USA Cricket Association (USACA) to organize T20 League

America is place where the people mostly played Football (American Football) and Basketball. Cricket does not get huge popularity in the lands instead they like to ply ice-hockey. To make cricket popular they have started form very junior level. Recently, the USA Cricket Association has decided to inaugurate cricket tournament like Indian Premier League. The Cricket Association is planning to arrange the T20 formatted cricket in New York. Although it does not fix yet the inaugural ceremony, it will invite broadcasters, organizers and sponsors by the first week of August this year.

Cricinfo reported:

"The proof will be, is the USA ready to undertake these type of events? When the US was announced back in the late 1980s as the host for the 1994 [football] World Cup, the world laughed and said 'what are they going to do with our game'. And yet we still hold the record for the most tickets sold at a football World Cup.

"Before the world laughs at the US taking on cricket, it's important to say we're going to do it well, we're going to do it smart, we're going to do it best and with the world's experts and put together a programme that will be successful."

After successfully launched the IPL formatted Club Cricket league may be USA Cricket Association is going to take initiatives to organized, although some other country like Australia already has taken the steps to inaugurate the club competition when Sri Lankan Spinner Mendis will suppose to be taken parts. USACA chief executive, Don Lockerbie thinks that they will get huge supports from every area, like the fans of U.S. beside the worlds.

South Africa vs Australia 2009: who will win first T20?

Earlier the year 2009, South Africa played two Twenty20 matches when South Africa visited Australia. That time the visitors defeated in both tournaments. Now, Australia is visiting South Africa. They already has won the Test series and now they will meet for the most exciting cricket match Twenty20 tournament on 27 March, 2009 at  New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg and according toe the local time 18:00 and 16:00 GMT.

 

So, this is a big opportunity for South Africa to take the revenge of defeat. They beat to Australia in the first Twenty20 match for 52 runs and for 6 wickets (with 7 balls remaining) in second one. It is clear that SA could not dominate Aus bowlers in both matches. But, hope that they could do well in their home grounds.

 

No doubt that that host has to prepare themselves very strong in all sides. Australia is the best cricket playing nation and it is tough to bead them although they are in not in good form now. But the SA are mentally very strong because they won the T20 trophy in Aus. But it is very clear that they have overcome their lacking of the previous test series.

Colombo T20 live score time schedule web sites India vs Sri Lanka

The only twenty20 T20 match between India vs Sri Lanka will be taken place at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo. The match will be held on a very reliable time when everyone will return home after their working place. The timing of the T20 (twenty20) India and Sri Lanka will be held at 19:00 local, (13:30 GMT).

According to Indian time it will be at 18:30 and according to the USA time it will be grounded at 08:00. The first Twenty20 (T20) will be clashed between the host Sri Lankan and the neighboring country and Twenty20 world Cup champion India. India will be leaded by MS Dhoni but Sri Lankan captain M Jayabardhane may not play in the Twenty20 (T20) match in stead TM Dilshan supposed to be leaded the team.

Sri Lanka squad
TM Dilshan, CK Kapugedera, CM Bandara, SI de Saram, LHD Dilhara, CRD Fernando, ST Jayasuriya, HGJM Kulatunga, MF Maharoof, SL Malinga, J Mubarak, LPC Silva, T Thushara, ML Udawatte, K Weeraratne

India squad
MS Dhoni, L Balaji, G Gambhir, RA Jadeja, Z Khan, P Kumar, PP Ojha, IK Pathan, YK Pathan, SK Raina, V Sehwag, I Sharma, RG Sharma, Yuvraj Singh

You can visit the website below where you can get live India vs Sri Lanka twenty20 T20 match live.

http://content-ind.cricinfo.com
http://www.cricketnirvana.com

India tour of Sri Lanka on February 2009

At last, it is finalized that the India vs Sri Lanka series is going to hold in the next month (February 2009). Indian officials decided not to tour in Pakistan after Mumbai terrorist attack when England tour of India. That time the ODI match series brought to end after five out of seven. That was an unwritten pressure to the world cricket every there was doubt about the test series. But, with consent of both teams, especially, when the England intelligent showed green signal to the England Cricket Team. 

After Mumbai attack, all the cricket teams over the world have decided not to visit Pakistan. The two teams India and Sri Lanka authorities thought to use the gap and planned to an ODI and a T20 match on February 2009. 

Sri Lanka has a tour of Pakistan to play three matches ODI series that will be kicked off from 21 January 2009. This is just a 7 days tour. Although the schedules does not fix yet but, it will be finalized soon. Of course it will have to be before 6^th March because India has a tour of New Zealand on March. 

Source: http://www.cricket360.com/842-the-india-vs.-sri-lanka-series-on-finally.html

New Zealand vs West Indies T20: who will win?

The last three matches between New Zealand and West Indies did not show any conclusions. There were one T20 and two tests. It is really interesting when any match dismissed without result. For Test match is it a common sight but for One Day International Cricket and the new formatted games T20 it dispersed the cricket fans.

It happened in the recent T20 match between New Zealand vs West Indies that was played at Eden Park, Auckland, on 26 December 2008. After drawn in the two tests, the eyes were fixed to the T20 match to get a result but the audiences were hopeless at the end of the first T20 match. May be it is the second incident after the inaugural World Cup T20 that was inaugurated in South Africa. The final match between India and Pakistan become drawn but dismissed by bowl-out of the T20 World Cup 2007.

Almost all the batsmen of the host New Zealand did not play well but LRPL Taylor and SB Styris scored an honorable score in the first T20 at Eden Park, Auckland. Taylor scored 63 by dominating 50 balls and by spending 70 minutes in crease. On the other hands Styris is the second highest scorer by securing 21 runs from 12 balls. The host scored 155 runs by losing 7wickets.

Although the bowers of the opposition West Indies did not do well except CH Gayle who took 2 wickets by bowing 3 overs but the all the bowers kept stop the opposite batsmen to add a big runs on the scoreboard.

This is not end here. Form New Zealand side similar scene replayed. The skeeper and all-rounder DL Vettori took 3 wickets and JS Patel took 2 wickets.

By loosing 8 wickets the Caribbean had to stop the innings in 155 and remain satisfy becoming drawn.

It is a terrible series for both the teams for achieving nothing. So, the duo will try hart and soul to win the 2^nd T20 matches that is going to held at Seddon Park, Hamilton.   

New Zealand vs West Indies T20 and ODI Time schedule and fixture

West Indies tours of New Zealand to play two test matches, two T20 and five ODIs. The Test has already been finished without results and the tourists and the hosts are finding results in the T20 matches. The two tests became ended with drawn. May be, there was no way to finalized the matches draw. The rest matches are one T20 that will be stared on 28 December 2008 at Start time 5pm Local time (0400 GMT) and the five matches ODI series will be held from 31 December 2008 and the final ODI will be grounded on 13 January 2009. In the mean time the first T20 has been finished on 26 December.

 

Among the five ODI matches two matches will be played as a day-nigh match. As the two countries is situated in different parts of the Globe that is why it is difficult to adjust the time. By remembering this, the selectors have fixed the timetable in a suitable way. Here is the complete fixture and timetable below:

 

West Indies Tour of New Zealand 2008-09 ( Twenty20 International )

28 Dec 2008 New Zealand vs West Indies

2nd Twenty20 International, Seddon Park, Hamilton

Live action starts from: 04:00 GMT (09:30 IST)

 

West Indies Tour of New Zealand 2008-09 ( One Day International )

31 Dec 2008 New Zealand vs West Indies

1st One Day International, Queenstown Events Centre

Live action starts from: 23:00 GMT (prev day) (04:30 IST)

03 Jan 2009  New Zealand vs West Indies

2nd One Day International, AMI Stadium, Christchurch (D/N)

Live action starts from: 01:00 GMT (06:30 IST)

07 Jan 2009  New Zealand vs West Indies

3rd One Day International, Westpac Stadium, Wellington (D/N)

Live action starts from: 01:00 GMT (06:30 IST)

10 Jan 2009  New Zealand vs West Indies

4th One Day International, Eden Park, Auckland

Live action starts from: 23:00 GMT (prev day) (04:30 IST)

 

Here I have given the time schedule according to the Indian Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time from vcricket.com because a large number of cricket fans dominate the world cricket form India. 

DLF IPL T20 second season and World Cup T20

The next secession of the IPL T20 will be taken place on the March 2009. This is the second time for the IPL T20 and the inaugural ceremony was held on 18 April 2008 but Indian Premier League was established by the BCCI in 2007. The second season of IPL T20 will be the similar way I mean the T20 format and two robin-rounds and the knockout and the eight teams will be the participant of the upcoming tournament. The will be kicked off from April 10 and the final match will be held on May 29 2009.

 

Cricinfo:

According to the Future Tours Programme, Australia are slated to be touring South Africa in April, 2009, India are set to be in New Zealand, and West Indies in Bangladesh. India haven't toured New Zealand since early 2003 with their scheduled trip in 2007 put of because plans to prepare for the World Cup.

 

 Just after a week the second season of the ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2009 ( Twenty20 International ) will be grounded on 05 Jun 2009. So, just over three months the cricket fans will enjoy competitive and anticipated tournaments. 

Fixtures and time schedule of Champions Twenty20 League

The inaugural Champions Twenty20 League will suppose to add more attraction in the T20 tournament in the cricket media that will be taken place in the different play ground in Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore. It is the extended of IPL T20 cricket tournament that was setup to decrease the popularity of ICL T20 championship.

The extended parts of IPL T20 will be taken place form the 3 December 2008 that has been named to Champions Twenty20 League 2008/2009. Beside the champion and runner of the first IPL T20, Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Chennai Super Kings another six squads will be the participant of the tournament. Pakistan, England, Australia are all set to take parts in the so called Champions Twenty20 League.

 

According to the declared Fixture the matches will be started from 3 December. The committee has scheduled two matches in the first day and according the local time it will be grounded at 16:00 hours and the second math is 20:00 hours at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai and M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. 

 

Fixture and Time table of Champions Twenty20 League:

December 2008

Wed 3

16:00 local, 10:30 GMT        Group A - Middlesex v Victoria

Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai

Wed 3 

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT        Group B - Dolphins v Rajasthan Royals

M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Thu 4

16:00 local, 10:30 GMT        Group B - Sialkot Stallions v Western Australia

M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Thu 4 

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT        Group A - Chennai Super Kings v Victoria

Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai

Fri 5

16:00 local, 10:30 GMT        Group A - Middlesex v Titans

MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Fri 5 

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT        Group B - Rajasthan Royals v Sialkot Stallions

Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai

Sat 6

12:00 local, 06:30 GMT        Group B - Dolphins v Western Australia

M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Sat 6

16:00 local, 10:30 GMT        Group A - Titans v Victoria

MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Sat 6 

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT        Group A - Chennai Super Kings v Middlesex

MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Sun 7

12:00 local, 06:30 GMT        Group B - Dolphins v Sialkot Stallions

M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Sun 7

16:00 local, 10:30 GMT        Group B - Rajasthan Royals v Western Australia

MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Sun 7 

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT        Group A - Chennai Super Kings v Titans

MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Mon 8 

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT        1st Semi-Final - TBC v TBC

M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Group B winners v Group A runners-up

Tue 9 

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT        2nd Semi-Final - TBC v TBC

MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Group A winners v Group B runners-up

Wed 10 

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT        Final - TBC v TBC

MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

 

The Champions Twenty20 League will be close on 10 December. After playing a robin round league the four teams will compete for the final of the champions tournament. So, the cricket lover all over the world are getting an opportunity to enjoy the matches.

Rahul Dravid will Handover his Captaincy before Australia Tours!

When Indian cricket team is plying the World cup Twnty20 at the same time Rahul Dravid has declared to handover his captaincy to others. Dravid has known his wish to the board precedent Sarad Pawer. Dravid thinks that he has to knock down a great effect to his normal jobs. The board member will take decision on 18 September. Just before one week of Australia tour, is it a good decision for India team? Will it be well for whole the team? Australia is coming India after T20 championship which will start form 28 September.

Shah told Cricinfo the board would meet within the next two days to appoint the next captain. "We will take a decision very soon." Australia arrive in India on September 25 and the first of seven ODIs is in Bangalore four days later.

Dilip Vengsarkar, the chairman of selectors, said a decision would be taken on September 18, when the team for the Australia ODIs is to be picked.

Vengsarkar, who was in New Delhi watching the match between India A and South Africa A, appeared unaware of the news until told about it by journalists. Asked for his reaction, Vengsarkar said: "I can't even be shocked because [officially] I haven't heard anything."

Is Dravid handing over his captaincy to stop him from T20 world cup which is taking place in South Africa? Anyway, as he thinking that it is hampering his concentration for batting. I think it is a good decision.