Australia win in the second and final Test

Johannesburg: South Africa - Australia in the Test series was drawn 1-1.

In Johannesburg on Monday after the 2 - and won by 2 wickets in a Test match in Australia. In the first Test before South Africa won by 8 wickets.

17 - On the 2 - Test match, winning the toss decided to bat first in South Africa, Lee's first innings for 266 runs. After Australia scored 296 runs. Following South Africa 2 - scored 339 in the second innings. He played in Australia, with a target of 310 runs to win. 4 - At the end of the day 142 runs losing 3 wickets taken in Australia. Need 168 runs to win in a match that occurred were the last day. The final day began with Monday's late game.

Stand Ponting 54, Clarke 1 ran captain began to dance. Leave Clark with 2 runs, Ponting score 62 runs. Still, Mike Hussey, 39 centuries later, het important score of 55 runs. Mitchell Johnson hit a winning 40 runs scored in the last chapter took her to Australia. A loss of 8 wickets for 310 runs Australia won by 2 wickets. The opening of 7 wickets in Australia fast bowler was named man of kamminis.

The success of Australia Test series by 1-1 with 2 matches ended in a draw. Over the previous 20 tournaments between the two teams ended in a draw 1-1. 3-match ODI series in Australia won 2-1.

Laxman,Dhoni,Centuries.the second Test against a hapless.

Kolkata: Venkatsai Laxman and Mahindra Singh Dhoni led India's run-spree with excellent centuries to put their team in control on the second day of the second Test aligned with a hapless West Indies on Tuesday.

Middle-order batsman Laxman beat a stylish 176 not out and skipper Dhoni a robust 144 as India post a very big 631-7 declared in their first innings at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. The West Indies falter in reply, feat 34-2 when play was called off due to bad light. Kirk Edwards was winning on 12 and Darren Bravo on four not out.

Indian seamer Umesh Yadav struck in his first over while he have Adrian Barath (one) caught by Virender Sehwag at next slip before off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin indifferent Kraigg Brathwaite (17), caught by Gautam Gambhir at short-leg.Laxman hit 12 fours in his 17th Test hundred, and the fifth at this place, while Dhoni shattered five sixes and 10 fours in his fifth Test century as India nonstop to gather runs happily against both pace and spin.

The duo bear the West Indies' bowling borders on a slow pitch with a 224-run stand for the seventh wicket as the hosts additional 285 runs to their suddenly total of 346-5. It was India's second-highest total in Tests aligned with the West Indies, their best being 644-7 stated at Kanpur in 1979.It was a demoralising day for the West Indies, who can get now two wickets in added than two session as none of their bowlers could danger Laxman and Dhoni.

Leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo, paceman Kemar Roach, seamer Darren Sammy and recreational off-spinner Marlon Samuels all accepted more than 100 run in a middling West Indies' bowling concert.Dhoni dominated the big stand with Laxman with rich pat play. He reaches his century - his first since February 2010 - in the afternoon with an only to long-off off part-time spinner Brathwaite.

The Indian skipper, immovable at the back off Roach no-balls when on 13 and 16, punish the spinners as he loft Bishoo and Samuels over long-on for sixes previous to hitting Brathwaite for two sixes in an over.Dhoni was immovable behind in the last session directly after hitting Roach for his fifth six. Laxman, 73 immediately, finished his hundred with a beautiful shot; flicking Sammy stuck between mid-on and mid-wicket for a four.

The West Indies relied on fast bowlers Fidel Edwards and Roach in the break of day in an offer to put force on India, but the duo go wicketless with the second new ball. The tourist lone achievement in the morning conference came when Sammy attentive Yuvraj Singh leg-before for 25 after the batsman had extra 50 for the sixth wicket with Laxman.Yuvraj, difficult to cement his place in the Test side, did not look relaxed during his short stay at the crease, tested by Edwards and Roach with short-pitched delivery.

The left-handed batsman was once strike on the bear by an Edwards’s bouncer previous to being dismissed by Sammy. India leads 1-0 in the three-Test series follow their five-wicket win in the opening match in New Delhi.

Rahul Dravid and VVS laxman good batting India show in Kolkata Test.

Kolkata: Rahul Dravid cracked a luminous 119 to put India on course for a big total on the opening day of the Secant Test match  West Indies at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

The 38-year-old batsman hit two sixes and nine fours in his 36th Test hundred and the fifth of the year, as the hosts reach 346-5 in their first innings at stumps later than winning the toss on a good bat pitch. Only India's Sachin Tendulkar (51), South African Jacques Kallis (40) and Australian Ricky Ponting (39) have score more Test centuries than Dravid. India lead 1-0 in the three-Test series follows their five-wicket win in the opening match in New Delhi.

Dravid not at all looked in danger in his 207-ball knock, impress with his shot-selection during his long stay at the fold to put India in a sturdy position with three precious partnerships. He additional 83 runs for the second wicket with Gautam Gambhir (65), 56 used for the next with Sachin Tendulkar and 140 for the fourth wicket with VVS Laxman, who was winning with a solid 73 when bad light closed play.

Dravid finished his hundred when he bowed a no-ball from paceman Kemar Roach at the back square-leg for a four before inside-edging unpaid spinner Kraigg Brathwaite's freedom on to his stumps in the day's last but one over. India lost one more wicket when nightwatchman Ishant Sharma was caught following off Roach. Laxman, who complete an unbeaten 58 in the last Test, has so far hit five fours in his second succeeding half-century.

Tendulkar, who wants just one hundred to entire an unprecedented 100th international century, had been batting self-assuredly before falling for 38, pulling leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo to Marlon Samuels at mid-wicket. Dravid sustained to bat contentedly against both pace and spin, lofting Bishoo over long-off and part-time spinner Samuels over long-on for sixes.Tendulkar, who has also scored 48 hundreds in one-day internationals, look in brilliant form as he turned Fidel Edwards to fine-leg for his first four and then throng Roach through the covers for one more boundary.

He survive a convinced appeal for leg-before on 25 while attempt to sweep Bishoo before being dismiss by the same bowler in the daylight session, much to the displeasure of nearly 10,000 audience. The West Indies struggle for success on a pitch which had small in it for the bowlers, with seamer Darren Sammy, Edwards, Bishoo, Roach and Brathwaite each taking one wicket.Gambhir fell to a loose shot, powerful an Edwards release straight to Adrian Barath at short cover after addition eight runs to his lunch score of 57. He hit eight fours in his 17th half-century in 43 Tests.

India got off to a frozen start as Gambhir and forceful Virender Sehwag (38) put on 66 in 12.1 overs for the opening wicket. Sehwag played some beautiful shots against the West Indies pace attack, beating eight fours in his brisk 33-ball knock before driving Sammy at once to Barath at short mid-wicket.

south africa and australia match amazing facts.

CAPE TOWN, Australia last wicket match up saved their team from person bowled out for the lowest total in Test history as both teams bowed on an amazing second day of the first Test against South Africa at Newlands Thursday.South Africa, set 236 to win, is 81 for one at the end of a day on which 23 wickets fell for 294 runs. Graeme and Hashim Amla batted with a choice in the final hour to be not there when Shane Watson sent South Africa dropping to 96 all out in their first innings to give Australia a lead of 188.

But Australia then distorted to 21 for nine before being bowled out for 47 in their second innings, their lowest total against South Africa and their fourth lowly of all time. New cap Vernon Philander took five for 15 on a ground which obtainable plenty of seam group and had more pace than on the first day.

Australia had last pair Peter Siddle and Nathan Lyon to express thanks for avoid being dismiss for less than the world evidence low of 26, by New Zealand against England in Auckland in 1954/55.Siddle (12 not out) and Lyon (14) put on 26 for the final wicket, more than replication their team's total and attractive them past the world evidence and Australia's record low, 36 next to England at Birmingham in 1902. The before lowest against South Africa was 75 in Durban in 1949/50.

The emotion of wickets put into side the value of Australian captain Michael Clarke's 151 in an Australian total of 284. Clarke, resume on 107, was help by Siddle (20) as Australia added 70 to their suddenly 214 for eight. Clarke’s innings looked even improved when Watson took five wickets in 20 balls after the home side had look logically secure when they reach 49 for one at lunch.

Watson strike with the secant ball after lunch when the Australians productively called for a review after adjudicate Ian Gould gave Amla not out after he was strike on the pad. Replays show the ball would have hit the top of leg stump. Four balls later Jacques Kallis was out for nought, again after an appraisal, trapped at second slip when replays show he had got a faint edge to an attempt pull which looped off his accept to Ricky Ponting.

Watson made one more double strike, bowling Smith for 37 off an within edge and trapping Ash well Prince leg before wicket with a full, immediately ball before AB de Villiers become the third batsman out to a review decision, lbw to Ryan Harris after being known not by umpire Billy Doctrove.Mark Boucher was Watson's fifth victim - with TV umpire Billy Bowden again call into action, this time since the batsman in vain queried Gould's lbw decision.

Watson fell to the third ball of Australia's second innings, leg before to Steyn. paradoxically if he had call for a review he would have survive because replays show the ball would have gone over the top of his stumps. Ponting was leg previous to to Vernon Philander and Phil Hughes was stuck at third slip off Morkel as Australia slide to 13 for three at tea. It got rapidly not as good as for Australia following tea as Mike Hussey and Brad Haddin were dismisses without score and Clarke was helpful leg previous to for two.

Ryan Harris, Mitchell Johnson and Shaun Marsh every one fell with the total on 21. Marsh, pain from a back problem, bat at number ten and was leg previous to to Philander without score. Marsh did not field in also South African innings. South Africa batted forcefully at the start of the final innings. Jacques Rudolph was trapped behind off Siddle for 14 but Smith (36 not out) and Amla (29 not out) additional an unbeaten 54 for the next wicket as South Africa knock off additional than a third of the necessary runs.

In keep with a frenetic day, Amla was drop off the last ball of the day when Hussey cannot hold a slash to toward the back point off Harris.

Michael Clarke century then superb Steyn

Cape Town: Australian captain Michael Clarke hit a super century to cancel out some excellent fast bowling by South Africa's Dale Steyn on the first day of the first Test at Newlands here on Wednesday. Clarke hit 107 not out in an Australian total of 214 for eight, while Steyn prove a steady risk to the batsmen on a seam-friendly surface, taking four for 31. New cap Vernon Philander took three for 54.

Shaun Marsh was the only top arrange batsman to give meaningful support to Clarke, making 44 and selection his captain set on 103 for the fourth wicket. For relax it was a struggle after Australia be sent in to bat on a day limited by rain and bad daylight to 55 overs.Australia packed up to 40 for three before Clarke was the leading partner as he and Marsh re-energized Australia's fortunes. Marsh contributes only 27 of the 103 runs added by the pair but played an important supporting role while Clarke counter-attacked.

Graeme Smith's judgment to send Australia in fast paid off as Steyn claim the wickets of Watson and  Ponting, while Philander had Phil Hughes caught at the back after rain overdue the start by almost two hours.Steyn dismiss Marsh with the first ball of his third spell when he was call back for what prove to be the last over previous to tea.

Clarke was agreed a stifling time by Steyn at the start of his innings before going for his shot when Steyn was replace by Kallis. The Australian captain scored 40 of the runs as the place with Marsh become worth 50, reach 5000 runs in Test cricket when his score was on 44, and quick to his fifty off only 56 balls with nine fours.

He maintain the pace in spite of behind Marsh, Hussy and Haddin before attainment his 16th Test century off 108 balls when he stroke Kallis through the cover for his 16th boundary The left-handed Marsh was tested with some short-pitched bowling early on but remain in control, collect runs when the bowlers stray in line or distance end to in a 101-ball innings which integrated eight fours.

Marsh was intent on his tuck and given out by umpire Ian Gould. He asks for a review but it complete that Gould was right. Earlier South Africa successfully sought an appraisal when Ponting was given not out next to Steyn by umpire Billy Doctrove. Replays show the ball would comprise hit his leg stump. South Africa also had a failed review when Gould gave Marsh not out on 28 against Philander, the ball pitching exterior leg stump.

Philander, 26, be one of two new caps, with South Africa also select Pakistan-born leg-spinner Imran Tahir, 32. Tahir did not look bullying in his six overs, giving way 26 runs. Australia made only one change from the plane that beat South Africa A in a warm-up game last week with fast bowler Ryan Harris replacing Trent Copeland.

Sachin Hits 15,000th Test Runs

New Delhi:Sachin Tendulkar of India on Tuesday become the opening batsman in history to score 15,000 Test runs even as he motivated towards his 100th international century.Tendulkar, 38, attain the feat when he reaches 28 on the third day of the first Test next to the West Indies at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground in New Delhi.

Tendulkar was winning on 33 and Rahul Dravid was on 30 as India - set a victory target of 276 - reach152-2 by stump.The Mumbai batsman, in concert his 182nd Test match, by now holds the world record for a good number runs and centuries in equally Test and one-day cricket.

Sachin needs one more three-figure beat to become the first batsman to score 100
international hundreds. He has 51 Test and 48 one-day centuries so far.Dravid is second in the Test scorers' list with 12,859 runs, to the lead of Ricky Ponting of Australia (12,487) and West Indies batsman Brian Lara (11,953).

Top run-getter in Test cricket

15,005* - Sachin Tendulkar (IND)

12,859* - Rahul Dravid        (IND)

12,487 -   Ricky Ponting      (AUS)

11,953 -   Brian Lara            (WIS)

11,947 -   Jacques Kallis     (RSA)

11,174 - Allan Border          (AUS)

10,927 - Steve Waugh        (AUS)

10,122 - Sunil Gavaskar     (IND)

{* denotes unbeaten innings }

PCB rejects mohammed Aamer's ignorance claim fixing

Lahore: Pakistan's cricket establishment on Friday rejected Mohammad Aamer's claims that they had not learned the talented fast bowler on how to combat dishonesty in the sport.Aamer was one of three Pakistani cricketers hand jail sentence on Thursday for their part in spot-fixing throughout a Test match against England at Lord's last year, a scandal that has the reverberate across the cricketing world.

 
The 19-year-old will use six months in a young offenders' arrest center, but he sought to excuse his behavior earlier this week, proverb that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) did not teach him on altered form."The PCB by no means told me just how serious an offence it was to get into these sorts of belongings. They didn't educate me sufficient about anti-corruption laws," Aamer was quote in Pakistani media as saying.

The PCB powerfully rejected the spaceman's claims."A section of the media has report a supposed statement of Aamer in which he has claimed that PCB did not educate him connecting to anti-corruption codes that players are to abide on.""PCB would like it known for the record that this claim is in total challenge to the facts," said PCB in a press release.

Two months after the disgrace, the International Cricket Council (ICC) came down hard on the PCB, sending them orders to curb fixing and regulation problems and bullying suspension if improvement were not seen.PCB said Aamer had signed the players' code of behavior in March 2010 "which clearly states that by sign the same the player commit to remaining by all ICC rules concerning betting, match fixing, fraud, and any matter that could call into question the honesty of the game.

The board said Aamer had also attended several courses on how to deal with deception and warning players on the dangers of associate with stranger.

Bishoo five wickets West Indies win test series

Dhaka: Leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo grab 5-90 as the West Indies crushed Bangladesh by 229 runs in the second and last cricket Test in Dhaka on Wednesday to drape up the series 1-0.Bangladesh, who was set an impossible win target of 508 runs, were blast out for 278 soon after lunch on the fifth day at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium.

Bishoo, the Guyanese bowler who turns 26 on Sunday, return with career-best numbers in only his seventh Test and skipper Darren Sammy chip in with 2-19 to rout the hosts.The forceful win after the drained first match in Chittagong provide a very big morale-booster for Sammy's men, who begin a three-Test series in India on Sunday.

Bangladesh, resume at the suddenly score of 164-3, lost the crucial wickets of opener Tamim Iqbal, skipper Mushfiqur Rahim and Shakib Al Hasan in the morning sitting.Tamim, Bangladesh's main batting expectation who was unbeaten on 82, other just one more run after he was caught in the slips off Bishoo in the day's third over.

The left-hander's 83 limited eight boundaries and a six.Shakib and Rahim raise visions of a Bangladesh fight back when they put on 88 runs for the fifth wicket, before mutually batsmen fell in the space of four runs.Shakib made 55 when he tried to steer Sammy to third man, but only manage to sky a catch to Shivnarine Chanderpaul running back from the slip area.

Rahim took his at once score of 33 to 69 when he was bowled by a excellent delivery from Bishoo that spun in stridently from leg to clip the off-stump.Devendra Bishoo struck two times in the first over after lunch, trap Nasir Hossain leg-before and having Suhrawadi Shuvo caught by Sammy.Fast bowler Kemar Roach sealed the win by bowling last man Rubel Hossain.