Cricket News-in-Brief - December 22, 2011 – Part 3
Legendary spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750’s bowlers need to be fit
in order to take on Australia in the upcoming four match Test series, starting from Monday, December 26, 2011 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
According to Warne, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/I-Sharma-c1566 should be fully fit otherwise the Indian bowling attack will be vulnerable against the strong Aussie batting.
Both the tourists’ pacers have had several injury problems and will find it extremely challenging to represent their side in four Test matches on the trot.
Zaheer broke down during a four-match Test series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 this year and will be making a comeback in the Boxing Day match. He will be the key for his side alongside Sharma, who had an ankle injury while bowling in a practice game against the Cricket
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 Chairman’s XI in Canberra.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 have reached the fifth spot in ICC’s Test team rankings
after performing consistently well over the past one year. The team did not suffer a single series loss in the whole year and finally got rewarded after beating Bangladesh comprehensively by 2-0.
The Men in Green played five Test series during 2011 against New Zealand, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747. They only lost a single game against the Caribbean Kings, but managed to win or draw the other ones.
This performance has earned the team some very good points and they will look to continue the momentum in 2012 when the face England for a complete series.
Former Australian player http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Usman-Khawaja-c2729 will be back pretty soon,
as he is an impressive batsman.
The Pakistani-born batsman was dropped from the side after failing to make an impression against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 recently. However, Waugh said that the youngster will get better with time.
Although Waugh felt sorry for Khawaja, he said that the promising player was given a lot of chances, but he failed to capitalise.
Injured Australian batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SE-Marsh-c2470 is confident of recovering
before the Boxing Day Test against India.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757, but has been training hard since then to regain fitness. He has been named in the 13-man squad for the opening Test against India, but his participation in the match will
be subject to fitness.
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