June 23, 2009

Cricket: "Pakistan are the ICC Twenty20 World Champions"



Pakistan are the ICC Twenty20 World Champions. After they were denied first time, they came back strongly and defeated Srilanka in a rather easy win and took the ICC Twenty20 World Cup. Now they will be called the Defending Champions.

The only team which they lost was India. It was a practise match but not less than any war. Pakistan looked weak in the beginning of the tournment and looked as if they will loose to Ireland as well. Once they got the right combination and perfect game plan they cruised towards the title and grabed it. They rightly selected the openers in the form of Kamran Akmal and Hasan, both were destructive at times and everytime they came out they gave a dream start to Pakistan. Afridi remoulding has perhaps one of the excellent gift which pakistan was gifted and it proved a greak blessing for them to win ICC Twenty20 World Cup. Till the semifinal his bowling was lot talked about and then in SemiFinal and Final apart from taking wickets he scored 50's in each innings and won Man of the Match awards in both the games. He provided the allrounder role perfectly for pakistan. Coming to the death bowling, how can we forget the Umar gul, the reverse swing specialist. His death bowling was lethal for pakistan in every game. Especially against New Zealand against whom he took 5 for 6 best figures till date in International Twnety20 cricket, he was divastating. In every match he used to come in 13th over and continued till the end of the innings. His role was set strategically and he executed it perfectly.

Pakistan main strength were the Game Plan and the roles assigned to each individuals. More over the perfect implimentation of each individual made them win as a team. Congrats once again for the new Twnety20 Champions. Next ICC Twenty20 World Cup is due in nine months time, lets see how it goes.

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