England won the Second Ashes Test

Yesterday was a historic day for the England, as they won their first test after 75 years in world famous cricket ground at Lords. Andrew Flintoff , who announced retirement from test cricket one day before has sent five of the crucial Australian batsman's. This Ashes victory saw England take a 1-0 lead in the ongoing s five-Test cricket series. England gave Australia a huge target of 522 runs, but Flintoff provides some disciplinary bowling and took five wickets for 92 runs. Off spinner also bowled well and taken four wickets. England captain Andrew Strauss told that "winning a test match at Lord's is always a special moment". Earliar today Australia resume their play at 313 at 5 but Brad Haddin back to pavilion at the 10Th ball of the day as Collingwood took an excellent catch at second sleep. Finally Australia is all out at the score of 406.

Michael Clarke Gives Australia a Ray of Hope

Michael Clarke, who has managed to survived some nasty new-ball swing bowling by the England bowlers, gives Australia a ray of hope as he completed his unbeaten century. Brad Haddin,who is 80 not out also contributed heavily as the make unbeaten stand of 185 for the sixth wicket. If England manage to win this test cricket match then they will register a win at the historic ground of Lord's, where they never won a test match against Australia for last 75 years. If England win the match they will able to take 1-0 lead in Ashes. If Australia manage to win this test match then it will be a record for them as previous best was 418 for seven made by the West Indies against Australia in Antigua in 2002/03. Michael Clarke reached the landmark in 159 balls, he made his first fifty, for just 58 balls but his second fifty came in 101 balls as he concentrated hard.

James Anderson gives England edge Over Australia

England are edge to a test cricket win over Australia in ongoing Ashes series. Yesterday it was great day for England, Anderson saved the first test match by his batting skill, performed heavily as Australia are now 156 for the lost of 8 wickets. By his control awing movements Anderson send the Australian middle to the Pavilion. Australia still need 70 more runs to avid the follow and has two wicket in hands. 26 years Anderson strikes twice at 10 before launch. Australia started superbly when Ben Hilfenhaus cleaned up England by taking his career best figure four for 103, had Strauss second ball by cleaned him up, Friday for his 161 to spark after that England lose that three wickets by only 14 runs.

Pakistan needs more time said Younus Khan after Test defeat

Pakistan captain Younus khan told that, the reason behind the Pakistan defeat in the test match cricket series was inexperience and his team not able to play enough matches. He also mentioned that Pakistan only played few numbers of cricket matches in recent past and his team most of the cricketers are young stars so it will take time for them, after the test match lost against Sri Lanka by seven wickets. The loss gave Sri Lanka a 2-0 victory over Pakistan with one match to spear in the going series. The final test will be played on 20 July. As the security situation in Pakistan is not good so, every team is reluctant to visit Pakistan, They played only four matches in last 18 month's. They played all the four test match against Sri Lanka , the second of which was abandoned when armed gunmen opened fired on the Sri Lankan Cricketers injuring seven of them and six police personnel's and two civilians also killed.

England's Miraculous Escape From First Ashes Test

In the Final day of the Ashes Test Cricket nobody thought that England could able to manage a draw in the Final Day. Australia played superbly and four of the players of their side achieved century.Ponting could not believes that in the final day one more drama is waiting for them..Cricket Pandit's told that "cricket is a game where you can never predict anything". In the final days of play Australia needed only 8 more wickets to register a win,but Collingwood played a great inning of more that 50 runs and the last session of the days play Monty Panesor and Anderson played remaining 12 overs and saved England from a sure defeat.

Bangladesh Historic Test Win Over West Indies

Bangladesh recorded their second ever Test Cricket win against West Indies in the first Test in Kingstown. Bangladesh debutant off-spinner Mohammed Mahmudullah send half of the West Indies side only of 50 runs and West Indies defeated just before of 40 minutes of day's play. Bangladesh's previous test cricket win was against Zimbabwe in the year 2005 in their home soil.It is their first ever overseas win, was a cause of celebration. Tamim Iqbal, who scored century in the second Inning was the founder of the Bangladeshi Inning told that the win means a lot for them. Bengal's Tigers second win came after their 60Th test since becoming a full Test-playing nation nine years ago. West Indies gave chance of seven new players for the test, but most of them couldn't deliver their best.

Australia Dominate the 3rd Day of Test Match.

Australia have started to dominate the first test cricket match of the 2009 Ashes series as they ended day two on 249-1. Having earlier bowled out England for 435, the Australians set about their business and centuries from Simon Katich and Ricky Ponting helped to put them in a commanding position.

It was England who actually started the day in the better fashion as the tail wagged and added valuable runs. There was a good buzz and general feeling of expectation when the Australians came out to bat and the pressure gave way when Andrew Flintoff picked up the wicket of Phillip Hughes just after lunch.

This was by far and away the most exciting part of the day as far as any Englishman is concerned. Flintoff was bowling as quickly, if not quicker, than he ever has done and Hughes was playing extraordinary shots all round the ground, which confirmed why so many people rate him as one of the best young batsmen in the world.

However, after he had cantered his way to 36, Hughes got a ball, which darted back in at him and tucked him up as he looked to play one of his favourite off side shots. Needless to say the ball caught the edge of the bat and the entire stadium erupted to cheers and applause.
It was the faces of two players that have plagued England for years that were to have the last laugh as Ricky Ponting, Australia captain and thorn in England’s side for goodness knows how long, and Simon Katich, remarkably unshakeable, set about their business to grind down the England bowling attack and virtually push England out of the game.

It was not bad bowling on England’s part it was more a case of the two experienced Australians playing so well that it would have been hard for any other side in the world to be able to get them out. However, the worry for England is that there seems to be an air of determination around this Australian side that are clearly annoyed by the fact that they have not been made bigger favourites to retain the urn.

It really wouldn’t be a surprise if both of these men went on to make huge scores that would mean England have no chance at all of winning the game. It is a shame that English fans are probably already thinking about how their country can save this game and this is after only two days of the match.

The Australians will probably bat all day on the third day if England cannot make any inroads into the batting line up and look to halt the progress that Ponting will want his side to make. If the England bowlers cannot get early wickets then Australia could find themselves level with England’s score by tea.

This will allow them to push on and gain a small lead that could see them put England back in for about half an hour before the close of play. Any player will tell you that they hate having to go out and bat in this little period before play closes because they know that the bowlers on the opposition will give every thing and more often than not, the batsmen just try to survive instead of looking to score runs.
England need to remain positive and getting off the field last night probably would have done them some good. They should not drop their heads too much because the Australians are playing very well. When they are on top form it is very difficult to have an impact on the match.

The bowlers need to come out fighting. If England can pick up early wickets then they have a small chance of being able to bowl out Australia for pretty much the same score as they made. This will mean that when the batsmen get a chance to bat again they can eat time out of the game and stretch out proceedings so Australia could be batting on the final day.

With the pitch not getting any better this could mean that the England spinners can work their magic. Although the pitch has not helped them much already, it is not getting any better and sooner or later the variations on bounce and sideways movement will appear.

English fans should not forget that in the 2005 series England got battered in the first test match and just when we were all thinking the same old things the side pulled the goods out of the bag for the rest of the series. The first test match looks to be going towards the Australians but England need to remain positive as there is a long seven weeks ahead.

They need to stick in this game for as long as they possibly can do because they need to carry on any momentum that they can take from the match. It will also stop them from falling into a mentality that could come back to haunt them in future matches. If the heads drop then there will be nothing to lift the side for the next match and the one after that.

England need some big players to put in a performance today and if they are to have any chance of preventing the Australians from winning then it means pressure and early wickets. Australia have a lot of Ashes virgins in their side and England need to get right among them and make life difficult.

If they do not come out fighting then Australia will simply stretch their lead as the two current players make massive scores. This will allow them to give their bowlers a new life and energy, which is something that could see an end to England’s second innings batting. Although the last series showed that you should not read too much into the first match of a series, in this case it could have a lasting effect from which England do not recover, making it doubly important to fight on.