India goes to final match-2014 wt20 beat South Africa

It has been 14 years, 5 Champions Trophies, 5 World Cups and 4 World Twenty20s since South Africa last won a knockout match at an ICC event and that has not changed. Neither has the fact that India has not lost a semi-final under MS Dhoni captaincy. 

They marched into an all sub-continent final with a clinically cold-blooded chase against a South Africa team that put in one of their well performances in a crunch match but were still not good enough. South Africa had never lost a Twenty20 match after posting a 170-plus score before today and they would have thought they were halfway to breaking the hoodoo with that total.

South Africa challenging target of 173, India raced ahead through opening Rohit Sharma, who spanked boundaries off Duminy and upper cut spearhead Steyn for a six. Rohit had blazed to a 13-ball 24 when he skied left-arm pacer Beuran Hendricks for a simple catch. A Rahane and Rohit Sharma added first wicket partnership runs 39 for three overs.

As the required rate headed towards ten-per-over, India had the best men for the job in the center, mutual admirers Virat Kohli and Yuvraj Singh. The pair added 56 in just 39 balls to take the team to within 40 runs of the target.

Kohli was as much show-stealer as heart-breaker on Friday as he plundered a chanceless 44-ball 72 to book India a place in their 2nd World Twenty20 final, where they will take on an equally formidable Sri Lanka on Sunday. 

Ashwin played as big a role as Virat Kohli in the outcome as he returned excellent figures 4-0-22-3; including an amazing ‘Ball of the Decade’ bowled of the clueless opener Amla. Ashwin is accuracy all but accommodated for Mishra’s rank bad day at the office.

Captain FAF du Plessis (58, 41b) and JP Duminy (45, 40b) had earlier led the Proteas to 172/4, a score they had never failed to defend in this format.

Indian spinners turned India Beat West Indies

What was billed as a grand battle between Caribbean six-hitters and Indian spinners turned out to be a contest so one-sided that the result was apparent even halfway into the second innings? Once MS Dhoni’s bowlers restricted the West Indies to just 129, top guns Rohit Sharma (62*) and Virat Kohli (54) forged a majestic 106-run alliance to make light of what was already task of limited complexity.

The match did go into the final over. And Yuvraj did his best to enliven it with his ineptness. But Kohli and Rohit had finished enough by then to accommodate a minor stall such as this.

Both helped themselves to half-centuries, but as much as their blades helped India garner its second successive win, it was the bowling that had set it up. Spinners Amit Mishra and R.Ashwin and part-timer Suresh Raina gave very little away, while young Bhuvneshwar Kumar turned in a probing spell of swing bowling that kept the dangerous openers Chris Gayle and Dwayne Smith quiet at the top of the order. Mishra reeled in his second Man of the Match for figures of 4-0-18-2.

India Successful Started 2014 World cup T20 against Pakistan

India varied spin attack brought it an languid 7-wicket win over arch-rivals Pakistan in the opening game of the World T20 main draw on Friday, even as a storied competition failed to provide the humdinger that is expected all time the teams size up against each other. Once Amit Mishra, Ravindra Jadeja and R. Ashwin had conspired to restrict Pakistan to 130, on what was dubbed pre-match as a ‘beauty’, the in-form Raina (35*) and Kohli (36*) overhauled the target with marked swiftness, with 9 balls to spare. 

This was a main victory considering that India's tough group also includes defending champions West Indies and the in-form Australia, which indicates to things finish up in a scramble for the 2 semi-final slots available.

Openers Dhawan (30) and Rohit Sharma (24) had been tested somewhat by Mohammad Hafeez and left-arm pacer Junaid Khan, but still managed to reach 38 without loss at the end of the Power play. When Saeed Ajmal came on, in the 5th over of the chase, he was beaten on the trot, and had scored five off 15 balls before he decided enough was enough. 

Then began a miniature phase that held the faint promise of the match turning into a nail-biter. Including Dhawan’s India lost three wickets for 11 runs in 13 balls. Rohit played on trying to cut Ajmal’s off-spinner. Yuvraj Singh lost his wickets to Bilawal Bhatti’s 1st ball of the match a fast, full delivery that rocked the base of the stumps.

Precisely 66 were needed when Kohli and Raina came together. The pair ended it in a hurry through a 66-run stand in just 50 balls. Kohli was severe off the back foot to the spinners – he lofted Hafeez for a superlative 6 over mid-wicket, while Raina punished Bhatti for a succession of fours when he landed it short. The next single saw India victors by 7 wickets, nine balls to spare, first points in the bag.

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.