Sports: Cricket today: England in India, looks like India ahead in 2nd of 3 rounds

I've decided I've got it all wrong in my headline, not India, but England leads, "dominant on the subcontinent" as one chap puts it (below).  I'm not sure I'll ever understand the scoring system in cricket.

-- Sportikos, refWrite Backpage sports newspotter, analyst, columnist



BBC Sports (Dec6,2k12)

6 December 2012Last updated at 10:54 GMT

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As it happened

In Summary

• Close: England 216-1 in reply to India's 316
• Cook hits record 23rd England Test century
• Cook 136 not out at stumps
• Captain youngest ever to 7,000 Test runs
• Compton lbw for 57; Trott 21 not out
• India all out for 316 (273-7 overnight)
• Panesar takes 4-90 and Anderson 3-89

Reporting by

• Stephan Shemilt, BBC Sport

1. 1050: 

   And, as Sir Geoff prepares for tomorrow, so too will
   we. Before now and the early hours of Friday morning,
   gorge yourself on Sam Sheringham's match report and
   keep any eye out for the TMS podcast and Jonathan
   Agnew's column. Rest easy, a big day ahead. Until
   then...
2.  

   Geoffrey Boycott, BBC Test Match Special
   

   "Compton in his third match is much more defensive,
   much more careful than Cook. You can't expect him to
   play like a seasoned performer so early in his career.
   The fact is England were doing well, you shouldn't be in
   competition with your team-mates because you're
   working for your team, so from that point of view it was
   successful, but then he went for a shot which he didn't
   need to do.

   "In terms of India, it's hard when the captain's not moving
   things around and trying to change things, when you've
   got a poor standard of athletes it's even harder. You go
   round them and think where are the quick bowlers to
   change things?

   "Even if it doesn't turn too much, the scoreboard pressure
   will tell on India and I have no doubt England will continue
   tomorrow as they did today."
   
   
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A hard fawt fite between two pugilists (mixed martial arts), one from India, the other from Sri Lanka.

-- Sportikos, refWrite Backpage newspotter, analyst, columnist



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Mohamed Shahid vs Mayura

Sports: Cricket: World Cup won by India, Sri Lankans not

BBC News (Apr 2,2k11)

2 April 2011 Last updated at 17:00 ET

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World Cup cricket: 

Joy in India 

and Sri Lankan despair

Millions have poured onto the streets of India after their cricketers beat Sri Lanka in the final of the World Cup to become the first Asian nation to win the trophy twice. BBC correspondents in India and Sri Lanka describe scenes of rejoicing and dejection.  The venue was Mumbai, India's "expensively-refurbished Wankhede Stadium" (Cricket News).

Toronto Star (Apr 2,2k11)


Photos: Day 5 of the election campaign

Swinging for votesADRIAN WYLD/CP

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper practices a swing with a cricket bat 

as he watches the India vs.Pakistan cricket match in Brampton on Wednesday. 

Cricket News (Apr 2, 2k11)

History-defying India 

lift cricket World Cup

AFP Global Edition - yesterday

Gautam Gambhir made 97, and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni smashed an 

unbeaten 91 off 79 balls as India won the World Cup for the first time since 1983 with a six-wicket victory over Sri Lanka on Saturday.

Sri Lanka, who won the toss and elected to bat in the day-night final, rode on Mahela Jayawardene's 103 'not out' off 88 balls, to pile up 274-6 in their 50 overs.

India, cheered by a sell-out crowd of 33,000 at the Wankhede stadium, surpassed the challenging target with 10 balls to spare as Dhoni pounded Nuwan Kulasekara for the winning six.

-- materials from BBC News, Cricket News , Reuters and Toronto Star 
posted by Sportikos