Dean Jones criticized Australian Cricket Team

Australian former cricket player Dean Jones criticizes Australian players for their poor performance against India.  He feels Australians are looking ragged and under-prepared for the four-Test series.

Dean Jones said that, "Australian player’s preparation has been adequate and just a couple of day’s games are not enough for a series in India. They have to prepare for at least a couple of weeks or at least three first class matches before the first Test. Australian batsmen had a lot to learn from Pujara and Vijay. Both of them played well and their performance was amazing. I hope that the Australian batsmen watched how these two players made their jobs very well. The Australian batsmen should go hard too early into the innings instead of just being patient”.

He also added that, “Pujara and Vijay had a second wicket stand of 294 runs which was 57 more than what nine Australian batsmen put on as a team. Michael Clarke (91) and Matthew Wade (62) were the only two batsmen who had showed some application. I think it was one of the best learning episodes for the Australian cricket on how you go about making runs in India".

Australia beat West Indies in Women's World Cup finals

ICC Women's World Cup cricket match was held in Mumbai. In the final match West Indies and Australian teams clashed. Australia has won the toss and chose batting. Rachael Haynes (52) and Jess Cameron (75) had made their half-centuries. Other players also played well. Finally Australia scored 259 runs with 7 wickets loss.

Then West Indies team started batting against Australia. From the starting itself West Indies players got struggled to face Australian bowlers. Finally they got 145 runs and loss all the wickets. So Australia won the match by 114 runs and won the World Cup for the 6th time.

India Test series will be a challenge - Michael Clarke

Australian cricket team came to India to play four-match Test series. First match will be conducted in Chennai. Australian captain Michael Clarke said that test series against India is the biggest challenge for his career. Last time Michael Clarke was able to score only 35 runs from 4 innings against India. It was his poor performance.

“Playing cricket in India is always a heavy challenge in my life. Each and every time we feel difficult to play in test series against India. Because of this our team has not been able to dominate India. It is a big challenge for us and other players also know that. To manage this situation we had sent some players in advance to India to observe the environment. Indian Cricket Team is one of the best team, still we are ready to face the challenge” Clarke said.

He also added that, “I know my performance was very poor in the last series. This time I had more practice and I have a confidence to manage the series. I had got some suggestions from experts so that I’m going to implement it in the upcoming series”.

Australia enters World Cup finals

Australia defeated Sri Lanka and entered into the final round for Women's World Cup. Women's World Cup cricket match is taking place in Mumbai. Sri Lanka faced Australian team in super-6 round yesterday.

Australia won the toss and chose fielding. According to that, Sri Lankan team starts bating. At the beginning itself, Sri Lankan players had trouble in facing Australian bowlers. Ranasinghe from Sri Lanka scores 43 runs and it is highest score. Finally, Sri Lanka lost all wickets in 45.2 over and scored 131 runs. Osborne took 3 wickets in Australia.

With the easiest target of 132 runs Australia landing to the field. They lose only one wicket and hit the target in 22.2 over. So Australia was qualified for the final competition. Meg Lanning took 37 runs and got out. Rachael Haynes scores 71 runs and Jessica Cameron scores 22 runs without getting out.

In another match, South Africa faced England. South Africa starts bating and lost all the wickets and scores 77 runs. England player Anya Shrubsole took 5 wickets. After that England team starts bating and score 81 runs in 9.3 overs with 3 wickets loss.