Cricket News-in-Brief - August 23, 2011 – Part 3
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after the team failed to save the last Test of the four-match series at Oval on Monday, August 22, 2011.
The tourists were in a very good position to save the humiliation of a whitewash, but failed to put up a fight against the English team.
According to Engineer, the conditions at Oval were similar to the Indian conditions and the batsmen should have been able to survive the day.
Pakistan’s skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Waqar-Younis-Maitla-c96193,
who will not be a part of the team after the completion of the Zimbabwean tour.
Younis praised the efforts of Waqar with the team, saying that the legend did a fabulous job for the team. However, he stated that it would be a big mistake to underestimate the Zimbabwean side, which has recently been doing well in international cricket.
On the other hand, Misbah declared Waqar’s resignation as a shock for the entire team, but was looking forward to do his best in order to pay tribute to the legend.
Former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Test rankings for the next five years at-least. His comments came after the Poms crushed the Indian team 4-0 in a one-sided series.
Botham praised the all-round effort of his side and stated that the flexibility in the English line-up has helped the team gain success in the recent times.
The legendary all-rounder further praised England’s coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Flower-c44362 for doing a spectacular job until now.
Former Indian opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556 would not have liked his 100th century to come in a lost encounter.
The Little Master was undone by an in swinging delivery by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TT-Bresnan-c2711 on the final day’s play at the Oval.
Tendulkar got out after collecting 91 runs and India went onto lose the match by an innings and eight runs.
Gavaskar said that it was just a matter of time when Tendulkar reaches his 100th international century. The veteran batsman had eight outings against England in four Test matches, but managed to score just a couple of half-centuries.
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