Indian Team For World Twenty20

Finally 15-member squad for the upcoming World Twenty20 tournament in West Indies has been anounced by Indian selectors. The team is almost the old one, the only new face is Karnataka paceman Vinay Kumar. The players who have been dropped from the last T20 World Cup squad are Ishant Sharma, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha and Irfan Pathan.
Piyush Chawla has been selected as the second spinner along with the main spinner Harbhajan Singh.
Missed out players who are in good form are Manish Pandey, Virat Kohli, Amit Mishra, Robin Uthappa and Murali Kartik.
Once again the fitness of the players are going to play the big role in the World Cup.
The tournament is scheduled for April30 to May16.
IPL-3 will be ended on April25, that means the players will go to West Indies straight after tiring IPL.
What is the reason for organising IPL just before World Cup? The same thing happened in last year also.
One of the reasons could be to select more talented, more fresh and fit T20 players for World Cup. But when the time comes for selection, the selectors always stick to the old team forgetting the word 'FITNESS'. They shouldn't forget that the fitness plays an important role in T20 cricket.
Lets hope for the best, we have match-winning batsmen like Sehwag, Gambhir, Dhoni, Yusuf Pathan, Yuvraj Singh.
'Oh God, please keep them fit for another two months... atleast upto May16'

The Final 15 is:
MS Dhoni (Captain & Wicket Keeper), Virendra Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, Dinesh Karthik, Ravindra Jadeja, Zaheer Khan, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla, Vinay Kumar and Rohit Sharma.

For schedule and fixtures of World Twenty20 Cup please click below.

Fixtures of T20 World Cup 2010

Super over decides Super win

What a match the people of Christchurch witnessed yesterday. Australia and New Zealand both the team ended their full quota of 20 overs at 214, the winner was decided by a sudden-death super over. Finally Black Caps' young bowler Tim Southee held his nerve in the breathtaking super over and clinched a super win for the host.
Earlier, in the New Zealand innings we saw the fireworks by Brendon McCullum, he showered boundaries and sixes around the stadium and scored a stunning 116 not out from just 56 balls, only the second ever century in the history of T20 internationals. In reply, Australian captain Michael Clarke and Cameron White just exploded and put up a partnership of 82 runs from just 39 balls to level the score.

Brief Score:

New Zealand 214 for 6 (McCullum 116*) tied with Australia 214 for 4 (Clarke 67, White 64*).

New Zealand won after Super Over

For detail story, read Southee and McCullum seal super NZ win
  

Invention of T20

Twenty20, or T20, the latest format of cricket, started way back in 2003 in England to get english county spectator back to the stadiums. It was Mr. Stuart Robertson and Mr. John Carr who were asked to revive the more than 100 years old sport in its motherland by the England and Wales Cricket Board. After doing a detailed market research they realized that a 50 over game was too long to hold interest in the new generation people. They came up with this latest format of the sport, an abbreviated 20 over version of the gentleman's game. Their research got success in getting the crowds back and very quickly it caught the fancy of the cricketing world.

Source: TOI