*ICC World T20 Srilanka 2012*

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The 2012 ICC World Twenty20 will be the fourth ICC World Twenty20 competition, an international Twenty20 cricket tournament that will be held in Sri Lanka between September 18 and October 7, 2012

Warm Up And Group Stages...

Schedule For Super Eight Matches

ICC WORLD t20 2012 FINAL
Srilanka vs West Indies
Oct 7, 2012 (19:00 local | 13:30 GMT | 18:30 PKT)

CHAMPIONS

Squads Of Nations
PAKISTAN

Mohammad Hafeez(c)
Abdul Razzaq
Asad Shafiq
Imran Nazir
Kamran Akmal(wk)
Mohammad Sami
Nasir Jamshed
Raza Hasan
Saeed Ajmal
Shahid Afridi
Shoaib Malik
Sohail Tanvir
Umar Akmal
Umar Gul
Yasir Arafat

INDIA

MS Dhoni (c/wk)
Gautam Gambhir (vc)
Ravichandran Ashwin
Lakshmipathy Balaji
Piyush Chawla
Ashok Dinda
Harbhajan Singh
Zaheer Khan
Virat Kohli
Irfan Pathan
Suresh Raina
Virender Sehwag
Rohit Sharma
Manoj Tiwary
Yuvraj Singh

South Africa

AB de Villiers (c/wk)
Hashim Amla
Farhaan Behardien
Johan Botha
Jean-Paul Duminy
Faf du Plessis
Jacques Kallis
Richard Levi
Albie Morkel
Morne Morkel
Justin Ontong
Wayne Parnell
Robin Peterson
Dale Steyn
Lonwabo Tsotsobe

Newzealand

Ross Taylor (c)
Doug Bracewell
James Franklin
Martin Guptill
Ronnie Hira
Brendon McCullum (wk)
Nathan McCullum
Kyle Mills
Adam Milne
Rob Nicol
Jacob Oram
Tim Southee
Daniel Vettori
BJ Watling
Kane Williamson

Australia

George Bailey (c)
Shane Watson (vc)
Daniel Christia
Pat Cummins
Xavier Doherty
Ben Hilfenhaus
Brad Hogg
David Hussey
Michael Hussey
Clint McKay
Glenn Maxwell
Mitchell Starc
Matthew Wade (wk)
David Warner
Cameron White

ENGLAND

Stuart Broad (c)
Jonny Bairstow
Ravi Bopara
Tim Bresnan
Danny Briggs
Jos Buttler
Jade Dernbach
Steven Finn
Alex Hales
Craig Kieswetter (wk)
Michael Lumb
Eoin Morgan
Samit Patel
Graeme Swann
Luke Wright

West Indies

Darren Sammy (c)
Dwayne Bravo (vc)
Samuel Badree
Darren Bravo
Johnson Charles
Fidel Edwards
Chris Gayle
Sunil Narine
Kieron Pollard
Denesh Ramdin (wk)
Ravi Rampaul
Andre Russell
Marlon Samuels
Lendl Simmons
Dwayne Smith

SRILANKA

Mahela Jayawardene (c)
Angelo Mathews (vc)
Dinesh Chandimal (wk)
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Shaminda Eranga
Rangana Herath
Nuwan Kulasekara
Lasith Malinga
Ajantha Mendis
Jeevan Mendis
Dilshan Munaweera
Akila Dananjaya
Thisara Perera
Kumar Sangakkara (wk)
Lahiru Thirimanne

WISHES , PRAYER AND GOOD LUCKS FOR TEAM PAKISTAN

[DexteR]

i wasnt meko pata tha kuch tu mareinga effort dikhi hai yar warna yeh b kitni fazol shots khel k out hojata hai

Kash office na hota aaj

[sheem]

wah g Gul bhiyaaa tu aaj hero nikle

[DexteR]

Umer Gul aj as a Batsman khilaya tha

Umer Gul alrounder. Shahid Afridi bowler.

[DexteR]

wah g Gul bhiyaaa tu aaj hero nikle

Shukar hai Umer Gul ko drop nahi kia...

[DexteR]

Now India versus Australia game is way more important because India will be losing to Pakistan on Sunday. So if India lose today as well, they are out.

[Sadaf Gondal]

aj Pakistan jeeta hai, india will probably lose
c'mon Aus

[Sadaf Gondal]

[sheem]

now on .. afridi ki jaga gul aya karega

[Sadaf Gondal]

[DexteR]

Gul's blinder strangles South African chokers

It was a familiar sorry story for South Africa as the Proteas wilted under Umar Gul's blast to hand Pakistan a two-wicket win in a Super Eights Group 2 match of the ICC World Twenty20 here, on Friday.

Chasing a modest 133-6, Pakistan were floundering on 76-7 in the 15th over, before Gul walked in and played a blinder, striking three sixes and two fours in his 17-ball 32 to gain Pakistan their first points in the in stage of eights, with two balls to spare.

An indifferent top-order performance had left Pakistan needing 58 from the last five overs, just three wickets in hand, before Gul's stunning display of aggression turned things around. Umar Akmal (43*) watched admiringly from the other end as 16 came from Kallis's 16th over (including two humungous Gul sixes) and 20 from Albie Morkel's 17th over.

The equation came down to 15 needed from the last two overs. Steyn conceded six in the 19th and picked up the menacing Gul, who struck him sweetly to Peterson at sweeper cover, leaving the task at 9 runs, to be scored in Morne Morkel's last over of the innings.

Morkel began with a dot ball, but the second was pulled ferociously by Umar Akmal for six. Three off four, and then two off three. Surely Pakistan couldn't have done a South Africa from here? New man Saeed Ajmal's outside edge, which went racing for four, didn't allow them a chance to mess up.

Spare a thought for the Proteas bowlers. Steyn conceded 22 in four, Peterson 15 in as many (also picking up two wickets), Duminy five runs in two overs, and Botha ten in two. But after pegging Pakistan back for over three-quarters of the chase, they no answer to Gul's blast. The Proteas had earlier hinged their fortunes around JP Duminy's 48 in the face of some tight spin bowling from Pakistan's four tweakers.

South Africa slump to spin

Earlier, South Africa elected to bat on what was being branded a 'flat and dusty' pitch, perfect for setting a target - or so the Proteas would have believed. But the batting team soon plummeted to 28-3 in 6.1 overs, a situation from which they found difficult to remove themselves in the face of tailormade spin bowling by Raza, Hafeez, Saeed Ajmal and Shahid Afridi.

Left-arm spinner Hasan Raza, in the side for Sohail Tanvir, opened the bowling and had Richard Levi dropped by Kamran Akmal. Hashim Amla was first out, deceived by a slower Yasir Arafat slower delivery that he mistimed to cover. Jacques Kallis played out a maiden to Raza but looked good to see his team through a tough phase when he lofted a soaring straight six off Raza.

The next two overs drove South Africa into teh ground. Saeed Ajmal bowled a a wicket maiden in the sixth - bowling Levi through his legs as he went for an ungainly reverse sweep. Hafeez brought himself on in the seventh over and nailed Kallis, as South Africa fell to 28-3. Behardien struck boundaries off Afridi and Ajmal before he gave Hafeez the charge and was stumped.

Duminy played the lone hand and added 44 in under 5 overs with de Villiers. The southpaw stepped out to Hafeez to score the first six of the match and pusnihsed Ajmal when the offie had a rare error in length. de Villers kept up the momentum using his feet to the spinners, before razing Umar Gul over cow corner in the 18th over. On the next ball, the imperious South African struck a full-toss straight to Imran Nazir at sweeper cover.

A six and a wicket in Gul's over, and another six and a wicket in Arafat's 19th - Duminy searing one over long-on, before swinging and edging to Akmal behind the stumps to be out for 48. South Africa ended on 133-6 and very few at that point would have believed that it would be this close, or rather that South Africa would come so close only to freeze - as is their wont - at the doorstep of victory.

Pakistan stutter

Pakistan made a terrific start to what they would have presumed to be a straightforward chase. Mohammad Hafeez took a brace of fours to get things moving off Steyn's first over, and Imran Nazir followed up with two of his own as Morne Morkel came into the attack. Pakistan were cruising on 24 without loss in the third over when Nazir, who appeared hellbent on frittering away the advantage with low-percentage shots, gloved Steyn to AB de Villiers.

Robin Peterson came up next and the left-arm spinner took out two in his first over - both victims stumped after a rush of blood to the head. Hafeez, having greeted Peterson with a six first ball, walked down the wicket and was stumped by one that bounced and turned away. Much was expected of the dangerous leftie Nasir Jamshed, but he imitated his skip to the T, marching out, going for a wild hoick, missing the ball, and being stumped by de Villiers.

Peterson's sensational first over left Pakistan teeteriung on 31-3 in four oves, and Johan Botha's wicket maiden sent them another jolt in the direction of imminent disaster. Botha pushed in a quicker one to bowl Kamran Akmal as the batsman went for the cut. Peterson was turning it square at the other end, and at 55-4 in 10 overs the asking rate had begun it's steady ascent.

Shoaib Malik was unable to get going, facing 26 balls for his 12, before guiding Steyn into Kallis' hands at third man. Shahid Afridi scored a golden duck, trying to smash Duminy out of the park only to be caught at the boundary. Pakistan lost their seventh wicket when Yasir Arafat was taken off a short ball by Duminy at mid-wicket, leaving the team 76-7 after 15 over, 58 needed from the last five. A situation to which Gul's assault was perfectly tailored.