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Adelaide Now
| 8 months ago
While Pat Cummins, James Pattinson and Mitchell Starc are pushing experienced pair Ben Hilfenhaus and Peter Siddle for spots in Australia's pace attack, there's little competition from younger rivals for the middle-order berths of veterans Ponting...
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News 24
| 8 months ago
Ageing Australian batsman Ricky Ponting says he's put himself through a gruelling training regime to be ready to face South Africa, admitting they have the best fast-bowling attack around. The 37-year-old, who was dumped from the one-day and Twenty20...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
Watson rates Gayle as world's best T20 cricketer Sydney: Australian vice captain Watson is not comfortable with the suggestion that he is the world's No.1 Twenty20 player, and still rates West Indian Chris Gayle as the best T20 cricketer. Watson can...
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Asian Tribune
| 8 months ago
22 editor Wasim Akram is undisputedly the greatest left-arm fast bowler of all time, for whom I had great respect...Premadasa Stadium, after his country's defeat in the hands of Sri Lanka have created a bad taste among all his admirers.
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Darren Sammy & Co were the surprise package of the World T20when they led West Indies to a World Cup for the 1st time in 33 years. Ahmedabadis speak up on their chances of emerging as a stronger unit...The win must have made them realise their...
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Bermuda Sun
| 8 months ago
The West Indies won the T20 Championships but you can trace their success back to Allen Stanford. He was the one that started the Twenty20, which gave the West Indies a headstart on everyone else. They have been struggling with Test cricket, One-day...
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NewKerala
| 8 months ago
Wasim Akram says the ICC World T20 triumph will provide a new beginning for the West Indian cricket and Marlon Samuels is its new face! It was poetic justice at the end of the day as a spin-friendly wicket at Colombos Premadasa Stadium proved...
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CricInfo
| 8 months ago
While West Indies were recovering from one of their slowest starts in recent memory in the World T20 final , miles away Trinidad & Tobago were battling to put up a decent score themselves. T&T could not watch the first half of what turned out to be a...
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Rediff
| 8 months ago
Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle list the 50-most valuable players of the tournament Shane Watson [ Images ] scored a lot of runs at a torrid pace and took a lot of wickets with a reasonable economy rate. It is, therefore, no surprise that the...
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The Age
| 8 months ago
Here, in a nutshell, is how I saw the World Twenty20: a tournament that grew on me as it went along because it was fought out by recognisable teams of identifiable players, who were not signed up for the short term but were bound by birth, players...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
Test series which clash with the IPL it loses crowds, players and favour with India's almighty cricket board. Gayle, the 93-Test strokemaker, has only just returned from a 15-month absence sparked by his wish to prioritise the IPL over country.
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Pak Tribune
| 8 months ago
West indies ruled over cricket grounds almost twenty five years and won two consecutive world cup in 1975 and 1979. No one can forget great fast bowling of Michael Holding, Andy Roberts and Joel Garner, spin magic of Lawrence Gibbs and super batting...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
Julian Hunte says the West Indies` sensational performance to win the Twenty20 World Cup was a great gift to supporters all over the world. The West Indies recovered from a slow start to beat hosts Sri Lanka by 36 runs at the R. Premadasa Stadium...
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CricInfo
| 8 months ago
West Indies allrounder Dwayne Bravo will not take part in the Champions League for Chennai Super Kings due to a thigh strain. He has been replaced by the Sri Lankan fast bowler Nuwan Kulasekara in the squad that is already in South Africa. Bravo...
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Indian Express
| 8 months ago
But after the self-congratulations, they can spare some time to address a few complains that surfaced during the events. The argument that India, which won four of their five games, deserved to advance to the semifinals isnt a jingoistic chant of a...
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Indian Express
| 8 months ago
The glory days werent quite back as yet, he said in a hoarse voice, barely audible in the din around him. The celebrations were understandable since West Indies had won a world cup after a gap of 33 years...From Jamaica to Guyana, the scenes would...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
The reduced format increases the value of every run, prompting batsmen to develop new shots and bowlers to devise new ways of stopping them from scoring. There were scoops, ramps and switch hits galore and the unforgettable look of disapproval on...
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Rediff
| 8 months ago
The West Indies [ Images ] won their first World Twenty20 [ Images ] title on the back of some good performances from their leading players. Rajneesh Gupta presents a statistical analysis of the top individual performances in the tournament.
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The Hindu
| 8 months ago
Colombo, October 9, 2012 West Indies' inherent cavalier streak was coated with consistency A great cricketing legacy seems to have gained that much-needed shot of oxygen. Darren Sammy's men have shown the world what the West Indies can achieve...
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Hindustan times
| 8 months ago
The wife of former prime minister of St Kitts and Nevis was among the handful of West Indies supporters at the Premadasa Stadium on Sunday. While everyone in the stands had given up on the Calypso boys within 10 overs of the start, she did not give...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
South Africa's inability to win a major tournament despite having teams packed with talent has long earned them the tag of international cricket's major "chokers". But after Sri Lanka's fourth successive loss in a World Cup final on Sunday, the...
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Arab News
| 8 months ago
Tuesday 9 October 2012 Last Update 8 October 2012 6:07 pm This refers to the report, "Incredible Windies stuns world to take T20 glory" (Oct. 8). The West Indies team won the T20 champions for the first time...The last time they won a major...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
When Darren Sammy was appointed West Indies captain two years ago there were plenty who doubted whether he was the right choice as the latest man to attempt to turn around Caribbean cricket. Even those who swiftly began to appreciate the quiet but...
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NewKerala
| 8 months ago
The West Indies, crowned Twenty20 world champions Sunday night, are a multi-national side representing a confederation of 15 mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries and not one nation like other cricket-playing nations. Antigua and Barbuda,...
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Indian Express
| 8 months ago
Ashan Lakshitha, who returned home after watching the match on a giant screen at city's Galle Face promenade, was found hanging on a mango tree early this morning. Similarly, 21-year-old Mahendran Suresh from the central district town of Hatton...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Alec Stewart's World Twenty20 team of the tournament Apart from their Champions Trophy success in 2004, they haven't had much to cheer about in the last 15 years or so having previously been one of the dominant forces in world cricket.
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NewKerala
| 8 months ago
Finalists Sri Lanka and West Indies contribute a total of five players to the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012 mens team of the tournament, which was announced today in Colombo, with Sri Lankas Mahela Jayawardena named as captain. Meanwhile,...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
The Indian cricket team`s disastrous World Twenty20 campaign today pushed it to third place in the ICC T20 rankings while this year`s champion West Indies jumped five places to grab the second spot. India, ousted at the Super Eight stage, are a point...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
Their celebrations knew no bounds as they broke a 33-year-long wait to lift a World Cup. It was also West Indies` second International Cricket Council (ICC) title in eight years, having won the Champions Trophy in 2004...Chris Gayle was at the centre...
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Telegraph India
| 8 months ago
With Darren Sammy's merry band becoming the unofficial brand ambassadors for the Gangnam steps, South Korean rapper Psy will soar higher. The West Indies themselves took wing on Sunday night, winning their first World title in 33 years. For Sri Lanka,...
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Times of India
| 8 months ago
Have you ever seen Chris Gayle going for push ups with his teammates egging him on inside a bustling stadium? If you were at the Premadasa or watching TV on Sunday night, you would have been witness to these strange sights. In one of the most unique...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
Story His combativeness seemed to have rubbed off on his bowling colleagues who shot out Sri Lanka for 101 in 18.4 overs for a 36-run victory. West Indies' first World Cup trophy since winning the 50-over championship in 1979 triggered wild Gangnam...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
West Indies captain Darren Sammy rejoices after capturing the wicket of Sri Lanka's captain Mahela Jayawardene, as wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin and teammate Chris Gayle look on. Photo: Reuters The West Indies have spoiled Sri Lanka's party at Premadasa...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
West Indies Skipper Darren Sammy tonight dedicated their World Twenty20 triumph to fans back home and said it is a step in the "right direction" and will usher in a new beginning for cricket in the Caribbean islands. An inspired West Indies clinched...
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The Hindu
| 8 months ago
Sri Lankan runs out of steam in the final It was time for Calypso in Colombo as a collective dream of the cricketing world that revolved around tagging the word champion' to the West Indies team, finally bore fruit under a warm night sky, amidst a...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
The opener topped the run-scoring list with 249 at an average of 49.80, including three half-centuries. Watson also claimed 11 wickets at 16.00, second on the bowling list behind Sri Lanka spinner Ajantha Mendis (15 victims at 9.80). The star...
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The Observer
| 8 months ago
Gareth Copley/Getty Images 17th over: West Indies 108-5 (Samuels 78, Sammy 2) Replays suggesting that Pollard may have gloved the ball before it hit his pad for that lbw decision. That's been and gone, and Malinga is back into the Sri Lanka attack...
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The Hindu
| 8 months ago
October 7, 2012 The Hindu Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene and his West Indies counterpart Darren Sammy pose with the ICC Twenty20 Cricket World Cup trophy in Colombo on Saturday...Deepak Welcome to the live updates of the Twenty20 World Cup...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
Cameron White and Glenn Maxwell have all departed Sri Lanka with their reputations somewhat dented. All played a part in Australia's suspect middle order, though in Hussey's case it was an inglorious last-minute cameo. He was entitled to feel...
