T20 World Cup’22, IRE vs ENG: Ireland 157 (Balbirnie 62, Wood 3-34, Livingstone 3-17) beat England 105 for 5 in 14.3 overs (Malan 35, Little 2-16) by five runs on DLS method With bat and ball both sides of a collapse of 7 for 25, Ireland dominated the powerplay to defeat England at the MCG […]
The India-Pakistan match lived up to its hype, as the team led by Rohit Sharma won on the final ball. India remained competitive thanks to Kohli’s superb 82* as they chased 160. India needed 16 runs from the final six balls in the final over, which produced a lot of tension. Virat Kohli was bowled […]
Jos Buttler, Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, David Warner and Suryakumar Yadav were few of the many batters who were constantly in discussion with respect to potential top players in the tournament. Prior to the tournament, with his form, Virat Kohli was nowhere near the discussions, despite having won the man of the tournament award twice. […]
T20 World Cup’22, IND vs PAK: India 163 for 6 (Kohli 82*, Hardik 40) beat Pakistan 159 for 8 (Masood 52*, Iftikhar 51, Arshdeep 3-32, Hardik 3-30) by four wickets Needless to say all of us had our hearts caught in our throat during this match. Today Virat Kohli proved once again why he is […]
T20 World Cup’22, AFG vs ENG: England 113 for 5 (Livingstone 29*) beat Afghanistan 112 (Curran 5-10) by five wickets A five-wicket victory over Afghanistan has launched England’s World Cup campaign. One of the favourites for the tournament gave a performance that was very much split in two. They were outstanding on the field, supporting […]
T20 World Cup’22, NZ vs AUS: New Zealand 200 for 3 (Conway 92*, Allen 42) beat Australia (Maxwell 28, Southee 3-6, Santner 3-31) by 89 runs Some things, like inspiration, awards for lifetime service, and the right amount of salt and pepper in your hair, can wait ten years without winning. In December 2011, New […]
T20 World Cup’22, ZIM vs SC: Zimbabwe 133 for 5 (Ervine 57, Raza 40, Davey 2-16) beat Scotland 132 for 6 (Munsey 54, Chatara 2-14, Ngarava 2-28) by five wickets Before this T20 World Cup, Zimbabwe hadn’t played in a major ICC tournament in six years. However, as they advanced to the Super 12s, they […]
T20 World Cup’22, IRE vs WI: Ireland 150 for 1 (Stirling 66*, Tucker 47*) beat West Indies 146 for 5 (King 62*, Delany 3-16) by nine wickets One of their most important victories in Twenty20 cricket came in Hobart, where it was supposed to rain all day. Ireland defeated two-time champion West Indies in the […]
Thursday night saw yet another gripping match that made history and broke hearts, proving that the T20 World Cup 2022 is living up to the hype. Namibia was eliminated from the World Cup after falling 7 runs short of UAE’s first World Cup victory. At the conclusion of Match 10 of the Group A match […]
T20 World Cup’22, UAE vs NAM: United Arab Emirates 148 for 3 (Waseem 50, Rizwan 43, Scholtz 1-22) beat Namibia 141 for 8 (Wiese 55, Hameed 2-17, Zahoor 2-20) by seven runs. Despite David Wiese and Ruben Trumpelmann’s 80-run partnership off 56 balls for the eighth wicket with Namibia at 69 for 7, UAE actually […]
It is not my job to announce the winner
Rohit Sharma on being asked if England were rightly awarded the World Cup title in 2019