Showing posts with label T20. Show all posts
Showing posts with label T20. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Dinesh Karthik to replace injured Sehwag : IGNITION STARTS

DineshKarthik celebrates

Dinesh Karthik will be the one to replace India's dashing Indian opener Sehwag.Sehwag is nursing a shoulder injury and when he failed to pass the fitness test the BCCI has decided to send Sehwag back home.There is a speculation on Sehwag's exit and the rumor mills is that the rift between Dhoni and Sehwag has got up so worst that Dhoni had decided to send back Sehwag.

Dhoni usually know to be very cool was irked when the media person queried about the conspiracy behind the Sehwag's exit.Reports suggest that Dhoni's face turned pale before he could answer.Team manager had to step in to give an answer,or else is Dhoni becoming the scapegoat for all the media questions.This speculation. has not come to an end.

Dinesh Karthik was mainly selected as the replacement for Sehwag because of his good form in the recent IPL and more over he will be the second wicket keeper in the team.

Myself and my friend had a discussion about this and he suggested me that Sachin would have been a apt person for this , since he is the senior most and he can calm down the team. Sachin may have opted out of T20 but he is a team man and when the team needs him he with surely respond with a yes.

Friday, June 5, 2009

World Cup T20 : Netherland vs England Highlights

Netherland_win

The opening match between Netherland and England was a nail bitter in which Netherland won the match by 4 wickets.Netherlands won the toss and out in England to bat.England scored 162/5 in the allotted 20 overs.Thanks to some great opening partnership by Luke Wright and Ravi Bopara.

Netherlands in reply played good and consistent cricket never allowed the asking rate to climb.Then in the last over they needed 7 runs. Struat Board bowled a tight over but Netherland batsman scored a run of each ball and eventually won the match.They scored 163/5 in the allotted 20 overs.

England will have to play very well from here on to beat Pakistan so that it have a ray of hope to reach the Super Eight.Paul Collingwood has so many things to be thought about after this lose.We have to wait and see whether they can recover from this huge setback.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Symonds out of the T20 World Cup

Symonds axed

Andrew Symonds has been axed from the Australian T20 squad. He was drunken and he failed to attend the net session.The Austarlain team had seen enough of the 33 year old all rounder and decided to send him back home.Ricky Ponting was very upset and termed that omission of Symond would tilt the balance of the team.He also added that they had no other go becuase such was the behavior of Symonds.

Cameron White has been named as the replacement for Symonds and he is due to fly to England to join the rest of the team.One of the worlds dangerous T20 player gone now Australia mainly depend on Shane Watson to do the role of all rounder.

Friday, May 22, 2009

Shoaib Akhtar axed from ICC World T20



Shoaib Akhtar the Pakistani speedster axed from the T20 squad due to an skin infection. Coach confirmed the news to the media that Akthar is dropped from the squad and the replacement for Akthar will be speedster Rao Iftikhar.

I personally feel that Akthar is coming to the end of his International Cricketer.the speedster off late is sidelined by injuries and he is not able to play most of the international tournaments.

Monday, May 4, 2009

India announces the T20 Squad



India names the 15 member T20 World Cup squad for England which is due to start next month.The team captain is undoubtedly M.S.Dhoni (Mahi)who marshaled his men very well to win the T20 World Cup in 2007.The squad does not have Sachin or Dravid in spite of there blazing form in IPL.Sachin has however said that he is not interested in T20 and does not want to disturb the settled team of India.The 15 member squad is...

1) Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain and WicketKeeper)
2) Virender Sehwag (vice-captain)
3) Gautam Gambhir
4) Suresh Raina
5) Yuvraj Singh
6) Yusuf Pathan
7) Irfan Pathan.
8) Harbhajan Singh
9) Zaheer Khan
10) Ishant Sharma
11) R P Singh
12) Praveen Kumar
13) Rohit Sharma
14) Ravindra Jadeja and
15) Pragyan Ojha

I wish this Indian team in behalf of all Indian fans so that they win The World Cup this time also and bring laurels to our country.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Collingwood to lead England in T20 World Cup



Paul Collingwood to lead England in T20 World Cup which is going to start by the next month in England.This decision was a tough one from the England Cricket Board since there was no other player in contention for the job.Andrew Strauss the current captain of ODI and Test is not playing the T20 format neither his considered.This made life hard for the ECB to choose the captain.Finally they had to go with the 32 year old Paul Collingwood has the captain.Will Collingwood lead his team to a victory in this T20 Word Cup.I don't think so.But nothing is predictable in this form of the game.We have to wait and see who is the winner.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

ICC T20 Cricket World Cup 2009 schedule


The groups for the ICC Cricket World Cup 200p has been released.From the group stages India are the likely team to move to the next level with ease.There are totally 4 groups with 3 teams in each group.One team will go out of each group and then they will again form two groups.

Group A : India , Bangladesh and Ireland

Group B : Pakistan, England and Netherlands

Group C : Australia,SriLanka and West Indies

Group D : NewZealand,South Africa and Scotland

NEXT LEVEL

SUPER EIGHT STAGES

Group E : A1, B2, C1, D2

Group F : B1, A2, C2, D1

SEMI FINALS

First Match : E1 vs F2

Second Match : F1 vs E2

FINALS

The winners of these two matches will clash for the title

Then two teams will be select from each group and you will have the semi-finals and then the finals.Any prediction who will win this time.Post you prediction as a comment.My automatic choice is India ( King of T20 game)

Monday, April 6, 2009

Indian Squad for T 20 World Cup



Indian Team emerged as the winners in the last time T20 World Cup.This time around it is going to tough to retain the title.The probables list of players for Twenty Twenty World Cup has been announced.The team consist of...

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain and Wicket Keeper)
Virender Sehwag
Gautam Gambhir
Yuvraj Singh
Suresh Raina
Rohit Sharma
Yusuf Pathan
Irfan Pathan
Harbhajan Singh
Zaheer Khan
Ishant Sharma
Munaf Patel
Praveen Kumar
Ravindra Jadeja
Pragyan Ojha
Dinesh Karthik
Murali Vijay
Ajinkya Rahane
S Badrinath
Robin Uthappa
Virat Kohli
Manoj Tiwary
Wriddhiman Saha
Abhishek Nayar
Amit Mishra
Ravichandran Ashwin
Rudra Pratap Singh
Lakshmipathy Balaji
Dhawal Kulkarni and
Naman Ojha.

All the best for this Indian Team to retain the title this time also!!!