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  West Indies beat Srilanka by 36 runs to lift the ICC T20 World Cup 2012 trophy. West indies won the toss and chose to bat first. They got all out at 137 -6 with Marlyn Samuels playing a wonderful knock. At that point, it seemed like a target that was easy for the opposition to get.…

West Indies made it to the ICC World T20 final with a smashing 74-run victory over Australia at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo yesterday. Chris Gayle scored 75 and Windies set a huge target of 206 for Australia to chase. Australians couldn’t do much and fell like a house of cards. This is West…

Srilanka batted first and set up a total of 139 for Pakistan to chase. It wasn’t a huge total to chase but Pakistan’s batting order failed to score. Srilanks beat Pakistan by 16 runs. Man of the match was Mahila Jayawardene. Srilanka will now meet Australia or West Indies in the final on Sunday. The…

What a Sunday cracker of a cricket match! India won over Pakistan in their first meet at the Twenty20 World Cup today in Colombo. India-Pakistan World Cup matches are always a delight to watch at home, in shopping malls and in restaurants. This match was no exception, although fairly one sided with India dominating in…

India is all set to play against Pakistan in their second match in the Super Eights stage. After losing its very first challenge to Australia, India has to now win against Pakistan and South Africa. As for Pakistan , they won in their match with South Africa Saturday. Pakistan’s batting and bowling, both seems in…

Sri Lanka and West Indies had played a game each in the Super Eights stage and both had won it so it was match between the equals. West Indies won the toss and elected to bat first. Unfortunately, they got off to a very slow start and could score only score 130 at the end…

Sri Lanka and  New Zealand match was what  twenty twenty cricket is all about. Absolutey thrilling. Both teams were tied on 174 runs at the end of 20 overs. In such a situation of a tie like this, an extra over called super over is played by both teams. whoever scores more runs is the winner.…

Super Eight matches are kicking off from today when Sri Lanka plays New Zealand. This time Super Eights have been divided into two groups. Group 1 includes West Indies, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and defending champions England. Group 2 includes South Africa, Australia, India and Pakistan. These groups will play matches amongst themselves and top…

It was an important game for both Ireland and West Indies as both teams had lost their first game in the tournament. Ireland started of well by hitting 33 for 1 in 5 overs but then rain interrupted the game repeatedly. Windies in the end benefitted from Duckworth-Lewis method and were declared winners.

England lost to India by 90 runs while chasing a target of 171 runs. The defending champions, England got all out on 90 runs. Thanks to Jade Dernbach, England managed to make few more runs than the lowest ever total scored in history of twenty20. The star of the match was Harbhajan singh who stunned…

In a match against Bangladesh in the World Twenty20 on Friday, Brendon McCullum hit 123 off 58 balls to help kiwis score a total of 191-3. New Zealand won by 59 runs. In the other match played between England and Afghanistan at R. Premadasa Stadium yesterday,Luke Wright was not as lucky as McCullum. He fell…

  ICC World Twenty20/T20 also known popularly as the T20 World Cup is the international tournament for Twenty20 cricket. The tournament consists of total of 12 teams. The ICC World Twenty20 tournament started in 2007, was hosted by South Africa.The tournament was won by India, who became the first World T20 Champions after defeating Pakistan…