Pakistan cricket continues to shock and awe. Just when they were getting a little overly fidgety about the IPL exclusion, has come another blow. On the Australian tour, Pakistani captain for the T20Is as well as the last ODI of the series, Shahid Afridi, has been suspended by the ICC for the next two international games.
David Morgan, the president of the ICC has said the concept of day and night test matches would be around the corner, sooner rather later. He said that he would be very surprised and disappointed if something like that did not happen in the next two years.
Sri Lanka has easily defeated India in the first of the two T20Is played in Nagpur. With this loss, the Indians could not make a winning start to their T20Is on this ground at Jamtha, where they had earlier won their first Test match and first ODI as well. The second game of the series will be played at Mohali on Saturday and the Indians will look to come back into the series with a resounding win before going into the ODIs.
Sachin Tendulkar has become the first ever batsman in the history of international cricket to complete 30000 runs in international cricket. This includes both, ODIs and Test matches. Only recently, Tendulkar had brought up his 17000 runs in the ODI format of the game, and then had gone on to complete twenty years in international cricket. Thus he caps a fine month of record-breaking performances by surpassing the 30k milestone. In the process of becoming the first ever player to complete the milestone, he also helped the side in going closer to securing a draw for his side.
India took full toll of the injuries that the Australian squad seem to be suffering from and thrashed them by 99 runs in the second ODI of the seven match series at Nagpur. With this win, the series is now tied at one game apiece and the action will move to Delhi where the two sides will play their third game.
As Australia are packing their bags to leave for India for the seven ODI home series from October 25 to November 11, a lot of action is building up on the Indian front with coaches being sacked and team combinations being changed by the Board of Control for Cricket and the selection committee.
India’s chances in the Champions Trophy have been dealt a big blow as their star batsman Yuvraj Singh has been declared unfit for the tournament and will be returning back home. Yuvraj Singh had been hit by a ball on his finger and could bat, bowl or field for the rest of the session. He was later taken for X-rays and it was found that he had had a fracture. This has ruled him out of cricket for a period of six weeks till the fracture heals, and that means that the vice-captain of the side will not play in this tournament and may be missing for the seven ODI match series against the Australians as well.