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According to the fresh reports from the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, Pakistan is all set to face three times champion Australia in today’s Played at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo (neutral venue), 19 March 2011 - day/night (50-over match).
Australia v West Indies in Dhaka; India v New Zealand in Ahmedabad; Pakistan v South Africa in Dhaka, and England v Sri Lanka in Colombo.
2pm Australia have won the toss and will bat. Ricky Ponting has named the same side that saw off Canada last week, but the big news comes from the Pakistan camp, where Shoaib Akhtar will not be playing. Having announced his retirement, could it be he's played his last game? Surely he'll be back for the quarters, but you never know with Pakistan.
Australia team:-
BJ Haddin†, SR Watson, RT Ponting*, MJ Clarke, CL White, MEK Hussey, SPD Smith, MG Johnson, B Lee, JJ Krejza, SW Tait
Pakistan team :-
Mohammad Hafeez, Kamran Akmal†, Asad Shafiq, Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Umar Akmal, Abdul Razzaq, Shahid Afridi*, Abdur Rehman, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz.
Match details:- Toss Australia, who chose to bat
Umpires M Erasmus (South Africa) and AL Hill (New Zealand)
TV umpire TH Wijewardene
Match referee BC Broad (England)
Reserve umpire BF Bowden (New Zealand)
2 comments:
Poor batting shown by the Auussi....Pakistan did really well today...
Its going to be a really nice match, now, it should be interesting to see how Auss bowlers will bowl.....
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