Australia had to tolerate a 2nd defeat in a row and this time against South Africa. The warm up match played in Bangalore on the 15th of February, Tuesday at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium was a disappointment for the Australian fans as they were beaten by 7 wickets. The defeat gave rise to some open ended questions against the world champions as the performance in both the warm up matches did not counterpart [...]

A credible Pakistan’s victory against Bangladesh on 15th of February 2011 at the Shere Bangla Stadium in Mirpur was a result of a remarkable partnership of 152 runs between Ahmed Shehzad and Misbah-ul-Haq. Pakistan won the toss and chose to bat first moreover managed a decent total of 285 runs but beside the two stars no other batsman was able to add much to the total but the supportive backup bowling [...]

The warm up match between India and Australia at Bangalore proved to be an upset for the three times world champion. Even on a good batting pitch at Bangalore, India was able to score a total of 214 runs with Sehwag being the top scorer with 54 Runs in 56 balls. Besides Yosuf Pathan and Virat Kohli who added 32 and 21 runs respectively to the total, the batting lineup didn’t worked much for the [...]

A wonderful world cup warm up one day match held between Sri-Lanka and Netherlands in Colombo on February 12, 2011 resulted in favor of Sri lankan team. The Match was played at Sinhalese Sports Club ground (SSC) under the lead of Captain Kumar Sangakkara and vice- captain Mahela Jayawardene. Sri lanka prove far too strapping for Netherlands by posting a victory by 156 run. Sri Lanka made 351 runs for [...]

The warm up match between South Africa and Zimbabwe was taken place in MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. South Africa once again showed their dominion over the game by winning the game by 8 wickets. Under the lead of Captain Graeme Smith they grasp the victory by showing terrific performance in both batting and bowling over Zimbabwe. The opening bats man Hashim Amla and Graeme Smith continued the [...]