Heavy defeat for Australia

Confirmation on the match no:2 between India vs Australia. India won the match by a huge margin of 99 runs. Indian excited their home crowd by both their great spell and also with their devastating batting display. P.Kumar showed some beauty in his spell, he send back the starter T.Paine for 12 by bowling a full toss delivery to off stump which hits the stumps in force. I. Sharma in his start of his spell, he bowled a bounce ball and picked up the dangerous Shane Watson's wicket. P.Kumar kept the momentum going, by pitching the ball again in to the batsmen and got vital Ricky Ponting's wicket. C.White went for 23, when he attempts to flick the ball. Mr.cricket Hussey played some good shot even though he was resulted badly by the brilliance spell by jadeja. Aussies were losing the wickets regularly. The tailanders had nothing to do, they were trying for some old fashion shots, almost the fashion hulk. Nehra not allowed to let them stay for long, he send them by hitting the stump and made them to walk back. At the end of the show, Australia were crushed to 255 all out. The crowds were very happy with the Indians performance. The only thing which went against India is the toss, nothing else.

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India posts a massive target

In the 2nd ODI between India Vs Australia, Ponting won the toss and invited India to bat. India dropped V.Kholi and he was replaced by Yuvraj in the team after his injury. V. Shewag started off the innings by making quick 40, Sachin missed out again. Gautham Gambhir sets the platform for India, by his consecutive 50. After a while, G.Gambhir was looking for the single, but got out unfortunately by the brilliance in the fielding department. Dhoni was looking for the single of every delivery and he maintained the run rate at the steady state of 6 runs/over. Raina on the other end, was hitting the ball harder right from his start, but the Australian bowlers are outsmarting the Indian batsmen's. Raina timed his incoming ball desperately and hammer into some fours. Surprisingly, the recent calm Dhoni was playing some incredible shots and a good way for him to bring his century with a stunning six at straight. After his ton also he continued his devastated innings. The big crowd was really delighted with the raining 4's and 6's. The 6's battle by the Indian players helped India to get the highest total against Australia. Till to the end, the smash back shots was continued flowing and finally they sets to post 354 for 7 on board.

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NSW wins CLT20 trophy

No Deccan, no RCB and no delhi its true reflection of Australian grit. New South Wales are the winners of the 1st edition CLT20 Tournament. NSW had a clash with T&T in finals at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad. T&T was popular and unbeaten throughout this tournament. T&T won the toss and elected to field. NSW opened their innings with D. Warner and P.Hughes. They both gave a good start throughout this tournament. But, T&T stuck early by sending Hughes for 3 bowled by Ravi Rampaul. S.Katich joined Warner, he welcomed bravo with a six, but not stayed there much, he caught by A.Barath for a leading edge. Even though, NSW were losing the wickets regularly the man who changed the entire course of the match is B.Lee. He hit five massive sixes and he was regularly teasing the fielders in the boundary line. B.Lee's sensational and crucial innings moved him to quick 48 . A good supporting role to B.Lee by S.Smith, he scored 33 runs of 24 balls. They made a big difference to the finals by their rescue of bringing the match from 83/6 to 159/9.

T&T were set to chase down the target of 160. The starters of T&T were crushed by B.Lee's storm and he picked up two wickets in his first two overs. All look happened in T&T innings, boundaries, sixes and wickets. T&T was not allowed to consolidate with the partnership. The hero of T&T D.Bravo started the innings with his counter attack in a good touch, he was playing so well but gone for 17 by a stunning surprised delivery by Doug Bollinger. T&T were in need off somebody to steady their sailing ship. But the fact of this final changed so quickly in a matter of overs. NSW beats T&T by 41 Runs And wins The CLT20 1st edition title. Its all the experience of NSW matters in this match.

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Man of the Match: B.LEE

RCB bounce back against Volts

Royal Challengers Bangalore faced a must win game at tonight to progress into the next round. Captain Kumble won the toss and elected to bat first. The kind of start contributed by Jallis and Robin Uthappa delighted the crowd on a high. Kallis played some great cricket shots with lots of power. Jointed by Uthappa who anchored the innings he move on to overwhelming 42 runs off 31 balls. Virat Kholi, the under 19 world cup captain also played some devastating innings, followed up by Ross Taylor. He played some cracking shots and move on to quick 32 runs off just 11 balls. All the top four RCB players had a move on and made the team on a high with 188 for 2 on board.

Volts faces the target to get 189 from their 20 overs. If Volts lose this match they have to fly back home. So, The team were in very much need of a big innings from the experienced McCullum. But he taken the team to a lazy start. Kallis looked also dominating in his bowl there. He took all the top three slot batsman's wickets, McCullum caught by Kumble on 5, Redmond caught at short covers by uthappa on 11 and Rutherford caught well by kumble at mid- off region on 14. RCB made no mistake, they were outstanding with the bat, tight in their field and well controlled in their bowling department too. They crushed volts for 108 all out.

Man of the Match: J.Kallis

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