Hard-hitting Indian opener Virender Sehwag has been declared fit for the second one-day international against Sri Lanka starting on Saturday.
Sehwag, who missed the last match in Dambulla on Wednesday due to a back injury, batted more than half an hour in the nets on Friday. He has so far scored 6,124 runs in 196 One-dayers with nine hundreds and 33 half-centuries.
Hashim Amla got South Africa away to a solid start as they sought to take Australia’s No. 1 ODI ranking by setting a target for the first time in the series. Australia picked up Herschelle Gibbs and Neil McKenzie before the halfway mark but the confident Amla kept South Africa on track with his second consecutive half-century.
India begin a short limited-overs series in Sri Lanka after success in both forms of the game over the last six months. They beat England 5-0 in November 2008 and had earlier notched up an impressive 3-2 series win in Sri Lanka – and they have a much stronger side this time, with Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar both fit.
Srilanka have won 6 matches out of their last 7 ODI matches, But it was not a good play. They struggled to bat and lost one ODI with Bangladesh. It is a good sign that Srilanka batted well againest Pakistan with 2-1.
Give a big hand to both the teams to start the series!!!!
Pakistan team
Salman Butt, Khurram Manzoor, Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Gul, Iftikhar Anjum, Shoaib Akhtar
Sri Lanka team
ST Jayasuriya, TM Dilshan, KC Sangakkara, DPMD Jayawardene, CK Kapugedera, SHT Kandamby, MF Maharoof, T Thushara, KMDN Kulasekara, M Muralitharan, BAW Mendis
That closes the Zimbabwe innings at 160/9 but who would have bet on that total after being 47/6 in the 19th over.
An excellent record partnership of 96 between Price and captain Utseya put them right back into the game and now have set a target that could well give them the series.
With low scores being the order of the day it might turn out to be a winning score with Bangladesh needing the 161 for victory.
Pakistan squad
Shoaib Malik, Iftikhar Anjum, Kamran Akmal, Khurram Manzoor, Misbah-ul-Haq, Saeed Ajmal, Salman Butt, Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Akhtar, Sohail Khan, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Amin, Umar Gul, Yasir Arafat, Younis Khan
Sri Lanka squad
DPMD Jayawardene, KC Sangakkara, TM Dilshan, CRD Fernando, ST Jayasuriya, SHT Kandamby, CK Kapugedera, KMDN Kulasekara, MF Maharoof, AD Mathews, BAW Mendis, J Mubarak, M Muralitharan, WU Tharanga, T Thushara
5th ODI West Indies vs New Zealand at Napier – Jan 13, 2009
Match scheduled to begin at 12:00 local time (23:00 GMT).
New Zealand squad
NT Broom, GD Elliott, DR Flynn, MR Gillespie, MJ Guptill, BB McCullum, KD Mills, JS Patel, JD Ryder, TG Southee, LRPL Taylor, DL Vettori
West Indies squad
LS Baker, CS Baugh, S Chanderpaul, S Chattergoon, FH Edwards, SE Findlay, CH Gayle, XM Marshall, NO Miller, BP Nash, KA Pollard, DBL Powell, D Ramdin, RR Sarwan, JE Taylor