Windies’ main aim is to avoid whitewash: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DJ-Bravo-c1379 – Cricket News Roundup – June 20, 2012 – Part 3
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 vice-captain Dwayne Bravo has insisted that his team’s main focus, when going into the final ODI of a 3-match series which they are losing 0-2, will be to avoid a whitewash.
“... that will be our focus and our aim, to try and win the last game and try and avoid a three-nil. I think that should be our aim at this moment,” he stressed. “... to lose the ODI series, I am very disappointed. We have a very good team and I think we
should have given a better showing of ourselves,” Bravo said.
The Windies’ ODI squad was touted as far stronger than their Test XI, and also featured the returning http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CH-Gayle-c1221. However, things did not go their way, as the Windies lost the first match by a shocking 114-run margin, with Gayle sitting out owing to injury.
While the Jamaican batsman was included in the playing XI for the second match, the visitors were still unable to attain the increasingly elusive victory, and lost by 8 wickets. They have a last chance to redeem themselves and avoid a series whitewash in
the final ODI, scheduled to be played on June 22 at Leeds.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Iftikhar-Ali-Khan-Pataudi-Nawab-of-c64075 Cummins will form the core of the team’s bowling attack in the future.
“I think both of them could be once-in-a-generation players,” Hussey said. “I think they could carry Australia's attack for the next 10-12 years.”
Both Pattinson (22-years-old) and Cummins (19-years-old) have impressive international debuts to their credit and have been included in the squad for Australia’s upcoming ODI tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013. They will be working to make an impression alongside more senior
pacers such as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mickey-Arthur-c1969 has insisted that the England tour offers younger players the opportunity to “make their mark and show us they belong.”
Indian batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yuvraj-Singh-c98364, who returned to India earlier this year after receiving chemotherapy treatment in the US for a rare germ cell tumour between his lungs, has stated that he plans to return to cricket in time for the ICC World Twenty20
2012.
“Hopefully I should be back by then” he posted during a Twitter interview with the International Cricket Council, in response to a question about the possibility of his participation in the upcoming http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Twenty20 in September this year.
Following his recovery and return to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750, the 30-year-old has insisted that he aims to return to the cricket field by September this year. Sources close to the player have also revealed that he intends to ease back into cricket by playing in pre-domestic
season tournaments. Yuvraj has also been assessed by a medical team at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore, where he is due to begin fitness drills.
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