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Hello all welcome to the live cricket coverage of Zimbabwe tour of Pakistan for 5 match ODI series.

It should be a easy task for Pakistan to whitewash the series but you never know in ODI cricket. Zimbabweans are confident of winning few matches and upsetting pakistan here as they mentioned in couple of news reports. Also there will be few debutants from Pakistan for this series.

Hope we will have a tight contest or a huge victory for pakistan.

Match Delayed due to Rain.

Its still raining out there and some overs will be reduced. West Indies should make use of opportunity to prove that they belong to International cricket in this ODI series. If they continue this kind of performances slowly people will call them minnows as well. Lets hope they get their game right and put up some show.

Advantage India would have been words from commentators if it was tennis. India managed to get a lead of 400 even after losing the trio cheaply and in short time. Thanks to Laxman and Dhoni partnership and Laxman and RP singh’s partnership they could score close 300 in 2nd innings. Excellent cricket from India after losing the 1st two tests. Not sure how many of you noticed but Shaun Tait, the current world’s fastest bowler could not pick a single wicket on a best know bouncy track.

Irfan pathan is having excellent day yesterday. Came as a night watchman and scored 46 runs and then picked two wickets leaving Ponting and Hussey at the crease who has a big task to do. But chasing 400 odd runs in 4th innings is a difficult task in any era of cricket and with two wickets down already it’s almost impossible.

West Indies started the tour on high note winning 1st T20I and 1st Test match and many thought that’s the revival of West Indies but the way they lost the rest of the 2 matches it looks like same old story for West Indies.But West Indies is always fun to watch in shorter version of games rather than tests and we can witness some good cricket.

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Back to cricket and we are almost half way through Day 3 and India had lost some wickets but already built a good lead of 350+ and another 50 more will be great and a challenging for Aussies to chase in 4th innings.

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After winning the toss and electing to bat on Perth pitch kind of surprised quite a few people but at the India of the Day 1, most of the Indians will be satisfied with their team performance. Wicket of Dravid just before the end of day 1 had shifted the balance the bit towards Aussies. Team India should be looking to score a minimum of 350 with the rest of the batting line up and that’s not a bad 1st innings total on this pitch.

Sehwag and Jaffer started the innings off to a decent start and later Mr Wall stood there strong while Sachin build his innings of 71 and keep scorecard ticking. Dravid consolidated his runs and held the wicket at the other end like he always does when in form. End of Day 1, India lost all their top fabulous six and now its up to pathan, Dhoni and Kumble to take it to the best possible score and then Indian bowlers need to exploit the inexperienced opening partners.

Lets hope we will witness good cricketing action today from both the teams.

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After 10 days gap, 3rd Test will be starting in couple of hours in Perth from now and that was a very timely and much required break after long list of not so fruitful events at Sydney. Time to forget the Sydney test and carry on with the Game and precisely that’s what had been agreed between captain’s earlier yesterday.

India will be playing null, may be in place of null and also I will prefer null in place of null on this pitch which is a null paradise while Aussies are forced to change their opener Hayden because of injury and most likely Tait will be replacing null.

Also with what happened at Sydney, umpires may be bit over cautious which may not be good for the game of cricket. Hope nothing of that sort happens today and we will get to watch good cricket.

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Poor fielding had let down Bangladesh bowlers on Day 2 who I think had done great job especially Shahadat who is consistent around 135kmph . Few Catch drops, a run out chance and poor fielding helped New Zealand to build a huge lead.

Bangladesh top order collapsed again in the 2nd innings and New Zealand is few hours away from series victory and the Day 3 is just a formality.

Day 1 of 2nd Test looks like a replay of Day 1 of 1st Test, scorecards read almost the same for both the teams. New Zealand is very much in control of the game and trailing by few runs only at the end of the day 1 after Bangladesh got out to a cheap score again. Only change is Bangladesh bowlers did a decent job compared to the 1st test. One more match in this week of which result was almost confirmed on Day 1 of the match. Unless Bangladesh show some exceptional performance with bowl today we may feel the whole test is replay of 1st test only.

Centuries from SA batsman on Day 2 made sure there are not even a remote chance West Indies can come back in this game. We had seen some aggressive batting from SA players and one may get doubt is this the track where WI even failed to make 150.

West Indies may need to take some hard decisions and if possible bring in new talent( If Available) and bench few of the inconsistent players. Its very hard we may get West Indies of Old days but everyone would like to see a decent team in West Indies which can compete with other teams consistently.