Twenty20 World Cup Final

India lift the first-ever Twenty20 Championship.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni's young Indian team snatched the inaugural Twenty20 world title after defeating arch-rivals Pakistan by five runs in a thrilling final on Monday.

India restricted to 157-5 after a good start, before reducing Pakistan to 104-7 off 16 overs. Sohail Tanvir then hit 12 runs off four balls with two huge sixes to bring Pakistan back in contention, in front of a sell-out crowd of 32,000 at the Wanderers.

Misbah and his tail-end partners took 19 runs in the 17th over bowled by spinner Harbhajan Singh, 13 in the 18th of Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and seven runs in the 19th from Rudra Pratap Singh, leaving 13 to get off the final over.

Joginder Sharma bowled a wide off the first ball and was hammered for a six by Misbah with the second legitimate ball, but gave India victory with his next delivery by taking the wicket of Misbah-ul-Haque.

Rudra Pratap and Irfan Pathan claimed three wickets each as Pakistan's jinx of never having beaten India in a World Cup or world championship match continued.

India take home the winner's purse of 490,000 dollars while Pakistan received no prize money for their efforts in the final.

Final Score:

India 157 - 5

Pakistan 152 - 10 in 19.3 overs.

Man of the Match:
Irfan Pathan

Man of the Series:
Shahid Afridi

Twenty20 World Cup Final - India vs Pakistan

First Twenty20 world cup final..... and its between bitter rivals India and Pakistan....... wowwwww, great.

The final at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on Monday will be the first major title clash between India and Pakistan since the limited-overs world championship of cricket in Melbourne in 1985.

Less than six months after both sides returned in disgrace from the 50-over World Cup, where they were out in the first round only, with entirely new and young team, they reach the finals of Twenty20 world cup.

Rookie Pakistan skipper Shoaib Malik and incoming India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni have the chance to lift a major trophy after a tournament that has packed in more thrills and close finishes.

"India-Pakistan is always a huge competition. It's just like a dream for us," said hero of the
semifinal forIndia Yuraj Singh after smashing 70 off just 30 balls.

Any team can win the final, as both the teams are young, but it is going to be a exciting and thrilling final between two arch-rivals.

Players to watch in the final are Yuraj Singh from India and Shahid Afridi from Pakistan.

Performance so far in the Twenty20 world cup.

Yuraj Singh

134 runs, with the strike rate of 235, highest in the tournament.
12 sixes so far, second highest in the tournament.
Fastest Fifty (12 balls) in Twenty20 Internationals.
Six consecutive sixes against Stuart Broad, first player in T20 to do so.
2 Man-of-the-match awards.


Shahid Afridi

91 runs, with the strike rate of 202, second highest in the tournament.
12 wickets so far, highest in the tournament.
Holds record for fastest century in ODI cricket (36 balls).
1 Man-of-the-match award.

Enjoy the final and cross ur finger for ur team......

Semi-final's Result

In the first semi final of Twenty20 world cup, Pkista easily beat New Zealand by 6 wickets to play a dream final against bitter rivals India on Monday at Johanesberg.


New Zealand 143 - 8

Pakistan 147 - 4 in 18.5 overs.

India beat favourites Australia by 15 runs in 2nd Semifinalto set up a mouth-watering final against Pakistan in the Twenty20 world cup.

Yuvraj Singh smashed 70 off 30 balls as India made 188-5 and then restricted Australia to 173-7 in a thrilling semi-final. Australia, needing 27 off the last 12 balls, but managed only 12 runs.


India 188 - 5

Australia 173 - 7

Twenty20 World Cup - Thursday's Result

India snatched a dramatic 37-run victory over hosts South Africa on Thursday to storm into the semi-finals of the Twenty20 world cup.

Debutant Rohit Sharma made an unbeaten 50 off 40 balls, reaching his half-century off the final delivery with a six and captain MS Dhoni hit 45 off 33 balls with four boundaries and a six.

In an unexpected turn of events, South Africa not only lost a match they appeared to be winning but failed to make 126 that would have helped them pip New Zealand on run-rate.

South Africa needed 17 off the final over to reach the magic figure of 126, but they managed only 7 runs.


India 153 - 5

South Africa 116 - 9


In another match Australia beat Sri Lanka by 10 wickets.

Sri Lanka 101 - 10 in 19.3 overs.

Australia 102 - 0 in 10.2 overs.

Twenty20 World Cup -Wednsday's Result

Six sixes in Six balls, a great inning by Yuraj Singh as he entered his name in record books to score six sixes in an over in Twenty20 cricket and also for scoring fastest 50 in just 12 balls.

Yuvraj's blistering knock came after openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir set the platform with a 136-run stand by the 15th over. Sehwag made 68 off 52 balls and Gambhir hit 58 off 41 balls.

India 218 - 4
England 200 - 6

South Africa beat New Zealand by 6 wickets. Justin Kemp was the star of the match as he struck 6 big sixes and boundaries in his unbeaten knock of 89 off 56 balls.

New Zealand 153 - 8
South Africa 158 - 4 in 19.1 overs.

Twenty20 World Cup -Tuesday's Result

In an exciting match New Zealand beat England by 5 runs.

New Zealand 164- 9
England 159 - 8

Pakistan beat Australia by 6 wickets thanks to fine performances by man of the match Misbah-ul-Haq with 66 from 42 balls and captain Shoaib Malik with 52 from 38 balls.

Pakistan have now won two out of two in the Super 8s and are through to the semi-finals.

Australia 164 - 7
Pakistan 165 - 4

Chaminda Vaas bowled a great spell of (4-0-14-2) against Bangladesh as Sri Lanka was defending a relatively low total of 147 and considering the nature of the tournament.

Sri Lanka 147 - 5
Bangladesh 83 - 10 in 15.5 overs

Twenty20 World Cup - Monday's Result

Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by 33 runs in a World Twenty20 Super Eights match on Monday.

Jayasuriya, the tournament's top scorer to date after two half centuries, wrote his name into the record books once again by conceding the inaugural competition's worst bowling figures of 0-64.

The main damage was suffered at the hands of rookie Pakistan skipper Shoaib Malik who top-scored with 57 , with support from Younis Khan (51) in a stand worth 101 from only 58 balls.

Pakistan 189 - 6
Sri Lanka 156 - 9