2013 IPL Auction List

Clarke, Ponting get maximum reserve price

 

 

 

	Michael Clarke and Ricky Ponting are the only two players with a base price of $400,000 in the 2013 IPL auction list

Michael Clarke and Ricky Ponting, the current Australian Test captain and his predecessor, have attracted the highest base price of $400,000 each ahead of the IPL player auction, which will be held on February 3 in Chennai. The Australian duo form part of the 101-strong list comprising players from eight countries, which was finalised by the IPL on Wednesday and distributed to the nine franchises.

In addition to a host of lesser-known players mainly from Australia and South Africa – the breeding ground of Twenty20 cricket – the list includes seven Indians, two Englishmen and Kevin O’Brien, the Ireland allrounder who is the lone representative from the Associates. The list once again does not feature Pakistani players.

Though Clarke has not played for Australia in Twenty20s since he retired from the format a couple of years ago, he was signed by the Pune Warriors last year outside of the auction. Now released by the franchise, Clarke is expected to be one of the few marquee names to go under the hammer. What stands in his favour are his successful leadership abilities along with a strong batting form last year.

In comparison, the 38-year-old Ponting, who retired from all forms of international cricket last November, may not sell as an equally-hot entity. Ponting made his IPL debut in 2008 with the Kolkata Knight Riders, but in 2010 the franchise bought out his contract.

Darren Sammy, who led West Indies to the World Twenty20 crown last year, tops the list of first-timers with a base price of $100,000, and is part of the allrounders set. Ravi Bopara, the England allrounder, also has a list price of $100,000, the same as last season when he remained unsold. Another England player who was ignored last year, but has once again put his hat in the ring, is Matt Prior ($200,000); he is also one of the wicketkeepers available.

RP Singh and Abhishek Nayar top the list of players whose fortunes crashed badly last season. Singh, who was bought by Mumbai Indians in 2012 for $600,000, was released by the franchise after a lukewarm performance where he bagged 10 wickets from 11 matches and thereafter has failed to impress in the domestic cricket.

Nayar hit prolific form during Mumbai’s victorious Ranji Trophy season this year to finish as the second-highest run-scorer in the tournament. He was bought by Kings XI Punjab in the 2011 auction for $800,000 but the franchise opted to release him after a dismal 2012 edition. Nayar has now entered the auction with a reserve price of $100,000.

Among the overseas players, Johan Botha is back in the auction at a list price of $300,000 after being released by Rajasthan Royals. They had paid an eyebrow-raising $950,000 during the 2011 player auction to bag Botha, a move that seemed puzzling considering Shane Warne was still the leading spinner for the inaugural IPL champions. Last year Botha fetched a poor return, bagging just nine wickets and scoring 58 runs in the eleven games he played.

This time around the majority of the franchises have predicted a low-key auction, reasoning that they had most bases covered during the previous two auctions. “Apart from filling in certain small gaps, I do not see any big action happening this time around. Also with the player contracts expiring after the 2013 season, it would be difficult to place your bets on any big buys,” a franchise official told ESPNcricinfo.

Even the trading window, which opened on November 19, attracted scant attention from the franchises with one formal trade registered: T Suman, who played for Mumbai Indians in 2012, shifting to neighbouring Pune Warriors. The second trading window will be open from February 4 to 15. Each franchise has a salary cap of up to $12.5m to spend on their 2013 squad, which can contain a maximum of 33 players, including 11 from overseas.

Xavier Doherty might get another chance at Test cricket

Doherty, Henriques in Test squad for India

 

 

	Xavier Doherty might get another chance at Test cricket

Australia have confirmed a 17-man squad for their upcoming four-Test tour of India with the allrounders Moises Henriques and Glenn Maxwell the only two uncapped members of the group. The touring party also includes Steven Smith and Xavier Doherty, neither of whom has played Test cricket since their cameo roles in the 2010-11 Ashes debacle, along with Usman Khawaja as a potential No.6 and a five-man pace-bowling group.

James Pattinson is back in the mix after making his Sheffield Shield return last week following two months on the sidelines due to a rib/side injury and will form the pace corps along with Peter Siddle, Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc and Jackson Bird. The veteran Ben Hilfenhaus, who has not played since breaking down during the Hobart Test in December, was not selected, and nor was Steve O’Keefe, the leading spinner in the Sheffield Shield this summer.

The large squad is an attempt to cover all bases as the Australians acclimatise to life without both Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey, and with Shane Watson having given up the idea of being an allrounder for the time being. Now a specialist batsman, Watson is likely to slot straight back into the top order for the first Test in Chennai on February 22 after sitting out of international cricket since re-injuring his calf during the Boxing Day Test.

“It is a large squad and we felt as though we needed that for flexibility,” John Inverarity, the national selector, said. “We’re certainly looking for a right-arm finger-spinner and a left-arm finger-spinner. Xavier [Doherty] has been bowling very well lately. The four contenders for that position [were] Jon Holland, Michael Beer, Xavier Doherty and Stephen O’Keefe. Two of those [Holland and Beer] are injured and we preferred Xavier Doherty to Stephen O’Keefe.”

The presence of Maxwell and Smith also provides the option of allrounders who can bowl offspin or legspin respectively, although Smith has hardly bowled this Sheffield Shield season and has been included largely as a backup batsman. Smith, who is still only 23, played five Tests in 2010 and 2011 but struggled to justify his inclusion as either a batsman or bowler, but Inverarity said he had been impressed by the development of Smith’s batting.

“Steve Smith has matured a lot,” Inverarity said. “A lot of his play this year he has played especially well, although he hasn’t gone through to the big scores. His score [of 72] just recently in the Shield match was very good against Western Australia in Sydney. We see him as a young player of the future, enormous potential and one thing in particular in his favour is he uses his feet really well and plays spin bowling really well. He will be there as a backup batsman and certainly to gain experience. We’re really hoping that he’s one of the players who comes through in the next couple of years.”

Another man who fits that category is Henriques, who won his position thanks to Watson’s decision to concentrate on his batting. The selectors were keen to include a seam-bowling allrounder and injuries to Mitchell Marsh and Andrew McDonald, and a disappointing summer for Daniel Christian, left Henriques, who has averaged 77 with the bat and with the ball this Sheffield Shield season, as the leading candidate.

“It’s a very good test for him,” Inverarity said. “We feel there’s a great need to have an allrounder there and Moises is a young cricketer of terrific potential. We’re hoping he really comes though. He’s got a lot of talent and we’re hoping that being around the Australian group brings out the best in him.”

The balance of Australia’s side for the four Tests in India will depend on how the selectors decide to structure the attack, and while Inverarity said they were keen to have five bowling options in a match, he also indicated Usman Khawaja had a strong chance of playing the first Test in Chennai.

“Usman is very much to the fore of our thinking,” Inverarity said. “I was in Canberra the other day when he got 69 [for the Prime Minister’s XI] against the West Indies and played really well. I think Usman is a very good chance of being in the first Test team.”

Inverarity is also confident that David Warner will be part of that side in Chennai, despite suffering a fractured thumb after being hit by Johnson in the WACA nets on Wednesday while training ahead of the first ODI against West Indies. It appears unlikely that Warner will take any part in the one-day series, although Inverarity said he was expected to be fit for the Tests in India.

“The chances are very good,” Inverarity said. “The early indication is it’s a slight fracture. The indications are he’ll certainly be okay for the Test starting on the 22nd of February, and what we’re looking to do is during the next couple of days get more feedback as to exactly when he’ll be able to come back … But I’d say the chances are that it’s unlikely that he’ll be playing the ODIs at this stage.”

Some members of the Test squad will fly to India while the West Indies limited-overs series is still on, in order to better prepare them for the Indian conditions. The trip begins with two warm-up games in Chennai on February 12-13 and February 16-18. Splitting the squad is required because the West Indies series does not finish until February 13, when the teams play a Twenty20 in Brisbane.

Squad David Warner, Ed Cowan, Phillip Hughes, Shane Watson, Michael Clarke (capt), Usman Khawaja, Steven Smith, Matthew Wade (wk), Glenn Maxwell, Moises Henriques, Mitchell Johnson, James Pattinson, Mitchell Starc, Peter Siddle, Jackson Bird, Xavier Doherty, Nathan Lyon.

England’s ultimately disappointing tour with a second success

Bell century leads England to consolation win

January 27, 2013

 

 

England 227 for 3 (Bell 113*, Morgan 40*) beat India 226 (Raina 83, Bresnan 4-45) by seven wickets

	Ian Bell was an important figure for England as they made steady progress in their run chase

Ian Bell’s third one-day century guided England to a consolation victory in the fifth and final ODI to bookend an ultimately disappointing tour with a second success. Although the series was already lost, a 3-2 defeat represents a marked improvement on recent efforts in the country, but Alastair Cook’s chief regret will be that his side took so long put in a second accomplished performance, after they had taken a 1-0 lead in Rajkot a little more than two weeks ago.

The bowlers, lead by Tim Bresnan, Steven Finn and James Tredwell, had made good use of Cook winning the toss to restrict India to 226, despite a fighting 83 from Suresh Raina, and England had looked to have a modest hike ahead of them in order to secure only a third ODI win away to India in 23 attempts. At times, the target seemed to loom higher than the Himalayas visible behind Dharamsala’s multicoloured pavilion but Bell is an experienced climber these days and Eoin Morgan brought along his spare oxygen canister to ease the ascent at the end.

Like Raina, whose fourth half-century in as many innings helped drag India from a potentially disastrous 79 for 5 earlier in the day, Bell was not entirely secure at the crease, twice edging past his stumps early on and struggling to time the ball as the surface got slower. But he stuck around as England lost two wickets for 11 runs in 6.2 overs and after a diligent, restorative partnership with Joe Root, he began to look more imposing, stepping out of his crease to hit the disappointing R Ashwin for six and striking timely boundaries whenever the asking rate began to enquire a little more urgently.

Although Root was bowled by Ravindra Jadeja, slogging across the line in ungainly fashion after another level-headed knock, Morgan buckled down before adding a few flourishes of his own to ease England past their target with 16 balls to spare. At 1,317 metres above sea level, the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium is among the loftiest international grounds in the world and Morgan seemed keen to see just how far he could hit a six in the thin mountain air.

 

Despite being described as a match of “no consequence” in some local papers, India chose not to experiment with their line-up, again leaving Cheteshwar Pujara on the bench. They could perhaps have done with his monkish self-discipline, as Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli departed to consecutive deliveries via loose drives outside off to trigger a top-order collapse. It was left to Raina, India’s leading run-scorer in the series, and Jadeja, who has also toyed regularly with England over the last month, to pull things together with a spiky, 78-run partnership, before some late hitting from the tail, combined with a rash of dropped catches, helped the score towards respectability.

Before the match, Raina had expressed a desire to usurp one of his colleagues up the order and he made good use of a longer spell at the crease after coming in during the seventh over. A harsher judge, however, may conclude that he failed to construct the truly big innings that the situation provided an opportunity for.

England have been quiescent opponents in the past for Raina, who improved his average against them to 47.47 with his 11th fifty, but he was allowed let-offs on 5 and 61 before pulling idly to midwicket with a hundred in sight. The first was a difficult, diving chance that would have completed a hat-trick of slip catches for Tredwell but the latter opportunity, grassed by Cook at backward square leg, was much more straightforward.

Perhaps Raina was deserving of some benevolence after the fiery start England’s bowlers made in chilly, if bright, conditions. The Dalai Lama is based in exile at nearby McLeodganj but the early exchanges were far from peaceable on a hard, fast surface with enough juice in it to make a Tibetan monk sit up and blink.

There was initial seam movement on offer for Finn but it was Bresnan who made the initial incursion, removing ersatz opener Rohit. Having timed one exquisite square drive for four, Rohit attempted a reprise to a slightly wider delivery that drifted further away from his crease-bound push, the ball slicing off the outside edge to the right of Tredwell at second slip, where he took a tumbling catch. The very next ball produced a facsimile of a loose drive from Kohli, though Tredwell went in for a bit of variety on this occasion, juggling the ball three times in front of the kneeling Cook before grasping it for good with a giddy grin.

When Yuvraj got a thick edge to point trying to turn Finn through square leg, the match was beginning to resemble an early season encounter in England – at least in temperature and bowling conditions, if not the mountain setting. It could have been even better for England had Raina’s edge off Chris Woakes – replacing Jade Dernbach – stuck but he battled pugnaciously after being hit on the shoulder by his first ball, from Finn.

Tredwell has spent the one-day series doing a passable impression of Graeme Swann, particularly to left-handers, and he had Gautam Gambhir caught by the sprawling Bell at point. The wicket came from Tredwell’s second ball, an immediate, Swann-esque intervention, and England’s delight ratcheted up further when Finn won an lbw decision against Dhoni. Only during the spells of the part-time bowlers, Root and Samit Patel, did India’s batsmen display any sense of comfort. Their combined 11 overs cost 80 runs as Raina gave India one last spin of the prayer wheel in pursuit of 4-1 – but even he could not turn a molehill into a mountain.

India Won The Series 3-2

India 226 (49.4 overs)

England 227/3 (47.2 overs)

England won by 7 wickets (with 16 balls remaining)

 

• England in India ODI Series – 5th ODI
• ODI no. 3329 | 2012/13 season
• Played at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala
• 27 January 2013 (50-over match)

	India innings (50 overs maximum)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	G Gambhir	c Bell b Tredwell	24	42	5	0	57.14
	RG Sharma	c Tredwell b Bresnan	4	9	1	0	44.44
	V Kohli	c Tredwell b Bresnan	0	1	0	0	0.00
	Yuvraj Singh	c Morgan b Finn	0	3	0	0	0.00
	SK Raina	c Bell b Woakes	83	98	8	2	84.69
	MS Dhoni*†	lbw b Finn	15	23	2	0	65.21
	RA Jadeja	c Bell b Tredwell	39	65	1	2	60.00
	R Ashwin	c Finn b Patel	19	21	1	1	90.47
	B Kumar	c Finn b Bresnan	31	30	5	0	103.33
	Shami Ahmed	c & b Bresnan	1	6	0	0	16.66
	I Sharma	not out	0	0	0	0	–
	Extras	(lb 4, w 6)	10
	Total	(all out; 49.4 overs)	226	(4.55 runs per over)

Fall of wickets 1-13 (RG Sharma, 3.3 ov), 2-13 (Kohli, 3.4 ov), 3-24 (Yuvraj Singh, 6.5 ov), 4-49 (Gambhir, 12.2 ov),5-79 (Dhoni, 21.1 ov), 6-157 (Jadeja, 38.4 ov), 7-177 (Raina, 41.4 ov), 8-211 (Ashwin, 46.6 ov), 9-225 (Kumar, 49.3 ov),10-226 (Shami Ahmed, 49.4 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	ST Finn	10	2	27	2	2.70	(1w)
	TT Bresnan	9.4	1	45	4	4.65	(3w)
	CR Woakes	9	1	45	1	5.00	(1w)
	JC Tredwell	10	1	25	2	2.50	(1w)
	JE Root	5	0	34	0	6.80
	SR Patel	6	0	46	1	7.66

	England innings (target: 227 runs from 50 overs)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	AN Cook*	b I Sharma	22	40	5	0	55.00
	IR Bell	not out	113	143	13	1	79.02
	KP Pietersen	c Jadeja b Shami Ahmed	6	12	1	0	50.00
	JE Root	b Jadeja	31	49	4	0	63.26
	EJG Morgan	not out	40	40	0	3	100.00
	Extras	(lb 8, w 7)	15
	Total	(3 wickets; 47.2 overs)	227	(4.79 runs per over)

Did not bat JC Buttler†, SR Patel, CR Woakes, JC Tredwell, ST Finn, TT Bresnan

Fall of wickets 1-53 (Cook, 11.5 ov), 2-64 (Pietersen, 18.1 ov), 3-143 (Root, 35.4 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	B Kumar	9	1	45	0	5.00	(2w)
	Shami Ahmed	9	1	46	1	5.11	(2w)
	I Sharma	10	3	37	1	3.70
	R Ashwin	10	0	50	0	5.00	(2w)
	Yuvraj Singh	2	0	15	0	7.50
	RA Jadeja	7.2	0	26	1	3.54	(1w)

Match details

Toss England, who chose to field Series India won the 5-match series 3-2

Player of the match IR Bell (England) Player of the series SK Raina (India)

Umpires S Asnani and SJ Davis (Australia) TV umpire C Shamsuddin Match referee AJ Pycroft (Zimbabwe) Reserve umpire S Das

Match notes

India innings Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 – 10.0 (Mandatory – 35 runs, 3 wickets) India: 50 runs in 12.3 overs (75 balls), Extras 2 Drinks: India – 57/4 in 15.0 overs (SK Raina 21, MS Dhoni 5) India: 100 runs in 26.5 overs (161 balls), Extras 4 SK Raina: 50 off 71 balls (5 x 4, 2 x 6) Drinks: India – 127/5 in 33.0 overs (SK Raina 53, RA Jadeja 26) 6th Wicket: 50 runs in 76 balls (SK Raina 22, RA Jadeja 32, Ex 1) Powerplay 2: Overs 35.1 – 40.0 (Batting side – 25 runs, 1 wicket) India: 150 runs in 36.5 overs (221 balls), Extras 6 India: 200 runs in 46.1 overs (277 balls), Extras 9 Innings Break: India – 226/10 in 49.4 overs (I Sharma 0) England innings Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 – 10.0 (Mandatory – 42 runs, 0 wicket) England: 50 runs in 10.5 overs (65 balls), Extras 6 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 65 balls (AN Cook 21, IR Bell 24, Ex 6) Drinks: England – 63/1 in 16.0 overs (IR Bell 28, KP Pietersen 5) England: 100 runs in 25.5 overs (155 balls), Extras 12 IR Bell: 50 off 88 balls (7 x 4) 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 67 balls (IR Bell 24, JE Root 24, Ex 4) Drinks: England – 142/2 in 35.0 overs (IR Bell 70, JE Root 31) Powerplay 2: Overs 35.1 – 40.0 (Batting side – 25 runs, 1 wicket) England: 150 runs in 36.6 overs (222 balls), Extras 13 IR Bell: 100 off 133 balls (11 x 4, 1 x 6) 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 51 balls (IR Bell 30, EJG Morgan 23, Ex 2) England: 200 runs in 44.5 overs (269 balls), Extras 15

Sri Lanka Beat Australia By 5 Wickets

Sri Lanka Won By 5 Wickets

January 27, 2013 

 

Match facts

Aaron Finch is yet to really grab his opportunities in the national team this summer ©

January 28, MCG
Start time 19:35 (0835 GMT)

 

 

Sri Lanka’s impressive all-round performance in the first match in Sydney has given them a 1-0 lead and their tour of Australia ends with the possibility of making it 2-0 during the final game at the MCG. Whatever happens in Melbourne, Sri Lanka will remain the world’s No.1-ranked Twenty20 side and Australia will stay at No.7, but for Angelo Mathews‘ men this is an opportunity to at least claim superiority over Australia in one format on this tour. For Australia, victory or defeat in this outing means little in itself, but for individual players it is a means to show the selectors why they should win further opportunities. Australia have few T20 engagements this year and for men like Aaron Finch, Shaun Marsh, Adam Voges, James Faulkner, Ben Cutting and Ben Laughlin, every game is a chance to firm up a claim on a T20 position for future contests. After all, the next World T20 tournament is only just over a year away.

 

Form guide

(Most recent first)
Australia LLLWW
Sri Lanka WLWWW

 

 

In the spotlight

 

Aaron Finch is a batsman of enormous potential but he hasn’t shown his best during his outings against Sri Lanka so far this month. A clean striker who hit the roof of Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium while playing for the Renegades this season, Finch has the potential to be a an important top-order man for Australia’s T20 side alongside David Warner and, when he returns, Shane Watson. He just needs to grab his opportunity.

Before the limited-overs games began, Kushal Perera was almost unheard of in Australia. But when he got a chance in the ODIs due to Dinesh Chandimal’s injury, he showed himself to be a promising strokemaker as well as gloveman. On T20 international debut in Sydney, he made a crisp 33 from 22 balls opening the batting and was a key factor in Sri Lanka’s chase going so smoothly.

 

 

Team news

 

James Faulkner was the 12th man for the first game and he is likely to be included for this match. Ben Laughlin, who struggled to replicate his BBL form in Saturday’s game in Sydney, could be the man to miss out.

Australia (possible) 1 David Warner, 2 Aaron Finch, 3 Shaun Marsh, 4 George Bailey (capt), 5 Adam Voges, 6 Matthew Wade (wk), 7 Glenn Maxwell, 8 Ben Cutting, 9 James Faulkner, 10 Mitchell Starc, 11 Xavier Doherty.

Sri Lanka’s success in Sydney might encourage them to retain the same side, although after the victory the captain Angelo Mathews said Tillakaratne Dilshan would need to be assessed, having been struck in the face by a bouncer from Laughlin. “Not really sure. The physio will have a look at him and we’ll decide tomorrow or the day after,” Mathews said of Dilshan’s availability.

Sri Lanka (possible) 1 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 2 Kushal Perera, 3 Mahela Jayawardene, 4 Dinesh Chandimal (wk), 5 Angelo Mathews (capt), 6 Lahiru Thirimanne, 7 Jeevan Mendis, 8 Thisara Perera, 9 Nuwan Kulasekara, 10 Lasith Malinga, 11 Ajantha Mendis.

 

Pitch and conditions

 

The pitch at Sydney’s Olympic Stadium was a little up-and-down and the MCG should provide a slightly truer batting surface. “I think it will be a little bit flatter in Melbourne,” said Glenn Maxwell, who has played plenty of T20 at the MCG with the Melbourne Stars. “I think it will be a lot more consistent and there will be a lot more runs scored.” The weather forecast for Monday is clear.

 

Stats and trivia

• In the first match, David Warner’s unbeaten 90 from Australia’s total of 137 was the highest percentage of a team’s total ever scored by one batsman in a T20 international
• Only three members of Australia’s team for the first game in Sydney had played at least 10 T20 internationals; by contrast, Sri Lanka’s side featured only one – Kushal Perera – who had not played at least 10
• John Ward will be making his debut as an international umpire in this match. He will be the 11th Australian umpire to stand in a T20 international, the record number for any one country

 

 

Quotes

 

“Very disappointing. We felt like we got outplayed in all three forms [batting, bowling an fielding], which is not a good thing” 
Glenn Maxwell on the Sydney loss

 

“I think we’re a very good unit when it comes to the one-day and T20, but I wouldn’t say that it is at the expense of Test cricket.” 
Angelo Mathews

ScoreBoard

T20I

Australia v Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets (with 7 balls remaining)

• T20I no. 299 | 2012/13 season
• Played at Stadium Australia, Sydney
• 26 January 2013 – day/night (20-over match)

	Australia innings (20 overs maximum)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	DA Warner	not out	90	91	62	5	3	145.16
	AJ Finch	c MDKJ Perera b Kulasekara	1	8	3	0	0	33.33
	SE Marsh	run out (Dilshan)	6	22	17	0	0	35.29
	GJ Bailey*	c Dilshan b NLTC Perera	11	9	9	0	1	122.22
	AC Voges	not out	25	49	29	0	0	86.20
	Extras	(b 1, lb 2, w 1)	4
	Total	(3 wickets; 20 overs; 91 mins)	137	(6.85 runs per over)

Did not bat MS Wade†, GJ Maxwell, BCJ Cutting, MA Starc, XJ Doherty, B Laughlin

Fall of wickets 1-8 (Finch, 1.5 ov), 2-31 (Marsh, 6.3 ov), 3-53 (Bailey, 8.6 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	AD Mathews	4	0	39	0	9.75	(1w)
	KMDN Kulasekara	4	0	21	1	5.25
	SL Malinga	4	0	19	0	4.75
	NLTC Perera	4	0	29	1	7.25
	BAW Mendis	4	0	26	0	6.50

	Sri Lanka innings (target: 138 runs from 20 overs)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MDKJ Perera	c †Wade b Maxwell	33	36	22	2	1	150.00
	TM Dilshan	c Laughlin b Doherty	16	31	21	0	1	76.19
	DPMD Jayawardene	b Doherty	8	16	10	1	0	80.00
	LD Chandimal†	c Cutting b Maxwell	5	4	6	0	0	83.33
	AD Mathews*	not out	35	44	27	3	1	129.62
	HDRL Thirimanne	c Voges b Starc	20	17	15	2	0	133.33
	NLTC Perera	not out	19	19	12	0	2	158.33
	Extras	(lb 2, w 1)	3
	Total	(5 wickets; 18.5 overs)	139	(7.38 runs per over)

Did not bat BMAJ Mendis, KMDN Kulasekara, BAW Mendis, SL Malinga

Fall of wickets 1-46 (Dilshan, 6.2 ov), 2-53 (MDKJ Perera, 7.3 ov), 3-61 (Chandimal, 9.1 ov), 4-69 (Jayawardene, 10.5 ov),5-104 (Thirimanne, 15.2 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	XJ Doherty	4	0	21	2	5.25
	MA Starc	4	0	19	1	4.75	(1w)
	BCJ Cutting	3	0	27	0	9.00
	B Laughlin	3.5	0	46	0	12.00
	GJ Maxwell	3	0	15	2	5.00
	AJ Finch	1	0	9	0	9.00

Match details

Toss Australia, who chose to bat Series Sri Lanka led the 2-match series 1-0

T20I debuts BCJ Cutting (Australia); MDKJ Perera (Sri Lanka) Player of the match DA Warner (Australia)

Umpires SD Fry and PR Reiffel TV umpire JD Ward Match referee J Srinath (India) Reserve umpire AJ Barrow

Match notes

Australia innings Powerplay: Overs 0.1 – 6.0 (Mandatory – 31 runs, 1 wicket) Australia: 50 runs in 8.4 overs (52 balls), Extras 2 DA Warner: 50 off 37 balls (4 x 4, 1 x 6) Australia: 100 runs in 14.4 overs (88 balls), Extras 4 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 39 balls (DA Warner 37, AC Voges 11, Ex 2) Innings Break: Australia – 137/3 in 20.0 overs (DA Warner 90, AC Voges 25) Sri Lanka innings Powerplay: Overs 0.1 – 6.0 (Mandatory – 45 runs, 0 wicket) Sri Lanka: 50 runs in 6.5 overs (41 balls), Extras 3 Sri Lanka: 100 runs in 14.3 overs (87 balls), Extras 3

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Australia V Sri Lanka 2nd T20

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2nd

Australia v Sri Lanka 1st T20

Sri Lanka tour of Australia, 1st T20I: Australia v Sri Lanka at Sydney, Jan 26, 2013 

Summary Full scorecard

 

Sri Lanka in Australia T20I Series

Australia v Sri Lanka

 

• T20I no. 299 | 2012/13 season
• Played at Stadium Australia, Sydney
• 26 January 2013 – day/night (20-over match)

	Australia squad
	GJ Bailey*, BCJ Cutting, XJ Doherty, JP Faulkner, AJ Finch, B Laughlin, SE Marsh, GJ Maxwell, MA Starc, AC Voges, MS Wade†, DA Warner

	Sri Lanka squad
	DPMD Jayawardene*, AD Mathews, LD Chandimal†, A Dananjaya, TM Dilshan, RMS Eranga, HMRKB Herath, KMDN Kulasekara, RAS Lakmal, SL Malinga, BAW Mendis, BMAJ Mendis, MDKJ Perera, NLTC Perera, WU Tharanga, HDRL Thirimanne

Match details

Toss

Umpires SD Fry and PR Reiffel TV umpire JD Ward Match referee J Srinath Reserve umpire AJ Barrow

Link

India V England 4th ODI-Hawk Eye

http://cricket24x7buzz.blogspot.in/2013/01/india-v-england-4th-odi-at-mohali-hawk.html

5th ODI: India v England at Dharamsala

5th ODI: India v England at Dharamsala 
Jan 27, 2013 (09:00 local | 03:30 GMT)