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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

There seems to be a cloud over ace Indian speedster Zaheer Khan’s participation in the ICC World Twenty20.
The left-arm-seamer, who played for Mumbai Indians in the just-concluded IPL, injured his bowling shoulder in the game against Royal Challengers in Johannesburg on May 3.
He didn’t play in a single game after that. All [...]

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 [...]

Batting great Sachin Tendulkar believes India will retain the Twenty20 World Cup next month, saying skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s team were the world’s best in the most explosive form of the game.
“India is the most balanced side in the world and there is no doubt we can defend the title,” Tendulkar told the DNA newspaper [...]

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 [...]