The Ashes 2013 Schedule, England vs Australia Test Series 2013

Australia Tour of England - The Ashes 2013 Schedule

Date/Time	Match	Result
Wed Jul 10 - Sun Jul 14 10:00 GMT | 11:00 local | 15:00 PKT	1st Test - England v Australia Trent Bridge, Nottingham	N/A
Thu Jul 18 - Mon Jul 22 10:00 GMT | 11:00 local | 15:00 PKT	2nd Test - England v Australia Lord's, London	N/A
Thu Aug 1 - Mon Aug 5 10:00 GMT | 11:00 local | 15:00 PKT	3rd Test - England v Australia Old Trafford, Manchester	N/A
Fri Aug 9 - Tue Aug 13 10:00 GMT | 11:00 local | 15:00 PKT	4th Test - England v Australia Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street	N/A
Wed Aug 21 - Sun Aug 25 10:00 GMT | 11:00 local | 15:00 PKT	5th Test - England v Australia Kennington Oval, London	N/A

England Tour of Australia - The Ashes 2013/14

Date/Time	Match	Result
Thu Nov 21 - Mon Nov 25	1st Test - Australia v England Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane	N/A
Thu Dec 5 - Mon Dec 9	2nd Test - Australia v England Adelaide Ova	N/A
Fri Dec 13 - Tue Dec 17	3rd Test - Australia v England Western Australia Cricket Ground, Perth	N/A
Thu Dec 26 - Mon Dec 30	4th Test - Australia v England Melbourne Cricket Ground	N/A
Fri Jan 3 - Tue Jan 7	5th Test - Australia v England Sydney Cricket Ground	N/A

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West Indies Tri Series 2013 Points Table

Team	p	w	l	T	N/R	Pt.	NRR
West Indies	2	2	0	0	0	9	.76
Sri Lanka	2	1	1	0	0	5	.77
India	2	0	2	0	0	0	-1.53

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Complete List of Indian Squad for West Indies Tri-Series 2013: Career Statistics of Team Members

Dinesh Karthik: The 27-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman has scored 1090 runs from 47 matches at a normal of 27.94. He has six half hundreds of years to his credit.Murali Vijay: He is a right-hand batsman. The 29-year-old has scored 196 runs from 11 matches at a normal of 17.81.
Rohit Sharma: The 26-year-old right-hand batsman has scored 2242 runs from 88 innings at a normal of 31.13. He has scored two centuries and 15 half hundreds of years.Ravindra Jadeja: He is an allrounder - left-hand batsman and abate left-arm standard. The 24-year-old allrounder has scored1108 runs from 48 innings at a normal of 32.58 with six half hundreds of years. He has likewise taken 82 wickets from 67 innings at an economy of 4.70.Ravichandran Ashwin: He is a right-hand batsman and right-arm offbreak bowler. The 26-year-old allrounder has scored 342 runs from 30 innings at a normal of 17.10. He has additionally taken 74 wickets from 52 innings at an economy of 4.78.Shami Ahmed: He is a 23-year-old right-arm medium bowler. He has taken four wickets from five innings.Umesh Yadav: The 25-year-old right-arm quick medium bowler has taken 22 wickets from 22 innings at an economy of 6.11.Bhuvneshwar Kumar: He is a 23 year old right-arm medium bowler. He has taken 15 wickets from 13 innings at an economy of 4.14.Ishant Sharma: He is a right-arm quick medium bowler. The 24-year-old speedster has taken 86 wickets from 59 innings at an economy of 5.58.Amit Mishra: The 30-year-old right arm leg break spinner has taken 19 wickets from 15 ODI matches played in this way.

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Complete List of Sri Lankan Squad For West Indies Tri-Series 2013: Career Statistics Of Team Members

Angelo Mathews (26). He is the commander of the group. He is an allrounder - right-arm quick medium bowler and a right-arm batsman. He has scored 1862 runs from 77 innings at a normal of 33.25, and has taken 60 wickets from 77 innings at an economy of 4.59.
Dinesh Chandimal (23): He is a wicketkeeper cum right-arm batsman. He has scored 1398 runs from 52 innings at a normal of 32.51.
Shaminda Eranga (26): He is a right-arm quick medium bowler. He has taken 10 wickets from seven innings at an economy of 5.79.
Rangana Herath (35): He is a moderate left-arm conventional bowler. He has taken 35 wickets from 41 innings at an economy of 4.28.

Mahela Jayawardene (36): He is a right-hand batsman. He has scored 11060 runs from 369 innings at a normal of 33.41. He has scored 15 centuries and 69 half hundreds of years.
Nuwan Kulasekara (30): He is an allrounder - right-arm quick medium bowler and right-hand batsman. He has taken 152 wickets from 135 innings at an economy of 4.64, and has scored 988 runs from 87 innings at a normal of 17.03.
Lasith Malinga (29): He is a right-arm quick bowler. He has taken 224 wickets from 137 innings.
Jeevan Mendis (30): He is an allrounder - legbreak bowler and left-hand batsman.
Kusal Perera (22): He is a wicketkeeper cum left-hand batsman. He has scored 112 runs from three innings at a normal of 37.33.
Kumar Sangakkara (35): He is wicketkeeper cum left-hand batsman. He has scored 11248 runs from 322 innings at a normal of 39.05. He has 15 centuries
Sachithra Senanayake (28): He is correct arm offbreak bowler. He has taken three wickets from three innings at an economy of 7.33.
Lahiru Thirimanne (23): He is a left-hand batsman. He has scored 816 runs from 30 innings at a normal of 30.22. He has scored one century and five half hundreds of years in this way.
Chanaka Welegedara (32): He is a left-arm quick medium bowler. He has taken 15 wickets from nine innings at an economy of 5.68.
Ajantha Mendis (28): He is a right-arm offbreak and legbreak bowler. He has taken 98 wickets from 58 innings at an economy of 4.39.
Upul Tharanga (28): He is a left-hand batsman. He has scored 4954 runs from 155 innings at a normal of 33.70. He has scored 12 centuries and 28 half hundreds of years.

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Complete List of West Indies Squad For Tri-Series 2013:Career Statistics Of Team Members

Dwayne Bravo (29): He is the commander of the group and is an allrounder - right-arm medium-quick bowler and right-hand batsman. He has scored 2363 runs in 117 innings at a normal of 23.86. He has additionally taken 163 wickets from 127 innings at an economy of 5.32. 

Denesh Ramdin (28): He is a wicketkeeper cum right-hand batsman. He has scored 1140 runs from 73 innings at a normal of 20.72. 

Tino Best (31): He is a right-arm quick bowler. He has taken 26 wickets from 21 innings at an economy of 5.20. 

Darren Bravo (24): He is a right-hand batsman. He has scored 1440 runs from 53 innings at a normal of 32.00. He has scored one century and nine half hundreds of years.
Johnson Charles (24): He is a wicketkeeper cum right-hand batsman. He has scored 401 runs from 15 innings at a normal of 26.73.
Chris Gayle (33): He is an allrounder - left-hand batsman and right-arm offbreak bowler. He has scored 8538 runs from 240 innings at a normal of 38.28, and has scored 20 centuries and 45 half hundreds of years. He has additionally taken 157 wickets from 183 innings at an economy of 4.74.
Sunil Narine (25): He is a right-arm offbreak spinner. He has taken 52 wickets from 31 innings at an economy of 3.96.
Kieron Pollard (26): He is an allrounder - right-arm medium-quick bowler and right-hand batsman. , and has scored three centuries and six half hundreds of years. He has additionally taken 40 wickets from 54 innings at an economy of 5.49.
Ravi Rampaul (28): He is a right-arm quick medium bowler. He has taken 90 wickets from 72 innings at a normal of 5.05.
Kemar Roach (24): He is a right-arm quick bowler. He has taken 82 wickets from 52 innings at an economy of 4.99.
Darren Sammy (29): He is an allrounde - right-arm medium-quick bowler and right-hand batsman. He has scored 1199 runs from 76 innings at a normal of 22.20. He has additionally taken 69 wickets from 90 innings at an economy of 4.63.
Marlon Samuels (32): He is an allrounder - right-arm offbreak spinner and right-hand batsman. He has scored 3534 runs from 135 innings at a normal of 30.73 and has scored four centuries and 22 half hundreds of years. He has additionally taken 75 wickets from 103 innings at an economy of 4.77.
Devon Smith (32): He is correct hand batsman. He has scored 1044 runs from 41 innings at a normal of 26.76. He has scored one century and five half hundreds of years.

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India and Sri Lanka In West Indies Tri-Series 2013 (Jun 28 - Jul 11)

Date              Match Details                                        Time                                  Venue 
                                                                               GMT     IST     Your Time     Ground     City
Jun 28 - Fri     West Indies v Sri Lanka, 1st Match
                       West Indies won by 6 wkts          14:30  20:00  07:30     Sabina Park    Kingston, Jamaica       
Jun 30 - Sun     West Indies v India, 2nd Match   14:30     20:00     07:30    Sabina Park    Kingston, Jamaica       
Jul 02 - Tue     India v Sri Lanka, 3rd Match       14:30     20:00     07:30    Sabina Park    Kingston, Jamaica       
Jul 05 - Fri     West Indies v India, 4th Match      13:30     19:00     06:30    Queen's Park Oval    Port of Spain, Trinidad       
Jul 07 - Sun     West Indies v Sri Lanka,             13:30     19:00     06:30    Queen's Park Oval    Port of
                                         5th Match                                                                                Spain, Trinidad       
Jul 09 - Tue     India v Sri Lanka, 6th Match       13:30     19:00     06:30    Queen's Park Oval    Port of Spain, Trinidad       
Jul 11 - Thu    TBC v TBC, Final                       13:30     19:00     06:30    Queen's Park Oval    Port of Spain, Trinidad

There is a standing joke about India-Sri Lanka matches that cricket-mates delight in describing and returning to. It includes the two countries playing one another interminably; to such an extent that its difficult to tell one arrangement from an alternate. Then again, in the course of the most recent two years or thereabouts, the quantum of activity between them has descended significantly. They keep going met throughout the tri-arrangement in the West Indies in June-July 2013. So in a few ways, the monotony that encompassed those prior recreations mightn't appear throughout their Asia Cup duel at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, here on Friday. 

Additionally, a triumph in their individual opening installations may very well persuade them to amp up the exhibitions. In any case, they won't be neglectful of where they happened in the first match. Like case in point, from India's viewpoint, Varun Aaron's rocking the bowling alley. While he is unquestionably snappy, his one-dimensional rocking the bowling alley against Bangladesh on Wednesday — that was intensely dependent on the more full length — ended up being close to cannon grain. That there is little variety as far as length or pace is a certain flame formula for run-releases, especially on the collected surface here. 

Ishwar Pandey, the strapping Madhya Pradesh pacer, could be in the settlement. Assuming that captain Virat Kohli finds at cushioning the batting, he may well call upon Stuart Binny's administrations. The last's exact seamers won't be a terrible thought, particularly after the effect Afghanistan's medium-pacer Mirwais Ashraf had on Thursday. Opening slackness. There is additionally the slackness in the opening office that needs amending. Moderate, worked deliberations from Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma like the ones against Bangladesh don't give other batsmen the advantage of propelling strike from a solid base. 

Particularly for Sharma's situation, at whatever point he requires some serious energy to bunk in and afterward gets out, the scoring-rate is seriously traded off. It's indeterminate, however, in the event that India might need to swap Sharma with Cheteshwar Pujara. India didn't prepare on Thursday. Then, Sri Lanka is betting on its bowling to go after India's unpracticed center request. "With [m.s] Dhoni not there, we may have a great chance assuming that we can take early wickets," said Sri Lanka's bad habit chief Dinesh Chandimal. Sri Lanka, all things considered, ought to be mindful of how its own particular center request disintegrated after Lahiru Thirimanne and Kumar Sangakkara set things up for a 300 or more sec.

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Gayle Has Eased Off the Pressure:Bravo

West Indies' captain Dwayne Bravo appeared sure of his side's capacities as they undertake an in-structure India on Sunday."i know it is going to be a saltine of an amusement. We know India are a great group; it is going to be a great diversion. Both groups are extremely solid in rocking the bowling alley and batting. Give us a chance to perceive how Sunday turns out," Bravo said.

West Indies began their battle of the tri-country ODI arrangement with an effortless six-wicket win over Sri Lanka as Chris Gayle went to the gathering with a ton that earned him the Man of the Match. Bravo said the thump had backed off parcel of weight on his side and would have liked to see him get more runs in the competition.
"Chris is the best hitter on the planet and is our best player, and we are constantly euphoric to see him getting runs," Bravo said. "We know it has been a while since Gayle has made a century, he has been getting begins yet when he gets a begin on a wicket like this he need to trade in for cold hard currency."
"He has backed off weight now. I realize that at the again of his brain he felt that he wasn't scoring huge for us and he knows how paramount he is as a player for us. I am exceptionally cheerful that he scored an alternate hundred and batted profound into the innings and I realize that once Chris is in that sort of structure, it is beneficial for us as a group and useful for the West Indies cricket," he included.

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India To Host 2016 World T20 And 2023 ODI World Cup

NEW DELHI: The long type of cricket is situated to get a support with the quite anticipated World Test Championship soon to wind up actuality. It was twofold bonanza for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) as it might have the World Twenty20 without precedent for 2016 and its fourth 50-over World Cup in 2023. The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Saturday declared its choice to swap the Champions Trophy - the last release of which was won by India as of late - with the World Test Championship, the inaugural version of which will be held in England and Wales in June-July 2107.during the gathering, the ICC settled its worldwide occasions from 2015 to 2023 and chose that full parts need to play at least 16 Tests over a four-year period to hold their Test status.

India will have the second version in February-March 2021, separated from facilitating the World T20 in 2016 and the 50-over World Cup in 2023. The choices were taken at the ICC yearly meeting in London, where India again appeared to have its path with the Decision Review System (DRS), with no particular examinations being hung on the issue. In a novel move, the ICC has additionally prepared for battle for the utilization of glimmering LED lights in the safeguards and stumps in Odis and T20s, subject to an "autonomous evaluation of the innovation" by the ICC. Extreme on altering
The ICC has chosen to get serious about ball-altering, with umpires being vested with the power to honor a five-run punishment to the batting group and book the fielding commander under the ICC's set of principles regulations. Likewise, TV umpire surveys of a no-ball on the fall of a wicket can now incorporate waist-high full tosses and bouncers above shoulder tallness. The new playing conditions will go live from October 1.
"The rule of one zenith worldwide occasion for each of the three arrangements over a four-year cycle is a great one and, all things considered, the ICC board has consented to trade the Champions Trophy with the ICC World Test Championship," ICC CEO Dave Richardson said. The ICC board needs to administer "ideal equalization" between the three arrangements and consequently has affirmed the suggestion that full parts ought to play at least 16 Tests in a four-year cycle.
"Keeping in mind the end goal to guarantee that all Odis played over the four-year cycle between World Cups tally towards a group's positioning, the ICC board consented to change the ODI rankings period from three years to four years. For the purpose of consistency, the ICC board additionally consented to change the count of the T20 rankings to blanket the same period," an ICC proclamation said.
The ICC was additionally redesigned on the progressing examinations by the ICC's ACSU with respect to debasement in the Bangladesh Premier League. "It was exhorted that further investigative work required to be finished before any further move might be made in this to a great degree significant matter," the ICC said.
The IDI board (the business arm of the ICC) additionally looked into a review report by the ICC venue specialist on the venues for the ICC World Twenty20 Bangladesh 2014 and communicated its worry with respect to the advancement of development. The Board additionally consented to extend the ICC Women's World Twenty20 Bangladesh 2014 to a 10-group competition.
This means, the main three groups from the ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier 2013 to be held in Dublin, Ireland, from 23-31 July will now qualify and will join Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and West Indies in the competition finals.

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ICC World Twenty20 2014 Bangladesh Hosting Of World T20 In Doubt

 The World T20 tournament could be moved from Bangladesh due to concerns at the country's lack of adequate facilities. ESPNcricinfo understands that Sri Lanka and South Africa are potential alternative venues although discussions have yet to reach the official stage.An ICC official inspected the stadiums recently and is understood to have been underwhelmed by the results. The situation is now scheduled to be discussed at the ICC's annual conference in London later this week with insiders suggesting that concerns are such that a decision to move the tournament is one of the options to be discussed.

The men's and women's World T20 is scheduled to be played in four venues in Bangladesh between March 16 and April 6 next year. The stadiums in Mirpur and Chittagong are deemed perfectly acceptable for international cricket, but work on the facilities at the stadium in Sylhet, which was built last year - remains incomplete, and construction at the new stadium in Cox's Bazar, home of the world's longest natural sandy beach, is still underway.
BCB president Nazmul Hassan has this week vented his frustration about the slowness of work on the two unfinished grounds. The latest phase of work in the Sylhet Stadium began on June 7, and the BCB estimates that the four-storied pavilion will be completed by the time the ICC inspection team returns in September. There is a plan to host a couple of ODIs when New Zealand are touring in October.But the National Sports Council, the sports regulator in Bangladesh and also the custodian of all sporting venues, have said that it would only be ready by November and that outfield drainage work will be delayed until after the World Twenty20s. As for the Cox's Bazar stadium, it is being built from scratch on a patch of land that was once a golf course.
While Sri Lanka cricket chief executive Ashley de Silva indicated that there had been no contact as yet between his board and the ICC, he did suggest that the country would be ready to host the tournament if required, even though it would mean that Sri Lanka could end up hosting World Twenty20 twice in 18 months. The most recent edition of the World Twenty20, which ended last October, was also held in Sri Lanka.
"There has been no communication between SLC and ICC on that topic," de Silva told ESPNcricinfo. "We have the facilities to host it, but I don't know if it will crop up at the meeting this week."South Africa have made similar noises.The other school of thought in Bangladesh questions whether the ICC might be more concerned about the country's political situation, especially when a national election is scheduled to be held in early 2014.
When they officially launched the tournament in April this year, it was at the end of month-long unrest in many parts of the country and immediately after a day-long general strike in Dhaka. The tournament is slated to be Bangladesh's fourth ICC event after hosting the 1998 ICC Knockout, the 2004 Under-19s World Cup and co-hosting the 2011 World Cup.But Hassan and the board's acting CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury will have a lot of assurances to give to keep the event in Bangladesh.

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James Pattinson Pinpoints Alastair Cook As England's Dangerman

James Pattinson admits Australia cannot let Alastair Cook take command of England's innings if they are to reclaim the Ashes this summer.The England skipper led from the front in the last series, with his 766 runs at an average of 127.66 setting the foundation for the tourists in their triumph Down Under.
Pattinson believes Cook is still the dangerman for England and the fast bowler fears he could inspire his side to victory with another series of big scores.

"We know England's strengths and weaknesses and as the first Test gets nearer we will get together as a group and look at some footage of them," he said."We are aware that Alastair Cook is their leader and he leads by example so to get him early will be very valuable to us. When he is going well the England team seem to do well too."We know that Joe Root will be opening in the Essex game, but we haven't gone into that much yet.
"He's a very good player, who is up and coming and has had some great results so far. I know he faces the new ball for Yorkshire, but it is going to be a different challenge for him doing so in Test cricket.
"Once we get close to the game we will look more closely at it. Nick Compton could still come back in. He looked quite comfortable out there today and seems a compact player, so we'll wait and see."
Preparation
Pattinson took 3-61 as Australia bowled out Somerset for 260 on the third day of the tour match at Taunton.The Australians require a further 224 runs against Somerset to win with all their second-innings wickets intact and Pattison is pleased with preparations."Personally, I felt really good," he said. "It's great that we have been thrown up some conditions that are pretty tough for bowling, with the wicket not offering very much."It's fantastic to get that now, rather than being in the first Test with the pitch flat and not knowing what to do.
"We can bowl with the new ball when it is swinging and it's just about how we perform when the conditions aren't favouring us. It's then about working as a team and bowling together, being defensive and attacking at the same time."We have a point to prove as a team and, while things will be different come the first Test with a few nerves flying around, there is a good feeling among the group."

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Salman Butt Publicly Apologises For Involvement In Spot-Fixing

Previous Pakistan chief Salman Butt has freely conceded his contribution in spot-settling for the first time.butt was given a 10-year restriction from cricket in 2011, five of which are suspended, and was imprisoned as far as it matters for him in the scandal likewise including Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif.finally, the 28-year-old, who was branded orchestrator of the plot to bowl consider no-balls in the Lord's Test against England in 2010, has spoken about his association while offering an expression of remorse. 

"I concede the choice of the ICC tribunal," said Butt. "I said it before and am stating once more, that to every one of the individuals who have been baffled by my movements I do apologize for them. "Additionally, the impact it had on cricket's honesty, I might want to apologize for that." Butt and Asif both had speaks to diminish their bans dismisses in April by the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the ICC should now choose whether to react to Butt's supplication.
Butt uncovered he has asked Pakistan Cricket Board head Najam Sethi to entryway the ICC to abatement the seriousness of his boycott. "I ask for the between time director to ask for the ICC to decrease my and Asif's bans," included Butt. "I have two years' boycott left so if the ICC permits me to play domesticated cricket then I will be primed for worldwide matches once my boycott closes. "I have enough cricket left in me and when my boycott closes I am prepared to play for the nation once more."

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