Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Trent Bridge, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire


Also or formerly known as Trent Bridge Ground
Established 1841
Named after River Trent
Capacity 15,350 (to be 17,000)
Floodlights Yes, installed in 2008
End names Pavilion End, Radcliffe Road End
Home team Nottinghamshire
Other sports Football (Nottm Forest and Notts County) 1860-1910
Current local time 10:59, Tue Jun 02, 2009 (UTC +0100)

The Oval Cricket Ground, Kennington, London,


Also or formerly known as The Oval; The AMP Oval;
The Foster's Oval; The Brit Oval
Established 1845
Capacity 23500
Floodlights Yes, 2009
End names Pavilion End, Vauxhall End
Home teams England, Surrey
Current local time 10:59, Tue Jun 02, 2009 (UTC +0100)

Lord's Cricket Ground

Also or formerly known as Lord's Cricket Ground
Established 1814
Named after Thomas Lord
Capacity 30000
Floodlights Yes, 2009
End names Pavilion End, Nursery End
Home teams Marylebone Cricket Club, Middlesex
Other sports Lacrosse, Hockey, Archery (2012 Olympics)Curator Mick Hunt
Current local time 10:54, Tue Jun 02, 2009 (UTC +0100)

Taylor and Vettori star in New Zealand win


New Zealand 170 for 7 (Taylor 41, McCullum 31, Franklin 27*, Ishant 4-25) beat India 161 for 6 (Raina 45, Jadeja 41*, Vettori 3-24) by nine runsScorecard and ball-by-ball detailsHow they were out



New Zealand's unbeaten record against India in Twenty20s continued today by beating the world champions by nine runs in their warm-up outing at Lord's. Several New Zealand batsmen chipped in with aggressive contributions to post an imposing total which their bowlers, led by the reliable Daniel Vettori, defended tenaciously against a powerful Indian batting line-up.
The India team had faced questions regarding fatigue and fitness because of their players' involvement in the lengthy IPL and they took the field without Virender Sehwag and Zaheer Khan. Yuvraj Singh also did not play a part in the match although he was on the team sheet. However, it was because of the batsmen that performed in the IPL - Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina and Ravindra Jadeja - that India challenged New Zealand's total of 170.
Sharma, who opened with Gautam Gambhir, slotted seamlessly into his new role and attacked from the outset against Iain O'Brien. With an extravagant follow through, Sharma deposited the ball into the stands at midwicket, pierced the in-field at point again, and launched the ball over long-off to take 18 runs off O'Brien's second over. The Indian fans had been gathering from the latter stages of the Ireland-Netherlands match, making themselves heard whenever the players were shown on the giant screen and now were shouting themselves hoarse.
Through all the excitement, though, Gambhir remained almost unnoticed, catching the attention only when he spooned Ian Butler to Martin Guptill at extra cover. India, however, raced to 55 in six overs and New Zealand needed more to curb the momentum. Vettori duly did the needful. He slipped one down the leg side as MS Dhoni advanced and had him stumped, despite a fumble from Brendon McCullum, before bowling Sharma a few balls later as the ball bobbled off the pads.
India suddenly had two new batsmen at the crease and New Zealand had an opening, but for a while it seemed Raina had slammed it shut. He plundered 19 runs off Vettori's second over, slog-sweeping twice over the midwicket boundary and drilling the ball straight down the ground.
He and Jadeja produced an impressive stand, adding 69 off 48 balls for the fourth wicket. It was only Raina's dismissal - caught by a diving Jesse Ryder off Jacob Oram for 45 - that turned the match in New Zealand's favour. Vettori bounced back strongly to dismiss Yusuf Pathan in another miserly over to finish with 3 for 24 and left India with too much to do in the last three overs.
That the New Zealand bowlers had enough to defend was due to a collective performance from their batsmen. While no one went on to make fifty, New Zealand always had a well set batsman at the crease to keep the momentum going. Brendon McCullum provided the impetus at the start, while Ross Taylor continued his good form from the latter stages of the IPL during the middle overs. Scott Styris chipped in with a useful innings and Franklin enhanced his newly-developed status as a batting allrounder with massive strikes towards the ends of the innings.
Most of the New Zealand batsmen favoured the leg-side boundary and some perished while trying to clear it. McCullum eventually skied a catch to midwicket, while Ryder, who failed to get out of his IPL rut, was bowled trying to swing across the line. Ishant Sharma was the bowler who dismissed both, making up for the void created by the shoulder injury to Zaheer.
Taylor carted Pragyan Ojha for two consecutive sixes over deep-square leg and dispatched the left-arm spinner to the deep midwicket boundary as well. Ishant returned to peg New Zealand back by inducing a top-edged pull from Oram, which was held by Harbhajan.
Taylor, too, fell in the 16th over when one slog-sweep against Harbhajan did not clear RP Singh. Styris kept the momentum going with a breezy 29 off 19 balls but it was Franklin who hurt India in the end. He laid into RP in the 20th over and deposited the ball beyond the straight boundary twice before pulling to midwicket for four. New Zealand managed 50 runs off their last four overs and that acceleration proved to be the difference.

SOUTH AFRICA

SOUTH AFRICA
Graeme Smith (captain)
Johan Botha (vice-captain)
Yusuf Abdulla
Mark Boucher
AB de Villiers
JP Duminy
Herschelle Gibbs
Jacques Kallis
Albie Morkel
Morne Morkel
Justin Ontong
Wayne Parnell
Robbie Peterson
Dale Steyn
Roelof van der Merwe

SRI LANKA

SRI LANKA
Kumar Sangakkara (captain)
Muttiah Muralidaran (vice-captain)
Sanath Jayasuriya
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Mahela Jayawardena
Chamara Silva
Angelo Mathew
Ajantha Mendis
Nuwan Kulasekara
Thilan Thushara Mirando
Lasith Malinga
Isuru Udana Thilakaratne
Farveez Maharoof
Jehan Mubarak
Indika de Saram

SCOTLAND


SCOTLAND
Gavin Hamilton (captain)
Ryan Watson
Kyle Coetzer
Navdeep Poonia
Neil McCallum
Colin Smith

Craig Wright
Jan Stander
Calum MacLeod
Dewald Nel
Glenn Rogers
Richard Berrington
Gordon Drummond
Majid Haq
Fraser Watts

PAKISTAN



PAKISTAN
Younus Khan (captain)
Salman Butt
Ahmad Shahzad
Misbah-ul-Haq
Kamran Akmal
Fawad Alam
Shoaib Malik
Shahid Afridi
Sohail Tanvir
Yasir Arafat
Iftikhar Anjum
Umar Gul
MohammadAmir
Saeed Ajmal
Shahzaib Hasan

NEW ZEALAND


NEW ZEALAND
Daniel Vettori (captain)
Neil Broom
Ian Butler
Brendon Diamanti
James Franklin
Martin Guptill
Brendon McCullum
Nathan McCullum
Peter McGlashan
Kyle Mills
Iain O'Brien
Jacob Oram
Jesse Ryder
Scott Styris
Ross Taylor

NETHERLANDS

NETHERLANDS
Jeroen Smits (captain)
Peter Borren
Mudassar Buhkari
Tom de Grooth
Maurits Jonkman
Alexei Kervezee
Dirk Nannes
Ruud Nijman
Darron Reekers
Edgar Schiferli
Pieter Seelaar
Eric Szwarczynski
Ryan ten Doeschate
Dan van Bunge
Bas Zuiderent

Monday, June 1, 2009

IRELAND


IRELAND
William Porterfield (captain)
Andre Botha
Peter Connell
Alex Cusack
Trent Johnston
John Mooney
Kyle McCallan (vice-captain)
Kevin O'BrienNiall
O'BrienPaul
StirlingBoyd
RankinRegan
WestAndrew
WhiteGary Wilson
Jeremy Bray

INDIA


INDIA
MS Dhoni (captain)
Virender Sehwag (vice captain)
Gautam Gambhir
Suresh Raina
Yuvraj Singh
Yusuf Pathan
Rohit Sharma
Harbhajan Singh
Zaheer Khan
Ishant Sharma
Praveen Kumar
RP Singh
Ravindra Jadeja
Pragyan Ojha
Irfan Pathan

ENGLAND

ENGLAND
Adil Rashid
Paul Collingwood (captain)
James Anderson
Ravi Bopara
Stuart Broad
James Foster
Robert Key
Dimitri Mascarenhas
Eoin Morgan
Graham Napier
Kevin Pietersen
Owais Shah
Ryan Sidebottom
Graeme Swann
Luke Wright

BANGLADESH

BANGLADESH
Mohammad Ashraful (captain)
Masrafe Mortaza (vice-captain)
Tamim Iqbal
Zunaed Siddique
Roqibul Hasan
Shakib Al Hasan
Mushfiqur Rahim
Naeem Islam
Abdur Razzak
Shahadat Hossain
Syed Rasel
Mohammad Mahmud Ullah
Rubel Hossain
Shamsur Rahman
Mohammad Mithun



AUSTRALIA

Ricky Ponting (captain)
Michael Clarke (vice-captain)
Nathan Bracken
Brad Haddin
Nathan Hauritz
Ben Hilfenhaus
James Hopes
David Hussey
Mike Hussey
Mitchell Johnson
Brett Lee
Peter Siddle
Andrew Symonds
David Warner
Shane Watson