IPL 2009 Schedule- Twenty20 Cricket IPL 2009 Schedule- SA

The IPL, Indian Premier League, is a Twenty20 cricket tournament started by BCCI. There are total 8 teams playing in this Twenty20 cricket competition. The teams consist of Indian players and some foreign players with restriction that only 4 foreign players can play in the playing 11. Teams play each other two times and compete for the spot in top four rankings. The top four teams then proceed to the semi final stage. Rajasthan Royals lead by Shane Warne have won the first season of the IPL in 2008 beating Chennai Super Kings. The IPL 2009, the second session is hosted in South Africa. IPL 2009 scheduled to start with two Twenty20 on day 18th April 2009. Following is the detailed Twenty20 cricket IPL 2009 schedule with date and time.

Twenty20 Cricket- IPL 2009 schedule

IPL April 2009 schedule
Apr 18	10:30 GMT	Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians - Newlands, Cape Town	Mumbai Indians by 19 runs
	14:30 GMT	Bangalore Royal Challengers v Rajasthan Royals - Newlands, Cape Town	Bangalore Royal Challengers by 75 runs
Apr 19	10:30 GMT	Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab - Newlands, Cape Town	Delhi Daredevils by 10 wickets (D/L)
	14:30 GMT	Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders - Newlands, Cape Town	Deccan Chargers by 8 wickets
Apr 20	14:30 GMT	Bangalore Royal Challengers v Chennai Super Kings - St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Apr 21	10:30 GMT	Kings XI Punjab v Kolkata Knight Riders - Kingsmead, Durban
	14:30 GMT	Rajasthan Royals v Mumbai Indians - Kingsmead, Durban
Apr 22	14:30 GMT	Bangalore Royal Challengers v Deccan Chargers - Newlands, Cape Town
Apr 23	10:30 GMT	Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Daredevils - Kingsmead, Durban
	14:30 GMT	Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals - Newlands, Cape Town
Apr 24	14:30 GMT	Bangalore Royal Challengers v Kings XI Punjab - Kingsmead, Durban
Apr 25	10:30 GMT	Deccan Chargers v Mumbai Indians - Kingsmead, Durban
	14:30 GMT	Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders - Newlands, Cape Town
Apr 26	10:30 GMT	Bangalore Royal Challengers v Delhi Daredevils - St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
	14:30 GMT	Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan Royals - Newlands, Cape Town
Apr 27	10:30 GMT	Deccan Chargers v Chennai Super Kings - Kingsmead, Durban
	14:30 GMT	Kolkata Knight Riders v Mumbai Indians - St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Apr 28	14:30 GMT	Delhi Daredevils v Rajasthan Royals - SuperSport Park, Centurion
Apr 29	10:30 GMT	Bangalore Royal Challengers v Kolkata Knight Rider - Kingsmead, Durban
	14:30 GMT	Kings XI Punjab v Mumbai Indians - Kingsmead, Durban
Apr 30	10:30 GMT	Delhi Daredevils v Deccan Chargers - SuperSport Park, Centurion
	14:30 GMT	Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals - SuperSport Park, Centurion
IPL May 2009 schedule
May 01	10:30 GMT	Kolkata Knight Riders v Mumbai Indians - Buffalo Park, East London
	14:30 GMT	Bangalore Royal Challengers v Kings XI Punjab - Kingsmead, Durban
May 02	10:30 GMT	Deccan Chargers v Rajasthan Royals - St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
	14:30 GMT	Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Daredevils - New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
May 03	10:30 GMT	Kings XI Punjab v Kolkata Knight Riders - St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
	14:30 GMT	Bangalore Royal Challengers v Mumbai Indians - New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
May 04	14:30 GMT	Chennai Super Kings v Deccan Chargers - Buffalo Park, East London
May 05	10:30 GMT	Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan Royals - Kingsmead, Durban
	14:30 GMT	Delhi Daredevils v Kolkata Knight Riders - Kingsmead, Durban
May 06	14:30 GMT	Deccan Chargers v Mumbai Indians - SuperSport Park, Centurion
May 07	10:30 GMT	Bangalore Royal Challengers v Rajasthan Royals - SuperSport Park, Centurion
	14:30 GMT	Chennai Super Kings v Kings XI Punjab - SuperSport Park, Centurion
May 08	14:30 GMT	Delhi Daredevils v Mumbai Indians - Buffalo Park, East London
May 09	10:30 GMT	Deccan Chargers v Kings XI Punjab - De Beers Diamond Oval, Kimberley
	14:30 GMT	Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals - De Beers Diamond Oval, Kimberley
May 10	10:30 GMT	Bangalore Royal Challengers v Mumbai Indians - St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
	14:30 GMT	Delhi Daredevils v Kolkata Knight Riders - New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
May 11	14:30 GMT	Deccan Chargers v Rajasthan Royals - De Beers Diamond Oval, Kimberley
May 12	10:30 GMT	Bangalore Royal Challengers v Kolkata Knight Rider - SuperSport Park, Centurion
	14:30 GMT	Kings XI Punjab v Mumbai Indians - SuperSport Park, Centurion
May 13	14:30 GMT	Deccan Chargers v Delhi Daredevils - Kingsmead, Durban
May 14	10:30 GMT	Bangalore Royal Challengers v Chennai Super Kings - Kingsmead, Durban
	14:30 GMT	Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals - Kingsmead, Durban
May 15	14:30 GMT	Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab - OUTsurance Oval, Bloemfontein
May 16	10:30 GMT	Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians - St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
	14:30 GMT	Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders - New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
May 17	10:30 GMT	Deccan Chargers v Kings XI Punjab - New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
	14:30 GMT	Delhi Daredevils v Rajasthan Royals - OUTsurance Oval, Bloemfontein
May 18	14:30 GMT	Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders - SuperSport Park, Centurion
May 19	14:30 GMT	Delhi Daredevils v Bangalore Royal Challengers - New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
May 20	10:30 GMT	Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals - Kingsmead, Durban
	14:30 GMT	Chennai Super Kings v Kings XI Punjab - Kingsmead, Durban
May 21	10:30 GMT	Delhi Daredevils v Mumbai Indians - SuperSport Park, Centurion
	14:30 GMT	Bangalore Royal Challengers v Deccan Chargers - SuperSport Park, Centurion
IPL 2009- Final and Semi Final Schedule
May 22	14:30 GMT	1st Semi-Final: SuperSport Park, Centurion
May 23	14:30 GMT	2nd Semi-Final: New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
May 24	14:30 GMT	IPL 2009 FINAL: New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

India Tour of New Zealand Schedule 2009

India Tour of New Zealand Schedule

India tour of New Zealand, 2009 will start with Twenty20 match on 25 February at AMI Stadium, Christchurch. The tour schedule consists of 2 Twenty20, 4 ODI and 3 Test Matches. Following is the detailed schedule of this tour.

Twenty20 Schedule First Twenty20: New Zealand won by 7 wickets Wed 25/2 19:00 local, 06:00 GMT at AMI Stadium, Christchurch India 162/8 (20) New Zealand 166/3 (18.5) Second Twenty20: New Zealand by 5 wickets Fri 27/2 19:00 local, 06:00 GMT at Westpac Stadium, Wellington India 149/6(20) New Zealand 150/5(20) ODI Schedule First ODI: India won by 53 runs (D/L method) Tue 3/3 14:00 local, 01:00 GMT at McLean Park, Napier India 273/4 (38) Dhoni 84*,Sehwag 77, Raina 66 New Zealand 162/9(28) Guptill 66, Taylor 31, Harbhajan 27/3, P Kumar 28/2 Second ODI: No result Fri 6/3 14:00 local, 01:00 GMT at Westpac Stadium, Wellington India 188/4(28.4) Tendulkar 61, Sehwag 54, Vettori 14/1 Third ODI: India won by 58 runs Sun 8/3 14:00 local, 01:00 GMT at AMI Stadium, Christchurch India 392/4(50) Tendulkar 163*,Yuvraj 87, Dhoni 68, Mills 58/2 New Zealand 334/10(45.1) Ryder 105, McCullum 71, Harbhajan 56/2, Z Khan 65/2 Fourth ODI: India won by 84 runs (D/L method) Wed 11/3 14:00 local, 01:00 GMT at Seddon Park, Hamilton New Zealand 270/5(47) McCullum 77, McGlashan 56*, I Sharma 57/2 India 201/0(23.3) Sehwag 125*, Gambhir 63* Fifth ODI: New Zealand won by 8 wickets Sat 14/3 14:00 local, 01:00 GMT at Eden Park, Auckland Match reduced to 43 overs India 149/10(36.3) RG Sharma 43*, Sehwag 40, Ryder 29/3, Oram 22/2 New Zealand 150/2(23.2) Ryder 63, Guptill 57* Test Matches Schedule First Test: India won by 10 wickets Played on Wed 18/3 to Sun 22/3 at Seddon Park, Hamilton India Score: 520/10 Tendulkar 160, Gambhir 72, Dravid 66, Z Khan 51* 39/0 New Zealand Score: 279/10 Vettori 118, Ryder 102, Ishant 73/4 279/10 McCullum 84, Flynn 67, Harbhajan 63/6 Second Test: Match Drawn Played from Thu 26/3 to Mon 30/3 at McLean Park, Napier New Zealand Score: NZ 619/9(D) Ryder 201, Taylor 151, BB McCullum 115, I Sharma 95/3 Z Khan 129/3 India Score: 305/10 Dravid 83, Laxman 76, Tendulkar 49, CS Martin 89/3, Vettori 45/2 476/4 Gambhir 137, Laxman 124, Tendulkar 64, JS Patel 120/2 Third Test: Match Drawn Played from Fri 3/4 to Tue 7/4 at Basin Reserve, Wellington India Score: 379/10 (Tendulkar 62, Harbhajan 60, Dhoni 52, Martin 98/4) 434/7(D) (Gambhir 167, Laxman 61, Dravid 60, Dhoni 56*, Martin 70/3) New Zealand Score: 197/10 (Taylor42, McIntosh, 32, Zaheer 65/5, Harbhajan 43/3) 281/8 (Taylor 107, Franklin 49, Harbhajan 59/4, Tendulkar 45/2)

Cricket Team- India Tour of New Zealand 2009

India Cricket Team- Twenty20
MS Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Dinesh Karthik
Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Ishant Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Praveen Kumar, Pragyan Ojha, Munaf Patel, Irfan Pathan

India Cricket Team- ODI
MS Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Dinesh Karthik
Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Ishant Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Praveen Kumar, Pragyan Ojha, Munaf Patel, Irfan Pathan

India Cricket Team- Test Matches
MS Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, VVS Laxman, M Vijay, Dinesh Karthik
Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Ishant Sharma, Amit Mishra, Munaf Patel, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Dhawal Kulkarni

New Zealand Cricket Team- Twenty20
Daniel Vettori, Brendon McCullum, Jesse Ryder, Ross Taylor, Jacob Oram, Neil Broom, Ian Butler, Martin Guptill
Grant Elliott, Iain O'Brien, Nathan McCullum, Tim Southee, Ewen Thompson

Australia V South Africa- Cricket Schedule 2009 Series

Australia v South Africa Cricket Schedule 2009

Australia are on tour of South Africa from February 2009 to April 2009. In this bi- national tour, Australia and South Africa will play 3 test matches, two twenty20 internationals and five odi matches. The international matches of this tour will start with the first test match on 26th of February at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg. Following is the detailed schedule of Australia versus South Africa Cricket series 2009.

Test Match Cricket Schedule 2009 First Test: Australia won by 162 runs 26/2 to 2/3- at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Australia Score: 466/10: MJ North 117, MG Johnson 96*, DW Steyn 4/113 207/10: PJ Hughes 75, JH Kallis 3/22, M Ntini 3/52 South Africa Score: 220/10: AB de Villiers 104*, MG Johnson 4/25, PM Siddle 3/76 291/10: GC Smith 69, HM Amla 57, MG Johnson 4/112, PM Siddle 3/46 Second Test: Australia won by 175 runs Played from 6/3 to 10/3 at Kingsmead, Durban Australia Score: 352/10 PJ Hughes 115, Katich 108, Steyn 83/3, Kallis 49/2 331/5(D) PJ Hughes 160, Ponting 81, Kallis 21/1 South Africa Score: 138/9 Duminy 73*, McDonald 25/3, Johnson 37/3 370/9 Kallis 93, de Villiers 84, Katich 45/3, Siddle 61/3 Third Test:South Africa won by an innings and 20 runs Played on 19/3 to 23/3 at Newlands, Cape Town Australia Score: 209/10 Katich 55, Haddin 42, Johnson 35, Steyn 56/4, Harris 34/3 422/10 Johnson 123*, McDonald 68, Katich 54, Harris 127/6, Steyn 96/3 South Africa Score: 651/10 de Villiers 163, Prince 150, Kallis 102, Johnson 148/4, Katich 9/2 Twenty20 Cricket Schedule 2009 First Twenty20: South Africa won by 4 wickets Played on 27/3 at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Australia 166/7(20) South Africa 168/6 (19.2) Second Twenty20: South Africa won by 17 runs Played on 29/3 at SuperSport Park, Centurion South Africa 156/5(20) Australia 139/8(20) Australia V South Africa ODI Schedule First ODI: Australia won by 141 runs Played on 3/4/2009 at Kingsmead, Durban Australia 286/7 (M Hussey 83*, Haddin 53, Hopes 38, Steyn 45/2) South Africa 145/10 (Smith 52, Gibbs 33, Hauritz 29/4, Hopes 24/2) Second ODI: South Africa won by 7 wickets Played on 5/4 at SuperSport Park, Centurion Australia 131/10(40.2) (Ferguson 50, Johnson 30, Parnell 25/4, Steyn 27/4) South Africa 132/3(26.2) (Smith 40, de Villiers 36*, Johnson 47/2) Third ODI: South Africa won by 25 runs Played on 9/4/2009 at Newlands, Cape Town South Africa 289/6 (de Villiers 80, Kallis 70, Johnson 34/4) Australia 264/7 (Ferguson 63, Hopes 63*, RE van der Merwe 37/3) Fourth ODI: RSA won by 61 runs Played on 13/4/2009 at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth South Africa 317/6 (Gibbs 110, de Villiers 84, Harwood 57/2) Australia 256/10 (Haddin 78, Ponting 53, Clarke 50, Steyn 44/4, van der Merwe 46/3) Fifth ODI: Australia won by 47 runs Played on 17/4/1009 at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Australia 303/7 (Clarke 66, Haddin 62, M Hussey 49*, Duminy 48/3) South Africa 256/10 (Gibbs 82, Kallis 64, de Villiers 38, Johnson 58/3, Hauritz 34/2)

Cricket Teams- Australia V South Africa 2009 Series

Australia Cricket Team
Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Simon Katich, Michael Hussey, Doug Bollinger, Brad Haddin, Nathan Hauritz, Ben Hilfenhaus, Phillip Hughes, Mitchell Johnson, Andrew McDonald, Bryce McGain, Marcus North, Peter Siddle

South Africa Cricket Team for first 2 Tests
Graeme Smith, Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers, Jean-Paul Duminy, Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, Neil McKenzie, Dale Steyn, Paul Harris, Morne Morkel, Makhaya Ntini, Lonwabo Tsotsobe

Australia V New Zealand Cricket Schedule 2008-2009 Series

Australia v New Zealand Cricket Schedule 2008-2009 Series

New Zealand cricket team is on tour of Australia from November 2008 to February 2009. Here they will play two test matches, 5 ODIs and a twenty20 International match. Following is the detailed Cricket Schedule of this 2008-2009 Series.

Australia v New Zealand Test Cricket Schedule 2008-2009
Date Time	Location	Results
First Test 20-24 Nov. 10:00 local, 00:00 GMT	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane Australia I: 214/10 (Clarke 98, Hussey 35, Southee 63/4) New Zealand I: 156/10 (Taylor 40, Flynn 39*, Johnson 30/4) Australia II: 214/10 (Katich 131*, Johnson 31, Martin 69/3) New Zealand II: 177/10 (Taylor 75, Flynn 29*, Johnson 39/5)	Australia 149 runs
Second Test 28-02 Dec. 10:30 local, 00:00 GMT	Adelaide Oval New Zealand 270 and 203, Australia 535	Australia by an innings and 62 runs MOM: BJ Haddin
Australia v New Zealand ODI Cricket Schedule 2008-2009
First ODI 1 Feb. 13:30 local, 04:30 GMT	Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth Australia 181(48.4), New Zealand 182/8(50)	New Zealand by 2 wickets MOM: KD Mills
Second ODI 6 Feb. 14:15 local, 03:15 GMT	Melbourne Cricket Ground Australia 225/5(50), New Zealand 226/4(48.5)	New Zealand by 6 wickets MOM: MJ Clarke
Third ODI 8 Feb. 14:15 local, 03:15 GMT	Sydney Cricket Ground
Fourth ODI 10 Feb. 13:45 local, 03:15 GMT	Adelaide Oval
Fifth ODI 13 Feb. 13:15 local, 03:15 GMT	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane
Australia v New Zealand Twenty20 International Schedule 2008-2009
Only Twenty20 15 Feb. 19:35 local, 08:35 GMT	Sydney Cricket Ground

England Tour Of India Cricket Schedule 2008 Series

England V India Detailed Cricket Schedule 2008 Series

England cricket team is on tour to India to play seven one day internationals and two test matches. This Cricket tour spans about two months November-December 2008. The tour scheduled just after India completed four test matches series against Australia. India won this series against Australia by 2-0. In this series England will play 7 ODI's, the first ODI starts from 14th November, 2008. And first of the two test matches will start from 11the December 2008. Following is the England V India Detailed Cricket Schedule 2008 Series.

England V India ODI Cricket Schedule 2008
Date Time	Location	Results
First ODI 14 November 09:00 local, 03:30 GMT	Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground, Rajkot India 387/5 (Yuvraj 138*, Sehwag 85, Harmison 75/2) England 229/10 (Pietersen 63, Bopara 54*, Z Khan 26/3)	India by 158 runs
Second ODI 17 November 09:00 local, 03:30 GMT	Maharani Usharaje Trust Cricket Ground, Indore India 292/9 (Yuvraj 118, Gambhir 70, Broad 55/4) England 238/10 (Shah 58, Flintoff 43, Yuvraj 28/4)	Ind by 54 runs
Third ODI 20 November 09:00 local, 03:30 GMT	Green Park, Kanpur England 240/10(49) (Bopara 60, Bell 46, Harbhajan 3-31) India 198/5(40) (Sehwag 68, Yuvraj 38, Flintoff 3-31)	India 16 runs (D/L method)
Fourth ODI 23 November 14:00 local, 08:30 GMT	M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore India 166/4(22) (Sehwag 69, Gambhir 40, Swann 21/2) England 178/8(22) (Shah 72, Flintoff 41, Z Khan 20/2)	India 19 runs (D/L method)
Fifth ODI 26 November 14:00 local, 08:30 GMT	Barabati Stadium, Cuttack England 270/4 (Pietersen 111*, Shah 66*, Z Khan 60/2) India 273/4 (Sehwag 91, Raina 53*, Harmison 50/1)	India by 6 wickets
Sixth ODI 29 November 09:00 local, 03:30 GMT	Nehru Stadium, Guwahati	Canceled
7th ODI 2 December 14:00 local, 08:30 GMT	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	Canceled
England V India Test Cricket Schedule 2008
First Test 11-15 Dec. 09:30 local, 04:00 GMT	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai England 316 (Strauss 123, Prior 53*, Harbhajan 96/3) India 241 (Dhoni 53, Harbhajan 40*, Flintoff 49/3) England 311/9d (Strauss 108, Collingwood 108, Z Khan 40/3) India 387/4 (Tendulkar 103*, Yuvraj 85*, Sehwag 83(68) )	India by 6 wickets
Second Test 19-23 Dec. 09:30 local, 04:00 GMT	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh India 453 (Gambhir 179, Dravid 136, Flintoff 54/3) England 302 (Pietersen 144, Flintoff 62, Harbhajan 68/4) India 251/7d (Gambhir 97, Yuvraj 86, Panesar 44/1 ) England 64/1 (Bell 24*, Strauss 21*)	DRAW Player of the series Zaheer Khan

England V India 2008 Series Cricket Teams

England Cricket Team for ODI's
Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell, Alastair Cook, Paul Collingwood, Owais Shah, Andrew Flintoff, Luke Wright, James Anderson, Ravi Bopara, Stuart Broad, Steve Harmison, Samit Patel, Tim Ambrose, Matt Prior, Ryan Sidebottom, Graeme Swann

India Cricket Team for ODI's

• First 3 ODI's: MS Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Murali Vijay, Virat Kohli, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Pragyan Ojha, Munaf Patel, Yusuf Pathan, Ishant Sharma, RP Singh
• ODI 4 and 5: Two changes Irfan Pathan and Sachin Tendulkar in for RP Singh and Murali Vijay.

Australia Tour Of India Schedule October 2008 Series

Australia V India October 2008 Detailed Schedule

Australia cricket team are on their tour to India from September 2008. Since last few years the contest between these two teams are turning out to exciting series similar to Ashes and India Pakistan series. Here in this series they will play four test matches. The first of the four test will start from 9, October and will be played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. The second, third and fourth test match will start on 17/10, 29/10 and 6/11 at Mohali, Delhi and Nagpur respectively. Following is the complete schedule of the tour including date and time.

Australia Tour Of India October 2008
Date Time	Location	Results
Test Matches Schedule
First Test 9-13 October 09:30 local, 04:00 GMT	M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Second Test 17-21 October 09:30 local, 04:00 GMT	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh
Third Test 29-2 November 09:30 local, 04:00 GMT	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Third Test 6-10 November 09:30 local, 04:00 GMT	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

Australia V India October 2008 Teams

Australia Cricket Team
Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Matthew Hayden, Phil Jaques, Michael Hussey, Brad Haddin, Doug Bollinger, Simon Katich, Shane Watson, Brett Lee, Stuart Clark, Mitchell Johnson, Jason Krejza, Bryce McGain,Peter Siddle

India Cricket Team

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