Pakistan Vs West Indies Test Series

Pakistan Vs West Indies Test Series

Pakistan has already won the ODI series winning the first three matches on the trot. After the conclusion of 5 matches ODI series, these two teams will play a test series. Following is the test series schedule:-

1st Test - Guyana - May 12 to May 16

2nd Test - St Kitts - May 20 to May 24

After the conclusion of Pakistan's tour to West Indies; India will tour West Indies in the month of June.

IPL fever continues

People speculated that this year IPL won't be that successful simply because of the recent conclusion of the World Cup. The biggest reason for this speculation was that people saw loads of exciting matches in the World Cup and the Indian fans could see their long awaited dream come true after the World Cup victory, so probably the passion must have reached a saturation point. This could have been the reason for such speculations regarding IPL 2011.

Well things have changed after first few matches of IPL. Slowly again this great game of cricket has catched all eyeballs. Thanks to some exciting matches in this year's IPL. A team like Mumbai Indians have been purely dominant so far leading the points tally. Defending champions Chennai Super Kings have slowly got their rhythm back and they are climbing up the points tally too. Some teams have obtained a mixed success.

Overall things are proceeding very well as IPL leads to the next round. In short we could say the cricket fever is still alive and continues to entertain the cricket fans currently in the form of IPL.

Pakistan Clinches the ODI Series

Still two matches to go but the result is already in front of us. Simply because the first three ODI matches are won by Pakistan. Disappointment continues for West Indies cricket team. After winning the one and only T20, West Indies couldn't regain the form and Pakistan continued to win.


In the third ODI played here at Bridgetown in Barbados; West Indies batted first and could only manage 171 runs in their alloted 45 overs. The opener Simmons scored 51 and Bravo was the next highest scorer with 47 runs. Riaz and Ajmal took 3 wickets each.


Was a rather comfortable win for Pakistan as they reached the target in the 41st over with 3 wickets in hand. Misbah continued his consistency with another half century. He scored 62 not out. He was declared Man of the match for this game. From West Indies, Bishoo claimed 3 wickets while Rampaul was impressive with 4 wickets at an economy rate of just above 3.5


The next two matches are to be played on 2nd May and 5th May which would be followed by a test series. Keep yourself updated with our live cricket online news.

Duncan Fletcher appointed as the coach of India

After the successful stint of Gary Kirsten as the coach of India, speculations were high regarding who would be the next coach of team India. The speculations come to an end, as Duncan Fletcher is named as the new Indian cricket team coach for two years. At the same time Eric Simons' term as the bowling coach is extended.

It is likely that Fletcher will join the team after the tour to West Indies. Fletcher's age is 62. He had a long tenure of eight years as England's coach. The biggest achievement in his tenure was the Ashes triumph of 2005. This was the triumph when England managed to win Ashes after 1986-87. He started the coaching for England team from 1999. He coached the team along with Nasser Hussain and Michael Vaughan as captains.

He gets the credit of changing fortunes of England team in the test cricket as the team saw test series wins against Sri Lanka, Pakistan, South Africa and Australia in his tenure. 0-5 Ashes loss in 2006-07 and early exit from 2007 World Cup resulted in his resignation.

Now he would be handling a team which is ranked number one in Test rankings and has just won the ODI world cup.

Fastest Century in all forms of International Cricket

Isn't it exciting to see a batsman scoring a century at a lightning speed? Yes it is. And batsmen are becoming more and more quicker in terms of scoring runs with incredible strike rates. 

Let us have a look at the fastest centuries in all forms of International Cricket.

1) Test Cricket:-

Vivian Richards scored a century in 56 balls playing for West Indies against England (1985-86)

2) One Day International:-

Shahid Afridi scored 102 in just 37 balls playing for Pakistan against Sri Lanka (1996)

3) T20 International:-

Two batsmen share this honour:

Chris Gayle scored a ton in 50 balls playing for West Indies against South Africa (2007-08)

Branden McCullum in 50 balls playing for New Zealand against Australia (2009-10)

The Rose Bowl will finally host a Test Match

The beautiful stadium of Rose Bowl finally gets a Test match. England is scheduled to play three test matches against Sri Lanka. The test series begins from May 26th at Cardiff. The second test is to be played at Lord's. The third and the final one would be hosted at the Rose Bowl.

Let us know something more about this beautiful venue for cricket.

This stadium was built in 2001. It has floodlight facility so it can host day and night matches too. Seating capacity is somewhere around 20,000. It is the home ground of Hampshire.

Although the ground was established in the year 2001 but the first ODI was played in 2003 between Zimbabwe and South Africa. It has also hosted T20 matches, the first being in 2005 between England and Australia.

Highest ODI total on this ground is 290 for 4 scored by India against Kenya in 2004. The highest T20 total on this ground was scored by England 179 for 8 in 2005 against Australia.

Finally this stadium gets an opportunity to host a test match. Also an ODI will be played here between England and India on 6th September.

Pakistan wins the ODI series opener

When others got a start but failed to capitalise, it was a brave effort from D. Bravo who scored 67 off 109 balls to take West Indies to a respectable total of 221. But the efforts fell short as Pakistan easily scored the target in 41.3 overs.

For Pakistan it was M Hafeez and A Shehzad who opened the innings and scored 54 and 22 respectively. Just after the fall of openers' wickets, Pakistani batsmen Shafiq and Misbah-Ul-Haq stood firm on the crease to take Pakistan to victory. Shafiq stood unbeaten on 61 and Misbah on 73. It was Bishoo who could manage to claim two wickets of Pakistani openers. Rest of the bowlers were mere spectators.