ICC T20 World Cup 2012 warm-up matches schedule announced

12 September 2012

The International Cricket Council has announced the schedules and fixtures of the upcoming T20 World Cup 2012 warm-up matches on September 10, 2012.

The T20 World Cup will be played in Sri Lanka from September 17, 2012. Sri Lanka clash with Zimbabwe in the opening game.

ESPN will broadcast the matches in India on Start Cricket TV channel. Doordarshan will also telecast matches involving India along with the semi-finals and final.

Defending champion England will play warm-up matches gainst Australia and Pakistan on September 17 and 19 respectively.

India will begin their campaign with a warm-up match against hosts Sri Lanka on September 15 and will play Pakistan on September 17.

Sri Lanka will play their second warm-up match against the West Indies on September 13, 2012.

Schedule of warm-up matches is as below:

13 September: Ireland vs Zimbabwe, Moors Cricket Ground, Colombo

13 September: Sri Lanka vs West Indies, NCC, Colombo
15 September: Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka, Moors Cricket Ground, Colombo
15 September: Australia vs New Zealand, NCC, Colombo
15 September: Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe, Colts Cricket Ground, Colombo
15 September: India vs Sri Lanka, P Sara Oval, Colombo
17 September: Australia vs England, NCC, Colombo
17 September: Bangladesh vs Ireland, Moors Cricket Ground, Colombo
17 September: New Zealand vs South Africa, Colts Cricket Ground, Colombo
17 September: Afghanistan vs West Indies, P Sara Oval, Colombo
17 September: India vs Pakistan, R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
19 September: England vs Pakistan, P Sara Oval, Colombo.

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Pitch behaved differently in second half: MS Dhoni

India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Tuesday blamed the change in behaviour of the Chepauk strip in the second half as the reason for home team's one-run loss to New Zealand in the second T20 International today.

"The wicket slowed down and it was difficult to hit. It's among the bigger grounds. It was holding up not like all the balls have same bounce. In the end it became quite difficult. But we should have won this game," Dhoni, who scored a sedate 23-ball-22 said at the post-match presentation ceremony.

"Our worry was how the wicket would behave in the second half. This is one area where we were expecting the wicket to be the same. After the 10th or 12th over, it got tough. Had it remained the way it was in the first half, we would have fancied our chances," he said.

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Under 19 world cup:- INDIA beats Australia

26 August 2012

The Indian team wins the Under-19 World Cup.While Australia, the defending champions who did not lose a match in the tournament, fails to beat India after they were restricted to 225/8....With this India repeat the feat achieved by the Virat Kohli-led Indian team four years back.Skipper Unmukt Chand's century and Smit Patel's half century help India win the match.....

Jai Ho

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Team is ready for the grueling season: Dhoni

16 August 2012

Team India is all set to wear the tricolor as Nike, who are the Board of Control for Cricket in India's kit sponsor, unveiled the Indian team's first specialist T20 jersey.

From now onward white Jersey are indisputably linked to Test cricket, and blue Jersey is for the 50-over match, the Indian team now has a shirt specifically for the T20 format. 
The critical difference, apart from the visual, in this jersey, which is made from the equivalent of eight P. E. T bottles, is that it's 45% lighter than the kit the Indian team has been wearing thus far. 

Indian skipper M S Dhoni was welcoming of the new shirt. Dhoni is also upbeat about upcoming ICC World T20 in Srilanka and said "We've had nearly a month and a half off and even when we played in Sri Lanka recently we have enough gaps between matches."

The biggest support was seen for Yuvraj Singh, who will make his comeback with first T20 against New Zealand at Vishakhapatnam on September 8. 

Star Batsman Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma and Irfan Pathan were the others who showed off the new tricolors jersey, and Yuvraj showed that he had recovered sufficiently from his Cancer to get up to his old tricks. 

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