2010 T20 World Cup : Super Eight Groups

The group stages matches of T20 world cup will be completed today. There are only two matches remaining: SA x AF and AUS x BAN. The result of these matches are almost predictable. Ausies are in good form so it is difficult for Bangladesh to stop them. Even if Aussies loss they will enter super eights as they won the first match aganist Pakistan in a good margin.

In super eights there are two groups; Group E and Group F. Pakistan, Newzealand, South Africa and England will play in Group E and other teams like India, Australia, Sri Lanka and West Indies will play in Group F.

All the teams except Sri Lanka in Group F are in good form. So it will be tough challege for every teams. But in Group E only New Zealand had come to super eights without loosing any match. Eventhough England performed well in both the matches rain changed their luck.

Super eights will start on May 6th and two teams each from a group will go in to semies. The first match in super eight will be between England and Pakistan and second will be between South Africa and New Zealand, both matches will be on May 6th. Semi finals will start from May 13 onwards.

All the super eight matches will be played at two venues;Bridgetown, Barbados and Gros Islet, St Lucia. Both Semi finals will be played at Gros Islet, St Lucia and finals will be at Bridgetown, Barbados. FInals will be on May 16th.

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T20 World Cup:Jayawardene's Century helped Sri Lanka to reach 173/7 against Zimbabwe

A brilliant century from former Sri Lankan captain Jayawardene helped Sri Lanka to score 173/7 in 20 overs aganist Zimbabwe. This is the second century in two days;yesterday Suresh Raina scored 101(61b) against South Africa. Jayawardene finished 100 runs in 64 balls including 10 fours and 4 sixes. This is the first century by a Sri Lankan in T20 internationals.

Except Jayawardene no one played well;the second best was 23 runs from 19 balls by T Perera. Zimbabwe's Ray Price and Gregory Lamb picked 2 wickets each and finished 31/2 and 34/2 respectively in their four overs. Elton Chigumbura, Prosper Utseya and Graeme Cremer took one wickets each.

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T20 World Cup 2010:India have to Play Aganist Australia and West Indies in Super Eights

After the victory aganist SA in their group stage last T20 match, India became the first team to enter super eights. India reached super eights as group champions. According to the situation up to 3rd May India will have to play against West Indies and Australia in super eights. The third team will be known after todays match between Srilanka and Zimbawae. If Zimbawae beat Srilanka India has to play against New Zealand in super eights, else against Srilanka with the case that New Zealand beat Zimbawae.

If West Indies doesn't qualify from super eights India have to play against England in super eights. Also if Australia doesn't qualify for the super eights, India has to play against Bangladeesh in super eights. But both of things have low propability of happen.

In this World Cup, the super eights are decided based on seeding. The super eight group is based on following criteria: if two teams from a group, for example Pakistan and Australia from group A qualifies for the super eights, Pakistan will go to Group E and Australia will go to group F even if Australia will be the group champions. This is because Pakistan has got good seeding than Australia.

The A1, B2, C1, D2 will be group E and A2, B1, C2, D1 will be group F based on seeding of the qualified teams.

According to the match up to this point the expected groups will be like this:

Group E: Pakistan, South Africa, England

Group F: Australia, India, West Indies

The fourth team will be decided based on todays play between Srilanka and Zimbawae. If Zimbawae beat Srilanka, Zimbawae goes to group E, else Srilanka will go to Group F with the fact that New Zealand has to beat Zimbawae.

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T20 world Cup : India vs South Africa Match Review

India played their second match in T20 world cup against South Africa on 2nd may. The match witnessed first century by an Indian player in an international T20 match.

The match started with the wicket of Murali Vijay in the first over. Dinesh Karthik had opened with Murali Vijay in this match. Initially the pitch looks helpful for bowlers and all the Indian batsmans struggled to get runs. India was 30/2 after 5 overs. But when Suresh Raina and Yuvraj Singh joined together the match changed. Both of them were attacking the bowling and getting runs quickly. Both took some time to settle down but once they settled both of them were playing there shorts easily.

South Africa has included three fast bowlers plus Kallis and Albie Morkel they can also bowl quick and Van Der Merwe as the spinning option. But India has included two fast bowlers and three spineers. South African spinner had Merwe bowled only one over and gone for so many runs. By seeing that Dhoni could be thinking about his choice of including three spinners was right.

Dhoni continued his form from the previous match against Afganistan scoring 15 runs from 6 balls. Yuvraj Singh scored 37 runs from 31 balls. But the match winning innings of Suresh Raina 101(60balls) helped India to reach 186/5.

In the powerplay overs Dhoni has given most of overs to spinners. Initially they weren't gone for too many runs. SA lost the wicket of Bosman in Pathan's first over. Then both Smith and Kallis were scoring 6 runs per over upto 10th over. After that both of them started to score runs quickly and Indian spinners were hammered around.

But eventually they were able to score only 172/5 with Kallis scoring 71(51b). It was Nehra who has kept SA quiet in the final overs, eventually finishing 27/1 in his 4 overs. India's all the spin bowlers had gone for plenty of runs. SA tried to victory in the final overs with De Villers scoring 31 runs in 15 balls. But eventually India wins by 14 runs, thanks to that hundread from Suresh Raina and good bowling from Nehra.

Suresh Raina was the Man of the Match for his 101 runs from just 60 balls.

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