Pakistan Dominates on the First Day

The first test between Bangladesh and Pakistan commenced today with the Pakistani bowlers dominating the match. Paceman Umar Gul (2-33) and Aizaz Cheema (2-35) led the attack on a spinner friendly pitch. Abdur Rehman and Saeed Ajmal took 3 wickets a piece to finish of the first innings of the Bangladeshi for just 135 all out.

The Pakistani opening pair Mohammed Hafeez and Taufiq Umar cruised along for the remainder of the day reaching 132/0 before stumps were called.

Sehwag Beats Tendulkar

On Thursday, Indian batsmen Virendar Sehwag scored 219 against the West Indies thus surpassing the little maestro Sachin Tendulkar's record of unbeaten 200 runs vs South Africa last year. Sehwag was very proud that he was able to emulate Tendulkar and was able to break his record of the highest individual score in One Day Internationals.

India went on to beating the West Indies by 153 runs thus taking an unassailable 3-1 lead in the series.

Bravo Out of 4th ODI

Darren Bravo of West Indies will miss the 4th ODI which is going to be played in Indore, India on Thursday because of a hamstring injury. He was one of the leaders for the West Indies batting line-up scoring a half-century in the first match of the series.

West Indian skipper Darren Sammy stated ahead of the match that he was confident that the squad was strong enough that they would be able to handle the absence of a key batsman in the next match.

Movement in ODI Rankings

After the exciting series between Bangladesh and Pakistan both teams have seen changes in their rankings.

For Pakistan, Umar Akmal rises to 10th place in the ODI Batsmen rating. He is not the only one to move in the right direction. Saeed Ajmal moves to the top of the list in the ODI Bowler's ratings with Mohammad Hafeez 19 points behind him on second place. Hafeez also gained a place in the ODI All Rounder ratings to 2nd overtaking Australia's Shane Watson. Similarly Umar Gul moves three places up to 26th place. Shoaib Malik moves 35 places to 82nd place.

As for Bangladesh, Shakib Al-Hasan has also moved to 7th position in the ODI Bowlers Ratings and still leads the pack in the ODI All-Rounder's rankings.

With 2 matches still left in the series, there has been quite a bit of shuffling already in the rankings for the India vs West Indies series.

For the first time in his career, R. Ashwin of India has broken into the top 20 for the ODI Bowler's rankings and now sits pretty at 18th with many opportunities to still better this. Virat Kohli is up to 4th place and Rohit Sharma is up to 35th place for the batsmen rankings. However due to low scores, Gautam Gambhir drops 7 places to 19th.

West Indian players are as on the move as Ravi Rampaul moves up to 13th in the bowler's rankings. Lendl Simmons is up to 25th place, Darren Bravo is up to 54th place and Andre Russell is up to 76th place in the batsmen rankings.