T20 World Cup 2010-3rd T20 World Cup-Groups
by MairaS on May 2, 2010
in 20Twenty Cricket
T20 World Cup 2010
The third T20 World Cup (T20 World Cup 2010) will be held in the West Indies from 30th April to 16th May. Excitement is guaranteed in this shortest format of cricket tournament as 12 top teams of the world will be fighting for the Championship title, currently held by Pakistan.
The 12 teams are divided into 4 groups; each group having 3 teams. Besides the 10 test cricket playing countries, two more have qualified for this tournament. The T20 World Cup Qualifier was held in UAE earlier this year in which eight teams (USA, UAE, Ireland, Scotland, Netherlands, Afghanistan, Canada, and Kenya) participated. Afghanistan and Ireland being the top two qualifiers, made it to the T20 World Cup tournament.
The groups are as follows:
Group A: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Australia.
Group B: Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Zimbabwe.
Group C: South Africa, India, Afghanistan.
Group D: West Indies, England, Ireland.
The first match between Sri Lanka and New Zealand at the Providence Stadium, Guyana will set the ball rolling for the tournament and the final will be played at the Kingston Oval, Bridge town, Barbados.
The World T20 is an action packed tournament where you can expect the unexpected. This is the reason this format of Cricket has gained a lot of popularity.
Current Top Five Fielders of Cricket
by MairaS on February 14, 2010
in General Information about Cricket
Who are the current best 5 fielders of cricket?
Cricket is a game of bat and ball that can be played as a part of a team. Two cricketing teams play a cricket match where one team can bat at a time and another team can bowl and field at the same time. Bowling team does the bowling to the batsman and batsman hits the coming ball to score the runs. The bowling team sets fielding in a way that ball can be stopped or caught when hit by a batsman. Let us look at some of the great fielders in today’s world cricket.
1. The most influential fielder in today’s world cricket is Australian captain Ricky Ponting who is an Athlete. He can dive to field the ball at any place in the field and has majestic ability to catch the balls.
2. Paul Collingwood: An English fielder who has taken some of the most unbelievable catches in the world cricket and has helped his team to save lots of runs.
3. AB De Villiers: A fantastic fielder from the country of Jonty Rhodes, South Africa. This man can stop any ball which is in the ten feet distance of his radius and can easily hold on to tough catches.
4. Yuvraj Singh: An Indian fielder who can field at any fielding position of the ground and has taken stunning catches.
5. Tilakratne Dilshan: A Sri Lankan batsman whose favorite position is backward point, which is considered to be one of the toughest position to field the ball but he makes fielding look easy at that position by stopping countless balls.
Indian Cricket Team – Profile
Profile for Indian team
Indian cricket team has been considered to be the best for winning the World Cup 2011. Because of their strength in bowling and batting, they have shown consistency in winning the matches as well as series in recent time that makes them the strong candidates to win the World Cup. They have vast experience of genius of the game Sachin Tendulkar and leadership of world cricket team Mahendra Singh Dhoni. They have the class of Yuvraj Singh and consistency in bowling of Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh.
In the recent times, they have the conquered the places like Sri Lanka, Australia, New Zealand, and England and they have the support of their home crowd in World Cup 2011 as it is hosted in India and other sub continental countries. They have the class of fielders like Suresh Raina and Virat Kohli as well as they have the strong bench strength which can perform under any kind of pressure.
But, just like other teams, they have the biggest weakness of loose fielding and dropping catches. The team has dropped so many catches in the recent performances that there were certain questions on such an idiotic performance. They have to improve their fielding standard if they want to win the World Cup 2011.