India vs South Africa Test Series

INDIA VS SOUTH AFRICA TEST SERIES in India, FEB 2010

India will play two-match Test series against South Africa at Nagpur and Kolkata, and also three one-day internationals during the tour starting February.

Sri Lanka vs Australia Cricket Series 2007

Schedule

Sri Lanka vs Australia Cricket Series 2007

First Test at Brisbane

AUS vs SL, 1st Test: Australia beat Sri Lanka by an innings and 40 runs

Australia has thrashed Sri Lanka by an innings and 40 runs on the fifth day of the first Test at the Gabba.
Paceman Brett Lee took three of the five wickets to fall on the final day which was interrupted twice by rain. Resuming on 5-218 this morning after being asked to follow on, the tourists went to lunch at 9-290 and were soon bowled out for 300 after the break.
Man-of-the-match Lee took 4-86 in the second innings for match figures of 8-112. Leading the attack for the first time since Glenn McGrath's retirement, Lee took the second wicket of the day when the paceman hit the off stump of Farveez Maharoof (18) at 7-259. Maharoof had been unsettled by three short balls earlier in the over and failed to get forward to a leg-cutter.
After a second rain delay, Lee had Chamara Silva caught at third man for 43. Lee took his eighth wicket of the match in his next over, bowling Dilhara Fernando for four as lunch was taken.
Stuart Clark had grabbed his 50th wicket in his 10th Test by removing wicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawardene lbw for one in the sixth over of the day. Clark (2-75) wrapped up the result for Australia, their 13th consecutive Test win, by bowling Muttiah Muralitharan for four 10 minutes after lunch with Chaminda Vaas remaining 11 not out.
Australian leg-spinner Stuart MacGill yesterday reached the 200-wicket milestone in his 41st Test, the equal fourth-fastest in cricket history. Queensland left-arm quick Mitchell Johnson took 2-49 and 2-47 in an encouraging debut.
The two-Test series concludes with the second match in Hobart starting on Friday.

First Test, Brisbane, (day five): Australia 551-4d beat Sri Lanka 211 & 300 by an innings and 40 runs

AUS vs SL, 1st Test: Vandort leads Lankan fightback against Australia

Michael Vandort (82) and skipper Mahela Jayawardane (49) led Sri Lanka's fightback against Australia but the visitors still trailed by 122 runs before bad light forced an early end to the fourth day of the first cricket Test in Brisbane on Sunday.
On a day punctuated by spells of rain, the Lankans, who were forced to follow on after being bundled out for 211 in reply to Australia's first innings total of 551/4 declared, scored 218 of five. Vandort's 170-ball knock, which was his first fifty against Austraia and third overall, included 10 hits to the fence before he became Stuart MacGill's 200th Test victim.
Jayawardane also played a patient innings hitting five fours before departing just one run short of his fifty. The skipper was caught behind by Adam Gilchrist off Mitchell Johnson. Chamara Silva (5) and Prasanna Jayawardene (0) were on crease when play ended for the day.

First Test, Brisbane, day four (stumps): Australia 551-4d v Sri Lanka 211 & 218-5

Sri Lanka vs Australia Cricket Series 2007

First Test at Brisbane

Scores

Australia 1st Innings 551 for 4 (151.0 overs)
Sri Lanka 1st Innings 211 all out (81.5 overs)	Sri Lanka 2nd Innings 300 all out (99.2 overs)

			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Jaques	st P Jayawardene	b Muralitharan	100	203	14	0
Hayden	c Muralitharan	b Vaas	43	63	5	0
Ponting	st P Jayawardene	b Muralitharan	56	85	7	0
Hussey	c Atapattu	b D Fernando	133	249	13	2
Clarke	not out		145	249	14	1
Symonds	not out		53	61	7	0
Extras		4nb 1w 4b 12lb	21
Total		for 4	551	(151.0 ovs)

Bowler O M R W Vaas 28.0 6 102 1 Maharoof 34.0 6 107 0 D Fernando 34.0 3 130 1 Muralitharan 50.0 4 170 2 Jayasuriya 4.0 0 18 0 Samaraweera 1.0 0 8 0

Fall of wicket   69 Hayden 183 Ponting 216 Jaques 461 Hussey

			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Atapattu	c Jaques	b Johnson	51	183	5	0
Jayasuriya	c Gilchrist	b Lee	7	7	1	0
Vandort	c Gilchrist	b Lee	0	12	0	0
M Jayawardene	c Gilchrist	b Clark	14	35	2	0
Samaraweera	c Gilchrist	b Johnson	13	28	2	0
Silva	c Clarke	b Clark	40	45	6	0
P Jayawardene	lbw	b Lee	37	104	5	0
Maharoof		b Symonds	21	54	3	0
Vaas		b MacGill	8	15	2	0
D Fernando	c Johnson	b Lee	7	10	0	0
Muralitharan	not out		6	4	1	0
Extras		6nb 1lb	7
Total		all out	211	(81.5 ovs)

Bowler O M R W Lee 17.5 9 26 4 Johnson 18.0 2 49 2 MacGill 25.0 5 79 1 Clark 16.0 4 46 2 Symonds 5.0 3 10 1

Fall of wicket   7 Jayasuriya 11 Vandort 45 M Jayawardene 65 Samaraweera 119 Silva 153 Atapattu 181 Maharoof 198 Vaas 198 P Jayawardene 211 D Fernando

			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Atapattu	c Gilchrist	b Symonds	16	42	1	1
Jayasuriya	c Ponting	b Lee	39	49	6	1
Vandort		b MacGill	82	170	11	0
M Jayawardene	c Gilchrist	b Johnson	49	119	5	0
Samaraweera	c Hussey	b Johnson	20	65	2	0
Silva	c Hussey	b Lee	43	63	5	0
P Jayawardene	lbw	b Clark	1	21	0	0
Maharoof		b Lee	18	29	4	0
Vaas	not out		11	26	2	0
D Fernando		b Lee	4	6	1	0
Muralitharan		b Clark	4	8	0	0
Extras		6nb 4b 3lb	13
Total		all out	300	(99.2 ovs)

Bowler O M R W Lee 27.0 7 86 4 Johnson 19.0 5 47 2 Clark 22.2 3 75 2 Symonds 6.0 1 21 1 MacGill 25.0 3 64 1

Fall of wicket   53 Atapattu 65 Jayasuriya 167 M Jayawardene 213 Vandort 215 Samaraweera 226 P Jayawardene 259 Maharoof 281 Silva 290 D Fernando 300 Muralitharan

Umpires: A L Hill, R E Koertzen
Australia: Hayden, Jaques, Ponting, Clarke, Symonds, Hussey, Gilchrist, Lee, Johnson, Clark, MacGill
Sri Lanka: Jayasuriya, Atapattu, Vandort, M Jayawardene, Silva, Samaraweera, P Jayawardene, Vaas, D Fernando, Maharoof, Muralitharan