ICC T20 World Cup 2012 Begins Today
Colombo: ICC T20 World cup is going to begin in Sri Lanka from today. Twelve teams are participating in the event and there will be 27 matches. These will be held till 7th October and going to be a feast for the cricket lovers. The first match will be played between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe teams of Group C. The match will be played in Mahindra Rajpaksa international stadium at 7.30 pm. India and Afghanistan match will be played tomorrow and these two teams are in Group A. ICC T20 world cup is being held in the sub-continent for the first time. This is the fourth T20 world cup. The participating teams are host Sri Lanka, defending champion England, former champions India and Pakistan, South Africa, Australia, West Indies, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Ireland and Afghanistan. India is placed in Group A along with England and Afghanistan teams. It is hard to estimate the title favorites in T20 matches. T20 World cup is held for every two years. The first world cup was held in 2007 in South Africa. India won the first T20 world cup. India defeated Pakistan in the final match. In 2009 England hosted the second T20 world cup and Pakistan was the title winner. Third event was held in 2012 and England became the champion. India team which won the inaugural T20 world cup could not even reach even semi-finals in the next two world cup matches. There are many favorable and unfavorable factors for Indian team to win the T20 world cup that will be played in Sri Lanka. Team India which was losing all the matches that were played abroad since the world cup win, is slowly coming back into its form. In the recent one day series that was played in Sri Lanka recently, India has won the one day world cup series and also won in the only one T20 match. Atmosphere of Sri Lanka is similar to India and this is the most favorable thing for India. Captains of many participating teams have changed but Mahindra Singh Dhoni is leading the Indian team for the fourth time in ICC T20 World Cup matches. Most of the players in Indian team have the experience of playing in the ICC T20 world cup. One of the main problems for Indian team is its lack of steadiness. In the practice match all the bats men excluding Dhoni and Rohith failed to deliver but bowlers helped India to win the match. This performance is not sufficient for the team to win the T20 world cup. Raina, Kohli, Rohith, Dhoni, Ashwin, Irfan are in good form but Zaheer, Yuvraj, Sehwag, Balaji and Harbhajan have to play up to the expectations.
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