England draw the Twenty20's

Friday and Saturday saw the first action of England touring Dubai where they played Pakistan and will also play Bangladesh starting this week.

The first game saw England take the win away from Pakistan with a brilliant batting performance from the ever improving Morgan (especially when he ended the game with 4, 4, 6) and a good return to runs for Kevin Pietersen, apart from his suicide single to get off the mark. It was also a good fielding performance with Stuart Broad in particular taking both wickets and some very good catches.

The second game went the same way with England batting first and thanks to a good team effort and some big hitting from some of the lower order they got up to a good total of just shy of 150 but this time (despite some more excellent fielding and catching) Pakistan had the batting talent to knock the runs off and finish the short series with a win per team in what was a fairly even contest over the 2 games.

Elsewhere it's unfortunate to see that the West Indies have been blown away by Australia who are looking more and more like the side that they used to be when they could beat anyone in the world. Australia seem to be pulling together as a squad and especially Shane Watson seems to be digging in to get both runs and wickets and with Doug Bollinger bowling well and Shaun Tait bowling at a fantastic speed it seems that they will match most teams that are out there.

There was a fantastic game of One Day cricket over the weekend as well with India playing South Africa. In what should have been a game that India won easily after they posted almost 300 and it was going swimmingly when the South Africans were 7 down with a lot to get but Wayne Parnell and Dale Steyn both hit more than 30 and should have won the game for them before India won by 1 run.