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It started with a third-ball duck and ended in a leg-side wide. Those were the events that bookended Australia’s lamentable three-day ICC World Twenty20 campaign, and symbolised the struggles encountered by Ricky Ponting’s men in comprehensive defeats to West Indies and Sri Lanka. Australia on Monday suffered the … |
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Sri Lanka 160 for 4 (Sangakkara 55*, Dilshan 53) beat Australia 159 for 9 (Johnson 28*, Mendis 3-20, Malinga 3-36) by six wickets… Bye-bye Australia. The top ranked team in Test cricket, long-reigning 50-over World Cup kings and winners of the last Champions Trophy simply cannot crack the 20-over stuff. Needing to beat … |
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Ireland 138 for 4 (Niall O’Brien 40, Kevin O’Brien 39*) beat Bangladesh 137 for 8 (Mortaza 33*, Johnston 3-20) by six wickets… Ireland beat Bangladesh in the 2007 World Cup and, pitted against the same side in a do-or-die clash in more familiar conditions, produced an encore to surge into the second stage of… |
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England 185 for 5 (Pietersen 58, Wright 34, Ajmal 2-23) beat Pakistan 137 for 7 (Younis 46*, Broad 3-17) by 48 runs… Victory was a necessity, after losing their opening game to the Netherlands, and the hosts duly obliged with an outstanding performance with both bat and ball. Kevin Pietersen, who passed a late fitness [… |
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South Africa 211 for 5 (de Villiers 79*, Kallis 48) beat Scotland 81 (Coetzer 42 Botha 2-17, van der Merwe 2-17) by 130 runs… Scotland bowed out of the ICC World Twenty20 with the second lowest score in the event’s history as South Africa lived up to their billing as one of the favourites. Needing [...] |
