1/29/10

South Africa Cricket Tour of India 2010

South Africa to tour India in February 2010. In this Cricket tour, South Africa will play two test matches and three one day internationals. The first of the tests will start from February 6 and will be played at Nagpur. The other test match will be played in Kolkata from Feb. 14 to Feb. 18. Then there will be three one day internationals to be played on 21, 24 and 27th of February 2010 at Jaipur, Kanpur and Ahmedabad respectively.

South Africa Test Cricket Team:

Following poor performance in the recent series against the England, Makhaya Ntini has been dropped from the test team. F. de Wet is the other player who have been dropped from the team. They are replaced by fast bowler Lonwabo Tsotsobe and spinner Johan Botha.

G Smith, A Prince, H Amla, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, P Harris, Jacques Kallis, R McLaren, J Botha, Mark Boucher, M Morkel, W Parnell, Alviro Petersen, Dale Steyn, Lonwabo Tsotsobe.

South Africa ODI Team :

Herschelle Gibbs has been recalled for the ODI series while Hashim Amla, Langeveldt, R McLaren have been dropped who were the part of the team for recent series against England.

Graeme Smith, L Bosman, J Botha, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, H Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, A Morkel, M Morkel, W Parnell, Alviro Petersen, Dale Steyn, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Roelof van der Merwe.

India Cricket Team for the first Test :

Following the injury during the Bangladesh tour Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh and Sreesanth will miss the first test in this series against South Africa. Wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik has been dropped from the team and replaced by W. Saha while Tamil Nadu batsman S Badrinath have been included in the team for the first test match.

MS Dhoni, V Sehwag, G Gambhir, S Badrinath, Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, M Vijay, W Saha, Harbhajan, Z Khan, Amit Mishra, PP Ojha, Ishant Sharma, Sudeep Tyagi, Abhimanyu Mithun.

1/1/10

Sri Lanka Cricket Team- Tri Series Cricket 2010

Sri Lanka Cricket Team for the forthcoming Tri Series Cricket 2010 has been announced.

Jayasuriya, all rounder and the most experienced player, has been dropped from the team following his poor display in India. So far he was part of Sri Lanka cricket team for 444 ODIs and he made 11825 runs.

Chamara Kapugedara, Lasith Malinga, Ajantha Mendis are the other players, who were the part of latest India tour, also been dropped for this tri series to be played in Bangladesh.

The other players not selected in the team due to injury are Mahela Jayawardene, Angelo Mathews, Muttiah Muralitharan and Dilhara Fernando. They have been replaced by Chamara Silva, Malinga Bandara, Lahiru Thirimanne, Thilan Thushara.

Sri Lanka lost their latest ODI series against India by 1-3.

Following is the 15 man Sri Lanka team for the Tri Series to be played in Bangladesh. The other teams to take part in this series are India and Bangladesh.

Sri Lanka Cricket Team:

Kumar Sangakkara, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Upul Tharanga, Thilan Samaraweera, Thilina Kandamby, Chamara Silva, Lahiru Thirimanne, Thissara Perera, Muthumudalige Pushpakumara, Malinga Bandara, Suraj Randiv, Thilan Thushara, Suranga Lakmal, Nuwan Kulasekara and Chanaka Welagedera.