Captain Paul Collingwood says England will enter the ICC World Twenty20 with quiet confidence they can triumph on home soil and end their wait to win a major international trophy. Wednesday’s outstanding nine-wicket warm-up hammering of West Indies at Lord’s, when Ravi Bopara and Luke Wright shared a 119-run openi…

Jeroen Smits fulfils a childhood dream when he leads the Netherlands into their ICC World Twenty20 clash with England at Lord’s today. The 36-year-old was awe-struck by the famous ground when he accompanied his parents to see the Dutch national side lose to Zimbabwe in the 1986 ICC Trophy final. “I was really impressed wi…

The inaugural ICC World Twenty20 in South Africa in 2007 was a runaway success with its compact and compelling nature and if it repeats the success again then it will prove that Twenty20 is here to stay and will be the best format to make the game global. The IPL’s success in South Africa has [...]

Despite their handsome victory against Pakistan on Wednesday evening, India are still sweating on the fitness of their two key players Virender Sehwag and Zaheer Khan. Sehwag, who is yet to bat on the tour, is suffering from a niggle to his right shoulder while Zaheer is on the recovery path from the shoulder injury [...]

Andrew Symonds’ international career is under a cloud after he was sent home from England for disciplinary reasons. The Queensland all-rounder, who was in England preparing for the ICC World Twenty20 tournament that gets underway this weekend, has been expelled from the squad for breaking team rules on Wednesday night. …

India 159 for 1 (Rohit 80, Gambhir 52*) beat Pakistan 158 for 6 (Misbah 37*, Younis 32, Ishant 1-11) by nine wickets… India underlined their status as ICC World Twenty20 favourites with a crushing nine-wicket win over Pakistan at The Oval. A ruthless performance with the bat allowed India to cruise to their target of [.…

Netherlands 130 for 3 (Kervezee 62, Zuiderent 46) beat Scotland 128 for 9 (Coetzer 39, Seelaar 3-25, Schiferli 3-33) by seven wickets… In contrast to their previous game – a tie followed by defeat in the one-over eliminator against Ireland – Netherlands were clinical with ball and, to a lesser degree, with b…

South Africa 113 for 4 (Gibbs 48) beat Sri Lanka 109 for 9 (Botha 2-9, Kallis 2-12)… The South Africans got home with five balls to spare despite only being asked to chase 110 after a dramatic early collapse in the Asian team’s innings. Sri Lanka had to get early wickets and Lasith Malinga and [...]

Australia 151 for 3 (Ponting 56, Clarke 49*) beat New Zealand 147 (Styris 42, Johnson 4-20) by seven wickets… Australia executed a perfectly-paced chase to brush aside New Zealand by seven wickets in their warm-up match at The Oval. Ponting led the way with a brisk half-century and received support from his deputy Micha…

England 141 for 4 (Pietersen 53*) beat Scotland 136 for 5 (Smith 45) by six wickets… If England had intended to lay down a marker in their penultimate fixture before the start of the ICC World Twenty20, this was not it. They duly beat the part-timers of Scotland by six wickets with an over to [...]