can Indian win today’s twenty20 over Sri Lanka

No doubt that  Sri Lanka is doing well in second and and last twenty20 cricket. They have been scored more than hundred more runs just losing two wickets before 10 overs. although they has to lose two important wickets earlier. TM Dilshan was to back to pavillion just has contirbuted a single runs to make the challlenge over the Indian bowling. at the same time Sanath Jayasuriya has to back in the simialr way just pulling the lankan side jsut 31 runs personally but his partner Sangakara hitted a quick half century and scored 59 runs from 31 balls. But he could pull the team’s score in a fighting position before ten overs. 

You all know that India lost to visitors in the first twenty20 tournament when they scored rockey way of big runs which was very difficult to overtake the challenge. Although india started well and their run rate is higher than 10, falling the first fiew wickets confirm defeat of Indian side. similarly, Sri Lanka is doing well during the batting.

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England v Australia fixture and time schedule of ODI and Twenty20

After the prestigious Ashes test series 2009, England and visitor Australia will be taken parts for the one-day international series of seven matches. The first match will be played at Kennington Oval, London on September 4, 2009. Before both the team are playing single limited over match against Ireland and Scotland. 

England already has played their match with Ireland on last Thursday but Australia is going to take on Scotland on Friday. Although these matches are important to hold the poison for the world cricket ranking but the odi between England-Australia is most important. 

You all know that Australia has been beat to the Englishmen in the Ashes test series and this is the 2^nd defeat in the last three years. The last victory comes under Michael Vaughan leadership in 2007 and this victory under Andrew Strauss. 

Fixture and time schedules of the England vs Australia ODI and Twenty20 series: 

Sun Aug 30 14:30 local | 13:30 GMT	1st T20I - England v Australia Old Trafford, Manchester
Tue Sep 1           19:00 local | 18:00 GMT	2nd T20I - England v Australia Old Trafford, Manchester
Fri Sep 4           13:00 local | 12:00 GMT	1st ODI - England v Australia Kennington Oval, London
Sun Sep 6 10:15 local | 09:15 GMT	2nd ODI - England v Australia Lord's, London
Wed Sep 9           14:30 local | 13:30 GMT	3rd ODI - England v Australia The Rose Bowl, Southampton
Sat Sep 12 10:15 local | 09:15 GMT	4th ODI - England v Australia Lord's, London
Tue Sep 15           14:30 local | 13:30 GMT	5th ODI - England v Australia Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Thu Sep 17           14:30 local | 13:30 GMT	6th ODI - England v Australia Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Sun Sep 20 10:15 local | 09:15 GMT	7th ODI - England v Australia Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street

Drear reader, in this fixture chart you can see that England will take on Australia for two Twenty20 super limited over tournament that will be kicked-off on 30 August and September 1, 2009 at Old Trafford, Manchester. This will be most exciting matches after the Twenty20 World Cup for the Englishmen and Australian. Most probably, before the ICC Twenty20 world Championship 2010 they will not meet any more. So, it will be the most exciting matches for the fans of both nations.

Highlights Sri Lanka vs Pakistan: Twenty20 Pakistan Innings

Wining toss Pakistan elected to bat first to dominate Sri Lankan bowlers. Losing one-day and test, the Twenty20 Champions Pakistan takes the match very seriously. Although it lost first wicket in the first ball, other batsmen pulled Pak score in a stable position. Imran Nazir, Shahid Afridi and Umar Akmal revive Pakistan.

Pakistan lost the most potential wicket of Kamran Akmal in the first ball of the innings. Another opening batsman Nazir and Malik adds 35 runs but lost Malik personally 14 runs. Pakistan lost Nazir in 59 but Afridi and Umar pulled become the golden pair for Pak side and in 125 runs Pakistan lost Umar’s wicket. Afridi-Umar made a highest 66 urns partnership in this innings.

Hard-hitter batsman Shahid Afridi personally hits a half-century from 58 balls by sending ball six time out of the boundary rope. As a result Pakistan could reach 172 runs by losing 5 wickets.

So Sri Lanka have to score 173 runs to win the only twenty20 match.

P20 Cricket league tournament by ECB

England and Wales Cricket Board decided to organize the Twenty20 League tournament among the clubs called T20. The 18 cricket clubs will be taken parts at this showdown. Among the eighty teams two teams will be organized with the players of abroad. One may come from West Indies and other will be taken parts from the Indian premier league.

BBC wrote:

"At the moment you've got the 50-over competition and possibly an extended Twenty20 and I think that would be the best thing for English cricket if they leave it like that," he told BBC Somerset.

"I've been saying for two or three years that we've had one one-day competition too much.

The ECB will start the tournaments from June each year and one match will be held each week instead of a whole month showdown. And will be finished by December very year. It is clear that the popularity of Twenty20 cricket is increasing day by day. That is why all the cricket board of all the countries is bowing down to this short formatted cricket.

World Twenty20 second season 2009 Opening ceremony timing

On 5th June 2009, with the match between England and Netherlands the second season of the ICC Twenty20 World cup 2009 will be started its way. Twelve teams are taking parts in this tournament. The opening ceremony, opening match and the final will be held at Lords’ that is called the center point of cricket or modern cricket. Previously, England arranged three world cricket festivals such as, first World Cup one-day international cricket in 1975, secondly 1999 world Cup and 2004 Champions Trophy. This is the forth time England is going to celebrate this kinds of festival.



To make women cricket popular, the year 2009 will celebrate the two final matches in a day on 21 June 2009. That day women World Twenty20 final and men Twenty20 final will be held in the same ground Lords’. Twelve men’s teams and 8 women teams will be take part in the different tournaments but the final or closing ceremony will be held in same day and same ground Lords’.



With the match between SA Women and WI Women at Taunton the ICC Women's World Twenty20 2009 will be held in English gourd too. All the matches will be played at Taunton and the inaugural math will be taken place on June 11 at 10:00 local, 09:00 GMT.



According to Local time of England the inaugural Mach England vs Netherlands will be played at 17:30 local and 16:30 GMT. But for the Indian fans it will be aired at 22:00 IST similarly for Bangladesh and Sri Lankan time it will be at 22:30 but according to PST it will be at 21:30.



Asian time is most important for cricket business because 4 top rated countries always take parts these kinds of festival. May be 90 percent of cricket fans live in this area. The time will be very odd for the Oceania regions’ fans.

• * Australia — Fox Sports (Live)
• * Australia — Nine Network
• * Bangladesh - BTV (Live)
• * Canada — Asian Television Network -ATN (Live)
• * Europe — Eurosport2 (Live) (including France, Denmark, Algeria, Sweden, Austria, Finland, Monaco, Cyprus and Russia)
• * India — STAR Cricket and ESPN (Live), Doordarshan (selected matches only)
• * Japan - Hum Tum TV (Live)
• * Middle East —Arab Digital Distribution (Live)
• * New Zealand — SKY Network Television (Live)
• * Pacific Islands — Fiji TV
• * Pakistan — Pakistan Television Corporation - PTV (Live)
• * South Africa — Supersport (Live)
• * Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (Live)
• * United Kingdom — Sky Sports (Live), BBC - Highlights
• * United States — DirecTV (Live)
• * West Indies - Caribbean Media Corporation (Live)

There are some TV channels that will telecast all the matches of World Twenty20 second season 2009 including Opening ceremony.

India vs Pakistan Twenty20 warm-up 2009 live on 3rd June

A head of Twenty20 world cup 2009, India is going to take on arch rival Pakistan. You all know well that Pakistan beta to India in the inaugural ceremony in 2007 in South Africa. Later they both meet these kinds of tournament and India is leading by wining more.

 

After Mumbai terrorist attack, India leave all the tours in Pakistan even no Pak cricketers took part in the IPL T20 season 2 in South Africa. Before this India-Pakistan meet in a home series in India and did not play any Twenty20 match beside Test and One-day Internationals. They just meet during the World Twenty20 Championship in 2009 at Johannesburg and Durban.

 

After two year, they are going to meet in same stage but in a warm-up match at The Oval in England. With this match the warm-up round will come to end. There will be 12 matches in the first-round but the two sub-continent teams will not played any match. If they be qualified then they could meet in super eight round and also in semifinals of final.

 

During the group round, Pakistan and India was in Group D and by being champion India played in super eight. Australia was the way to reach in the final and later meet along with Pakistan again.

 

Pakistan-India matches are always exciting and the cricket fans over the world enjoyed most. To extend the excitement, ESPN has brought the global telecast right and in Asian fans it will telecast all the matches beside Star Cricket will telecast all the matches for Indian fans. But the Twenty20 warm-up match of India vs Pakistan will be show live in Star Cricket.

Twenty20 World Cup 2009: Trophy has been unveiled in Mumbai

India, the World Twenty20 Champions of 2007, secured the title in the inaugural stage of the short formatted cricket tournament which was held in South Africa. The Trophy is at India now. The second edition of the championship will be hosted in England. The inaugural ceremony will be commenced on 5 June at Lord’s and the final match of World Twenty Championship will be held in Lord’s on 21 June. 7-1/2 kilograms weigh Trophy will be handed over to the wining captain of the season 2009 at Lord’s that was received by MS Dhoni, the Indian captain as a wining team in South Africa. Recently, Indian former captain and ICC ambassador Dilip Vengsarkar has unveiled the trophy of Twenty20 World Cup 2009 in Mumbai. He hopes that Indian will be the title holder this year too.

 

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"Since this is a very good side, all the players are in good form and they are capable of giving their best performance, so they have the best chance to win again...because the World Cup which they won in South Africa...they (get) another chance to go out in England and win the World Cup, they have the potential and I am sure that they will win it," he said.

 

In India, cricket is very popular to all and a big craze. In the last stage they achieved the title by beating arch rival Pakistan. No doubt that it is a big wins these kinds of international stage. India just won the trophy 50-50 formatted cricket stage in 1984 by the leadership of Kapil Dev. Indian people always eager to hear the commentary of the running matches during the match time. To support them some cell phone company is providing SMS-based ball-to-ball prediction game on demand. It may be reduced. 

To watch live Pakistan vs Australia Twenty20 tune Ten Sports

Australia won the one-day international series by 3-2. MJ Clarke, the responsible captain, achieve man of the series award. Shahid Afridi picked up his career highest bowling figure 6 wickets from 38 runs. Kamral Akmal sacked a century in the last one-day international. These all you was showed in the satellite Television Channel Ten Sports. It has secured the broad cast right over the world.

 

South Asian based No 1 Sports TV channel Ten Sports which telecasts Football as well as Golf, Equestrian, F1, Tennis beside Cricket. It has official right to broadcast of International Cricket that will be hosted in Pakistan. So, from this view, Ten Sports will be the actual right holder for South Asian Cricket fan to support with Pakistan vs Australia Twenty20 cricket tournament.

Pakistan vs Australia Twenty20: Big practices field before ICC World T20

Almost, the cricketer of all countries is getting practices by conjunctions with 20 overs match of Indian Premier League that is going on South Africa. But the Australian players except David Warner and the Pakistan players, who are being kept way from these tournaments, are looking forward with the only single Twenty20 tournament that will be taken place at Dubai Sport City Cricket Stadium. It is the last T20 formatted match before the World Twenty20 2009 that will be hosed by England after South Africa 2007.

 

Sify reported

"We're looking forward to the event in England and we'd definitely like to take the trophy home with us. We had a good tournament in 2007 in South Africa, reaching the final but losing to India. This time around we want to go all the way and win it," Younus said. 

Haddin, standing in as captain of the Australia side for tomorrow's T20I against Pakistan said: "I'm really looking forward to taking part in the summer's ICC World Twenty20 in England, the country where this format of the game was created.

 

MJ Clarke used to lead Australia team after Rickey Ponting because of security concern after Pakistan terrorist attack on Sri Lanka Cricket team in Lahore. The Team was won the ODI series under his captaincy but he will not lead the tem in T20 tournament. In the absent of MJ Clarke, Haddin will lead the team.

Pakistan vs Australia second Twenty20 match in Dubai on May 7, 2009

The Only T20I between Pakistan and Australia is going to take place on May 7, 2009 at Dubai Sports City Cricket Stadium. It is the second Twenty20 formatted match. After Twenty20 World cup they did not meet each other. It was the group match of them. That time, Pakistan won by 6 wickets at Johannesburg on Sep 18, 2007.

 

I mentioned that this is the second Twenty20 match between the Twenty20 Championship runner-up and One-day international champions. The first match was very competitive and Pakistan could reach to the target just remaining 5 balls. But in the ICC World Twenty20, 2009 Pakistan have no match in the group round matches because both the teams are in different groups. If they could be qualified for the super eight round then it would be possible but there is also some conditions too.

 

In the first Twenty20 match, Pakistan won by 6 wickets. Pakistan and Australia bout fought well. SR Clark and Sohail Tanvir picked up 3 wickets each. Shoaib Malik and Misbah-ul-Haq sacked half-centuries each on the sided of Pakistan but none from Australia.

 

In the next match, Australia side will come to ground without three star players, Captain Rickey Ponting, AC Gilchrist and ML Hayden and Pakistan side will loose Imran Nazir and Mohammad Hafeez. 

Indian Squad for Twenty20 World Cup Cricket 2009

With some new faces and old, India will fly away, aim is to England. Targeting Twenty20 World Cup 2009 Indian selection committee has announced a squad with 15 crickets. In the declared squad, they included five batsmen, five pacers, two spinners, two all-rounders and a wicket-keeper in Dhoni. The team will be leaded under MS Dhoni’s captaincy as usual. The IPL T20 has made easy to select the name of the men easily. Some of the players have been kept out form the squads who played important role to win the title Twenty20 World Cup Cricket 2007 Champions.

 

Team: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Virender Sehwag (vice-captain), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Rudra Pratap Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Pragyan Ojha and Irfan Pathan.

 

Among the five pacers Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar is new when Sreesanth, Ajit Agarker and Joginder Sharma kept for this season. Suresh Raina who is playing in IPL well and that is why he has been selected.

 

Robin Uthappa has been considered as a hard-hitting batsman on the side of Indian Twenty20 formatted cricket tournament. He played important role in the first season but this season he has been omitted from the 15 men squad. May be the main cause of his omission, beside batting he plays a role as a wicket keeper.

ICC Twenty20 season 2009: schedule and timetable

Just after a month, the most anticipated big cricket festival Twenty20 cricket tournament will be held from 5 June 2009 in England. This is the second time, 20-20 formatted cricket matches is going to take place but the first season was hosted by South Africa in 2007. From the first time this format got huge popularity of expectation.

 

Total 12 nations will take part in the ICC Twenty20 season 2009. Three qualified nations, alongside 9 test playing countries will take part in first round match by dividing four groups. Eight teams will be eligible for the knock-out super eight matches. Schedules of the first round matches from 5 June to 10 June when 12 matches will be kicked off.

 

The opening ceremony will be organized at        Lord's, London, when two European teams England and Netherlands will be showdown at that time in the inaugural match on 5 June 2009.

 

The Super Eights round matches will be grounded among them on 11 June who will be eligible from the first round. The top two point holders each four groups will take parts by dividing two groups. Similarly, the top tow will meet in semi-final encounters. Two semi-finals will be held on 18 and 19 June 2009. The final will be held at Lords on 21 June 2009.

 

The group stage matches will be kicked off at 13:30 local time except the opening day, second day first match and two semi finals and the final. The two semifinals will be at 17:30 local, 16:30 GMT and the final at on Sun 21 June, 15:00 local, 14:00 GMT.

 

ICC Twenty20 season 2009: schedule and timetable

 

June 2009
Fri 5 17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	1st Match, Group B - England v Netherlands Lord's, London
Sat 6 10:00 local, 09:00 GMT	2nd Match, Group D - New Zealand v Scotland Kennington Oval, London
Sat 6 13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	3rd Match, Group C - Australia v West Indies Kennington Oval, London
Sat 6 17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	4th Match, Group A - Bangladesh v India Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Sun 7 13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	5th Match, Group D - Scotland v South Africa Kennington Oval, London
Sun 7 17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	6th Match, Group B - England v Pakistan Kennington Oval, London
Mon 8 13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	7th Match, Group A - Bangladesh v Ireland Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Mon 8 17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	8th Match, Group C - Australia v Sri Lanka Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Tue 9 13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	9th Match, Group B - Netherlands v Pakistan Lord's, London
Tue 9 17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	10th Match, Group D - New Zealand v South Africa Lord's, London
Wed 10 13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	11th Match, Group C - Sri Lanka v West Indies Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Wed 10 17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	12th Match, Group A - India v Ireland Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Thu 11 13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	13th Match, Group F - TBC v TBC Trent Bridge, Nottingham D1 v A2
Thu 11 17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	14th Match, Group E - TBC v TBC Trent Bridge, Nottingham B2 v D2
Fri 12 13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	15th Match, Group F - TBC v TBC Lord's, London B1 v C2
Fri 12 17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	16th Match, Group E - TBC v TBC Lord's, London A1 v C1
Sat 13 13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	17th Match, Group E - TBC v TBC Kennington Oval, London C1 v D2
Sat 13 17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	18th Match, Group F - TBC v TBC Kennington Oval, London D1 v B1
Sun 14 13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	19th Match, Group F - TBC v TBC Lord's, London A2 v C2
Sun 14 17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	20th Match, Group E - TBC v TBC Lord's, London A1 v B2
Mon 15 13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	21st Match, Group E - TBC v TBC Kennington Oval, London B2 v C1
Mon 15 17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	22nd Match, Group F - TBC v TBC Kennington Oval, London B1 v A2
Tue 16 13:30 local, 12:30 GMT	23rd Match, Group F - TBC v TBC Trent Bridge, Nottingham D1 v C2
Tue 16 17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	24th Match, Group E - TBC v TBC Trent Bridge, Nottingham D2 v A1
Thu 18 17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	1st Semi-Final - TBC v TBC Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Fri 19 17:30 local, 16:30 GMT	2nd Semi-Final - TBC v TBC Kennington Oval, London
Sun 21 15:00 local, 14:00 GMT	Final - TBC v TBC Lord's, London

 

As the cricket business is based on South Asian countries especially India. So, the time schedules are very important for those people. According to India local time (IST) the opening ceremony will be held at 23:00 but the charming convention will before the match time. But he final match will be kicked off at 20:00 IST on Sunday the weekly holiday.