Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Sri Lanka V/S South Africa – 2nd Test Match

ICC had arranged a series between the two tough teams i.e. Sri Lanka and South Africa. Both the bodies gave a better output in the World Cup. This series is arranged in South Africa. A series of three test matches is to be played. In the first test match, Sri Lanka shows extremely poor result which leads them to lose the match by an innings and 81 runs. But in the second test match Sri Lanka come up with new strategy and tactics. Match was played in Durban. Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat. In their first innings Sri was able to score 338 runs.






Samaraweera was the leading scorer with 102 runs following with Chandimal with 58 runs. M De Lange was extra ordinary in his bowling who had taken 7 wickets. But in the first innings of South Africa they gave inadequate result which was only 168 runs. Hashim Amla scores 54 runs from South Africa. Herath and Welegedara were leading wicket takers with 4 and 5 wickets respectively. Sri was already ahead with a big score, further in second innings they score 279 runs. Sangakkara contributes 108 runs to his team total score. From bowling line up Steyn took 5 wickets. Now the target for South Africa was huge one of 450 runs. They face lots of difficulties to chase this huge score. All the wickets fell only on 241 runs. Live score show that Sri won the match by 208 runs.


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Football – Leading scorers

In every football league except for the champion trophy there are many other awards for which players of different teams compete with each other. Players compete with each other for the golden boot which is granted to the person scoring most goals. Golden boot is also given to the person who first scores ten or twenty goals in the season. Other awards are best goal of month as well as the overall season.





Preceding B. Rovers player Alan Shearer is the all time top score of Premier league with two hundred and sixty goals (260). Alan Shearer had won the title for scoring most goals in a season for three times. Seeing the records in the year 1995-96 he was the first one to reach 100 goals in the Premier League. Andrew Cole the famous player of Newcastle is on no. 2 in the all time top scorer list with one hundred and eighty seven (187) goals. Both are the only players to score thirty four (34) goals in a season in the year 1994-95 and 1993-94. Thierry Henry took the third position in top scorer of all time with one hundred and seventy four (174) goals.


There are only five teams which had able to reach thousand (1000) goals since the league had begun. Among them Manchester United is the first on to score 1000 goal in the year 2005-2006. While the latest team to score 1000 goals is Tottenham. Football live scores of Premier League 2011-12 are regularly updated on the web.

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