New Delhi – As the group stages of cricket’s World T20 begin this week, AFP takes a look at some of the players who are expected to light up the tournament. India’s Virat Kohli watches teammates during a training session in Nagpur on March 14, 2016 © AFP Punit Paranjpe The following is a list of potential match-winners from the five teams competing in Group 1, which features the West…
England overcame a Mumbai XI in their final warm-up match ahead of the ICC World Twenty20, despite David Willey taking a hat-trick for the opposition. Willey, along with James Vince, Jos Buttler and Adil Rashid, lined up for the opposition as all 15 members of England’s travelling party were given a run-out ahead of their first game of the tournament against West Indies on Wednesday. And all four made an…
David Willey bagged a hat-trick as England set a Mumbai XI 178 to win their final ICC World Twenty20 warm-up match at the Brabourne Stadium. Joe Root was the pick of England batsman with 48 off 34 balls, including two sixes, but he was the first of three consecutive wickets Willey would collect in the final over as England finished on 177 for eight. The Yorkshire all-rounder, alongside Jos Buttler, Adil…
Joe Root insists ‘it’s about doing it when it counts’ as England continued their preparations to the ICC World Twenty20 with a 14-run victory over a Mumbai XI. The Yorkshire batsman top-scored with a 34-ball 48 as England recorded their second warm-up win over a Mumbai side which also consisted of Adil Rashid, Jos Buttler, David Willey, and James Vince, as all 15 members of Trevor Bayliss’ squad were given…
England women made it three wins from three in their ICC Women’s World Twenty20 warm-up games by restricting South Africa to 101 for seven and then knocking off the runs with 3.3 overs and seven wickets to spare in Chennai. Tight bowling, particularly in the first 10 overs after which the Proteas were 38 for two, laid the foundation for England to build on two wins over New Zealand. Sarah…
[embedded content] Heather Knight described England’s three ICC World Twenty20 warm-ups, all victories, as like “absolute gold” after she helped to brush South Africa aside with bat and ball. Knight has played in all three wins, the first two over New Zealand before today’s versus the Proteas in Chennai. The results have left her brimming with confidence ahead of England’s tournament opener against Bangladesh in Bangalore on Thursday. By playing…
Kane Williamson dead-batted every question that was thrown at him on the eve of the World T20 Super 10s opener © ICC/Getty Images The last time New Zealand played a World T20 game, they crashed to 60 all out against Sri Lanka. Since that horror day in Chittagong, New Zealand are yet to play any match, in any format, in the subcontinent. In the two years since that nightmare against…
Kane Williamson dead-batted every question that was thrown at him on the eve of the World T20 Super 10s opener © ICC/Getty Images The last time New Zealand played a World T20 game, they crashed to 60 all out against Sri Lanka. Since that horror day in Chittagong, New Zealand are yet to play any match, in any format, in the subcontinent. In the two years since that nightmare against…
Play 04:24 Butcher: How England play spin will be vital Big Picture Dogma has tended to hold sway over reason for England at ICC global events. What planning there has been has usually been at least four years off the pace, its loopholes exposed by the lightest touch of scrutiny – take their squad for the inaugural World T20 in 2007, for instance, filled to the gunwales with job-a-day county…
Georgia Elwiss will be blogging exclusively for ecb.co.uk during the ICC Women’s World T20 in India. In the first installment she reveals her thoughts on England’s warm-up double over New Zealand, the voluntary Super Over played against the White Ferns and how the girls spent their rest day in Chennai. Hello from the hottest and most humid country I have ever known! India is certainly producing the heat and we…