20 20 Cricket World Cup Final 2009: Pakistan Beats Sri Lanka

The ICC World 20 20 final took place today in London, England. The Pakistan vs. Sri Lanka match featured an exciting finish when Sri Lanka's total of 138-6 was overhauled with eight balls remaining.

Shahid Afridi was Pakistan's star of the game, hitting 54 not out from 40 balls to steering side to an eight-wicket win.

Here's a complete scorecard from the 20 20 Cricket World Cup Final featuring Pakistan vs. Sri Lanka:



Sri Lanka innings
T. Dilshan c Shahzaib Hasan b Mohammad Aamer 0
S. Jayasuriya b Abdul Razzaq 17
J. Mubarak c Shahzaib Hasan b Abdul Razzaq 0
K. Sangakkara not out 64
M. Jayawardene c Misbah-ul-Haq b Abdul Razzaq 1
C. Silva c Saeed Ajmal b Umar Gul 14
I. Udana b Shahid Afridi 1
A. Mathews not out 35
Extras: (lb-3, w-2, nb-1) 6
Total (six wickets; 20 overs) 138 Did not bat: L. Malinga, M. Muralitharan, A. Mendis Fall of wickets: 1-0 2-2 3-26 4-32 5-67 6-70 Bowling: Aamer 4-1-30-1, Razzaq 3-0-20-3, Afridi 4-0-20-1,
Ajmal 4-0-28-0, Malik 1-0-8-0, Gul 4-0-29-1 Pakistan innings
Kamran Akmal st Sangakkara b Jayasuriya 37
Shahzaib Hasan c Jayasuriya b Muralitharan 19
Shahid Afridi not out 54
Shoaib Malik not out 24
Extras: (lb-2, w-2, nb-1) 5
Total: (two wickets; 18.4 overs) 139 Fall of wickets: 1-48 2-63 Did not bat: Younus Khan, Abdul Razzaq, Misbah-ul-Haq, Fawad
Alam, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Mohammad Aamer Bowling: Mathews 2-0-17-0, Udana 4-0-44-0, Malinga
3.4-0-14-0, Muralitharan 3-0-20-1, Mendis 4-0-34-0, Jayasuriya
2-0-8-1

PAK Vs SRI Afridi batting

Pakistan Vs Sri Lanka Highlights June 21st Final 20/20 world cup

Cricket World Cup

The Cricket World Cup is the premier international championship of men's One Day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament which is held every four years. The tournament is the world's third largest and most viewed sporting event.[1][2][2] According to the ICC, it is the most important tournament and the pinnacle of achievement in the sport.[3][4] The first Cricket World Cup contest was organised in England in 1975. A separate Women's Cricket World Cup has been held every four years since 1973.

The finals of the Cricket World Cup are contested by all ten Test-playing and ODI-playing nations, together with other nations that qualify through the World Cup Qualifier. Australia has been the most successful of the five teams to have won the tournament, taking four titles. The West Indies have won twice, while India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka have each won once.

The 2007 Cricket World Cup matches were held between 13 March and 28 April 2007, in the West Indies. The 2007 tournament had sixteen teams competing in a pool stage (played in round-robin format), then a "super 8" stage, followed by semi-finals and a final. Australia defeated Sri Lanka in the final to retain the championship.

t 20 World cup final 2009

Wasim Akram The Great Allrounder

Wasim Akram (Punjabi, Urdu: وسیم اکرم; born June 3, 1966 in Lahore, Punjab) is a former Pakistani cricketer. He was a left-arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman, who represented the Pakistani cricket team in Tests and One Day Internationals.

Widely regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers ever, Akram holds world records for the most wickets taken in List A cricket (881), and is second only to Muttiah Muralitharan in terms of ODI wickets (502). He is considered to be one of the pioneers of reverse swing bowling.[1][2][3] The revolutionary nature of reverse swing initially resulted in accusations of ball tampering, although reverse swing has now been accepted as a legitimate feature of the game. Akram's later career was also tarnished with accusations of match fixing, although these remain unproven.

Wasim Akram Batting against Glenn McGrath - Cricket

Wasim Akram Hatrick in test match

1992 Cricket World Cup

Rule changes
The 1992 World Cup was the first to be held in Southern hemisphere. Australia had been hosting One Day Internationals since the beginning of the World Series Cup in 1979 with white cricket balls, coloured player clothing and black sightscreens, however, 1992 would be the first cricket World Cup to feature any of these.[1]

The format was changed from the 1987 World Cup so that the qualifying round would be played as one complete round robin without the use of qualifying groups. The initial draw was released with eight competing countries and 28 matches. Then in late 1991, South Africa were re-admitted to the International Cricket Council and the draw was changed to include them. The qualifying round would now require 36 matches.

The rule for calculating the target score for the team batting second in rain-affected matches was also changed. The previous rule simply multiplied the run rate of the team batting first by the number of overs available to the team batting second. This rule was deemed to be too much in favour of the team batting second. In an attempt to rectify this, the target score would now be calcuated by the "highest scoring overs" formula. In this system, if the team batting second had 44 overs available, their target score would be one greater than the 44 highest scoring overs of the team batting first. While the reasoning behind the system seemed sound, the weaknesses of this rule would be exposed during the World Cup.


Teams
The 1992 World Cup featured the seven Test teams of the day, South Africa, who would play their first Test in 22 years in the West Indies a month after the World Cup, and Zimbabwe, who would play their first Test match later in 1992. Teams who entered were:

Australia
England
India
New Zealand
Pakistan
South Africa
Sri Lanka
West Indies
Zimbabwe

1992 World Cup Final Presentation Ceremony

1992 Cricket World Cup Final Pakistan vs England

Shoaib Akhtar

Shoaib Akhtar (Punjabi, Urdu: شعیب اختر; born 13 August 1975 in Rawalpindi, Punjab) is a Pakistani cricketer, and is one of the fastest bowlers in the world, earning him the name Rawalpindi Express. He set a world record by clocking 160.9km/h (100mph) twice. His ability to bowl fast yorkers, well disguised slow balls, swinging deliveries (including reverse swing), and sharp bouncers have made him lethal even on dead pitches.

However, he has never been far from controversy, often accused of not being a team player. Shoaib was sent back home from a tour in Australia in 2005. A year later he was embroiled in a drug scandal after testing positive for a banned substance. However, the ban imposed on him was lifted on appeal. In September 2007, Shoaib was banned by the PCB for an indefinite period for the alleged brawl with his team-mate Mohammad Asif.[1] On 1 April 2008 Shoaib was banned for five years for publicly criticizing the policies of the Pakistan Cricket Board.[2] As of October 2008, the Lahore High Court has suspended the 5 year ban until the hearing for the case takes place and Shoaib has been named in the 15-man squad for the Twenty20 Quadrangular Tournament in Canada.[3]

Shoaib Akhtar - Fastest Ball in History

Shoaib Akhtar: The fastest bowler of all time. Pakistan

Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi

(Pashto: صاحبزاده محمد شاهد خان افریدی, Urdu: صاحبزادہ محمد شاہد خان آفریدی) (born 1 March 1980 in Khyber Agency), popularly known as Shahid Afridi (Pashto: شاهد ‏افریدی) is a Pakistani cricketer currently playing for the Pakistani national team in the international circuit. He made his ODI debut on 2 October 1996 against Kenya in Nairobi[1] and his Test debut on 22 October 1998 against Australia at Karachi.[2] He is known for his aggressive batting style, and currently holds the highest career strike rate in the history of international cricket. In a recent survey, Afridi was named as the most popular cricketer in Pakistan.[3] He also holds the record for the fastest one day century which he made in his debut innings [4][5], as well as scoring 32 runs in a single over, the second highest scoring over ever in an ODI.[6]

Afridi 2nd Fastest 100 in ODI vs India

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball team sport that is first documented as being played in southern England in the 16th century. By the end of the 18th century, cricket had developed to the point where it had become the national sport of England. The expansion of the British Empire led to cricket being played overseas and by the mid-19th century the first international matches were being held. Today, the game's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), has 104 member countries.[1]

The rules of the game are known as the Laws of Cricket.[2] These are maintained by the ICC and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which holds the copyright. A cricket match is played on a cricket field at the centre of which is a pitch. The match is contested between two teams of eleven players each.[3] One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible without being dismissed ("out") while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the other team’s batsmen and limit the runs being scored. When the batting team has used all its available overs or has no remaining batsmen, the roles become reversed and it is now the fielding team’s turn to bat and try to outscore the opposition.

There are several variations in the length of a game of cricket. In professional cricket this ranges from a limit of 20 overs per side (Limited Overs Cricket) to a game played over 5 days (Test cricket). Depending on the form of the match being played, there are different rules that govern how a game is won, lost, drawn or tied.

Shahid Afridi 49 off 18 balls - Twenty20

Afridi 4 sixes on 4 balls