Steve Smith Added to Australia's Ashes Squad

Steve Smith has been drafted into Australia's Ashes squad in the company of concerns over skipper Michael Clarke's fitness.  Smith has been rung as spread until in any event the second Test at Lord's, which begins on 18 July.
The 24-year-old all-rounder will get together with the first 16-man squad on Monday in front of Australia's authority tour opener against Somerset this week.fawad Ahmed, in the interim, will return home to Australia to finish his provision for citizenship, however the national selector John Inverarity was at torments to push that the legspinner might yet still be called into the Ashes squad at a later date. The 19-year-old left-arm spinner Ashton Agar is, no doubt kept with the squad as an assistant, much as he had been in India recently.
 Smith made a century in troublesome circumstances for Australia An against Ireland and after that headed the vacationers to their limited triumph over Gloucestershire. Taking after the match he was educated of his incorporation for the following three weeks of the tour and potentially more, given the right now parlous state of Australia's batting.

Generally recognized unfortunate to pass up a major opportunity for the introductory squad of 16 emulating staunch exhibitions in the last two Tests of the India tour, Smith is viewed as a future pioneer by the national selector John Inverarity.
 Australia head selector John Inverarity said: "Given David Warner is occupied for the approaching tour recreations against Somerset and Worcestershire keeping in mind Michael Clarke keeps on maing great advancement from a back damage, we feel further batting spread is needed.
"Steve Smith has been added to the Australian Ashes squad until the start of the second Test, when it will be assessed." Pakistan-conceived leg-spinner Fawad Ahmed had likewise been tipped for a late call-up however will now profit to Australia for Monday to finish his citizenship capability.

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Australia Ashes 2013 Squads

Michael Clarke:
captain
Age: 32 years 82 days
Playing role: Middle-order batsman
Batting: Right-hand bat
Bowling: Slow left-arm orthodox
 Brad Haddin:
vice-captain/keeper
Age: 35 years 243 days
Playing role: Wicketkeeper batsman
Batting: Right-hand bat
Ashton Agar:
Age: 19 years 252 days
Batting: Left-hand bat
Bowling: Slow left-arm orthodox    
Jackson Bird:
Age: 26 years 194 days
Batting: Right-hand bat
Bowling: Right-arm fast-medium
Ed Cowan:
Age: 31 years 7 days
Playing role: Opening batsman
Batting: Left-hand bat
Bowling: Legbreak  
James Faulkner:
Age: 23 years 55 days
Batting: Right-hand bat
Bowling: Left-arm fast-medium
Ryan Harris
Age: 33 years 255 days
Playing role: Bowler
Batting: Right-hand bat
Bowling: Right-arm fast
Phillip Hughes:
Age: 24 years 205 days
Playing role: Opening batsman
Batting: Left-hand bat
Usman Khawaja:
Age: 26 years 187 days
Playing role: Top-order batsman
Batting: Left-hand bat
Bowling: Right-arm medium
Nathan Lyon:
Age: 25 years 215 days
Batting: Right-hand bat
Bowling: Right-arm offbreak
James Pattinson:
Age: 23 years 51 days
Playing role: Bowler
Batting: Left-hand bat
Bowling: Right-arm fast-medium
Chris Rogers:
Age: 35 years 296 days
Playing role: Opening batsman
Batting: Left-hand bat
Bowling: Legbreak googly
Peter Siddle:
Age: 28 years 210 days
Playing role: Bowler
Batting: Right-hand bat
Bowling: Right-arm fast-medium
Steven Smith:
Age: 24 years 21 days
Playing role: Allrounder
Batting: Right-hand bat
Bowling: Legbreak googly
Mitchell Starc:
Age: 23 years 144 days
Playing role: Bowler
Batting: Left-hand bat
Bowling: Left-arm fast-medium
Matthew Wade:
wicketkeeper
Age: 25 years 179 days
Playing role: Wicketkeeper batsman
Batting: Left-hand bat
Bowling: Right-arm mediu
David Warner:
Age: 26 years 239 days
Playing role: Opening batsman
Batting: Left-hand bat
Bowling: Legbrea
Shane Watson
Age: 32 years 6 days
Playing role: Allrounder
Batting: Right-hand bat
Bowling: Right-arm fast-medium

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India vs Sri lanka Live Streaming - Tri Series 2013 Points Table

India 1st Innings
Batsman                                                                     Runs     6s     4s     Balls
R G Sharma      c Mathews b Kulasekara                     5           0     0     13
S Dhawan         c Tharanga b Herath                            24         0     3     42
M Vijay             b Malinga                                           30          0     2     46
V. Kohli             c Malinga b Mathews                         2            0     0     5
K.D. Karthik     s Sangakkara b Herath                       22           0     2    41
S.K. Raina         run out                                               33           0     4    33
R.A. Jadeja        not out                                              49            1     4    62
R Ashwin           c Malinga b Senanayake                    4               0    0    13
Shami Ahmed     b Senanayake                                    0              0    0    1
I Sharma            c Sangakkara b Herath                      2              0    0     7
U. Yadav            b Malinga                                          0              0    0     6
Extras         16            
Total     All Out, 44.5 overs     187            
Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-52, 3-57, 4-65, 5-118, 6-142, 7-153, 8-153, 9-166, 10-187
Bowler                                   O     M     R     W
Kulasekara                             9     0     37     1
Mathews                                8     2     23     1
Senanayake                           10     0     46     2
Herath                                   10     0     37     3
Malinga                                 7.5     0     40    2
Sri Lanka 1st Innings
Batsman                                                                      Runs     6s     4s     Balls
W U Tharanga                    not out                               174     3     19     159
D.P.M.D. Jayawardene     c Yadav b Ashwin                107     2     9     112
A D Mathews                    not out                                 44     1     4     29
K C Sangakkara                      
L.D. Chandimal                    
H.D.R.L. Thirimanne                    
M.D.K.J. Perera                    
K M D N Kulasekara                    
S.M.S.M. Senanayake                    
H.M.R.K.B. Herath                    
S.L. Malinga                    
Extras         23            
Total     1 wkts, 50 overs     348            
Fall of wickets: 1-213
Bowler     O     M     R     W
Ahmed     10     0     68     0
Yadav      8     0     64     0
Sharma    9     0     68     0
Jadeja     9     0     55     0
Ashwin   10     0     67     1
Kohli      2     0     9     0
Raina      2     0     10     0

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India And Sri Lanka In West Indies Tri-Series 2013 News

India were rejected for 187 as Sri Lanka finished an uneven triumph by 161 runs in the tri-countries arrangement in Kingston, Jamaica. A vocation best 174 not out by Man of the Match Upul Tharanga and his record-breaking 213-run association with Mahela Jayawardene helped Sri Lanka beat India by 161 runs in the third match of the Celkon Mobile Tri-Nations Series Cup in Kingston on Tuesday (July 2). India, with poor shows in all branches of the amusement, was completely defeated and looked in no way like the No. 1-positioned side that won the Champions Trophy only nine days back. 

Pursuing 349 to win, India required to flame from the saying 'go', however lost Rohit Sharma in the fifth over to a sharp get by Angelo Mathews, the Sri Lankan commander, off Nuwan Kulasekara's bowling.  While Shikhar Dhawan hit three splendid limits after a watchful starting, Murali Vijay, coming in at No. 3, looked uncomfortable as the Sri Lankans confined the pair to singles, taking the freshen up of the pursuit. 

Taught knocking down some pins supported by lithe conspicuous difference, a conspicuous difference to India's execution prior in the day, implied Sri Lanka permitted India to achieve 50 just in the fourteenth over. The maintained weight improved of Dhawan in the end, as the opener, in the wake of working to a 42-ball 24, attempted to constrain the pace just to select the man at midwicket wall. 
The point when Virat Kohli withdrew before long, snaring Mathews to profound fine leg, India's trusts of mounting a rebound were on a par with over. The score read 57 for 3. The main apparently sensible objective left for the Indians was to hide any hint of failure face and not permit Sri Lanka indent up the reward point also. 
That yearning objective crashed further when Vijay was castled by Lasith Malinga. Before long Dinesh Karthik additionally fell, drawn out of his wrinkle by Rangana Herath and agreeably befuddled. Suresh Raina hit a run-a-ball 33 preceding being run out (142/6) and with it went any doubtful possibility of keeping Sri Lanka from picking up the reward point. Senanayake took two wickets in two balls, lessening India to 153 for 8. Ravindra Jadeja gave some energy to the sprinkling of India fans with his unbeaten 49 as Malinga cleaned up Umesh Yadav to finish a hopeless day for India. 
Unexpectedly, the intentional Sri Lankan batting had begun moderate however created a head of steam before driving through the last 20 overs. It was manufactured around two great hundreds of years from their openers, Tharanga and Jayawardene, as the two stroked their route to the most astounding organization recorded in an One-Day International in the West Indies, pushing the aggregate to a huge 348 for 1. Much obliged partially to the missed run outs, dropped discovers and conflicting rocking the bowling alley that denoted a hopeless day for India with the ball. 
Prior, Kohli, captaining India without precedent for a full diversion, won the hurl and had no dithering in asking Sri Lanka to bat. India chose to rest Bhuvaneshwar Kumar and supplant him with Mohammad Shami, while Vijay was acquired for MS Dhoni, the harmed captain. 
Tharanga was exciting at an early stage – in the wake of having survived two run-out chances – until he hit a sure square cut in the sixth over of the innings as Sri Lanka gradually ventures up the scoring rate to end the first Power Play at 47 for no misfortune. Before long, Tharanga went past the individual historic point of 5000 vocation ODI runs also. 
Twist was presented in the thirteenth over as Jadeja. Vijay dropped a direct risk at short third man as Jayawardene, then on 26, endeavored an opposite compass. Jayawardene exploited the life and started to open up, keeping Ishant Sharma over wide long on for the initial six of the morning. Two balls later, Yadav, got in two personalities at the fine-leg limit, let an uncontrolled draw from Jayawardene bob before him and flee to the limit. Jayawardene soon raised his half-century as Sri Lanka arrived at 100 for no misfortune in the 22nd over. 
The openers awaited their opportunity, taking singles and not permitting the bowlers to get into any kind of musicality. Kohli brought himself and Raina on as he attempted to switch his bowlers around however without much of any result. Sri Lanka selected to take the Power Play at the end of 34th over, with the aggregate on 168. More limits streamed as the run rate began to ascent. Jayawardene, in the interim, arrived at his 32nd ODI century (107 balls, 9×4, 1×6) as Sri Lanka moved past the 200-run mark. 
Yadav dropped Tharanga on 91 yet presented appropriate reparations as he got Jayawardene splendidly when the previous Sri Lankan chief endeavored an alternate opposite breadth off Ravichandran Ashwin. It was at that point the 39th over by then and the aggregate had arrived at 213. Mathews pushed himself up the request to capitalize on a hailing playing strike. 
Tharanga soon arrived at his thirteenth ODI century off only 124 balls (11×4) as Sri Lanka set themselves up for a last attack in the last ten overs. Interestingly, it was just the fourth time that both openers had scored hundreds of years against India after Geoff Marsh and David Boon (1986), Gary Kirsten and Herschelle Gibbs (2000) and Mohammad Hafeez and Nasir Jamshed (2012). 
Sri Lanka arrived at 250 at the end of 42 overs. Two sixes of a Jadeja over took after as Tharanga went past his particular best of 133 and Sri Lanka went past 300. Mathews likewise grabbed some fast runs (44 off 29), setting up hundred runs with Tharanga in only 56 conveyances. 

None of the bleeding edge bowlers were amazing, as India yielded 180 runs in the 16 overs since the begin of the second Power Play. Tharanga, as far as concerns him, entered the record books with an unbeaten 174 (159 balls), the most elevated singular score recorded in an ODI in the Caribbean. India's exertion in the field was poor to the point that, of the 3382 Odis played to date, this was the most elevated aggregate surrendered while taking only one 

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