Cricket Season 2011-2012 Schedule: Future cricket Series

Future cricket series schedules:

Test Series Schedule

Border-Gavaskar Trophy, India  vs Australia, Dec 2011 – Jan 2012 in Australia

Pakistan v England Test Series, Jan-Feb 2012, in United Arab Emirates

Zimbabwe vs New Zealand Test Series, Jan 2012 in New Zealand

South Africa vs New Zealand Test Series, Mar 2011, in New Zealand

England vs Srilanka Test Series Mar-Apr 2012, in Sri Lanka

The Frank Worrell Trophy, Australia vs West Indies, Apr 2012, in West Indies

One Day International Series Schedule

Sri Lanka vs South Africa ODI Series, Jan 2012, in South Africa

Zimbabwe vs New Zealand ODI Series, Feb 2012, in New Zealand

Commonwealth Bank Series, Feb-Mar 2012 (Australia, India, Sri Lanka) in Australia

Pakistan v Afghanistan ODI Match, Feb 2012, in United Arab Emirates

Pakistan v England ODI Series, Feb 2012, in United Arab Emirates

South Africa vs New Zealand ODI Series, Feb-Mar 2012 in New Zealand

Asia Cup, Mar 2012 (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) in Bangladesh

Australia vs West Indies ODI Series, Mar 2012, in West Indies

T20 Series Schedule

India vs Australia T20I Series, Feb 2012, in Australia

Zimbabwe vs New Zealand T20I Series, Feb 2012 in New Zealand

South Africa vs New Zealand T20I Series, Feb 2012 New Zealand

Ireland vs Kenya T20I Series, Feb 2012 in Kenya

Pakistan vs England T20I Series, Feb 2012, in United Arab Emirates

Australia vs West Indies T20I Series, Mar 2012, in West Indies

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka 4th ODI: It was Afridi’s Day

 

Afridi single-handedly displayed an impregnable performance both with bat and bowl by winning the Pakistan Sri Lanka series played on the Arab soil. The 4^th ODI out of the five ODI series between Pakistan and Sri Lanka at Sharjah was a treat to watch. After eight years of cricket drought at the Sharjah cricket ground, Pakistan again registered a memorable success over Sri Lanka which lost its last 7 wickets of just 19 runs. The game was almost in the hands of Sri Lanka but Afridi wrecked the lower batting order with a blend of googlies and legbreaks, successfully preyed five wickets for Pakistan. The juggling of Afridi perplexed the Sri Lankan batting where world class batsmen like Mahela Jayawardene and Kumara Sangakkara were unable to withstand the artifice of Shahid Afridi.

Pakistan batted first, struggled early in the game with 6 wickets down on 97. Afridi came at seventh position and played a magnificent inning of 75 runs off 65 balls. It is the first time ever in ODI history that a player has secured a half century and took 5 wickets in one inning twice in his career. Before that this feat was registered 15 times but none of the cricketers has repeated their performance like Shahid Afridi did.

Humaira Asad

Pakistan vs Bangladesh Series 2011: Pakistan Ready to Nail its Ex Better-half

 

Bangladesh and Pakistan cricket teams are at loggerheads on the fiddly pitch of Mirpur after 18 months. The last played against each other in an ODI in June 2010. Bangladesh is currently in full swing after beating New Zealand and Pakistan is all set to give Bangladesh a tough time after a convincing win over Sri Lanka in the recent series played in UAE. Bangladesh has improved it ODI ranking considerably as some of its team players have registered some great performances in the recent past. On the other hand, Misbah ul Haq has come up as a good ODI captain of Pakistan as the success ratio of Pakistan under his captaincy is really good. His own batting average in ODI is worth mentioning. He has registered an average of 42.42 runs in last 86 matches where he also scored 18 half centuries (no century so far). Yet again eyes are on Shahid Afridi. We hope to see an action replay of the outstanding performance from bat and ball.  Shoaib Malik is still struggling since his return in the International Cricket. We hope to see a better game from him in the series. From Bangladesh, players to watch are Mahmudullah and Shakib al Hassan. We hope fro a great game in the series beginning today                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Humaira Asad         

Stunning Maiden T20I Century by Tilakaratne Dilshan

With chances of rain later in the night, Australia cricket team’s Captain Cameroon White decided to bowl first after winning the toss of the first T20 International match of the tour in Sri Lanka.  Sri Lanka had a reasonable start until they lost their veteran batsman Mahela Jayewardene in the 3^rd over. Taking the opportunity Sri Lankan skipper Tilakaratne Dilshan charged on Australian bowlers heavily. Thus, making a stunning maiden T20I century in just 55 balls. He ended scoring 104* runs from just 57 balls with the help of 12x4s and 5x6s. The dashing innings by Dilshan enabled Sri Lanka cricket team to put a defendable score of 199 runs to win for Australia.

 

Test cricket records: Sri Lankan cricket team vs Australian cricket team

Sri Lankans were granted test status in 1982 from the International Cricket Council and made their debut in the same year against the English side in Colombo. The Australians however were given test status more than a century ago as compared to the Sri Lankans. The two teams came across each other in 1983 on Kandy cricket ground.

• The Sri Lankans are called as the Lions and the Australian cricketers are called as the Aussies.
• GS Chappel was the Australian cricket team’s captain in the first encounter against the Lions whereas the Sri Lankan captain was LRD Mendis.
• The first match was played on the Asgiriya stadium, Kandy.
• The match umpires were CEB Anthony and HC Felsinger.
• These Australian cricket players have been performing really well Waugh brothers, Ricky Ponting, ML Hayden, AR Border, GD Mcgrath, MG Johnson, MJ Clarke, and RN Harvery against the Sri Lankan cricket team.
• However Sri Lankan cricketers have also shown great performances e.g. PA De Silva, ST Jayasuriya, A Ranatunga, DPMD Jayawardene, MS Attapattu, RS Kaluwitharana, Kumara Sangakarra, Chaminda Vaas, Dilhara Fernando, M Muralitharan and UDU Chandana.
• In all just 20 matches have been played by the two teams and only 1 was won by the Sri Lankans, 13 victories stand with Aussies name and 6 matches were drawn.
• (Australia: 65% and SL: 0.07% only).
• Highest test runs in a test innings from the Sri Lankan team were 547/8(declared) and on the other hand the highest runs in an innings by the Aussies were 617/5(declared).
• Greatest cricket player Ricky Ponting is highest run scorer (851 runs) and second to him on the list is PA De Silva (803runs).
• Top scorer in an innings was MJ Slater of Australia with 219 runs in one innings and KC Sangakkara was the Sri Lankan top scorer with 192 runs.
• SK Warne yet again has the best bowling figures against the Sri Lankans with 59 wickets in aggregate and 10 wickets in one match.
• Greatest Sri Lankan cricket player Mutiah Muralitharan seconds the list of the maximum wickets in aggregate i.e. 54 wickets and has 11 wickets in the match.
• MS Kasprowicz is the top wicket taker with 7 wickets in an innings.
• AC Gilchrist, Australian wicket keeper has been the best keeper throughout the matches with 37 dismissals in just 7 matches.
• The two teams have played very less test cricket against each other hence the less number of scores/wickets
• The last game was played in November 2007 (16^th-20^th) at Hobart.

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