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

Twenty20 World Cup - Sunday's Result

Albie Morkel hit three massive sixes off successive balls and then took two wickets as South Africa beat England by 19 runs.

South Africa 154-8

England 135-7

Captain Daniel Vettori led from the front as New Zealand beat India by 10 runs in the Super Eights match of the Twenty20 world championships on Sunday.

New Zealand 190-10

India 180-9

Brett Lee takes hat-trick as Australia crush Bangladesh.

Bangladesh 123-8

Australia 124-1 in 13.5 Overs

Twenty20 World Cup - Thursday's Result

Big Blow - West Indies out of the Twenty20 World Cup.
Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful smashed the fastest half-century in Twenty20 cricket to throw the West Indies out of the world championships.


West Indies 164-8

Bangladesh 165-4


Kevin Pietersen lashed 79 off 37 balls as England beat giant-killers Zimbabwe in a World Twenty20 match at Newlands.

England 188-9

Zimbabwe 138-7

India - Scotland match of the World T20 washed out without a ball being bowled at the Kingsmead ground on Thursday.

Opening Match between South Africa and West Indies

Host South Africa won the opening match of the Inaugural Twenty20 Cricket world Cup. Hosts defeated West Indies by eight wickets thanks to fantastic performances by Herschelle Gibbs, who made an unbeaten 90 off 54 balls and Justin Kemp an unbeaten 46 off 23 balls to see South Africa home with 14 deliveries to spare.

West Indies put a fighting total of 205- 6 in 20 overs with the first-ever century in Twenty20 cricket, by Chris Gayle who hammered 117 off 57 balls, with 7 fours and 10 sixes.

South Africa 208-2

West Indies 205-6

South Africa won by eight wickets

Toss: South Africa

Umpires: Daryl Harper (AUS) and Mark Benson (ENG)

TV umpire: Nigel Llong (ENG)

Match referee: Chris Broad (ENG)

Point System in ICC Twenty20 world Cup 2007

Twenty20 cricket world cup is going to begin from today, September 11 2007 in South Africa.

Here is the point system for each win, loss and what in case of tie.

Points in the group stage and Super Eight stage were awarded as follows:

Win - 2 points

No Result - 1 point

Loss - 0 points


Other Rules

In the event of tied scores after both teams have faced their quota of overs, a bowl-out will determine the winner, even in the group stage.

In the group stage and Super Eights, teams will be ranked on the following criteria:

1. Higher number of points
2. If equal, higher number of wins
3. If still equal, net run rate
4. If still equal, higher bowling strike rate
5. If still equal, result of head to head meeting.

Teams for ICC Twenty20 world Cup 2007

Twenty20 cricket world cup is going to begin from September 11 2007 in South Africa.

Almost all the teams have slected their best players fit for this type of game.

Here are the teams for the Inaugral ICC Twenty20 world Championship 2007.


India

• Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c)
• Yuvraj Singh (vc)
• Ajit Agarkar
• Gautam Gambhir
• Harbhajan Singh
• Joginder Sharma
• Dinesh Karthik
• Irfan Pathan
• Piyush Chawla
• Virender Sehwag
• Rudra Pratap Singh
• Shanthakumaran Sreesanth
• Robin Uthappa

Australia

• Ricky Ponting (c)
• Adam Gilchrist (vc)
• Nathan Bracken
• Stuart Clark
• Michael Clarke
• Brad Haddin
• Matthew Hayden
• Ben Hilfenhaus
• Brad Hodge
• Brad Hogg
• Michael Hussey
• Mitchell Johnson
• Brett Lee
• Andrew Symonds
• Shane Watson

South Africa

• Graeme Smith (c)
• Mark Boucher
• AB de Villiers
• Shaun Pollock
• Makhaya Ntini
• Andre Nel
• Thandi Tshabalala
• Morne Morkel
• Albie Morkel
• Justin Kemp
• Johan van der
• Vernon Philander
• Herschelle Gibbs
• Jean-Paul Duminy
• Gulam Bodi

Pakistan

• Shoaib Malik (c)
• Abdur Rahman
• Fawad Alam
• Iftikhar Anjum
• Imran Nazir
• Kamran Akmal
• Misbah-ul-Haq
• Mohammad Asif
• Mohammad Hafeez
• Salman Butt
• Shahid Afridi
• Sohail Tanvir
• Umar Gul
• Yasir Arafat
• Younis Khan

Sri Lanka

• Mahela Jayawardene (c)
• Tillakaratne Dilshan
• Dilhara Fernando
• Hasantha Fernando
• Sanath Jayasuriya
• Kaushal Lokuarachchi
• Farveez Maharoof
• Lasith Malinga
• Jehan Mubarak
• Dilruwan Perera
• Kumar Sangakkara
• Chamara Silva
• Upul Tharanga
• Chaminda Vaas
• Gayan Wijekoon

New Zealand

• Daniel Vettori (c)
• Shane Bond
• Peter Fulton
• Mark Gillespie
• Gareth Hopkins
• Brendon McCullum
• Nathan McCullum
• Craig McMillan
• Chris Martin
• Jacob Oram
• Jeetan Patel
• Bradley Scott
• Scott Styris
• Ross Taylor
• Lou Vincent

England

• Paul Collingwood (c)
• James Anderson
• Stuart Broad
• Andrew Flintoff
• James Kirtley
• Darren Maddy
• Dimitri Mascarenhas
• Kevin Pietersen
• Matt Prior
• Chris Schofield
• Owais Shah
• Jeremy Snape
• Vikram Solanki
• Chris Tremlett
• Luke Wright

West Indies

• Ramnaresh Sarwan (c)
• Dwayne Bravo
• Shivnarine Chanderpaul
• Pedro Collins
• Narsingh Deonarine
• Fidel Edwards
• Chris Gayle
• Runako Morton
• Daren Powell
• Denesh Ramdin
• Ravi Rampaul
• Darren Sammy
• Marlon Samuels
• Devon Smith
• Dwayne Smith

Bangladesh

• Mohammad Ashraful (c)
• Mashrafe Mortaza
• Abdur Razzak
• Aftab Ahmed
• Alok Kapali
• Farhad Reza
• Junaid Siddique
• Mohammad Mahmudullah
• Mushfiqur Rahim
• Nadif Chowdhury
• Nazimuddin
• Shakib Al Hasan
• Syed Rasel
• Tamim Iqbal
• Ziaur Rahman

Kenya

• Steve Tikolo (c)
• Rajesh Bhudia
• Jimmy Kamande
• Tanmay Mishra
• Alex Obanda
• Collins Obuya
• David Obuya
• Nehemiah Odhiambo
• Thomas Odoyo
• Peter Ongondo
• Lameck Onyango
• Elijah Otieno
• Maurice Ouma
• Tony Suji
• Hiren Varaiya

Scotland

• Ryan Watson (c)
• John Blain
• Dougie Brown
• Gordon Drummond
• Gavin Hamilton
• Majid Haq
• Ross Lyons
• Neil McCallum
• Gregor Maiden
• Dewald Nel
• Navdeep Poonia
• Qasim Sheikh
• Colin Smith
• Fraser Watts
• Craig Wright

Zimbabwe

• Prosper Utseya (c)
• Gary Brent
• Justice Chibhabha
• Elton Chigumbura
• Keith Dabengwa
• Timycen Maruma
• Johnson Marumisa
• Hamilton Masakadza
• Stuart Matsikenyeri
• Christopher Mpofu
• Tawanda Mupariwa
• Vusi Sibanda
• Tatenda Taibu
• Brendan Taylor
• Sean Williams

Twenty20 Cricket World Cup 2007

Twenty20 Cricket is a new and shorter version of cricket. The purpose to introduce Twenty20 Cricket is to compete other popular sports like Football, tennis etc, bcoz this version of cricket takes less time compare to One day international. Twenty20 Cricket takes only 75 minutes to complete 1 inning. The Twenty20 Cricket Rules are also very interesting to enhance the interest of the game.

To popularize Twenty20 Cricket, the cricket's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has organized Twenty20 Cricket World Cup. The inaugural Twenty20 Cricket World Cup is is going to be held in South Africa in September 2007. ICC has Planned to held Twenty20 Cricket World Cup in every two years.

Twenty20 Cricket World Cup scheduled to take place in South Africa from September 11 to September 24, 2007. It will be the first Twenty20 Cricket World Cup, complete in 10 days.

The world Cup will consists of 12 teams, i.e. 9 test playing nations plus 3 qualifiers. The 12 teams are divided into four groups of three teams each.

All Twenty20 Cricket World Cup matches will be played at the following three grounds:

• Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town
• Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, Durban
• Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Group A :

South Africa
West Indies
Bangladesh

11th September South Africa vs West Indies
at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.

13th September West Indies vs Bangladesh
at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.

15th September South Africa vs Bangladesh
at Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town.
Group B :

Australia
England
Zimbabwe

12th September Australia vs Zimbabwe
at Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town.

13th September Zimbabwe vs England
at Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town.

14th September Australia vs England
at Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town.


Group C :

New Zealand
Sri Lanka
Kenya

12th September New Zealand vs Kenya
at Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, Durban.

14th September Sri Lanka vs Kenya
at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.

15th September Sri Lanka vs New Zealand
at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.

Group D :

India
Pakistan
Scotland


12th September Pakistan vs Scotland
at Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, Durban.

14th September India vs Scotland
at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.

15th September India vs Pakistan
at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.

The top two teams in each group will qualify for the second round of the tournament i.e. Super 8 round. These 8 teams are divided into two groups of 4 team each.

First Group (E) of Super 8 :

A1
C1
B2
D2

16th September C1 vs D2
at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.

16th September A1 vs B2
at Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town.

18th September C1 vs B2
at Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, Durban.

18th September A1 vs C1
at Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, Durban.

19th September B2 vs D2
at Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, Durban.

20th September A1 vs D2
at Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, Durban.

Second Group (F) of Super 8 :

B1
D1
A2
C2

16th September B1 vs A2
at Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town.

16th September D1 vs C2
at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.

18th September B1 vs D1
at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.

18th September A2 vs C2
at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.

19th September B1 vs C2
at Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town.

20th September D1 vs A2
at Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town.


The top two team in each group of Super 8 qualify for the semi finals. From now Knockout stage starts.


Semi Finals :

22 September E2 vs A2
at Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town.

22 September E2 vs A2
at Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town.


Final of the Twenty20 World Cup :

Final of the Twenty20 World Cup will be played between the winner of Semifinal 1 and Semifinal 2 on 24th September at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.