June 9, 2009

Cricket: "ICC world Twenty20 world cup India start its campaign with a bang"

Not even few weeks have gone by and we haven't come out of the IPL hangover we are already into another visual treat. Hi friends lets welcome ICC world twenty20 world cup. As you all know INDIA is the defending champion and are looking certainly so again for the second time in a row.

India played its practise match with Newzealand, though lost it fared reasonably well. Mind you they had just come to England and haven't adjusted to the environment yet. You might be thinking how i am sure about it. If you see the second practise match against Pakistan you can see the authority of the defending champions in that match. They had defeated Pakistan quite convincingly and showed that they have adapted to the circumstances well bu then.

Losing to Newzealand is a blessing in disguise, last time around when India played ICC twenty20 world cup they lost to only New Zealand and won the cup. So this time around its like a great start losing to New Zealand, don't you agree? you better agree.

Coming to Practise match with Pakistan, it wasnt like a practise match it was like a final or not less than a semi-final match. India maintained the world cup record of not loosing to Pakistan even once. Initially Pakistan were blasting away to corners of the park until ishant was introduced. He dried up the runs for which resulted in a run out and wickets in last ball. Then on Pakistan kept loosing wickets but posted a respectful total for chase. India started cautiously then rohit sharma showed why he is opted when sehwag is rested and blasted Pakistan bowlers and had a very good match practise. Gambhir at other end gave a solid support by rotating the strike and scoring runs when needed. India just loosed one wicket and scored the runs rather easily. It was indeed a fantastic match practise for India after loosing to newzealand in their earlier match practise. This win should give India lot of confidence going into the world cup as defending champions.

Any ways "All The Best for our Indian Team".


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