ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2010: Opening Ceremony at Providence Stadium

Third ICC Twenty20 World championship is going to start from tonight according the local time IST. But the host is celebrating from 13:00 local. It can sure to tell that the celebration would start before starting the second match.

 The opening ceremony is all set to begin. Just after a few days of IPL, another competition already been started at Providence Stadium, Guyana in West Indies. The opening tournament is taking place between Sri Lanka and New Zealand. This is the third season of the shortage over champions’ tournament. Twelve teams are taking part by divided in four groups. Here is the group and which nation will play against the teams.

GroupA: Australia, Bangladesh, Pakistan

GroupB: New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe,

GroupC : India, South Africa, Afghanistan

GroupD: England, West Indies, Ireland (source)

Today, there are two matches in group B and Group D. It hopes that charming opening ceremony will be held at the end of the West Indies and Ireland encounter.

I am not sure that which media will show the live streaming in online but Start Cricket is showing the first match at this moment.

Mahela Jayawardene is satisfied for his team’s performances: ICC World Twenty20

Mahela Jayawardene,t he former skipper Sri Lanka, is playing on the side of King XI Punjab where Kumar Sangakkara is playing the role as captain.  The defending runner up middle order batsmen is becoming experienced playing in the IPL T20 and is getting ready for the ICC World Twenty20 which will be organized by ICC and the host has been selected as West Indies for 2010 and the gala opening ceremony will be held in Guyana on 30 April.

Mahela Jayawardene has given some open comment on the upcoming championship. He thinks that Twenty20 cricket is an open games and difficult to find any favorite team. By supporting his nation he added the previous success in England. He also praised his teammate Tillekeratne Dilshan’s performance congratulated his achievement for this year as the ICC World Twenty20 Performance of the Year 2009 award in Johannesburg.

He also is expecting that his team will do best in the June’s carnival in West Indies. Sri Lanka is in group B where they have to appear alongside New Zealand and Zimbabwe that have strong all-round team. He is also mentioned that his leader Kumar Sangakkara is in a good form and Angelo Mathews and Ajantha Mendis. Lasith Malinga will add extra strength for the team.

Source: cricket.yahoo.net

Amit Mishra in Indian Twenty20 World Cup 2010?

It makes me disappointed reading the news about Amit Mishra where he was emphasized as the world class spins bowlers. In the year 2008 he was appointed on the side of Rajasthan Royals but this year he was dominating the batmen on the side of Delhi Daredevils. May he is the most wicket-taker at this moment in IPL 2010. He did not play any T20i math yet. But he has a very good statistics who has played Test and ODI too. His best blowing in test cricket is 5/71 against Australia and in one-day international 3 wickets for 40 runs versus Sri Lanka.  His best bowling performances in IPL T20 is against Deccan Chargers 5/17. 

Most interesting thing is that the young man is not in the Indian Squad which has been announced for the Twenty20 World Cup 2010 in West Indies. It is true that India is best in this short formatted cricket tournament at this moment in spite of losing last year on the second round in England.

I have some question about Indian squad. Will the selection board brought some changes in their squads evaluating the overall matches of IPL Twenty20?

Indian Squad for Twenty20 World Cup 2010: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Virender Sehwag (vice-captain), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Zaheer Khan, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Ranganath Vinay Kumar, Dinesh Karthik, Rohit Sharma and Piyush Chawla.

Important role of Spinner in ICC Twenty20 World 2010

The former pacer Waqar Younis who is the responsible coach of Pakistan cricket team, has said that spin will be the most turning point during the ICC T20 World Championship in West Indies. He strongly believes that the role of spinner would bring the second title this year.  At the same time he is satisfy about some spinners who are still in the present squad.

 “We have variety of all types of bowlers but I think we have an edge in the spin department and we will be depending upon our spinners to play a key role in team’s success to defend the title,” Waqar told reporters on the sidelines of the ongoing training camp at the National Cricket Academy here.

In the last Twenty20 World Championship 2009, Omar Gul performed excellently and played the most important role to be the title. He was the highest wicket taker. This year, he was appeared in the English premier league T20 tournament and was signed with the Kolkata Knight Riders for IPL T20. 

ESPN Star Sports: Target to earn more revenue from Twenty20 World Cup 2010

Now, Twenty20 formatted cricket comes in the top of the all the cricket tournaments. During the inauguration ceremony, in 2007 in South Africa, its popularity does not decrease despite of launching more crickets in every year rather increased more and more. Indian Premier League is the big example.

ESPN is the telecast partner and casting all the matcher live in the TV channels. The upcoming Twenty20 World Cup will be held in West Indies from 30 April. This year, their eyes to earn huge number of profit, ESPN has declared earlier this week. ESPN Star Sports (ESS)’s target is to earn Rs 1.6 billion from the Twenty20 World Cup from advertising revenue.

Source: Indian Television

Most runs in Twenty20 World Championship 2007-09

The second season of world most expecting cricket tournament Twenty20 world Championship is on the way to open the door in the Caribbean country. The previous season added extra entertainment among the cricket fans and brought them in a new era when cricket. From the inaugural season it able to earn the heart of sports lover people over the world.

Sometime people look for who is the highest run earner in the last two years. They try to compare with their favorites team and find the real solution and find hopes about their team performances.

It is tough to assume who will be the best performer this year because cricket is one of the most uncertain sports in the globe. India earns the first title in T20 championship even they played their best round the year but at last Pakistan earned the title second season who could not get any opportunity to play some international cricket for the terrorist attack on Sri Lanka team during Test match.

Indian Premier League IPL20 is one of the practices field to make a player perfect. New Zealand Batsman Rose Tailors and BB McCullum performance was mime blowing.

TM Dilshan is the highest scorer in last two T20 championships by scoring 382 runs from 12 appearances. He scored 96 in an innings and was unbeaten. Among the top ten higher run scorer his strike rate is 140.44   which is 4^th when Yuvraj Singh is number one acquiring 172.00.  Among the top ten two Indian batsmen Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh could have draw their name. Four Sri Lankan batsmen are TM Dilshan, ST Jayasuriya, DPMD Jayawardene and KC Sangakkara are on the list. Two from Pakistan, one from England and CH Gayle from West Indies.

As Most wickets Pakistan is holding the top two positions Omar Gul and Shahid Afridi. Indian bowler Yuvraj as well as Irfan Pathan are on the nine and 10^th. 

source: Cricinfo, ICC website