 64 runs from 33 deliveries and his brother Umar Akmal scored 21 runs. Another double figured player was a bowler! Umar Gul scored 10! And none of the others managed to score a double figure! They lost 9 wickets in 20 overs scoring 2 runs short from 127 runs! Australian opening bowler Shaun Tait, the Man of the Match today, took 3 wickets for 13 runs in his 4 overs.

AUS 80 runs lead in 2nd inn | 2 wkt in hand

In the 3rd day of 2nd test in Sydney Pakistan lost their 10th wicket early adding only 2 runs with previous day's score. They are all out for 333 run in their first innings. Bollinger took the wicket of Kaneria. His final figure was 4/72.

In second innings batting Australia opener Shane Watson scored a solid 97 run with missing another hundred here. Michael Hussey played the innings through. He scored 73 not out at the day end. Phillip Hughes, another opener, scored 37 runs the 3rd highest of the innings so far. Among the pakistani bowler Kaneria is most successful, who was wicket less in first innings, he took 4 wickets for 117 runs. And Gul took 3 wickets.

Aus: 286/8 (87 ovr) & 127 Watson 97, Hussey 73*, Hughes 37, Kaneria 4/117, Gul 3/62, Asif 1/44,
Pak: 333/10 Butt 71, Imran Farhat 53, Bollinger 4/72, Watson 2/40

Pakistan took 204 runs lead in fist innings

After winning the toss Ricki Ponting decided to bat first, which was a bad decision. Pakistani Bowler Asif took 6 wickets, his career best, in the first innings and bound Australia in 127 runs in first innings, which is a rare case now a days for Australia in Test Cricket. Australian Mitchell Johnson is the highest scorer. He scored 38 run. Pakistani opening bowler Mohammad Sami took first 3 wickets and then Mohammad Asif did the devastation. 

In reply Pakistan scored 331 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in the first innings at the end of the day 2. Salman Butt scored, the highest scorer of the match, 71 runs, while another opener Imran Farhat scored 53 runs. And Umar Akmal made a quick 49 runs from 48 balls. Bollinger was the most successful among the Australian bowlers, he took 3 wickets. After 2nd day of 2nd test Pakistan leads 204 runs in first innings with one wicket in hand. 

Aus: 127 (1st inn) Mitchell Johnson 38, Michael Hussey 28, Asif 6/41, Sami 3/27. 

Pak: 331/9 (1st inn) Salman Butt 71, Imran Farhat 53, Umar Akmal 49, Bollinger 3/70, Mitchell Johnson 2/64. 

AUS need 171 to win the series!

In Guwahati, India set the target for Australia 171 in the 6th ODI. Australia is leading 3-2 in this current series of 7 matches. Australia needs only 171 runs from 50 overs to confirm the series victory!

Batting first India scored 170 runs from 48 overs. They lost first 4 wickets in 8th over while is score is only 24! Little master Sachin Tendulkar, who scored brilliant 175 in last match, scored 10 while other opening batsman Virender Sehwag managed to score 6! Indian captain MS Dhoni (24 runs) and Ravindra Jadeja (57 runs) tried to re-build the innings. Another tail ender Praveen Kumar was playing straight the innings through. Praveen Kumar was the last not out batsman (54 runs from 51 balls).

Australian opening bowler Mitchell Johnson took 3 wickets for 39 runs, while the most successful bowler is Doug Bollinger, another opening bowler, took 5 wickets for only 35 runs.

Sachin made his 45th ODI Century but lost the Game

Australia 350 for 4 (Marsh 112, Watson 93, White 57) beat India 347 (Tendulkar 175, Raina 59, Watson 3-47, McKay 3-59) by three runs.

Indian little master Sachin Tendulkar scored his 45th ODI century and also had crossed 17,000 runs in the 5th ODI tonight. Australia set a high target of 351 runs. Tendulkar almost chased a target of 351 on his own, except for small contributions from Virender Sehwag and Suresh Raina. But with the target within sight, Tendulkar got out and the rest choked, falling short by three runs with two balls still to go. In Chennai, in 1999-00, Tendulkar, having played an innings as incredible as this, left the last three wickets 18 to get; tonight he left them 19. He wanted to be left alone that evening and will want to be left alone tonight too.

Tendulkar came out of a relatively lean patch, keeping the pace up without taking undue risks and playing mostly cricketing shots, but was left seeking support from the other end. While the chase seemed to be slipping away from India, in isolation, Tendulkar had already played a masterpiece. He started scratchily, as the series so far has been for him, and then shifted gears seamlessly, and counter-attacked every time a wicket fell at the other end. The aerial shots were all hit in vacant areas, strike was alternated efficiently, and Shane Watson's whirlwind 93 earlier in the day seemed to have found its match.

A stunning pulled six and an inside-out four from Tendulkar in Watson's next over meant India still kept the momentum going, and that the required run-rate didn't reach unmanageable proportions. Two more straight sixes, one of the vintage Tendulkar type and the other a mis-hit, put Nathan Hauritz out of the attack. In the 24th over, though, Adam Voges pulled off a stunner at point to send MS Dhoni back, and leave Tendulkar an improbable task to achieve on his own.

The fire and ice combination of Shane Watson and Shaun Marsh took Australia to a huge total on a true and flat Hyderabad pitch. Watson provided the early impetus, converting a conservative start into a boundary-fest towards the end of the first Powerplay. Marsh assumed the anchorman role, and batted almost through the innings. Fifty-four of Watson's 93 runs came in fours and sixes, Marsh ran 68 of his 112. India contributed to their own woes by dropping four catches and generally being their usual casual self in the field.

It shouldn't take away from Watson, though, who added only three after a tough return catch from him was dropped by Yuvraj Singh. By then the damage had been done. Watson made India's bowlers pay dearly for every small error they made in length. Sixty-five of his runs came through midwicket and behind square on the off side, suggesting too many balls on the shorter side. But it was as much about Watson creating the length with his quick eye and footwork, thus putting the bowlers off their plan.

Australia have not followed the Virender Sehwag model of opening the innings in this series, and 24 for 0 from six overs seemed an extension of their three earlier starts: 28 for 1 in six in Vadodara, 40 for 0 in 10 in Delhi, and 37 for 1 in 10 in Mohali. Watson was 10 off 17 ball then, and Marsh 12 off 19. Watson then got two gifts from Praveen Kumar in the seventh: a leg-stump half-volley was flicked ferociously for four, and a short and wide delivery cut to point boundary. Three sixes and five fours in the next five overs later, Praveen, Ashish Nehra and Munaf Patel (in for Ishant Sharma) were left smarting, and the score had rocketed to 80 for 0.

That Marsh did his job showed in how he played only nine of those deliveries. And two of them he hit for fours. The surge, though, was all about Watson. Amid pulling over midwicket, he managed aesthetically appealing shots too: a flick over midwicket off Nehra's bowling and a straight six off Munaf. One of the pulls brought up his 50, in the 11th over, off just 40 balls.

From 97 for 0 in 15 overs, Australia went into consolidation mode. Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh managed to slow things down and bring the run-rate under six. Harbhajan, who has had an ordinary series so far, looked the best Indian bowler on display. It was obvious he had slowed down the pace, was flighting the ball more, and was attacking the off stump as opposed to middle and leg. Chances were created, but Marsh was dropped by MS Dhoni on 29. The slowed scoring rate eventually got to Watson, who went to slog-sweep Harbhajan and top-edged the straighter delivery in the 26th over. Moments later Sehwag dropped Marsh off Yuvraj at short extra, but slyly Marsh had reached 51 off 66 by then.

Only one boundary came in the next seven overs. In the 34th, came a free-hit boundary off Munaf, and then the batting Powerplay. Australia didn't go wild slogging, yet managed at least a boundary hit each in the Powerplay overs. Ricky Ponting was deceived by a Praveen slower delivery in the last of the restriction overs, but his run-a-ball 45 worked well with an ever-accelerating Marsh, who had reached 92 off 100 by then. Forty-four came in those five, Marsh soon reached his maiden century, his strike-rate crossed 100 as he did so, suggesting a smartly paced innings.

For Australia's innings, as a whole, to be as smartly paced, one late cameo was required, and Cameron White and Michael Hussey provided that with brutal hitting in the final few overs. The last seven went for 79, the sixes tally went to 13, and the total to 350, more than India have ever chased successfully. Source: cricinfo.com

Result of India vs. Australia 3rd ODI: India won by 6 wkt: Leading the searies 2-1

After his brilliant hundred in the second ODI (124) Indian captain Dhoni continues his journey 71 not out and Yuvraj struck 78 on a difficult wicket as the home side chased down a fighting Aussie total of 229 with 10 balls to spare.Dhoni and Yuvraj put on a match-winning 148 runs for the fourth wicket after India lost their first three wickets for 53. India looked down the barrel after Sachin Tendulkar (32), Virender Sehwag (11) and Gautam Gambhir (6) departed in quick succession.

Australia won the toss and batting first India scored 229-5. Michael Hussey was top scorer with unbeaten 81 runs. Hussey hit his third half-century of the series and shared 56 runs with captain Ricky Ponting (59). Opening batsman Shane Watson scored 41 from 59 balls with five fours. Indian left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja impressed the most among the bowlers on the tricky track, picking 2-41 off nine overs.

The seven-match series is tied 1-1 after India won the second match at Nagpur by 99 runs. India is leading Hero Honda Cup Series 2-1 of 7 matches.

AUS: 229-5 (50ovr) Hussey 81*, Ponting 59, Watson 41; Jadeja 41/2, Rayna 23/1.
IND: 230-4 (48.2 ovr)Yuvraj 78, Dhoni 71*, Tendulkar 32; Johnson 43/1.