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Twenty20 cricket was originally introduced in the United Kingdom for professional inter-county competition by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003. It is a single innings cricket in which each team bats for a maximum of only 20 overs.
Bangladesh in Pakistan Cricket Series 2008
Pakistan beat Bangladesh by 102 runs in Twenty20
Apr 20, 2008
Misbah-ul Haq led Pakistan's charge in guiding the home team to a comfortable 102-run win in the one-off Twenty20 international at Karachi on Sunday.
The 33-year-old scored a career-best 87 to lift Pakistan to their record Twenty20 total of 203-5 in 20 overs before the home bowlers folded the Bangladesh innings to 101 in 16 overs.
The all-round domination gave Pakistan a win in the first Twenty20 match ever staged in the country.
Bangladesh, who were blanked 5-0 in the preceding one-day series, lost their way after a solid 41-run start by openers Tamim Iqbal (23) and Nazim Uddin who topscored with 42.
Other than Nazim, who hit three sixes during his 48-ball knock, none of the Bangladeshi batsmen posed any real threat to Pakistan as the tourists lost their last eight wickets for a mere 16 runs.
Three runs out also didn't help Bangladesh's cause.
Once Iqbal was bowled by paceman Sohail Tanveer in the sixth over, Bangladesh were derailed as Mohammad Ashraful (13), Aftab Ahmed (3) and Shakib Al Hasan (nought) all failed to put up any resistance.
Pakistan leg-spinner Mansoor Amjad, playing his first international match, took 3-3 in his only over.
PAK vs BAN, Twenty20, Karachi: Pakistan 203 for 5 in 20.0 overs beat Bangladesh 101 in 16.0 overs byy 102 runs
Past International Twenty20 Cricket News
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Your favorite Cricket format
What is your favourite form of the game?Poll conducted from Sep 19 - Sep 30, 2007
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Right after the Twenty20 world cup..
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743 |
18.5% |
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| ODI |
1256 |
31.3% |
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2010 |
50.1% |
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Stuart Robinson, the former marketing manager of the England and Wales Cricket Board, who is credited with devising Twenty20 has said it is "intended as a stepping stone for people to watch the longer version of the game". How popular is it after two years, and one world cup later? We asked our visitors..
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Australia in India 2007
IND vs AUS, Twenty20: India beat Australia by 7 wickets
Oct 20, 2007
India scored a a comprehensive seven-wicket victory over Australia in the one-off Twenty20 International at Brabourne Stadium,Mumbai,today.
India reiterated their status as Twenty20 champs and sustained their supremacy over Australia once again today.
Set 167 for victory,India chased down the total with 11 balls to spare.
Opener Gautam Gambhir was the star performer for India as he top-scored with 63 while Robin Uthappa (35) and Yuvraj Singh (31 not out) were the other major contributors.
IND vs AUS, Twenty20, Mumbai: India 167 for 3 (18.1 ovs) beat Australia 166 for 5 (20.0 ovs) by 7 wickets
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ICC World Twenty20 Championship
ICC World 20-20, IND vs PAK, Final: India wins the ICC World Twenty20 Championship
Sep 24, 2007
 India beat arch-rivals Pakistan by five runs in a thrilling contest to win the inaugral Twenty20 World Cup at Johannesburg on Monday.
Defending a modest 158, RP Singh struck first up to scalp Mohammad Hafeez for one run and give India a kickstart.
He struck in his successive over to uproot Kamran Akmal for a duck. At that point of time, Pakistan's scorecard read 26 for 2 in 2.3 overs.
Imran Nazir then hammered Indian bowlers all over the ground and soon Pakistan were cruising as they crossed 50 run mark in 6th over with the loss of 2 wickets.
But a splendid direct hit from Robin Uthappa ended Nazirs run at Wanderers. Nazir was caught napping way outside the crease. Nazir was run out on the score of 33 runs from 14 balls.
India were riding on high note against Pakistan as they claimed wickets at regular wickets to derail Pakistans attack.
This time Shoaib Malik and Shahid Afridi were sent of in a hurry by Irfan Pathan. Pathan struck on 3rd and 5th ball of his over to dismiss the two batsman. While Shoaib made just 8 runs, Afridi was out on duck.
Pathan claimed his third wicket when he cleaned bowled Yasir Arfat for 14.
Earlier, India were restricted to a modest total of 157 runs by Pakistan. Indian top order crumbled under the fiery attack of Pakistan seamers.
But it was a hard fought innings of 75 runs from Gautam Gambhir that boosted Indian total to a modest score. Gambhir's fifty came of just 39 balls. He was caught by Shoaib Malik off the bowling of Mohammad Asif.
Umar Gul, with his match figures of 4-0-28-3 was the best bowlers of the day. He dimissed the key wickets of India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh. Yuvraj made 14 runs from 19 balls.
ICC World Twenty20, IND vs PAK, Final: India 157-5 (20 overs) beat Pakistan 152 (19.3 overs) by five runs
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World Twenty20 Records
6-sixes in an over, fastest international 50 for Yuvraj Singh
September 19, 2007
Yuvraj Singh became the first player in Twenty20 history to hit six sixes in an over in India's match against England.
The astonishing barrage from Yuvraj, 25, helped him reach his half-century off just 12 balls. The lefthander hit the first delivery from England bowler Stuart Broad out of the Kingsmead stadium, and followed with five more sixes in the Super Eight match of the World Twenty20 tournament.
Sir Gary Sobers was the first to hit six sixes in an over in first-class cricket, followed by Ravi Shastri, while Herschelle Gibbs managed it in a one-day international.
Yuvraj's 12-ball 50 is also the fastest in any form of international cricket. The previous quickest one-day fifty belonged to Sanath Jayasuriya, in 17 balls for Sri Lanka against Pakistan in 1996.
Record for the fastest 100 is held by Shahid Afridi, who needed only 37 balls against Sri Lanka on his first ever innings.
Previous 36-run overs
1968 Garfield Sobers, of Nottinghamshire and West Indies, hit Malcolm Nash, the Glamorgan left-arm bowler, for 36 in an over in Swansea. See video of Sir Gary Sober's Six 6s
1985 Ravi Shastri, playing for Bombay, matched the achievement in a Ranji Trophy match. The India opening batsman hit Tilak Raj, a slow left-arm Baroda bowler, out of the ground six times.
2007 Herschelle Gibbs won $1 million for charity when he took on Daan van Bunge of Netherlands, the leg spinner, in the 30th over of South Africas World Cup match.
Pathirana plunders 277 in Twenty20 game
Sep 05, 2007
Dhanuka Pathirana smashed an awesome 277 off 72 balls to stake his claim to a Twenty20 world record.
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First Twenty20 Match
Australia beats New Zealand in first Twenty20 match
February 17, 2005
Ricky Ponting did the bashing and Michael Kasprowicz the crashing as Australia welcomed Twenty20 cricket into the international arena with a 44-run thumping of New Zealand at Eden Park.
Ponting blitzed a 55-ball unbeaten 98 to propel the world champions to an imposing 5-214 at Eden Park before Kasprowicz took 4-29 to dismantle the Black Caps for 170.
The victory completes a 128-year clean sweep by Australia which also took out the first-ever Test match in 1877 and inaugural one-day international in 1970.
Ponting deserved to become the first-ever centurion in the 'bash and crash' game after lustily swiping the penultimate over of the innings for 30 runs. The skipper hit Daryl Tuffey for four sixes, a boundary and a two to take his score to 93. But he only faced three balls in the final over off Andre Adams to fall short by two. In all Ponting, who dug his side out of trouble at 4-53 with the help of Simon Katich (30 off 25) and Mike Hussey (31 not out off 15) belted eight fours and five sixes. Kasprowicz was just as impressive, taking wickets with his first two balls after NZ started impressively to be 0-49 after five overs.
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 Zee Telefilms announced on April 3rd 2007 the plans to create a new ambitious cricket league in India, the Indian Cricket League (ICL). With a prize money of $ 1 million for the winner it would initially be comprised of six teams to be expanded to 16 in three years. All the major cricket boards including BCCI India and PCB Pakistan have threatened players with a lifetime ban if they align with the ICL.
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 The Indian Premier League, formed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in response to Zee's Indian Cricket League (ICL) is scheduled to start in April 2008 with 59 matches spread over 44 days on a home-and-away basis. Two matches will be scheduled each day under lights with play beginning at 5 p.m.
Prize money for the Indian Premier League will be US $3 million.
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 The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
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