World Twenty20 is already a success. Commentators and cricket buffs are labelling it the future. There is a certitude here that was absent‚ for instance‚ when predictions for the one-day format were made at the 1975 Prudential Cup. Despite the success of the World Twenty20‚ the ICC has insisted that it will not replace the 50-over format and that the limit of seven Twenty20 matches per Test-playing nation each year will still carry on despite its popularity Where was Twenty/20 or Twenty20 (20:20)
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vice-captain of the ODI team from late-2007 to late-2008. At the 2007 World Twenty20‚ he famously hit six sixes in an over against England’s Stuart Broad — a feat performed only three times previously in any form of senior cricket‚ and previously never in an international match between two Test cricket nations. He was named the Man of the Tournament in the 2011 Cricket World Cup and was one of the top performers at the 2007 World Twenty20‚ both of which India won. In 2011‚ he was diagnosed with a cancerous
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Cricket‚ also called the Gentleman’s game‚ is a bat-and-ball team sport that is first documented as being played in southern England in the 16th century. The sport’s earliest definite mention was in a 1598 court case which referred to a sport called cricket being played by boys at the Royal Grammar School‚ Guildford around 1550. It is believed that it was originally a children’s game but references around 1610‚ indicate that adults had started playing it and the earliest reference to inter-parish
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Shahid Afridi (Urdu: شاہدآفریدی)‚ born Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi also known as Boom Boom Afridi born on 1 March 1980)[2] is a Pakistani cricketer. Between 1996 and 2012‚ Afridi played 27 Tests‚ 350 One Day Internationals‚ and 59 Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) for the Pakistani national team. He made his ODI debut on 2 October 1996 against Kenya and his Test debut on 22 October 1998 against Australia. He is known for his aggressive batting style‚[3] and previously held the record for
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than Yusuf‚ it was Irfan who entered the Indian team first. Following his impressive performances in the 2007 Deodhar Trophy and the Inter-state domestic Twenty20 competition held in April 2007‚ Pathan was made a part of the Indian squad for the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship‚ held in South Africa in September 2007. He made his Twenty20 international debut in the final against Pakistan. He opened the batting for India in the match‚ and scored 15 runs in the process.[1] After a good domestic
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A PROJECT ON CRICKET CRICKET MATCH Cricket is a bat and ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a field‚ at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats‚ trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and field‚ trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the batting team. A run is scored by the striking batsman hitting the ball with his bat‚ running to the opposite end of the pitch and touching
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Cricket From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the sport. For the insect‚ see Cricket (insect). For other uses‚ see Cricket (disambiguation). "Cricketer" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Cricketer (disambiguation). [pic] |Cricket | |[pic] | |A bowler bowling to a batsman. The paler strip is the cricket pitch. The two | |sets of three
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League | Logo of the Indian Premier League | Countries | India | Administrator | BCCI | Format | Twenty20 | First tournament | 2008 | Next tournament | 2013 | Tournament format | Double round-robin and playoffs | Number of teams | 9 | Current champion | Kolkata Knight Riders | Most successful | Chennai Super Kings (2 titles) | Qualification | Champions League Twenty20 | Most runs | Suresh Raina (2101‚ Chennai Super Kings)[1] | Most wickets | Lasith Malinga (81‚ Mumbai
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semi-finals‚ but under new captain Gautam Gambhir‚ they would like to make a fresh start. Strengths: What with the fab five from DD – Sehwag‚ Gambhir‚ de Villiers‚ Warner and Dilshan all in top form‚ it could mean a real threat to the opposition. Twenty20 is all about boom boom‚ slam bam cricket and these guys are the best exponents the game has seen! Weaknesses: The team is highly dependent on foreign players for providing the right balance‚ be it Dirk Nannes to get initial breakthroughs or
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2011 under Mahendra Singh Dhoni. It thus became only the third team after West Indies and Australia to have won the World Cup more than once.[5] It is also the first cricket team to win the World Cup on home soil. India also won the inaugural World Twenty20 in 2007 and 2013 ICC Champions Trophy under the captaincy of Dhoni. India has also been the runner-up in 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy and the joint champion along with Sri Lanka in 2002 ICC Champions Trophy‚ led by Ganguly in both the instances. The
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