Hi Cricket Lovers,
As predicted in my preview, few players like Gayle,Narine, Mendis, Kohli, Ajmal and Sakhib al Hassan did really well in the tournament. This tournament started with the ouster of Minnows at the very early stages while Windies who emerged eventual champions had a slice of luck when they got through to super 8's due to a rain marred game against the Irish team. The target which the Irish team gave Windies wasn't a hard one but you never know what could have happened if they had got rid of Gayle and Samuels early on.
The West Indians were also lucky in reaching the semis when they beat the New Zealand team in a Super Over even after scoring 17 in their super over. If not for Southee had bowled that 1st Ball no ball which went over the boundary for a six things could have turned out differently for them. Still, once they reached the semis and the way they annihilated the Aussies and the Sri Lankans no one for sure will doubt that they are now beginning to worry top class teams like Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and India that their team has revived and they are in no mood of stopping.
Sri Lankans really did made use of the home conditions to their advantage and made sure they had their say in the crucial semi-finals against a strong Pakistan T20 team. Ajantha Mendis started his comback to the lankan team with a six for , unheard of for a T20 game and also ended the tournament with the 15 wickets to his name. Even the Sri lankan captain Mahela Jayawardhene emerged the 2nd highest run scorer with 243 runs to his name. Sri Lanka had every thing going their way till the 12 th over of the 1st Innings when Samuels had some other plan in mind. His knock of 78 of 61 balls in the end made the whole difference.
Shane Watson was deservedly given the Man of the Tournament award for scoring 249 (highest) and taking 11 wickets (2nd highest) while the Man of the final was Marlon Samuels for his brilliant 78.
The next cricket tournament which is starting on the 13th of October is the Champions league T20 where the top 10 T20 teams of the world will fight against each other for the becoming the T20 Champions. My bet is on the South African team Titans or the Chennai Super Kings to win this edition.
I am also eagerly awaiting the India-England and Australia-South Africa tour starting Novemeber. will surely be back with previews of both the tours soon.
P.S
I have also launched my Facebook page please do like it by logging on FB
the link for the page is CricGyaani
Till then Bye
Cheers!!!
As predicted in my preview, few players like Gayle,Narine, Mendis, Kohli, Ajmal and Sakhib al Hassan did really well in the tournament. This tournament started with the ouster of Minnows at the very early stages while Windies who emerged eventual champions had a slice of luck when they got through to super 8's due to a rain marred game against the Irish team. The target which the Irish team gave Windies wasn't a hard one but you never know what could have happened if they had got rid of Gayle and Samuels early on.
The West Indians were also lucky in reaching the semis when they beat the New Zealand team in a Super Over even after scoring 17 in their super over. If not for Southee had bowled that 1st Ball no ball which went over the boundary for a six things could have turned out differently for them. Still, once they reached the semis and the way they annihilated the Aussies and the Sri Lankans no one for sure will doubt that they are now beginning to worry top class teams like Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and India that their team has revived and they are in no mood of stopping.
Sri Lankans really did made use of the home conditions to their advantage and made sure they had their say in the crucial semi-finals against a strong Pakistan T20 team. Ajantha Mendis started his comback to the lankan team with a six for , unheard of for a T20 game and also ended the tournament with the 15 wickets to his name. Even the Sri lankan captain Mahela Jayawardhene emerged the 2nd highest run scorer with 243 runs to his name. Sri Lanka had every thing going their way till the 12 th over of the 1st Innings when Samuels had some other plan in mind. His knock of 78 of 61 balls in the end made the whole difference.
Shane Watson was deservedly given the Man of the Tournament award for scoring 249 (highest) and taking 11 wickets (2nd highest) while the Man of the final was Marlon Samuels for his brilliant 78.
The next cricket tournament which is starting on the 13th of October is the Champions league T20 where the top 10 T20 teams of the world will fight against each other for the becoming the T20 Champions. My bet is on the South African team Titans or the Chennai Super Kings to win this edition.
I am also eagerly awaiting the India-England and Australia-South Africa tour starting Novemeber. will surely be back with previews of both the tours soon.
P.S
I have also launched my Facebook page please do like it by logging on FB
the link for the page is CricGyaani
Till then Bye
Cheers!!!
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