I believe South Africa could win this years edition of the t20 / pro20 world cup in England. This time around the batting and bowling depth of the South Africans will make them a formidable opponent. South Africa are able to look at a lot of bowling options and are able to bat very deep but their competitive edge lies in their fielding.
Pro20 World Cup: Super 8's fixtures
11 June | Ireland | New Zealand | Trent Bridge, Nottingham |
England | South Africa | Trent Bridge, Nottingham | |
12 June | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | Lord's, London |
India | West Indies | Lord's, London | |
13 June | South Africa | West Indies | Kennington Oval, London |
New Zealand | Pakistan | Kennington Oval, London | |
14 June | Ireland | Sri Lanka | Lord's, London |
England | India | Lord's, London | |
15 June | Ireland | Pakistan | Kennington Oval, London |
England | West Indies | Kennington Oval, London | |
16 June | New Zealand | Sri Lanka | Trent Bridge, Nottingham |
India | South Africa | Trent Bridge, Nottingham |
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Pro 20 Cricket Bowling and batting depth hold the key
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Twenty 20 World Cup Batsmen Rankings
Batting | Team | Runs |
ML Hayden | AUS | 265 |
G Gambhir | IND | 227 |
Misbah-ul-Haq | PAK | 218 |
Shoaib Malik | PAK | 195 |
KP Pietersen | ENG | 178 |
JM Kemp | SA | 173 |
AC Gilchrist | AUS | 169 |
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Monday, May 25, 2009
Pakistan Twenty20 Squad
Pakistan Twenty20 Squad (Final 15):
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Twenty20 World Cup: Australian Squad
Australia announced their 15 man squad for the Twenty20 World Cup in England.
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IPL 2009 Winners: Deccan Chargers
Last years bottom of the indian premier league log teams Deccan Chargers and Royal Challengers Bangalore was fighting for the 2009 title in the final. After an average batting performance from the Deccan Chargers, Royal Challengers Bangalore was left with chasing a low scoring total of 144 to win the ipl of 2009.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Recent Trends in Cricket (ipl)
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A Little Bit of History About Cricket
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Twenty20 World Cup Fixtures - England 2009
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Cricket Blogs Manifest Expression Of Cricket Feelings
There are various platforms where cricket is discussed. But it is very difficult to give all sorts of expression of your thoughts on every platform. Fans search such medium, which is conducive to express his most coveted feelings. The invention of cricket blogs can be termed as to be perfect platform of expressing all cricket related feelings. Basically, first we need to understand the meaning of blogs. Blogs are medium of communication provided by websites in which one is free to express one’s feelings of anger, joy, humor and all the things one wants to express. When blogs are used for cricket, it confines, purely to the world of cricket. Cricket blogs are presented with views and comments of not expertise but of cricket lovers. Cricket blogs are growing much popularity among cricket lovers and it is making them internet friendly. Cricket blogs are meant to give information plus personal opinion of a fan. Cricket blogs have given huge platform to fan to share his displeasure and admiration of cricketer or team. Views and comments about cricket are given in newspaper too. But only experts and established journalist are supposed to give comments on the subject. That is not sufficient for a fan to obtain as human tendency urges him to express his own thought regarding the subject. In cricket blogs fan can highlight any issue mattering or affecting cricket. The issue can be of particular player, team, and umpire or about the match or the latest controversy. Blogs are presented with the flavor of making reading interesting but with candid expression. Making cricket blogs are a fun and a medium of getting oneself informed about the latest happenings of cricket. Cricket blogs bind like-minded fan in one chain. There they can post their comments on blogs created by any one. Cricket blogs can present the miffed and delighted attitude of a fan simultaneously. This is platform where fan or opponent can express their views without any expertise. Any one attached with the game of cricket can create cricket blogs and can freely express his or her thoughts. Cricket blogs contain numerous issues of cricketing world. Its takes fan to the depth of cricket knowledge that inspires them to create blogs or post comment. Through cricket blogs you can share your opinion and views about cricket or cricket personalities fearlessly. You can criticize the behavior or performances of any player or policy of cricket board of any country, which you feel is embarrassing by posting your comments on cricket blogs. You can admire performances of your favorite player or can show displeasure about the activity of any player or team of the world. One is completely free to express all that he feels. Websites have provided an amazing platform to cricket lovers to express themselves. Cricket lovers can give own version of reviews, predictions or briefed report of game viewed by him. It is very easy to create cricket blogs on websites. You just have to search cricket-dedicated websites, and after that you just need to get registered in the site to be eligible for blogging. Cricket blogs, virtually, has provided mental appeasement to cricket frenzied who love talking and discussing cricket. Ella Wilson is a cricket fanatic. She simply loves the game and tries to catch live action no matter where she is. At Stickiewicket she works on Online cricket statistics, world cup schedule, live cricket match, cricket blogs and cricket world cup records among other things.You can see her works athttp://www.stickiewicket.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Ella_Wilson
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Improvement of Cricket
(A) Popularise cricket! 1. Restructure Current test teams. For Cricket to improve first the quality of the current test teams should be improved. Teams like England and West Indies need to be more competitive. Here are some suggestions: 2. Restructuring Current ODI Teams. It is disheartening for the current ODI status teams to play only during world cups. Such an unfair policy would never see new teams improve. Teams such as Canada, UAE, Scotland, Namibia & Holland should be given permanent ODI status and official tournaments should be played amongst themselves and the 3 bottom ranked test teams. An age limit of 35 yrs should be imposed to encourage youngsters. Kenya should be given Test Status. 3. League Format All teams Test and ODI should be ranked in groups of 5. The top 5 will be grp A. Next 5 B and so on. Teams in a particular group are allowed to play with teams in their own group as well as adjacent groups only. eg. Group A cannot play group C teams. [Except Tests & World Cups] Every year, the groups are restructured. 4. Improve quality of Upcoming teams To ensure that debutants in ODI competitions have an international exposure to cricket before their debut, international tournaments should be held. Here's what should be done. To get associate status, local boards should ensure: To get permanent ODI status teams should: To get Test Status teams should: 5. Introduction of cutting-edge technology I feel that technology should be introduced to cricket. This is what cricket needs. 6. The ICC. Here are some reccomendations to the ICC ICC Online 7. Taking on the Globe. To encourage more countries to take up cricket, cricket must be marketed well. Teams like Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore have a good program and must be encouraged to obtain ODI status. For cricket to succeed regional sporting giants should be given top priority. These countries are regional giants and act like a catalyst to spread the sport to neighbouring countries. The countries are: China, USA, Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Nigeria Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morrocco, Sweden, Fiji, Argentina and Brazil. Have a brand ambassador for cricket. People who know about the sport and are internationally famous should be selected. Names such as Russel Crowe, Shaggy, Christian Vieri (footballer ITALY) make good ambassadors. Cricket should be introduced equally to all races and women should also be encouraged to take up the sport. Marketing Blitz If I were the president of the ICC, this is what I would do to promote the sport in a country. (B) Rules that have to be changed: 1) Elimination of the Leg-bye rule. The Lb rule is pretty unfair to the bowler. By elimination such a rule would allow the batsman to play at the ball, instead of getting runs of the deflection of his clothing. 2) Direct Hit on the stump renders the ball dead. At present if a fielder hits the stumps directly when the batsman is taking a run & he is safe, if it deflects of it, the batsman can run overthrows (extra runs). By enabling the ball 'dead' it would encourage the fielders to hit the stumps more often. If the batsman ran after this, the extra runs would be overruled. 3) Leg-side LBW decision At present, if the ball is pitched outside the leg-stump, but is a clear LBW decision, the batsman is not out. Due to advances in technology today, we can predict an LBW. Hence LBW decisions should be simplified by this method, if the trajectory appears to hit the stump the Batsman is OUT. 4) Correct Nomenclature Terms such as leg-spin and off-spin are outdated. Better terms would be wrist spin and finger spin. (C) Accredation to stadiums The ICC must start rating stadiums. The better the rating of the stadium more matches it is allowed to hold. Here are my parameters. Points are shown alongside in y/n format. Lights 40/5 Capacity (in 1000's) Pitch invasion history? 0/20 Smooth Entry/Exit 30/5 Crowd Management history good/bad 30/5 Match history 1st & 2nd inn win ratio (40-60 range) 50/10 Grassy field 10/5 Facilities (practice, media, parking, toilets, food) 35/10 Replay screen 20/0 Electronic Scoreboard 15/5 Sightscreen moving needed? 0/10 PITCH: Bounce (good/low) 30/10 Support for bowlers 20/5 Ave. Runs in the range (240-280) 50 200,>280 20 <200> Pitch plays true till the end? 60/20 Divide the stadium pts by 4 to get the percentage. 90+=A, 80-90=B and so on. Pitch points should be above 70 for AA accred. About The Author The author is a 21 yr student. He is the author of the site Learn cricket. http://cricketlearn.tripod.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Nicholas_Alphonso
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Indian Cricket Goes Through Constant Ups And Down
Indian cricket is very popular in sub continent. There are few countries in sub continent that are involved in cricket. Indian team is considered a balanced and powerful one to compete with any strong team of the world. People are crazy and very passionate about cricket in India. Indian cricket team has always been very strong. It got its name registered in cricket history by giving innumerable records. Indian cricket team has given many world-class batsmen, bowlers who created history. In India, if it to be said that people talk cricket, read cricket, sleep cricket and walk cricket, it will not be wrong. Indian cricket has been under tremendous pressures till now. This makes Indian cricket player tense and disturbed. We happened to see that pressures on international ground. We lost some almost winning matches due to pressures. Indian cricket has never been free from controversies. Even some controversies overshadowed world cricket. Controversies have been responsible placing ups and down in Indian cricket. Indian cricket has been influencing from media, politician and of course of their fans. These elements have stunned Indian cricket time to time. Players, coaches and selectors had to face fans aggressions. This caused them to feel agony. That led government to increase Security and safety of Indian cricket team. Indian cricket is governed by BCCI and BCCI is richest board of cricket world. It lured politician and industrialist to join board. That created tussle between board’s members. It became a big issue of discussion for cricket fans. Former president of BCCI Dalmiya had to resign for bungling of fund of cricket board. Now current president is Shard Pawar. There have been foreigner coaches for Indian cricket. John Wright was first foreign coach of the Indian team and he is from New Zealand. Greg Chappell is the current coach of Indian team. Unfortunately no one is spared in Indian cricket Sourav gangly had to go out after breaking out skirmish between him. That led to change Indian captain few years back. There can be taken few names that rose to controversy. Those ugly affairs dented the Indian cricket team. There is a very interesting part of Indian cricket is influence of media. The impact of Media over Indian cricket has been very powerful. Tiny issues or any controversy could not be sneaked away from eyes of media. Whether the matter is of off the field or on the field, media extensively covered the issues. Media influenced selection committee and the bating line up of Indian cricket team. Media captured all issues of Indian cricket with utmost priority. There is not only negative aspect that media offered but also there has been a very encouraging role of media. Indian cricket acquired highly esteemed status in India due to media’s extensive coverage. This caused great popularity of cricket in India. Indian cricket manage to get corers of rupees due to ad business. Every player gets a chance to make money through ads. Sachin Tendulkar, M.S.Dhoni, V.Sehwag are ads star who seem busy in signing up ads. Indian cricket has achieved big commercial deal with ad companies. That has promoted celebrity image of cricketers. Sometimes, cricketer has to pay price for it in form of criticism if they fail to perform up to the mark. Ella Wilson is a cricket fanatic. She simply loves the game and tries to catch live action no matter where she is.At Stickiewicket she works on Online cricket score,live cricket score,cricket world cup and indian cricket among other things.You can see her works at http://www.stickiewicket.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Ella_Wilson
The positive aspect about Indian cricket team is that after sustaining immense pressures and ups down it achieved a lot in bringing name and fame to Indian cricket.
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