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Showing posts with label T20 World Cup 2014. Show all posts

Top 5 Most Memorable Moments of T20 World Cup

Whenever a sporting extravaganza takes place, people will remember that particular tournament because of some memorable moments that were close to their heart. The World T20 too had some memorable moments in its history right from Gayle’s ton in the very first match way back in 2007 to the West Indians’ celebration in the 2012 World T20 finals. Here, we bring you the top five memorable moments from the World T20.
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1. Yuvraj Singh Six Sixes, 2007
The year 2007 saw South Africa’s Herschelle Gibbs scoring six sixes off Netherlands’ Dan Van Bunge in a Group A game in the 2007 cricket World Cup. Few months later, the world witnessed yet another instance of 36 runs being scored in a single over. This time, it was in Durban and the crowd at the Kingsmead was witnessing the greatest masterpiece from a most under-rated batsman till that night. After choosing to bat against England in the super-eight of the 2007 World T20, India were cruising along with a run-rate of over 9 per over at the end of 16th over. Then it was the turn of India’s dashing southpaw Yuvraj Singh to take charge. After scoring 14 runs off his first six balls, Yuvraj chose Pacer Stuart Broad to deliver the knockout punch. Yuvraj, spurred by comments from Andrew Flintoff before the penultimate over, launched the first ball of the 19th over bowled by Broad to the cow corner, the second ball was disappeared over backward square leg, the third and fourth rocketed over extra cover and point respectively with the fifth flew over midwicket, and the sixth six landed in the stands at long-on. Yuvraj's 12-ball fifty is a record in all forms of international cricket.

2. Chris Gayle’s century in the inaugural match, 2007

Well begun is half done. This is what the inaugural edition of World T20 saw a way back in 2007. On the opening night, West Indies faced South Africa and straight away West Indian opener began with a boundary off the very first ball of the tournament. He accounted for more as Chris Gayle set the World T20 on fire by scoring a swashbuckling ton against South Africa at the Wanderers, Johannesburg in the inaugural match of 2007 World T20. With that ton against Proteas, Gayle also became the first man to score a hundred in International T20’s. It was a devastating innings from the Gayle Storm as he went for a leather hunt against the South African bowlers from the word go that made even the crowd to go for cover. He scored a record ten sixes in his 57 ball 117 that propelled the Windies to a challenging 205. Gayle was particularly severe on veteran Shaun Pollock as he made the former South African skipper look like a net bowler as the big man from Jamaica plundered a massive 44 runs off 14 balls from that particular bowler.

3. West Indies celebration, 2012

It is so hard for a country which dominated the game in the early years and lost its way in the transition period and to make a comeback. West Indies went through that tough period. The last time they played a World Cup final was way back in 1979 and they even went on to win the tournament. After 33 long years, West Indies made their way to the finals of the 2012 World T20 that took place in Sri Lanka. They were the most loved team by the people in the tournament courtesy their way of celebration. Their opener Chris Gayle not only led the team to the finals but also was handed the responsibility of being the leader of the pack when it comes to celebration. Gayle single-handedly made the Korean Song “Gangnam Style” sung by Psy a blockbuster hit by demonstration the step from that song for any celebrations. The calypso men from Caribbean saved their best for the finals. After winning the finals against the home side Sri Lanka, the entire team aligned themselves and started celebrating with the famous dance move. Their wicket keeper Denesh Ramdin started cartwheeling and the players were celebrating like anything to the Gangnam Style song which was played at the stadium. And when the team posed for a photograph with the trophy, Gayle came out and started taking some push-ups in front of the team which was cheered by his teammates from behind. Simply saying, Windies won the tournament and made the entire World happy with their celebration.

4. Mohammad Aamir’s over, 2010

When Australia faced Pakistan in a Group A game in St. Lucia, there was something bizarre took place. After winning the toss, Australia were cruising at 191 for 5 in the first 19 overs with some gritty knocks from Shane Watson, David Hussey and David Warner. It was when Pakistan’s young pacer Mohammad Aamir came into bowl with a figures of 3-0-23-0. As Aamir completed the last over, it went into the history books. For the first time in the history of cricket, as many as five wickets fell in a single over. All of a sudden, Aussies were collapsed from 191 for 5 to 191 all out in a matter of 6 balls. Out of the five wickets, Aamir accounted for 3 wickets and 2 batsmen ran themselves out searching for a bye. This is what happened in the 20th over bowled by Aamir.
19.1: Aamir to Brad Haddin, out. Haddin c Sami b Aamir 1(2)
19.2: Aamir to Mitchell Johnson, Out. Johnson b Aamir 0(1)
19.3: Aamir to Steve Smith, Out. Mike Hussey runout (Kamran) 17(19)
19.4: Aamir to Dirk Nannes, Out. Smith runout (Kamran) 0(1)
19.5: Aamir to Shaun Tait, 0 runs
19.6: Aamir to Shaun Tait, Out. Tait b Aamir 0(1)

5. The Only Bowl-Out, 2007

In case a Twenty20 game ends in a tie, Super Over will come into play in order to determine the winner. Before Super over came into existence, a method called Bowl-Out was implemented. The only instance bowl-out took place in a World T20 match was a group game between India and Pakistan in the 2007 World T20, the match in which both the teams ended their 20 overs with a score of 141. Bowl-Out took place with India asked to start the proceedings. Both the teams were given five chances to break the stumps with a proper bowling run-up. This is what happened in the historic tie-breaker at Durban:
India have nominated Sehwag, Uthappa, Sreesanth, Pathan and Harbhajan and it will be Gul, Tanvir, Arafat, Afridi and Asif for Pakistan.
Round 1: Virender Sehwag hits the stumps and Yasir Arafat misses the off stump. India lead 1-0 after the first round.
Round 2: Harbhajan Singh breaks the stumps and Umar Gul misses. India lead 2-0 after the second round.
Round 3: Robin Uthappa knocks the stumps and Afridi fires it down the leg side. India win the Bowl-Out 3-0 and wins the match against Pakistan

Top 10 Lowest Team Scores in T20 World Cup

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Top 10 Lowest Team Scores in T20 World Cup:

10. Kenya - 88 (19.3 Overs) - Sri Lanka
9. Sri Lanka - 87 (16.2 Overs) - Australia
8. Zimbabwe - 84 (15.1 Overs) - New Zealand
7. Banlgadesh - 83 (15.5 Overs) - Sri Lanka
6. Scotland - 81 (15.4 Overs) - South Africa
5. England - 80 (14.4 Overs) - India
4. Afghanistan - 80 (16.0 Overs) - South Africa
3. Afghanistan - 80 (17.2 Overs) - England
2. Kenya - 73 (16.5 Overs) - New Zealand
1. Ireland - 68 (16.4 Overs) - West Indies

Bangladesh Team for T20 World Cup 2014

Bangladesh Team for T20 World Cup 2014
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Mushfiqur Rahim (C) (W), Tamim Iqbal, Anamul Haque, Shamsur Rahman, Shakib Al Hasan, Mominul Haque, Nasir Hossain, Sabbur Rahman, Mohammad Mahmudullah, Abdur Razzak, Sohag Gazi, Mashrafe Mortaza, Farhad Reza, Rubel Hossain, Al-Amin Hossain

Top 10 fastest bowlers in International Cricket


Top 10 fastest bowlers in International Cricket
10. Dale Steyn - 155.7 Km/Hour
9. Lasith Malinga - 155.7 Km/Hour
8. Mohammed Sami - 156.4 Km/Hour
7. Shane Bond - 156.4 Km/Hour
6. Fidel Edwards - 157.7 Km/Hour
5. Andy Roberts - 159.5 Km/Hour
4. Jeffrey Thompson - 160.4 Km/Hour
3. Shaun Tait - 160.7 km/Hour
2. Brett Lee - 160.8 Km/Hour
1. Shoaib Akhtar - 161.3 Km/Hour

Top 5 Most International Run Scorer in 2014


Top 5 Most International Run Scorer in 2014
  • Kumar Sangakkara 778 runs (avg 77.80)
  • Brendon McCullum 767 runs  (avg 63.91)
  • Kane Williamson 594 runs (avg 54.00)
  • Mahela Jayawardene 508 runs (avg 101.60)
  • Virat Kohli 505 runs (avg 63.12)

Power Hitter Kieron Pollard out from WI T20 World Cup squad

West Indies cricket board has ruled out striking middle order batsman and valuable part time bowler Kieron Pollard from ICC T20 World Cup 2014, beginning from 16 March. West Indies is the current T20 World champion and they will defend trophy this year.

Kieron Pollard is out of the team because of his injury. He got knee injury while playing a football match.
West Indies team qualified directly to the super-10 stage of tournament and will start campaign against India on 23 March, 2014. Darren Sammy will lead Caribbean team throughout the competition. West Indies will play matches against India, Pakistan, Australia and one qualifier from round 1 of T20 World Cup 2014.
There are two practice matches as well for Caribbean team to judge their preparations for the tournament. West indies will face England and Sri-lanka in warm up games. West indies became champions in last world cup after defeating sri-lanka in Colombo.
West Indian squad
  • Darren Sammy (Captain)
  • Dwayne Smith
  • Dwayne Bravo
  • Samuel Badree
  • Johnson Charles
  • Lendl Simmons
  • Sheldon Cottrell
  • Krishmar Santokie
  • Andre Fletcher
  • Marlon Samuels
  • Chris Gayle
  • Sunil Narine
  • Andre Russell
  • Ravi Rampaul
  • Dinesh Ramdin

T20 World Cup 2014, Schedule, Squads, Rules & Overview

The fifth edition of ICC World Twenty20 is scheduled to take place in Bangladesh from 16 March to 6 April 2014. It will be played in three cities — Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet. Bangladesh will host the tournament as announced by the International Cricket Council in 2010. It will be second and consecutive time that an Asian country will host this event, as Sri Lanka hosted the previous tournament in 2012.
For the first time the tournament will have 16 teams including all ten full members and six associate members who qualified through the 2013 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier. The top eight (full member) teams in the ICC T20I Championship rankings on 8 October 2012 enter the Super 10 stage. The remaining eight teams compete in the group stage, from which two teams advance to the Super 10 stage.
T20 World Cup 2014 Schedule:
T20 World Cup Squads

Afghanistan: Mohammad Nabi (captain), Asghar Stanikzai, Dawlat Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Hamid Hassan, Hamza Hotak, Karim Sadiq, Mirwais Ashraf, Najibullah Taraki, Najibullah Zadran, Nawroz Mangal, Samiullah Shenwari, Mohammad Shahzad, Shafiqullah, Shapoor Zadran

Australia: George Bailey (captain), Daniel Christian, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Brad Haddin, Brad Hodge, Brad Hogg, Mitchell Johnson, Glenn Maxwell, James Muirhead, Mitchell Starc, David Warner, Shane Watson, Cameron White

Bangladesh: Mushfiqur Rahim (captain), Al-Amin Hossain, Anamul Haque, Farhad Reza, Mahmudullah, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mominul Haque, Nasir Hossain, Abdur Razzak, Rubel Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Shamsur Rahman, Shakib Al Hasan, Sohag Gazi, Tamim Iqbal

England: Stuart Broad (captain), Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Jos Buttler, Jade Dernbach, Alex Hales, Chris Jordan, Michael Lumb, Moeen Ali, Eoin Morgan, Stephen Parry, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, James Tredwell, Luke Wright

Hong Kong: Jamie Atkinson (captain), Aizaz Khan, Mark Chapman, Ehsan Nawaz, Haseeb Amjad, Babar Hayat, Irfan Ahmed, Roy Lamsam, Munir Dar, Nadeem Ahmed, Najeeb Amar, Nizakat Khan, Kinchit Shah, Tanwir Afzal, Waqas Barkat

India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Varun Aaron, Stuart Binny, Shikhar Dhawan, Ravindra Jadeja, Virat Kohli, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Amit Mishra, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Suresh Raina, Mohammad Shami, Mohit Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh

Ireland: William Porterfield (captain), Alex Cusack, George Dockrell, Ed Joyce, Andy McBrine, Tim Murtagh, Kevin O’Brien, Niall O’Brien, Andrew Poynter, James Shannon, Max Sorensen, Paul Stirling, Stuart Thompson, Gary Wilson, Craig Young

Nepal: Paras Khadka (captain), Pradeep Airee, Prithu Baskota, Binod Bhandari, Naresh Budhaayer, Shakti Gauchan, Sompal Kami, Avinash Karn, Subash Khakurel, Gyanendra Malla, Jitendra Mukhiya, Sagar Pun, Basant Regmi, Sharad Vesawkar, Rahul Vishwakarma

Netherlands: Peter Borren (captain), Wesley Barresi, Logan van Beek, Mudassar Bukhari, Ben Cooper, Tim Gruijters, Timm van der Gugten, Tom Heggelman, Vivian Kingma, Ahsan Malik, Stephan Myburgh, Michael Rippon, Pieter Seelaar, Michael Swart, Eric Szwarczynski

New Zealand: Brendon McCullum (captain), Corey Anderson, Trent Boult, Anton Devcich, Martin Guptill, Ronnie Hira, Mitchell McClenaghan, Nathan McCullum, Kyle Mills, Colin Munro, James Neesham, Luke Ronchi, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, Kane Williamson

Pakistan: Mohammad Hafeez (captain), Ahmed Shehzad, Bilawal Bhatti, Junaid Khan, Kamran Akmal, Saeed Ajmal, Shahid Afridi, Sharjeel Khan, Shoaib Malik, Sohaib Maqsood, Sohail Tanvir, Mohammad Talha, Umar Akmal, Umar Gul, Zulfiqar Babar

South Africa: Francois du Plessis (captain), Quinton de Kock, AB de Villiers, Farhaan Behardien, Hashim Amla, JP Duminy, Beuran Hendricks, Imran Tahir, David Miller, Albie Morkel, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Aaron Phangiso, Dale Steyn, Lonwabo Tsotsobe

Sri Lanka: Dinesh Chandimal (captain), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Rangana Herath, Mahela Jayawardena, Nuwan Kulasekara, Suranga Lakmal, Lasith Malinga, Angelo Mathews, Ajantha Mendis, Kusal Perera, Thisara Perera, Seekkuge Prasanna, Kumar Sangakkara, Sachithra Senanayake, Lahiru Thirimanne

United Arab Emirates: Khurram Khan (captain), Ahmed Raza, Amjad Ali, Amjad Javed, Asadullah Shareef, Faizan Asif, Kamran Shahzad, Manjula Guruge, Moaaz Qazi, Rohan Mustafa, Swapnil Patil, Rohit Singh, Shadeep Silva, Shaiman Anwar, Vikrant Shetty

West Indies: Darren Sammy (captain), Samuel Badree, Dwayne Bravo, Johnson Charles, Sheldon Cottrell, Andre Fletcher, Chris Gayle, Sunil Narine, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Andre Russell, Marlon Samuels, Krishmar Santokie, Lendl Simmons, Dwayne Smith

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