Three Test Series: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka in UAE 2013-14

Date	Match Details	Time (IST)	Place
Dec 31 Tue	Pakistan v Sri Lanka, 1st Test	11:30	Dubai
Jan 08 Wed	Pakistan v Sri Lanka, 2nd test	11:30	Abu Dhabi
Jan 16 Thu	Pakistan v Sri Lanka, 3rd test	11:30	Sharjah

Two Test Series: Pakistan vs South Africa in UAE 2013

Date	Match Details	Time (IST)	Place
Oct 14 Mon	South Africa v Pakistan, 1st Test	11:30	Abu Dhabi
Oct 23 Wed	South Africa v Pakistan, 2nd test	11:30	Dubai

New Zealand tour of Bangladesh 2013

Date	Match Details	Time (IST)	Place
Oct 09 Wed	Bangladesh v New Zealand, 1st Test	09:00	Chittagong
Oct 21 Mon	Bangladesh v New Zealand, 2nd test	09:00	Dhaka

England 14-man Squad for the fifth and final Ashes Test Squad at London

The England Cricket Board (ECB) have  announced for 14-man squad for the fifth Ashes Test for spring two surprises by naming uncapped pair Chris Woakes and Simon Kerrigan in a squad and the all-rounder Woakes and additional spinner Kerrigan join fast bowlers Chris Tremlett and Steven Finn in an or else expected list of names.

The fast bowler Tremlett and Finn's being there was widely-expected next Tim Bresnan's season-ending back injury as England seek to bring to a close their third straight Ashes series victory with a 4-0 scoreline at the Kia Oval.

Fifth Test England Squad:

Alastair Cook (Capt), Joe Root, Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell, Jonny Bairstow, Matt Prior (WK), Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann, James Anderson, Chris Tremlett, Simon Kerrigan, Steven Finn, Chris Woakes.

ICC Player Rankings for Test Allrounders

ICC Player Rankings
Rank	Name	Country	Rating
1	J.H. Kallis	SA	374
2	Shakib Al Hasan	BAN	355
3	R. Ashwin	IND	321
4	V.D. Philander	SA	312
5	S.C.J. Broad	ENG	283
6	G.P. Swann	ENG	279
7	D.L. Vettori	NZ	257
8	S.R. Watson	AUS	237
9	D.J.G. Sammy	WI	227
10	P.M. Siddle	AUS	221

ICC Player Rankings for Test Bowlers

ICC Player Rankings
Rank	Name	Country	Rating
1	D.W. Steyn	SA	905
2	V.D. Philander	SA	890
3	H.M.R.K.B. Herath	SL	831
4	Saeed Ajmal	PAK	819
5	P.M. Siddle	AUS	794
5	J.M. Anderson	ENG	794
7	G.P. Swann	ENG	789
8	R. Ashwin	IND	757
9	M. Morkel	SA	715
10	P.P. Ojha	IND	706

ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen

ICC Player Rankings
Rank	Name	Country	Rating
1	H.M. Amla	SA	903
2	S. Chanderpaul	WI	880
3	A.B. de Villiers	SA	879
4	K.C. Sangakkara	SL	866
5	M.J. Clarke	AUS	827
6	C.A. Pujara	IND	777
7	A.N. Cook	ENG	765
8	J.H. Kallis	SA	756
9	Younus Khan	PAK	748
10	R.L. Taylor	NZ	724

Australia Strong Position for Michael Clarke Unbeaten Century

The Australia captain and batsman Michael Clarke was laugh at after suggesting that Australia could bounce back to win the series after the 347-run beating at England's hands at Lord's other than on Thursday, many supporter would have been clean off their grins after the Australian captain led a much better batting performance with a genuine 24th Test century and was mixed up in an unbroken 174-run stand with Steve Smith 70 not out to take the Baggy Greens to a strong 303/3 by the end of Day 1 of the third Ashes Test.

The Clarke took 32 balls to move from 90 to 100 but it was value the wait for a struggling touring group, who stand up as one and highly praised a dazzling effort and the right-handed batsman went on to finish with an unbeaten 125 and he now looks excellent to score.

Australia won the toss and elected to bat

Score:

Australia 1st innings: 303/3 for 90 overs

Michael Clarke 125 not out
Steve Smith 70 not out

England opener Joe Root became England youngest Ashes centurion at Lord's

The 22 years and 202 days, Root became England's youngest Ashes centurion at Lord's as the Yorkshire batsman record his second ton in just his eighth Test and the root's heroics present the groundwork for England to push Australia closer to a second straight defeat, with the hosts down only two wickets to close on 333 for five a lead of 566 with two days to play.

It was still sweeter for Root as his younger brother Billy, a part of the ground staff of Marylebone Cricket Club which owns Lord's, gives out as England's 12th man and drinks carrier for much of the day.

The England's star player was subjected to some high-quality natured crack from Billy during every drinks break and he has been abuse me all day take drinks out, so he really had to be good to me when I got the century, Root said.

Highest by a Number 11 against England in Tests

Player	Runs	Innings	Venue	Start Date
Ashton Agar	98	2	Nottingham	10 Jul 2013
Tino Best	95	1	Birmingham	7 Jun 2012
Bert Vogler	62*	2	Cape Town	30 Mar 1906
Frederick Spofforth	50	1	Melbourne	21 Mar 1885
Arthur Mailey	46*	3	Sydney	19 Dec 1924
Warwick Armstrong	45*	3	Melbourne	1 Jan 1902
Graeme Labrooy	42	1	Lord's	25 Aug 1988
Sydney Callaway	41	1	Adelaide	11 Jan 1895
Muttiah Muralitharan	38	1	Galle	2 Dec 2003

19-year-old debutant Ashton Agar to Create Test History

At the same time as many were surprised with the addition of Ashton Agar 19-year-old right his choice not with the ball, but with the bat as he broke quite a lot of records batting at the number 11 position to lift Australia to a respectable total on Day 2 of the first Ashes Test at Trent Bridge, Nottingham.

19-year-old debutant Ashton Agar walking in to bat with Australia reeling at 117/9, Agar was peaceful unlike the others before him, as he scored a marvelous 98 to register the highest individual score, batting at number 11 and he had smashed 98, the highest by a number 11 batsman on debut and new a record 163 with Phil Hughes for the last wicket.

Player	Runs	Inns	Against	Ground	Start Date
Ashton Agar	98	2	England	Nottingham	10 Jul 2013
Tino Best	95	1	England	Birmingham	7 Jun 2012
Zaheer Khan	75	2	Bangladesh	Dhaka	10 Dec 2004
Richard Collinge	68*	2	Pakistan	Auckland	16 Feb 1973
Bert Vogler	62*	2	England	Cape Town	30 Mar 1906
Glenn McGrath	61	2	New Zealand	Brisbane	18 Nov 2004
Wasim Bari	60*	3	West Indies	Bridgetown	18 Feb 1977
John Snow	59*	2	West Indies	The Oval	18 Aug 1966
Mushtaq Ahmed	59	1	South Africa	Rawalpindi	6 Oct 1997

India tour of South Africa 2013-2014

Date	Match Details	Time (IST)	Place
Dec 18 Wed	South Africa v India, 1st Test	14:00	Johannesburg
Dec 26 Thu	South Africa v India, 2nd test	14:00	Durban

The Ashes 2013-14

Date	Match Details	Time (IST)	Place
Nov 21 Thu	England v Australia, 1st Test	5:31	Brisbane
Dec 05 Thu	England v Australia, 2nd test	5:31	Adelaide
Dec 13 Fri	England v Australia, 3rd Test	08:00	Perth
Dec 26 Thu	England v Australia, 4th Test	05:00	Melbourne
Jan 03 Fri	England v Australia, 5th Test	05:00	Sydney

England Top-order Batsmen Hold the Key says Stuart Broad

Forthcoming two-Test series with New Zealand and the England's top order found life a lot harder going in New Zealand someplace the teams in recent times common a three-match series 0-0.

The England only runaway a surprise series defeat thanks to a dazzling last-ditch unbeaten hundred from wicket-keeper Matt Prior that without New Zealand victory by just one wicket in the third Test in Auckland.

A team looking back at New Zealand, agree to our skills were not as high-quality as they could have been but the fighting nature to bat out two days to set aside match is the sort of spirit you need in Test cricket," Broad said at Lord's on Tuesday.

A centrepiece of England's time of year will be the Ashes series against Australia opening in July but Broad insist New Zealand were extra than a side show.

Australia Recall for Two 35-year-old Veterans for the Ashes Series Squad

The Cricket Australia (CA) Selectors picked batsmen and wicketkeeper Brad Haddin and opening batsmen Chris Rogers, with five openers among seven specialist batsmen at the side of just one spinner, Nathan Lyon, for the Australia tour of United Kingdom 2013 five-match Ashes Test series starting in Nottingham on July 10.

The Brad Haddin and Chris Rogers are the hard-bitten campaigners well-known to join Australia's Ashes tourist at the same time as the young allrounder James Faulkner's addition in the squad for England has intensify difficulty on Shane Watson to earn his place ahead of the series.

However I will be positive and say 50/50 at this distance for the australia has got a lot of excellent fast bowlers and that is the key to this squad doing well it has incredible strike power.

Ashes squad:

Michael Clarke (capt), Brad Haddin (vice-capt, wk), David Warner, Ed Cowan, Phillip Hughes, Shane Watson, Usman Khawaja, Chris Rogers, Matthew Wade (wk), James Faulkner, Ryan Harris, Peter Siddle, James Pattinson, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Jackson Bird.

New Zealand tour of England 2013

Date	Match Details	Time (IST)	Place
May 16 Thu	England v New Zealand, 1st Test	15:30	Lord's
May 24 Fri	England v New Zealand, 2nd test	15:30	Headingley

Australia tour of United Kingdom 2013

Date	Match Details	Time (IST)	Place
Jul 10 Wed	England v Australia, 1st Test	15:30	Nottingham
Jul 14 Thu	England v Australia, 2nd test	15:30	London
Aug 01 Thu	England v Australia, 3rd Test	15:30	Manchester
Aug 09 Fri	England v Australia, 4th Test	15:30	Chester-le-Street
Aug 21 Wed	England v Australia, 5th Test	15:30	London

Peter Fulton Unbeaten Maiden Test Hundred against England

The New Zealand was 250 for one at stump with Fulton unbeaten on 124 and Kane Williamson 83 not out behind a testing day for England's bowlers and the England captain Alastair Cook was punish following winning the toss and making New Zealand bat on a drop-in Auckland wicket that was likely to offer his attack extra pace and bounce than the dead pitches in Dunedin and Wellington.

At the same time as England's bowlers were fixed sending down 27 maidens from first to last the day, the New Zealanders kept back the runs ticking over thanks to the little boundaries at Eden Park, which is in general used as a rugby venue.

The peter fulton century was the highlight refreshing a Test career he fear over before he was recalled for this series after more than three years in the rough country and the Fulton previous best was 75, managed a 79-run stand up with Rutherford then shared with Williamson for an unbeaten 171 in New Zealand's best batting show in the Test series.

Historic Test Win for India at Mohali

India vs Australia played third test match on mohali and australia won the toss chose to bat first australia first innings on 409 all out for four player half-century cowan, warner, smith and starc and india first innings on 499 all out for dhawan and vijay century and siddle take five wickets.

The Australia start second innings 223 all out for hughes only half-century jadeja take thrre wickets and india second innings target on 133 runs for 36 overs and india 2nd innings 136/4 for 33.3 overs and India won by 6 wickets and man of the match for test debut Dhawan.

India lead for the four match test series on 3/0.

The long waited for India, too little and much too late for Australia and Indian team captain MS Dhoni's team finished a six-wicket victory in Mohali and india regained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 3-0 with a Test to play other than not before the tourist had made India scrap for every run and the Indian master batsman Sachin Tendulkar's run-out was engineered simply due to the pressure bring to bear by Peter Siddle and Mitchell Starc ahead of a few bold strikes by Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja completed team victory.

India won three Tests in a series for the first time:

Mohammad Azharuddin's side sweep Sri Lanka in as many matches in 1993-94.

Australia defeat meant they had lost the first three matches of a series for the first time since 1988-89.

Allan Border lead his side to a 3-1 defeat at home to West Indies captain sobering gap of 25 years.

Indian Spinner Set up Massive Win against Australia

The two spinners are outstanding bowling for Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja spin impressed to help India to a big win by an innings and 135 runs in the second Test in Hyderabad and take a 2-0 lead in the four match Test series.

The Australia had no answers against the outstanding performance of Ravichandran Ashwin 5/63 and Ravindra Jadeja 3/33 as they become the first team to suffer an innings defeat after declaring in the first innings and the loss was also Australia 5th consecutive one in India and this was only the fourth time that India won by an innings against Australia and the success was India's second biggest innings win against the team from Down Under and the Cheteshwar Pujara has the Man of the Match.

The next match is in Mohali on the march 14 will be started and the typically a swing-friendly surface, but given Australia's lack of ability against spin to the curators are likely to work overtime to produce a turning track present as well.

Test Match Most successful Indian wins captains:

Dhonni - 22
Ganguly - 21
Azharuddin - 14
Gavaskar - 9
Pataudi - 9

Australia Test Squad Announced for Upcoming four-Test tour of India

Cricket Australia have confirmed a 17-man squad for their upcoming four Test Series tour of India with the all-rounder Moises Henriques and Glenn Maxwell the only two uncapped members of the group and the two spinner also include Steven Smith and Xavier Doherty.

The fast bowler Pacer James Pattinson also features in a five-man pace attack following missing most of the Australian summer by way of a rib injury and the selectors have also recall left arm spinner Xavier Doherty and all-rounder Steven Smith to the Test set-up and already Doherty has played just two Tests both in the Ashes in 2010 which Australia lost and the two team played for first Test starts on February 22nd.

Australia Test Squad:

Michael Clarke (captain), Shane Watson, David Warner, Ed Cowan, Phillip Hughes, Matthew Wade, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson, Jackson Bird, Xavier Doherty, Moises Henriques, Usman Khawaja, Glenn Maxwell, James Pattinson, Steve Smith, Peter Siddle

Pakistan tour of South Africa 2013

Date	Match Details	Time (IST)	Place
Feb 01 Fri	South Africa v Pakistan, 1st Test	14:00	Johannesburg
Feb 14 Thu	South Africa v Pakistan, 2nd Test	14:00	Cape Town
Feb 22 Fri	South Africa v Pakistan, 3rd Test	14:00	Centurion