Cricket: "Bangladesh Wins First Away Series Against WestIndies"

Bangladesh at last have arrived in the international stage with a away series vitory against WestIndies. This is the first time they have won a series away. Inspite of they playing with a second string team of WestIndies, they should a lot of character and applied themselves to win this series.

It was Sakib Ul Hassan who turned it for Bangladesh, he bowled brilliantly and batted extra-ordinarily to see bangladesh through in both the test and was rightly adjudged Man of the series. This is just a beginning and bangladesh have a long way to go, with the resource they have they will surely see success with other top league teams in the days to come.

West Indies was hit by contract issues, due to which all the leading player went on a strike. The board has to decide on the second string team in a haste. Second string teams have a lot of talent in the form of Roach and Sammy who will surely considered inspite of return of the main side. What ever may be the reson, West Indies gave away the series to Bangladesh.

Cricket: "Puffy Flintoff Blows Australia Away in Second Ashes Test"

Ashes comes alive as England draws the first blood and go up 1-0 in the series. England defeated Austrlia in the second test with 115 runs and improved their chances of grabbing the ashes from Australia.

Flintoff took five wickets in the course of this victory. His previous five wicket haul was against Australia in 2005 that too in a Ashes which they won. That win in 2005 led them to win the ashes, will this Five for do the same, lets see.

Flintoff's spell on the last day first session was deadly, he first removed the set batsmen Hadding and then has Haurtiz and Johnson to clean up Australia. Just before the second test he announced his retirement and made his intensions clear about winning Ashes 2009. Lets see how deadly will be prove in the next three matches.

All the best to flintoff and England.

Cricket: "England Manage to Draw the First Ashes Match"

At last Ashes has arrived and Australia will be defending their Ashes agaisnt England who are more determined to grab it this time. England want to avenge their loss to Australia in 2006 when they lost it 5-0 whitewash. England wants to give flintoff and great farewell to his test career by winning the Ashes.

England escaped with a draw on the final day of the first Ashes test and not letting Australia taking a lead here.

Cricket: "Flintoff Announces Retirement After Ashes"

Andrew Flintoff has announced his retirement from International Test Cricket after the current Ashes. This he announced during the Second Ashes Test 2009. He also said that winning this ashes will be perfect farewell to him. Rightly so he produced a gem of a performance to give England a 1-0 lead in the Ashes afer the second test.

Cricket: "India Wins series 2-1 against West Indies"

After doing disastrously bad at T20 World cup indian fans has a reason to cheer. India has won its Fifth consecutive series win after defeating WestIndies in the just concluded one day series under the leadership of Dhoni.

India started the series with a band when they scored 340 in the first ODI, thanks to Yuvraj for his brilliant century. WestIndies came terrifyingly close to chase down it but fell just 20 runs short of it giving india a 1-0 up in the series. West Indies came back strongly in second ODI, where Dhoni's heriocs coudnt win the game for india. With this win the series was hanging in balance at 1-1. Third ODI was shortened due to rain and india won it thru Dhoni who hit a six in the final over to seal a win for india and giving india a unassailable lead of 2-1. Final ODI was a damp squid and India won Fifth straight series on a trot.

Mahendra singh Dhoni was awarded the Man of the series award for his consistant performance througout the series.

India's Consolidated list of Five Series Wins:

YEAR	AGAINST	IN	MARGIN	MAN OF THE SERIES
2009	WestIndies	WestIndies	2-1	MS Dhoni
2009	NewZealand	NewZealand	3-1	--NA--
2009	Srilanka	Srilanka	4-1	Yuvraj Singh
2008	England	India	5-0	Yuvraj Singh
2008	Srilanka	Srilanka	3-2	MS Dhoni

As you refer the table above, 4 of the 5 series wins for india are away and one was against england during which the mumbai attacks happened. Dhoni and Yuvraj domindated the series and not to be forgetten that in the recently concluded series inspite of Dhoni being the Man of the series Yuvraj scored a brilliant century of the series from either side.