Unlike the long, grinding T20 competition immediately preceding the ICC World T20, this one has taken less than a fortnight to decide on its best two teams and by the end of Sunday, a new champion of the T20 would be crowned. While Sri Lanka will go into the game ...

It had taken almost five weeks for the IPL semi-finalists to be decided. In almost one-third that time-frame, the ICC World T20 semi-finalists have been decided; South Africa will take on Pakistan in the first game, where as West Indies plays Sri Lanka in the second match. And in a ...

India’s campaign in the ICC World T20 was ended rudely by England and they were dumped out of reckoning when they lost to the hosts at Lord’s in a Super Eights game. This was a result which had been feared by a lot, for some time now, yet, its eventual ...

It did not take all the games to decide the teams for the Super Eights, nor did all those expected to get to the second round managed to do so! The biggest casualty was obviously Australia, having yet to exhibit skills that would make me term them as a T20 ...

As I was going through the tournament groupings at the commencement of the ICC World T20, the one thing that stuck was the second round groupings, which would have had India, Australia and South Africa, all in the same group in the Super Eights of the tournament. I cursed under ...

Hosts or no hosts, if England’s track record in a tournament of this magnitude is anything to go by, it is difficult to visualise them lifting the trophy on the evening of the 21st of June. I mean, I was never too good at history, and nor do I believe ...

If there is a theory doing the rounds that the Indian team for the Twenty20 World Cup may be weary because of an overdose of cricket in the run-up to the tournament, there is another school of thought which believes, not without good reason, that the weeks of hectic action ...

A lot of water has passed underneath since India’s triumph in the first edition of the ICC World T20 in 2007 and enumerating the same could run into reams of pages. Yet, the one huge change that germinated from that victory has been the application of the ‘favourites’ tag across ...

If the Pakistan coach, Intikhab Alam, was to be believed, Pakistan’s chances in the ICC World T20 are as high as Sergei Bubka’s world record jump. The reasons, according to him, range from the participation of the players in the RBS T20 Cup in Pakistan to the warm-up games that ...