Hurricanes overcome Brisbane Heat – Cricket News Roundup – Part 3 – December 9, 2012
An unbeaten half-century from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Travis-Birt-c2707 allowed Hobart Hurricanes to overcome Brisbane Heat’s stiff target of 173 in the Big Bash game, played at Gabba.
Opting to bat first, the Heat piled on a reasonable total on the board, courtesy strong displays from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Daniel-Christian-c1308 ( 49). Thisara Perera, the team’s overseas Sri Lankan player, also played his part with an 8-ball 22-run cameo.
However, the Hurricanes achieved victory comfortably, with all batters contributing. Openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/OA-Shah-c2134 stood in an unbeaten partnership of 95 to help their side claim an easy 6-wicket win.
England completed an overwhelming seven-wicket victory against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 at Kolkata to win the third Test and take an unbeatable 2-1 lead in the four-match series.
It took the tourists just 55 minutes to wrap things up after the Men in Blue resumed their second innings from 239 for 9. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JM-Anderson-c1705.
Despite the Indians picking up three quick wickets, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AN-Cook-c1026 was named as the Player of the Match for his impressive 190-run effort. The final Test will be played at Nagpur from Thursday.
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The tourists performed poorly with the bat, and were restricted on a lowly 217. In reply, the Bengali Tigers were halted early on before the middle-order came to the party and guided the team to an impressive series win.
The defeat has taken the gloss off a promising year in Windies cricket, in which they lifted the World T20 trophy, and further claimed four consecutive Test wins. "We haven't played our best cricket in this series but we still were in with a chance to win the series. I would never blame anyone. This has been a good year for us. We would have loved to win this series but we didn't."
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