Brad Haddin Missed for Test Squad against South Africa

The Former Australia wicket-keeper Brad Haddin Test career appeared to be over after he was left out of the Australian squad for the first Test against South Africa and the matthew wade will feature in the Australia 12-man squad for the first Test that begins in Brisbane on November 09th for the haddin was national team for the tour to the West Indies to his 11 year old daughter who was battling cancer and wade batting averaged 39.60 in the three Test series which included a crucial century in the third and final Test at Dominica and the another one fast bowlier omission from the squad is 19 year old pace bowler Pat Cummins and he is a picked up seven wickets including 6/79 on debut against South Africa in Johannesburg to help Australia level the series.

The first test November 09th Gabba on Friday and the second Test will be played in Adelaide on November 22nd and the third Test will be played at Perth on November 30th.

Australia Test Squad:

Michael Clarke (C), David Warner, Ed Cowan, Shane Watson, Ricky Ponting, Mike Hussey, Matthew Wade, Peter Siddle, Ben Hilfenhaus, Mitchell Starc, James Pattinson, Nathan Lyon

South Africa tour of Australia 2012

South Africa tour of Australia 2012

Date	Match Details	Time (IST)	Place
Nov 09 Fri	Australia v South Africa, 1st Test	05:31	Brisbane
Nov 22 Thu	Australia v South Africa, 2nd test	05:31	Adelaide
Nov 30 Fri	Australia v South Africa, 3rd Test	08:00	Perth

India tour Kevin Pietersen Left Out in the England Test Squad

The England batsman Kevin Pietersen has been left out of Eng Test squad for the tour of India the new player debut Joe Root and Nick Compton have been called up and the Eoin Morgan has also been recalled and the old spinner Monty Panesar is one of three spinners alongside Graeme Swann and Samit Patel.
 
The managing director of England cricket, said: A both ECB and England team management have had meetings with Kevin Pietersen to address the issues that led to his omission from the final Investec Test match against South Africa and pietersen was cast into international exile in a row over text messages and he has not been considered for selection for the India tour.

England Test Squad:

Alastair Cook (capt) James Anderson, Jonny Bairstow, Ian Bell, Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Nick Compton, Steven Finn, Graham Onions, Eoin Morgan, Monty Panesar, Samit Patel, Matt Prior, Joe Root, Graeme Swann, Jonathan Trott

England tour of India 2012/2013

A two debut england player in this squad for Nick Compton was the leading run-scorer 2012 English domestick season with 1494 runs and another one player for Joe Root is a 21 year old who was named the Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer and he scored 964 first-class runs in the season with a best of 222 against Hampshire and Samit Patel his Test debut in Sri Lanka, provides an option to balance the side at No. 7 and the teams played first Test on Ahmedabad on November 15.

Jonathan Trott Has Been Injury Ruled Out for England Domestic Season

The England will take a senior batsman trott is expected to be fit for next month's tour of India and next week england will be announced for the squad for the India tour and the trott suffered the injury to hit on the right hand while batting against South Africa fast bowler Dale Steyn during England's six-wicket win in the fourth one-day international at Lord's on Sunday.

In the 31-year-old Jonathan Trott should be able to resume batting in three to four weeks and is expected to available for the tour of India next month he was not included in England t20 squad for the defence of their ICC World Twenty20 Cup in Sri Lanka and the problem for the england side for the former england captain and opener andrew strauss to following his retirement from all cricket and Kevin Pietersen could still be missing international cricket and test cricket side.

First Test India won the toss and elected to bat against NZ at Hyderabad

They are following the retirements of Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman since their last Test against australia in january and the cheteshwara pujara played for last Test was against South Africa in January 2011 and he has returned to the team another one player Suresh Raina being the second change to the batting line-up and the New Zealand for lost a two test series against West Indies before making this tour will play a lone spiner in Jeetan Patel and great spinner Danny Vettori has been ruled out of the series due to injury and four-man seam attack Chris Martin, Trent Boult, Doug Bracewell and James Franklin would be able to put pressure on India's younger batsmen. India will last season had ended up with two poor away tours in they lost eight Test matches and their No. 1 ranking and New Zealand are currently ranked No. 9.

India Squad:

1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Sachin Tendulkar, 5 Cheteshwar Pujara, 6 Suresh Raina, 7 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 8 R Ashwin, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Pragyan Ojha, 11 Umesh Yadav

New Zealand Squad:

1 Martin Guptill, 2 Brendon McCullum, 3 Daniel Flynn, 4 Ross Taylor (capt), 5 Kane Williamson, 6 James Franklin, 7 Kruger van Wyk (wk), 8 Doug Bracewell, 9 Jeetan Patel, 10 Trent Boult, 11 Chris Martin

England tour of India 2012/2013

Date	Match Details	Time (IST)	Place
Nov 15 Thu	India v England, 1st Test	09:30 (Nov 15)	Ahmedabad
Nov 23 Fri	India v England, 2nd Test	09:30 (Nov 23)	Mumbai
Dec 05 Wed	India v England, 3rd Test	09:30 (Dec 05)	Kolkata
Dec 13 Thu	India v England, 4th Test	09:30 (Dec 13)	Nagpur

ICC Awards 2012: ICC announced nominations list ICC Test Cricketer of the Year

The ICC announced list of nominations for the LG ICC Awards 2012 and to many as six players have been named in 3 different categories for the saeed ajmal, hashim amla, michael clarke, kumar sangakkara, alastair cook and stafanie taylor were the players to be named in three categories and the south africa have as many five players in the test player of the year category and the awards ceremony will be held on 15 september in colombo ahead of the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012.

ICC Test Cricketer of the Year:

Saeed Ajmal (Pak), Hashim Amla (SA), Stuart Broad (Eng), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI), Michael Clarke (Aus), Alastair Cook (Eng), Jacques Kallis (SA), Vernon Philander (SA), Matt Prior (Eng), Marlon Samuels (WI), Kumar Sangakkara (SL), Dale Steyn (SA), AB de Villiers (SA).