Saturday, October 22, 2005

Australia crush the world again


Hi!
Australia defeated the world11 in the only 6 day test which was held in Sydney From 14th-19th October by 210 runs.Australia won the toss and elected to bat 1st.Australia made 345 in the 1st innings.Hayden scored a century for Australia.He scored 111.Gilchrist unfortunately got out on 94.Flintoff did well with the ball.He took 4 wickets for 59 runs in the 1st innings.
Australia got The World 11 all out on 190.Sehwag scored 76.Macgill was impressive as he took 4 wickets for 39 runs.
In the 2nd innings Australia was all out on 199.Hayden again being the top scorer for Australia.He scored 77 runs.Harmison,Flintoff and Muralitharan took 3 wickets each.
World 11 had to make 355 runs to win.But they were not able to do so.In the 2nd innings,The World 11 was all out on 144.Kallis being the top scorer.He scored 39*runs.Macgill again was the highest wicket taker in the 2nd innings.He took 5 wickets for 43 runs.
Hayden was named The Man of the match for his brilliant 111 in the 1st innings and match saving 77 in the 2nd innings.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Australia-The best team in the world


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Australia won the three ODI matches of the Super series and proved again(after losing the ashes)that they are the best team in the World.Australia won all the 3 matches with huge difference in the scores of both the teams.Australia won the 1st match by 93 runs and the 2nd by 55 runs.In this blog I'll write abot the 3rd match of the super series.
Australia won the toss and elected to bat first as in the 1st 2 games.Gilchrist who got a century of just 73 balls and Clarke who was not so impressive in this series opened the batting for Australia.Australia lost Clarke when Their score was 15.Gilchrist got out when Australia were 58.He went for 32.Ponting scored 68 and then gave his wicket to Muralitharan.Australia were 143-3.Symonds and Martyn soon followed him.Australia's score being 148-5 in 27.5 overs.Then Mike Hussey accompanied by Shane Watson took Australia's score to 293-5 at the end of 50 overs.Hussey scored 75* while Watson scored 66*.
It was a huge total which the World11 tried to chase but failed.Gayle and Sehwag opened World11's innings just on the 2nd ball of the match Lee Got Gayle.Then Sangakkara got out,followed by Kallis and Lara.World11 was struggling at 27-4.Then Flintoff went for 27,Sehwag for 37.World 11 were still struggling at 99-6.Then Sir Dravid also got out just for 16.World11 were 119-7.Soon after Sir Dravid's dismissal Vettori,Pollock and Afridi also got out.World11 was all out at 137.
It was surprising to see the best players of the world losing against Australia.Perhaps The World11 can win the 6 day test that will be held on 14th October and tell Australia that they are not as good as they think themselves to be.
Watson picked the man of the match for the 3rd match while Gilchrist was named the Man of the Series.
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