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Battered India hoping for a turnaround in T20 opener

File photo of Indian team members in Australia - AFP

Their reputation bruised and battered after the humiliating loss in the Test series, India will be desperate to turn their fortunes around and restore some pride in the limited overs matches, starting with the first T20 against Australia here on Wednesday.
The Indians slumped to their lowest ebb in the longer version of the last week when Australia mauled the visitors by a 4-0 margin in the Test series.
The drubbing at the hands of Australia was also the current ODI world champion team's eight straight overseas Test defeat following the series loss by identical margin in England last year.
But with some fresh legs -- Suresh Raina, Manoj Tiwary, Praveen Kumar, Irfan Pathan, Parthiv Patel, Ravidra Jadeja and Rahul Sharma -- joining the team for the limited overs matches, Mahendra Singh Dhoni would be hoping for lady luck to smile on him in the first of the two T20 matches on Wednesday ahead of the tri-series, featuring hosts Australia and Sri Lanka.
With India's famed batting line-up failing miserably in the Test series, there is a scramble for early berths in opening Twenty20 match at the ANZ Stadium.
There is competition for each spot in the team, especially after the debacle in the Test series.
The opening duo of Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir have time and again failed to give India a good start in the Test series.
To add to it, skipper Dhoni himself has looked a pale shadow of his former self with the bat as well as his leadership qualities.
But though there is little threat to their positions in the playing eleven as of now, the trio knows it better that it is high time for them to perform or make away for youngsters like Manoj Tiwary and Parthiv Patel, who are waiting in the wings for their opportunity.
Talented Rohit Sharma is at last expected to get a match after spending the entire Test series on the sidelines. Apart from Rohit, the middle-order will have Raina, Virat Kohli and Dhoni with Ravindra Jadeja will play the role of an all-rounder.
India's bowling department will be led by Zaheer Khan. He is expected to have Umesh Yadav and Praveen Kumar for company, even as left-arm pacer Irfan Pathan stands with an outside chance because of his batting abilities and experience of playing in Australian conditions.
Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is expected to spearhead the spin department in Jadeja's company.
But all said and done, one thing that stands against India is their record in T20 format.
India lost three straight games each in the super league stage of the two consecutive T20 World Cups in England and in West Indies in 2009-10 and young batsmen were exposed big time against the short-pitched deliveries.
The Indians were all out on most occasions, despite having a galaxy of batting stas in their ranks.
But thankfully for the Indians, the present Australia T20 squad, under George Bailey, does not have menacing fast bowlers.
There is neither Peter Siddle, Ben Hilfenhaus nor Ryan Harris in the team. The only one with some credentials is veteran Brett Lee, who has long retired from Test cricket.
But young James Faulkner is an unknown entity and is said to be a good left-arm fast bowling all-rounder of Tasmania.
Still, Daniel Christian is highly spoken of and Clint McKay has had a few impressive performances in the recent Big Bash League (BBL).
Australia's biggest advantage going into Wednesday's match is that most of their players can fulfill dual roles.
Out-of-form Shaun Marsh will possibly get one last opportunity to show some spark on Wednesday after his repeated faulures in the Test series, which led to his omission from Australia's ODI yeam.
Shaun's brother, the big-hitting Mitchell Marsh, is also expected to play on Wednesday and will provide Bailey with an all-round option.
Teams (from):
India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, Parthiv Patel, Rahul Sharma, Zaheer Khan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Praveen Kumar, Vinay Kumar, Irfan Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja and Manoj Tiwary.
Australia: George Bailey (capt), David Warner, Travis Birt, Daniel Christian, Xavier Doherty, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, David Hussey, Brett Lee, Clint McKay, Mitchell Marsh, Shaun Marsh, Matthew Wade and Brad Hogg. The match starts at 2.05 pm, IST.

2nd Test: England set target of 145 by Pakistan

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Abu Dhabi: Recalled spinner Monty Panesar took six wickets as England bowled out Pakistan for 214 in their second innings on Saturday, leaving England only 145 runs to win the second Test and square the series.
Pakistan resumed at 125-4 on Day 4 in foggy conditions but were always kept in check by England spinners on a wicket which has lot of encouragement for slow bowlers.

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Panesar removed overnight batsman Asad Shafiq, then Saeed Ajmal, before wrapping up the innings by clean bowling Junaid Khan inside half an hour after lunch.
Earlier, James Anderson took the new ball and claimed the key wicket of Azhar Ali for 68.
In the morning, Ali and Asad Shafiq were pinned down by England's bowlers.
Ali, 46 overnight, waited until the third over before turning Graeme Swann to square leg for two runs to complete his 13th Test half-century.
Shafiq, who celebrated his 26th birthday on Saturday, had to wait for 24 deliveries before he scored his first runs of the day.
Panesar finally broke the 88-run stand when Anderson hold onto a sharp catch at slip to dismiss Shafiq for 43, giving the recalled English off-spinner his fourth wicket of the innings.
Pakistan almost slipped to 160-6 when Australian umpire Steve Davis adjudged Ali lbw off Swann, but TV umpire Billy Bowden overturned the decision as Hawk Eye showed the ball would have turned too much and missed leg stump.
But England did not have to wait too long to get rid of dangerman Ali once they took the second new ball. Anderson banged one in short, which got a faint edge of Ali's bat and flew to wicket-keeper Matt Prior. Ali's 68 included eight fours.
Pakistan soon slipped to 172-7 when Broad won a psychological battle with Adnan Akmal. Just one ball after the pair exchanged words, Akmal tried to drive a wide delivery and was out caught by captain Andrew Strauss.
Pakistan lead the three-match series after winning the first Test by 10 wickets at Dubai last week.

BPL T20 Team Squad-2012

BPL (Bangladesh Premier League) 20-20 2012: Bangladesh announce all the information about BPL 2012 online. BPL hosted by Bangladesh and all the information coming from the Dhaka. this event Players Auction is on Thursday 19th January 2012. BPL (Bangladesh Premier League) players auction most Expensive Players is Sahid Afridi with in US$ bid ends of BooM bOOm is Price $700000.

 BPL T-20 Schedule 2012

Bangladesh Premier League BPL T20 Players Auction 19 January 2012

Here is the players list those are selected in BPL 2012.All the 73 players have seen in BPL 2012.

• Players List For BPL (Bangladesh Premier League) 2012

1. Afridi-Dhaka-700,000
2. Gayle-Barisal-551,000
3. Samuels(WI)-Rajshahi-360,000
4. Pollard-Dhaka-300,000
5. Shoib Malik-Chittagong-150,000.
6. D. Bravo(WI)-Chittagong-150,000
7. Brad Hodge-Barishal-140,000
8. Jayshuria(S.L)- Khulna-110,000
9. Sayeed Ajmal-Chittagong-100,000
10. Muttiah Muralitharan-Chittagong-100,000
11. Abdul Razzak-Rajshahi 100,000
12. Tanvir(Pak)-Sylhet-100,000
13. Naved Ul Hasan(Pak)-Dhaka-100,000
14. Nasir Jamshed-Chittagong-100
15. Kamran Akmal(Pak)-Sylhet-100,000
16. Russel(WI)-Khulna-85,000
17. Imran Nazir-Dhaka-85,000
18. Neil o’brien(IRE)-Khulna-80,000
19. Y. Arafat(pak)-Barishal- 80,000
20. Trego(Eng)-Sylhet-75,000
21. Mohammad Sami-Rajshahi-70,000
22. Malinga(Sri)-60,000
23. Summy(WI)-Sylhet-55,000
24. Ahmed Sehzad(Pak)-Barishal-50,000
25. F. Edwards(WI)-Sylhet-60,000
26. Hogg(Aus)-Sylhet-50,000
27. Chigumbura(ZIM) -Rajshahi-50,000
28. Tahir(S.A-)-Rajshahi-50,000
29. Stuart MacGill (Aus)- Dhaka-50,000
30. Hamid Hossian(Afgan)- Barisal-40,000
31. R. Cheema(Canada)- Rajshahi-25,000
32. Darren Steven(England) – Dhaka-25,000
33. Kevin Cooper-Chittagong-25,000
34. Lendl Simmons-Chittagong-25,000
35. Syed Rasel to Rajshahi for 20,000
36. Aftab Ahmed to Dhaka for 20,000
37. Diman Ghosh to Dhaka for 20,000
38. Shuvagoto Hom to Sylhet for 80,000
39. Nadif Chowdury to Sylhet for 30,000
40. Shohag to Barisal
41. Arafat Sunny to Chittagong for 50,000
42. Mosharraf Hossain to Dhaka for 65,000
43. Nazmul Hossain to Khulna for 35,000
44. Farhad Hossain to Barisal for 20,000
45. Shabbir Rehman to Rajshahi for 40,000
46. Mohminul Hoque to Barisal for 20,000
47. Faisal Hossain to Chittagong for 20,000
48. Mehrab Hossain UNSOLD
49. Rajin Saleh UNSOLD
50. Asif Ahmed UNSOLD
51. Mahmudul Hasan UNSOLD
52. Tusshar Imran UNSOLD
53. Nazmul Hossain Opu to Barisal for 50,000
54. Nur Hossain to Sylhet for 20,000
55. Enamul Hoque Jr. to Chittagon for 55,000
56. Robiul Islam UNSOLD
57. Muktar Ali to Rajshahi for 20,000
58. Al Amin to Barisal for 20,000
59. Mahbubul Alam UNSOLD
60. Dollar Mahmud to Khulna for 20,000
61. Mohammad Sharif UNSOLD
62. Arafat Salauddin to Sylhet for 20,000
63. Ziaur Rahman to Chittagong for 40,000
64. Shamsur Rahman to Chittagong for 45,000
65. Alauddin Babu to Barisal for 65,000
66. Enamul Hoque Bijoy to Dhaka for 20,000
67. Dwayne Smith to Khulna for 50,000
68. Herschelle Gibbs to Khulna for 100,000
69. Jerome Taylor to Chittagong for 50,000
70. Fawad Alam to Rajshahi for 45,000
71. Shahdat Hossain – Khulna – 30 thousand $
72. Asif Ahmed Ratul – Rajshahi – 25 thousand $
73. Kamrul Islam Rabbi – Barisal – 20 thousand $

After this here you see the Teams Are selected fro BPL 2012. The Teams list you see here below. Total six teams participate in BPL 2012 tournament. The BPL has been completed with a total of $6.49 million spent.

• Teams List For BPL (Bangladesh Premier League) 2012

1)Chittagong Kings $1.2 million	2)Khulna Royal Bengal $1.1 million	3)DurontoRajshahi $1.07 million
4)Sylhet Royals $1.06 million	5)Dhaka Gladiators 1.05 million	6)Barisal Burner 1.01 million

Now BPL Teams squads with their teams captains and other players here below.

• List of Teams Squads For BPL (Bangladesh Premier League) 2012.

1) Chittagong Kings – $1.2 million (SQ Sports) | Caption (Tamim Iqbal)
2) Khulna Royal Bengals – $1.1 million (Orion Group) | Caption (Shakib Al Hasan)
3) DurontoRajshahi – $1.07 million (Digital Auto Care) | Caption (Mushfiqur Rahim)
4) Walton Fighter Sylhet Royals – $1.06 million (Conglomerate led by Walton) | Caption (AlokKapap / Mashraf e Mortaza)
5) Dhaka Gladiators – 1.05 million (Europa Group) | Caption (Mahmudullah Riad / Mohammad Ashraful)
6) Barisal Burners – 1.01 million (Alif Group) | Caption (Shahriar Nafees)

Pakistanis thrash world No 1 in Dubai Test

  DUBAI, Jan 19: Pakistan handed top-ranked England its first test defeat in 13 months with a blowout 10-wicket victory inside three days on Thursday.

Pakistan stubbornly extended its first innings in the morning to 338 for a lead of 146, then before lunch began dismantling England in its second innings for 160 in 58 overs.
Umar Gul’s aggressive bowling for 4-63, coupled with some shocking shot selection by the Englishmen, left Pakistan with only 15 runs to win the opening test of the three-match series, and opener Mohammad Hafeez hit three boundaries in collecting them all.
Offspinner Ajmal, who grabbed a career-best 7-55 in England’s first innings score of 192, added three more wickets to be named man of the match. Abdur Rehman showed England why they should have included left-arm spinner Monty Panesar with 3-37, and narrowly missed a hat trick.—AP

Pakistan v England

Mohammad Hafeez, whose middle name might be 'Bloody' by the end of this series, celebrates his half-century. Photograph: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images

WICKET! Pakistan 176-3 (Hafeez LBW b Swann 88) Swann has struck. Hafeez premeditated a sweep at a full delivery that slipped under his bat and hit him on the toe. It looked a really good shout, and Bruce Oxenford raised the finger. Hafeez decided to review the decision, hoping he had got outside the line. He hadn't, and his fine innings ends 12 short of a century.

56th over: Pakistan 176-2 (Hafeez 88, Younis 24) A maiden from Anderson to Younis, including a big drive at fresh air from the final delivery. For a second I thought he'd nicked it. Anyone got anything to talk about? "There's a certain low-price chain pub over the road from Farringdon tube that opens before rush hour at least," says Elliott Carr-Barnsley. "That would certainly be a 'good' start."

55th over: Pakistan 176-2 (Hafeez 88, Younis 24) Swann's 13th over disappears 13. Younis drives very pleasantly through wide mid-off for four and then Hafeez slog-sweeps mightily for six. Swann is being handled with worrying ease, and looks a bit low on confidence. His Test form hasn't been great in the last 15 months; he averaged a fraction under 40 in the Ashes and a fraction over 40 against India, although he had a good series at home to Sri Lanka.

54th over: Pakistan 163-2 (Hafeez 82, Younis 17) That ball from Anderson definitely reversed a touch, swinging back in to Hafeez. The next delivery is gunbarrel straight and timed supremely through midwicket for four.
"Seems England's bowlers have ignored the Teesra in favour of the Teasmade," teehees Gary Naylor, "as Pakistan's batsmen appear to be having them for breakfast."

53rd over: Pakistan 159-2 (Hafeez 78, Younis 17) Swann replaces Tremlett and is worked for three singles. Younis still doesn't quite look 'in', but he's been there for 47 balls now and that's ominous for England. Meanwhile, Andy Bull has dug out another gem from the Chris Gayle Twitter archive. "It has been a while since I lived in Clerkenwell," says John Atherton, "but in answer to Glenn Cawston's query about pubs, I'd suggest he tries the Smithfield market area, the pubs there also do great meaty breakfasts."

52nd over: Pakistan 156-2 (Hafeez 76, Younis 16) BAH. Younis waves his bat at a wider delivery from Anderson, and the ball flies just short of Strauss at first slip. England have bowled with excellent discipline since lunch, with only 18 runs from nine overs. Meanwhile, here's more from Chris Gayle.
"As the relentless grind of Asian cricket wears on, you can still use Wikipedia, as they helpfully point out, just turn off java-scripting for the site and hey-presto the font of all (internet) knowledge starts to flow again," says Andy Cronk, as 99.94 per cent of journalists breathe an almighty one. "As for the cricket, I stick with my about 200 runs behind, but the pitch seems to have draw written all over it (admittedly spelt as Jazz (whatever that is, I imagine a soft-drink))." Maybe, but England will have a helluva long time to bat – six sessions, maybe more. (And I bet Pakistan get a lot more than 392.) Six sessions is a lot in view of the fact that Saeed Ajmal has built a small village inside their subconscious.

51st over: Pakistan 156-2 (Hafeez 76, Younis 16) A quiet over from Chris Tremlett. Meanwhile, here's Chris Gayle. "Excellent piece from James Marsh, and I think he's absolutely right," says Steve Hudson. "There seems to have been some kind of cosy agreement between the ECB and the Dubai authorities not to create too much of a fuss either way over the human rights issues. It has the potential to fester until the cricket authorities are forced to address it."

50th over: Pakistan 153-2 (Hafeez 75, Younis 14) It's the 50th over and, as predicted by Selve, here comes Jimmy Anderson. His first ball is angled in towards Younis, who again waves around his front pad as the ball slips down the leg side. He gets it right later in the over, whipping a ball off middle stump and through square leg for three. Anderson is hiding the ball in his run-up so that the batsmen don't know which way it isn't reversing. It suggests they are confident that it will, however. "If Broad develops the conundrum, it'll officially become 'The Enforcer Conundrum', which sounds quite like a book by a love child of Robert Ludlum and Dan Brown," says Aatman Chaudhary.

49th over: Pakistan 150-2 (Hafeez 75, Younis 11) Younis is beaten chasing a wider one from Tremlett and then, next ball, is so nearly trapped in front by a fuller, straighter delivery. Since lunch Pakistan have scored 12 from six overs. "Surely it is part of your job to read up on the commentary in previous sessions before you go online," says Peter Kunzil. "Comments like 'Have people been talking about natural length this morning then?' make you look like an idiot – which you are not. This happens too often on OBO. Get your acts together and actually read the OBO from the previous session." As much as I would love to sit around with my feet on the desk marvelling at every word emanating from Bull's fingers, there are myriad other things for a person to do when he or she is not OBOing. We try to read the previous session, of course, but invariably there isn't time. Oh, and I'll have you know I am an idiot.

48th over: Pakistan 149-2 (Hafeez 75, Younis 11) Younis opens the face and steers a wider delivery from Broad to third man for four. Then Hafeez wears a well-directed short ball on the shoulder. "If we follow Copestake's logic and make a Countdown-style conundrum out of Teesra we find it is an anagram of Easter," says Robin Hazlehurst. "The answer is staring us in the face, bowl Easter eggs at them, that'll confuse the wotsits out of them. Or maybe just sprinkle Creme Eggs on the pitch, jelly-baby style in a most elaborate sledge."

47th over: Pakistan 144-2 (Hafeez 75, Younis 6) A disciplined maiden from Tremlett. Matt Prior said last night that it was important England didn't "chase the game", and that's in evidence here. "Umar Gul started to reverse it after 50 overs yesterday, which is later than usual," says Lord Selvey. "But it was there. I'd expect Jimmy to come on round about then." Did he reverse it much? I only remember one or two balls going, although I wasn't paying full attention. I was doing the OBO.

46th over: Pakistan 144-2 (Hafeez 75, Younis 6) This is subcontinental Asian cricket as nature intended. Bloody hard work for the bowlers, basically; the slow, systematic destruction of Hope. Broad mixes his length up a bit in that over, another good one, with a couple of very full deliveries to Younis. Still no sign of reverse swing, though, and you might have better luck waiting for Godot, or for Radiohead to embrace melody again. "You know what else is rather scary?" says Phil Podolsky. "A world without Wikipedia. Today's blackout is not very serious as you can use Google cache; but everyone working in online "content" is royally screwed if it's really gone. Though to give me a proper scare they'll have to take down all the sleepy kittens videos on YT: that's what my working online is really down to. On a related note..." Oh my goodness. That is the most adorable thing I've seen since Andy Bull shaved his beard off I stumbled out of the Curzon Soho at around 8pm on October 22 2001 after watching Amelie for the first time.

45th over: Pakistan 141-2 (Hafeez 72, Younis 6) This is not a typical Pakistan batting line-up: they are cold and methodical, in the image of their impressive captain Misbah-ul-Haq. Tremlett has a biggish shout for LBW against Younis Khan, whose got stuck as he played around his front pad. Bruce Oxenford said not out, and after a bit of thought England decided not to review. Height was an issue, and it might have been sliding down too. Replays show it was just hitting the top of the leg bail, so it would have stayed with the original decision. Oxenford has had a very good game so far. England's tactics are different for each batsman – very straight to Younis early in his innings, and a fifth-stump line to Hafeez. "The idea of a natural length only emerged in the last ten years or so," says Gary Naylor. "Before that, bang-it-in bowlers like Garner and McGrath had yorkers that were unplayable at times and swing bowlers like Wasim and Marshall had horrible skidding bouncers that hurt people. I think natural length may just be a comfort blanket for bowlers who really should be able to be hitting the top of off stump more often than not." Have people been talking about natural length this morning then?

44th over: Pakistan 138-2 (Hafeez 70, Younis 6) Stuart Broad, England's best bowler this morning, will start the session. He starts with a maiden to Younis Khan. England could really do with picking up Younis before he gets his eye in. He averages almost 80 since his recall 14 months ago and, as Nasser Hussain says on Sky, knows how to get huge hundreds. There's also a bit of talk on Sky as to whether the ball will reverse – Bumble reckons maybe not, because the outfield is pretty lush. You have to feel a bit for England's bowlers; this was always going to be seriously hard yakka, and being bowled out for 192 has made it even harder. "England missed a trick not developing some mysterious balls of their own over their break, or having someone work on one in a lab for when they returned," says Ian Copestake. "We could have countered the Teesra with a Conundrum."

SA secure series win

Faf du Plessis constructed a superb fifty to help South Africa to a four-run victory on the Duckworth/Lewis method and a series win in the third Sunfoil one-day international against Sri Lanka at Chevrolet Park in Bloemfontein on Tuesday. Full Scoring South Africa, chasing Sri Lanka’s 266 for nine, reached 179 for five after 34 overs before rain began falling. When rain began falling the hosts held a four-run lead on the Duckworth /Lewis method, enough for them to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series when the match was finally called off an hour and 20 minutes later South Africa had Du Plessis and his high-class knock of 72 off 74 balls with seven fours to thank for winning the game after they had slipped to 52 for three with Graeme Smith (2), Colin Ingram (13) and Alviro Petersen (17) all departing cheaply. But Du Plessis, together with JP Duminy (25), steadied the innings with a fourth-wicket stand of 61 with Du Plessis bringing up his third ODI fifty off 55 deliveries. The duo took the score to 113 before Duminy was controversially run out at the non-striker’s end by Nuwan Kulasekara. Replays seemed to be inconclusive but the third umpire Billy Doctrove felt that Duminy was out to the visible dismay of the Proteas’ changeroom. Du Plessis, who battled cramps during his innings, was also run out as he failed to beat Angelo Mathews’ throw from the covers to keeper Kumar Sangakkara but Du Plessis had provided the platform for AB de Villiers (39 not out) and Albie Morkel (7 not out) to see their team over the line. Paceman Lasith Malinga was the stand out performer with the ball for Sri Lanka as he ended with 2-20 off five overs.