Australia finished 159/9 in there last match and it looks like Sri lanka will get it and if it happens than Australia is out of the t20 world cup
Australia innings (20 overs maximum)
R
B
4s
6s
SR
SR Watson
lbw b Mendis
22
21
2
1
104.76
7.3 gone! Watson attempts a horrible sweep to this very full and straight delivery, and he’s hit on the back [...]
12.20 pm: We’re all set for the start. The Scottish openers are out. New Zealand have taken their fielding positions. A measured applause from the crowd, not to full capacity yet but with West Indies taking on Australia after this, we can expect a bigger turn-out. So finally, we have a game. Mightily relieved, just [...]
Netherlands form a cuddle-huddle - they’re really, really fired up for this. Bopara and Wright are the openers. Australia’s Netherlands’ Dirk Nannes has the ball. Here we go…
England’s anthem drones out of the speakers - Swann’s belting it out, good on you Graeme. Collingwood, too, is stretching those vocal chords. Not a whimper from Anderson, [...]
England was humiliated in the Twenty20 World Cup opener on Friday, losing by four wickets to the Netherlands on the last ball of the match in one of the biggest shocks in cricket history.
Needing seven runs off the final over after England had totalled 162-5 at Lord’s, the Dutch team scored singles until Edgar Schiferli [...]
In spite of not playing much Twenty20 cricket since losing to India in the finals of inaugural ICC World Twenty20two years ago, Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam feels his team will put up good show at ICC World Twenty20 2009 starting on June 5.
Beaten finalists in inaugural ICC World Twenty20 in 2007, Pakistan would be [...]
The Twenty20 World Cup, which begins on Friday, will see some of the most stringent security measures ever witnessed at British cricket grounds, Sky News has learned.
All 12 teams will have police escorts throughout the 16-day competition and every fan entering grounds will be searched, it is understood.
The measures come three months after al Qaeda [...]
Pakistan have always had something of a lawless air about them (think beatings with cricket bats, drug scandals and the board’s suing of the ICC), but Younus Khan has instilled an authority that was missing under his predecessor Shoaib Malik. As a senior player with the ability to lead from the front, he enjoys the [...]
Pakistan’s bowling attack for the ICC World Twenty20 could provide some anxious moments to opposition batsmen with the addition of the country’s newest fast bowling sensation Mohammad Aamer to its pace battery. The attack already includes Umar Gul, the leading wicket-taker at the last World Twenty20.
Gul said he wanted to do better than last [...]
Beaten finalists in the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup two years ago, Pakistan would ordinarily be regarded as a title contender in the second edition of the event.
However, a shortage of recent top-class experience in the format and an overall lack of international cricket have hurt its chances.
Pakistan’s ongoing security problems means the national team has [...]
