New Zealand tour of Sri Lanka 2009 Schedule

 

Just after the tour of Pakistan is over in Sri Lanka, New Zealand team will arrive in Sri Lanka for their 40 days tour. New Zealand team will play two matches test series with five One Day International and two twenty20 Internationals on their tour to Sri Lanka.

New Zealand team will begin their tour with three day practice game before playing first test match from 18^th August to 22^nd August at P Sara Oval, Colombo. The 2^nd test match of the series will be played from 26^th of August to 30^th of August at SSC, Colombo.

After test match series New Zealand team will shift their gear for five one day internationals and two twenty20 games. First ODI of five match series will be played at Dambulla Stadium 7^th, 11^th, 13^th and 15^th of September. New Zealand tour will conclude with two twenty Internationals will be played on 17^th and 19^th of September at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo.

New Zealand v Sri Lanka Fixtures (All timings are mentioned in GMT+05:30)

Thu 13 Aug - Sat 15 Aug

10:00 AM

Tour Game – New Zealand v TBC

Colts Cricket Club Ground, Colombo

Tue 18 Aug - Sat 22 Aug

10:00 AM

1^st Test – New Zealand v Sri Lanka

P Sara Oval, Colombo

Wed 26 Aug - Sun 30 Aug

10:00 AM

2^nd Test – New Zealand v Sri Lanka

Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo

Thu 3 Sep

09:30 AM

Tour Game – New Zealand v TBC

Welagedara Stadium, Kurunegala

Sat 5 Sep

09:30 AM

1^st ODI – New Zealand v Sri Lanka

Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium

Mon 7 Sep

09:30 AM

2^nd ODI – New Zealand v Sri Lanka

Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium

Fri 11 Sep (D/N)

14:30 PM

3^rd ODI – New Zealand v Sri Lanka

R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sun 13 Sep (D/N)

14:30 PM

4^th ODI – New Zealand v Sri Lanka

R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Tue 15 Sep (D/N)

14:30 PM

5^th ODI – New Zealand v Sri Lanka

R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Thu 17 Sep (D/N)

18:00 PM

1^st T20I – New Zealand v Sri Lanka

R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sat 19 Sep (D/N)

18:00 PM

2^nd T20I – New Zealand v Sri Lanka

R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Rahul Dravid in list of 30 probable announce for ICC Champions Trophy 2009.

 

After almost two years stylish right handed Rahul Dravid was included in list of 30 probable announce by Indian selectors for ICC Champions Trophy 2009. Rahul Dravid who last played ODI in October 2007 against Australia in Nagpur got selected by the Indian selectors in the 30 player squad.

Sachin Tendulkar, Virendra Sehwag, Suresh Raina and Zaheer Khan who missed the recently concluded ODI series in Caribbean due to injuries also included in the squad. The biggest surprise inclusion was of Rahul Dravid who averages 39.49 scoring more than 10,000 runs in 333 games.

Many experts believe that lack of ability to handle the short pitch stuff by the young Indian players prompted Indian selectors to go with experienced Rahul Dravid. Suresh Raiana, Rohit Sharma, Gautam Gambhir and Yusuf Pathan all struggled to handle the short-pitch deliveries in twenty20 world championship as well as in recently concluded ODI series against West Indies.

Irfan Pathan and S.Sreesanth were the two players who missed out to make into the 30 probable squads.

India List of 30 Probables for Champions Trophy 2009: MS Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, Abhishek Nayar, Ishant Sharma, Zaheer Khan, RP Singh, Praveen Kumar, Harbhajan Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Ravindra Jadeja, Dinesh Karthik, Munaf Patel, R Ashwin, M Vijay, Amit Mishra, Ajinkya Rahane, Dhawal Kulkarni, S Badrinath, Ashish Nehra, Virat Kohli, Bhuvneshwar Kumar Singh, Wriddhiman Saha, Pankaj Singh.

ICC Champions Trophy Schedule-Fixtures 2009

ICC Champions Trophy 2009 will be played in South Africa. The sixth edition of ICC Champions Trophy will be played in Johannesburg and Centurion from September 24^th to October 5^th.

Last time in Champions trophy there were total 21 matches played but this time it is down to 15 numbers of matches.

All eight teams are divided into two Groups A and B. India, Pakistan, Australia and West Indies are in Group A while South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and England are in group B. Each team will play with one another in their corresponding groups and the top two teams from each group will advance into the semi finals.

The following are the two groups:
Group A: Australia, India, Pakistan, West Indies
Group B: South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, England

Former winners of ICC Champions trophy
1998 - South Africa
2000 - New Zealand
2002 - India and Sri Lanka (Joint Winners)
2004 - West Indies
2006 - Australia

Bangladesh tour of West Indies 2009 Schedule

 

 

Bangladesh Cricket Team will tour Caribbean in early part of July to play two test match series, three ODI’s and only T20I.

Bangladesh tour will begin from 3^rd of July with the three day tour game. First match of the two match test series will begin from 9^th of July at St. Vincent Stadium. 2^nd Test match will be played at Grenada from 17^th to 21^st of July.

Just after two match test series Bangladesh will play three ODI’s on 26^th, 28^th, and 31^st of July and final their tour will conclude with one of Twenty20 Internationals which will be played on 2^nd of August at St Kitts.

Bangladesh v West Indies Fixtures (All timings are mentioned in GMT+05:30)

Fri 3 July - Sun 5 July

19:30 PM

Tour Game – Bangladesh v TBC

Barbados

Thu 9 July - Mon 13 July

19:30 PM

1^st Test – Bangladesh v West Indies

Arnos Vale Ground, Kingstown, St Vincent

Fri 17 July - Tue 21 July

19:30 PM

2^nd Test – Bangladesh v West Indies

National Cricket Stadium, St George's, Grenada

Fri 24 July

19:00 PM

Tour Game – Bangladesh v TBC

Dominica

Sun 26 July

19:00 PM

1^st ODI – Bangladesh v West Indies

Windsor Park, Roseau, Dominica

Tue 28 July

19:00 PM

2^nd ODI – Bangladesh v West Indies

Windsor Park, Roseau, Dominica

Fri 31 July

19:00 PM

3^rd ODI – Bangladesh v West Indies

Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts

Sun 2 Aug

23:30 PM

Only T20I – Bangladesh v West Indies

Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts

Australia tour of England – the Ashes, 2009

 

 

Australia will tour England for Ashes series in June 2009 after twenty20 World Cup event. Australia will have a very long tour including five test match, eights one day internationals and two twenty20 internationals.

Australia Vs England Schedule (All timing are mentioned in GMT+05:30)

Wed 24 Jun – Sat 27 Jun

15:30 PM

Australia v Sussex

County Ground, Hove

Wed 1 Jul – Sat 4 Jul

15:30 PM

Australia v England Lions

County Ground, New Road, Worcester

Wed 8 Jul – Sun 12 Jul

15:30 PM

1^st Test - Australia v England

Sophia Gardens, Cardiff

Thu 16 Jul - Mon 20 Jul

15:30 PM

2^nd Test - Australia v England

Lord's, London

Fri 24 Jul – Sun 26 Jul

15:30 PM

Australia v Northamptonshire

County Ground, Northampton

Thu 30 Jul – Mon 3 Aug

15:30 PM

3^rd Test - Australia v England

Edgbaston, Birmingham

Fri 7 Aug – Tue 11 Aug

15:30 PM

4^th Test - Australia v England

Headingley, Leeds

Sat 15 Aug – Sun 16 Aug

15:30 PM

Kent v Australia

St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury

Thu 20 Aug – Mon 24 Aug

15:30 PM

5^th Test - Australia v England

Kennington Oval, London

Fri 28 Aug

15:15 PM

Only ODI - Australia v Scotland

Grange Cricket Club Ground, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh

Sun 30 Aug

19:30 PM

1^st T20I – Australia v England

Old Trafford, Manchester

Tue 1 Sep (D/N)

23:30 PM

2^nd T20I – Australia v England

Old Trafford, Manchester

Fri 4 Sep (D/N)

19:00 PM

1^st ODI – Australia v England

Kennington Oval, London

Sun 6 Sep

15:15 PM

2^nd ODI – Australia v England

Lord's, London

Wed 9 Sep (D/N)

19:00 PM

3^rd ODI – Australia v England

The Rose Bowl, Southampton

Sat 12 Sep

15:15 PM

4^th ODI – Australia v England

Lord's, London

Tue 15 Sep (D/N)

19:00 PM

5^th ODI – Australia v England

Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Thu 17 Sep (D/N)

19:00 PM

6^th ODI – Australia v England

Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Sun 20 Sep

15:15 PM

7^th ODI – Australia v England

Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street

Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka 2009 Schedule

Pakistan Cricket Team will travel to Sri Lanka in late June just after twenty20 World Cup to play three match Test Series, Five One Day Internationals and only Twenty20 international.

Pakistan tour will begin from 29^th June with the three day tour game. First match of the three match test series will begin from 4^th of July in Galle International Stadium. 2^nd Test match will be played at P Sara Oval Colombo from 12^th to 16^th of July and third and final test match will be played from 20^th July to 24^th July at SSC, Colombo.

Pakistan will then move on to play 50 over game. The first three ODI will be played at Dambulla on 30^th July, 1^st August and 3^rd August and last two ODI’s and only T20 International will be played on 7^th, 9^th and 12^th of August at R.Premdasa Stadium Colombo which will be Day/Night Encounter.

Pakistan v Sri Lanka Fixtures (All timings are mentioned in GMT+05:30)

Mon 29 June - Wed 1 July

10:00 AM

Tour Game - Pakistan v TBC

Nondescripts Cricket Club Ground, Colombo

Sat 4 July - Wed 8 July

10:00 AM

1^st Test – Pakistan v Sri Lanka

Galle International Stadium

Sun 12 July - Thu 16 July

10:00 AM

2^nd Test – Pakistan v Sri Lanka

P Sara Oval, Colombo

Mon 20 July - Fri 24 July

10:00 AM

3^rd Test – Pakistan v Sri Lanka

Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo

Mon 27 July

09:30 AM

Tour Game - Pakistan v TBC

Welagedara Stadium, Kurunegala

Thu 30 July

09:30 AM

1^st ODI – Pakistan v Sri Lanka

Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium

Sat 1 Aug

09:30 AM

2^nd ODI – Pakistan v Sri Lanka

Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium

Mon 3 Aug

09:30 AM

3^rd ODI – Pakistan v Sri Lanka

Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium

Fri 7 Aug (D/N)

14:30 PM

4^th ODI – Pakistan v Sri Lanka

R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sun 9 Aug (D/N)

14:30 PM

5^th ODI – Pakistan v Sri Lanka

R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Wed 12 Aug (D/N)

18:00 PM

Only T20I – Pakistan v Sri Lanka

R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

India-Sri Lanka-New Zealand Triangular Series Schedule

 

Indian team after a long break from International Cricket will start their busy schedule with the short triangular series in Sri Lanka. New Zealand will be third team to participate in the triangular Series.

Each team will play with each other once and top two teams will play final at R.Premdasa Stadium in Colombo.

The tri-series will begin with the game against New Zealand and Sri Lanka which will be played on 8^th of September. India will take on the host Sri Lanka in their first game of the triangular-series on 10^th of September, 2009. On 12^th of September India will play against New Zealand to decide the Finalist of tri-series.

All the games will be played at R.Premdasa Stadium, Colombo.

Triangular Series 2009 Fixtures (India, Sri Lanka and New Zealand) (All timings are mentioned in GMT+05:30)

Tue 8 Sep (D/N)

14:30 PM

1^st Game – Sri Lanka v New Zealand

Premadasa stadium, Colombo

Thu 10 Sep (D/N)

14:30 PM

2^nd Game – India v Sri Lanka

Premadasa stadium, Colombo

Sat 12 Sep (D/N)

14:30 PM

3^rd Game – India v New Zealand

Premadasa stadium, Colombo

Mon 14 Sep (D/N)

14:30 PM

Final

Premadasa stadium, Colombo

Reliance ICC Ranking of the Player and Teams for ODI and Test Cricket April 2009

Reliance ICC Ranking for Top 10 Cricket Team in ODI

Rank Team            Rating

1    South Africa     126

2      Australia        122

3       India              122

4   New Zealand     112

5     Pakistan          111

6    England           109

7    Sri Lanka         105

8  West Indies        90

9   Bangladesh        46

10  Zimbabwe        23

11   Ireland            19

12   Kenya               0

Reliance ICC Ranking for Top 10 Batsman in ODI

Rank  Name   Country  Rating

1    M.S.Dhoni  India     828

2  Yuvraj Singh India    784

3 S.ChanderpaulWest Indies770

4Chris GayleWest Indies767

4M.HusseyAustralia767

6AB DevilliersSouth Africa752

7V.SehwagIndia732

8G.SmithSouth Africa731

9H.GibbsSouth Africa712

10J.KallisSouth Africa707

Reliance ICC Ranking for Top 10 Bowler in ODI

RankNameCountryRating

1N.KulaskaraSri Lanka724

2K.MillsNew Zealand697

3M.MuralidaranSri Lanka696

4D.VettoriNew Zealand694

5Shakib Al HasanBangladesh687

6N.BrackenAustralia677

7M.JohnsonAustralia672

8M.MortazaBangladesh671

9S.AfridiPakistan660

9S.BroadEngland660

Reliance ICC Ranking for Top 10 Cricket Team in Test Cricket

RankTeamRating

1Australia128

2South Africa119

3India117

4Sri Lanka108

5Pakistan101

6England100

7West Indies85

8New Zealand82

Reliance ICC Ranking for Top 10 Batsman in Test Cricket

RankName Country Rating

1Younus Khan Pakistan880

2K.SangakaraSri Lanka854

3G.GambhirIndia847

4S.ChanderpaulWest Indies834

5M.JayawardneSri Lanka821

6R.PontingAustralia785

7G.SmithSouth Africa782

8M.ClarkAustralia776

9K.PietersenEngland768

10J.KallisSouth Africa755

Reliance ICC Ranking for Top 10 Bowler in Test Cricket

RankNameCountryRating

1M. MuralidaranSri Lanka855

2D.StyenSouth Africa844

3M.JohnsonAustralia807

4S.ClarkAustralia760

5M.NitiniSouth Africa741

6H.SinghIndia735

7J.AndersenEngland677

8P.HarrisSouth Africa669

9C.VaasSri Lanka664

10B.LeeAustralia653