Knock out match for West Indies & Ireland in ICC T20

West Indies and Ireland play an important match today as the winner of the match will proceed to the super eight stage of ICC World T20 tournament and for the other it would be the way for exit. West Indies team was little unlucky to lose the previous match to Australia due to rain.  West Indies team seems to be on the favorites to win the match with the presence of players who have plenty of T20 exposure. West Indies team have players who can win them  matches alone however they need to pick the best bowling combinations and the bowling is little less lethal as compared to batting.

Ireland team on the other team has been playing good cricket at associate levels and they need to give good perfomance to improve the cricket in the nations and the Ireland cricket team is very much focused on the target. A win here for Ireland would the there best performance at an international cricket.

Who they will play in super eights: 
Any of the team who wins the Twenty twenty world cup match today will play against the defending champions England on Thursday, 27th September. That match might be of little less pressure to both the team given the heavy defeat of England by the hands on India in the group stage match yesterday.

Updates from ICC women's T20 world cup:
ICC women's twenty twenty world cup is going to be begin in Sri Lanka on 26th September and the opening match will be played between SL Women v SA Women.  For updates on  ICC Women's World Twenty20 2012 visit the link

Cricket Updates & Preview of third One Day Match India Vs England

It was nice to see ex-captain Ricky Ponting opening batting for Australia along with Michael Hussey in the first ODI of the one day international cricket match series between South Africa & Australia. Ricky Ponting is playing a good knock at the position he rarely plays and currently batting not out at 61 with Australian score board saying 157/2 in 26 overs.

And the latest update is that Ponting got out at 63 runs, will update more about this live match later. Just keep and eye over scoreboard.

Sri Lanka on the other hand is on back foot after a brilliant bowling by Pakistan bowlers on first day and very brilliant batting by Pakistan batsmen on second day.

Now coming to India vs England ODI series, India is already leading the series 2-0 and may be looking to win the series in Mohali tomorrow but Mohali pitch has something to offer for quick bowlers thus if England win the toss they can keep the series alive.

India Vs West Indies 5th One Day International Match Live

As I predicted in my last post , West Indies team played excellent cricket just to save their pride. West Indies won the match with more than 100 runs, a match where they have nothing to loose.

Even today they face the similar position, with nothing to loose and the fact that if they win this match they can get ready for the test matches in a positive frame of mind. For team India it was only the failure of the middle order that cost them the match as nothing can be expected from the current top order, they have failed ot give a positive start in all the matches so far.

As far as Chris Gayle playing for West Indies is concerned, 85% posibilty is that Chris Gayle cricket career for West Indies is over, though he can play in domestic T20 matched of various countries like Andrew Simmonds is doing.

India Vs West Indies Match 2 live

Lots of improvement areas for both the teams. Though Indian team managed to win the T20 match and the first ODI, the team top order (opening batsmen specially) failed on both the occasion. It was depth in the batting that saved the team along with the bowling. But think of the scenario when West Indies team post a competitive total then a top order disaster will be enough for the defeat.

West Indies team is bowling well but they need to learn the art of playing spin and for that they need specialist like Chris Gayle and Pollard to strengthen the batting line up.

The second ODI will be enough to tell us what the result of the ODI series would be.

India Vs West Indies - First One Day Match Live

India won the first match and will be looking forward to success in their first series after world cup win. But if we go by the stats from the last match then it won't be easy for team India to win today's match and series easily. Batting which has been strength of team India looks little inexperienced and as we have seen in the T20 match between India and West Indies the top order didn't gave an expected start.

However in bowling team India can rely on the spin attack which is a weak point of West Indies batting. They never look comfortable playing spinners. Good news for West Indies team is that players like Bravo, Pollard and Chanderpaul are back in the team which will add to the experience of the team.

Lets catch all the action from few minutes from now.

India Vs West Indies T20 Match

Indian team has arrived to compete West Indies in T20 and one day matches with a new coach and New captain. Duncan Fletcher is the new coach of Indian cricket team who took the charge after Gary Kristen resigned immediately following the Indian team world cup win whereas Suresh Raina who has been part of the Indian cricket team from some time is the new captain. Raina has been in and out of the team and almost a surprise for me to see him as a captain.

The first choice was Gautam Gambhir but he had been forced to take his name out of the tournament due the shoulder injury he received during the IPL matches. It'd be interesting to see if team India can win the T20 and one day series as most of the player are not the ones who have been playing for team India from long time. Many seniors players have either rested from the tournaments or are out due to the injuries.


The first T20 match will begin withing 2 hours time from now and it'd be interesting to see who will be in the playing 11 for both the teams.

Below may be the probables for team India:
1 Shikhar Dhawan, 2 Parthiv Patel (wk), 3 Suresh Raina (capt), 4 Virat Kohli, 5 & 6 two out of S Badrinath, Rohit Sharma and Manoj Tiwary, 7 Yusuf Pathan, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Praveen Kumar, 10 Munaf Patel, 11 R Ashwin/R Vinay Kumar/Amit Mishra/Ishant Sharma

IPL Matches - Mumbai Vs Rajasthan Live Score Updates

Yesterday Kolkata Knight riders won the match against Pune Warriors and thus took another step towards the play ofs. Today Mumbai will play against Rajasthan Royals. In the last encounter between both the teams Rajasthan won the game and Sachin was critical about the pitch conditions.

Lets see if the Mumbai Indians can win the match in the home conditions, as far as importance of todays game is concerned Rajasthan Royals are already out of the competition for play ofs whereas Mumbai will need only one win from the remaining games better if they can do it today itself.

Stay tuned for all the live action and score updates from the IPL 4.

Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand Match score Update

First of all lets talk about match between Ireland and Netherlands. It was an interesting and high scoring match. In the end Ireland chased down the score of 306 runs comfortably with 2.2 overs still left. However this match didn't effect any of the team in the group B as both Ireland and Netherlands team are out of the world cup.

However suspense about who are the other 3 teams that will qualify for the quarter finals along with South Africa from the group B is still maintained. England best West Indies to keep there hopes for the next round live. Now its a virtual quarter final ahead of knock out rounds for West Indies and India who will play against each other on Sunday 20th March.

Now its time for score update Sri Lanka despite gettin a good start ended up with a score of 265/9 in 50 overs. Now lets see if the Kiwi team will be able to chase this score or not. As far as pitch conditions are concerned it will remain a good track to bat despite some assistance to the pace bowlers.

Pollard Help West Indies post a competitive total

West Indies team rely heavily on the power hitting of Keron Pollard and today he saved the West Indies team against the Ireland. Time he arrives West Indies team was struggling with less than 200 runs scred at the avers of around 4 runs per over. However after spendin few voers in the crease Pollard opted for the power play and truned the game to the favor of his team.

West Indes has set a target of 276 runs for the Ireland team and this target seems a tough task but as they have chased 300+ runs against England the Irish team may go for the kill here.

Batting for the Ireland team will begin in 15 minuted from now and if they manage to post a 80 to 100 runs opening partnership we will have a chance to see a close match in the world cup.

Keep a view at the scoreboard.

Cricket wallpapers of the moment:

Fastest World Cup Centry by Obrien

Fastest World Cup Centry by Kevin Obrien helped Ireland win the match against England. This match Ireland team break lots of records including mentioend below:

1. Fastest century in worl cup history
2. Highest 5th wicket partnership
3. Highest socre chased in world cup

I must also admit here that this was the most interesting match in the 2011 world cup so far, next best can be rated as the one between India and England played at the same venue last Sunday. England team is having trouble with macthes against under dogs as they had problem with match against Netherlands as well but they somehow managed to escape the Ryan ten Doeschate's onslaughter.

I can now defintely agree with the post match statement od Ireland captain who said the team still can qualify for the nest round of the tournament. They do have thre chances at the same time India and England will definitely have to work harder in comming matches so as they can qualify easily to the next round. India will play Ireland this sunday and this game wll be interesting one to watch now.

World cup match today: Today in world cup Netherlands is playing against the strong South African team who already have scored 284/4 in 46 overs. Now we will have to see if Netherlands can do the same thing as the Irish team did yesterday.

Good luck to the Netherlands team.

Player of the day : Kevin O'Brien

In the mean time South Africa have scored 351/5 in 50 overs and thus set a target hard for Netherlands to achieve.

New Zealand won by 10 wickets

This is what you call a completely one sided match. Right from the first ball of the tha match till the last, Kenya never looked really in the match and New Zealand won the match with 10 wickets and more than 40 overs yet to be bowled. Remember this is the Zew Zealand team that completeley lost their recently one day series to India and Balgaldesh. At that time there were doubts of if New Zealand team will qualify for the next round of the tournament. Perhaps this vistory will boost the teams confidence and make there way for the world cup success they have yet to achieve.

Below are the statements of both the captain in the post match presentations:

Vettori: "Wicket had a bit of variable bounce, which our seamers exploited. some big games coming up, good to start like this. With Mills coming back, there might be some changes for the next game. Nathan has done brilliantly as well for us."

Kamande: "Don;t think it was the wicket. It was the areas NZ bowled. We got to be more positive in whatever we do. NZ came very hard at us. We have to learn from this performance today. There are some more games coming up for us."

In just two hours from now the thirs match of the world cup will begin between Sri Lanka and Canada once again between one world cup favorites and a minnow team.

Oneintersting fact here is that the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium hasn't hosted any international match yet so the pitch condition are complete unknow to both the host and the Canadian team. Though it wil be a hard task for the Canadian team to beat Sri Lanka yet we need not to forget that the Canadian team consists of immigrants from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistasn and Banlgladesh thus this team can be considered to give some tough moments to Sri Lanka in the match.

Sri Lanka v Pakistan World Cup Match Live

This is definitely one of the most exciting matches of the group stage in the world cup 2011. Sri Lanka and Pakistan, both one time champions taking each other in the group stage of 2011 world cup. Both the team have good combination of spin and pace bowlin atttack and some very good batsmen in the world. This match between the two team will be goin to be a high scorig match.

As this is going to be a day nigh t match I guess toss may play a littly role guessgin the due factor which can make fielding and bowling little difficult under lights.

You can catch all the live action of the match here at the ICC Cricket Blog. Thanks was visitng and enjot the world cup :)

ICC T20 Final Live Score - Australia Vs England

Now this is going to be a perfect final match for T20 world cup. Both the team have never won or reached the final to twenty twenty world cup and for Australia its a do or die match to win the only tournament in cricket they havent won so far. As far as England is concerned its a very very long time they have reached this stage of any tournament so they won't want to loose this chance.

Thing to worry for England will be the way Australia won the semi final match today. A score of 191 was not enough for Pakistan to defend. And last over 18 runs required for winning it was an unforgetable match. Now what England do in the final to win the match .

Don't miss to watch live score of another interesting semi final match between West Indies women and New Zealand women, yes I am talking about sem final of women T20 world cup 2010.

Wallpapers from today's match Michal Clark match of the match :

Australia Vs Pakistan T20 semi final live

Pakistan batted well and this was the first match in last six months where Pakistan played Australia with such a confidence. Australia is chasin a targets of 192 and they have lost first wicket.

Current score is: Pakistan 191/6 (20/20 ov)

Australia 26/1 (2.1/20 ov)

Its going to be interesting if Australia can chase this target or not, ShaneWaston and Haddin are battin beautifully and scoring runs freely. But loosing wickets s the only thing that can cause Australia in trouble otherwise they look to chase tihs score easily.

Keep watching the live score board

T20 World Cup Second Semi final Live Score

In the mens T20 World Cup England made it to the Finals and In womens T20 world Cup Australia is in the finals by defeating India in the first semi finals. Now both these team will play the winners of the second semi finals that will beplayed today .

In the mens T20 world cup Australia will play against last time champions Pakistan, Australia seem to have upper hand as they defeated Paksitanin the league stage also. Pakistan cricket team will though want to make it to the finals and retain the world cup trophy with them, but Australian have the more solid reason to win the semi final as its the only tournament Australiand haven't won so fay but wny of the team which win the match they will have problems with England in the final as it has been very long since England reached the finals of any major tournament.

In womens T20 worls cup second semi final today West Indies will play New Zealand today and winner will face Australia in the finals. on Sunday.

ICC Womens T20 World Cup - First Semi Final Australia v India

Indian womens cricket team has done well so far in the ICC Womens T20 world cup and they will fact Australia in the first Semi final few hours later today. Indian women entered the semi finals by defeating Pakistan And Sri Lanks, though they were defeated by in form New Zealand team in the super eight league.

Below is the likely squad for both the teams:
India: J Goswami*, A Chopra, Soniya Dabir, DP David, AA Deshpande, R Dhar, H Kaur, R Malhotra, S Naik†, M Raj, PG Raut, P Roy, A Sharma, G Sultana


Australia: AJ Blackwell*, S Nitschke, JE Cameron, SJ Elliott, RM Farrell, RL Haynes, AJ Healy†, JL Hunter, EA Osborne, EA Perry, LJ Poulton, CR Smith, LC Sthalekar, EJ Villani
Wallpapers of female cricketers from the ICC Womens twenty twenty world cup

All womens cricket team captians

England women cricket team

Twenty 20 World Cup Match - India Vs West Indies Live

Todays mathc in T20 is crucial for both the teams they must win this match to survive in the tournament. The team whic loose todyas match will be out of the tournament and will have to play the one more formality match left. where India will play Sri Lanka and West Indies will play Australia. for any of the today's winner wining the next game will also be crucial. I am sure net run rate will come to play in deciding who moves to next round.

In another match today Australia will play Sri Lanka both the teams have won one match in the super eight league and will look forward to win this one also to make sure they move to te next round .

Results of yesterdays matches:

1. England 168 for 7 (Pietersen 53, Botha 2-15) beat South Africa 129 (Duminy 39, Sidebottom 3-23) by 39 runs

2. New Zealand 133 for 7 (Vettori 38, B McCullum 33) beat Pakistan 132 for 7 (Butt 67*, Butler 3-19) by one run

The New Zealand and Pakistan match was a close thriller and it reminded me of ICC T20 world cup final where India beat Pakistan in tha last ball of the tournament. Till the 4th ball of the last over Pakistan was looking strong and it seem they will win the match but last 2 balls changes the face of the match.