West Indies won Bangladesh by 73 runs wt20

Dwayne Smith smashed 72 runs off 43 balls before spinner bowler Samuel Badree claimed 4-15 as the West Indies won Bangladesh by 73 runs in a key World T20 match in Dhaka on Tuesday.

The caring champions, who needed a win to stay in contention for the semi-finals after losing to India on Sunday, piled up 171-7 and then bowled out Bangladesh for a paltry 98 in the Super-10 group 2 matches.

Chris Gayle hit a run-a-ball 48 in an impressive batting display by the West Indies after the hosts win the toss and elected to field before a sell-out crowd of 25,000 at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium. Left-arm seamer Krishmar Santokie claimed 2 wickets off successive balls, including the vital one of Shakib Al Hasan, to reduce Bangladesh to 16-3 by the fourth over.

Samuel Badree, who had begun the slide by removing opener Tamim Iqbal for 5, sliced through the middle order with 3 wickets in his last over, the 11 of the innings. Captain Mushfiqur Rahim top-scored with 22 and tailender Mashrafe Mortaza made 19, but six batsmen failed to enter double figures in a worst batting display by the home team.

Smith dominated an opening stand of 97 by slamming 10 boundaries and 3 sixes, outscoring the unusually dour Chris Gayle, whose contribution in the partnership was 19.Smith reached his 72 off 43 balls in the 10th over with a fourth consecutive boundary off spinner Sohag Gazi.

West Indies lost 2 wickets for one run as Smith top-edged a sweep off Mohammad Mahmudullah, and new batsman Lendl Simmons was stumped off a wide from Shakib. Chris Gayle opened out after Smith's dismissal and hit 2 sixes and 3 fours before holing out in the deep off Ziaur Rahman in the 19th over.

The West Indies plundered 44 runs from the 17th to the 19th overs to move to 167-3, before losing 4 wickets in the last over bowled by seamer Al Amin Hossain. India, Pakistan and Australia are the other teams in the group, from which two will advance to the semi-finals.

Dhoni is bruising half-century CSK in top Group ‘B’ beat by SH

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is bruising half-century covered Chennai Super Kings top standing in Group ‘B’ of the Champions Trophy T20 as they edged out Hyderabad Sunrisers by 12 runs on Thursday. Before a frenzied home crowd at the JSCA Stadium.

Such was Dhoni impact that he put to shade another blistering knock that had preceded his. Suresh Raina is 57-ball 84 was what placed Chennai in control in the first two-thirds of the innings after they were sent in to bat. The recipient of at least 2 missed catches, Raina struck 9 fours and 1 six, before the Dhoni special took Chennai to 202.

Raina struck again in the same over, bowling JP Duminy for a duck. Dhawan (48) then slammed the door shut on his own team by slashing an R. Ashwin wide delivery into Dhoni alert gloves. From 87 /0 to 106/4 with an asking rate north of 15 – there was only one way this was going to end, with or without a consolatory-but-brilliant half-century by Sammy. Thanks to the West Indian’s 25-ball 50, Hyderabad finished on 190/7 to ensure that the loss will not translate into poor Net Run Rate.

it might have been the dew factor that compelled Dhawan to field first. M. Vijay was out second ball to Dale Steyn for his 3rd repeated duck in competitive cricket. Michael Hussey (22) walked after edging Duminy to wicketkeeper Patel. S. Badrinath (13) spent some time in the middle, and didn’t have much to do with Raina going hammer and tongs at the other end.

Badri became Duminy’s second wicket as Dhoni came in and Chennai reached 141/3 in 17 overs. Thirty-four came off the next over, Dhoni shredding Perera for 5 sixes (66666), one of which was almost an exact retaliation of his World Cup winning strike at the Wankhede. The Indian captain took two more maximums in Sammy’s last over of the innings, Chennai gaining 61 in the last 18 balls of their innings.

Score Details

Chennai Super kings-202/4(20)
S Raina -84(57)
MS.Dhoni-63(19)

Hyderabad Sunrisers-190/7(20)
D Sammy -50(25)
S Dhawan (C)-48(34)

Player of the match
S Raina

CLT20B Bangalore Went to Final Match

IN THE last two T20 games played at the Chinnaswamy sports ground, 836 runs have been complete in 78.3 avers. Fan of Royal Challengers Bangalore, although, aren't concerned by this dreadful lack of challenge for batsmen. Their home side has now entered the final game of the Champions League; chase down 204- for the second game in a line.

New South Wales did the majority things correct today after being inserted by Daniel Vettori. The Australian side forced themselves on Bangalore's bowlers in making 203-2. David Warner's stunning 123 (68b) and his power-packed 146-run position with wicketkeeper and batsman Daniel Smith place the manner for the day.

In these times when bats are serious, limits are short, and bowlers are masochistic creature who lives only to be punish, a lone act of disobedience makes a huge distinction. So it was today. RCB's Tillakaratne Dilshan bowled his four over’s for just 10 -- a fine attainment in a game anywhere 26 sixes and 34 fours were scored.

The idea constant itself during Bangalore's pursue, at what time Patrick Cummins' three wickets in four balls give Bangalore a surprise. Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli had their feet on NSW's throat. Gayle (92 off 41b, 8x6, 8x4) nearly became the first batsman to score four T20 hundreds, and added 141 off just 66 balls with Virat Kohli (84, 49b, 10x4, 3x6), who guide them home.

 

Youthful seamer Cummins, just out of school, had accepted 22 in his next over. In his third, he detached Gayle with a secondary LBW, and then beat Saurabh Tiwary's high backlift with a quick Yorker. He misses a hat-trick by a ball, dismiss Mayan Agarwal with an unsure caught-behind.

Cummins' opening 16 balls went for 1-42; in his last eight balls he had 3-3. A team of silent over does went by, previous to Kohli attempt Bangalore out of a scared state of affairs, taking 16 off Mitchell Starc's 18th over. It was easy thereon. The worrying thing as regards today's game is that most of the 26 sixes weren't small ones, above all during Bangalore's chase. Gayle and Kohli time and again hit them more than a few rows back. In one case, Gayle clears the roof.

Smith had bounty to say from at the back the stumps as he had while batting. Sreenath Aravind gave him a bite as he walks off. Throughout the chase, Gayle had to step in to break a quarrel stuck between Smith and Kohli, who was very expressive today, celebrate these sixes and fours by punch the air.

Warner's wicked innings made it the first time of a batsman creation back-to-back hundreds in T20 cricket. Three days ago in Chennai, his winning 135 had knocked in the defensive champions Super Kings out of this tournament. He had strike eight sixes and 11 fours there. Today, the short boundaries of the Bangalore Chinnaswamy Stadium prove no face for him. 

Warner's Australian complement Dirk Nannes and Aravind was singled out for verdict. Warner goes after almost the whole lot they'd bowled at him. Nannes accepted 36 off 15 balls to him and Aravind 39 off 15.The highlight of the innings, although, was the switch-hit off RajBhatkal. Warner dappled the slower one early,changed they deportment and hold, and slogged so they victors so they took.