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 [...]
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 [...]
psychologist Maqbool Bari feels Pakistan players have the ability and confidence to win the ICC World Twenty20 if they play as a unit.
Bari has been hired by the Pakistan Cricket Board to counsel the players as part of their preparations for the World Cup in England next month.
He held one-to-one sessions last week on the [...]
Pakistan vice-captain Misbah-ul-Haq is suffering from a groin injury but team officials say he will recover in time for next month’s ICC World Twenty20 in England.
The injury has forced Misbah to miss all three matches of his regional team Faisalabad Wolves in the ongoing National T20 championship in Lahore.
“It is not a serious groin injury. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Minnows Ireland fancy their chances to make it to the Super Eight stage of the upcoming T20 World Cup. In the 2007 T20 World Cup Ireland beat international cricket teams like Pakistan and Bangladesh and their coach Phil Simmons has said in the cricket news that his team would be disappointed if they do not [...]
Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam is keen to play off-spinner Saeed Ajmal, who has been reported for a suspect action, in next month’s Twenty20
World Cup and said he is confident that the tweaker would come out clean in the ICC’s review.
“I am confident his action would be cleared in these latest tests. And even if [...]
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