*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

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ICC World Twenty20 Warm-up Matches, Afghanistan v Sri Lanka A at Colombo (Moors), Sep 15, 2012

Afghanistan 209/7 (20/20 ov)
Mohammad Shahzad 48(25) 3sixes
Asghar Stanikzai 50(39) 1six
Mohammad Nabi 51(24) 5 sixes

K Lokuarachchi 3/16 4ovs

Sri Lanka A 158 (18.2/20 ov)
Kosala Kulasekara 63(38) 3 sixes
Dawlat Zadran 3/22 3.2 ovs

Afghanistan won by 51 runs

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well played Afghanistan

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De Villiers raring to set South African record straight

Anybody daring to ask Graeme Smith why South Africa routinely choked in major competitions was best advised to first check their life insurance. The word was on South African cricket's banned list during last year's World Cup and, when it was uttered, Smith bristled in a manner that suggested the conversation was best left unfinished.
"So you have been out in the middle?" Smith railed. "You understand all that? Every time we walk into a press conference, it's the question we expect to get."
It made no difference: South Africa were thrashed by New Zealand in the quarter-final in Mirpur, Smith retired as one-day captain, as he had always planned, after eight years in the job, and even such a redoubtable leader had failed to lead his shrewd, methodical and talented team to a major one-day prize.
AB de Villiers, Smith's replacement as one-day captain, tried a different tack as South Africa arrived in Colombo. Superficially at least, he does not possess Smith's air of defiance, but he could not wait to face down South Africa's past misdemeanours, so much so that if somebody had asked him about the price of mangoes in Pettah Market he would probably have said: "Ah, I know you are secretly referring to choking, and there is something I want to say about this ..."
Few cricket writers know the price of mangoes in Pettah Market but, rightly or wrongly, most think South Africa chokes are ten a penny.
The question was framed innocently enough: "South Africa is a powerhouse when it comes to cricket but, when you enter big tournaments, does it play on your mind that the major trophy remains elusive?"
De Villiers's eyes narrowed. "I am going to be very honest with you," he said. "I am going to put it out there straight up front. We have choked in the past and we know about that - if that's the word you are looking for. It is as simple as that. We have had some really bad experiences in the past but I would like to emphasise that it is past.
"We come in with a whole new look in this team. We have worked really hard with a whole new management team, who have given us a lot of energy and new ideas. We will approach this tournament differently and we would like to win the pressure situations. We are going out there to do exactly that."
Colombo was the scene of one of South Africa's most bewildering defeats of all. Ten years ago, they faced India in the semi-final of the Champions Trophy and were 192 for 1, needing 70 from 14 overs, when Herschelle Gibbs retired with cramp in both hands. The game was theirs, but cramp spread to the entire batting line-up and they lost by 10 runs.
Study a list of South Africa's defeats in major one-day tournaments and there have been as many pseudo chokes as real chokes. Sometimes they have just been outplayed by a better side and the cliché has been levelled at them anyway. There seemed little appetite for bringing the subject up again. Then de Villiers did it anyway.
Smith has surely never felt as much hurt as he did after that New Zealand defeat. He looked mentally and physically broken. "Hopefully in the future somebody will go all the way," Smith said then. That hope now rests with de Villiers. But nobody will really believe it until they see it.

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Captains of participating Nations

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Mazay ka match araha hai

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kal kya hoga?

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warmup match hi hai, not a big deal

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Zimbabwe's Malcolm Waller and his team-mates arrived in Hambantota in an air force helicopter

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warmup match hi hai, not a big deal

Well, that's not so positive..

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Well, that's not so positive..

hmmm.