Under-19 cricket World Cup 2008 schedule

Under-19 cricket World Cup 2008 schedule

February 2008
Sun 17 0730 IST	Group C - Australia v Namibia Penang Sports Club
Sun 17 0730 IST	Group D - England v Ireland Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur
Sun 17 0730 IST	Group B - India v Papua New Guinea Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur
Sun 17 0730 IST	Group A - Malaysia v Pakistan Johor Cricket Academy Oval
Mon 18 0730 IST	Group D - Bangladesh v Bermuda Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur
Mon 18 0730 IST	Group C - Nepal v Sri Lanka Penang Sports Club
Mon 18 0730 IST	Group A - New Zealand v Zimbabwe Johor Cricket Academy Oval
Mon 18 0730 IST	Group B - South Africa v West Indies Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur
Tue 19 0730 IST	Group C - Australia v Nepal University Sains Malaysia, Penang
Tue 19 0730 IST	Group D - Bermuda v England Royal Selangor Club, Kuala Lumpur
Tue 19 0730 IST	Group B - India v South Africa Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur
Tue 19 0730 IST	Group A - New Zealand v Pakistan Institute Perguruan Temenggong Ibrahim, Johor
Wed 20 0730 IST	Group D - Bangladesh v Ireland Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur
Wed 20 0730 IST	Group A - Malaysia v Zimbabwe Institute Perguruan Temenggong Ibrahim, Johor
Wed 20 0730 IST	Group C - Namibia v Sri Lanka University Sains Malaysia, Penang
Wed 20 0730 IST	Group B - Papua New Guinea v West Indies Royal Selangor Club, Kuala Lumpur
Thu 21 0730 IST	Group D - Bermuda v Ireland Royal Selangor Club, Kuala Lumpur
Thu 21 0730 IST	Group A - Malaysia v New Zealand Johor Cricket Academy Oval
Thu 21 0730 IST	Group C - Namibia v Nepal University Sains Malaysia, Penang
Thu 21 0730 IST	Group B - Papua New Guinea v South Africa Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur
Fri 22 0730 IST	Group C - Australia v Sri Lanka Penang Sports Club
Fri 22 0730 IST	Group D - Bangladesh v England Royal Selangor Club, Kuala Lumpur
Fri 22 0730 IST	Group B - India v West Indies Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur
Fri 22 0730 IST	Group A - Pakistan v Zimbabwe Institute Perguruan Temenggong Ibrahim, Johor
Sun 24 0730 IST	9th Place Play-off Quarter-Final - TBC v TBC Institute Perguruan Temenggong Ibrahim, Johor 3rd group C v 4th group A
Sun 24 0730 IST	9th Place Play-off Quarter-Final - TBC v TBC Johor Cricket Academy Oval 3rd group A v 4th group C
Sun 24 0730 IST	Quarter-Final - TBC v TBC Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur winner group B v runner-up group D
Sun 24 0730 IST	Quarter-Final - TBC v TBC Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur winner group D v runner-up group B
Mon 25 0730 IST	9th Place Play-off Quarter-Final - TBC v TBC Institute Perguruan Temenggong Ibrahim, Johor 3rd group B v 4th group D
Mon 25 0730 IST	9th Place Play-off Quarter-Final - TBC v TBC Johor Cricket Academy Oval 3rd group D v 4th group B
Mon 25 0730 IST	Quarter-Final - TBC v TBC Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur winner group A v runner-up group C
Mon 25 0730 IST	Quarter-Final - TBC v TBC Royal Selangor Club, Kuala Lumpur winner group C v runner-up group A
Tue 26 0730 IST	13th Place Play-off Semi-Final - TBC v TBC Institute Perguruan Temenggong Ibrahim, Johor
Tue 26 0730 IST	9th Place Play-off Semi-Final - TBC v TBC Johor Cricket Academy Oval
Wed 27 0730 IST	5th Place Play-off Semi-Final - TBC v TBC Royal Selangor Club, Kuala Lumpur
Wed 27 0730 IST	9th Place Play-off Semi-Final - TBC v TBC Institute Perguruan Temenggong Ibrahim, Johor
Wed 27 (D/N) 1130 IST	Semi-Final - TBC v TBC Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur winner QF1 v winner QF3
Thu 28 0730 IST	5th Place Play-off Semi-Final - TBC v TBC Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur
Fri 29 0730 IST	13th Place Play-off Semi-Final - TBC v TBC Johor Cricket Academy Oval
Fri 29 (D/N) 1130 IST	Semi-Final - TBC v TBC Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur winner QF2 v winner QF4
March 2008
Sat 1 0730 IST	13th Place Play-off - TBC v TBC Institute Perguruan Temenggong Ibrahim, Johor
Sat 1 0730 IST	5th Place Play-off - TBC v TBC Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur
Sat 1 0730 IST	9th Place Play-off - TBC v TBC Royal Selangor Club, Kuala Lumpur
Sun 2 (D/N) 1130 IST	Final - TBC v TBC Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur

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Lanka drop veteran Jayasuriya from their squad to tour the Caribbean

Sri Lanka drop veteran Jayasuriya

Jayasuriya has scored 12,253 runs in 408 one-day internationals

Sri Lanka have dropped veteran batsman Sanath Jayasuriya from their squad to tour the Caribbean next month, raising doubts about his international career.

The 38-year-old quit Tests in December during the series against England.

And he has managed a total of just 46 runs in four games of the triangular one-day series in Australia.

Another opener, Upul Tharanga, has also been left out, while left-arm seamer Thilina Thushara and slow left-armer Rangana Herath are handed recalls.

Thushara's only previous appearance was a Test against the West Indies in Kingston in 2003, while Herath last featured in a Test against Bangladesh in Colombo two-and-a-half years ago.

Sri Lanka will play two Tests and three one-day internationals, with the first Test in Guyana starting on 22 March.

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Sri Lanka squad: Mahela Jayawardene (capt), Michael Vandort, Malinda Warnapura, Kumar Sangakkara, Thilan Samaraweera, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chamara Silva, Prasanna Jayawardene, Muttiah Muralitharan, Farveez Maharoof, Chaminda Vaas, Lasith Malinga, Rangana Herath, Ishara Amerasinghe, Thilina Thushara.

Aussies thump Sri Lanka in Sydney

Aussies thump Sri Lanka in Sydney

By David Ornstein

CB Series, game three, Sydney:
Australia 253-6 (50 overs) beat Sri Lanka 125 (31.3 overs) by 128 runs

Match scorecard

Clarke recorded his 27th one-day international half-century

Michael Clarke's half-century and a five-wicket haul for Nathan Bracken helped Australia to a resounding one-day win over Sri Lanka in Sydney.

After winning the toss and electing to bat, Adam Gilchrist made a quick-fire 61 before Clarke (77) put the hosts on course for a solid total of 253-6.

In response, Sri Lanka's batting line-up crumbled as Bracken took 5-46.

Kumar Sangakkara top-scored with 42 but the tourists were never likely to meet their target and lost by 128 runs.

Meeting for the first time in an ODI since their World Cup final encounter in Barbados in April 2007, Australia made a promising start in their pursuit of quick runs.

Matthew Hayden, returning to partner Gilchrist at the top of the order following his hamstring injury, looked in particularly good knick.

While less emphatic, Gilchrist looked steady and burst into life in the seventh over when he smashed Lasith Malinga over midwicket for six.

But just as Gilchrist appeared to have settled into a groove alongside Hayden, bludgeoning Ishara Amerasinghe for a pair of fours through cover in the 13th over, he lost his opening partner.

Hayden came down the wicket to Amerasinghe and mishit his drive to Mahela Jayawardene at short midwicket and Australia captain Ricky Ponting prodded Chaminda Vaas to Jayawardene at first slip soon after.

But that brought Michael Clarke to the crease and he built a fine 51-run partnership with Gilchrist before the latter fell leg before wicket to Chamara Kapugedera.

Gilchrist's prized scalp was a crucial breakthrough for Sri Lanka and, although Clarke continued to frustrate their bowling attack, their targeting of Andrew Symonds paid off when the all-rounder was caught expertly by Kapugedera off the bowling of Vaas.

Mike Hussey cut Amerasinghe to Tillakaratne Dilshan at backward point to fall cheaply but Clarke and James Hopes guided Australia past 250.

Bracken's figures, 5-46, were his best at ODI level

Sri Lanka's top order, who coped terribly with the pace of Brett Lee and swing of Bracken, was stung by the loss of Sanath Jayasuriya and Upul Tharanga early on.

Jayasuriya, scorer of three centuries and a half-ton in his previous five innings' at the SCG, inside-edged Lee onto his off stump with the final ball of the fifth over and then Bracken had Thuranga caught behind with the first ball of the sixth to leave Sri Lanka reeling.

Sangakkara and Jayawardene ground out a 39-run stand but Australia's pressure was relentless and Mitchell Johnson had the latter taken by Gilchrist before Bracken trapped the former lbw.

At 77-4, a solid batting display could still have seen Sri Lanka challenge their opponents' total but their run rate plummeted as wickets tumbled.

Bradd Hogg coaxed Chamara Silva into nicking to Gilchrist and then Kapugedera flicked Bracken to Hayden at first slip for a duck.

With a bonus point victory in sight, Australia upped the intensity.

Dilshan lofted an easy catch to Lee off Bracken and Symonds ran out Malinga in comical fashion.

Having taken a run with Vaas, Malinga made his ground but dropped his bat and Symonds' throw hit the stumps with both of the 24-year-old's feat airborne.

Bracken had Muttiah Muralitharan snapped up by Symonds at midwicket to seal his best ODI figures.

After the first two matches of the Commonwealth Bank triangular series were washed out in Brisbane, Australia now top the group ahead of their meeting with India in Melbourne on Sunday.

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Australia captain Ricky Ponting:
"Gilly (Gilchrist) played really well, and Clarke played a sensible knock. We got to 250 and I knew that as the game wore on our bowlers would be able to take the pace off the ball."

Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene:
"We knew it wasn't going to be easy. A slowish wicket, we knew 240 would be a good score.

"We were trying to get a good start but lost too many wickets first up. It's a very disappointing day.

"We need to concentrate on our basics, come back strongly and show our character."