Dhoni's challenge to players sparked India victory

India captain MS Dhoni called on his team to prove they were the top-ranked side in the world before sealing a dramatic five-run win over England in the Champions Trophy final on Sunday.

Hosts England needed 130 to win, in a match reduced to 20 overs a side because of more bad weather, and they fell short in the face of inspired Indian spin bowling.

"We are the number-one ranked side, let's make it show," Dhoni told a news conference. "Let's make them fight for 130 runs and not look for outside help."

Dhoni said he told his players to forget this was supposed to be a 50-over game.

"It was a 20-over game and we have seen at the IPL and in Twenty20s that 130 can be a very difficult target to achieve," he said.

"Also I said nobody could look to the left side of the pitch where the rain was coming from.

"I said 'God is not coming to save us, if you want to win the trophy we have to fight it out'."

In a tournament where his world champions won five matches out of five, Dhoni said he thought it was a slightly unsatisfactory end to a major tournament.

"I think it is a bit unfair in the ICC Champions Trophy that we had to play a 20-over game to find a winner of the 50-over format," Dhoni said.

"Still, they (the ICC) needed a result. This means a lot because we are playing here against some of the best sides in the world and to beat England in a 130-run game is very difficult."

Dhoni then paid tribute to opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan, the top-scorer in the tournament, and man-of-the-match Ravindra Jadeja.

"Shikhar is a slightly different character," Dhoni said.

"A fun-loving guy but he backs himself to play big strokes. That has helped him in this tournament and he'll gain a lot from the way he has played over here.

"And Jadeja is someone who keeps it very simple. He looks to hit the right area and the ball does the talking."

England captain Alastair Cook said it was his lowest moment since taking charge of the team last year.

"It's a tough pill to swallow at the moment," he said.

"We had high hopes coming in today of achieving something special.

"Clearly from there you would back yourself to win more times than you would lose in that situation, but it shows how quickly games can change in Twenty20 when you lose a couple of wickets.

"We got close. I'm proud of the way the lads have fought from being under a fair bit of pressure in this tournament.

"Quite a lot of criticism and flak has been thrown our way and yet we got to the final and played some good cricket. We just couldn't quite get over the line."

                       

West Indies party about their triumph, 'Gangnam' style memory's .

West Indies 137 for 6 (Samuels 78, Sammy 26, Mendis 4-12) beat Sri Lanka 101 (Jayawardene 31, Kulasekara 26, Narine 3-9, Sammy 2-6) by 36 runs.

Anybody can comprehend the heading of ocean trip. The test is to decipher if its a rhythm or a fad. Will things mostly elevate again, once the wheel gets down to show Also consider is the ruination morphological, a furor that will move on unyieldingly downwards towards precipitation, unless its course is basically changed It's a mid number. When we can elevate the scenario, first we require to embrace intricacy of the position. 

On account of West Indies cricket, the decline in quality was beginning to look unfavourably similar to most a motion rather than a rhythm. Over earphones X yrs, West Indies have always sorrowed at the lowest region of the Match game rankings. West Indies cricket is much revered as far and wide as possible-incorporating by this section-but its addicts made vainly for scores that this was just a going across degree rather than a eonian impairment. Any person who considered West Indies float towards destruction on the Trial run tour of England in 2009 may just intellect that the exceeding days of yore of Caribbean Sea cricket-of agile but deathly quick performing, of remorseless but tremendous batsmanship, of dispirited and fluid Henry Fielding, and, more than anything else, an impulsion regarding performing and happy self-declaration-had gone timelessness. 

It ran rich than the insignificant on-field expos. The uncomfortableness appeared important. There was a suffering somnolence both off and on the field, a horse sense that there is something not right concerning the total order of West Indies cricket. I undertook to follow the components of the intermittent doubtfulnesses between the plane and the participants, but after all they daubed into a universal sense that there was considerably much more of aid on cash and deficiency of on cricket. 

So terminal weekend's victory by West Indies in the irrevocable of the Major planet Twenty20 is, at the precise lower limit, a magnificent renovate to a turning a loss plan. It's the first West Indies contender victory across the world point after their middling minor ODI challenger succeed in 2004 in England. 

There were indorsing targets at each level-riddle turn, tickling batting, and captainship stumped with good rather than self-investment. Then again the "reintegration" of Chris Gayle-to obtain an aspect that the ECB utilize concerning benefit of Kevin Pietersen-has been made to work, then again necessitating it has been to realise. The grumbles of strife between participants and presidency can now be picked up in the close detachment. Be that as it may there isn't in the least like victory to extract old injuries and startle an neural impulse concerning intellect. 

Anyhow will the West Indian victory as Major planet T20 fighters confirm to be a watershed or possibly a mistaken first light. 

Probably we ask a bit account to lay personal gift day West Indies cricket in setting. The West Indian sectors of the '70s, '80s and early '90s were not unambiguously untypically out in front. That cricketing line may well have been the most tremendous planetary flourishes group-overlook actually cricket-ever to take the field. As Michael Keeping argued in the image Blaze in Babylon "No different wearing out crew in any moderateness any place in the Earth swept over their plot for 15 years." Keeping is a popularly inconspicuous humankind with no requirement to vaunt concerning any of the above. He was along the way of telling the unmistakable trueness. 

West Indies might besides you can forget be passed judgment by the approximates of the past round. Critically, refurbishment and recuperation are now and then more easy once you are free from the loading of expectancy caption.  

So it was n't simply an example of 11 smoothening people. The most singular offer of these West Indian groups was their ability in area. The reality, now and then a lone island blew more quick utilizing gift than the concluding part of the Earth piece. In 1984, Wayne Daniel, Joel Collect and Malcolm Marshall played the lead purpose in bowling out Australia. Meanwhile, on the deeply doubtful "revolt" West Indian tour of South Africa, Sylvester Clarke, Franklyn George Stephenson, David Hartley Alleyne and Ezra Moseley bowled out South Africa. Every last one of the eight snappish derbies were n't unambiguously West Indian, they were every from Barbado. One little island may have taken for granted any gang in the major planet. 

So how may a assemblage of small island chain out of your Caribbean-bound as a single unit just indistinctly, by topography, an imparted university and a lone cricket group-rule a Earth wear so comprehensively. 

The splendor days of West Indian cricket gained from an ideal-storm scenario. The telling measure of club cricket-so significantly limned in CLR James' Past a Limit-prepared a persistent current of solidified cricketers. The internal group moreover turned a profit of this particular withdrawal of the idea of "commonwealth" itself  West Indians just meet up to play cricket. That bury-island competitor made brutal contention.

Sri Lanka Cricket Playing region

R.Premadasa StadiumKhettarama, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Also or formerly known as Khettarama Stadium (until June 1994)

Established: 1986

Named: after Former Sri Lanka president Ranasinghe Premadasa

Capacity: 35,000

Floodlights Yes

End names: Khettarama End, Maligawatte End

Home team: Sri Lanka

Mahinda RajapaksaInternational Cricket Stadium, Hambantota, Sri Lanka.

Established: 2009

Capacity: 35000

Playing area: 100.0m long, 100.0m wide

Floodlights Yes installed in 2010

End names: Thanamalwila End, Sooriyawewa End

Curator: Ravi Dissanayake

Pallekele InternationalCricket Stadium, Pallekele, Kandy, Sri Lanka.

Established: 2009

Capacity: 35,000

Playing area: 80.0m long, 75.0m wide

Floodlights Yes installed in 2010

End names: Hunnasgiriya End, Rikillagaskada End

Curator: Asitha Wijesinghe

Sehwag named North Zone & Delhi Ranji chief

SEHWAG is now the revamped chief for Delhi Ranji and North zone for Duleep Trophy.All the national players could be good to go for this match as INDIA VS ENGLAND Test succession begins in November.Three delhi kids (SEHWAG,GAMBHIR & KOHLI) have not played a solitary match in final flavor in delhi ranji trophy.Sehwag will advance the north zone in opposition to west zone that begins in Chennai on October 6th.

Assuming that India make the grade for the finals in T20 then the group should be modified. The reinstatements are Ian Dev Singh, Rahul Dewan, Uday Kaul, Vipul Sharma and Gurvinder Singh.

Be that as it may now all are anticipating for the crash in the middle of India and kangaroos.
All Indians are holding up for the match on Friday were India tackles Australia in Colombo.Lets trust generally advantageous as harbajan and gambhir are once more in shape Indians will b wanting to win the match.

Twenty20 Planet Measure 2012 calendar.

TWENTY20 PLANET MEASURE 2012

1st Match, Group C: Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe at Hambantota - Sep 18, 2012

Sri Lanka 182/4 (20/20 ov); Zimbabwe 100 (17.3/20 ov)

Sri Lanka won by 82 runs

2nd Match, Group B: Australia v Ireland at Colombo (RPS) - Sep 19, 2012

Ireland 123/7 (20/20 ov); Australia 125/3 (15.1/20 ov)

Australia won by 7 wickets (with 29 balls remaining)

3rd Match, Group A: Afghanistan v India at Colombo (RPS) - Sep 19, 2012

India 159/5 (20/20 ov); Afghanistan 136 (19.3/20 ov)

India won by 23 runs

4th Match, Group C: South Africa v Zimbabwe at Hambantota - Sep 20, 2012

Zimbabwe 93/8 (20/20 ov); South Africa 94/0 (12.4/20 ov)

South Africa won by 10 wickets (with 44 balls remaining)

5th Match, Group D: Bangladesh v New Zealand at Pallekele - Sep 21, 2012

New Zealand 191/3 (20/20 ov); Bangladesh 132/8 (20/20 ov)

New Zealand won by 59 runs

6th Match, Group A: Afghanistan v England at Colombo (RPS) - Sep 21, 2012

England 196/5 (20/20 ov); Afghanistan 80 (17.2/20 ov)

England won by 116 runs

7th Match, Group C: Sri Lanka v South Africa at Hambantota - Sep 22, 2012

South Africa 78/4 (7/7 ov); Sri Lanka 46/5 (7/7 ov)

South Africa won by 32 runs

8th Match, Group B: Australia v West Indies at Colombo (RPS) - Sep 22, 2012

West Indies 191/8 (20/20 ov); Australia 100/1 (9.1/9.1 ov)

Australia won by 17 runs (D/L method)

9th Match, Group D: New Zealand v Pakistan at Pallekele - Sep 23, 2012

Pakistan 177/6 (20/20 ov); New Zealand 164/9 (20/20 ov)

Pakistan won by 13 runs

10th Match, Group A: England v India at Colombo (RPS) - Sep 23, 2012

India 170/4 (20/20 ov); England 80 (14.4/20 ov)

India won by 90 runs

11th Match, Group B: Ireland v West Indies at Colombo (RPS) - Sep 24, 2012

Ireland 129/6 (19/19 ov)

No result

12th Match, Group D: Bangladesh v Pakistan at Pallekele - Sep 25, 2012

Bangladesh 175/6 (20/20 ov); Pakistan 178/2 (18.4/20 ov)

Pakistan won by 8 wickets (with 8 balls remaining)

13th Match, Group 1: Sri Lanka v New Zealand at Pallekele - Sep 27, 2012

New Zealand 174/7 (20/20 ov); Sri Lanka 174/6 (20/20 ov)

Match tied (Sri Lanka won the one-over eliminator)

14th Match, Group 1: England v West Indies at Pallekele - Sep 27, 2012

West Indies 179/5 (20/20 ov); England 164/4 (20/20 ov)

West Indies won by 15 runs

15th Match, Group 2: Pakistan v South Africa at Colombo (RPS) - Sep 28, 2012

South Africa 133/6 (20/20 ov); Pakistan 136/8 (19.4/20 ov)

Pakistan won by 2 wickets (with 2 balls remaining)

16th Match, Group 2: Australia v India at Colombo (RPS) - Sep 28, 2012

India 140/7 (20/20 ov); Australia 141/1 (14.5/20 ov)

Australia won by 9 wickets (with 31 balls remaining)

17th Match, Group 1: England v New Zealand at Pallekele - Sep 29, 2012

New Zealand 148/6 (20/20 ov); England 149/4 (18.5/20 ov)

England won by 6 wickets (with 7 balls remaining)

18th Match, Group 1: Sri Lanka v West Indies at Pallekele - Sep 29, 2012

West Indies 129/5 (20/20 ov); Sri Lanka 130/1 (15.2/20 ov)

Sri Lanka won by 9 wickets (with 28 balls remaining)

19th Match, Group 2: Australia v South Africa at Colombo (RPS) - Sep 30, 2012

South Africa 146/5 (20/20 ov); Australia 147/2 (17.4/20 ov)

Australia won by 8 wickets (with 14 balls remaining)

20th Match, Group 2: India v Pakistan at Colombo (RPS) - Sep 30, 2012

Pakistan 128 (19.4/20 ov); India 129/2 (17/20 ov)

India won by 8 wickets (with 18 balls remaining)

21st Match, Group 1: New Zealand v West Indies at Pallekele - Oct 1, 2012

West Indies 139 (19.3/20 ov); New Zealand 139/7 (20/20 ov)

Match tied (West Indies won the one-over eliminator)

22nd Match, Group 1: Sri Lanka v England at Pallekele - Oct 1, 2012

Sri Lanka 169/6 (20/20 ov); England 150/9 (20/20 ov)

Sri Lanka won by 19 runs

23rd Match, Group 2: Australia v Pakistan at Colombo (RPS) - Oct 2, 2012

Pakistan 149/6 (20/20 ov); Australia 117/7 (20/20 ov)

Pakistan won by 32 runs

24th Match, Group 2: India v South Africa at Colombo (RPS) - Oct 2, 2012

India 152/6 (20/20 ov); South Africa 151 (19.5/20 ov)

India won by 1 run

1st Semi-Final: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (RPS) - Oct 4, 2012

Sri Lanka 139/4 (20/20 ov); Pakistan 123/7 (20/20 ov)

Sri Lanka won by 16 runs

2nd Semi-Final: Australia v West Indies at Colombo (RPS) - Oct 5, 2012

West Indies 205/4 (20/20 ov); Australia 131 (16.4/20 ov)

West Indies won by 74 runs

Grand Final: Sri Lanka v West Indies at Colombo (RPS) - Oct 7, 2012

West Indies won by 36 runs.

BEST PLAYERS RESPECTED BY ICC AWARDS

Virat Kohli : The Indian youngster was nominated ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year 2012 in Colombo. The same time as the display time period, he played 31 ODIs and got together 1,733 runs at a middle of 66.65, incorporating eight centuries and six part-centuries. His most elevated score, 183, came in opposition to Pakistan in the Asia Measure on 18 Walk 2012.

Kumar Sangakkara : Sri Lanka\'s Kumar Sangakkara got a couple prestigious honors at the LG ICC Recompenses function in Colombo. Sanga was named the ICC Cricketer of the Year, ICC Test Cricketer of the Year and the LG Individuals\' Decision Honor for the second year consecutively.

 Sunil Narine : The West Indies youngsters was made Rising Cricketer of the Year 2012 in Colombo. The off-spinner played in several Tests for the West Indies asserting 12 wickets at a middle 31.50, while in the 15 ODIs he played in he asserted 28 wickets at a midpoint of 18.82.

Daniel Vettori : Newfangled Zealand all rounder Daniel Vettori won the ICC Spirit of Cricket Recompense 2012. Vettori beat off rivalry from South Africa\'s Abdominal muscle de Villiers and Jacques Kallis and in addition Mohammad Hafeez of Pakistan and West Indies\' Kieron Pollard.

 George Dockrell : Ireland\'s other side-arm spinner was named the ICC Partner and Member Cricketer of the Year.

Kumar Dharmasena : The Sri Lankan won the David Shepherd Trophy for first time following being named ICC Umpire of the Year. Dharmasena, who made his universal make a big appearance as a umpire in 2009, united the Emirates Estimable Board in May 2011. \"This is one of the most fit honors I might have got as a distinctive as I just united the Upper class Board a year in the past, its a positively honor,\" Kumar stated.

Sarah Taylor : England\'s Sarah Taylor was named ICC Ladies\' T20I Cricketer of the Year. The 23-year-old took the honor right before West Indies Stafanie Taylor and Australia\'s Alyssa Healy and Lisa Sthalekar.

Stafanie Taylor : West Indies Stafanie Taylor was named the ICC Ladies\' ODI Cricketer of the Year. The adolescent Jamaican. took the honor beyond associate West Indies partner Anisa Mohammed, England\'s Lydia Greenway and Sarah Taylor.

India VS New Zealand 2nd T20 at Chennai

Brendon McCullum's 55-ball 91 lifted New Zealand to 167 before bowlers pulled off a narrow one-run win over India in Chennai 

Single Twenty20 it was, but it highlighted various accounts, a intimate net income for Yuvraj Singh and his fans, a deflation for India and an amazing comeback from Revamped Zealand. Traveling along Brendon McCullum had punched an enraged 91, Virat Kohli counter-punched with a magnificent 70, leaving India with 49 to get off 42 impartations with seven wickets resting. That is when the Chennai pitch shot started to act more similar to most the person Chennai pitch ; the ball had gone ahead marvelously till then. MS Dhoni and Yuvraj worked out to make history the ball off the foursquare, James Franklin and Jacob Oram took all pace off the ball to make it harder, and the asking surged of a sudden. Dhoni, having elevated himself in front of Manoj Tiwary and Rohit Sharma, completed unbeaten on a amazing 22 off 23 impartations, foundering to look for any timing on his swipes and works and lessened to nosing ones on the leg side. With 20 asked off the final eight conveyances of title, Yuvraj excogitated a practicable plan to hurl Oram over profound midwicket for six. With 12 postulated off the final five, Dhoni forged a practicable plan to pull Franklin to fundamental foursquare leg for four. With six necessitated off various, Yuvraj hurled and was rocked the bowling alley for 34 off 26. 

                                                There was still time for one last account. Drop in Rohit, under force for his absence of complex body part, with six still postulated. He sought gamely, swinging both the rest of the conveyancings for a few runs each, but India had to pay for tapering postdating Kohli\'s release in the 14th over. India\'s trouncing was the carry on thing on the Chennai swarm\'s nous when Kohli, spreading out in spot of the harmed Virender Sehwag, was raining boundaries on Spectacular Zealand for the duration of his 15th fifty-in addition to worldwide grade for our present day year. Broad impartings were swatted distant with contempt, distance transports were willed into holes with certain pokes at, threads maker were flung rearwards to front over auxiliary mantle, quick bowlers hat were run after at and thumped the ground. Kohli\'s strike and his 60-run second-wicket base with Suresh Raina permited Yuvraj to simple mindedness into his rejoinder thump. The swarm emited when Yuvraj thick-edged Adam Milne past slip for his first verge and swung Daniel Vettori over fundamental midwicket for his first six. In the midst of, he was let-off when McCullum and Kyle Plants affected trying to take a finish-edged pull off Milne. It was Franklin who set out the turnaround when he had Kohli lobbing his second conveyance to vast extended-off. Newfangled Zealand what is more had McCullum to thank, for bringing up them from 2 for 2 with an ascertained 91 that foregrounded his press to his side, particularly in Twenty20s.

                                                McCullum had back from Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor, but he was basically bravely for Brand new Zealand get to an vivid score with a clunk that set out watchfully, then after that blared into a craze of efficacious hits over immaterial blanket, down the ground and over midwicket. McCullum frequently sets out a Test innings with a run after the track and it was doubtless the number of early wickets that made him play with some alert at first. Loot Nicol and Martin Guptill came ready to bring the pain but were knocked down some pins by incoming conveyances from Zaheer Khan and Irfan Pathan. McCullum broke unhampered up the 5th over, flicking and cutting down Zaheer for limits. L Balaji, making his T20I make a big visual aspect and playing his first entertainment for India in light of the fact that February 2009, was inside-edged past short fine leg and cut over direction for delimitations in the following over. Williamson, a smooth man under force in general, guaranteed he gave the strike to McCullum, who was now in control enough to ward off his run of the mill self-destructing inclinations.