Expectations of New Zealand at next month’s Twenty20 world championship? Semifinalists.
Think of International Cricket Council-run tournaments and New Zealand “do” last four finishes.
Five times they have made the semifinals at the World Cup; in the Champions Trophy they have their solitary ICC-run tournament victory, in Kenya nine years ago, and a semifinal finish three years [...]
Yuvraj Singh hitting six sixes in an over, Zimbabwe’s shock victory over Australia, the bowl-out between India and Pakistan, Chris Gayle’s blistering 117 off 57 balls and Misbah-ul-Haq’s dramatic last-over dismissal in the final - just a few of the highlights from the hugely successful inaugural ICC World Twenty20 held two years ago in South [...]
Pakistan captain Younus Khan is confident his team can go one better in the World Twenty20 after finishing runners-up last time to bitter rivals India.
Two years ago, Pakistan lost a nailbiting final against India by five runs in Johannesburg, a loss that Younus insists his team is eager to put behind them.
“We want to win [...]
Kumar Sangakkara said his team would make a “very strong impact” on the Twenty20 World Cup with less pressure on it to perform in this format. The tournament, which begins next week in England, marks Sangakkara’s maiden tour as captain since taking over from Mahela Jayawardene, and the team’s return to cricket following the Lahore [...]
Former Proteas coach Eric Simons believes that South Africa will walk away with this year’’s ICC World Twenty20 trophy.
South Africa’’s first match of the tournament is against Scotland to be played at the Oval in London on June 7, and Simons feels the balance of the squad makes them a dangerous opponent.
“I think we have [...]
The loss of fast bowler Zaheer Khan could diminish India’s chances of retaining the Twenty20 World Cup.
Such was the view of his team mate and fellow pace bowler Ishant Sharma and he said this while interacting with media persons at a school which he visited here on Wednesday.
This visit to Modern School [...]
The Pakistan Cricket Board has barred Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar from playing in the ongoing National Twenty20 Championship after it had him replaced in the Twenty20 World Cup squad because he was suffering from a skin infection. According to sources a spokesman for the ICA said, “The PCB has sent the medical report and a [...]
Doubtless Australia is a top performer in international cricket in one day international as well as test cricket; however their prowess in the shortest form of the game, i.e. T20 cricket is something of an unknown quantity. Ricky Ponting is himself not known to play his best cricket in this format of the game and [...]
West Indies captain Chris Gayle, reeling from a cluster of poor results in his team’s just-concluded series against England, wants the Caribbean side to rebound in next month’s ICC World Twenty20 Championship.
Already beaten 2-0 in the Test series, West Indies crashed to a 58-run loss in the third and final one day international (ODI) on [...]
To celebrate the ICC World Twenty20 tournament which is being held in England from June 5-21, Sportsmail has teamed up with tournament sponsors Emirates, the award-winning international airline, to give cricket lovers the chance to win two pairs of tickets for the England v Netherlands game at Lord’s on Friday June 5.
After the successful debut [...]
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