ICC Women's World Twenty20 2012

 ICC Women's World Twenty20 2012 will also be held in Sri Lanka and will be played almost during the same time as the  ICC World Twenty20 2012 (men)  will be played. There is difference of just 8 days between the opening matches of both the tournament. ICC World T20 will start on Sept 18, where as  ICC Women's World Twenty20 2012 will being on Sept 26. As is the tradition the opening match will include the host country thus in the men's T20 world cup opening match will be played between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, on the other hand the women's T20 opening match will be played between Sri Lanka and South Africa.

Details for the men's crcikets twenty twenty world cup is posted already and you can take a look at details of all the matches at http://icccricket.blogspot.com/2012/07/icc-world-t20-match-details-t20-world.html   And for the details of women's T20 are as written below:

Wed Sep 26 04:00 GMT | 09:30 local 09:30 IST	1st Match, Group B - Sri Lanka Women v South Africa Women Galle International Stadium
Wed Sep 26 08:00 GMT | 13:30 local 13:30 IST	2nd Match, Group B - New Zealand Women v West Indies Women Galle International Stadium
Thu Sep 27 04:00 GMT | 09:30 local 09:30 IST	3rd Match, Group A - England Women v Pakistan Women Galle International Stadium
Thu Sep 27 08:00 GMT | 13:30 local 13:30 IST	4th Match, Group A - Australia Women v India Women Galle International Stadium
Fri Sep 28 04:00 GMT | 09:30 local 09:30 IST	5th Match, Group B - New Zealand Women v South Africa Women Galle International Stadium
Fri Sep 28 08:00 GMT | 13:30 local 13:30 IST	6th Match, Group B - Sri Lanka Women v West Indies Women Galle International Stadium
Sat Sep 29 04:00 GMT | 09:30 local 09:30 IST	7th Match, Group A - Australia Women v Pakistan Women Galle International Stadium
Sat Sep 29 08:00 GMT | 13:30 local 13:30 IST	8th Match, Group A - England Women v India Women Galle International Stadium
Sun Sep 30 04:00 GMT | 09:30 local 09:30 IST	9th Match, Group B - South Africa Women v West Indies Women Galle International Stadium
Sun Sep 30 08:00 GMT | 13:30 local 13:30 IST	10th Match, Group B - Sri Lanka Women v New Zealand Women Galle International Stadium
Mon Oct 1 04:00 GMT | 09:30 local 09:30 IST	11th Match, Group A - India Women v Pakistan Women Galle International Stadium
Mon Oct 1 08:00 GMT | 13:30 local 13:30 IST	12th Match, Group A - Australia Women v England Women Galle International Stadium
Thu Oct 4 12:30 GMT | 18:00 local 18:00 IST	1st Semi-Final - TBC v TBC (A1 v B2) R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Fri Oct 5 12:30 GMT | 18:00 local 18:00 IST	2nd Semi-Final - TBC v TBC (A2 v B1) R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Sun Oct 7 12:30 GMT | 18:00 local	Final - TBC v TBC R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Hope you enjoy both the tournaments equally.

Cricket Boards start announcing list of probables for ICC World T20

As the mega twenty twenty cricket tournament the ICC World T20 is approaching near, different cricket boards has started announcing the list of 30 probables for the mega event. Surprisingly many known faces in cricket are expected to make comebacks in this years T20 world cup. Yuvraj Singh, Jacques Kallis, Greame Smith,  Roelof van der Merwe, Sulieman Ben.  However the controversial Kevin Pietersen of the defending champions England has been ruled our from the list of 30 probables thus making his way back to the England team for ODI and Twenty twenty matches almost impossible. Kevin has recently announced retirement from shorter versions of the game but few time later announced that he is willing to play the T20 and one day international matches given his schedule be lessened.

Recently West Indies, England, South Africa and India announced list of thirty probables. Here is the list:

South Africa List of probable 30: 
Johan Botha, Jacques Kallis, Hashim Amla, Farhaan Behardien, Rory Kleinveldt, Albie Morkel, Rusty Theron, Reeza Hendricks, Imran Tahir, Colin Ingram, Chris Morris, Justin Ontong, Robin Peterson, Aaron Phangiso, Graeme Smith, Dale Steyn, Richard Levi, David Miller, Ryan McLaren, Roelof van der Merwe, Morne van Wyk, Dane Vilas,  Marchant de Lange, JP Duminy, AB de Villiers, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Alviro Petersen, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Faf du Plessis


West Indies probable squad: Samuel Badree, Christopher Barnwell, Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, Kieran Powell, Carlton Baugh, Sulieman Benn, Tino Best, , Nkrumah Bonner, Dwayne Smith, Carlos Brathwaite, Darren Bravo, Dwayne Bravo, Johnson Charles, Fidel Edwards, Chris Gayle, Danza Hyatt,  Nikita Miller, , Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach, Andre Russell, Darren Sammy, Garey Mathurin, Marlon Samuels, Krishmar Santokie, Shane Shillingford, Lendl Simmons, Devon Thomas, Devendra Bishoo

England Cricket Team Provisional squad:
Stuart Broad (capt), James Anderson, Jonathan Bairstow, Gareth Batty, Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Scott Borthwick, Jos Buttler, Alastair Cook, Tim Bresnan, Danny Briggs, Steven Croft, Steven Davies, Jade Dernbach, Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Craig Kieswetter, Michael Lumb, Stuart Meaker, Eoin Morgan, Graham Onions, Samit Patel, Matt Prior, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Graeme Swann, James Taylor, James Tredwell, Chris Woakes, Luke Wright 

Team India list of 30 probables:
MS Dhoni,  Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma, Munaf Patel, Suresh Raina, R Ashwin, Pragyan Ojha, Umesh Yadav, Ashok Dinda, Ajinkya Rahane, Manoj Tiwary, Rahul Sharma, Vinay Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh, Robin Uthappa, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Mandeep Singh, Piyush Chawla, Ravindra Jadeja, Shikhar Dhawan, Ambati Rayudu, Harbhajan Singh, Virat Kohli, Naman Ojha, Dinesh Karthik, Praveen Kumar, L Balaji, Virender Sehwag

ICC World T20 Match Details – T20 World Cup 2012

Sri Lanka is going to host the 4th ICC World T20 championship.  The inaugural match will be played between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe on September 18 at Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota. The tournament will last 20 days and final will be played on Oct 7 at R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo.

List of participating nations in ICC World T20 – 21012:
Apart from the ten ICC test playing nations two ICC associate members who played the finals of the ICC T20 World Cup 2012 qualifying tournament finals i.e. Afghanistan and Ireland will also play in this year T20 tournament. Here is the complete list of nations competing in the ICC World T20 2012:

1.       India
2.       Pakistan
3.       England
4.       Sri Lanka
5.        Zimbabwe
6.        Australia
7.       South Africa
8.        New Zealand
9.        Bangladesh
10.    West Indies
11.   Ireland
12.    Afghanistan

India, Pakistan and England were the winners of the first three seasons of World T20 championship and hopefully we’ll see a new champion this time as well.  Pakistan team were the finalist for the first 2 season and first time they were unlucky to be defeated  by India but they got it better next season.

Here is the details of ICC World T20 Matches:
Tue Sep 18
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group C : 1st T20 - Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe
Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota

Wed Sep 19
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Group B : 2nd T20 - Australia vs Ireland
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Wed Sep 19
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group A : 3rd T20 - India vs Afghanistan
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Thu Sep 20
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group C : 4th T20 - South Africa vs Zimbabwe
Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota


Fri Sep 21
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Group D : 5th T20 - New Zealand vs Bangladesh
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Fri Sep 21
9:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group A : 6th T20 - England vs Afghanistan
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sat Sep 22
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Group C : 7th T20 - Sri Lanka vs South Africa
Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota


Sat Sep 22
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group B : 8th T20 - Australia vs West Indies
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sun Sep 23
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Group D : 9th T20 - New Zealand vs Pakistan
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Sun Sep 23
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group A : 10th T20 - England vs India
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Mon Sep 24
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group B : 11th T20 - West Indies vs Ireland
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

 Tue Sep 25
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group D : 12th T20 - Bangladesh vs Pakistan
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Thu Sep 27
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 1 : 13th T20 - TBC vs TBC
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Thu Sep 27
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 1 : 14th T20 - TBC vs TBC
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Fri Sep 28
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 2 : 15th T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Fri Sep 28
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 2 : 16th T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sat Sep 29
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 1 : 17th T20 - TBC vs TBC
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Sat Sep 29
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 1 : 18th T20 - TBC vs TBC
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy

 Sun Sep 30
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 2 : 19th T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sun Sep 30
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 2 : 20th T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Mon Oct 1
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 1 : 21st T20 - TBC vs TBC
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Mon Oct 1
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 1 : 22nd T20 - TBC vs TBC
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Tue Oct 2
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 2 : 23rd T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Tue Oct 2
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 2 : 24th T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

 Thu Oct 4
19:00 local | 13:30 GMT 1st Semi Final T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Fri Oct 5
19:00 local | 13:30 GMT 2nd Semi Final T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sun Oct 7
19:00 local | 13:30 GMT Final T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Daniel Vettori ready to play ICC World Twenty20

The great New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori who has taken break from shorter version of the games said that he is ready to come out of T20 retirement and join the team for T20 world cup to be organized in Sri Lanka. Vettori has played all the three previous ICC world Twenty20 tournaments and has been among the best T20 bowlers in the world.

The coaches and other staff of the New Zealand team have also welcomed the decision and the tournaments is being played in spin friendly conditions at Sri Lanka and Daniel Vettori is definitely  the best spin bowler that Kiwi team had ever.

Though Daniel has played his last international T20 match around 2 years back in May of 2010, he has been playing T20 consistently in IPL and New Zealand domestic team. In IPL he has been a part and captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore team this season. 

The cricket board of New Zealand is yet to announce the T20 squad that will participate in the team and its believed that Daniel Vettori  will be part of the team being announced by July 18. Interestingly New Zealand are places in a stron group with Pakistan and Bangladesh the other teams.

Lasith Malinga to promote ICC T20 World Cup 2012

Lasith Malinga who is no doubt one of the best bowlers in the shorted versions of the game, particularly the twenty twenty format has been picked up by ICC as the ambassador of World Twenty20 to be held in Sri Lanka this year.  ICC world T20 will be played in the Sep-Oct 2012.

Malinga has been an important part of Sri Lankan cricket team and has been associated with the Mumbai Indian IPL till since the beginning of the IPL.  Given his charm among the fans ICC has decided that Lasith Malinga will be the face of the tournament and will be promoting the event around the globe.

Indian Cricket Team assignments before ICC World Championship 2012 T20

IPL 2012 has given enough practice for players from all the cricket playing nations who will compete in the ICC World T20 2012 to be held in Sri Lanka in Sep-Oct 2012. Its a quarter left for the T20 world cup to start and before that Indian team has two important assignment to undertake. One their tour to Sri Lanka where they will play five one day international matches and one T20 match. After that team India will have to play two test matches and two twenty twenty matches against visiting New Zealand team.

Since both the series are being played in the home or the Indian sub-continent conditions. These two series will definitely help Indian cricket team while they will play the ICC world T20 championship.

Lets wait and watch for the results of the two upcoming series before we start thinking of the T20 world cup. Here are the fixtures details for the two series:

India tour of Sri Lanka, 2012: Five ODI matches and one T20 game, schedule is as follows:


Sun Jul 22 09:00 GMT | 14:30 local
14:30 IST 1st ODI - Sri Lanka v India
Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium, Sooriyawewa, Hambantota

Tue Jul 24
09:00 GMT | 14:30 local
14:30 IST 2nd ODI - Sri Lanka v India
Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium, Sooriyawewa, Hambantota

Sat Jul 28
09:00 GMT | 14:30 local
14:30 IST 3rd ODI - Sri Lanka v India
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Tue Jul 31
09:00 GMT | 14:30 local
14:30 IST 4th ODI - Sri Lanka v India
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sat Aug 4
09:00 GMT | 14:30 local
14:30 IST 5th ODI - Sri Lanka v India
Pallekele International Cricket Stadium


Tue Aug 7
13:30 GMT | 19:00 local
19:00 IST Only T20I - Sri Lanka v India
Pallekele International Cricket Stadium

New Zealand tour of India, 2012: 2 Test matches and 2 T20 matches:

Thu Aug 23 - Mon Aug 27
04:00 GMT | 09:30 local
09:30 IST 1st Test - India v New Zealand
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

Fri Aug 31 - Tue Sep 4
04:00 GMT | 09:30 local
09:30 IST 2nd Test - India v New Zealand
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Sat Sep 8
14:30 GMT | 20:00 local
20:00 IST 1st T20I - India v New Zealand
Indira Priyadarshini Stadium, Visakhapatnam

Tue Sep 11
14:30 GMT | 20:00 local
20:00 IST 2nd T20I - India v New Zealand
MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Important Matches in IPL today for Mumbai & Chennai

This post is the part second for the post made few day back titled: Important matches for Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings Today. It is almost same situation with just a small change that this time Mumbai will play against Royal Challengers Bangalore team in place of Delhi Dare Devils. For Chennai Super Kings its the same opposition that they defeated few days back i.e. Kolkata Knight Riders. Like the last time pressure is once again on the Chennai team as they need to win the match this time as well. Kolkata team wil still have 2 more game to go after this game and a win on any one of them wil see them in play offs. However the Chennai team has only one game left after this game and they need to win both of them. Same is situation with the Mumbai Indians team and today they are facing the most fearful team in IPL called the RCB. No matter what score you set for this team as long as hug Chris Gayle is at the crease every target is short for the Royal Challengers Team. Both the teams have played equal number of matches (13) and there's a difference on one point only (Mumbai 16 and RCB 15). Thus the team winning today will have more chances of entering the IPL semi-finals. IPL matches results yesterday: Yesterday Rajasthan ROyal and Kings XI Punjab won their respective matches by defeating Pune Warriors and Deccan Chargers respectively. Win of both these teams had made the point table look more complex regarding which team will qualify for the play offs. For every team except Pune and Hyderabad every match is virtually a knock out game and a defeat will make the chances of qualifying for the next round more difficult. SO all of you keep the fingers crossed for your favorite teams. Its time to log off now and wait for the live action to start.