Muhammad Hafeez Declared Man of the Match as Pakistan Crushed Zimbabwe by 85 Runs

HARARE, Zimbabwe (Sept. 16) – Pakistan crushed hosts Zimbabwe by 85 runs in the first Twenty20 international just concluded at Harare Sports Club here on today.

Man of the Match: Muhammad Hafeez Scored 71 and Picked up 4 Wickets

Zimbabwe batting crumbled in just 15.2 over after making just 113 runs. Coventry and Chibhabha were the significant contributors from Zimbabwe scoring 30 and 28 respectively. Six Zimbabwean batsmen couldn’t even reach the double figure.

Muhammad Hafeez picked up 4 wickets after smashing 71 runs earlier in Pakistan innings and declared man of the match.

Zimbabwe won the toss and invited the visitors to bat first hoping to get early wickets to pressurize Pakistan batting; but Pakistani openers Muhammad hafeez and Asad Shafiq got off to a flyer taking the scores to 72 in just 6 overs without losing any wickets.

Asad Shafiq got run out on total score of 74 after contributing significant 38 runs. Muhammad Hafeez continued his superb form and scored briskly to take the score to 148 before being victim to Chibhabha after contributing 71 runs off just48 balls.

Rameez Raja (Jr.), Umar Akmal and Sohail Tanveer played handy knocks at the end contributing 22, 22 and 17 respectively to take the score to 198.

Pak v Zim (First Twenty20 International) -- Hafeez and Shafiq Helped Pakistan to Get Huge 198/4

HARARE, Zimbabwe (Sept. 16) – Pakistan set a huge target of 199 for Zimbabwe in first Twenty20 international underway at Harare Sports Club here on Friday.

Zimbabwe won the toss and invited the hosts to bat first hoping to get early wickets to pressurize Pakistan batting; but Pakistani openers Muhammad hafeez and Asad Shafiq got off to a flyer taking the scores to 72 in just 6 overs without losing any wickets.

Asad Shafiq got run out on total score of 74 after contributing significant 38 runs. Muhammad Hafeez continued his superb form and scored briskly to take the score to 148 before being victim to Chibhabha after contributing 71 runs off just48 balls.

Rameez Raja (Jr.), Umar Akmal and Sohail Tanveer played handy knocks at the end contributing 22, 22 and 17 respectively.

Zimbabwe now need 199 runs in allotted 20 overs with an average run rate of almost 10 runs per over. 

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Zimbabwe vs Pakistan, 1st Twenty20 International

Pakistan in Zimbabwe 2011

Friday Sept. 16 2011

Harare Sports Club, Harare

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Scheduled Timings: Match scheduled to begin at 5:00 pm PST (14:00 local time, 12:00 GMT)

 Zimbabwe squad

BRM Taylor*, RW Chakabva, CJ Chibhabha, E Chigumbura, CK Coventry, KM Jarvis, H Masakadza, CB Mpofu, RW Price, V Sibanda, T Taibu†, P Utseya, BV Vitori, MN Waller, C Zhuwao

Pakistan squad

Misbah-ul-Haq*, Adnan Akmal†, Aizaz Cheema, Asad Shafiq, Azhar Ali, Imran Farhat, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Hafeez, Rameez Raja (2), Saeed Ajmal, Shoaib Malik, Sohail Khan, Sohail Tanvir, Taufeeq Umar, Umar Akmal, Yasir Shah, Younis Khan

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India vs. England (4th Test): Day 3 Live Streaming and Score Updates - - India Hoping Rain to Save Whitewash for Them (Summary Day 2)

LONDON (August 20) - - England will resume their first innings on the third day of 4th and final test of nPower Test Series against India. England has already set grounds with 457/3 at the stumps on day 2 and with a 3-0 lead in the series looking for a series whitewash.

Kevin Pietersen and Ian Bell take a run during their 350-run stand

 Kevin Pietersen and Ian Bell played brilliant innings to take England to a position where they have almost no chance to lose the test match.

India had a relatively nice opening session on second day as they bowled well in the to send back the openers, Andrew Strauss (40) and Alistair Cook (34), but then ran into Ian Bell and Kevin Pietersen, who broke their spirits and a few records in adding exactly 350 runs for the third wicket. Pietersen made an efficient, and occasionally, brilliant 175 and Bell was classy and chanceless throughout for his unbeaten 180.

Team India and fans will be hoping rain to save the test match and a label of ‘Series White Wash’. Let’s see what will be the strategy of Strauss and when he will decide to put India in for batting and exert pressure to force then follow on.

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India v England (4th Test) at The Oval

England vs India, 4th Test

India in England, 2011

Thu, Aug 18 2011, 15:00

The Brit Oval, London

India will have to face buoyant England at Oval today in the fourth and final test of the nPower series. Following England storming to a 3-0 lead over India at the weekend, there has been lots of finger pointing with regards to the failings of the tourists.

Cricket expert and former Indian Captain Sunil Gavaskar said on Wednesday that with the current form and preparation, there is a 70 per cent chance that India will go down to a series whitewash at the hands of England. 

“We don’t need a wake-up call, because we’re not sleeping,” the India skipper quipped when asked if the England series was a wake-up call for his side. The humility was seen in another remark. “I’m not into blame game. The entire team has failed, not individuals.”

Probable Squads for both the teams are as under:

India (possible) 1 Virender Sehwag, 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Sachin Tendulkar, 5 VVS Laxman, 6 Suresh Raina, 7 MS Dhoni (c) (wk), 8 Amit Mishra, 9 Praveen Kumar/RP Singh, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Sreesanth

England (probable) 1 Andrew Strauss (capt), 2 Alastair Cook, 3 Ian Bell, 4 Kevin Pietersen, 5 Eoin Morgan, 6 Ravi Bopara, 7 Matt Prior (wk), 8 Tim Bresnan, 9 Stuart Broad, 10 Graeme Swann, 11 James Anderson

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BIRMINGHAM – India vs. England (3^rd Test), nPower Test Series

Rahul Dravid Dismissed by Some Brilliant Bowling by Tim Bresnan

England will resume their first innings on 84/0, with Andrew Strauss in killing form batting on 52 and Alastair Cook batting on 27, on day two of the third test of 4-test nPower series.

Earlier on the first day; England won the toss first time in the series and decided to invite visitors to bat on which proved to be a more than good decision as India lost their top and middle order for just Nelson (111) on the board. MS Dhoni (77) and Praveen Kumar (26) shared a good stand before England wrapped up the tail after tea.

India only managed 24 runs after tea with England returning to the discipline they had shown in the morning session to dismiss Dhoni and Ishant Sharma in quick succession with a total of 224 on the scoreboard.

With the exception of the spell when Dhoni and Kumar were in, England were excellent once again with the ball. Broad and Bresnan finished with four wickets apiece and along with Anderson, they had dismissed what was a full-strength India batting line-up with plenty of time left on day one.

On their turn with the bat; Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook made a significant dent in the total during the final 23 overs. Strauss reached his first international fifty of the season, 25^th of the career, as the pace bowlers struggled to make an impression and Amit Mishra didn't pose many problems.

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England in Command Even After MS Dhoni's Resistance with the Bat on the Day One of Third Test at Edgbastan

Andrew Strauss half-century kept England in command after bowlers destroyed Indian batting

India were struggling at 205 for eight at tea despite Mahendra Singh Dhoni's counter-attacking unbeaten half-century on the opening day of the third cricket Test against England, here today.

The India skipper finally produced an innings of substance as he helped India cross the 200-mark after being reduced to 111 for seven at one stage, with Tim Bresnan (four for 62) and Stuart Broad (three for 47) doing the maximum damage.

Dhoni had smashed 61 off 72 balls and put on 84 runs for the eighth wicket with Praveen Kumar (26) after rival skipper Andrew Strauss put the visitors in.

The visitors, 75 for four at lunch, lost the wickets of Suresh Raina (2), VVS Laxman (30) and Amit Mishra (4) in no time on resumption, before Dhoni and Kumar did the recovery work.

Dhoni took 16 balls to get off the mark — through a pre-determined push to covers off Bresnan — but then took the attack to the opposition camp on an increasingly slow Edgbaston pitch.

He straight drove and pulled James Anderson for fours and then played Stuart Broad off the backfoot before pulling him for a four.

In his groove, Dhoni smote Anderson over mid-on for six and then lifted Tim Bresnan over midwicket for another maximum.

He reached his half century when he off-drove Graeme Swann, introduced into the attack in the 47th over, having faced 63 balls. He hit seven fours and two sixes.

Kumar, at the other end, was an ideal foil to his skipper. He too hit some effective boundaries, showing no respect to Swann, whom he also lofted for a six.

Pitch report: It has a fair amount of grass, but it will be on the slower side. It won't be as pacy as the ones we have had at Lord's and Trent Bridge. There will be lateral movement and it's quite damp. It's going to turn says Sourav Ganguly and the cracks are going to widen as the game progresses. Ganguly wants India to bat first if they win the toss. He reckons anything between 250-280 would be a decent score.

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