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South Africa’s destiny is not in their control
Prior to the start of the ICC World Twenty20 I noted that England would be one of the form teams in the tournament, and boy have they delivered. England beat the Proteas in a warm up match, and then went on to beat Ireland, they lost to the West Indies on the Duckworth-Lewis method after [...]
Fixtures: ICC World Twenty20 2010
The tournament will be contested by 12 teams, which have been split into four groups of three. There are two seeded teams in each group. Group A Group B Group C Group D Pakistan – A1 Sri Lanka – B1 South Africa – C1 West Indies – D1 Bangladesh – A2 New Zealand – B2 [...]
ICC World Twenty20: Cricket rants
I’ve watched almost every game that has been played in the ICC World Twenty20 and have noticed a few things. Don’t break the flow of the game The IPL can learn from this competition, the introduction of the ‘strategic break’ in IPL 2 was absolutely ridiculous. The break did exactly that “break” the flow of [...]
ICC World Twenty20: Proteas leave it to the teenager
Poor planning or the blooding of a youngster? That’s my question. Graeme Smith left the final over to Wayne Parnell, in the nail biter last ball finish against New Zealand on Tuesday night. Needing 15 runs from the last over Graeme Smith called up Wayne Parnell (19) to bowl, but as he called him up [...]
ICC World Twenty20: Preview of Super 8′s
So, the phoney war of the first group stage of the Twenty20 World Cup is over and the real business of the tournament is about to start. Despite the efforts of the organisers to remove the element of surprise from the Super 8s there have been a couple of shocks. Firstly, the fall of Australia [...]
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