Posts tagged with ‘ICC World Twenty20’

Indian cricket’s official scapegoat

The lethargy in India’s recent performances requires the BCCI to find a scapegoat. There’s one candidate who stands out above all others.

England’s Twenty20 Flowering

It is less than 12 months since England’s humiliating defeat to Holland in the 2009 World Twenty20. Since then they have learnt from their mistakes and constructed a new side to be worthy champions of the 2010 tournament.

The Duckworth/Colly method

I had planned a glorious essay on the failings of the Duckworth/Lewis Method in Twenty20. But then I got bored, so you’ll have to make do with the following sardonic morsel.

World Twenty20 preview

It’s only 10 months since the last edition, but I am strangely exited about this tournament in a way that it’s impossible to be about the IPL right now. The format is lean and snappy, the cricket will be competitive and it’s genuinely hard to call this one, although I am going to have a go.

A website re-imagined

Like a half-finished Brian Wilson recording, the previous design incarnation of this site failed to live up to my notoriously fussy standards. So now a new design sweeps in like the proverbial new broom ahead of some exciting goings-on this summer.

Alistair Cook does Twenty20

Something has clearly happened to Alistair Cook recently. Not content with a couple of quickfire half-centuries, he has now smashed 100 off only 57 balls against Surrey in the T20 Cup. That’s a strike rate of 175.43. For a player renowned for his sedateness at the crease, this is some achievement.

World Twenty20 thoughts

The World T20 has left everyone with a warm, fuzzy glow. It was fun, exciting and unpredictable.

Saffers suffer

Of all the reaction to South Africa’s surprise defeat to Pakistan in the semi-final of the World T20, by far my favourite and the most concise is this from The Reverse Swing Manifesto.

What has Graham Napier done wrong?

In the World T20, nothing. Because he didn’t get a game. Not even a warmup match.

With England’s biggest problem in T20 being not hitting many boundaries, this is scandalous. After all, Napier played the most explosive T20 innings ever and second only to Brendan McCullum’s IPL innings in 2008 in terms of runs scored.

England knocked out of World Twenty20

To be honest, this was probably as far as they were expected to get. That they managed to bounce back from the humiliation against Holland was creditable, and the victory over India was a feather in their cap.