India vs Sri Lanka in India, Nov-Dec 2009

Sri Lanka in India Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match series

Sri Lanka will be looking for the elusive test match and series win when they tour India for a Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match series from November to December 2009. The team arrive in India on November 8th for the 55-day tour.

2009 ICC World Twenty20, England

ICC World Twenty20 England 2009

The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is the World Championship for Cricket in the Twenty20 format. There are 12 teams competing in the Group Stages. The first two placed teams from each of the four groups (Group A to D) will move on to the Super Eights. Each team plays three games against teams they have not already played. (Teams divided into Group E and Group F). Fixtures are predetermined and have no connection to who finished first and second in the group. No points are carried forward from group stages. Top two teams in Groups E and F qualify for semi-finals.

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ICC World 20/20 Championship 2009

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ICC World Twenty20 2009

INDIA (A1) vs ENGLAND (B2) at Lord's Super Eight

Defending Champions India succumb to England and bow out of the tournament ‎

India, the defending champions lost to England by 3 runs in the crucial match at Lord's. After winning the toss, India elected to field, but were unable to take early wickets. England lost the wicket of Luke Wright in the second over and were 3/1, but Ravi Bopara (37) and Kevin Pietersen (46) stabilised their innings and England managed to take 153/7 in the allotted 20 overs. Harbhajan Singh was the most succesful bowler for India who bowled 4 overs and took 3 wickets giving away only 30 runs. India lost Rohit Sharma (9) in the 2nd over and Suresh Raina (2) in the 4th over and their scoring pace slowed down after that. From 12/1 after 2 overs, the Indians were only able to get to 62/3 in 11 overs. Yuvraj Singh was a glimmer of hope for India, when he took 17 runs off only 9 balls, but lost his wicket to Foster who stumped him off a ball by Swann. Towards the end of the Indian innings, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (30*) and Yousuf Pathan (33*) tried to take India to their target of 154, but they fell short by just 3 runs in the nail-biting finish of this match.
Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni continued with his experimenting, even in the must win match, playing Ravindra Jadeja instead of the experienced Irfan Pathan, and promoting him to No 4 in the batting line-up instead of Yuvraj Singh when India needed quick runs.

Though India will not advance to the semi-finals, they still have one more match to play, on Tuesday, June 16th, against South Africa. Winning that match will not help India's chances in this champoinship in any way, but it will give the millions of Indian fans something to be proud of about their team's performance in this ICC Twenty 20 World Cup.

2009 ICC World Twenty20 Match 20: IND vs ENG, Group E, June 14: England 153-7 (Pietersen 46, Harbhajan 3-30, Jadeja 2-26) beat India 150-5 (Pathan 33*, Sidebottom 2-31, Swann 2-28) by three runs

June 14 Preview: India vs England ‎

It is do or die for India and England who will take on each other in the ICC World Twenty20 match at Lord's on Sunday. Each team will have to win the match to have any chance of progressing to the semifinal, after losing their first matches of the super eight stage. India lost to West indies in the super eight stage, while England lost to South Africa
The last time India met England in a World Twenty20 was in South Africa in 2007, when India's master destroyer Yuvraj Singh had hit England's baby-faced fast bowler Broad for six sixes in one monumental over. Yuvraj finished that innings with 58 off 16 deliveries, as India made 219, chasing which, England lost by 18 runs.

ICC World Twenty20 2009

INDIA (A1) vs ENGLAND (B2) at Lord's Super Eight

Scores

England Innings 153/7 (20.0 overs)

India Innings 150/5 (20.0 overs)

			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Bopara		b Jadeja	37	37	3	1
L Wright	c Y Pathan	b Singh	1	7	0	0
Pietersen	lbw	b Jadeja	46	27	5	1
Mascarenhas	not out		25	27	2	0
O Shah	c Jadeja	b Singh	12	10	1	0
Collingwood	lbw	b Zaheer	7	5	1	0
J Foster	c and b	Singh	6	5	0	0
Swann		b Singh	0	1	0	0
Broad	not out		3	1	0	0
Extras		14w 2lb	16
Total		7 wickets	153	(20.0 ovs)

Bowler O M R W Zaheer 3.0 0 26 1 Singh 3.0 0 13 1 I Sharma 4.0 0 36 0 Yuvraj 2.0 0 20 0 Singh 4.0 0 30 3 Jadeja 4.0 0 26 2

Fall of wicket   3 L Wright 74 Bopara 92 Pietersen 122 O Shah 138 Collingwood 145 J Foster 145 Swann

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			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Gambhir	c Broad	b Mascarenhas	26	26	4	0
R Sharma		b Sidebottom	9	8	1	0
Raina	c L Wright	b Sidebottom	2	5	0	0
Jadeja	c Broad	b Swann	25	35	1	0
Yuvraj	st J Foster	b Swann	17	9	0	2
Dhoni	not out		30	20	3	0
Y Pathan	not out		33	17	1	2
Extras		4w 4lb	8
Total		5 wickets	150	(20.0 ovs)

Bowler O M R W Anderson 4.0 0 32 0 Sidebottom 4.0 0 31 2 Broad 4.0 0 21 0 Pietersen 1.0 0 9 0 L Wright 2.0 0 16 0 Swann 4.0 0 28 2 Mascarenhas 1.0 0 9 1

Fall of wicket   12 R Sharma 24 Raina 62 Gambhir 85 Jadeja 87 Yuvraj

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Umpires: S J Davis, E A R de Silva, AG Hurst, M Erasmus

England: Bopara, L Wright, Pietersen, O Shah, Collingwood (C), Mascarenhas, J Foster (W), Sidebottom, Swann, Broad, Anderson

India: Gambhir, R Sharma, Raina, Yuvraj, Dhoni (C/W), Y Pathan, Jadeja, Singh, Zaheer, I Sharma, Singh