Cricket News-in-Brief - October 31, 2011 – Part 3
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TM-Dilshan-c2691 has blamed his side’s batting for the loss against Pakistan
in the second Test of the three match series at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033 (UAE).
Dilshan was pleased with the performance of his bowlers, saying that they did a decent job on batting friendly pitches. However, he stressed that batsmen need to apply themselves in order to bounce back in the final Test.
Sri Lanka are yet to win a Test match under their newly appointed skipper, who has led the team in eight games until now.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ashraf-c46397 is likely to make some changes in the board.
He has taken over from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128, who remained chairman from 2008 to 2011.
Earlier, it was expected that former Test batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Salim-c88143 Altaf was now likely to be appointed as COO.
Australia’s young all-rounder http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mitchell-Marsh-c1974 has set his sights on a Test match call
after he was included in the Twenty20 and One Day International (ODI) squads on the tour to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757.
The 20-year-old admitted that he will have to work extremely hard in order to make it to the longest version of the game. However, he was confident of achieving his goal after working hard on form and fitness.
England’s pacer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750
in a recently concluded ODI series.
The Poms have taken the top spot in both Test and Twenty20 team rankings released by the International Cricket Council (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625).
According to Bresnan this was a tremendous achievement for the team and everyone was looking forward to continue playing positive cricket.
Australia’s star middle-order batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Clarke-c1978 had full support of the team members.
According to Hussey, if anyone wants to represent the national side, he must have respect for the captain.
The solid batsman praised the role of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 as captain and said that he has become a mature cricketer since taking charge of the team.
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