Funny are the vagaries of cricket. It’s the second round of a World Cup and a team that lost today — Australia — is going to the semifinals. And the team that won later in the evening — India — is going home. It’s hard to think of another sport where such an oddity would [...]

What a game we have had so far and we now have the second Super Over of the tournament. New Zealand has been involved in both. Terrific game. The Kiwis looked strong right through the chase but regular wickets didn’t help. Narine and Rampaul bowled beautifully at the death and left 14 runs for Samuels in [...]

India captain MS Dhoni is all praise for Yuvraj Singh’s small but notable contributions in India’s World Twenty20 campaign so far and said he is almost indispensable. Yuvraj, playing his first international event after recovering from a rare germ cell cancer, has been in decent form both with the bat and ball, besides making his [...]

  India and Pakistan’s cricketing fortunes are intertwined — they’ve forever fluctuated between the sublime and the ridiculous. Today at the World Twenty20, it was India’s turn to be sublime and Pakistan’s to be ridiculous. India had the perfect game. They had to win today. They picked their best team, read the wicket well, set smart fields, and [...]

The superstitious Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) recalls maverick pacer S Sreesanth for the T20 World Cup starting in Sri Lanka on Tuesday as the board feels the Kerala pacer’s lucky charm will help India in bringing back the cup. Sreesanth is considered lucky for the team - despite taken to the cleaners by the opposition [...]

Former explosive batsman and Sri Lankan Captain Sanath Jayasuriya believes India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka have the best chance of winning this year’s Twenty20 World Cup, starting from September 18. Jayasuriya believes the spin friendly conditions in the sub continent would suit these three teams, and added India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, which is also [...]

In ICC T20 World Cup 2012 warm up match India won the toss and elected to bat first. Chasing a target of 146 runs to win, Sri Lanka was bundled out for 120 in 19.3 overs courtesy Irfan Pathan’s five wicket haul. L Balaji also picked up three wickets. Earlier, Propelled by captain MS Dhoni’s [...]

Team India would begin their ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2012 campaign with a warm-up match against hosts Sri Lanka on Saturday. Going into the championship with a loss against New Zealand, India have not quite built up to the big event in a desired fashion. Their bowling lacked potency in the final overs, while the [...]

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