Twenty20 World Cup

Group A - Pakistan (A1), Bangladesh (A2) and Australia

Group B - Sri Lanka (B1), New Zealand (B2) and Zimbabwe

Group C - South Africa (C1), India (C2) and Afghanistan

Group D - West Indies (D1), England (D2) and Ireland

Apr-2010
Tue 27 13:30 GMT, 09:30 local	Warm-up - Pakistan v Windward Islands Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia Pakistan won by 68 runs

Tue 27 17:30 GMT, 13:30 local	Warm-up - Australia v Zimbabwe Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia Zimbabwe won by 1 run \| Scoreboard

Tue 27 17:30 GMT, 13:30 local	Warm-up - Barbados v Bangladesh Kensington Oval, Barbados Bangladesh won by 36 runs

Tue 27 17:30 GMT, 13:30 local	Warm-up - Ireland v New Zealand Providence Stadium, Guyana New Zealand won by 40 runs \| Scoreboard

Tue 27 21:00 GMT, 17:00 local	Warm-up - West Indies v Afghanistan Providence Stadium, Guyana No Result

Wed 28 13:30 GMT, 09:30 local	Warm-up - South Africa v Sri Lanka Kensington Oval, Barbados South Africa won by 5 wickets (with 3 balls remaining)

Wed 28 17:30 GMT, 13:30 local	Warm-up - Bangladesh v England Kensington Oval, Barbados England won by 7 wickets (with 2.5 overs remaining)

Wed 28 17:30 GMT, 13:30 local	Warm-up - Afghanistan v Ireland Providence Stadium, Guyana Afghanistan won by 5 wickets (with 3 balls remaining)

Wed 28 21:00 GMT, 17:00 local	Warm-up - West Indies v New Zealand Providence Stadium, Guyana New Zealand won by 7 runs

Thu 29 17:30 GMT, 13:30 local	Warm-up - England v South Africa Kensington Oval, Barbados England won by 5 wickets (with 3 balls remaining)

Thu 29 17:30 GMT, 09:30 local	Warm-up - Windward Islands v Australia Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia Australia won by 101 runs

Fri 30 17:00 GMT, 13:00 local	1st Match, Group B - Sri Lanka v New Zealand Providence Stadium, Guyana New Zealand won by 2-wickets (with 1 ball remaining) \| Scoreboard

Fri 30 21:00 GMT, 17:00 local	2nd Match, Group D - West Indies v Ireland Providence Stadium, Guyana West Indies won by 70 runs \| Scoreboard
May-2010
Sat 01 13:30 GMT, 09:30 local	3rd Match, Group C - India v Afghanistan Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia India won by 7-wickets (with 5.1 overs remaining) \|Scoreboard

Sat 01 17:30 GMT, 13:30 local	4th Match, Group A - Pakistan v Bangladesh Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia Pakistan won by 21 runs \| Scoreboard

Sun 02 13:30 GMT, 09:30 local	5th Match, Group C - India v South Africa Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia India won by 14-runs \| Scoreboard

Sun 02 17:30 GMT, 13:30 local	6th Match, Group A - Pakistan v Australia Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia \| Scoreboard

Mon 03 13:30 GMT, 09:30 local	7th Match, Group B - Zimbabwe v Sri Lanka Providence Stadium, Guyana

Mon 03 17:30 GMT, 13:30 local	8th Match, Group D - West Indies v England Providence Stadium, Guyana

Tue 04 13:30 GMT, 09:30 local	9th Match, Group B - New Zealand v Zimbabwe Providence Stadium, Guyana

Tue 04 17:30 GMT, 13:30 local	10th Match, Group D - England v Ireland Providence Stadium, Guyana

Wed 05 13:30 GMT, 09:30 local	11th Match, Group A - Australia v Bangladesh Kensington Oval, Barbados

Wed 05 17:30 GMT, 13:30 local	12th Match, Group C - South Africa v Afghanistan Kensington Oval, Barbados

Thu 06 13:30 GMT, 09:30 local	13th Match - A1 v D2 Kensington Oval, Barbados

Thu 06 17:30 GMT, 13:30 local	14th Match - C1 v B2 Kensington Oval, Barbados

Fri 07 13:30 GMT, 09:30 local	15th Match - A2 v C2 Kensington Oval, Barbados

Fri 07 17:30 GMT, 13:30 local	16th Match - B1 v D1 Kensington Oval, Barbados

Sat 08 13:30 GMT, 09:30 local	17th Match - C1 v D2 Kensington Oval, Barbados

Sat 08 17:30 GMT, 13:30 local	18th Match - A1 v B2 Kensington Oval, Barbados

Sun 09 13:30 GMT, 09:30 local	19th Match - C2 v D1 Kensington Oval, Barbados

Sun 09 17:30 GMT, 13:30 local	20th Match - B1 v A2 Kensington Oval, Barbados

Mon 10 13:30 GMT, 09:30 local	21st Match - B2 v D2 Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia

Mon 10 17:30 GMT, 13:30 local	22nd Match - A1 v C1 Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia

Tue 11 17:00 GMT, 13:00 local	23rd Match - B1 v C2 Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia

Tue 11 21:00 GMT, 17:00 local	24th Match - D1 v A2 Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia

Thu 13 15:30 GMT, 11:30 local	1st Semi-Final - TBC v TBC Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia

Fri 14 15:30 GMT, 11:30 local	2nd Semi-Final - TBC v TBC Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia

Sun 16 15:30 GMT, 11:30 local	The Final - TBC v TBC Kensington Oval, Barbados

World Cup T20: India beat South Africa by 14 runs

Chasing a target of 187 runs, set by India, South Africa fell 14 runs short and lost the match in the Group C match of the World Twenty20 at the Beausejor Cricket Stadium in Gros Islet, St Lucia on Sunday.

Raina's score is just the third century made in a Twenty20 international and included nine fours and five sixes as he peppered the ball around the field showing superb timing and placement.

The 23-year-old enjoyed a big slice of luck in the fifth over though when he was caught off a no-ball from Albie Morkel.

Yuvraj Singh's 37 contributed to a key 88-run partnership with Raina who brought up his ton with a massive six over midwicket in the final over before he was caught off the next ball from Morkel.

Earlier South Africa captain Graeme Smith won the toss and elected to field.

India made two changes from the side that beat Afghanistan by seven wickets here on Saturday.

Opening batsman Gautam Gambhir was ruled out with stomach illness and his place was taken by Dinesh Karthik.

And, in a tactical switch, leg-spinner Piyush Chawla replaced fast bowler Zaheer Khan.

This was South Africa's first match of the tournament and the Proteas opted to use the big-hitting Loots Bosman as captain Graeme Smith's partner at the top of the order.

Teams:

India: Dinesh Karthik, Murali Vijay, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt/wkt), Yusuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Praveen Kumar, Piyush Chawla, Ashish Nehra

South Africa: Graeme Smith, Loots Bosman, Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Mark Boucher (wkt), Albie Morkel, Roelof van der Merwe, Morne Morkel, Rory Kleinveldt, Dale Steyn

Umpires: Aleem Dar (PAK) and Simon Taufel (AUS)

TV umpire: Rod Tucker (AUS)

Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle

BCCI reserve price for the bidding of Team Indias jersey logo sponsorship in Crores

How much Twenty20 is popular and Money maker for BCCI can be guessed by this article printed in todays Times Of India (Delhi). The Day is not far when BCCI's wealth can be compared to Some wealthy Footbal clubs in the world. And why not if the craze for cricket is among 1,00,00,00,000 Indian alone much more than whole Footbal Fans in the world, if i'm not wrong...please dont mind if i've over-estimated. But Really Saying this is called Money Making...

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Team India Rocks... Jai Ho

Article as In Today's TIMES OF INDIA (Delhi):

Team India jersey logo up for grabs

by: Indranil Basu | TNN [TOI]

The Board of Control for Cricket in India has put Twenty20 on a par with ODIs and Tests while setting the reserve price for the bidding of Team Indias jersey logo sponsorship. Sources said the board is asking for a minimum bid of Rs 3 crore for each Test, ODI or T20 game, showing the growing commercial value of T20 matches. http://hallosushant.blogspot.com/

Four years ago, the base price was Rs 90 lakh for an ODI match and Rs 1 crore for a Test. T20 didnt even have a market. But in the last two and-a-half years, the valuation of logo sponsorship in a T20 game has caught up with those of Tests and ODIs.

The hike in reserve price could put bidders in a tizzy. It has already put present sponsor Sahara in two minds.

Asking Rate

BCCI seeking Rs 3 crore for each Test, ODI and T20 match Four years ago, the base price was Rs 90 lakh for an ODI and Rs 1 crore for a Test At Rs 800cr, deal could be worth more than Manchester Uniteds Rs 650cr deal for 4 yrs. http://hallosushant.blogspot.com/

Twenty20 2009 Champions League Squads Declared : 12 teams, 19 matches, 16 days

The Twenty20 Champions League is an international Twenty20 cricket competition between clubs from India, Australia, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and West Indies. The Twenty20 Champions League is chaired by Lalit Modi, who is the Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League and Vice-President of the BCCI. http://hallosushant.blogspot.com/

Indian mobile service Bharti Airtel has bought the title sponsorship rights of the champions league for the reported amount of rupees 170 crores.

Qualifiers:

> The winners, runners-up and third placed team of the Indian Premier League in India.

> The semi final losers play-off for the third place in the Indian Premier League in India.

> The winners and runners-up of the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash in Australia.

> The winners and runners-up of the Standard Bank Pro 20 Series in South Africa.

> The winners and runners-up of the Twenty20 Cup in England and Wales.

> The winners of the State Twenty20 from New Zealand.

> The winners of the Stanford 20/20 from West Indies.

> The winners of the Inter-Provincial Twenty20 from Sri Lanka.

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Tournament:

The 2009 Champions League will be contested by 12 teams. It will start with a round robin format, with 4 pools of 3 teams. The Top 2 teams from each pool will advance to the knockout stages. A total 19 matches will be played over a 16 day period. http://hallosushant.blogspot.com/