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Aman ki Asha : 11 Pakistani Cricket players were totally ignored by bidders and organizers of 3^rd edition of IPL Twenty 20 Tournament.

“Aman ki Asha” is a so-called joint peace campaign launched by Jang group and Times of India; its prime objective is to create peace and harmony among both nations, but it suffered a major setback after recent “IPL 2010” bidding episode, in which IPL bidders completely ignored Pakistani star cricketers who are currently Twenty-20 World champions, it is  beyond one’s understanding that how can anyone overlook players like Shahid afridi,umer gull,who are one of the most successful T-20 players in recent times, success of Shahid Afridi can be gauged from his performance in Twenty 20 World cup and recently concluded Big Bash T-20 Tournament and everyone knows that  how quickly he can turn the tables for his team with his deadly batting and good bowling.

After “IPL 2010” bidding episode,organizers of IPL are giving lame excuses of ignoring Pakistani Players, like there were security reasons bla bla, but everyone knows what were real reasons behind their actions; now analysts are saying that if anyone wants to turn “Aman ki Asha” like campaigns into a success, then before any such peace movement permanent solution of core issues involving Pakistan and India is must, because without solving core issues, these types of campaigns are nothing more than a fruitless exercise.

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It is truly unbelievable! Pakistan lost the second test from Australia by 37 runs;Pakistan team has made fool of themselves by losing the match from such a comfortable position; It was a really a terrible performance by Pakistan cricket team.

When Pakistan team started the fourth day of the match, all things were under control but without any reason Pakistan team as a whole and especially skipper Mohammad Yousuf looked very defensive, field settings of Mohammad Yousuf were not according to the situation, he gave away easy runs to Australian team which helped them posting a fighting 176 runs.

When Australia posted the total of 176 runs, everyone expecting a easy win for Pakistan because of docile SCG batting track but their batting line up made a mess of it; Pakistan started off well with opening stand of 34 runs but after that their wickets started tumbling one by one,umer akmal with score of 49 was the only batsmen who showed some resistance but he also got out by playing very irresponsible shot.

If we take a look at the dismissals of the Pakistani batsmen they all got out because of their own mistakes, there was nothing special about the pitch, Imran Farhat, Salman Butt,Misbah,Mohammad Yousaf ,Umer akmal and Faisal Iqbal all played horrible shots; in the end we must say that  by losing from Australia from such a good position, Pakistan have missed a golden chance to square the series and they must be kicking themselves on such a miserable performance.

Breaking News: Fifth and last ODI Match  between Srilanka and India suspended due to bad bounce in New Delhi Kotla pitch; It was 23rd over when umpires decided that they cant  continue the match  due to dangerous pitch.

Veteran cricketer Sunil Gawaskar described the uneven sprinkling of grass on the pitch as a “hair transplant” with bald patches ; India already won the series by the margin of 3-1.

Fantastic performance by Indian batting line up:  Indian team easily chased the target of 315 with 11 balls to spare and 7 wickets in hand; Gambhir played an amazing innings he scored innings of 150 not out and was supported by young Virat Kohli who scored 107 runs with 11 fours and an six.

In Sri Lankan innings impressive batting display by skipper Sangakarra and Upal Tharanga helped Sri Lanka to post challenging total of  315 against the home team India, Upal Tharanga scored smashing 118 and Sanga karra scored a well calculated 60 runs; Before Indian innings started everybody was thinking that this total cant be chased easily but Kohli and Gambhir proved everybody wrong with their impressive batting display.

Umer Akmal

What a thrilling end to the match and the series! Pakistan won the 2nd Twenty 20 match and also the series against New Zealand by 2-0 margin.

Pakistan batted first and scored 153 runs in their alloted 20 overs,umer akmal played very well and scored 56 runs in 49 balls;target of 154 runs was not so challenging but very competitive on this track.

New Zealand started off well and they were having very good chance to win the match when Brendon McCullum was there at crease, but he got out when the score was 132 in 18.2 overs; after McCullum situation got very difficult for New Zealand and they lost the match by just 7 runs.

I was really interested in writing this post , but i did not get a right event to describe the non understandable people Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis . Yes these two were the kings who devised the D/L method , which not even a greatest cricket follower or king commentator say Tony Greig can understand .

It was a pity that the champions trophy  (28.9.09) match between India and Australia was abandoned due to thunder storms . I was following the text commentary in Cricinfo , where the calculations started for the D/L method , before the watch was officially called off . If India had to bat again given the conditions were good and rain stopped , India had to chase down 166 in 20 overs .

I was puzzled on looking at those numbers , this is what complexity can do to you ! Luckily it rained and the match was called off . So what is this D/ L method all about , i did a small search and found out these .

The essence of the D/L method is ‘resources’. Each team is taken to have two ‘resources’ to use to make as many runs as possible: the number of overs they have to receive; and the number of wickets they have in hand. At any point in any , a team’s ability to score more runs depends on the combination of these two resources. Looking at historical scores, there is a very close correspondence between the availability of these resources and a team’s final score, a correspondence which D/L exploits.

Using a published table which gives the percentage of these combined resources remaining for any number of overs (or, more accurately, balls) left and wickets lost, the target score can be adjusted up or down to reflect the loss of resources to one or both teams when a match is shortened one or more times. This percentage is then used to calculate a target (sometimes called a ‘par score’) that is usually a fractional number of runs. If the second team passes the target then the second team is taken to have won the match; if the match ends when the second team has exactly met (but not passed) the target (rounded down to the next integer then the match is taken to be a tie.

The D/L method is relatively simple to apply, but requires a published reference table and some simple mathematical calculations. As with most non-trivial statistical derivations, however, the D/L method can produce results that are somewhat guessable, and the announcement of the derived target score can provoke a good deal of second-guessing and discussion amongst the crowd at the cricket ground. This can also be seen as one of the method’s successes, adding interest to a “slow” rain-affected day of play.

Applied to 50 over matches, each team has to face at least 20 overs before D/L can decide the game. In twenty20 games, each side has to face at least 5 overs.

Reading the table

The single table applies to all lengths of one-day matches from 50 overs-per-side downwards. Because this length of match is by far the most common, the resources listed in the table are expressed as percentages of those available at the start of a 50-over innings. Thus when there are 50 overs still to be received and no wickets have been lost, the resource percentage available is 100%. A 40-over innings starts with a resource percentage of 90.3% relative to a 50 over innings. An innings shortened to 25-overs before it starts commences with a resource percentage of 68.7% relative to 50-over innings. (Although such innings have only half the overs of a 50-over innings they have all 10 wickets and so have much more than half the resources.)

In order to determine the correct resource percentage the batting side has remaining at any stage of its innings, the number of overs left must be identified. This number of overs left, in conjunction with the number of wickets lost, is then used to read the resource percentage remaining from the table.

For example, suppose that after 20 out of 50 overs a team have lost 2 wickets. They have 30 overs left. From the table you will see that the resource percentage remaining is 68.2%.

Suppose now that there is an interruption in play and 10 overs are lost from the innings. When play can resume there are only 20 overs left but there are still, of course, 2 wickets down, and the table now tells us that the resource percentage remaining is 54.0%. Thus the shortening of the innings has caused the team to lose a resource percentage of 68.2 – 54.0 = 14.2%.

Having started with a resource percentage of 100% and lost 14.2%, then if they complete their innings with no further loss of overs, they will have had a resource percentage available for their innings of 100 – 14.2 = 85.8%.

My god , i did not think cricket was such a complicated game . Cricket still needs a better system to manage rain affected matches and in a way common man can understand that . Till that happens one can pray that rain does not play spoil sport !!

Mohammad Yousuf

According to reliable sources,Mohammad Yousaf is the new captain of Pakistan test cricket team for upcoming test series against New Zealand and wicket keeper Batsman kamran akmal will work as his deputy.

Younis Khan was not performing well with the bat,so he was under immense pressure to perform and there are also reports that he has decided to take a break from test.

New zealand

If we say that today was day of spinners,it will not be a wrong statement; Shahid afridi,Ajmal,Sohaib Mailk troika bowled really well, specially Ajmal was just unplayable with his topspinners and doosras; it was truly amazing performance by Pakistani bowling as they bundled out Kiwis on 211 runs with 3.4 overs still to go

Pakistan should easily win this match as pitch is truly a batting wicket having assistance for fast bowlers

Australia

What a fantastic performance by Australia and what a miserable performance by India; Australia was suffering very badly from injuries but what a splendid show by them; they have sealed series with easy 6-wicket win over India today.

Shane Watson gave Australia a great start with run a ball 49; at the end it was decent partnership between Micheal Hussey and Voges which made it sure that Australia should win the match easily.

It was truly Johnson, Bollinger show, they both bowled exceptionally well against much hyped Indian batting order on a pitch which was offering some assistance to bowlers; it was opening over of Mitchell Johnson which started the downfall of Indian team and after that over, wickets kept on falling one after one.

If we talk about Indian batting performance, only Jadeja showed some resistance and he scored a half century; Indian batting line up including Tendulkar failed miserably; Indians batsmen should feel ashamed of themselves because tail-ender like Praveen Kumar also scored a half century which shows that there was nothing special in the pitch.

Australia should easily win this match to seal the series