ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2010 Schedule: ICC Cricket Schedule

Upcoming Twenty20 World Cup championship tournament is scheduled to start from 30th April of 2010. It consists of total 27 Twenty20 cricket matches including two semi finals and the final. This is the third time Twenty20 World Cup tournament to be played among 12 cricket playing nations divided into four groups.

• Group A: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Australia
• Group B: Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Zimbabwe
• Group C: South Africa, India, Afghanistan
• Group D: West Indies, England, Ireland

Following is the Twenty20 World Cup 2010 schedule and time table.

Twenty20 World Cup Schedule 2010

Date	Time	#	Teams And Location	Results
Group Stage Matches Schedule: Twenty20 WC 2010
Fri Apr 30	17:00(G) 13:00(L)	1	Group B - New Zealand v Sri Lanka Providence Stadium, Guyana	NZ 2 wickets
	21:00(G) 17:00(L)	2	Group D - West Indies v Ireland Providence Stadium, Guyana	WI by 70 runs
Sat May 1	13:30(G) 09:30(L)	3	Group C - Afghanistan v India Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia	India 7 wickets
	17:30(G) 13:30(L)	4	Group A - Bangladesh v Pakistan Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia	Pakistan 21 runs
Sun May 2	13:30(G) 09:30(L)	5	Group C - India v South Africa Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia	India 14 runs
	17:30(G) 13:30(L)	6	Group A - Australia v Pakistan Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia	Australia 34 runs
Mon May 3	13:30(G) 09:30(L)	7	Group B - Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe Providence Stadium, Guyana	SL 14 runs (D/L)
	17:30(G) 13:30(L)	8	Group D - West Indies v England Providence Stadium, Guyana	WI by 8 wickets (D/L)
Tue May 4	13:30(G) 09:30(L)	9	Group B - New Zealand v Zimbabwe Providence Stadium, Guyana	NZ by 7 runs (D/L)
	17:30(G) 13:30(L)	10	Group D - England v Ireland Providence Stadium, Guyana	Rain Washed out
Wed May 5	13:30(G) 09:30(L)	11	Group A - Australia v Bangladesh Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados	Aus 27 runs
	17:30(G) 13:30(L)	12	Group C - Afghanistan v South Africa Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados	SA by 59 runs
Super Eight Stage Matches Schedule: Twenty20 WC 2010
Thu May 6	13:30(G) 09:30(L)	13	England v Pakistan Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados	England 6 wickets
	17:30(G) 13:30(L)	14	New Zealand v South Africa Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados	South Africa 13 runs
Fri May 7	13:30(G) 09:30(L)	15	Australia v India Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados	Australia 49 runs
	17:30(G) 13:30(L)	16	West Indies v Sri Lanka Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados	Sri Lanka 57 runs
Sat May 8	13:30(G) 09:30(L)	17	New Zealand v Pakistan Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados	New Zealand 1 run
	17:30(G) 13:30(L)	18	England v South Africa Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados	England 39 runs
Sun May 9	13:30(G) 09:30(L)	19	West Indies v India Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados	West Indies 14 runs
	17:30(G) 13:30(L)	20	Australia v Sri Lanka Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados	Australia 81 runs
Mon May 10	13:30(G) 09:30(L)	21	Pakistan v South Africa Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia	Pakistan 11 runs
	17:30(G) 13:30(L)	22	England v New Zealand Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia	England 3 wickets
Tue May 11	17:00(G) 13:00(L)	23	India v Sri Lanka Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia	Sri Lanka 5 wickets
	21:00(G) 17:00(L)	24	West Indies v Australia Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia	Australia 6 wickets
Semi Finals And Final Matches Schedule: Twenty20 WC 2010
Thu May 13	15:30(G) 11:30(L)	25	First Semi Final England v Sri Lanka Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia	England 7 wickets
Fri May 14	15:30(G) 11:30(L)	26	Second Semi Final Australia v Pakistan Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia	Australia 3 wickets
Sun May 16	15:30(G) 11:30(L)	27	THE FINAL England v Australia Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados	ENGLAND WON T20 WC 2010

Bangladesh Tri-Series Cricket Schedule 2010

There will be total 7 ODIs, including the final, in this tri series between Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka. All matches are Day Night and will be played on Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur. Following table is a detailed of this Bangladesh tri series Cricket Schedule 2010.

ODI Tri Series Cricket Schedule 2010

Date Time	Match and Teams	Results
Jan 4 14:30(L) 08:30(GMT)	First ODI - Bangladesh v Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets Ban 260/7(50) & SL 261/3(44.5)
Jan 5 14:30(L) 08:30(GMT)	Second ODI - India v Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets Ind 279/9(50) & SL 283/5(48)
Jan 7 14:30(L) 08:30(GMT)	Third ODI - Bangladesh v India	India By 6 Wickets Ban 296/6(50) & India 297/4(47.3)
Jan 8 14:00(L) 08:00(GMT)	Fourth ODI - Bangladesh v Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka By 9 Wickets Ban 249/9(50) & SL 252/1(42.5)
Jan 10 14:00(L) 08:00(GMT)	Fifth ODI - India v Sri Lanka	India by 8 Wickets SL 213(46.1v) & Ind 214/2(32.4)
Jan 11 14:00(L) 08:00(GMT)	Sixth ODI - Bangladesh v India
Jan 13 14:00(L) 08:00(GMT)	THE FINAL - India v Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Tour Of- India Cricket Schedule- 2009

The first International match of this Sri Lanka Tour Of India 2009 with start with a 5 day test match at Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad from Nov 16, 2009. Follow the detailed Sri Lanka V India Cricket schedule of this tour below:

Sri Lanka V India 3 Test match schedule

First Test: Match drawn
Played From Nov 16 to 20 at Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad.
India 426 and 412/4 | Sri Lanka 760/7d

Second Test: India won by an innings and 144 runs
Played from Nov 24-28 at Green Park, Kanpur
India 642 | Sri Lanka 229 and 269

Third Test: India won by an innings and 24 runs
Played from Dec 2-6 at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai
Sri Lanka 393 and 309 | India 726/9d

Sri Lanka V India Twenty20 schedule

First Twenty20 Dec 9 17:30 local, 12:00 GMT
Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur

Second Twenty20 Dec 12 17:30 local, 12:00 GMT
Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

Sri Lanka V India ODI schedule

First ODI Dec 15 09:00 local 03:30 GMT
Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground, Rajkot

Second ODI Dec 18 14:30 local 09:00 GMT
Andhra Cricket Association-Visakhapatnam District Cricket Association Stadium, Visakhapatnam

Third ODI Dec 21 14:30 local 09:00 GMT
Barabati Stadium, Cuttack

Fourth ODI Dec 24 14:30 local 09:00 GMT
Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Fifth ODI Dec 27 14:30 local 09:00 GMT
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

Sri Lanka, New Zealand, India Tri-Series ODI Cricket Schedule

The tri-angular ODI series between Sri Lanka, New Zealand, India will be played in Sri Lanka just before the ICC Champions Trophy 2009. Following is the detailed Tri-Series ODI Cricket Schedule.

Sri Lanka, New Zealand, India Tri-Series ODI Cricket Schedule

Date	Match#	Time	Teams	Location	Result
Sep 08	1	09:00 GMT	Sri Lanka v New Zealand SL 216/7(50) And NZ 119/10(36.1)	R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	Sri Lanka won by 97 runs
Sep 11	2	09:00 GMT	India v New Zealand NZ 155/10(46.3) And India 156/4(40.3)	R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	India won by 6 wickets
Sep 12	3	09:00 GMT	Sri Lanka v India SL 307/6(50) And India 168/10(37.2)	R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	Sri Lanka won by 139 runs
Sep 14	4	09:00 GMT	The FINAL- Sri Lanka v India India 319/5(50) And SL 273/10(46.4)	R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	India won by 46 runs

Champions Trophy Schedule- ICC Champions Trophy 2009 Schedule

Preview

ICC Champions Trophy 2009 to be held in September - October 2009 at South Africa. This One Day International (ODI) Championship tournament will be contested between eight cricket playing nations. The Cricket teams playing in this tournament are Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies. Last time it was held in 2006 where Australia won this trophy for the first time beating West Indies. The forthcoming tournament will start from 22nd September with match between South Africa and Sri Lanka at SuperSport Park, Centurion. Following is the detailed ICC Champions Trophy Schedule 2009.

ICC Champions Trophy Schedule and Fixtures- 2009

Date	#	Time	Teams	Location	Result
Tue 22		14:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Group B - South Africa v Sri Lanka SL 319/8(50) RSA 206/7(37.4)- MOM: T Dilshan	SuperSport Park, Centurion	SL 55 runs (D/L)
Wed 23		14:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Group A - Pakistan v West Indies WI 133/10(34.3) PAK 134/5(30.3)- MOM: U Akmal	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	PAK By 5 wickets
Thu 24		09:30 local, 07:30 GMT	Group B - South Africa v New Zealand NZ 214/10(47.5) RSA 217/5(41.1)- MOM: W Parnell	SuperSport Park, Centurion	RSA by 5 wickets
Fri 25		14:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Group B - England v Sri Lanka SL 212(47.3) Eng 213/4(45)- MOM: Collingwood	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	Eng by 6 wickets
Sat 26		09:30 local, 07:30 GMT	Group A - Australia v West Indies Aus 275/8(50) WI 225(46.5)- MOM: M Johnson	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	Aus by 50 runs
Sat 26		14:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Group A - India v Pakistan Pak 302/9(50) IND 248(44.5)- MOM: S Malik	SuperSport Park, Centurion	Pak by 54 runs
Sun 27		09:30 local, 07:30 GMT	Group B - New Zealand v Sri Lanka NZ 315/7(50) SL 277(46.4)- MOM: Vettori	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	NZ by 38 runs
Sun 27		14:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Group B - South Africa v England Eng 323/8(50) RSA 301/9(50) MOM: O Shah	SuperSport Park, Centurion	Eng by 22 runs
Mon 28		14:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Group A - Australia v India Aus 234/4(42.3) Ind 0/0(0)	SuperSport Park, Centurion	Rain.. Rain..
Tue 29		14:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Group B - England v New Zealand Eng 146/10(43.1) NZ 147/6(27.1)- MOM: Elliott	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	NZ By 4 Wickets
Wed 30		09:30 local, 07:30 GMT	Group A - Australia v Pakistan Pak 205/6(50) Aus 206/8(50)- MOM: M Hussey	SuperSport Park, Centurion	Australia by 2 wickets
Wed 30		14:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Group A - India v West Indies WI 129/10(36) Ind 130/3(32.1)- MOM: Kohli	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	India by 7 wickets
Champions Trophy 2009- Semi Finals and The Final Schedule
Fri 2		14:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Semi Final 1- Australia V England	SuperSport Park, Centurion
Sat 3		14:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Semi Final 2- New Zealand V Pakistan	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Mon 5		14:30 local, 12:30 GMT	THE FINAL	SuperSport Park, Centurion

ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2009 Schedule, T20 2009 Fixtures

Twenty20 cricket is quickly becoming more and more popular now a days. ICC Twenty20 World Cup is the international tournament of Twenty20 cricket matches. This international tournament is organized every two years by the ICC. It is consists of all the test playing nations and other qualifiers. First time it was held in South Africa in 2007. In this inaugural tournament India defeated Pakistan in the final. This is the second time ICC Twenty20 World Cup tournament will be played in England. It consists of 12 teams- Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Ireland, Netherland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies. The tournament will start from 5th June, 2009 with Twenty20 match between England and Netherlands. Following is the detailed ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2009 Schedule and Fixtures.

ICC Twenty20 World Cup Schedule and Fixtures- 2009

Date	Match#	Time	Teams	Location	Result
Fri 5	1	17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	Group B - England v Netherlands	Lord's, London	NL Win
Sat 6	2	10:00 local, 09:00 GMT	Group D - New Zealand v Scotland	Kennington Oval, London	NZ Win
	3	14:00 local, 13:00 GMT	Group C - Australia v West Indies	Kennington Oval, London	WI Win
	4	18:00 local, 17:00 GMT	Group A - Bangladesh v India	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	India Win
Sun 7	5	13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Group D - Scotland v South Africa	Kennington Oval, London	SA Win
	6	17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	Group B - England v Pakistan	Kennington Oval, London	ENG Win
Mon 8	7	13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Group A - Bangladesh v Ireland	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	IR Win
	8	17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	Group C - Australia v Sri Lanka	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	SL Win
Tue 9	9	13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Group B - Netherlands v Pakistan	Lord's, London	PAK Win
	10	17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	Group D - New Zealand v South Africa	Lord's, London	SA Win
Wed 10	11	13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Group C - Sri Lanka v West Indies	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	SL Win
	12	17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	Group A - India v Ireland	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	India Win
Fixtures For Super Eight Twenty20
Thu 11	13	13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Group F - New Zealand v Ireland	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	NZ Win
	14	17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	Group E - England v South Africa	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	SA Win
Fri 12	15	13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Group F - Pakistan v Sri Lanka	Lord's, London	SL Win
	16	17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	Group E - India v West Indies	Lord's, London	WI Win
Sat 13	17	13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Group E - West Indies v South Africa	Kennington Oval, London	SA Win
	18	17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	Group F - New Zealand v Pakistan	Kennington Oval, London	PAK Win
Sun 14	19	13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Group F - Ireland v Sri Lanka	Lord's, London	SL Win
	20	17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	Group E - India v England	Lord's, London	ENG Win
Mon 15	21	13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Group E - England v West Indies	Kennington Oval, London
	22	17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	Group F -Pakistan v Ireland	Kennington Oval, London
Tue 16	23	13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	Group F - New Zealand v Sri Lanka	Trent Bridge, Nottingham
	24	17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	Group E -South Africa v India	Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Fixtures For the Final and Semi Final Matches
Thu 18	Semi Final	17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	1st Semi-Final	Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Fri 19	Semi Final	17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	2nd Semi-Final	Kennington Oval, London
Sun 21	Final	15:00 local, 14:00 GMT	The Final	Lord's, London

Asia Cup Schedule June-July 2008 Pakistan

Asia Cup Cricket 2008

This is the ninth Asia Cup cricket tournament and will be held in Pakistan. The Asia Cup cricket tournament is played between Asian countries since its beginning in 1983. Out of eight previous tournaments India win the most 4 times, Sri Lanka 3 times and Pakistan once in 2000. This ninth tournament will be played between six countries and start from June 2008 at Pakistan. These six cricket teams will be divided into two groups of 3 team each.

Group A: Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, UAE.
Group B: Pakistan, Hong Kong, India.

The three teams in the group will play each other once and the top two teams from each group will qualify for the second round. In the second phase there will be 4 teams and they will play each other once. So in the second phase each team will play three matches. The top 2 teams out of the second phase will play the Asia Cup final 2008. Here is the detailed schedule of the Asia Cup June 2008.

Asia Cup June 2008 Schedule

Asia Cup Cricket Schedule 2008, Pakistan
Date and Time	Team and Location	Results
June 2008
Tue 24/6 16:00 local, 10:00 GMT	Group A - Bangladesh v United Arab Emirates Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
Tue 24/6 17:00 local, 11:00 GMT	Group B - Pakistan v Hong Kong National Stadium, Karachi
Wed 25/6 16:00 local, 10:00 GMT	Group A - Bangladesh v Sri Lanka Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
Wed 25/6 17:00 local, 11:00 GMT	Group B - Hong Kong v India National Stadium, Karachi
Thu 26/6 16:00 local, 10:00 GMT	Group A - Sri Lanka v United Arab Emirates Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
Thu 26/6 17:00 local, 11:00 GMT	Group B - India v Pakistan National Stadium, Karachi
Sat 28/6 17:00 local, 11:00 GMT	A2 v B2 National Stadium, Karachi
Sun 29/6 17:00 local, 11:00 GMT	A1 v B1 National Stadium, Karachi
Mon 30/6 17:00 local, 11:00 GMT	A1 v A2 National Stadium, Karachi
July 2008
Wed 2/7 17:00 local, 11:00 GMT	B1 v B2 National Stadium, Karachi
Thu 3/7 17:00 local, 11:00 GMT	A1 v B2 National Stadium, Karachi
Fri 4/7 17:00 local, 11:00 GMT	A2 v B1 National Stadium, Karachi
Sun 6/7 17:00 local, 11:00 GMT	The Final National Stadium, Karachi

Asia Cup Cricket 2008 Teams

India Cricket Team

MS Dhoni Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Rohit Sharma, Robin Uthappa, Yusuf Pathan, Suresh Raina, Piyush Chawla, Praveen Kumar, Pragyan Ojha, Irfan Pathan, Ishant Sharma, RP Singh, Sreesanth

Sri Lanka Cricket Team

Mahela Jayawardene, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Dilhara Fernando, Sanath Jayasuriya, Chamara Kapugedera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Farveez Maharoof, Ajantha Mendis, Jehan Mubarak, Muttiah Muralitharan, Kumar Sangakkara, Chamara Silva, Mahela Udawatte, Chaminda Vaas, Kaushalya Weeraratne

Commonwealth Bank Series Schedule 2008

Commonwealth Bank Series 2007-2008. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is sponsoring this tri-nation one day international tournament. The last tournament won by England was played between Australia, England and New Zealand in 2006/07. This Tri Series tournament will be played between host Australia, India and Sri Lanka. Following table contains the detailed schedule of this tournament including the teams. This will also include the results and score summary as the series progress.

Commonwealth Bank Series 2007/2008 Schedule

Commonwealth Bank Series Schedule - 2008, Australia
Date Time	Team	Location And Score Summary	Results
3/2 13:15 local, 03:15 GMT	Australia v India	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane India 194 (45/45)(Gambhir 39, Dhoni 37, Lee 27/5) Australia 51/3 (7.2/26)(Hopes 17, Sreesanth 17/2)	Rain, No result
5/2 13:15 local, 03:15 GMT	India v Sri Lanka	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane India 267/4 (50)(Gambhir 102*, Dhoni 88*, Muralitharan 51/2) Sri Lanka	Rain, No result
8/2 14:15 local, 03:15 GMT	Australia v Sri Lanka	Sydney Cricket Ground Australia 253/6(50)(MJ Clarke 77*, Gilchrist 61, Vaas 34/2) Sri Lanka 125 (31.3) (Sangakkara 42, Bracken 47/5)	Australia by 128 runs
10/2 14:15 local, 03:15 GMT	Australia v India	Melbourne Cricket Ground Australia 159(43.1)(M Hussey 65*, I Sharma 38/4, Sreesanth 31/3) India 160/5 (45.5)(Tendulkar 44, RG Sharma 39*, Johnson 24/2)	India by 5 Wickets
12/210:00 local, 23:00 GMT	India v Sri Lanka	Manuka Oval, Canberra India 195/5 (29/29)(RG Sharma 70*, Gambhir 35, Maharoof 33/1) Sri Lanka 154/2 (19/21)(Dilshan 62*, Jayawardene 36*)	Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets
15/2 11:30 local, 02:30 GMT	Australia v Sri Lanka	W.A.C.A. Ground, Perth Australia 236 (49.4)(Gilchrist 118,MJ Clarke 43, Malinga 47/4) Sri Lanka 173 (45.3)(Sangakkara 80, Bracken 21/3, Johnson 29/3)	Australia by 63 runs
17/2 13:45 local, 03:15 GMT	Australia v India	Adelaide Oval Australia 203/9 (50)(MJ Clarke 79, Hogg 32, Pathan 41/4) India 153 (41.2)(Dhoni 37, Johnson 42/3, Hopes 16/2)	Australia by 50 runs
19/2 13:45 local, 03:15 GMT	India v Sri Lanka	Adelaide Oval Sri Lanka 238/6 (50)(Sangakkara 128, Jayawardene 71, MM Patel 38/1) India 239/8 (49.1) (Yuvraj Singh 76, Dhoni 50*, Amerasinghe 49/3)	India by 2 wickets
22/2 14:15 local, 03:15 GMT	Australia v Sri Lanka	Melbourne Cricket Ground
24/2 14:15 local, 03:15 GMT	Australia v India	Sydney Cricket Ground
26/2 10:00 local, 23:00 GMT	India v Sri Lanka	Bellerive Oval, Hobart
29/2 14:15 local, 03:15 GMT	Australia v Sri Lanka	Melbourne Cricket Ground
Commonwealth Bank Series Final Match Schedule
2/3 14:15 local, 03:15 GMT	First Final	Sydney Cricket Ground
4/3 13:15 local, 03:15 GMT	Second Final	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane
7/3 13:45 local, 03:15 GMT	Third Final	Adelaide Oval

Team India for Commonwealth Bank Series 2008

India Cricket Team

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Irfan Pathan, Praveen Kumar, RP Singh, Ishant Sharma, Sreesanth, Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla

Sri Lanka Cricket Team for Commonwealth Bank Series 2008

Sri Lanka Cricket Team

Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara , Sanath Jayasuriya, Upul Tharanga, Dilruwan Perera, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chamara Silva, Chamara Kapugedera, Chanaka Welegedara, Chaminda Vaas, Lasith Malinga, Nuwan Kulasekera, Muttiah Muralitharan, Farveez Maharoof, Ishara Amerasinghe.

Australia Cricket Team for Commonwealth Bank Series 2008

Australia Cricket Team

Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Matthew Hayden, Michael Clarke, Andrew Symonds, Michael Hussey, Brad Haddin, James Hopes, Brad Hogg, Brett Lee, Mitchell Johnson, Stuart Clark, Nathan Bracken.

Australia Sri Lanka Cricket Schedule Tour 2007

Sri Lanka is on tour to Australia from Oct-2007. Here they will play two test matches followed by Commonwealth Bank Tri Series between India, Australia and Sri Lanka. This is going to be an interesting battle between ODI Word Cup 2007 winner and runner up playing in Test matches. Australia will play without the legend Shane Warne and Glen McGrath after very long time of their contribution to Australia cricket. For Sri Lanks point of view Atapattu made come back in Sri Lanka cricket team after long delay of 8 months followed by sports minister intervenes as he was not included initially. The tour will start from 27 of Oct. 2007 with 3 day match against Australia Chairman's XI. Muralitharan needs another nine wickets to go past Warne record of 708 wickets. The first test match of 2 tests will start from 8th Nov. 2007 at Brisbane Cricket Ground. Following is the compelete Australia Sri Lanka cricket schedule of Cricket tour 2007.

Australia Sri Lanka Cricket Schedule Tour 2007

Australia Sri Lanka Cricket Schedule Tour 2007
Date Time	Location	Results
1st Test 8/11 to 12/11 10:00 local, 00:00 GMT	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane Australia 551/4d Sri Lanka 211 and 300 (follow on)	Australia by innings and 40 runs
2nd Test 16/11 to 20/11 10:30 local, 23:30 GMT	Bellerive Oval, Hobart Australia 542/5d and 210/2d Sri Lanka 246 and 410	Australia by 96 runs

Sri Lanka Cricket Team for Australia Cricket Tour 2007

Mahela Jayawardene, Sanath Jayasuriya, Kumar Sangakkara, Marvan Atapattu, Chamara Silva, Jehan Mubarak, Malinga Bandara, Dilhara Fernando, Prasanna Jayawardene, Farveez Maharoof, Lasith Malinga,  Muttiah Muralitharan, Thilan Samaraweera,  Upul Tharanga, Chaminda Vaas, Michael Vandort, Chanaka Welegedara

England V Sri Lanka Cricket Schedule 2007

Here is the complete England tour of Sri Lanka cricket schedule 2007. This tour will consist of 5 one day internationals and 3 Test matches. All the five ODIs are day night matches and the first three will be played on Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium and the rest two on R.Premadasa Stadium. After completing 5 ODIs Sri Lanka will tour Australia for two Test Matches. Later Sri Lanka will play three test matches against England in December at the home. In the test matches schedule the first test match will start from 1st December. Following is the detailed Sri Lanka ODI cricket schedule and test matches schedule of this tour including the results and score updates.

England V Sri Lanka Cricket Schedule Tour 2007
Date	Match	Location	Result
01/10 09:00 GMT	1st ODI	Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium	Sri Lanka by 119 runs
ODI 1 Score:	Sri Lanka 269/7(50) (Jayawardene 66, Collingwood44/2) England 150/10(34.5) (Cook 46, Maharoof 4-31)
04/10 09:00 GMT	2nd ODI	Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium	England by 65 runs
ODI 2 Score:	England 234/8 (50) (OA Shah 82, Collingwood 42, Maharoof 30/3) Sri Lanka 169/10 (44.3) (J Mubarak 44*, Sidebottom 23/2, GP Swann 27/2)
07/10 09:00 GMT	3rd ODI	Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium	England by 2 wickets
ODI 3 Score: (D/L Method 48Ov.)	Sri Lanka 164/10(41.1) (Dilshan 70, Swann 34/4, Sidebottom 19/3, Broad 26/2) England 164/8(46.5) (Collingwood 32, Swann 25, Maharoof 34/3)
10/10 09:00 GMT	4th ODI	R.Premadasa Stadium, Khettarama, Colombo	England won 5 wickets
ODI 4 Score:	Sri Lanka 211/9 (50) () England 212/5(46.5) ()
13/10 09:00 GMT	5th ODI	R.Premadasa Stadium, Khettarama, Colombo	Sri Lanka by 107 runs
ODI 5 Score:	Sri Lanka 211 (48.1) (Silva 73, Broad 3-36) England 104 (29.1) (Fernando 6-27)
01/12-05/12 05:00 GMT	First Test	Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy Sri Lanka 188 and 442/8D England 281 and 261	Sri Lanka 88 runs
09/12-13/12 05:00 GMT	Second Test	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo England Score 351 and 250/3 Sri Lanka Score 548/9D	Match drawn
18/12-22/12 05:00 GMT	Third Test	Galle International Stadium Sri Lanka 499/8D England 81 and 251/6 (follow on)	Match drawn

Sri Lanka cricket team for ODI

Mahela Jayawardene, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sanath Jayasuriya, Kumar Sangakkara, Chamara Silva, Kaushal Lokuarachchi, Farveez Maharoof, Dilhara Fernando, Lasith Malinga, Jehan Mubarak, Muttiah Muralitharan, Dilruwan Perera, Upul Tharanga, Chaminda Vaas, Gayan Wijekoon

England Cricket Team for ODI

Paul Collingwood, Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Kevin Pietersen, Alastair Cook, Owais Shah, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Phil Mustard, James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Monty Panesar, Ryan Sidebottom, Graeme Swann, Chris Tremlett, Luke Wright, Andrew Flintoff, Matt Prior

England Cricket Team for Test Matches

Michael Vaughan, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell, Alastair Cook, Owais Shah, Paul Collingwood, Ravi Bopara, Steve Harmison, Stuart Broad, Matthew Hoggard, Monty Panesar, Matt Prior, Ryan Sidebottom, Graeme Swann, Phil Mustard , James Anderson

The Final Cricket World Cup 2007

Australia win the world cup championship tournament 2007

Cricket world cup 2007 final played between Australia and Sri Lanka at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados on 28 April 2007. This was a 38 over match due to delay caused by rain. Winning the toss and batting first Australia set a big target of 282 in 38 overs for Sri Lanka. In reply Sri Lanka approached nicely in the begaining but after fall of Jayasuriya they just cannot break the increasing run rate. In the end they fall short of 53 runs.

Australia Innings

As usual Hayden and Gilchrist started Australian innings. Hayden was looking quite today as Gilchrist on the other hand playing own style crushing the Sri Lankan attack. They reached to the toatal of 50 in 11th over without loosing any wicket. Fernando drop Gilchrist on his own bowling when he was on 31 though it was very difficult but these are the only chances you get while playing against team like Australia. Runs are coming easily for Australia when Murli brought into the attack in 12th over. Meanwhile Gilchrist completed his 50 in just 43 balls and continue to dominate bowling on the other hand Hayden was providing nice support to him. Their run rate moved above 6 when Gilchrist hit 2 towering sixers to Dilshan in 15th over. Murli on the other hand not allowing much room to them initially. Fernando brought back to the attack and immediately welcome by Gilchrist sixer and that brought their opening partnership to cross 100 in 17th over.

Nothing was working for Sri Lanka, at Half way Australia were on 135 will all 10 wickets intact. By the time Gilchrist completed his 15th ODI hundred in just 72 balls with 8 4s and 6 6s. Once again he was dropped by Sangakkara this time too was difficult one. Partnerships crossed 150 in just 128 balls and after this some relief for Sri Lanka as Hayden caught by Jayawardene when he was trying to loft Malinga when they were on 172. Immediately after this once again Gilchrist dropped by C Silva on 132 by the time Australia cross 200 in 27.3 overs. Finally a great great innings comes to an end when Gilchrist was just 1 short of his 150, got caught when he was trying to pull the ball and it takes an edge of the bat. After fall of Gilchrist run rate dropped a bit as Ponting was not looking on his own touch and finding difficult himselft playing shots. They past above 250 when Ponting hits his first six to Malinga in 34.4 overs. But they failed to take an advantage the openers given to them and only scores 59 in last 8 overs after Gilchrist out. In the end they manage to set the big target for Sri Lanka with the help of one of the best world cup innings from Gilchrist.

Australia Score 281/4(38)

Gilchrist 149, Hayden 38, Ponting 37, Symonds 18*, Watson 3, Clarke 8*,
Sri Lanka Bowling:
Vaas 8/54/0 Malinga 8/49/2 Fernando 8/74/1 Murali 7/44/0 Dilshan 2/23/0 Jayasuriya 5/33/0

Sri Lanka Innings

Sri Lanka lost Tharanga early caught by Gilchrist on swinging delivery from Bracken. After this Sangakkara and Jayasuriya started playing quite sensibly. Jayasuriya was looking good on his own touch moved their score 50 in 11th overs. There seems no movemnt in the bowl and they coming nicely to bat on and their 50 partnership up in 61 balls. They moved pass compare to Australia score in 14th over when Sangakkara hit consecutive 6,4,4 to McGrath. The needed partnership was building as Sangakkara and Jayasuriya contine hammering Australia Bowling attack and took just 27 balls to complete second fifty of their innings, 100 in 15.3 overs. Spins came to the attack now by the time Jayasuriya completes his fifty and their partneship of 100. They need 171 more runs to win in 20 overs with 9 wickets left. Sangakkara completed his 40th fifty in 50 balls, but immediately caught when he was trying to pull Hogg at mid wicket when he was 54.

Clark brought to attack and he done a trick bowled Jayasuriya when he was trying to down the trak, the ball kept low and hit on off stump. Big wicket for Australia and the match was turning bit towards their way. It has started raining when 13.1 overs left and by the time their innings reduced to 36 overs and they need 120 more to win in 11.1 overs. Jayawardene fall lbw to Watson very next over after rain stopped. Everything now was in hands of C Silva and Dilshan and they continue to fighting but the required rate was moving up and up reached to 12 an over and they needed 84 in 42 balls. Wickets was not a problem but it was very difficult to break Australian tight bowling attack. Wickets were falling now as they were trying to do something extraordinary. In the end they fall short of 53 runs.

Sri Lanka Score 215/8(36)

Tharanga 6, Jayasuriya 63, Sangakkara 54, Jayawardene 19, C Silva 21, Dilshan 14, Arnold 1, Vaas 11*, Malinga 10, Fernando 1*
Australia Bowling:
Bracken 6/34/1, Tait 6/42/0, McGrath 7/31/1, Watson 7/49/1, Hogg 3/19/1, Clarke 5/33/2, Symonds 2/6/1

Cricket world cup final Preview

After very long run now its the time for big one, the Final of this cricket world cup 2007 tournament. Sri Lanka beat New Zealand in first semi final by 81 runs and Australia won by 7 wickets in second one. So we have Sri Lanka and Australia battle for the cricket world cup final 2007. This will be played at Bridgetown on 28th April, 2007.

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka have played outstanding cricket throughout the tournament and deserve to be the finalist. Every Sri Lankans are committed and they know very well their role to play. They were thoroughly professional from the be gaining of the tournament and very well lead by Jayaverdne. They have won 8 out of 10 matches played so far in this tournaments and emerging as the more and more batter team. Undoubtedly they are very good fielding side. On the bowling side they have Malinga and Vaas who are capable of taking early wickets. And they have all time great Murli in the middle with Jaysuriya, Dilshan and Arnold as an other options. The major problem they had about the top batting order. Jaysuriya is not at its peak and Sangakkara is not in good form. Moreover they are laking power hitter, like Watson and Symonds Australia have, who can fire in the slog overs.

Australia

Australia simply are the best so far in this world cup 2007 series. They have won all the 10 matches they played in the tournament. Lately they crushed South Africa playing like real champions. They are the best fielding side who generally do not miss direct throw on the stumps. They have various alternate in the bowling department with swings from Bracken and great McGrath and speed from Tait. The left arm spinner Hogg too bowled well in this tournaments and have options like Watson, Symonds, Clarke for bowling. In the batting, they are the best team. They have the best opening pair with Hayden Gilchrist providing solid start to their innings and powerful middle order Clark, Ponting and Hussey are in very good form. They have Watson and Symonds are the power hitter who can explore their innings in the slog overs. Their lowest score of 322/6 batting first in this tournament and Michael Hussey needed rarely, tells about the power of their batting. This makes them the most favorite team to win this 2007 world cup final.

Previous encounter in the final

Before this, Sri Lanka and Australia played in the final of world cup 1996 at Lahore, Pakistan. It was the first time Sri Lanka playing in the final beat Australia by 7 wickets. Batting first Australia made 241/7, Mark Taylor scored 74. With the help of remarkable hundred from Arvinda de Silva (107*) and Gurusinha (65) made Sri Lanka the winner of 1996 world cup.

Australia v Sri Lanka history

In the history of cricket world cup they meet 7 times before with Australia wins 5 times and Sri Lanka 2 times. This includes the match at Colombo in 1996 in which Australia conceded match due to safety reason and Sri Lanka declared winners. Overall they played 64 ODIs, Australia wins 42 times and Sri Lanka wins 20 times with 2 No Results.

Australia history in the finals

This is the 6th time Australia playing in the cricket world cup final. In their previous 5 appearances they won the most 3 times, this could be their hat trick world cup win. First time they played in the final in 1975 the first ever world cup held, beaten by West Indies. They won against England in 1987 and lost to Sri Lanka in 1996. And they won in 1999 and 2003 by beating Pakistan and India respectively.

Overall we have two outstanding teams playing in the final of this world cup tournament. We hope for more entertaining cricket here in the final.

First Semi Final World Cup 2007

Sri Lanka won by 81 runs and enters final of cricket world cup 2007

Preview

First semi final between New Zealand and Sri Lanka at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica, 24th April 2007. Both are equally capable teams in all aspects of cricket fielding, batting or bowling. Jayawardene and Fleming both are in good form and leading their teams nicely. Overall nice entertaining cricket would be here.

History

Overall they played 66 ODIs before, New Zealand wins 34 times and Sri Lanka 29 with 1 Tie and 2 No Results. During Last 10 ODIs both win 5 each. New Zealand have never won in the world semi finals before. Also New Zeland lost their super eight match against Sri Lanka.

Teams

Sri Lanka team : Tharanga, Jayasuriya, Sangakkara, Jayawardene, Silva, Dilshan, Arnold, Vaas, Malinga, Muralitharan, Fernando
New Zealand team : Fulton, Fleming, Taylor, Styris, McMillan, Oram, McCullum, Vettori, Franklin, Bond, Patel

Sri Lanka Innings

Sri Lanka win the toss and elceted to bat first. The pitch was looking good for batting. Sri Lanka innings was moving around Jayawardene's superb knock, one of the best one-day inning. Sri Lanka lost Jayasuriya early in the innings but then Tharanga started rocking New Zealand bowling. When the partnership started building for Sri Lanka a poor shot from Sangakkara cost his wicket. Jayawardene joins with Tharanga and they started playing comfortably. Jayawardene in particular started his innings very sensibly though it was bit slow. A poor predetermied sweep shot from Tharanga brought his superb innings comes to an end. Runs are coming nicely for Sri Lanka as Jayawardene dominating New Zealand bowling and there was nice support from Dilshan and Arnold. In the end superb century from Jayawardene at the right time of the tournament help Sri Lanka manage to set target of 290 for New Zealand. This was the maiden world cup 100 from Jayawardene, 2nd against New Zealand and 9th overall. Fielding and bowling was ver poor from New Zealand and they failed to take advantage of fall of an initial wickets. They conceded 102 runs in last 10 overs.

Sri Lanka Score 289/5

Tharanga 73, Jayasuriya 1, Sangakkara 18, Jayawardene 115*, Silva 21, Dilshan 30, Arnold 14*
New Zealand Bowling:
Franklin 46/2, Bond 59/1, Oram 60/1, Vettori 51/1, Patel 62/0, Styris 8/0

New Zealand Innings

It was poor start from New Zealand in reply to the target of 290 as they lost Fleming very early. On the other hand it was superb start from Malinga and Vaas as they are not allowing Fulton and Taylor any chance. After Taylor, Fulton and Styris was looking nice and started partnership between them. But very poor shot from Styris cost big wicket for New Zealand. It was an intelligent bowling change of Dilshan in place of Murli done trick for Sri Lanka. After Styris New Zealand innings collapse as new batsman could not stay agaist comeback of Murli. They lost 5 wickets in just 11 runs gape and collapsed to 116/7 from 105/2. They neve come back in the game though last pair creates some momentun adding 59 for their partnership.

New Zealand Score 208/10

Fulton 46, Fleming 1, Taylor 9, Styris 37, McMillan 25, Oram 3, McCullum 0, Vettori 0, Franklin 30*, Bond 2, Patel 34
Sri Lanka Bowling:
Vaas 25/1, Malinga 21/1, Fernando 45/0, Muralitharan 31/4, Jayasuriya 57/2, Dilshan 22/2

World Cup 2007 semifinalists and their history

Although South Africa defeat against New Zealand provided an opportunity for England to come back in the tournament, an excellent come back from South Africa throw England out of the tournament. Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka did clear their path to semi final very early in the super eight stage. So we have now Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and South Africa will contest in Semi Final.

First Semi Final New Zealand v Sri Lanka

The first semi final of this tournament will be played between New Zealand and Sri Lanka. This match will be played on Tuesday, 24th April at Sabina Park, Jamaica. New Zealand has never won in world cup semi final moreover they lost against Sri Lanka in their super eight series match.

Second Semi Final Australia v South Africa

The second Semi Final will be contested between Australia and South Africa on Wednesday 25 April at Beausejour Stadium, St Lucia. Australia is the only unbeaten team so far in this tournament. Also they never loose in their previous semi final games.

Here is brief history of each of semi finalists in previous eight cricket world cup tournaments.

Australia History

This is the 6th time Australia will play in the semifinal and they have never loose in their previous games. In 1975 they beat England, in 1987 beat Pakistan, 1996 beat West Indies, 1999 beat South Africa and in 2003 they beat Sri Lanka.

New Zealand Semi final History

New Zealand is entering for the 5th time. They never win in their previous games. They lost against West Indies in 1975, against England in 1979 and against Pakistan in 1992 and 1999.

Sri Lanka Semi Fianl History

Sri Lanka managed to enter in the semifinal 2 times before. This is the 3rd time they will play in the cricket world cup semi final. Before they won against India in 1996 and lost to Australia in 2003.

South Africa

South Africa are the most unlucky team in the history of world cup semi finals. First time they played against England in 1992 needed 22 off 13 balls when it was rained stopped the play. By the time they needed 21 off one ball. Second time again Australia in 1999 needing nine to win off the final over, Klusener crashed Damien Fleming's first two balls for four. Klusener wanted a short single but this made Allan Donald caught in the middle of the pitch run out and the match was tied. With the advantage gained during the super six stage Australia reached the final.

An early exits of India and Pakistan and very long schedule made this tournament boring so far let us hope for more entertained cricket in the semis and in the final.

Latest Cricket Results NZ v SL 06/07 2nd Test

Latest Cricket Results NZ v SL 06/07 2nd Test, Day 4
Sri Lanka win the match by 217 runs. LPC Silva Man of the match.

Latest Score
First innings
Sri Lanka 268 (Sangakkara 156*, Silva 61,)
New Zealand 130 (McCullum 43,Malinga 68/5,Muralitharan 31/4)
Second innings
Sri Lanka 365 (Silva 152*, DL Vettori 130/7)
New Zealand 286 (DL Vettori 51 ,M Muralitharan 87/6)

No one from New Zealand could stay on the creaz except Vettori (51) and Franklin (44) played nice role on batting side too. Once again it was the Muttiah Muralitharan who done the trick with the wrist. No one seem comfortable against his magic spin and he took 6 wickets in 87. An other 10 witcket haul in a match with total reaching 674. LPC Silva named man of the match for his fantastic 152*.

Latest Cricket Results NZ v SL 06/07 2nd Test, Day 3
Sri Lanka needs 8 wickets to win the test match.

Latest Score
First innings
Sri Lanka 268 (Sangakkara 156*, Silva 61,)
New Zealand 130 (McCullum 43,Malinga 68/5,Muralitharan 31/4)
Second innings
Sri Lanka 365 (Silva 152*, DL Vettori 130/7)
New Zealand 75/2 (MS Sinclair 10, SP Fleming 4)

This was the day for LPC Silva. He took on the charge and played some nice strocks all over the ground. He made superb effort and put awesome 152 notout, puting Sri Lanka on the driving seat.

Latest Cricket Results NZ v SL 06/07 2nd Test, Day 2
Sri Lanka lead by 363 runs with 5 wicket left.

Latest Score
First innings
Sri Lanka 268 (Sangakkara 156*, Silva 61,)
New Zealand 130 (McCullum 43,Malinga 68/5,Muralitharan 31/4)
Second innings
Sri Lanka 255/5 (Silva 79*)

New Zealand struggle continues on 2nd day too with Malinga continuing his cracking bowling performance and bowled Sinclair with superb yorker. Muralitharan then took charge not allowing to settale New Zealand tail enders. In the end New Zealand only manage to score 130 with only help from McCullum (43). Sri Lanka top order failed again but later they manage to score 255/5 in the end with the help of superb batting from Chamara Silva (79*). Sri Lanka now on the top in this test match after loosing first test.

Latest Cricket Results NZ v SL 06/07 2nd Test, Day 1
New Zealand 202 behind with 6 wicket left.

Latest Score
First innings
Sri Lanka 268 (Sangakkara 156*, Silva 61,)
New Zealand 64/4 (Malinga 3-37)

After loosing first 3 wickets at only 41 Sangakkara took charge of Sri Lanka batting. This was Sangakkara's day, he continues playing dominating role for Sri Lanka when there was very little support from the other end. He put dominating 156, most of the runs in an innings for Sri Lanka after 100 in his last innings an manage to put Sri Lanka on 268. Then Sri Lanka bowlers took the charge and put New Zealand struggeling 64/4 at the end of the day with Malinga 3-37.

Latest Results NZ v SL 06/07 1st Test

New Zealand Won By 5 Wickets, Man of the Match SE Bond

Sri Lanka v New Zealand, 1st Test, Christchurch, 3rd day A very good support from Sri Lanka tail enders and brave intelligent innings from Sangakkara creates some hope for Sri Lanka. It was single handed batting exhibition from Sangakkara who rotated strike cleverly and was nice support from Malinga and Muralitharan before getting run out very unlucky. In the end set the target of 119 runs. New Zealand started their innings carefully but was looking intersting when they collapsed to 68/4 from 58/0 but Nathan Astle made no mistake and took them to the victory with the help of Oram. Initial tow catches off no balls of Cumming could have make difference to the game but in the end was fustration for Sri Lanka.

Latest score: (End of Day 3)
First Innings
Sri Lanka 154 New Zealand 206
Second Innings
Sri Lanka 170 (Sangakkara 100*, SE Bond 63/4)
New Zealand 119 (CD Cumming, Muralitharan 34/3)

Sri Lanka v New Zealand, 1st Test, Christchurch, 2nd day Sri Lanka bowlers made a good comaback after their batsman collaps on 154. Muralitharan amd Vaas took 2 wickets each in one over putting New Zealand 113/6. New Zealand loose 4 wickets in 7 runs trumbling 113/6 from 106/2. In the end Sri Lanka restrict New Zealand for 206. But this was not enough Sri Lanka batsman failed again and collapsed to 125 for 8 at stumps. Only Sangakkara looks comfortable and played superb inningsIt was superb spell from Bond 38/4 and there was no answer from Sri Lanka and in addition 2 run out put New Zealand very close to the victory.

Latest score: (End of Day 2)
First Innings
Sri Lanka 154 New Zealand 206
Second Innings
Sri Lanka 125/8 (Sangakkara 63*, SE Bond 38/4)

Sri Lanka v New Zealand, 1st Test, Christchurch, 1st day It was superb bowling from New Zealand pace attack. Sri Lanka was struggling to bat against the fast bolwing from New Zealand. The New Zealand batsmen then started their innings and gets comfortable 85 for 2 at close of play.

Latest score: (End of Day 1)
First Innings
Sri Lanka 154 ( JEC Franklin 30/3, SE Bond 43/3)
New Zealand 85/2