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Pakistan Progresses to Super Eight by Defeating Bangladesh

September 27th, 2012 pratish

Superb batting performance from Imran Nazir (72) and skipper Mohammad Hafeez (45) helped Pakistan to reach super eight league by beating  Bangladesh.

Getting a chase of challenging 176 from Bangladesh in Pallekele, Pakistan brilliantly performed to chase it and win the match.  Bangladesh, however, is now out of the ICC T2O World Cup league.

Earlier, Shakib Al Hasan smashed 84, helping the team to give a competitive chase to opponent. But all runs went on vain as Pak opener Nazir presented his brilliant batting performance.  Mohammad Hafeez, on the other hand, kept his calm giving Nazir a chance to score.

However, when both fall prey to the wicket, Nasir Jamshed (29 not out) and Kamran Akmal (22) ensured that the team wins the matches.  Bangladesh in its first inning also presented its brilliant batting performance in T20 league.

Pakistan was quite loose in their fielding department with Sohail Tanveer dropping catch of Rahim and Shahid Afirdi failing to take catch Hasan’s hit. However, Yasir Arafat was great in his bowling with taking (3/25).

Now the super league gets more interesting with Pakistan clashing India in Sunday.

Team:

Pakistan:

Mohammad Hafeez, Abdul Razzaq, Asad Shafiq, Imran Nazir, Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Sami, Nasir Jamshed, Raza Hasan, Saeed Ajmal, Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Akmal, Umar Gul, Yasir Arafat

Bangladesh:

Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah, Abdur Razzak, Abul Hasan, Elias Sunny, Farhad Reza, Jahurul Islam, Junaid Siddique, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mohammad Ashraful, Nasir Hossain, Shafiul Islam, Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Ziaur Rahman

 

India thrashes England by humiliating 90 runs

September 24th, 2012 pratish

The comeback of Harbhajan Singh helped India to thrash England by 90 runs in the final group league match in ICC World T20 on Sunday.

Putting India to bat first, the team gave a huge score of 171 to England to chase. India had a superb start with Virat Kohli smashing some great shots, but eventually falling short for half century. But later Gautam Gambhir (45) and Rohit Sharma (55) unbeaten gave England a huge run to score.

The comeback of Harbhajan Singh (4-12) and Piyush Chawla (2-13) kept England under pressure. The target of 171 for England seemed very tough to reach with Irfan Pathan giving an early blow to England openers.

Chawla with his superb googly confused England batsmen to judge the bowl and getting caught by it. Along with Chawla and Harbhajan’s comeback, this match also saw the comeback of Rohit Sharma by hitting some amazing shots over the boundary.  With Gambhir giving him the support on the other end, India crossed 50 runs within powerplay overs.

Irfan Pathan, in the place of injured Virender Sehwag flopped in the first innings, but showed up his talent through his bowling.

Meanwhile, England’s confidence in this match must have crushed down with the humiliating loss.

Team:

India:

MS Dhoni (Capt), Gautam Gambhir, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Piyush Chawla, Ashok Dinda, Harbhajan Singh, Virat Kohli, Irfan Pathan, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh.

England:

Stuart Broad (Capt), Jonathan Bairstow, Tim Bresnan, Jos Buttler, Jade Dernbach, Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Craig Kieswetter, Eoin Morgan, Graeme Swann, Luke Wright.

Australia registers their win against West Indies by D/L System

September 23rd, 2012 pratish

Opting to bat first, West Indies blazed the Premadasa stadium with the strong batting line up. Chris Gayle presented his best batting style by scoring 54 off 33 balls and other batsmen contributing well to register 191 runs.

However, the match got abandoned in second inning of Australia due to rain, but it helped the team to win the match by D/L system as they scored 100 runs off 9.1 overs.  Shane Watson (41) and David Warner (28) kept the scoreboard tickling faster, leading to win the match.

Earlier, West Indies steal the show with dazzling runs from Gayle, Marlon Samuels and Dwayne Bravo. Initially, it looked like Indies will get over 200, but Australian bowlers sealed their inning to 191.

Chasing a daunting score, Australia’s openers started very well by David Warner tearing off early smashing 2 sixes and 2 four to Ravi Rampaul. However, Fidel Edwards encountered Warner, which let Michael Hussey coming to crease and playing the game calmly.

With smoothly taking over the match, Michael Hussey and Shane Watson helped to cruise over the win, until rain interrupted the match, eventually winning the match by D/L system.

The brand new jersey for Windies in ICC T20 World Cup made distinctly looked different. Even it made them looks refreshing, also being the tournament favorites too.

However, weather didn’t seem not in the favor of Windies, resulting to lose their match.

Team:

West Indies:

Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo, Darren Sammy, Dwayne Smith, Dinesh Ramdin, Fidel Edwards, Kieron Pollard, Ravi Rampaul, Marlon Samuels, Johnson Charles, Sunil Narine.

Australia:

David Warner, Shane Watson, Michael Hussey, George Bailey, Cameroon White, Glenn Maxwell, Mathew Wade,  Daniel Christian, Brad Hogg,  Pat Cummins,  Mitchell Starc.

South Africa Fixes Sri Lanka by 32 Runs

September 23rd, 2012 pratish

The rain affected match between South Africa and Sri Lanka got reduced to 7th over, with the former winning the match by 32 runs.  This however, helped SA to top the ICC T20 World Cup Group C table.

South Africa’s skipper AB de Villiers showed his team faster way to win the match. De Villier’s 30 runs off 13 balls geared the team to win the match at Mahinda Rajapaksha International Cricket Stadium.

With this loss, Sri Lanka will enter the super 8 stage as the second team from the group. However, the team had a very bad start with loosing openers Mahela Jayawardane (4), Tillakaratne Dilshan (0) in quick session.

No batsmen from Sri Lanka could judge the bowling of immensely talented Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel and Jacques Kallis.

However, earlier, SA team witnessed a weak start with opener Richard Levi (4) was sent back to pavilion early by Nuwan Kulasekara.  However, later Hashim Amla and De Villiers came into grove. Besides hitting six and fours, De Villiers also kept the scoreboard ticking through twos and threes.

However, it came to an end against Malinga’s bowling, but JP Duminy ensured that the hitting should not go in vain. The 7 over match came to an end in quick session.

After being Man of the Match, South Africa’s skipper AB de Villiers said, “Beating Sri Lanka is nice because they are one of the top teams and now we are ready for the Super Eights, we didn’t take anything for granted and it was nice to win.”

Team:

South Africa:

Dilshan Munaweera, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Mahela Jayawardene (c), Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Angelo Mathews, Lahiru Thirimanne, Thisara Perera, Jeevan Mendis, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ajantha Mendis, Lasith Malinga

Sri Lanka:

Richard Levi, Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers (c&wk), Jean-Paul Duminy, Farhaan Behardien, Albie Morkel, Johan Botha, Robin Peterson, Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel

McCullum’s Ton Crushes Bangladesh by 7 wickets

September 23rd, 2012 pratish

Hard hitting NZ batsmen and wicket keeper Brendon McCullum showed why he is the favorite for T20 matches. His record breaking ton of 123 against Bangladesh left the opponent with no option but watch his dazzling strokes. This was his best performance in ICC T20 World Cup.
His ton also guided New Zealand to score 191/3 and restricting Bangladesh to 132/8. From bowling department, Tim Southee (16/3) and Kyle Mills (33/3), didn’t allow Bangladesh to reach the target. Earlier, Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field due to slight overcast condition of Pallekele, but the decision seems to have gone against them and giving McCullum a momentum to deliver his best.
Bangladesh included three spinners to the squad, but no one was spared. Similar situation happened while chasing the mammoth score. The team needed a good start but eventually left with no smashing as they lost early wicket keeping middle order batsmen under pressure.
However, Mahmudullah and Nasir Hossain tried for the steady growth by Nasir scoring half century but were eventually fell apart. Bangladesh had a terrible match in both bowling and batting session. New Zealand, on the other hand, presented their all round performance and looking forward to face Pakistan on Sunday.
McCullum after winning Man of the Match said, “Obviously I am very pleased to be able to make that contribution. I was just trying to maximize the last couple of overs for the team. We had discussed the need to put on partnership early on so I wanted to make sure that we try to maximize ourselves but certainly not the records,”
Team:
Bangladesh:
Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah, Abdur Razzak, Abul Hasan, Elias Sunny, Farhad Reza, Jahurul Islam, Junaid Siddique, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mohammad Ashraful, Nasir Hossain, Shafiul Islam, Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Ziaur Rahman.

New Zealand:

LRPL Taylor DAJ Bracewell, JEC Franklin, MJ Guptill, RM Hira, BB McCullum, NL McCullum, KD Mills, AF Milne, RJ Nicol, JDP Oram, TG Southee, DL Vettori, BJ Watling, KS Williamson

Zimbabwe gets crushed by South Africa by 10 wickets

September 21st, 2012 pratish

By facing the second defeat in the tournament, Zimbabwe gets out of the T20 World Cup 2012, by losing second match against South Africa.

South Africa first restricted opponents to 93 runs and in the second inning without much effort, Africa get to the total easily.  Richard Levi (44) and Hashim Amla (32 not out) both helped to win the match without sweating much.

Earlier, Jacques Kallis presented his years of experience to minnows by taking 4 wickets, which kept Zimbabwe under pressure. With lively pitch at Mahinda Rajapakse Stadium, Kallis took all the advantage to clean opponents in no time.

Supported by Dale Steyn (1/9), Morne Morkel (2/16), both dismantled Zimbabwe team at the core.  Captained by AB de Villiers, South Africa was in good position and seems to be prepared to face Sri Lanka on Saturday.

Zimbabwe’s top scorers Ervine and Matsikenyeri building 35 run fourth wicket partnerships tried hard to generate high score, but eventually failed against Kallis bowling.

Albie Morkel also collected one wicket by sending Hamilton Masakadza back to pavilion.

Team:

Zimbabwe:

Hamilton Masakadza, Vusi Sibanda, Brendan Taylor(w/c), Craig Ervine, Stuart Matsikenyeri, Elton Chigumbura, Graeme Cremer, Prosper Utseya, Ray Price, Kyle Jarvis, Brian Vitori

South Africa:

Richard Levi, Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers(w/c), Jean-Paul Duminy, Farhaan Behardien, Albie Morkel, Johan Botha, Robin Peterson, Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel 

Afghanistan loses Plot to Win against India

September 20th, 2012 pratish

Chasing 159 runs, Afghanistan gave a tough fight to India, but eventually loses the match by giving out wickets. India playing its first match in T20 World Cup, at R Premadasa stadium, Sri Lanka, won the battle against the Afghanistan, but under pressure.
Afghanistan came into the ground with great spirit shown by Mohammad Shahzad, Nowroz Mangal and Mohammad Nabi scoring 43 runs in just 4 overs, but couldn’t stay at crease for long time.
Earlier India played a fantastic innings with Virat Kohli scoring 50, and Suresh Raina 38, giving a helping hand to set the target of 159. Kohli was in his usual shelf, threatened to sizzle the stadium with his strokes.
Afghan bowlers, however, were brilliant, but poor fielding nullified their performance. Mohammad Nabi, who dropped Yuvraj Singh’s catch, luckily didn’t had to face the storm of Yuvi. Too many dropped catches costed Afghan to chase the huge score.
However, later Afghan batsmen gave a tough fight to Indian bowlers, keeping Dhoni guessing for better fielding department. However, L.BALAJI (3/19) kept the pressure on Afghan batsmen and folding their innings for 139, leading to the first win in T20 World Cup.
Players:
India:
Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (c & wk), Irfan Pathan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Zaheer Khan.
Afghanistan:
Karim Sadiq (wk), Asghar Stanikzai, Mohammad Shahzad, Nawroz Mangal (c), Mohammad Nabi, Shafiqullah Shafiq, Gulbodin Naib, Samiullah Shenwari, Dawlat Zadran, Shapoor Zadran, Najibullah Zadran.

Sanath Jayasuriya offers Tips to India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka for Title

September 19th, 2012 admin

Veteran hard hitting Sri Lankan batsman, Sanath Jayasuriya tips three countries Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan to snatch the ICC T20 World Cup 2012 titele starting from Tuesday.

“It’s a tough tournament to predict as there are several teams who if they find their rhythm right and get their tactics right could ultimatkey win the title,” he said.

“Any team that can put 160 runs on board in this tournament is going to be tough to beat in any condition. The pressure to score 160 runs could be too much for some of the teams, “ he added.

Supporting Asian team he said, “

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