2015 Cricket All-Stars Series

Cricket All-Stars Series 2015
Part of Cricket All-Stars
Date 7 November 2015 – 14 November 2015
Location United States United States
Result Warne's Warriors won the 3-match series 3–0
Player of the series Sri Lanka Kumar Sangakkara
Teams
Sachin's Blasters Warne's Warriors
Captains
Sachin Tendulkar Shane Warne
Most runs
India Sachin Tendulkar
(115)		 Sri Lanka Kumar Sangakkara
(153)
Most wickets
England Graeme Swann
(3)		 Australia Andrew Symonds
(8)

Cricket All-Stars Series 2015[1] was an exhibition Twenty20 cricket series in the USA. Many of the legendary cricketers, who are now retired from international cricket, took part in this series in order to promote and popularise the game of cricket in America. It was the inaugural series of the Cricket All-Stars.

Squads

The two captains selected their respective squads by randomly drawing out the player names on 5 November 2015 at the Times Square.[2]

Sachin's Blasters

S/N Player name[3] Age
10 India Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (c) 42
44 India Virender Sehwag 37
19 India VVS Laxman 41
9 West Indies Cricket Board Brian Lara 46
2 India Sourav Ganguly 43
27 Sri Lanka Mahela Jayawardene (wk) 38
4 West Indies Cricket Board Carl Hooper 48
05 Pakistan Moin Khan (wk) 44
800 Sri Lanka Muttiah Muralitharan 43
66 England Graeme Swann 36
32 West Indies Cricket Board Curtly Ambrose 52
7 South Africa Shaun Pollock 42
11 Australia Glenn McGrath 45
69 South Africa Lance Klusener 44
21 Pakistan Shoaib Akhtar 40

Warne's Warriors

S/N Player name[4] Age
23 Australia Shane Warne (c) 46
28 Australia Matthew Hayden 44
99 England Michael Vaughan 41
14 Australia Ricky Ponting 40
8 South Africa Jonty Rhodes 46
3 South Africa Jacques Kallis 40
63 Australia Andrew Symonds 40
84 Sri Lanka Kumar Sangakkara (wk) 38
09 Pakistan Saqlain Mushtaq 38
15 New Zealand Daniel Vettori 36
12 West Indies Cricket Board Courtney Walsh 53
1 Pakistan Wasim Akram 49
33 South Africa Allan Donald 49
13 India Ajit Agarkar 37
72 New Zealand Shane Bond 40

Venues

All three matches of the series played in baseball stadiums. Initially in June 2015, Wrigley Field in Chicago and Yankee Stadium in New York were booked as venues, along with Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.[5] However, in October 2015, the former two venues were replaced by New York Mets' home ballpark Citi Field and Houston Astros' home ballpark Minute Maid Park. The first match was a day game in New York, while the second and third played under lights in Houston and Los Angeles respectively.[1]

A curator from New Zealand was hired to prepare drop-in pitches in Minneapolis to be delivered to the three stadiums.[6]

New York City Houston Los Angeles
Citi Field Minute Maid Park Dodger Stadium
Coordinates: 40°45′25″N 73°50′45″W / 40.75694°N 73.84583°W / 40.75694; -73.84583 Coordinates: 29°45′25″N 95°21′20″W / 29.75694°N 95.35556°W / 29.75694; -95.35556 Coordinates: 34°4′25″N 118°14′24″W / 34.07361°N 118.24000°W / 34.07361; -118.24000
Capacity: 41,922 Capacity: 41,574 Capacity: 56,000

Umpires

Marais Erasmus from South Africa who is currently a member of the ICC Elite Umpire Panel and Simon Taufel and Steve Davis from Australia who were former (now retired) members of the ICC Elite Umpire Panel are the three experienced umpires who were selected to perform the duties of the on-field umpires and the third umpire in all the three games on a rotation basis.

Fixtures

1st match

7 November 2015
Scorecard
Sachin's Blasters
140/8 (20 overs)
v
Warne's Warriors
141/4 (17.2 overs)
Virender Sehwag 55 (22)
Andrew Symonds 3/15 (2 overs)
Ricky Ponting 48* (38)
Shoaib Akhtar 2/26 (4 overs)
Warne's Warriors won by 6 wickets
Citi Field, New York
Umpires: Marais Erasmus (South Africa) and Simon Taufel (Australia)
Player of the match: Shane Warne (Warne's Warriors)
  • Warne's Warriors won the toss and elected to field.
  • Attendance 36,000

2nd match

11 November 2015 (D/N)
Scorecard
Warne's Warriors
262/5 (20 overs)
v
Sachin's Blasters
205/8 (20 overs)
Kumar Sangakkara 70 (30)
Lance Klusener 2/45 (3 overs)
Shaun Pollock 55 (22)
Andrew Symonds 4/70 (4 overs)
Warne's Warriors won by 57 runs
Minute Maid Park, Houston
Umpires: Marais Erasmus (South Africa) and Steve Davis (Australia)
Player of the match: Kumar Sangakkara (Warne's Warriors)
  • Sachin's Blasters won the toss and elected to field.
  • Attendance 27,000

3rd match

14 November 2015 (D/N)
Scorecard
Sachin's Blasters
219/5 (20 overs)
v
Warne's Warriors
224/6 (19.5 overs)
Sachin Tendulkar 56 (27)
Daniel Vettori 3/33 (4 overs)
Jacques Kallis 47 (23)
Graeme Swann 2/21 (4 overs)
Warne's Warriors won by 4 wickets
Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles
Umpires: Simon Taufel (Australia) and Steve Davis (Australia)
Player of the match: Jacques Kallis (Warne's Warriors)
  • Sachin's Blasters won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Attendance 21,000 [7]

Statistics

Most runs

Player Team Mat Inns Runs Ave S/R HS 50 4s 6s
Sri Lanka Kumar Sangakkara Warne's Warriors 3 3 153 51.00 191.25 70 1 12 12
Australia Ricky Ponting Warne's Warriors 3 3 132 132.00 167.08 48* 0 11 8
India Sachin Tendulkar Sachin's Blasters 3 3 115 38.33 155.40 56 1 7 9
South Africa Jacques Kallis Warne's Warriors 3 3 105 35.00 181.03 47 0 10 8
India Virender Sehwag Sachin's Blasters 3 3 98 32.66 217.77 55 1 6 10

Most wickets

Player Team Mat Inns Wkts Ave Econ BBI S/R 3WI 4WI
Australia Andrew Symonds Warne's Warriors 3 3 8 14.75 13.11 4/70 6.7 1 1
New Zealand Daniel Vettori Warne's Warriors 2 2 4 11.50 5.75 3/33 12.0 1 0
England Graeme Swann Sachin's Blasters 2 2 3 20.33 7.62 2/21 16.0 0 0
Australia Shane Warne Warne's Warriors 3 3 3 27.33 7.45 3/20 22.0 1 0
Pakistan Saqlain Mushtaq Warne's Warriors 1 1 2 6.00 4.00 2/12 9.0 0 0

Broadcasters

Country TV broadcaster(s)
 Australia GEM
 India Star Sports 2
Middle East OSN Sports Cricket HD
 Pakistan TEN Sports
 South Africa SuperSport 2
 United Kingdom Sky Sports 3
 New Zealand Sky Sports 4
 United States ESPN3

References

  1. 1 2 Della Penna, Peter. "Tendulkar-Warne exhibition T20s in November". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Tendulkar to play alongside Lara in Cricket All-Stars". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  3. ↑ Squad – ESPN Cricinfo
  4. ↑ Squad - ESPN Cricinfo
  5. ↑ "Warne confirms booking baseball venues for all-star T20s". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  6. ↑ "USA All-Stars tour gaining momentum". cricket.com.au. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  7. ↑ "Warne helps Warriors to All Stars Win". Cricket.com.au. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  8. ↑ "Cricket All-Stars Series, 2015 / Records / Most runs". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
  9. ↑ "Cricket All-Stars Series, 2015 / Records / Most wickets". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 12 November 2015.

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