Cricket: "India Review at ICC World Twenty20 Cup"

India the Defending Champions are ranked 1. They were defending their title in the Second World Twnety20 cup. Lets see how they fared at the recently concluded ICC World Twenty20 Cup.

Warm Up's:
India started their campaing against NewZealand in a warmup match and they lost it. Inspite of their loss they gave a good fight till the end and had a good warm up match. Their second warm up match was with the runnerup of the previous ICC World Twenty20 cup, Pakistan. Truely speaking the match was not less than a final of any Tournment. India won the match quite convincingly but the environment and the attendance fot the match was incredible. Initially in the match Pakistan was blazing away with super shots but india came back strongly and have beaten them easily. India maitained their record in world cup of not loosing to Pakistan in any world cup. India emerged as a stronger side and after their perfect warmups they looked as if they are perfectly up for the tasks to come.

Initial Round:
India was in a easy compared to other groups. India was with Bangladesh and Ireland in Group A. It played first with Bangladesh and defeated them easily and then went on to crush Ireland and easily went into the super eights. Other teams like Australia, westindies and Srilanka were in a group of death, where they had to sweat out to reach super eight india had the luxury of qualifying to super eight quite effortlessly.

Super Eight's:
India faced first with WestIndies in Super Eights. West indies were on a high after ousting Australia out of the ICC World Twenty20 Cup and coming into the super eights stage. India lost to westindies easily. Bravo was the allround star for westindies with both ball and bat. First he took 4 wickets to limit the total of india and when West indies were struggling at one point he came and just blasted Indians bowlers to all parts of the ground and gave them the initial lead in the super eight stage. Then india faced england in the second Super eight match. India had to defeat england to stay alive in the tournment and they tried all their strenght but went down fighting and lost the match and lost the chances of making it to the semifinals. With this loss the defending champions were out of the tournment. Last match they played in super eight stage was against South Africa. South Africa were undefeated in the tournment and india has to salvage some pride by defeating them. India bowled well with their spinner coming to party but they coudnt repeat the same with the bat and lost the match easily to charged up southafricans.

This was the flop show from indians, who showed their authority with minnows but coudnt show the same with the other strong teams and lost all their matches with them.