Some news on Cricket

Third Test match between West Indies and South Africa:
Third day of the test match was over yesterday. South Africa had finished their first innings scoring 346 runs loosing all 10 wickets. They had given a lead of 115 runs to the hosts. West Indies began their second batting innings. They had to recover the lead & have to put some huge score on board either to win the match or make it a draw. Again top order batsmen failed to hit big scores for the team as they all fell soon. Only Shivnarine Chanderpaul survived & played some beautiful knocks scoring a half century. West Indies at the end of the day they had lost 7 wickets & had scored just 134 runs in total. Now WI are leading South Africans by just 19 runs which is a very critical situation for the hosts. They have to build some good and great partnerships for the remaining 3 wickets to keep their hopes alive. Right now South Africans are looking strong to win the match easily. Lets wait & watch what happens.


England vs Australia series:
England have already whitewashed Australians in the series by taking the lead of 3-0. England have already won the series as they have won all 3 matches. Next two remaining matches will be played for pride & glory. Australians seem to be very unhappy about their performance against the England. Australia have lost the series after winning 8 series in the row. Now England has dominated the Australians very easily & are looking very high. Australian captain Ricky Ponting has said that the remaining 2 matches which will be played is for pride which is the number one priority for them now.

Some Cricket coverages for today

Currently West Indies and South Africa are playing their 3rd test match at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown - Barbados. West Indies have won the toss & have elected to bat first. As of now, 57 overs has been bowled from South Africans. West Indies have scored 159 runs loosing 5 wickets. Currently Dwayne Bravo & Denesh Ramdin are playing & have put up a partnership of 54 runs. Paul Harris is the most economical bowler till now, his economy rate is just 1.64 runs per over from his 14 overs. Even Jacques is bowling well with the economy rate of 1.62 runs per over. Johan Botha has picked 3 important wicket. West Indies has lost all its top order batsmen.

Yuvaraj Singh & Rahul Dravid are back into the Indian team where they will be playing against the Srilankans which will be played next month. They both were been dropped in the last few series due to injuries which took place during the Bangladesh visit.

England's star batsman Paul Collingwood is very much happy & impressed the way his team is performing against the Australian team. He wants the team to continue its winning spree further. After this series England will be facing the Ashes.

Former Wicket Keeper & captain of the Pakistan team, Moin Khan, has praised MS Dhoni for his beautiful captaincy. Recently India had won the Asia Cup after 15 years.

Delhi Daredevils won the match against KKR

Today, Delhi Daredevils played their home match against Kolkata Knight Riders at Feroz Shah Kotla. Delhi Daredevils won the toss & elected to bat first.

Delhi started to bat aggressively right from the beginning, they lost 3 quick wickets in first 3 overs. But later on David Warner & Paul Collingwood both put up a partnership of 128 runs. Paul Collingwood got out in 19.2 over scoring 53 runs from 45 balls. David Warner was unbeaten & played throughout the innings & scored his first century in the IPL cricket. He scored 107 runs from 69 deliveries which included 9 fours & 5 sixes. After 20 overs, Delhi Daredevils lost only 4 wickets scoring a total of 177 runs.

Kolkata Knight Riders started their chase of 178, They did not give their start as aggressive as Delhi Daredevils did. They lost 3 wickets in first 5 overs, their run rate started to drop & required rate started to increase. They started to loose wickets on regular basis. By the end of 20 overs Kolkata Knight Riders could score only 137 runs loosing 9 wickets.

Delhi Daredevils won the match by 40 runs. Man of Match was David Warner for his unbeaten Century.