Live Score card of Pakistan tour of England, 1st Test at Nottingham!

Unpredictable Anderson finds his birthday best

The second day at Trent Bridge was James Anderson's 28th birthday, and it began for him in a somewhat lugubrious fashion. Before the start of play he was serenaded by his tuneless team-mates and presented with a cupcake by two of the press photographers, a pair of gestures that left him more bemused than touched. His mood had not improved by the time Mohammad Asif pinned him lbw for a first-ball duck - his second in four home Tests and, after a memorable run of 54 duckless innings from his debut in 2003, his third blob in the space of 11 months.

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Score card of India in Sri Lanka Test Series - 2nd Test!

Teams play out high-scoring draw

The second Test laboured to its predictable end but not without some encouraging signs for India on the final day. The tenth-wicket pair of Ishant Sharma and Pragyan Ojha, who had offered resistance in Galle, repeated the feat with more ease and kept the Sri Lankan bowlers at bay for 27.1 overs before the Indian bowlers, who have been dominated in this series, took three wickets, auguring well for the final Test at the P Sara Stadium.

The start to the Sri Lankan second innings, however, gave little indication that India's bowlers would do better. The seamers often dropped short and Tharanga Paranavitana promptly slashed both Abhimanyu Mithun and Ishant Sharma for boundaries through point. He also cashed in when the ball was pitched up, driving Ishant confidently down the ground. Mithun got a bit of movement with the new ball and beat Paranavitana on a couple of occasions, but it was a short delivery that earned him a breakthrough as Tillakaratne Dilshan mistimed a pull to midwicket. More updates please visit here

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Live Score card of India in Sri Lanka Test Series - 1st Test!

On the first day, the pitch looked flat, the bowling insipid and the Sri Lankan batsmen were queuing up to have a go at the Indians. Everything changed today. Yesterday's storms and overnight rains had left a damp and seaming pitch and the Indians were on song today. After a long time Ishant Sharma looked threatening as a bowler. It was that kind of a morning. Unexpected things happened. The ball talked. The Indians smiled. And Ishant roared. However, it wasn't all gloom for Sri Lanka. Angelo Mathews sparkled with a lovely cameo and Sri Lanka moved past 350 which can be a daunting total in these conditions.

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Live Score card of 2nd Ipl match between Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals!

Ambati Rayudu, considered unlucky to have not played for India yet, combined with Jharkhand youngster Saurabh Tiwary to help Mumbai Indians recover from a triple-strike in the first third of the innings, and took the hosts to an imposing total, their highest. Rayudu and Tiwary added 110 runs in 63 balls, making light of the loss of Sanath Jayasuriya, Sachin Tendulkar and young wicketkeeper Aditya Tare in three overs after a flier from the top order took them to 70 in 6.3.

Shane Warne didn't have to wait too long to find out if Tendulkar "will open and face [Shaun] Tait. Or drop himself down order and let others take on Tait". It was actually Warne who made Mumbai wait, by giving the first over to Dimitri Mascarenhas. Jayasuriya tucked into gentle-paced length bowling, and Tendulkar took Tait apart. Off the four balls that Tait bowled to Tendulkar, 10 runs came, included two flicked boundaries. His four overs would go for 46 runs. Live score please visit here and please click here for more updates.

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Live Score card of 1st Ipl match between Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knight Riders!

The first match of Indian Premier League session third is scheduled in between Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knight Riders today at Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai on 12 March 2010 - day/night (20-over match) .

Result :~ Kolkata Knight Riders won by 11 runs.
Toss :~ Deccan Chargers, who chose to field.
Player of the match:~ AD Mathews (Kolkata Knight Riders)

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Live Score card of India Vs. Sri Lanka at Rajkot!

After a one-sided Test series and an even Twenty20 contest, during which flat pitches and big bats rendered the spinners ineffective, India and Sri Lanka embark upon a five-match ODI series beginning in Rajkot. Chastened by a 2-0 defeat in the Tests, Sri Lanka have a shot at redemption during this final leg of the tour.

The focus will be on Kumar Sangakkara and how he backs his talk with leadership and runs - he did thump exceptional fifties in the Twenty20s. The most interesting sub-plots of the series, though, should be the return of Zaheer Khan to 50-over cricket, and Sanath Jayasuriya's expected move down to the middle order. Jayasuriya's equation in the middle order - where he has not batted regularly since the early 1990s - and his role with the ball as Sri Lanka nurse Muttiah Muralitharan back will be crucial if Sri Lanka are to compete with India. For Sri Lanka these five matches provide an opportunity to assess their one-day prospects and identify areas they need to work on. Match preview by cricinfo

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Live Score card of India Vs. Sri Lanka 3rd day of the final test!

The 3rd day of final Test Match of the Sri lanka tour of India is scheduled in between India and Sri Lanka today at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai, on December 04, 2009.

Arguments about Muttiah Muralitharan's declining effectiveness can wait for another time. This was a day instead to marvel at the magnificence of a man who defies any sort of categorisation or pigeon-holing. Cricket is a non-contact sport, but watching Virender Sehwag bat is as visceral an experience as watching Muhammad Ali dominate the ring in his prime. On Thursday afternoon, Sehwag toyed with the greatest offspinner to play the game as though he were some glorified net bowler. He might as well have been, as India overhauled Sri Lanka's total of 393 in 67.5 overs. But for back spasms that restricted him to a more mortal scoring-rate in the last half hour, Sehwag might have become only the second batsman after Sir Donald Bradman to score 300 runs in a day.

Each monumental Sehwag innings has left a trail of destruction in its wake. At the MCG in 2003, it was Stuart MacGill's turn to look like a pie-thrower as he galloped to 195 in just five hours. In Multan, Shoaib Akhtar was reduced to feeble sledges. Sehwag's response was just to compare him to a beggar. In Chennai against the best Australian side ever, he careered to 155 on a pitch where few others had managed any sort of fluency. In front of the imposing Galle Fort last year, he dictated the course of a Test with an innings that combined absolute control and appetite for destruction with admirable restraint. Article by Cricinfo.

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