Sri Lanka Just Lucky To win the T20 world cup

Have you ever seen the lady luck smiling more on anybody than the Sri lanka cricket team? The team that should gave been out in first round itself and should never ever have made the semifinals of world T20 has managed to somehow win the world cup. Even in the final they got lucky as India's best striker of cricket ball wasn't in good form on that day.

Let us see why sri lanka is the most undeserving winner of ICC world T 20. First of all their side is completely imbalanced. The team lacks quality and even few club level cricket teams have more talent than these bunch of egoistic cricketers from small emerald island. The sri lanka cricket fans are bad loosers, a fact well known to everybody. They shout a lot even when they should be quiet because their bowlers have iffy actions while delivering the ball giving them unfair advantage over other teams. In fact if one say that it is 'cheating' he would be the most correct cricket lover ever.

Sri lankan batting is all about slogging. Most batsmen don't know how to hold the bat. Most of them hold it upside down. The worst thing about sri lanka playing cricket is over appealing by their cricketers. Most of them play for money as it is clear from day to day fight between cricket association of sri lanka and its cricket board. There have been news coming from sri lankan news paper agencies that mahela jayawardene and kumar sangakkara wouldn't have played world cup final if the Sri Lanka cricket board not promised a huge sum of money as a prize. Apart from that the sri lankan batsmen are known to play for personal records rather than the team as it is clear from number of double hundreds and triple hundreds scored on flattest cricket pitches in the world. Mahela and Sangakkara who shiver seeing the sight of medium pacer scores almost all of their runs on slow low and flat wickets of Colombo.

Everyone had tear in their eyes when final match of ICC world T20 was over and highlight of the match was the disappointment among the true cricketers who knew that it was not Sri Lanka but their opponents (India) who were the deserving winners of the tournament.

ICC should also take serious action on how the senior sri lankan cricketers make expressions when umpires don't make decision that suits Sri Lanka. World cricket can't affort sri lanlka cricketers insulting umpires in front of audience who have come to watch the cricket match live in stadiums.

India will win ICC T 20 World Cup 2014

I know that this T20 cricket is a mercurial form of cricket. And I am not an astrologer too. Yet I have been following this game ever since I was born. So here is my prediction - India will win ICC T20 2014 and will not loose any match.

Much criticized Yuvraj Singh will hit the winning six
for India.

I am pretty sure that other teams are already dispirited watching India play in this ruthless and commanding manner. While others living in a dreamworld of their own dreaming about how good their batsmen and bowlers are, it is reality for India. Indian bowlers are best in the tournament, never mind what the critics have to say. India have comprehensively beaten the much talked about Pakistan and West Indies, and that too by out-bowling them.

Some of the comments that people born to be critical of India's performance are really funny:

Indian Slog Over's  Bowling is Weak - Really? On what basis? I saw even the much higher rated Australian, South African, and Pakistan bowlers serving waist high full tosses. And it is not that Indian bowlers are not trying it. Actually the batsmen have become smarter and they convert full yorkers into full tosses and smack them for sixes. Batsmen are not servants or slaves of bowlers that they will remain stagnant at one place when the bowlers delivers the ball. It's high time the critics stop making such useless statements. It will help reduce the number of people making joke of them.

Indian Batsmen Are in Hurry - Really? So you want them to emulate that strategy suggested by Sunil Gavaskar. The strategy is to give first couple of hours to the bowlers. Listen critics, if you do that then all 20 overs would have been bowled in that time and there would be nothing left other than to scratch the pole and looking at the poster of Gavaskar. In T 20 cricket you must always look for runs, and doesn't matter if it looks cultured or not.

Indian Batsmen don't drag the bats - Not true at all. This Indian team has better athletes than any Indian team of past. Those who are making such statements must look at the highlights of their playing days. That will make it clear to them how ordinary they were when it comes to running between the wickets.

Oh! It seems I am getting bit out of context as far as topic is concerned. Actually the critics is so critical of Indian cricket that as a true fan of Indian cricket I always like to take them (critics) on and smash them out of park, just as Yuvraj Singh smashes the cricket ball out of stadium.

Now coming to Yuvraj Singh, the strongest man in India (when it comes to character), leave him alone critics. He is a proven match winner and doesn't need any of your advise. Please learn to respect the men who bring glory to the country otherwise there is someone up there in heaven who will seal your fate.

T 20 World Cup Contest Win by wishing Yuvraj Singh

World Cup of Twenty Twenty Cricket i.e T 20 World Cup is about to begin at Bangladesh and you have a chance to win great prizes. It is simple to win. Just wish Yuvraj Singh all the best for the tournament by composing a wish in twitter word limit. Contest Dates (March 14 - March 20).

Post your wishes with the hash tag #YuviWT2. The best wish, selected by Yuvraj Singh himslef, will get signed YOUWECAN mug from YUVI, as claimed by a site on the internet. Your blessings will help Yuvraj hit again 6 sixes in an over, may be 12 in a row.

Yuvraj Singh Seeking Blessings to win world cup

Yuvraj Singh can be officially reached at his twitter account www.twitter.com/YUVSTRONG12  i.e @yuvstrong12, on google plus at https://plus.google.com/104651270798181695001 His website is  http://www.yuvrajsingh.in/.

The contest news is gathered from a facebook page, which has the poster. Participants are requested to verify themselves the genuineness of the contest.

By all means this year's T20 world cup is going to break all the records as far as cricket following is concerned. The TV coverage of world cup will be unique in the sense that it has a potential reach of more than 1.8 billion viewers with live pictures shown by 29 broadcasters - the highest ever figures for an ICC event.


The following facts will make it clear as to why it could be the most live see world cup ever:

• Commentary in more than 20 languages.
• Live Pictures  of 35 cricket matches will reach Europe via Eurosport and as far as Norway, Nepal, Afghanistan and the Pacific Islands.
• Coverage involves 28 cameras, including seven ultra-motion cameras, Spidercam as well as graphics with key analytics, which will make it hard for viewers to take away their eyes off the TV screen.
• All 35 matches in the men's tournament, plus all four of the warm-up matches in Mirpur, will be covered, as well as both semifinals and the final of the women's event.

The tournament will begin from March 16, 2014.

There are many more chances coming you way to win many prizes online during the ICC world T20 event. For the moment you can send wishes to Yuvraj and Enjoy the coffee in the mug if you do win it. Also If you are declared winner do comment on this page so that we can share your name (if you wish) with others, and make them a bit jealous of you!

Is it right to drop Suresh Raina and Ishant Sharma from Asia Cup and World t-20 cricket squads

The cricket news has arrived that both Suresh Raina and Ishant Sharma has been dropped from indian cricket team that is selected to play Asia Cup. Raina, however, is included in squad for t-20 world cup, but Ishant is not that lucky.

Ishant Sharma would be looking to get his mojo back

The squads are as follows:

India squad for Asia Cup: MS Dhoni (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ambati Rayudu, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Varun Aaron, Stuart Binny, Amit Mishra, Ishwar Pandey

India squad for World Twenty20: MS Dhoni (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Stuart Binny, Amit Mishra, Mohit Sharma, Varun Aaron

The position of both Suresh raina (middle order batsmen) and Ishat Sharma (tall fast bowler) in the indian team came into question after recent poor performance as per some of the former Indian players, cricket loving public, and more importantly selectors. Although it will be interesting to see if the players replacing these two could do the job expected.

Suresh Raina lifting Malinga for a Six with ease. Will India miss his six hitting ability to close down cricket matches

Suresh Raina has played 189 ODI matches and managed 4596 runs at a healthy average of 35.35 and strike rate of 91.35, the numbers seem perfect for batsmen at number 6 slot when he is constantly under pressure to score runs at a high strike rate. Not many, in fact, has managed such numbers. The replacement, Cheteshwar Pujara, will be expected to better that on constant basis.  Without Yuvraj Singh in the squad the entire pressure of big hitting is likely to fall on MS Dhoni. Almost every other team has strong hitters like  Corey Anderson (New Zealand), McLaren (South Africa), but India and its X cricketers want solid batsmen. It seems these guys have gone overboard with technique without even considering the demands of ODI cricket, especially at number 6 and downwards.

Ishant Sharma's record is not impressive, but he has played most games in India on flat tracks. In 72 ODI matches Ishant has taken 102 wickets at an average of 31.44 and economy of 5.72. Considering that he never gets the new ball to bowl with and balls in slog overs and power plays, these are not really bad numbers for a first change bowler whose captain likes to use him defensively. It seems that this is another decision taken by selectors to please the former Indian cricketers and general public, especially when replacements are not even half as good as Ishant.

What seems to have gone against both Raina and Ishant is public opinion, which are interesting, to say the least. Let's have a look at some of these:

Greenbouncyspin says : "Finally some sense prevailed in the selection committee by dropping Ishant, Raina and bringing Pujara in. But I don't think MSD will include Pujara in the playing XI - he will warm the bench all the matches unless someone is injured."

Shubham18 says: "Though its a good change but still in my opinion even after Ishant's performance which is not upto mark - its good he's given a break to improve. Though I would like to see him there in Australia for the World Cup - faster and better. India need him on the bouncy pitches of Australia.Very intelligent decision of dropping Raina and Yuvraj considering their inability against short balls. And also good that Pujara is selected."

JustIPL says: "Jadeja has recently shown some promise with the bat otherwise Raina has been a better batsman with a useful part time bowling ability. Anyway, good chance for Jadeja to show his batting credentials which are well known on the domestic circuit. He is striking the ball with bat in hand and can replace Raina permanently."

Although, some questions are still being raised on selection of Ravichandran Ashwin, and rightly so.
Here are some comments, against ashwin selection in the team.

Yellachaitu says: "Ishant droped. What about ashwin.his selection 100% politics.dhoni srinivasan is protect like body gards for ashwin. All ready we have jaddu his performence well in bowling than ashwin if u want anothes spin all rounder test spin allrounders like rasool,jalaj,sanklecha etc. Vinay kumar should be selected for t20 because he is good lower order batsmen and have more expearence in this format." 

KhemThakur says: "Why Ashwin is retained both in ODI & T20 teams?? It is a senseless decision by selectors by picking up Mohit Sharma instead of Pankaj Singh. It is a shame that Stuart Binny is selected in both the because of his father being a selector. He is not a bowling all-rounder at all instead he is in the team because of his batting performance. We need a strong bowling all-rounder like Irfan Pathan or Rishi Dhawan. I would be great if Praveen Kumar being selected in place of Bhuvenswar Kumar, who is struggling of late due to lack of pace."

It is clear that there are divided opinions as far as Indian team selection for ODI in Asia Cup and t-20 world cup is concerned. Most people seems to agree that Ishant and Raina should be dropped. Is it a right decision? only time will tell.