Eoin Morgan is out of the World Cup 2011
England middle order batsman Eoin Morgan is ruled out from upcoming World Cup Cricket for his left hand middle finger injury.
Morgan is the only of Sixth player of team who faced injury and ruled out of the team at the time of Cricketer’s most prestigious game World Cup. Others player’s are allrounder Paul Collingwood, Tim Bresnan, Ajmal Shahjad, Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann facing fitness problem.
Shane Watson is Player of the Year of Australia
Shane Watson wins the AB Medal, Test player and ODI player of the year prize just a few times ago.
Great effort from him. Congratulation Shane !Australia beats England by 57 runs and win the series 6-1
Australia finished a 6-1 series win against England with a 57-run triumph in todays last one-day cricket international in Perth. With a imrpressed 80* from Adam Voges from 72 balls to bring up Australia to 279-7 off its 50 overs. After that England was bowled out for 222 . Yardly’s 60* is the highest individual for England team. Shaun Tait and Mitchell Johnson’s bowling performance confirms the victory for Australia, by taking 3 wickets each.
Australia squads are getting prepared for the upcoming 50-over World Cup which will be co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh from February 19 to April 2.
James Anderson was the best bowler for England today, with 3-48 bowling figure.
I told Dravid not to retire - Ponting
Ricky ponting has said that he encouraged Rahul Dravid to fight through his struggles and continue playing when their sides met in the two-Test series in India last October. Dravid was going through a lean patch at the time - his only century in 2010 up till then had been against Bangladesh and he managed just one half-century during the series against Australia - but Ponting said he urged Dravid to ignore critics who wrote him off.
"I remember after our last series in India there was a lot of talk and speculation about Dravid being finished," Ponting saod . "I actually went and found him at the end of the series and said 'don't you even think about retiring' because I just saw some stuff in a few of his innings that suggested he was still a very, very good player. I just said 'don't let them wear you down, don't let them get you down'. I received a similar text message before and after the Ashes from him as well."
Malinga's absence in Tests leaves a gaping hole
He topped the series bowling charts, taking the most wickets, 11, at the lowest average, 11.45, and for good measure became the first bowler to take three ODI hat-tricks.
So it came as no surprise when Michael Clarke the Australia captain, said he was thankful that his team would not have to cope with Malinga's slinging action and pinpoint yorkers in the Tests. "He is an excellent bowler," Clarke said. "He's got an excellent yorker and an equally good slower ball. I am glad that he is not playing us in the Test series."
In the final one-dayer, Malinga ripped through Australia's lower order to set up a consolation four-wicket win. Australia were in a good position at 210 for 5 in the 45th over when Malinga produced one of his special overs to send back Mitchell Johnson (bowled), John Hastings (lbw) and Xavier Doherty (bowled) to record his third ODI hat-trick.
