DAY NIGHT TEST MATCHES?

Cricket Australia has suggested playing day night test matches.This is something peculiar and never attempted in international cricket history.The Australian cricket board has suggested that there has been a steep fall in ticket sales for test matches and day night test matches can add charm to the matches.Many first class test played at Perth,Melbourne,Brisbane were played as a day night matches on a experimental basis.Ricky ponting has voted against this decision saying that the day night test matches are an absolute nightmare and he has been a traditionalist.The difficulty of playing matches day night with the red cherry has been well elucidated in the past where it is an absolute nightmare for the batters to identify the seam of the red new ball.Anyway the new venture seems highly unlikely according to me as it requires all the test playing nations' approval.

GANGULY,YUVI SHINE

Pakistan held the upperhand in the first session with the innings tottering at 61-4.Yasir arafat was the star of the show and he claimed three wickets and Sami got two wickets.Ganguly and Yuvraj responded by giving a stinging counterattack and they stung together 300 run partnership for the 5th wicket.Yuvraj got out of Sami for 169 runs in an innings which was studded with 28 fours and a solitaty six.He was very aggresive on the spinner Kaneria and the part time bowlers like Hameed and Younus Khan.Ganguly played the sheet anchor role to perfection and stayed unbeaten with 125 runs in a innings studded with 20 boundaries.Earlier in the day 4 wickets fell in the first session with the in form guns Wasim Jaffer and VVS Laxman falling very early to debutant Arafat.Now the situation is that India must add atleast 120 runs on the board and this might set the opposition on the backfoot.The star performer of the day without a shadow of doubt was Yuvraj and his swashbuckling innings.For more cricket updates visit this blog regularly.

DECIDING TEST TODAY

The decicing test between India and Pakistan gets underway today at Bangalore.India are caught in injury problem while Pakistan have rumours of rift in their side.

Indian Problems:Sachin Tendulkar will likely miss the test and Yuvraj will likely accomodate that place.Sachin has been carrying a knee injury which he aggrevated during the test match at Kolkata.Dhoni has an injury to little finger and Karthick will keep wickets.Gambhir or Murali Karthick will come into the team depending on Kumble's instincts as a captain.

Pakistan Problems:Pakistan side is experiencing rift in the team and they are playing under a reluctant captain in Younis Khan.Now they have been given a major boost in the likely absence of Sachin Tendulkar they should comeback at India with a lot of vigour.For updates throughout the test match visit this blog.

YOUNIS KHAN DEFIANCE SAVES PAKISTAN

India wasted a golden opportunity to win the series and Pakistan played out of their skin to draw this match.Well credit should go to the pakistanis who displayed remarkable resilience and character to draw the test match.India should rue the fact that they let the cup slip in the key moments of the match and Sachin dropped Misbah early on in the first innings and he strove to make full use of sachin's butter fingers.Dravid dropped Sami and he played out a full session.With this match I think Munaf patel should be conferred the title "Grandpa of Indian Cricket".His fielding is ridiculous and he is bowling at a speed near to kumble.Well he is a far cry from the days he burst onto the scene against England.Now at Bangalore Pakistan have a good record and dont be suprised if India mess up at Bangalore.I think India lost their grip on the match on the third day afternoon and our grandpa dropped Kamran Akmal.Overall India played well but not well enough to defeat pakistan.One hopes that India does'nt falter in the final hurdle and loses the plot.Well the huge debate is that whether Karthick will make way for Yuvi.To get the latest info on sports just tune into this blog.