ICC World Twenty20, Highlights Pakistan beat Australia by 16 runs in high-scoring thriller

ICC World Twenty20, Highlights Pakistan beat Australia by 16 runs in high-scoring thriller.A lionhearted effort by Pakistan’s bowlers powered the 2009 champions to a 16-run win over Australia in a high-scoring World Twenty20 match in Mirpur on Sunday.Chasing 192 to clinch the Group Two super 10 match, Australia were cruising at 126 for two in the 12th over before the Pakistan bowlers turned the match on its head.Zulfiqar Babar, Umar Gul, Shahid Afridi and Bilawal Bhatti claimed two wickets each as Australia were all out for 175.

Australia’s Glenn Maxwell blasted six sixes in a sizzling 74 and featured in a century-plus stand with Aaron Finch (65) but their efforts proved in vain.Australia lost quick wickets as David Warner and Shane Watson went in the first over before Maxwell came to the crease and set the stadium alight with some breathtaking power-hitting.A lionhearted effort by Pakistan’s bowlers powered the 2009 champions to a 16-run win over Australia in a high-scoring World Twenty20 match in Mirpur on Sunday.Chasing 192 to clinch the Group Two super 10 match, Australia were cruising at 126 for two in the 12th over before the Pakistan bowlers turned the match on its head.

Zulfiqar Babar, Umar Gul, Shahid Afridi and Bilawal Bhatti claimed two wickets each as Australia were all out for 175.18:42 (IST): So, a brilliant batting effort from Pakistan and a resilient bowling display later on earned them a worthy 16-run win over Australia at Mirpur today. Australian captain George Bailey said there were plenty of positives considering they were two wickets down in the first over chasing 193. Pakistan skipper Mohammad Hafeez said it was Umar Akmal's day, who scored 94 runs off just 54 deliveries and said that his team was developing new match-winners. Umar Akmal, the Man of the Match, said that he had the backing of the team as well as the management to play his natural game.18:28 (IST): Pakistan beat Australia by 16 runs in a high-scoring Group 2 game at Mirpur. Australia were bowled out for 175 chasing 193.

18:26 (IST): WICKET! Brad Haddin c Malik b Bilawal Bhatti 8. AUS 173/9 (19.4 overs) chasing 192.

18:24 (IST): WICKET! Mitchell Starc run out Shahid Afridi 3. AUS 172/8 (19.2 overs). Need 20 runs off 4 balls to win.18:23 (IST): Australia need a seemingly impossible 23 runs off the last over to win. AUS 169/7 (19 overs).Bilawal Bhatti to bowl the final over, Brad Haddin is on strike, 23 needed from 6. He begins with a length delivery, Haddin smashes it towards long-on, two runs scored. 21 needed from 5. The second ball was a full-toss, Haddin hit it straight to covers where Afridi dropped a tough chance, but that doesn't help Australia as Starc is run-out! 20 needed from 4. Brad Hogg is the new man in. He takes a single off the first ball he faces. 19 needed from 3 balls. Haddin hits the fourth ball straight to the fielder at deep midwicket! 19 needed from 2. Hogg scores two runs through covers, 17 needed from 1. Hogg tried to hit the last ball out of the park, missed it, and the stumps were rattled! Pakistan have won the match by 16 runs.

GB Hogg b Bilawal Bhatti 3 (3b)

BJ Haddin c Shoaib Malik b Bilawal Bhatti 8 (8b)

MA Starc run out 3 (2b)

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Over 19 || Score 169/7

30 needed from 12 balls, Gul to bowl his final over. Brad Haddin is on strike. Haddin hit the first ball towards deep midwicket for a single. 29 required from 11. Umar Gul fires a yorker and the stumps are rattled, Coulter-Nile is bowled! Mitchell Starc is the new man in, the onus now on Haddin to show some fight. 29 needed from 10. Starc takes a single, 28 needed from 9. Haddin hits the ball towards square leg, two runs scored. 26 needed from 8. Haddin manages a single off a yorker, 25 needed from 7. Starc drove the last ball towards deep cover, two runs scored. 23 need from 6.

NM Coulter-Nile b Umar Gul 0 (3b)

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Over 18 || Score 162/6 

Ajmal to bowl his final over, Haddin on strike. The first ball was a dot delivery and Haddin worked the second towards third man for a single. Finch made too much room for himself on the leg side and failed to make any contact, another dot ball. Ajmal bowls a quicker delivery, a clever delivery and Aaron Finch is bowled! Finch has scored 64 runs, but he has consumed 54 balls. Coulter-Nile is the new man in. Pakistan now have a real chance of winning the match with two new batsmen at the crease. Nile tried to play a slog sweep off the fifth ball, didn't connect. Nile tried a similar stroke off the last ball, which saw a similar result, no run scored. Just one run from the over and a wicket for Ajmal! Superb stuff!

AJ Finch b Saeed Ajmal 65 (54b)

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Over 17 || Score 161/5 

Umar Gul to bowl his third over. Hodge was offered width, he slashed hard at it, Saeed Ajmal ran to his right from deep backward point and took a brilliant catch to dismiss Hodge! What a time to lose a wicket. Brad Haddin is the new man in. Finch will have to take the charge now. Finch smashed the fifth ball for a boundary towards deep square leg. 31 needed from the last three overs. Finch's wicket here could make a big difference for Pakistan.

BJ Hodge c Saeed Ajmal b Umar Gul 2 (3b)

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Over 16 || Score 153/4 

Afridi to bowl his final over. And he strikes first ball, Bailey is bowled! The Asutralian skipper was looking clueless out there and it was just a matter of time that he was dismissed. Brad Hodge is the new man in. Finch swept the third ball of the over through deep square leg for a boundary! Seven runs from the over. Afridi ends his spell and he has got Pakistan back into the game with the wickets of Maxwell and Bailey. 39 required from the last four overs.

GJ Bailey b Shahid Afridi 4 (9b)

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Over 15 || Score 146/3 

Ajmal to bowl his third over. Finch once again got an outside-edge off the last ball, which rushed past third man for a boundary and Finch has also reached his half-century off 44 balls! Eight runs from the over. It has been a good comeback from Pakistan so far.Umar Akmal fell six runs short of his maiden Twenty20 International century as his 54-ball blitz powered Pakistan to 191 for five.

Pakistan, who looked determined to shrug off Friday’s defeat to arch-rivals India, were 25-2 in the fifth over when Umar walked in to join brother Kamran Akmal (31) and they shared a 96-run partnership in 8.3 overs.

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ICC World T20 MS Dhoni backs Yuvraj Singh to come good in remaining matches

ICC World T20 MS Dhoni backs Yuvraj Singh to come good in remaining matches.Dhaka, March 24 (IANS/CMC) West Indies captain Darren Sammy said there was no need to press the panic button in the wake of the loss to India in the team's opening match of the World Twenty20 championship.The Caribbean side produced an insipid performance Sunday at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium to plunge to a disappointing seven-wicket loss to India, and stumble in the first hurdle of their title defence, reports CMC.

Chris Gayle struggled to 34 off 33 balls while Lendl Simmons got 27, as West Indies were restricted to 129 for seven off their 20 overs.India then paced their innings nicely to reach their target with two balls to spare, with opener Rohit Sharma (62 not out) and Virat Kohli (54) getting half-centuries."We just didn't respond well enough to their spinners - round one goes to India. I have a strong feeling that we will meet again, so we are looking forward to that. They used the conditions quite well. It's a fact that we just didn't bat well. We didn't bat well and we still got to 130," Sammy said.

"We will take heart from that but we never kicked off in the innings. Simmons played some good blows in the late overs but apart from that we never really got those big overs we required...we didn't get that big moment and we were always behind the eight-ball."He added: "It is no need for us to panic. We have three more first round games to go in the tournament against Bangladesh, Australia and Pakistan and we back ourselves to win all three and reach the semi-finals. We are here to defend our title and we will give our all.""Yuvraj is one of the best players of T20 but yes you can say that he is not in great touch at the moment. It becomes tough when you are dropped from ODIs and then you make a comeback in the T20 squad. So there's bit of pressure on him," Dhoni told reporters."It's easy to say that it is a short format but when an individual comes into the squad, there is bound to be pressure on him," he added.

Yuvraj scored a painstaking 10 off only 19 balls during yesterday's seven-wicket win against West Indies but Dhoni was confident that Yuvraj has the ability to get back in form and win matches for his team."It takes one or two matches. Probably, he will get back into flow as we know how good a match-winner he is. He can turn a game on his own. Today the plan was to have a higher net run-rate but at the same time give Yuvraj a chance to settle his nerves. If he is in flow, Yuvi is a good asset to have," Dhoni added.

About Amit Mishra's splendid form with back-to-back man of the match awards, Dhoni said that his only advice to the Haryana leggie was to back his strengths.Asked what was his tips to Mishra, Dhoni smiled and said, "I told him, Just Play!".On a serious note, he further added: "People bowl or bat according to their strengths. He was feeling a bit of nerves against Pakistan and I went up to him and told him that you are known to turn the ball, flight it and vary the pace."I told him just don't try to bowl the straighter one.

Try to bowl back of length so that batsman can't hit. I told him, biggest strength to flight and deceive batsman.Gayle tried to make up for it in Shami’s next over as he hit him for a six over long on and then punched him through vacant mid-wicket region for a boundary. When Mishra was introduced into the attack, Gayle welcomed him with a six. It was his routine “stand and deliver” six over long on. But the leggie was distinctly unlucky when he varied his length and bowled a fuller delivery next up. Gayle tried the slog sweep and it was one of the easiest of skiers that was dropped by none other than Yuvraj Singh. He made a mess of it by completely misjudging the catch. The batsman was on 19 then. Ashwin meanwhile redeemed himself as he got an out of sorts Smith who couldn’t pick up a carom ball and the return catch was taken by the bowler by covering some distance. Smith could only manage 11 off 29 balls. West Indies completed their 50 in 10.4 overs but Gayle despite the two reprieves wasn’t able to break free. He and Samuels played a few singles trying to get into the groove before a horrible mix-up saw Gayle trudge back towards dug-out. Samuels cut Mishra and went for a non-existent single only to find one of India’s better fielders in Rohit Sharma. Rohit threw the ball to Dhoni who had backed up behind the stumps as Gayle was at the midway through his single. His 33-ball-34 had a boundary and two huge sixes. Mishra then got Samuels out with a flighted delivery as the batsman gave him charge and missed the leg-break. Dhoni completed easiest of stumpings. Dwayne Bravo (0) got a first-ball googly as it spun back sharply to find his pads as West Indies were reduced to 74 for four. Mishra was on a hat-trick which opposition skipper Darren Sammy averted. But West Indies’ chances of getting a big score had ended by then.

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17th T20 South West Indies vs India Live Streaming sun Mar 23 2014 Match Highlights At Mirpur | Group 2

17th T20 South West Indies vs India Live Streaming sun Mar 23 2014 Match Highlights At Mirpur| Group 2.19:30 local | 13:30 GMT.Tags:t20 live score, t20 live score espn, t20 live scorecard, t20 live streaming, t20 live match score, t20 live match online, 2014 t20 world cup wiki, t20 world cup qualifiers 2014, t20 world cup 2014 fixture, t20 world cup 2014 tickets, 2014 t20 world cup qualifiers, 2014 t20 world cup official website, t20 world cup highlights 2014.

India recorded their second consecutive win at the World Twenty20 tournament in Bangladesh with a seven-wicket victory over defending champions West Indies in Mirpur.India, who won the toss and elected to field, restricted the 2012 winners to 129-7 in their 20 overs at the Shere Bangla National Stadium.The winners of the inaugural tournament in South Africa in 2007 reached their target with two balls to spare."West Indies will be a totally different team as they have a lot of players who can hit sixes but they don't have an idea about how to rotate the strike against spinners by taking singles and twos," is what Raina told journalists on Saturday. Sammy responded by saying, "We don't care much about what Raina thinks. If he thinks we are only six hitters, then stop us from hitting sixes." Hopefully, Raina's impression of his opponents don't backfire here today. After the men from the Caribbean are the defending champions in this tournament which India have not enjoyed great success after their inaugural title triumph in South Africa 2007.
Scoreboard
WEST INDIES:
D Smith lbw b Prasanna    60
C Gayle c NLTC Perera b Herath    12
A Fletcher lbw b Herath    4
D Bravo c Jayawardene b Lakmal    43
L Simmons c Chandimal b Mendis    10
D Sammy not out    30
A Russell not out    2
EXTRAS: (b4, lb1, w3, nb3)    11
TOTAL: (5 wkts; 20 overs)    172
FOW: 1-47, 2-55, 3-104, 4-129, 5-154
BOWLING: A Mathews 2-0-14-0, N Kulasekara 4-0-38-0, A Mendis 3-0-43-1, R Herath 4-0-20-2, S Prasanna 3-0-14-1, T Perera 0.4-0-14-0, S Lakmal 2.2-0-16-1, T Dilshan 1-0-8-0
SRI LANKA:
K Perera c Charles b Badree    4
T Dilshan b Bravo    43
M Jayawardene c Narine b Rampaul    0
K Sangakkara b Bravo    24
D Chandimal c Smith b Narine    14
S Prasanna b Russell    2
A Mathews b Narine    18
T Perera lbw b Narine    0
N Kulasekara lbw b Narine    14
L Thirimanne not out    14
S Senanayake b Bravo    2
EXTRAS: (lb2, w1, nb1)    4
TOTAL: (all out; 19.2 overs)    139
FOW: 1-10, 2-18, 3-72, 4-73, 5-83, 6-107, 7-107, 8-109, 9-134, 10-139
BOWLING: S Badree 4-0-30-1, R Rampaul 2-0-11-1, S Narine 4-0-24-4, DJ Bravo 3.2-0-29-3, C Gayle 3-0-18-0, A Russell 3-0-25-1
TOSS: Sri Lanka
UMPIRES: H Dharmasena (SL), N Llong (Eng)
TV UMPIRE: R Kettleborough (Eng)
MATCH REFEREE: R Madugalle (SL)
Raina, who scored an unbeaten 35 in India's seven-wicket win over Pakistan on Friday, emphasised that India would bank on their three-man spin attack which did a wondrous job against Pakistan. "We have Mishra (Amit), who has done well in the last match. R Ashwin has also bowled well and Jadeja (Ravindra) is doing well too, but in T20 cricket, it depends on who is better on a particular day. Spinners will be vital in this match after the way they bowled against Pakistan," said Raina. 

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Pakistan vs Australia Live Score World Twenty20, Match 16

Pakistan vs Australia Live Score World Twenty20, Match 16.Mohammed Hafeez and his boys would like to quickly forget the humiliating defeat against arch-rivals India on Friday and pose a serious challenge for a very quality Australian side led by George Bailey.Nathan Coulter-Nile dismissed Kamran Akmal (31) in the 13th over to break the dangerous partnership and reduced Pakistan to 121/3 in 12.5 overs.Kamran hit four boundaries in his run-a-ball knock as he played perfect partner to his aggressive younger brother.

Umar was at his aggressive best as he raced to his half-century in just 28 balls, which included three massive sixes and five fours.The duo took Pakistan over 100-run mark in just 11.2 overs as they hammered Aussie bowlers all round the park.Sent in to bat, Pakistan lost skipper Mohammad Hafeez (13) and Ahmed Shehzad (5) inside five overs.Shane Watson clean bowled Hafeez in the fifth over to put Pakistan on the back foot. Pakistan were reduced to 25/2 in 4.2 overs.

Paceman Doug Bollinger gave Australia an early breakthrough when he dismissed Pakistani opener Shehzad to reduce Pakistan to 7/1 in 1.4 overs.Earlier, Australian skipper George Bailey won the toss and decided to bowl first against Pakistan.Australia included 43-year-old spinner Brad Hogg for their first match, making him the oldest player to take part in the World Twenty20 competitions since the inaugural event in 2007.Umpires: Nigel Llong (ENG) and Richard Kettleborough (ENG).TV umpire: Kumar Dharmasena (SRI).Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle (SRI).

Australia: David Warner, Aaron Finch, Shane Watson, Glenn Maxwell, George Bailey(c), Brad Hodge, Brad Haddin(w), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Brad Hogg, Doug Bollinger

Pakistan: Ahmed Shehzad, Kamran Akmal(w), Mohammad Hafeez(c), Umar Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi, Sohaib Maqsood, Bilawal Bhatti, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Zulfiqar Babar

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