India (probable): 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Dinesh Karthik, 3 Rohit Sharma, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 6 Yusuf Pathan, 7 Ravindra Jadeja/ Abhishek Nayar, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Ishant Sharma, 10 RP Singh, 11 Ashish Nehra.

West Indies (probable): 1 Chris Gayle (capt), 2 Runako Morton, 3 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 5 Dwayne Bravo, 6 Darren Bravo, 7 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 8 Jerome Taylor, 9 David Bernard, 10 Suleiman Benn, 11 Lionel Baker/ Ravi Rampaul.

After 2 ODI’s the 4 match Odi series is currently tied 1-1 with each team winning a piece.

West Indies have played nine games in this stadium, winning five and losing four. India are yet to play a game at this venue.

West Indies’ eight-wicket victory in Kingston was their biggest against India in terms of balls remaining after winning. They won with 95 balls to spare, bettering their effort in Port of Spain 20 years earlier, where they had won with 68 balls left.

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“It is a case of two good teams playing against each other, and we expect two very competitive matches.”
Denesh Ramdin

India gained a 1-0 lead in the four-ODI series against West Indies but there was plenty of scope for improvement in the performance which resulted in a 20-run win at Sabina Park on Friday.

MS Dhoni did not appear to be a happy man as he shook hands with the West Indian batsmen after the game. The victory was largely due to Yuvraj Singh’s brilliance, his 131 off 102 balls making up for the loss of early wickets and ensuring that a wayward bowling attack had enough to defend.

West Indies did well to get so close to a monstrous target but they could have done better and pulled off a stunning chase if one of their top-order batsmen played a long innings. Chris Gayle, Runako Morton, Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul all made valuable contributions to keep West Indies in the game but got out just as they were beginning to dominate India.

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India (likely): 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Dinesh Karthik, 3 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 S Badrinath, 6 Yusuf Pathan, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Ishant Sharma, 10 RP Singh, 11 Ashish Nehra.

West Indies (likely): 1 Chris Gayle (capt), 2 Runako Morton, 3 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 5 Dwayne Bravo, 6 Darren Bravo, 7 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 8 Jerome Taylor, 9 Ravi Rampaul, 10 Suleiman Benn, 11 Lionel Baker

Quotes

“The West Indies is playing good cricket at the moment. They had a very good World Twenty20 tournament, but in 50 overs, you have time to settle down.”
MS Dhoni is aware he is against an in-form team

“Both teams are looking to win and they (Indians) are trying to prove something against us. At the same time we want to get more wins under our belt and continue our development.”
Chris Gayle

For India, a team which is totally shaken by defeat, injury and fatigue, this series is the last before a long break until the Champions Trophy in south africa in September.

India are weakened for they are without Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Suresh Raina and Zaheer Khan, four key players either injured or resting because of their hectic schedule in recent months.

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West Indies’ performance in the World Twenty20 was a dramatic improvement from their efforts during a torrid summer in which they lost both the Wisden Trophy and ODI series to England

West Indies have won four out of their last five ODIs in Jamaica - against India, Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Ireland. India have played only two ODIs at Sabina Park of which they lost one and won the other.

India (likely): 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Dinesh Karthik, 3 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 S Badrinath, 6 Yusuf Pathan, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Ishant Sharma, 10 RP Singh, 11 Ashish Nehra.

West Indies (likely): 1 Chris Gayle (capt), 2 Runako Morton, 3 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 5 Dwayne Bravo, 6 Darren Bravo, 7 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 8 Jerome Taylor, 9 Ravi Rampaul, 10 Suleiman Benn, 11 Lionel Baker

Quotes

“The West Indies is playing good cricket at the moment. They had a very good World Twenty20 tournament, but in 50 overs, you have time to settle down.”
MS Dhoni is aware he is against an in-form team

“Both teams are looking to win and they (Indians) are trying to prove something against us. At the same time we want to get more wins under our belt and continue our development.”
Chris Gayle

Pakistan and Sri Lanka, thetwo teams linked  with tragedy, will clash in the ICC T20 world cup 2009 final at Lord’s .

Srilanka are unbeaten in this world cup 2009, they beat Pakistan by 19 runs in the Super Eights match , but captain Sangakkara said: “We’ve played Pakistan many times before but in T20 you must take every game in isolation. Different players come into form at different times.

Srilanka have won all 6 of their last t20 matches wheras pakistan have won 4 and lost 2.

Pakistan and Sri Lanka have  played in two 50-over World Cup finals in the past, with one victory and one defeat apiece. Pakistan beat England in the final at Melbourne in 1992, then lost to Australia at Lord’s in 1999. Sri Lanka beat Australia at Lahore in 1996, then lost to the Aussies at Bridgetown in 2007.

All five of the tournament’s leading wicket-takers will be on display in the final. Ajanta Mendis, Umjar Gul, Malinga and Ajmal have all taken 12 wickets, Shahid Afridi is just behind them on 10 wkts.

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Pakistan (probable) 1 Kamran Akmal (wk), 2 Shahzaid Hasan, 3 Shahid Afridi, 4 Shoaib Malik, 5 Younis Khan (capt), 6 Misbah-ul-Haq, 7 Abdul Razzaq, 8 Fawad Alam, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Saeed Ajmal, 11 Mohammad Aamer.

Sri Lanka (probable) 1 Sanath Jayasuriya, 2 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (capt/wk), 4 Mahela Jayawardene, 5 Chamara Silva, 6 Jehan Mubarak, 7 Angelo Mathews, 8 Nuwan Kulasekara, 9 Lasith Malinga, 10 Muttiah Muralitharan, 11 Ajantha Mendis.

Quotes

“Sanath is always a big-match player. He’s won a lot of matches for us in the past, and I think he’s going to win a lot more in the next few years as well. As long as he’s fit and is performing, we are happy to have him in the side. I think he’ll do something special in the final.”

Sri Lanka’s captain Kumar Sangakkara talks up the form and focus of Sanath Jayasuriya, who was off-colour during the semi-final victory over West Indies.

“I used to think of myself as a batsman three to four years ago because that is how everyone started to think of me. But I was moved around so much the order that I just went back to concentrating on bowling. I told Younis I wanted to bat up the order and it worked.”

Shahid Afridi concedes that bowling is his strongest suit these days, despite his destructive batting against South Africa at Trent Bridge.

It was an evening of glamour and glitz the 3rd Annual Univercell Vijay Awards 2008 at Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium on 13 June 2009.

The show began with the performance by the gorgeous and dazzling film beauties - Rukmani, Laksmi Rai, Nikitha, Meenakshi, Neetu Chandra and Meghna Naidu.

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Sri Lanka has progressed undefeated through the tournament, and beaten some quality teams. Their scalps include Australia, Pakistan and New Zealand - all of whom were beaten convincingly. With their formidable bowling, they are confident of winning every match, even if the batsmen fail to do the job

The West Indies have shed their tag of a one-man army, with the rise of Dwayne Bravo and Lendl Simmons to back up Chris Gayle. Their chances have been dealt a blow, however, with Fidel Edwards’ injury and likely absence. Dwayne Bravo is both, the leading run-scorer and the leading wicket-taker for the West Indies in this tournament.

Pitch and conditions

Kensington Oval stadium has a seating capacity of 23,500. The pitch is expected to be tilted slightly in the batsmen’s favour, as most of the previous matches here have shown.

The weather is expected to be partly cloudy.

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West Indies: (probable) 1 Chris Gayle, 2 Andre Fletcher, 3 Dwayne Bravo, 4 Lendl Simmons, 5 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 6 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 7 Denesh Ramdin, 8 Keiron Pollard, 9 Jerome Taylor, 10 Sulieman Benn, 11 Fidel Edwards.

Sri Lanka (probable) 1 Sanath Jayasuriya, 2 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (capt/wk), 4 Mahela Jayawardene, 5 Chamara Silva, 6 Jehan Mubarak, 7 Angelo Mathews, 8 Nuwan Kulasekara, 9 Lasith Malinga, 10 Muttiah Muralitharan, 11 Ajantha Mendis.

Quotes

“I’m comfortable with what I’m bowling. No batsman has figured me out yet.” - Ajantha Mendis

“He’s the sort of bowler who can actually win you games and pick up crucial wickets at crucial times. Sometimes he can go for runs, but he’s a wicket-taker and can change games. He’d be missed, because he was missed for the last game even though we won.” - Chris Gayle on Fidel Edwards absence.

South Africa have not lost a single game int his t20 world cup so far . They demolished Scotland, squeaked through by 1 run against New Zealand, knocked over England, held off the West Indies, and hammered the final nail in India’s coffin.

Pakistan are the past. They are wholly dysfunctional, but just about getting along, though unsure where they are going. They don’t control their extras, they don’t run the singles hard and they field .

The only way for Pakistan to get past South Africa ,would be to put in a brilliant bowling performance. They have not had the smoothest ride into the semi-finals, with losses against England and Sri Lanka,

Pitch and conditions

The surface for this match is two along from the one that turned square for the South Africa-India match and is expected to be harder and offer less help for the spinners. However, the slow bowlers have had an impact throughout so are still likely to be key. Steady rain arrived in Nottingham on the practice day, but is due to clear overnight and the forecast for Thursday is fine.

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South Africa: (probable) 1 Graeme Smith, 2 Jacques Kallis, 3 Herschelle Gibbs, 4 AB de Villiers, 5 JP Duminy, 6 A Morkel, 7 M Boucher, 8 Johan Botha, 9 Roelof van der Merwe, 10 Wayne Parnell, 11 Dale Steyn

Pakistan: (probable) 1 Shahzaib Hassan, 2 Kamran Akmal (wk), 3 Shoaib Malik, 4 Misbah-ul-Haq, 5 Younis Khan (capt), 6 Abdul Razzaq, 7 Shahid Afridi, 8 Fawad Alam, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Mohammad Aamer, 11 Saeed Ajmal

Quotes

“We are slow starters but we never give up. If we lose a game we regroup fast and go out and prove ourselves.” - Younis Khan

“”I think we’ve come past that. This team has come a long way and I think we’ve proven that. Hopefully we can show that on Thursday, that’s what is exciting about it. “

Graeme Smith dismisses talk of being ‘chokers’.

“It’s great to be in a position where you can rock up to a ground, look at the wicket and know you have all the bases covered. We aren’t really worried what the wicket will be.”

Mark Boucher believes South Africa can cope with any conditions that are thrown at them.

West Indies’ stunning seven-wicket win over India on Friday has transformed the dynamics of Group E, and left the defending Champions facing an elimination show-down with the hosts England.

Semi-final chances A win for either team will obviously boost their chances of making it to the semis, but India have far more stakes on this game than England.

If India lose on Sunday, they are definitely out, since the winner of the England-West Indies game on Monday will join South Africa on two wins and knock India out even if they win their last game.

If England lose, however, there is still a chance for them if they beat West Indies, and if South Africa beat India. In that case, South Africa will finish with three wins, while England, India and West Indies will all have one each, bringing net run rates into play.

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England: (probable) 1 Ravi Bopara, 2 Luke Wright, 3 Kevin Pietersen, 4 Owais Shah, Paul Collingwood (capt), 6 Dimitri Mascarenhas, 7 James Foster (wk), 8 Graeme Swann, 9 Stuart Broad, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 James Anderson.

India: (probable) 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Rohit Sharma, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 6 Yusuf Pathan, 7 Irfan Pathan, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Ishant Sharma, Pragyan Ojha

Quotes

"We were able to raise the required run rate close to 10 runs per over, we were good at that, but he took the game away from us." India’s captain, MS Dhoni, rues the impact that Dwayne Bravo had on their last match at Lord’s.

"We’re not going to win by sitting back. Twenty20 cricket is about putting the opposition under pressure from ball one. We’ve got to make sure we have the attitude of ‘keep going for it’. We’re not going to get anywhere by being conservative ." England’s captain Paul Collingwood promises a full-frontal assault for the remainder of the tournament.

South Africa have won 5 T20 matches in row and are looking for their sixth successive win in Twenty20 internationals, a feat that has never been achieved in the T20 format so far.

Things are falling into place for West Indies in a format they are more early comfortable with. Bravo’s outstanding all-round performance had much to do with it, but there were several other encouraging signs too.

South Africa have won two out of three T20 games against West Indies.

Interestingly All 3 games between the two teams have been won by the team batting second.

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South Africa: (probable) 1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 Jacques Kallis, 3 Herschelle Gibbs, 4 AB de Villiers, 5 JP Duminy, 6 Mark Boucher (wk), 7 Albie Morkel, 8 Roelof van der Merwe, 9 Johan Botha, 10 Wayne Parnell, 11 Dale Steyn. West Indies: (probable) 1 Chris Gayle (capt), 2 Andre Fletcher, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 4 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 5 Dwayne Bravo, 6 Lendl Simmons, 7 Kieron Pollard, 8 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 9 Jerome Taylor, 10 Fidel Edwards, 11 Suleiman Benn.

Quotes

“In every single game we’ve had trouble with our start. Today was a crucial game and we had back-to-back no-balls in the first over.”

Pakistan captain Younis Khan talks about putting the wrong step forward.

“When you’ve got nothing to lose you go out there and give it a go. I was pleased it came off. I got a couple in the slot early on and took it from there.”

Aaron Redmond on his innings against Ireland.

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In thier last 5 T20 matches played New Zealand has won 4 times and lost only once, Where as Pakistan have lost 3 of thier last 5 matches.

Formwise New Zealand should be the favorite for todays match.

New Zealand have lost to Pakistan three times in a World Cup semi-final, in 1992 and 1999 in 50-over World Cups and in the 2007 Twenty20 World Cup.

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Pakistan: (probable) 1 Ahmed Shehzad, 2 Kamran Akmal (wk), 3 Shoaib Malik, 4 Misbah-ul-Haq, 5 Younis Khan (capt), 6 Abdul Razzaq, 7 Shahid Afridi, 8 Fawad Alam, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Mohammad Aamer, 11 Saeed Ajmal

New Zealand: (probable) 1 Brendon McCullum (capt), 2 Aaron Redmond, 3 Martin Guptill, 4 Scott Styris, 5 Jacob Oram, 6 Peter McGlashan (wk), 7 James Franklin, 8 Neil Broom, 9 Nathan McCullum, 10 Ian Butler, 11 Kyle Mills

Quotes

“In every single game we’ve had trouble with our start. Today was a crucial game and we had back-to-back no-balls in the first over.”

Pakistan captain Younis Khan talks about putting the wrong step forward.

“When you’ve got nothing to lose you go out there and give it a go. I was pleased it came off. I got a couple in the slot early on and took it from there.”

Aaron Redmond on his innings against Ireland.