Sri Lanka will be looking for the elusive test match and series win when they tour India for a Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match series from November to December 2009. The team arrive in India on November 8th for the 55-day tour.
ENG v NZ, Second ODI, Edgbaston: Rain forces abandonment of England-New Zealand ODI with no result
June 18, 2008
The second limited-overs international between England and New Zealand was abandoned because of persistent rain on Wednesday and declared a no result.
New Zealand only needed to face six more balls to have the match at Edgbaston count, but the umpires waved the players off around 7:15 p.m. local time with the Black Caps on 127-2 after 19 overs and the covers were brought on.
Under the revised target using the Duckworth-Lewis system to determine rain-reduced matches, New Zealand only needed to reach 134-2 in 20 overs to win.
Earlier, England was 162 all out after being sent into bat by New Zealand after a four-hour 15-minute rain delay. The innings was originally reduced to 29, but that was lowered to 24 after a rain delay mid-innings.
Players took a 30-minute break between innings and New Zealand's revised target, using the Duckworth-Lewis method, was 165.
England opener Luke Wright scored 52 from 38 balls, including two sixes and four boundaries and England captain Paul Collingwood also boosted the score with 37. Geoff Elliott took 3-23 on his New Zealand ODI debut and Tim Southee had two wickets in two balls in the final over to finish with 2-35.
Under overcast skies, blustery conditions blew a bail off at the non-striker's end as Kyle Mills' strode in to deliver the first ball.
Two balls later, England was already a man down when Ian Bell miscued and lobbed a shot to Daniel Vettori, who ran back from mid-off to catch the opener on his home ground for a duck.
Kevin Pietersen - whose innovative switch-hitting during his unbeaten 110 led England to a 114-run win in the first ODI on Sunday - only lasted 20 balls and 13 runs Wednesday when Vettori caught his attempted drive off the bowling of Michael Mason.
In reply, New Zealand opener Jamie How tried to clip a shot from Stuart Broad to the leg side, but it went straight to Shah at short midwicket for 16. Ross Taylor then put on 54 runs with Brendon McCullum before he was caught by Collingwood at deep midwicket for 25, leaving New Zealand at 79-2, needing 82 runs to win and playing under darkening skies.
McCullum finished unbeaten on 60 and Scott Styris was 19 not out when play was stopped.
ENG v NZ, Second ODI, Edgbaston: England 162 all out (24.0 overs) v New Zealand 127 for 2 (19.0 overs) No Result
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
