T20 World Cup 2007 Recap: Yuvraj’s 6 sixes, Gambhir’s dominance in the final, and India became champion under Dhoni’s captaincy
The first edition of the T20 World Cup was won by India under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni in 2007. The tournament was played in South Africa from 11 to 24 September 2007. T20 World Cup 2007 Winner Team India (Photo Source: Getty Images) ICC T20 World Cup 2007 Recap: The 9th edition of the T20 World Cup is going to start from June 2 under the joint hosting of West Indies and America. A total of 20 teams are going to participate in the upcoming tournament, which are divided into four groups, each group has 5 teams. Let us tell you that the title of the first edition of the T20 World Cup was won by India in 2007 under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The tournament was played in South Africa from 11 to 24 September 2007. 12 teams participated in this edition, out of which 10 teams were countries playing Test format. And the finalists of the 2007 WCL Division One tournament were Kenya and Scotland. These 12 teams were divided into four groups, each group had three teams. Let us tell you the whole story of the 2007 T20 World Cup. ICC T20 World Cup 2007 Recap: Rules of T20 World Cup 2007- During the group stage and Super-8 matches, the team that wins the match will get 2 points, if the match is cancelled then both teams will get 1 point each and in case of defeat, they will get zero points. If the match is tied (i.e., both teams score exactly the same number of runs at the end of their innings) then the winner was decided by a bowl-out. T20 World Cup 2007 Recap: Group Stage T20 World Cup 2007 Group A consisted of South Africa, Bangladesh, and West Indies. Group B- Australia, England and Zimbabwe Group C- Sri Lanka, New Zealand, and Kenya Group D- India, Pakistan and Scotland At the end of the group stage round, the top-2 teams in each of the four groups reached the Super-8. However, let us tell you that the teams for the Super-8 round were decided before the tournament began. After the group stage, the same two teams from each group reached the Super-8, but there was some change in Group-A. South Africa and West Indies from Group-A were part of the Super-8. But Bangladesh won one out of two matches in the group stage and secured second place in the points table with two points. On the other hand, West Indies could not win any of the two matches. Due to which South Africa (4 points) and Bangladesh (2 points) reached the Super-8. Yuvraj Singh hit 6 sixes against Stuart Broad in the Super-8 round match In the match against England in the T20 World Cup 2007 Super-8 round, Yuvraj Singh hit 6 consecutive sixes in an over against Stuart Broad. There were only 20 balls left in the innings when Yuvraj came to bat. In the 19th over bowled by Stuart Broad, Yuvraj Singh hit 6 sixes and scored 36…
Sunrisers Hyderabad made a shameful record in the IPL final under the captaincy of Pat Cummins
Sunrisers Hyderabad lost the IPL 2024 final by 8 wickets. Pat Cummins (Photo Source: BCCI/IPL) The IPL 2024 final match was played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders on 26 May at MA Chidambaram Stadium Chepauk. In the match, Hyderabad won the toss and batted first and were all out for 113 runs in 18.3 overs. In response, Kolkata chased the target with 57 balls to spare and won by 8 wickets. Kolkata has captured its third IPL title under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer. Sunrisers Hyderabad reached the playoffs this year after the IPL 2020 season. But the team could not win the final under the captaincy of Pat Cummins. The Hyderabad team has registered an embarrassing record in the IPL 2024 final. Hyderabad broke CSK’s record In IPL 2024, Sunrisers Hyderabad put 287 runs on the board against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Which is the highest total in IPL history. The team with an explosive batting lineup got badly beaten against Kolkata in the final. The team was all out for 113 runs, which is the lowest total in the final of the league. Team openers Abhishek Sharma (2) and Travis Head were out on golden duck. After this, Rahul Tripathi (9), Aiden Markram (20), Nitish Kumar Reddy (13) and Shahbaz Ahmed (8) also could not do anything special. Heinrich Klaasen scored 16 runs, while Pat Cummins played the highest innings of 24 runs for the team in the final. Let us tell you that the record of the lowest total in the IPL final has been broken after 11 years. Before Sunrisers Hyderabad, the record of the lowest total in the IPL final was in the name of Chennai Super Kings, who had scored 125 runs for the loss of 9 wickets against Mumbai Indians in Eden Gardens in 2013. Lowest totals in IPL finals 113 – SRH vs KKR, Chepauk, 2024125/9 – CSK vs MI, Kolkata, 2013128/6 – RPS vs MI, Hyderabad 2017129/8 – MI vs RPS, Hyderabad 2017130/9 – RR vs GT, Ahmedabad 2022
Sanju Samson doesn’t know captaincy… The veteran told what blunder Rajasthan made against SRH and lost
Tom Moody believes that spinners had no role in SRH’s bowling, but Rajasthan gave that weak link a chance to dominate. Sanju Samson (Photo Source: IPL/BCCI) SRH defeated Rajasthan Royals in Qualifier 2 of the ongoing season and became the second team to reach the final of the season. For SRH, spinners Abhishek Sharma and Shahbaz Ahmed turned the match around at the last moment which played an important role in Hyderabad’s victory. Now former Australian cricketer and head coach Tom Moody is surprised why Rajasthan Royals (RR) did not send left-handed batsman Shimron Hetmyer against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) left-arm spinners Shahbaz Ahmed and Abhishek Sharma. He believes that Hetmyer should have batted at number five after Riyan Parag, because he could have stopped the havoc of these two spinners and the result of the match would have been different. Moody revealed how SRH’s spin bowling was one of the weak links Moody believed that spinners had no role in SRH’s bowling, but Rajasthan gave that weak link a chance to dominate. Tom Moody while talking to ESPNCricinfo said- “It was completely understandable that Hetmyer should have batted ahead of Dhruv Jurel. Jurel batted well, but even if he had batted after Hetmyer, he would have batted well. Rajasthan just had to target those 2 left-arm bowlers, which Hetmyer could do well being a left-handed batsman. SRH had nothing in the name of spinner, yet Rajasthan made such a big blunder.” At the same time, former New Zealand fast bowler Mitchell McClenaghan believes that if RR had sent a left-handed batsman instead of a right-handed batsman after Shahbaz Ahmed started his spell, then perhaps Cummins would not have given the ball to Abhishek Sharma for the next over and the threat of Abhishek would have been averted from the team.
IPL 2024: Pat Cummins made this great achievement not only with captaincy but also with bowling.
Pat Cummins has performed very well in captaincy as well as bowling and so far he has taken 15 wickets in 13 matches at an average of 32. Pat Cummins (Pic Source-X) Sunrisers Hyderabad has performed very well in the Indian Premier League 2024 and the team has made its place in the playoffs of this season. The best thing about Sunrisers Hyderabad this season is that all their players have left their mark this season. Not only this, team captain Pat Cummins has also captained very well. In the Indian Premier League 2024 players auction, Sunrisers Hyderabad included Pat Cummins in their team for Rs 20.50 crore. Not only this, Hyderabad also appointed him the captain of its team. Let us tell you, Pat Cummins has performed very well in captaincy as well as bowling and so far he has taken 15 wickets in 13 matches at an average of 32. With this, Pat Cummins has made a great achievement in his name. Pat Cummins has come third in the list of players taking most wickets by a captain in an IPL season only in the group stage. In this list, former Rajasthan Royals player late Shane Warne is at the first place, who had taken 17 wickets in only the group stage matches in the 2008 edition. Ravichandran Ashwin captained Punjab Kings in the 2019 season and he also took 15 wickets in the group stage. Pat Cummins is at third place in this list who has also taken 15 wickets. The best thing about Pat Cummins in the IPL season is that he has taken wickets at regular intervals and that is why the performance of Sunrisers Hyderabad has been very good this season. Even in the playoff matches, Pat Cummins would like to provide excellent captaincy and bowling and would definitely like to make his team the winner of this season. Pat Cummins has bowled very well in IPL 2024 Till the end of the group stage in the Indian Premier League 2024, Sunrisers Hyderabad won 8 out of 14 matches and lost 5. One match was canceled due to rain. The team has 17 points and is at the second position in the points table of the Indian Premier League 2024. Apart from Sunrisers Hyderabad, Kolkata Knight Riders, Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore have qualified for the playoffs of the 2024 season. Now it remains to be seen which team will win the Indian Premier League 2024 trophy? 5 Australian players who scored half century in debut IPL match IPL 2024: These 11 foreign players took crores of rupees but flopped IPL 2024: 5 players who hit the most sixes in the 19th and 20th overs of IPL 5 fastest bowlers in IPL history Who are the head coaches of all 10 teams in IPL 2024? Which team has won the most matches against RCB in Chinnaswamy? IPL 2024: 3 former RCB players who are creating havoc in SRH 4 players who have played more than 500 T20 matches MS Dhoni: Amazing records…
IPL 2024: RR recorded its fourth consecutive defeat, Sam Curran played the captaincy innings for PBKS.
Sam Curran played an unbeaten inning of 63 runs with the help of five fours and three sixes in 41 balls against Rajasthan Royals. Sam Curran (Pic Source-X) Today i.e. on 15th May, in an important match of the Indian Premier League 2024, Punjab Kings defeated Rajasthan Royals by five wickets. In this match, all the players from Punjab Kings performed very well and played an important role in the victory of their team. Rajasthan Royals players failed to show good performance. Batting first, Rajasthan Royals scored 144 runs losing 9 wickets in 20 overs. Rajasthan did not have such a good start in this match and they lost three important wickets for 42 runs within 8 overs. Yashasvi Jaiswal failed to bat well against Punjab and was out after scoring four runs. Tom Kohler-Cadmore played a slow inning of 18 runs against Punjab while captain Sanju Samson was also out after scoring 18 runs. However, Riyan Parag batted very well for Rajasthan Royals and scored 48 runs in 34 balls with the help of 6 fours. It was because of this batting of Riyan Parag that Rajasthan Royals were able to reach a respectable score against Punjabi. Apart from Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin made an important contribution of 18 runs. Trent Boult scored 12 runs. For Punjab Kings, Harshal Patel took two wickets for 28 runs in four overs while Rahul Chahar took 2 wickets for 26 runs in four overs. Captain Sam Curran also took two wickets. Nathan Ellis and Arshdeep Singh took one wicket each. Sam Curran played captaincy innings While chasing the target, the score of Punjab Kings at one time was 4 wickets for 48 runs in 8 overs. The team’s top order completely failed in this match. However, after taking four wickets early, captain Sam Curran batted brilliantly and scored a match-winning half-century for his team. Sam Curran played an unbeaten inning of 63 runs with the help of five fours and three sixes in 41 balls against Rajasthan Royals. He did not spare any bowler of Rajasthan Royals and hit hard against all of them. Jitesh Sharma contributed 22 runs while Rilee Rousseau also scored 22 runs. For Rajasthan Royals, Avesh Khan and Yuzvendra Chahal took 2-2 wickets while Trent Boult took 1 wicket. Punjab Kings achieved the target of 145 runs within 19 overs. Sam Curran What a Win 🔥 Punjab #RRvsPBKS #TheChase #NOTlistBitget #TEM15M@JoinPlanetQuest $PQX $XTER@ZentryHQ $ZENT #gentry Gentry pic.twitter.com/lbOyn5h8MS — 🕹️ $RCADE👑 Sparrow (@SparrowXtm) May 15, 2024 Thank you PBKS. Now SRH should just win both its remaining matches with Good NRR After that everyone knows that Hyderabad will win the IPL 😊#RRvsPBKS — Sandarbh Raj Gupta (@Sandarbih_raj8) May 15, 2024 Buttler bhai, please do a lot, please feel free to pay.#RRvspbks@josbuttler pic.twitter.com/cnITZUVZZv — Rajkumar (@Rajkuma82261962) May 15, 2024 PUNJAB KINGS DEFEATED RAJASTHAN ROYALS BY 5 WICKETS. – Sam Curran is the hero…!!!!! #RRvsPBKS #IPLClicks #ipl2024updates pic.twitter.com/z5ZA2Z6UV6 —𝐂𝐄𝐎🚩 (@IamChampu09) May 15, 2024 Sam Curran came back to form in his last match this season, just before leaving for international…
Was the decision to give the captaincy of Gujarat Titans (GT) to Shubman Gill wrong?
Questions are being raised that despite experienced players like Kane Williamson and Rashid Khan, the decision to make Shubman Gill the captain was wrong, let’s see. Shubman Gill(BCCI/IPL) 3 teams have been eliminated from the playoff race of IPL 2024. Mumbai Indians are the first, Punjab Kings are the second and Gujarat Titans are the third teams whose dream of lifting the IPL trophy this year has been shattered. Gujarat Titans made their IPL debut in the year 2022 and they lifted the IPL trophy in the same year. After this, they reached the finals in IPL 2023 but the team remained runner up after losing to CSK. For both these years, the captaincy of the team was in the hands of Hardik Pandya. However, Gujarat traded its captain Hardik Pandya to Mumbai Indians at the beginning of this season, due to which the captaincy position became vacant. After that the team management decided to make young opening batsman Shubman Gill the captain. The legacy left by Hardik was handed over to Shubman Gill and the fans as well as the team hoped that Gujarat would go to the playoffs. But this season the team’s performance was very poor. This team has played 13 matches so far in IPL 2024, out of which the team won 5 and lost 7. The match against KKR was canceled and the team’s dream of going to the playoffs was shattered. Was the decision to give captaincy to Shubman Gill wrong? Now questions are being raised that the decision to make Shubman Gill the captain despite experienced players like Kane Williamson and Rashid Khan was wrong. Former Australian opener Matthew Hayden has supported Gujarat Titans’ move to hand over the captaincy to Shubman Gill despite their inability to reach the playoffs in IPL 2024. “We have all forgotten what a young player he is. He is still a child of the next generation, so he needs time to learn leadership. He will learn everything gradually. I think he’s a leader, whether he likes it or not. He is a quiet leader. If he can put all those things together and play, I’m sure he has a bright future.”
“I am confident that he will be in tomorrow’s match…”- DC head coach said about Akshar Patel’s captaincy
Axar Patel (Photo Source: Getty Images) After securing important wins in their last few encounters, Delhi Capitals will face Royal Challengers Bangalore in their 13th match of the league stage of IPL 2024 on Sunday, May 12, at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. By winning this match, Delhi team would like to maintain its winning momentum. Ricky Ponting has confidence in Akshar Patel’s captaincy skills DC’s regular captain due to slow over rate Rishabh Pant But he has been banned for one match due to which he will not play in the match against RCB. In such a situation, Akshar Patel will lead the team. Addressing the pre-match press conference on Saturday, Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting said, “He (Akshar) has been the vice-captain in this franchise for the last few seasons. He is a very experienced IPL player, an experienced international player, he is a sensible guy and understands the game very well. He is excited about it. We started talking about this a few days ago when there was a possibility that Rishabh could be banned.” He said, “He knows about this. We have had a meeting with our bowlers today. There will be a meeting with everyone tonight, everyone will look at the plans and make sure that they are ready to lead the team well tomorrow.Delhi Capitals are fifth in the points table with 12 points from 12 matches, while they have registered consecutive wins in their last four matches. After this, Ricky Ponting was asked whether there would be an equal competition between the two teams in this match. To which the DC head coach said, “These are all tough games in the IPL. If you turn the clock back two weeks, RCB were nowhere in this tournament. And, now, they are probably performing as well as anyone else in the tournament.”
IPL 2024: Shubman Gill has enjoyed captaincy and its challenges: Gary Kirsten
Gujarat Titans are running last in the points table of IPL 2024. Shubman Gill and Gary Kirsten (Image Credit- Twitter After Gujarat Titans (GT) finishing last in the points table of the ongoing IPL season, the captaincy of team captain and young Indian batsman Shubman Gill is facing severe criticism. On the other hand, now amidst the criticism of the captaincy of this young player, he has got great support from the mentor of Gujarat Titans team, Gary Kirsten. Gary says that Shubman Gill has enjoyed captaincy and its challenges during IPL 2024. Gary Kirsten gave a big statement regarding Shubman Gill Let us tell you that in the IPL to be released today on May 10, Gujarat Titans are going to face five-time Chennai Super Kings at their home ground. So, in the pre-match conference held before the start of this match, GT team mentor Gary Kirsten said about the captaincy of Shubman Gill – I think he has enjoyed captaincy, it is something that takes time to really master. So I think he enjoyed it this season. He is a world class player, so I have no doubt that he is going to do well in 1-2 of the next 3 matches. There is no doubt about this. Gary further said- You definitely miss some players in the tournament, like we have missed Mohammed Shami for 2 years. It is difficult to replace such players. This season we have not been able to play the kind of cricket we can play and we played last season. Due to your inability to perform consistently, your shortcomings become known to other teams.
“When it comes to captaincy, he is the best leader…”- Irfan Pathan said about Rohit Sharma
Irfan Pathan says that there is no better person than Rohit Sharma to captain India in the T20 World Cup. Irfan Pathan & Rohit Sharma (Photo Source: The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 will be played jointly in West Indies and America from June 1. BCCI has announced the 15-member Indian team for this tournament. Rohit Sharma is ready to captain India once again in the ICC tournament. Former Indian veteran player Irfan Pathan says that there is no better person than Rohit Sharma to captain India in the T20 World Cup. Captaincy is a completely different thing – Irfan Pathan Irfan Pathan says that captaincy is a difficult job, a person like MS Dhoni made it very easy. Virat Kohli is the best captain in test cricket. In recent times, in white ball cricket, you cannot look beyond Rohit Sharma, he is the best leader. Irfan Pathan while talking on Star Sports said, ‘We always talk about players, but captaincy is a completely different thing. We saw what happened to many captains in this IPL; It is not easy. Captaining a team in cricket still holds a lot of importance and that is why we always talk a lot about Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The whole world has given him high status because it is such a difficult job and he has made it very simple. Irfan Pathan further said, ‘After Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virat was your best captain till date in Tests, the way he took the team forward. But when it comes to recent white-ball cricket, you can look no further than Rohit Sharma. Even considering the bench strength, he is your best leader. According to Irfan Pathan, these players can captain India in future Irfan Pathan also put forward his views about who can captain the Indian team in the future. They said, ‘In terms of captaincy in the future, his eyes will be on Suryakumar Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah. Now we have Hardik Pandya as the vice-captain, and also Rishabh Pant. So, three or four people are ready, but Rohit is number one.