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Ganguly and Pathan pile on the agony for Pakistan
Sourav Ganguly and Irfan Pathan led India to an imposing 626 before Pakistan lost one wicket as they reached 86 at stumps
Pakistan 86 for 1 (Butt 50*, Younis 7*) trail India 626 (Ganguly 239, Pathan 102, Arafat 5-161) by 540 runs
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The last time Pakistan played here, Inzamam-ul-Haq's brilliance and Younis
Khan's appetite for the long haul shut India out of a Test match. There
was perfect symmetry here, only this time they were on the receiving end,
with Yuvraj Singh reprising Inzamam's class and Sourav Ganguly batting on
and on in the manner that Younis had back in 2005. By the time he was out
for 239 on the stroke of tea, India had gone past 600, and thoughts of a
series-levelling victory had long since ebbed away from the Pakistan camp.
By stumps, they had whittled away 86 from the deficit, losing Yasir Hameed
along the way.
Irfan Pathan added a scintillating maiden Test century just for good
measure as an attack deprived of Shoaib Akhtar's pace struggled to make
any impression. The three-man attack and part-timers toiled away without
reward on a pitch where the slightest error was ruthlessly punished. A
profusion of half-volleys and half-trackers was served up by bowlers ready
for the knackers yard and Ganguly and Pathan cashed in happily during a
178-run partnership that really was the last straw.
Full postEngland lose momentum after strong start
Sri Lanka took 4 for 91 in the final session to give them the advantage on the first day against England in Colombo. The home side's fortunes swung dramatically in their favour in the final half-hour of the day when Lasith Malinga ended Alastair Cook's im
The Bulletin by Will Luke
09-Dec-2007
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Sri Lanka took 4 for 91 in the final session to give them the advantage on the first day against England in Colombo. The home side's fortunes swung dramatically in their favour during the final half-hour of the day when Lasith Malinga ended Alastair Cook's impressive stonewalling on 81 before ripping out Ravi Bopara's middle stump.
The day was not without controversy, however, with yet more fuel to feed that interminable debate over the use of technology in cricket.
Full postWet outfield ruins Wollongong match
New South Wales were denied the chance to end their winless streak, which now sits at 12 straight one-day games, when their clash with South Australia was abandoned without a ball being bowled
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09-Dec-2007
New South Wales v South Australia match abandoned
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New South Wales were denied the chance to end their winless streak, which now sits at 12 straight one-day games, when their clash with South Australia was abandoned without a ball being bowled. The match was to be a treat for Wollongong locals but heavy rain during the week left the ground too wet for any play to be possible.
Although the pitch area was not badly affected, the major concern was a sodden outfield that showed little sign of drying as the day progressed. The umpires waited more than three hours after the scheduled start time before the match was abandoned. The no-result leaves the Blues last on the FR Cup table while the Redbacks are fourth.
Full postMcMillan onslaught overwhelms Jets
Craig McMillan's blistering 31-ball 58 steered the Kolkata Tigers to a four-wicket win over the Jets
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08-Dec-2007
Kolkata Tigers 150 for 6 (McMillan 58*, Dasgupta 32, Murtaza 2-7) beat Delhi Jets 149 for 7 (Mishra 61, Atappatu 36, Klusener 3-16) by 4 wickets
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Craig McMillan's blistering 31-ball 58 steered the Kolkata Tigers to a four-wicket win over the Jets, capping a day in which the sides chasing came out trumps.
While Ian Harvey opened and played sheet anchor during the Chennai Superstars' chase, McMillan masterminded an assault from No. 6 for the Tigers, hitting five fours and four sixes.
Full postHarvey shines in Superstars win
Ian Harvey played anchor for nearly the entire innings as Chennai Superstars chased down 147 with one ball to spare
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08-Dec-2007
Chennai Superstars 147 for 6 (Harvey 48, Cairns 3-17) beat Chandigarh Lions 146 (TP Singh 47, Sharma 36) by 4 wickets
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Ian Harvey played anchor for nearly the entire innings as Chennai Superstars chased down 147 with one ball to spare against Chandigarh Lions in Panchkula.
Harvey top scored with 48 and batted till the 18th over, but it was the team effort of the Superstars that saw them through in a thrilling run-chase, the highest in the tournament so far. The scores of the other batsmen read 12, 18, 17, 17, 13, 1, 11, with 10 extras, as the required run-rate never climbed over nine an over.
Full postYuvraj and Ganguly put India on top
Yasir Arafat's three wickets on debut had shaken the Indian innings before lunch, but from 61 for 4, Yuvraj and Ganguly constructed a magnificent run edifice
Day 1 India 365 for 5 (Yuvraj 169, Ganguly 125*, Arafat 3-98) v Pakistan
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The Chinnaswamy Stadium has been witness to some exceptional batting down the years, from Sunil Gavaskar's 96 to Michael Clarke's century on debut, via Sachin Tendulkar's destruction of Shane Warne (1998). The last time India played here, Younis Khan's monumental 267 inspired a famous Pakistan triumph but, on Saturday, he could only watch ruefully as Yuvraj Singh and
Sourav Ganguly stroked sublime centuries to wrest control of the final Test.
Yasir Arafat's three wickets on debut had shaken the innings to its very foundations before lunch but, from the depths of 61 for 4, Yuvraj and Ganguly constructed a magnificent run edifice. With Shoaib Akhtar off the field after lunch with back spasms, Pakistan's gamble of playing just four specialist bowlers was horribly exposed in the final two sessions.
Full postBangladesh clinch series with narrow win
All-round heroics from captain Suhrawadi Shuvo and Dolar Mahmud saw Bangladesh Under-19s edge their Pakistani counterparts by two wickets
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07-Dec-2007
Bangladesh U-19 191 for 8 (Nasir Hossain 40, Adil Raza 4-38) beat Pakistan U-19 187 (Usman Salahuddin 43, Shuvo 3-40) by 2 wickets
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All-round heroics from captain Suhrawadi Shuvo and Dolar Mahmud saw Bangladesh Under-19 edge their Pakistani counterparts by two wickets in Karachi and clinch the five-ODI series 3-2, one that Pakistan were leading 2-0.
After choosing to bat, Pakistan were rocked by some early blows from the Bangladesh opening bowlers. Mahmud removed the dangerous Ahmed Shehzad for 10 and also took the wicket of Umar Amin, who struggled throughout this series. Rubel Hossain chipped in with two more and when Ali Asad fell to Subashis Roy, Pakistan were tottering at 54 for 5.
Umair Mir and Usman Salahuddin added 63 for the sixth wicket but three strikes from Shuvo, Bangladesh's most effective bowler in the series, saw the Pakistan innings fold for 187. Even that modest total was reached courtesy of a whirlwind cameo from Mohammad Rameez, who made 34 off 21, including two boundaries and a six.
Full postJets triumph with all-round performance
After raking up the highest total of the tournament, Delhi Jets came up with a disciplined bowling performance to complete a 24-run win
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07-Dec-2007
Delhi Jets 163 for 5 (Nixon 39*, Benkenstein 38*) beat Mumbai Champs 139 for 9 (Jadhav 42, Sharma 3-34, Sudhindra 3-35) by 24 runs
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After raking up the highest total of the tournament thus far, Delhi Jets came up with a disciplined bowling performance - led by TP Sudhindra - to complete a 24-run win in Panchkula.
Marvan Atapattu, the Jets captain, opted to bat and they were sailing along at over a run a ball before Nathan Astle struck twice, removing Abbas Ali - who made 25 - and Atapattu. The Jets were at 98 for 5 off 15.3 overs when Paul Nixon joined Dale Benkenstein at the crease, and the two foreign recruits didn't disappoint.
Full postSluggish West Indies take the series
A dramatic Zimbabwean collapse, triggered by Jerome Taylor's five wickets, and some sloppy fielding from the hosts allowed a depleted yet trigger-happy West Indian line-up to ultimately overhaul a total of 233 and win by five wickets
The Bulletin by Jamie Alter
07-Dec-2007
West Indies 234 for 5 (Morton 79, Samuels 62, Bravo 41*) beat Zimbabwe 232 for 9 (Sibanda 96, Masakadza 80, Taylor 5-48) by 5 wickets
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A dramatic Zimbabwean collapse, triggered by Jerome Taylor's five wickets, and some sloppy fielding from the hosts allowed a depleted yet trigger-happy West Indian line-up to ultimately overhaul a total of 233 and win by five wickets at the Queens Sports Club. Runako Morton and Marlon Samuels kept the fielders interested during chancy half-centuries, but as they had in the morning, Zimbabwe allowed West Indies off the hook during the run-chase as well.
Zimbabwe's day had begun so well, with a splendid record opening stand amid the gloom at Bulawayo, but Taylor's career-best 5 for 48 and a spate of dropped catches helped the tourists wrap up the series with one game to play. Dwayne Bravo, in his second game as captain, sensibly brought a flip-flop affair to an anticlimactic close with an unbeaten 41.
Full postBangladesh level series despite Asad's century
Suhrawadi Shuvo triggered a late collapse and claimed five of the last six wickets to fall as Bangladesh U-19 successfully defended 233
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06-Dec-2007
Bangladesh U-19 233 for 6 (Ayub 88, Hasan 44,Rameez 2-30) beat Pakistan U-19 220 (Asad 106, Mir 64, Shuvo 5-38, Mahmud 4-40) by 13 runs
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Suhrawadi Shuvo, the Bangladesh Under-19 captain, triggered a late collapse and claimed five of the last six wickets to fall as his team successfully defended 233 against Pakistan Under-19 to square the five-match ODI series two-all.
After losing their first four wickets with only 49 on the board, Pakistan were within sight of victory at 183 for 4 thanks to a 134-run fifth-wicket partnership between Ali Asad (106) and Umair Mir (64). The collapse - with the home side losing six wickets for 37 runs including the last three for only one run - completed a remarkable comeback by Bangladesh who were precariously placed at 57 for 3 after opting to bat.
Marshall Ayub and Mahmudul Hasan put on 126 for the fifth wicket after Mithun Ali, Bangladesh's opener and wicketkeeper, had scored 33. Ayub hammered 88 runs off 91 balls with five fours and a six while Hasan chipped in with a valuable 44 to enable their team post a respectable total.
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