Toss Dhoni has chosen to bat. "We will put up a
good score and try to put pressure on the flashy West Indies batting side.
It’s an unchanged squad."
Gayle: "I would have liked to bat first. Hopefully, we
can restrict them …"
0.1
Taylor to Gambhir, [...]
India innings (20 overs maximum)
R
M
B
4s
6s
SR
G Gambhir
c Simmons b Bravo
14
23
13
2
0
107.69
4.2 Three down now. What a delightful start by the Windies. It was the short-pitched delivery that did the trick. Gambhir top edged the pull and Lendl ran back from square leg and lunged forward in the end to take a very fine catch. First Ramdin and [...]
An under-tested India ran into a red-hot West Indies, who didn’t even need a significant contribution from Chris Gayle during a tense chase. Dwayne Bravo was his usual top-dawg self today, taking four wickets to keep India down and then resurrecting the chase after a subdued Gayle had got out early, with an innings that [...]
And so it came to pass that England’s chaotic campaign encountered the emotionless machine that is South Africa. And lo, a crushing did ensue. A packed and anticipatory crowd flocked to Trent Bridge - the true home of English cricket, in the opinion of David Hussey - but all they witnessed on their evening out [...]
The Super Eights are finally here, and Australia is the only significant absentee, having been humbled after back-to-back defeats by West Indies and Sri Lanka in the Group of Death. Bangladesh is the other seeded team to not make it through to the final 8, with their spot being filled in by Ireland.
Ireland have done [...]
1.30pm We are all set to go, Jerome Taylor has
the ball, Tillakaratne Dilshan on strike
1.25pm The teams walk out, each player
accompanied by a child. They line up for the national anthems.
"Rally round the Windies" is aired first, then "Sri
Lanka matha".
Chris [...]
Sri Lanka innings (20 overs maximum)
R
M
B
4s
6s
SR
TM Dilshan
c Benn b Simmons
74
82
47
11
1
157.44
17.4 Dilshan’s holed out this time, he was gearing up for the reverse- sweep even before the bowler delivered, the ball’s on middle and leg, Dilshan plays the reverse, only to find Benn at point, that ends a superb innings from Dilshan 172/4
ST Jayasuriya
lbw b Simmons
81
55
47
10
3
172.34
12.3 [...]
Sanath Jayasuriya and Tillakaratne Dilshan went on a scoring spree as Sri Lanka beat the West Indies and posted a mammoth 192 for five in the ICC Twenty20 World Cup on Wednesday.
Chasing the total, West Indies were restricted to 177 for five despite Dwyane Bravo’s breezy 51 off 38 balls with five fours and two [...]
South Africa innings (20 overs maximum)
R
M
B
4s
6s
SR
JH Kallis
run out (BB McCullum)
24
36
23
2
1
104.34
7.1 Butler to Smith, smart fielding at short midwicket! Butler drops it short of a length, it sits up and Smith short-arm-jabs it to the on side where Brendon McCullum intercepts and immediately releases and under-arm fling to the other end as Kallis is out of [...]
Pakistan innings (20 overs maximum)
R
M
B
4s
6s
SR
Kamran Akmal†
c Schiferli b Seelaar
41
42
30
3
2
136.66
9.6 holes out to deep midwicket. Akmal fetches the flighted delivery from outside off and goes for the shorter square boundary but slog sweeps it straight to the man. It almost popped out of his hand but he holds the rebound 81/2
Salman Butt
c Borren b ten Doeschate
18
20
13
2
1
138.46
4.3 [...]
