Rahul Dravid to return for Tri Nation series and Champions Trophy

After the twenty20 Indian team was totally out of cricket routine. At this moment they are visiting Sri Lanka to take parts in a Tri Nation Series that will be held among host Sri Lanka, the Black Caps (New Zealand) and India. All the teams are very serious to improve their position. Although the way of Sri Lanka looking well but other two nations is quite in extra pressure because of their previous performances in the last few matches.

At this moment the most deliberated incident in Indian cricket is the return of Rahul Dravid in the next One-Day squad for the next Tri Nation series and ICC Champions League. He was kept out from the limited over cricket match near about two years. He has been recalled for the bad performances of the Rohit Sharma. The previous batting performance disappointed all selector board. It also caused for earlier exile from the second season of the Twenty20 world championship.

It is sure that there is no way of brining change to over come this situation to over come. It hoped that it will be difficult to the protest Indian team to be the champions in the T20 WC before Indian Premier League second season. Anyway, I don’t blame that taking part in IPL cause bad performance. I hope India will overcome all weakness in the next tours including Champions Trophy.

Sri Lanka vs Pakistan final 2009: World Twenty20 at Lord’s

Tillakaratne Dilshan’s responsible batting and Mathews’ three wickets in the first over and other bowlers, such as M Muralitharan and BAW Mendis aggressive bowling in the middle time of the innings supported strongly. In spite of danger man CH Gayle’s not out Sri Lanka bid the opposite side’s batsmen 14 balls left and achieved the qualification to take on runner-up Pakistan in the final match at Lord's in London. The Women World Twenty20 final will be held in the same ground before the men’s Twenty20 final. New Zealand and host England will be taken on each other. According to GMT, the men’s tournament will he held on 14:00 and the women’s final will be held at 09:30 AM GMT.

A aggressive conscientious batting and aggressive bowling over Gayle’s West Indies men, Sri Lanka able to secure an easy victory for the final match of the ICC World Twenty20, 2009 on June 21, 2009. Despite of losing middle order batsmen rapidly, Tillakaratne Dilshan’s not out 96 runs pulled Sri Lanka to scored 158 runs. As a result, Dilshan secured the player of the tournament crest.

By beating, top favorite South Africa, Pakistan qualified for the final of second season. Gathering two very simple win, it qualified for the semi-finals and proved their capabilities beating South Africa.

Pakistan has a very strong bowling line-up this could change the result any time. I want to explain strongly that only for bowling them able to beat the Smith’s men. Now, Pak men are very stable in their mental side. Despite of security reason, no cricket nation visits them in the year 2009. Even they had to keep away from the T20 formatted Indian Premier League. In spite of such barrier, Pakistan could able to show their best performances.

We all have to wait for the final match on 21 June 2009, to watch the two Asian nation’s very competitive tournament. Most important thing, Pakistan took on Sri Lanka in the qualifying round but defeated.

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ICC World Twenty20 2010 in West Indies but Qualifiers UAE

With the inaugural world championship that was held in South Africa and the ICC authority decided to organize after second year. The 20-20 formatted cricket got huge popularity and the second season scheduled to be held in England and the second season tournament is passing its Super Eight round where most of the test playing countries are taking part except Bangladesh and World Champions Australia. The third festival has been scheduled in 2010 and West Indies will be the host country.

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ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat said: "Although the World Twenty20 is to be held every second year, we decided to hold two on the trot to set the calendar right and ensure a better spread of tournaments."

Nine test playing counties will be qualified directly but other three teams will take part by playing the qualifying round matches which scheduled to be hosted by UAE. ICC has changed it decision because of 50-over-a-side Champions Trophy that was scheduled to be held in Pakistan but postponed for the security reason. To maintain the delayed Champions Trophy festival and not to schedule two international tournaments ICC decided it.

Pakistan announced Squad for ICC World Twenty20 2009 including ICL players

Pakistan has announced the squad for the upcoming Twenty20 world championship that will be hosted by England. Pakistan, the inaugural championship runner-up has announced squad appeared some instability because they have included three names who was involved with the unauthorized Indian Cricket League. Although Abdul Razzaq, Naved-ul-Hasan and Imran Nazir have been named in the squad but still their confirmation to attend in the ICC World Twenty20 2009 championships second season is still on pending and have to wait for ICC approval.

 

"We have Razzaq, Hasan and Nazir in the preliminary squad but their inclusion in the final team will depend on clearance from the ICC," Abdul Qadir, the PCB's chief selector, said.

 

Earlier this year ICL minimized it rule over the international players who joined in the rival or unauthorized cricket league so that they can attend in the domestic cricket bu they have to back in the October-November edition this year. Following this rule some of Pakistan players got support from their High Courts on behalf of them.

 

Pakistan Squad: Younis Khan (capt), Salman Butt, Nasir Jamshed, Khalid Latif, Shahzaib Hasan, Ahmed Shehzad, Umar Amin, Misbah-ul-Haq, Faisal Iqbal, Fawad Alam, Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi, Sohail Tanvir, Yasir Arafat, Kamran Younis, Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul, Rao Iftikhar Anjum, Aizaz Cheema, Mohammad Aamer, Wahab Riaz, Imran Ali, Danish Kaneria, Abdul Rehman, Yasir Shah, Kamran Akmal (wk), Sarfraz Ahmed, Abdul Razzaq*, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan*, Imran Nazir*

ICC Champions Trophy 2009: South Africa is the host country

It has confirmed that the ICC Champions Trophy 2009 will be held in South Africa. The cricket tournament was scheduled to host by Pakistan but due to the players security concern it was postponed. Later, the venue was scheduled in Sri Lanka but due to weather concern it becomes doubtful. In the recent meeting ICC organizing committee has confirmed the venue that will be held on September-October this year. Here, I want to mention that the ICC organizers have taken a timely decision. South Africa praised so much organizing the inaugural ICC Twenty20 World Cup Championship in 2007. 

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"During the meeting, SLC said it could not guarantee there would be no rain in Colombo during the dates set aside for the tournament, September 24 to October 5, 2009," according to a statement in the ICC website. 

The ICC Champions Trophy 2009 Cricket tournament will be held from 24 September to 5 October. Due to terrorist attack on the earlier of March, it was scheduled to shift in Sri Lanka but the ICC was worried about the weather. Sri Lanka is a country is surrounded with water and in September-October it may huge rains.