Cricket News-in-Brief - December 20, 2011 – Part 3
Australia’s coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RT-Ponting-c2377 will only be with the team if he scores runs
against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 in the upcoming four match Test series, starting from Monday, December 26, 2011.
Ponting has been performing well in limited-over cricket, but has struggled to score runs in the longest version of the game. His last Test ton came almost two years back and the Indian series will determine his future.
Arthur believes that the presence of the veteran cricketer is extremely important for the future of Australian cricket, but wants him to get rid of the poor run of form since the past couple of years.
The coach from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MEK-Hussey-c1942, but has also clarified that their participation in the Boxing Day Test is not certain, as the team combination is not yet finalised.
Arthur went onto say that it will be a big bonus for the Kangaroos if the senior members start delivering and guide the youngsters to do well.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 were all out for 470 runs against Bangladesh in the final Test of the two match series at the Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur in Dhaka on Tuesday, December 20, 2011.
The tourists gained a first innings lead of 132 runs, which can prove to be a very good one, considering the nature of the Dhaka wicket.
Pakistan’s opening batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taufeeq-Umar-c92889 proved to be the main stay for the team, scoring 130 runs in the innings. He batted solidly and built some very good partnerships with the middle-order batsmen.
Other than that, the skipper of the team http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Misbah-ul-Haq-c1972 played a decent knock of 70 runs. He has been doing a great job both as a leader and middle-order batsman.
For http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747, Shakib-Al-Hasan was the star of the show, bagging six wickets.
India’s promising spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Ashwin-c2228 has claimed that he is ready to take on the Aussies
in the upcoming four match Test series.
Ashwin performed well during the three-day practice game against the Cricket http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 Chairman’s XI, taking four wickets.
The right-arm spinner had a tremendous debut series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 recently and will be looking to carry onto the same momentum against the Kangaroos as well.
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