Hurricanes overcome Brisbane Heat ? Cricket News Roundup ? Part 3 ? December 9, 2012
An unbeaten half-century from Travis Birt allowed Hobart Hurricanes to overcome Brisbane Heat?s stiff target of 173 in the Big Bash game, played at Gabba.
Opting to bat first, the Heat piled on a reasonable total on the board, courtesy strong displays from Joe Burns (44) and Daniel Christian ( 49). Thisara Perera, the team?s overseas Sri Lankan player, also played his part with an 8-ball 22-run cameo.
However, the Hurricanes achieved victory comfortably, with all batters contributing. Openers Tim Paine and Jonathan Wells added a quick-fire stand of 50 before Birt and Owais Shah stood in an unbeaten partnership of 95 to help their side claim an easy 6-wicket win.
England completed an overwhelming seven-wicket victory against India at Kolkata to win the third Test and take an unbeatable 2-1 lead in the four-match series.
It took the tourists just 55 minutes to wrap things up after the Men in Blue resumed their second innings from 239 for 9. Ravichandran Ashwin added 8 more runs to his overnight score of 83, but ran out of ?partners in the as Pragyan Ojha?was cleaned up by James Anderson.
Despite the Indians picking up three quick wickets, England?s hefty first innings lead meant that they had little trouble in overhauling the 41-run target. Alastair Cook was named as the Player of the Match for his impressive 190-run effort. The final Test will be played at Nagpur from Thursday.
West Indies skipper, Darren Sammy, expressed disappointment after his side suffered a two-wicket defeat in the deciding fifth ODI against Bangladesh.
The tourists performed poorly with the bat, and were restricted on a lowly 217. In reply, the Bengali Tigers were halted early on before the middle-order came to the party and guided the team to an impressive series win.
The defeat has taken the gloss off a promising year in Windies cricket, in which they lifted the World T20 trophy, and further claimed four consecutive Test wins. "We haven't played our best cricket in this series but we still were in with a chance to win the series. I would never blame anyone. This has been a good year for us. We would have loved to win this series but we didn't."
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