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(02-11-2024 07:59 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  

(01-11-2024 11:04 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  India v New Zealand 3rd Test - Mumbai Day 3 Session 2
Toss - New Zealand elected to bat
New Zealand 235 (65.4 overs) Mitchell 82 Young 71 Latham 28 Jadeja 5-65 Sundar 4-81
India 263 (59.4 overs) Gill 90 Pant 60 Sundar 37 no Jaiswal 30 Ajaz 5-103
New Zealand 174 (45.5 overs) Young 51 Phillips 26 Conway 22 Mitchell 21 Jadeja 5-55 Ashwin 3-63
India 121 (29.1 overs) Pant 64 Ajaz 6-57 Phillips 342
New Zealand won by 25 runs

Congratulations to New Zealand on a 3-0 series win an outstanding achievement. To win a series in India is rare, but this is way beyond any ones expectations including New Zealand's. A country that are more accustomed to batting & bowling in seaming conditions, this is an amazing effort.

The Pakistan Cricket Board have confirmed India will not travel to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy.

Pakistan are the designated hosts of the tournament. Attention now turns to how the tournament can incorporate India. A hybrid solution of the UAE hosting India games has been moored but the PCB are seemingly against any hybrid format.

No doubt the BCCI will wield it's power and get it's own way as usual .

A Pakistan v India final would really put the at amongst the pigeons .

A new world record for sixes in an innings in a T20I match between full member nations was recorded by India who totalled 23 in a score of 283-1 against South Africa at the Wanderers. The 23 sixes 17 fours contributed 206 runs or 72.79% of all the runs scored. Samson (109) & Varma (120) added an unbroken stand of 210 of 86 balls.

For fans of fast-forward cricket the Abu Dhabi T10 tournament has started today, already into game 3. A quickfire comp with 3 or 4 games per day & all done & dusted by December 2nd. The squads include 20 plus players from the English County game, predominantly International stars across 9 teams, with many top players from around the globe.

Australia v India 1st Test - Perth
Start time 02.20 GMT

This is a mouth-watering series in prospect, India will feel hurt by the loss to the Kiwis, can Australia inflict an Antipodean double over India. Australia will award a debut to McSweeney who open the innings after the Smith experiment, the bulk of their squad are in their 30's, in contrast to India who are already in the process of a rebuild.
With the arrival of India's captain Rohit Sharma delayed after attending the birth of his child, it will be a head to head of Bumrah v Cummins as fast bowling captains.

Adu Dhabi T10
Match 3
Chennai 141-2 Lynn 68 no van der Dussen 62
Deccan 142-3 Buttler 62 no Kohler Cadmore 51 Sabir Ali Rao 2-24

Is this a twenty over match or the shorter ten over match?

^^ Ssssh....nobody noticed ,,,well spotted, I've edited posts 1925 & 1928.