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 [...]
What would you do, if your team needed 21 runs of the last over? Well sometime back Yusuf Pathan would have been an instant solution for such a situation. But Team India now has another finisher in their ranks, and this significant quality makes Rohit Gurunath Sharma Dhoni’s trump card for this year’s T20 World [...]
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 [...]
Andrew Flintoff has been plagued by so many injuries lately, it’s quite worrying. His stint at the IPL resulted in a knee – a tear to the meniscus in his right knee – and operation, and people began to doubt whether he’ll be fit enough in time for the Ashes. Without Flintoff, the Ashes for [...]
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 [...]
England all rounder Andrew Flintoff, who is recovering from a knee surgery, is in doubt for next month’s Twenty20 World Cup next month.
Flintoff, who sustained knee injury during his short stint in the Indian Premier League (IPL), revealed Friday that he is yet to start running after his surgery.
Flintoff was named in the [...]
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