Pakistan stretched their winning streak to eight matches inone-day internationals, and piled on more misery for Sri Lanka in the process,as they won by seven wickets in Sharjah on Friday. Sri Lanka is currently in the midst of theirtour of Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates, and the hosts have not been veryhospitable! The victory, secured with a convincing 11overs to spare, gave Pakistan a 4-0 lead in the series with just Today’s finalmatch still to play. Given they were onan unusual 10-match losing run of their own, Sri Lanka’s spirits were probablylow enough, even before making the trip north-east up the coast from Abu Dhabifor the final phase of this series. Theloss for Sri Lanka was, perhaps, not surprising, as they have not won atSharjah, the Emirates most historic cricket venue, since 2002. Sri Lanka, embarrassingly, is amidst a rut ofnearly a dozen losses. The picture isnot any rosier for the Sri Lankans, who return to Sharjah, to play Pakistan, intheir fifth and final ODI of this series. tomorrow. in. Sharjah. Also on tap for today is a test match betweenWest Indies and Zimbabwe, and ODIs between India and New Zealand, and SouthAfrica and Bangladesh. In the USA, in MLB, the two teams contesting the WorldSeries of Baseball have been decided. The Los Angeles Dodgers, formerly of Brooklyn, had already beat theChicago Cubs in the NLCS to become that league's contender. Last night the seventh game of the seven gameseries was played between the perennial champions the New York Yankees, and theHouston Astros. The 'stros prevailed to take the American League title, and sowill face the Dodgers in the World Series, which will start later thisweek. The Los Angeles Dodgers are WorldSeries favorites, but not by much. Their best-of-seven series begins Tuesday inLos Angeles. The Dodgers are in theWorld Series for the first time since 1988 and will face a Houston team thatrallied back from a 3-2 series deficit in the American League ChampionshipSeries against the New York Yankees. The Astros beat the Yankees 4-0 Saturdaynight in Game 7 of the ALCS to advance to the franchise's second World Series. Neither team was considered favorites, evensome time into the season. In the USA, in the football season, six weeks in, there'snot a division leader with a lead of more than one game in the loss column, andthe NFC West, NFC South, AFC East and NFC North all have at least two teamstied in the loss column sitting atop the division. Of the league's 32 teams, awhopping 25 have three or fewer losses and 23 have two or three defeats totheir name. Green Bay has losttremendous Quarterback Aaron Rodgers to injury. They host the Saints at Lambeau Field today, and will be testing thelimits of their backup talent. . -- Posted By Rex to SR at 10/22/2017 01:48:00 AM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
