Grand Finale - Sri Lanka vs Pakistan

Toss: Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat

Granduer Day of World T20 2009

Here were are for the one last time at World T20 2009 'The Final' between modern day rivals Sri Lanka vs Pakistan@Lord's Cricket Ground, London.



Lets pull up our socks to witness a Sub-Continental Stage Show with 4 hours to go......

Summary of 1st Semi-Final

Cricket fervent witnessed a splendid performance of two teams and no doubt both the team kept the spirit of the game going.

Pakistan winning by just the 7 runs to enter into Grand Finale at Lord's on Sunday 21st of June 2009 with Shahid Afridi being man of the match for his contribution of 2/16 from 4 Overs.

ICC World T20 Super 8 Points Table

GROUP E

Team	Matches	Won	Lost	Points	Net RunRate
South Africa	3	3	0	6	+0.78
West Indies	3	2	1	4	+0.06
England	3	1	2	2	-0.41
India	3	0	3	0	-0.46

Srilanka v/s Newzealand Score Card

Sri Lanka won by 48 runs

Srilankan Score Card
158/5 in 20 Overs (7.90 runs per over)

Dilshan 48 runs with 5 fours
Jayawardene 41 runs with 6 fours and 1 six

New Zealand Bowling Card
Vettori
4 Overs 2/32

New Zealand Score Card
110/10 in 17 Overs (6.47 runs per over)

Guptill 43 runs with 4 fours and 1 six

Srilanka Bowling Card
Mendis
3 Overs 3/9

England v/s WestIndies

England won the toss and chose to bat

England Playing XI

Bopara
Wright
Pietersen
Shah
Colingwood
Foster
Swann
Broad
Rashid
Sidebottom
Anderson

West Indies Playing XI

Gayle
Fletcher
Simmons
Bravo
Pollard
Chanderpaul
Sarwan
Ramdin
Sammy
Tayor
Benn

India v/s West Indies(World T20 Super 8)

WEST INDIES SCORE CARD

West Indies won by 7 wickets

Total Score: 150/3 in 18.4 Overs

Extras: 6

Overs	1st ball	2nd ball	3rd ball	4th ball	5th ball	6th ball	Bowler
1	0	0	0	4	0	4	Zaheer
2	0	W	1	0	1	1	Irfan
3	1	0	1	0	4	0	Yusuf
4	4	0	1	0	1	0	Irfan
5	1	4	0	1	0	2	Yusuf
6	0	0	0	0	0	0	Harbhajan
7	4	1	0	0	1	1	Ishanth
8	1	1	1	W	1	1	Yusuf
9	1	0	2	1	1	4	Ojha
10	1	4	0	0	2	1	Yusuf
11	1	1	1	4	1	1	Ojha
12	2	4	1	0	1	2	Harbhajan
13	0	0	0	2	4	1	Zaheer
14	1	1	1	1	4	1	Ishanth
15	1	1	W	6	2	1	Ojha
16	1	1	2	1	0	1	Harbhajan
17	1	2	6	2	1	4	Ishanth
18	0	4	2	1	4	4	Harbhajan
19	1	2	1	6	-	-	Zaheer
20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HARBHAJAN's Madien Over 'The 6th Over' in West Indies innings

India v/s West Indies(World T20 Super 8 : Match 4 )

India won the toss and elected to bat

India Playing XI

Gambhir
Sharma
Dhoni
Raina
Yuvraj
Yusuf Pathan
Irfan Pathan
Harbhajan
Zaheer
Ishanth Sharma
Ojha

West Indies Playing XI

Gayle
Fletcher
Sarwan
Chanderpaul
Simmons
Bravo
Pollard
Ramdin
Taylor
Benn
Edwards

Srilanka v/s Pakistan(T20 Worldcup Super Eight Match 3)

Srilanka won the toss and chose to bat

Srilanka won the match by 19 runs

Srilankan Score Card

150/7 in 20 Overs(7.50 runs per over)

Top Scorer

Dilshan 46 runs form 39 balls with 8 fours

Jayasuriya 26 runs from 24 balls with 2 fours and 1 six

Best Bowler

Malinga
4 Overs 3/17


Pakistan Score Card

151 allout in 20 Overs (6.55 runs per over)

Top Scorer

Younis Khan 50 runs from 37 balls with 4 four's

Shoaib Malik 28 runs from 20 balls with 5 four's

Best Bowler

Afridi
4 Overs 2/23

Highest Partnership in WC T20 - 2007

Wicket	Players		Runs	Balls	S/R
1st	Smith/Gayle (WI)		145	81	100
2nd	Chanderpaul/Smith (WI)		95	79	100
3rd	Gibbs/Kemp (SA)		120	57	200
4th	Y Khan/S Malik (PAK)		101	55	100
5th	S Malik/Misbah (PAK)		119	75	100
6th	Oram/McMillan (NZ)		73	32	200
7th	Mubarak/Wijekoon (SRI)		45	12	300
8th	S Styris/J Wilson (NZ)		40	26	100
8th	J Mubarak/C Vass (SRI)		40	39	100
9th	Kamande/Bhudia (SRI)		27	19	100
10th	R Haq/J Nel (SCO)		18	19	0

Television Telecast

Star Cricket in India

Foxsports in Australia

Skysports in UK

Directv in USA

Verity of T20

T20 Cricket

20 Overs a side, 40 Over cricket match to be completed in 3 and 1/2 hours


History

Inaugural Cup was played at South Africa in September 2007


Trophy and its Architecture
Amit Pabuwal and Kiran Pabuwal

T20 trophy is made up of Silver and Rodium showing 3 aspects of the game
'Cricket' Batting, Bowling and Fielding weighing 12.5kgs

Group Stage

June 5th 2009

Group B

England v/s Netherland
Lord's England
22:00 IST (17:30 - 20:30BST)


June 6th 2009

Group A

India v/s Bangladesh
Trent Bridge, England
22:30 IST (18:00 - 21:00BST)

Group C

Australia v/s WestIndies
Oval, England
18:30 IST (14:00 - 17:00BST)

Group D

New Zealand v/s Scotland
Oval, England
14:30 IST (10:00 - 13:00BST)


June 7th 2009

Group B

England v/s Pakistan
Oval, England
22:00 IST (17:30 - 20:30 BST)

Group D

South Africa v/s Scotland
Oval, England
18:00 IST (13:30 - 16:30 BST)


June 8th 2009

Group A

Ireland v/s Bangladesh
Trent Bridge, England
18:00 IST (13:30 - 16:30 BST)

Group C

Australia v/s Srilanka
Trent Bridge, England
22:00 IST (17:30 - 20:30 BST)


June 9th 2009

Group B

Pakistan v/s Netherland
Lord's, England
18:00 IST (13:30 - 16:30 BST)

Group D

New Zealand v/s South Africa
Lord's, England
22:00 IST (17:30 - 20:30 BST)


June 10th 2009

Group A

India v/s Ireland
Trent Bridge, England
22:00 IST (17:30 - 20:30 BST)


Group C

Sri Lanka v/s West Indies
Trent Bridge, England
18:00 IST (13:30 - 16:30 BST)

Preeminent Twenty20 2007

• Tie between India-Pakistan in Durban in the group stages (First bowl out at an ICC World Twenty20 event)

• Bangladesh's triumph over the West Indies

• Zimbabwe's astonishing defeat of Australia at Cape Town

ICC World T20 2009

ICC World Twenty20 2009 will be the jiffy world event for Twenty20 Cricket. The grandeur will feature 12 teams to be staged at Lord's, The Oval, Trent Bridge and Taunton in June 2009.

Inaugural ICC World Twenty20 competition which was held in South Africa during September 2007 wouldn’t wipe memories of any cricket fervent.

Breathtaking experience of the event held for about two weeks culminated India's vivid five run defeat against Pakistan at Johannesburg.

Tickets

For all the matches between India, Australia, South Africa, England are hard to find as ECB started selling them a year ago.