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AUSTRALIA
Squad: Ricky Ponting (capt), Michael Clarke, Nathan Bracken, Brad Haddin, Nathan Hauritz, Ben Hilfenhaus, James Hopes, Michael Hussey, David Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee, Peter Siddle, Andrew Symonds, David Warner, Shane Watson.

NEW ZEALAND
Squad - Daniel Vettori (c), Neil Broom, Ian Butler, Brendon Diamanti, James Franklin, Martin Guptill, Brendon McCullum (wk), Nathan McCullum. Peter McGlashan Kyle Mills, Iain O'Brien, Jacob Oram, Jesse Ryder, Scott Styris, Ross Taylor

ENGLAND
Squad - Paul Collingwood (c), James Anderson, Ravi Bopara, Stuart Broad, Andrew Flintoff James Foster (wk), Robert Key, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Eoin Morgan, Graham Napier, Kevin Pietersen Owais Shah, Ryan Sidebottom Graeme Swann, Luke Wright

IRELAND
Squad - William Porterfield (c), Andre Botha, Jeremy Bray, Peter Connell, Alex Cusack, Trent Johnston, Kyle McCallan, John Mooney, Kevin O'Brien, Niall O'Brien (wk), Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Regan West, Andrew White, Gary Wilson (wk)

SCOTLAND
Squad- Gavin Hamilton (c), Richie Berrington, John Blain, Kyle Coetzer, Gordon Drummond Majid Haq, Neil McCallum Dewald Nel, Navdeep Poonia, Glenn Rogers, Colin Smith (wk), Jan Stander, Ryan Watson, Fraser Watts, Craig Wright

PAKISTAN
Pakistan have included two uncapped players, Mohammad Aamer and Shahzaib Hasan, in the 15-member squad for the ICC World Twenty20 in England in June.
Squad: Younis Khan (capt), Salman Butt, Ahmed Shehzad, Shoaib Malik, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal (wk), Fawad Alam, Shoaib Akhtar, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Gul, Mohammad Aamer, Yasir Arafat, Saeed Ajmal, Shahzaib Hasan

SRI LANKA
Squad: Kumar Sangakkara (capt), Muttiah Muralitharan, Sanath Jayasuriya, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Mahela Jayawardene, Chamara Silva, Angelo Mathews, Ajantha Mendis, Nuwan Kulasekara, Thilan Thushara, Lasith Malinga, Isuru Udana, Farveez Maharoof, Jehan Mubarak, Indika de Saram.

INDIA
Fast bowler RP Singh has been included in India's 15-man squad for the World Twenty20 in England in June. Reserve wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik and fast bowler Munaf Patel have been axed from the 16-member squad that played two Twenty20 internationals in New Zealand in February.
Squad: MS Dhoni (captain), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, RP Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Pragyan Ojha, Irfan Pathan

BANGLADESH
Bangladesh have included two uncapped players, Shamsur Rahman and Mithun Ali, in their 15-man squad, led by Mohammad Ashraful, for the World Twenty20 beginning on June 5 in England. Bangladesh also included Abdur Razzak in the squad. Razzak had been suspended in December 2008 for a suspect bowling action and was cleared only in March.
Squad: Mohammad Ashraful (capt), Mashrafe Mortaza, Tamim Iqbal, Junaid Siddique, Raqibul Hasan, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Naeem Islam, Abdur Razzak, Shahadat Hossain, Syed Rasel, Mahmudullah, Rubel Hossain, Shamsur Rahman, Mithun Ali.

NETHERLANDS
Dirk Nannes has been included in the Netherlands squad for the upcoming World Twenty20 in England.
The son of Dutch migrant parents, Nannes, 32, holds a Dutch passport and has played for Middlesex in county cricket and Victoria.
Squad: Jeroen Smits (capt & wk), Peter Borren, Mudassar Buhkari, Tom De Grooth, Maurits Jonkman, Alexei Kervezee, Dirk Nannes, Ruud Nijman, darren Reekers, Edgar Schiferli, Pieter Seelaar, Eric Szwarczynski, Ryan ten Doeschate, Dan van Bunge, Bas Zuiderent

SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa have included their vice-captain Johan Botha in their 15-man squad for the World Twenty20 beginning on June 5 in England and are confident he will be eligible to play after the offspinner was reported for a suspect action.
Squad: Graeme Smith (capt), Johan Botha (vice-capt), Yusuf Abdulla, Mark Boucher, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, Albie Morkel, Morne Morkel, Justin Ontong, Wayne Parnell, Robin Peterson, Dale Steyn, Roelof van der Merwe

WEST INDIES
Xavier Marshall, the Jamaica batsman, has been recalled to the West Indies side for the World Twenty20. His team-mate, the allrounder Dave Bernard who is currently part of the team trying to defend the Wisden Trophy in England, has also been picked for next month's tournament.
Squad: Chris Gayle (capt), Denesh Ramdin (wk), Lionel Baker, Sulieman Benn, David Bernard jnr., Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Fidel Edwards, Andre Fletcher, Xavier Marshall, Kieron Pollard, Darren Sammy, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Lendl Simmons, Jerome Taylor

I wonder how much Angelo Mathews gets paid out about his name from his team-mates. A bit like Russel Arnold.

I think Sri Lanka will be a good show in this tournament, but India would have to be favourites?

When are the England, NZ and Zimbabwe squads announced?

blink wrote:I think Sri Lanka will be a good show in this tournament, but India would have to be favourites?

When are the England, NZ and Zimbabwe squads announced?

Zimbabwe still play cricket?

Shoaib Akhtar's latest fitness concern, a skin problem, has ruled him out of Pakistan's training camp for the World Twenty20, coach Intikhab Alam said.

Johan Botha, the South African vice-captain, has been given the green light to play in the World Twenty20 despite his doosra testing almost twice the legal elbow flexion limit. Botha's doosra was measured at 26.7 degrees by the ICC's appointed biomechanist, Bruce Elliott, and will be banned until the bowler can prove he can deliver "the other one" at a flexion limit of less than 15 degrees.

But the offspinner will be able to continue bowling at domestic and internatioinal level, after his offbreak (12.2 degrees) and arm-ball (11.1 degrees) measured within the ICC's parameters.


What a huge amount over the allowed flexion

Thats all of the squads

Tournament starts June 5 with round robin matches from the follwoing groups

Group A
India
Bangladesh
Ireland

Group B
Pakistan
Netherlands
England

Group C
Australia
Sri Lanka
West Indies

Group D
New Zeland
South Africa
Scotland

Well, all the conspiracy theorists that say India run world crickt ---have a look at their group

stan wrote:

blink wrote:I think Sri Lanka will be a good show in this tournament, but India would have to be favourites?

When are the England, NZ and Zimbabwe squads announced?

Zimbabwe still play cricket?

There is talks of them coming back to world cricket in the 2009-10 Intercontinental Cup for Associate Nations. Ireland, Scotland and Canada are all providing support at the moment

brod wrote:What a huge amount over the allowed flexion

What figure was Murali tested at? Didn't they extended the allowable flexion so that he would scrape in - if Botha is DOUBLE the amount Murali tested then he should be banned, or banned from bowling his "doorsa" at least.

As for the group India has drawn, it certainly won't be known as the "Group of Death" - what a joke.

blink wrote:

brod wrote:What a huge amount over the allowed flexion

What figure was Murali tested at? Didn't they extended the allowable flexion so that he would scrape in - if Botha is DOUBLE the amount Murali tested then he should be banned, or banned from bowling his "doorsa" at least.

The Chucka Flexes at 14.9 degrees or something similar, Change the rules to 15 degrees and hey presto we are out of the Sh1t.

England could be forced to go into next month's ICC World Twenty20 without the services of their premier allrounder, Andrew Flintoff, after he revealed that he has yet to start running after undergoing surgery on a knee injury sustained during his brief stint at the IPL in April

brod wrote:Thats all of the squads

Tournament starts June 5 with round robin matches from the follwoing groups

Group A
India
Bangladesh
Ireland

Group B
Pakistan
Netherlands
England

Group C
Australia
Sri Lanka
West Indies

Group D
New Zeland
South Africa
Scotland

Well, all the conspiracy theorists that say India run world crickt ---have a look at their group

They probably deserve the easiest preliminary matches given the fact that they are the reigning champions.

brod wrote:

stan wrote:

blink wrote:I think Sri Lanka will be a good show in this tournament, but India would have to be favourites?

When are the England, NZ and Zimbabwe squads announced?

Zimbabwe still play cricket?

There is talks of them coming back to world cricket in the 2009-10 Intercontinental Cup for Associate Nations. Ireland, Scotland and Canada are all providing support at the moment

Getting closer to happening (from cricinfo.com)

The ICC has announced changes to the Intercontinental Cup which will see the introduction of two divisions featuring as many as 11 teams.

As revealed by Cricinfo earlier this month, Zimbabwe will also feature in the tournament, although this is still subject to ratification by Zimbabwe Cricket. Given that the country's participation in the tournament was one of the requirements in its attempts to return to the Test fold, it seems highly unlikely the board will reject the idea.

The decision, made by the ICC's development committee, means that Zimbabwe will join Ireland, Canada, Kenya, the Netherlands, Afghanistan and Scotland in a seven-team top division. The United Arab Emirates, Namibia, Bermuda and Uganda will play each other for the ICC Intercontinental Shield.

brod wrote:Shoaib Akhtar's latest fitness concern, a skin problem, has ruled him out of Pakistan's training camp for the World Twenty20, coach Intikhab Alam said.

http://content.cricinfo.com/wt202009/content/current/story/405415.html
"Bowler diagnosed with genital warts"

They have released more information than we needed to know that's for sure. I bet Shoaib is pleased

rod_rooster wrote::shock:

They have released more information than we needed to know that's for sure. I bet Shoaib is pleased

Just read that story on the ABC, bloody classic.

ABC will be broadcasting all Australian matches on radio

Will be interested to see how Shakib Al Hasan goes for Bangladesh and was surprised he wasn't bought by and IPL franchise.

Match fixtures for T20 world cup

FRIDAY, JUNE 5
Group B
England v Netherlands (Lord's)

SATURDAY, JUNE 6
Group A
Bangladesh v India (Trent Bridge)

Group C
Australia v West Indies (The Oval)

Group D
New Zealand v Scotland (The Oval)

SUNDAY, JUNE 7
Group B
England v Pakistan (The Oval)

Group D
Scotland v South Africa (The Oval)

MONDAY, JUNE 8
Group A
Bangladesh v Ireland (Trent Bridge)

Group C
Australia v Sri Lanka (Trent Bridge)

TUESDAY, JUNE 9
Group B
Netherlands v Pakistan (Lord's)

Group D
New Zealand v South Africa (Lord's)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10
Group A
India v Ireland (Trent Bridge)

Group C
Sri Lanka v West Indies (Trent Bridge)

SUPER EIGHTS

THURSDAY, JUNE 11
Group E
B2 v D2 (Trent Bridge)

Group F
D1 v A2 (Trent Bridge)


FRIDAY, JUNE 12
Group E
A1 v C1 (Lord's)

Group F
B1 v C2 (Lord's)

SATURDAY, JUNE 13
Group E
C1 v D2 (The Oval)

Group F
D1 v B1 (The Oval)

SUNDAY, June 14
Group E
A1 v B2 (Lord's)

Group F
A2v C2 (Lord's)

MONDAY, JUNE 15
Group E
B2 v C1 (The Oval)

Group F
B1 v A2 (The Oval)

TUESDAY, JUNE 16
Group E
D2 v A1 (Trent Bridge)

Group F
D1 v C2 (Trent Bridge)

THURSDAY, JUNE 17
1st Semi-Final: (Trent Bridge)

FRIDAY, JUNE 18
2nd Semi-Final: (The Oval)

SUNDAY, JUNE 21
Final: (Lord's)

We won both of our warm up games against Bangladesh and New Zealand ahead of our opening game of the tournament on Saturday night against the West Indies.

Australia 6/219

Watson 52 (23)
Haddin 47 (29)
Clarke 35 (18)

Mahmudullah 4/37


Bangladesh 7/181

Shakib Al Hasan 54 (29)
Mahmudullah 31* (25)

Johnson 3/21
Bracken 2/32
Lee 2/32

Australia won by 38 runs


New Zealand 147

McGlashan 49 (35)
Styris 42 (28)

Johnson 4/20
Hauritz 2/35


Australia 3/151

Ponting 56 (40)
Clarke 49* (38)

Franklin 2/27

Australia won by 7 wickets