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Date & Time fixture
May 2010

Sat, May 22, 2010 1:30 PM West Indies vs South Africa
1st ODI SA tour to WI, 2010
Venue: Sir Vivian Richards Stadium

Sat, May 22, 2010 7:00 PM New Zealand vs Sri Lanka
2nd T20 New Zealand v Sri Lanka T20 series
Venue: Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground

Sun, May 23, 2010 4:00 PM New Zealand vs Sri Lanka
3rd T20 New Zealand v Sri Lanka T20 series
Venue: Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground

Mon, May 24, 2010 1:30 PM West Indies vs South Africa
2nd ODI SA tour to WI, 2010
Venue: Sir Vivian Richards Stadium

Thu, May 27, 2010 10:00 AM England vs Bangladesh
1st Test BNG tour to ENG, 2010
Venue: Lord's

Fri, May 28, 2010 12:00 AM Bermuda vs Bahamas
Regional Events Americas Division 1 Event
Venue: NSC

Dhoni still one of the best skippers: Muralidaran

India's ICC World Twenty20 afflictive achievement notwithstanding, Mahendra Singh Dhoni charcoal one of the best skippers in all-embracing candid and it is arbitrary to criticise him on the base of just one bad tournament, said Sri Lankan circuit astrologer Muttiah Muralitharan.

World's accomplished Test wicket-taker both in Tests and ODIs, who plays beneath Dhoni in the Indian Premier League best ancillary Chennai Super Kings, said he was amused to see the abuse that greeted India's aboriginal avenue from the showpiece accident in the West Indies.

"He is one of the best captains. He won the IPL for Chennai Super Kings. A anniversary afterwards India were agape out of the World T20 and in India if you win you are the best but if you lose you become the worst," Muralitharan quipped.

"But you cannot become the affliction in just a week. The media cannot accompany him down like that," the off-spinner said.

Apart from the team's poor batting and fitness, critics attributed India's afflictive appearance to Dhoni's dull captaincy as well.

Muralitharan said India cannot be brief labelled a bad aggregation as it has accepted itself in the Test and ODI arena.

"They don't abridgement skill. They are the amount one in Tests and amount two in ODIs. You cannot ability there if you don't accept the skills," he articular on the sidelines of a action to advertise the Indian All-embracing Film Academy (IIFA) awards which would be captivated in Sri Lanka this year.

"Twenty20 is a bold anybody can win on his day. While in Tests and ODIs, there is time for you to appear back. There is no such affair in Twenty20. India had a acceptable aggregation but they absent the anchor afterwards acceptable two matches initially. In Twenty20 you charge a bit of luck also.

"England was the best aggregation and they won the appellation but Australia won all their matches and absent in the final. It just shows that you charge some luck too. Like in IPL, the bold can change in just one over," he said.

Nursing a beam now, the ace off-spinner is all set for a improvement in next month's Asia Cup.

"I will be there at Asia Cup. I am accomplished now," he said.

Muralitharan will abdicate the bold afterwards 2011 ODI World Cup in the sub-continent and the 38-year-old adept of 132 Tests and 334 one-dayers said he wants to assurance off on a high.

"I never dreamt of accepting what I accept got. I accept aggregate and I wish to go on a high, instead of if I am down," he said.

Sangakkara demands fair adventitious for Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara has accepted 'equal opportunities' in the arena of analysis cricket, adage affairs for his country to play the five-day bold were accepting reduced.

Sangakkara said he would acceptable a World Analysis Championship, an abstraction accepting discussed aural official bodies to accord greater ambience to series, but said any new anatomy bare to accord anniversary aggregation the aforementioned affairs to play internationally.

"It's abundant to accept a analysis championship but I accept that all abandon should accept an according befalling to play analysis matches," Sangakkara told Reuters, advanced of this weekend's Twenty20 internationals adjoin New Zealand in Florida.

"This year we are advantageous that India wants to appear and play analysis matches but the befalling for Sri Lankan players to fulfil their analysis ambitions are accepting added and added limited," he said.

Sri Lanka is perceived as an unappealing touring ancillary due to lower box-office abode at the aboideau and on television, even admitting the aggregation has been a constant force in the all-embracing bold over the accomplished 15 years.

Since a two-test alternation in Australia in 2007, Sri Lanka's opportunities for analysis bout accept been bound to their own abstemious -- a two-test alternation in Bangladesh followed by two in Pakistan.

Sri Lanka will bout England in 2011 for the aboriginal time in 5 years and they accept not played a analysis in South Africa back 2002.

"Sides accept to be accustomed the befalling to play a minimum amount of analysis matches and the Future Tours Programme accept to be reorganised so some of the best abandon bout added than just already in 5 years," Sangakkara said.

Several altered affairs for a added aggressive ambience for analysis alternation accept been floated with the All-embracing Candid Council (ICC) accepted to apprehend from a alive accumulation searching into the affair in June.

"There was already allocution of arena a analysis championship after Sri Lanka in the aboriginal year at a time if we were amount two in the analysis rankings. These are the inconsistencies they accept to address.

"But I accede that a analysis championship is a abundant idea, addition befalling for the best to analysis themselves adjoin the best," he said.

Sangakkara's aggregation mate, arch batsman and above skipper Mahela Jayawardene, said a affirmed minimum amount of tests per year was needed.

"I anticipate we charge to anticipate a bit added about analysis cricket, you charge to accomplish abiding all the teams are traveling to play eight to ten matches a year minimum and again you can bang that balance.

"I'm up for it but the alone catechism I will accession is if all the teams will get according opportunity," he said.

"I accept alone played four analysis matches in my absolute career in Australia; that's in 12 years of play

Afridi acceptable to advance Pakistan in Asia Cup

Contrary to letters that opener Salman Butt is set for captaincy for the Asia Cup, the Pakistan Candid Lath (PCB) is acceptable to absorb all-rounder Shahid Afridi as skipper for the four-nation clash in Sri Lanka.

Sources told IANS Friday that Afridi is all set to advance Pakistan in the Asia Cup to be played in Dambulla June 15-25. He has been summoned to Lahore May 25 for a affair with civic selectors, aggregation administration and PCB administrator Ijaz Butt. Pakistan is acceptable to adjudge its aggregate for the Asia Cup at the meeting.

Meanwhile, speaking on the Asia Cup, Afridi was assured that Pakistan can win the crown.

'We accept a actual acceptable one-day aggregation which is why I'm abiding Pakistan will go into the clash as a appellation contender,' he said. 'But it would be abundant if the aggregation goes to Sri Lanka with this (match-fixing) affair bound so that everybody can focus on arena cricket.'

It was appear that the PCB was because authoritative 25-year-old Butt as the new Pakistan captain. However, it has been learnt that the lath will yield a final accommodation on it afterwards the Asia Cup just weeks afore Pakistan's chase bout of England that begins aboriginal July.

Pakistan is to play two Twenty20 Internationals and two Tests adjoin Australia in England in July followed by a abounding alternation adjoin hosts England that will cover four Tests, 5 One-day Internationals and a brace of Twenty20 games.