England brings glory by retaining Ashes

England thrashed the Aussie’s in the fourth test to retain the Ashes for the first time in 24 years in Australia. This was an exciting cricket contest put up by England to win by an innings and 157 runs, it’s also amongst the biggest defeats Australia have witnessed.

The stage was set by the England bowler’s in the first innings by bowling Australia out for just 98 runs and then putting up 513 with the help of Trott and other batmen. Australia was expected to give a better fight but they couldn’t stand in front of the great bowling performance showed by the England bowlers.

Haddin and Siddle prolonged the defeat a bit by putting up a much required 86 run stand. England is now 2-1 ahead in the series with one more game to go to decide the fate of Australia. There will be many questions asked from the Australian side after the end of the Ashes series.

World Cup 2011 is just a couple of weeks ahead and with current form of the Australian team can they still be considered favourites in the international cricket. Is it time for Ponting to end up his Captainship or is he going to comeback like a champion again as he has showed earlier as well. Well, for all that we will have to catch the next cricket game of Ashes till then stay tuned for the latest updates. 

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India levels series with South Africa

India won the Durban test in an exciting game of cricket presented by both the teams. India’s loss at Centurion was a shameful defeat but they equalled the series by winning the Durban test in style leaving the final test as the series decider at Cape Town. South Africa would be now disappointed with their strong batting line up failing to India’s tight and ruthless bowling.

The pitch of Durban was a good wicket for an exciting cricket, India and South Africa lived up to the expectations of the fans in setting up a thrilling encounter, with both the teams well placed in the game on the start of the fourth day. South Africa had a fair chance to win the test with 7 wickets in hand on the fourth day but Indian bowlers were extremely focussed on their task and rarely gave a bad ball.

Sreesanth looked in a great touch and did the damage of the morning by removing Kallis of a bouncer, the period of falling wickets continued and India clinched the game pretty easily in the end. Prince managed to hang around the wicket till the very end but didn’t got support from the other end. India managed a comprehensive win seeing the World Cup approaching, the win will just make India more focussed on international cricket. 

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