South Africa Dominate First Day.

Vernon Philander continued his great bowling performance with his third five-wicket haul in three matches as Sri Lanka crumbled to 180. The Wicket is Completely Set Up for the faster bowler and any fast bowler would enjoy bowling on this kind of track and both bounce and swing available. Both philander and steyn takes this advantages and rattled sri lanken batting line up completely. Although most of sri lanken batsman got start but they fail to capitalize their innings. At One Moment of time sri lankan were 156/4 which is looks competive on this track but they collapses completely as they lose last 6 wicket for just 24 runs. Bowl is swinging entire day and it's now upto sri lankan bowler make their team right back into the game.

Sri Lanka Back On Track After Early Setbacks

Score: Sri lanka:62/2

Sri Lanka Are Recoving Well after losing their couple of wicket on bouncy and green wicket which assisting the fast bowlers quite well. Earlier In the Day South African Captain Graeme Smite won the Toss and decided to bat first which is turned upto a good decision as his bowlers strike early in the day with a wicket of Dilshan(6) and Sangakkara(1). Kumar Sangakkara who passed fit for the test was got out of good delievery of Philander. After these early bolws both Paranavitana and jayawardene playing solidely on the middle.

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Dhoni Looking Ahead For Down-Under

CHENNAI: Indian Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was looking very confident ahead of much waited India- Australia series while addressing media here on Chennai. Australia are clearly not that side what they used to be. New Zealand, the team standing on 8th rank on ICC ranking beats Australia on their own backyard. it was Australia 18th defeat since 2009. Ponting and hussy loses their shines with bat, Watson is out of team due to injury, some new guys are just starting their career, it certainly the same team of Steve Waugh and Ricky ponting which dominate the world cricket for nearly a decade.

Dhoni and Coach Fletcher are fully aware that Australian side going through a rebuilding phase and it will take some time before these young players of Australia show their talent, but Dhoni don't want to take this Australia with ease either. He Said - When we went into the series against West Indies without Harbhajan Singh, no one knew what R Ashwin was capable of in Test cricket. And see where he is now...How do you know that Australia don't have similar talent in their line-up who is just waiting to explode?"

India Team think-tank are fully aware of Australia young player talent, they know that they have quite of young guns who can change the game on their own day. Pattinson, Warner, Lyon, marsh all eager to perform. No matter how weak Australia are this time around, it's always hard to beat them in their own backyard. It's certainly will be a huge competitive series and all cricket fans enjoy it.

Bracewell stun Australiya as New Zealand win by 7 Runs

What a Day of test cricket it was, a historical spell by young man of new zealand completely distroy australiya batting line up with a great spell of consistency and pace. while chasing 241 , David warner is the only australiya batsman who is looking completely unaffected by the wind of Bracewell Spell. David Warner, who played a superb innings of 123, try his best to move australiya to home , but he wasn't well supported by other Australiya batsman's. Australiya hopes were completely got broke down when their last wicket nathon lyon who playing superbly bowled by beutiful delivery of bracewell. it was australiya 17th test defeat since 2008, only less than new zealand and west indies.

Bowlers Put New Zealand On Commanding Position

Australiya V/s New Zealand

Score:

N.Z: 150/10 & 139/3

Aus: 136/10

A Brilliant Performance by bowlers put New Zealand on commanding position here on 2nd day of 2nd test match between New Zealand V/s Australia. All of the Australia’s batsman failed to handle the brilliant spells bowled by New Zealand bowlers here on bouncy and fast Hobart pitch.

After miserable performance of Australia batsman's New Zealand strengthen their position by playing solidly and sensibly in the 2nd innings. The visitors battled to 3 for 139 and leading by 153 end the end of close of play, with Ross Taylor(42*) and Kane Williamson(39*) playing with positive intent and determination.

Virender Sehwag - The Nawab of Najafgarh

Virender Sehwag affectionately known as Viru, the Nawab of Najafgarh, or the Zen master of modern cricket, is one of the leading batsmen in the Indian cricket team. Sehwag is an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and a part-time right-arm off-spin bowler. He played his first One Day International in 1999 and joined the Indian Test cricket team in 2001. In April 2009, Sehwag became the only Indian to be honoured as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for his performance in 2008, subsequently becoming the first player of any nationality to retain the award for 2009.

virender Sehwag holds multiple records including the highest score made by an Indian in Test cricket (319), which was also the fastest triple century in the history of international cricket (reached 300 off only 278 balls) as well as the fastest 250 by any batsman (in 207 balls against Sri Lanka on 3 December 2009 at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai). His other innings of 309 and 293 are also the second and third best by any Indian player. Sehwag also holds the distinction of being one of four batsmen in the world to have ever surpassed 300 twice in Test cricket, and the only one to score two triple centuries and take a five-wicket innings haul. In March 2009, Sehwag smashed the fastest century ever scored by an Indian in ODI cricket, from 60 balls. On 8 December 2011, he hit his maiden double century in ODI cricket, against West Indies, becoming the second batsman after Sachin Tendulkar to reach the landmark. His score remains the highest individual score in ODI cricket - 219 off 149 balls. He is the only player in world to score a double hundred in ODI and a triple hundred in Test Cricket.

Sehwag was appointed as vice-captain of the Indian team under Rahul Dravid in October 2005 but due to poor form, he was later replaced by V. V. S. Laxman in December 2006 as Test vice-captain. In January 2007, Sehwag was dropped from the ODI team and later from the Test team as well. During his term as vice-captain, Sehwag skippered the team in place of injured Dravid in 2 ODIs and 1 Test. Following his return to form in 2008 and the retirement of Anil Kumble, Sehwag has been reappointed as the vice-captain for both Tests and ODIs. By early 2009, Sehwag had reestablished himself as one of the best performing batsmen in ODI cricket.

I was not expecting 200' - Sehwag

Virender Sehwag, who slammed a record-setting 219 against the West Indies in Indore, has said that he thought a big score was there for the taking at the Holkar Stadium, but he did not expect to make a double-hundred.

"I was playing my shots throughout the innings. I thought [about] it [the double-century] when I was batting in the batting Powerplay and thought, 'If I just bat this Powerplay, maybe I'll cross that 200-mark'. When Sammy dropped the catch [Sehwag was on 170 at the time], I thought God was with me and was telling me, 'You just bat till the 45th or 46th over and get your 200'."