ICC T20 World Cup 2009 Opening Ceremony

ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2009 Opening Ceremony

The second edition of ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2009 will kick off from 5th June with an of ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2009 opening ceremony which will be arranged at The Marylebone Cricket Club Lords Cricket Ground in London. So, today is the day to enjoy the mega twenty20 event which is scheduled to start at 15:30 GMT (16:30 local time). This much expectation event will be aired on ESPN STAR Sports. As India has the biggest market for cricket game so, many viewers from this country will search to know the match start time and TV channel. It will be shown live on STAR CRICKET at 21:00 Indian Standard Time. 

Event: ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2009 Opening Ceremony

Date: 5th June, 2009 

Time: 15:30 GMT, 16:30 Local Time, 21:00 IST. 

Live on: ESPN STAR Sports, STAR CRICKET 

England and Wales Cricket Board is organizing its inaugural opening ceremony of the ICC World Twenty20. I am not optimistic about ECB. They got some fame for their failure of arranging the opening ceremony successfully in 1999 and 2004. That time, ECB is promised to give something different to make it memorable in the heart of fans. That is why, they have not revealed anything about this event to the media. The duration of the ceremony is perhaps only 45 minutes. 

This function will be arranged under tight security. English singer Alesha Dixon is a solo artist who will be seen to perform in the opening ceremony. I am sure this name is enough to bring a lot of fans on stadium in the opening day. Though, England is the home of cricket but English people are crazy about football. However, T20 cricket has increased the popularity. Super stars will join in this event. 

In opening ceremony Twenty20 World Cup 2009, either the prime minister of Great Britain or a very high official of the government will be present. 

There is another reason to attract a lot of people in the stadium is that England will take on Netherlands in their opening day at Lords in Group-B. Lords will host a lot of important matches including the finals of both Men’s and Women’s twenty20 cricket tournament. 

Tickets of the opening day have already been sold out. Not only that but also tickets of other matches have been sold 80%. It proves that how much popularity it has got to the people of England. However, if you are lucky then you can get a ticket for you in any ticket booking website. Here, in this article I am giving you some like of websites in below where you can get information about T20 World Cup ticket.

 

England has started the tournament as the famous contestant. It seems that they will take some advantage from home crowd. This time, England is spending a big amount of money (3 million) for security arrangement. ECB took this lesson after they saw how Sri Lankan cricket team suffered in Pakistan by terrorists. 

England cricket team has not got any big trophy in any cricket format. It is the best time for home team to make a record after clinching the T20 trophy. I hope they can do it because England cricket team is much balanced than its past squad. Let us see how the defending champion India performs in this tournament. 

India Vs pakistan Warmup Match Highlights

India Vs Pakistan Warmup Match Highlights

ICC World Twenty20 Warm-up Matches 2009

India vs Pakistan, 12th warm-up match

The Oval, London,  June 3, 2009

Toss : Pakistan Chose to bat First

Match Result : India won by 9 wkts

India Vs Pakistan Warm up Match Score Card

India Innings Batsman India(159/1 in 17 ovs) Runs Balls 4's 6's SR G Gambhir Not out 52 47 4 0 110.64 R Sharma c A Shehzad & b M Aamer 80 53 9 2 150.94 M S Dhoni(c) Not out 9 4 2 0 225 S Raina dnb 0 0 0 0 0.00 Y Singh dnb 0 0 0 0 0.00 R Jadeja dnb 0 0 0 0 0.00 Y Pathan dnb 0 0 0 0 0.00 I Pathan dnb 0 0 0 0 0.00 H Singh dnb 0 0 0 0 0.00 I Sharma dnb 0 0 0 0 0.00 R P Singh dnb 0 0 0 0 0.00 Extras b - 0, lb - 7, w - 9, nb - 2, Total - 18 Total:(159 for 1 in 17 overs) 159 Run Rate: 9.35 Fall Of Wickets 1/140 (Rohit Sharma, 15.6 ov.) Bowler 0 M R W Nb Wd ER Umar Gul 3 0 39 0 2 3 13 Yasir Arafat 3 0 25 0 0 0 8.33 Mohammad Aamer 3 0 18 1 0 4 6 Saeed Ajmal 2 0 16 0 0 0 8 Shahid Afridi 2 0 23 0 0 0 11.5 Sohail Tanvir 2 0 13 0 0 0 6.5 Shoaib Malik 2 0 18 0 0 0 9 Pakistan Innings Go to Top Batsman Pakistan(158/6 in 20 ovs) Runs Balls 4's 6's SR A Shehzad c S Raina & b I Sharma 25 19 5 0 131.58 S Hasan b P Kumar 0 2 0 0 0 K Akmal(wk) runout (S Raina) 19 9 4 0 211.11 S Afridi c M Dhoni & b I Pathan 0 1 0 0 0 Y Khan(c) st M Dhoni & b H Singh 32 32 2 0 100 S Malik c M Dhoni & b P Ojha 14 11 2 0 127.27 M Ul-Haq Not out 37 30 4 0 123.33 Y Arafat Not out 25 16 3 0 156.25 U Gul dnb 0 0 0 0 0.00 S Ajmal dnb 0 0 0 0 0.00 M Aamer dnb 0 0 0 0 0.00 Extras b - 0, lb - 2, w - 4, nb - 0, Total - 6

Total:(158 for 6 in 20 overs) 158 Run Rate: 7.9

Fall Of Wickets 1/2 (Shahzaib Hasan, 0.5 ov.), 2/45 (Kamran Akmal, 4.3 ov.), 3/45 (Ahmed Shehzad, 4.6 ov.), 4/45 (Shahid Afridi, 5.1 ov.), 5/63 (Shoaib Malik, 8.2 ov.), 6/113 (Younis Khan, 15.5 ov.)

Bowler 0 M R W Nb Wd ER Praveen Kumar 3 0 32 1 0 3 10.67 Rudra Pratap Singh 3 0 33 0 0 0 11 Irfan Pathan 2 0 18 1 0 0 9 Ishant Sharma 3 1 11 1 0 0 3.67 Harbhajan Singh 4 0 27 1 0 1 6.75 Pragyan Ojha 3 0 18 1 0 0 6 Yuvraj Singh 2 0 17 0 0 0 8.5

Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pak) & Billy Doctrove (WI)

Third Umpire: Rod Tucker (Aus)

India Vs Pakistan T20 World Cup Warmup Match June 3rd

Pakistan will take on India in Twenty20 warm up match today. This would be the first encounter between the two teams after Mumbai attacks.

The money collected from today’s match will be given to the affectees of attack on Sri Lankan team in Lahore.

Pakistan and India both faced defeat in their respective warm up openers. South Africa beat Pakistan while New Zealand defeated India. Both teams met in Twenty20 World Cup final two years back.

Pakistan team manager Yawer Saeed said green shirts would face India with full strength without giving rest to any key player.

 India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni would need pluck and luck in equal measure to score a consolation win against Pakistan in the warm-up match of the ICC World Twenty20 in London on Tuesday.

Dhoni's men lost the first sparring match of the warm-ups to New Zealand yesterday and are up against an opponent who consider themselves unlucky to lose in two previous encounters between the two sides.

Both the previous ties were in the inaugural edition in 2007 and India could cross over the finish line by a matter of chance. Indians prevailed in the first through a 'bowl-out' after the two sides had tied at the same score.

In the 2007 final match in Johannesburg, Pakistan was just a stroke away from victory when Misbah-ul Haq's scoop off Joginder Sharma landed in short fine-leg S Sreesanth's hands.

Pakistan would be determined to settle the score for they might not get another opportunity to get even with the Indians unless both sides make it to the finals this time also. Indians would be resigned to leaving out Zaheer Khan and Virender Sehwag on the bench as both are battling shoulder injuries.

They would be keen though to play Yuvraj Singh who is just about coming to terms with a bout of food poisoning, as disclosed by skipper Dhoni last night.

Fast bowler Rudra Pratap Singh could have another game to get himself sorted out after the pasting of the first match. Irfan Pathan, too, would be hoping for a few more overs under his belt, as would be the ambition of bowlers Praveen Kumar and Yusuf Pathan also.

Ishant Sharma would look to build upon his superb success of the first game and so would be for batters Rohit Sharma and Suresh Raina.

Opener Gautam Gambhir and Dhoni would have another opportunity to spend some time in the middle and be in a better frame of mind before the real stuff unrolls from Friday onwards.

Pakistan, who lost their first warm up match against South Africa, could field 17-year-old fast bowling sensation Mohammed Aamer who is tipped to be the 'revelation' of this tournament by fast bowling legend Wasim Akram.

Aamer, a tall and skinny lad from the Punjab province of Pakistan, regularly hits upwards of 140kmph in speed and he could make a formidable fast bowling trio with Umar Gul and Sohail Tanvir.

Gul and Tanvir are star bowlers of this format. Gul was the highest wicket-taker in the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup while Tanvir was the best bowler of the first Indian Premier League. 

Team India lands in London

The India cricket team arrived at London Heathrow Airport on Friday to participate in the second World Twenty20 tournament that begins on June 5.  Before the team's departure from Mumbai earlier in the day, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who won the cup in 2007, said he was confident about retaining the title, as the current team had enough experience of 20-20 cricket.

India plays their opening match against Bangladesh on June 6 with Ireland being their other opponent in Group A of the 12-team tournament. The 15-member India squad has a deep batting line-up and a potent pace and spin attack.

Exiting T20 Worldcup 2009

The Twenty20 cricket format has been a big hit and has strengthened its position further with the recently concluded IPL2. However, it was the maiden ICC T20 World Cup that set the ball rolling, and with India winning the championship, the Cup of joy runneth over.

Indian players are divided into the eight different IPL teams and enough action happens around these teams, whereas for a country team, T20 World Cup having a national connect has wider reach of audience as compared to IPL. However, it would not be fair to compare the two – T20 and IPL – because they are two different things as both are bigger for their own reasons, and even in viewership profile there is not much difference as they have their own element of following

he T20 World Cup 2009 should be better than the 2007 World Cup and with India as the defending champions, the enthusiasm for the game has only doubled, but viewership will only matter depending on India’s performance. Nevertheless, on the flip side, given that a lot of cricket has already been played, there is also a lot of caution on how much cricket one can take

T20 was very new last year, this year the expectations are very high because India is the defending champions and since most of the players have got practice in the IPL2 itself, therefore, making consumer interest a little more higher than last year

The T20 World Cup 2009 is scheduled to be held from June 5-21, 2009, in England. 

Netherlands (Holland) Squad for T20 World cup 2009

Netherlands (Holland) Squad for T20 World cup 2009

Netherlands may be an unknown team for fans around the globe, but Dutches aren't utterly new to top level cricket. Also known as the Holland team, they have played 42 ODIs spanning back from year 1996 when they made their International debut.

Although an old enough Associate member of ICC, lack of good performances have kept this team cold and fans unaware of their existance over the years. Come T20 World cup 2009, Holland have earned their chances to make a name for themselves.. how? Netherlands were the finalists of Qualifying round with Ireland which was rain abandoned.

Netherlands (Holland) Squad for T20 World cup 2009
Jeroen Smits (Captain/Wicketkeeper), Peter Borren, Mudassar Bukhari, Tom de Grooth, Maurits Jonkman, Alexei Kervezee, Dirk Nannes, Ruud Nijman, Darron Reekers, Edgar Schiferli, Pieter Seelaar, Daan van Bunge, Bas Zuiderent, Ryan tan Doeschate, Eric Szwarczynski.

Ireland Squad for Twenty20 World cup 2009

Ireland Squad for Twenty20 World cup 2009

If there's a next big cricket team it's Ireland. Don't go by their overall ODI record = 36 games, 13 won, 19 lost, 1 tied and 3 no result. not that it's a bad report card, Ireland have mainly played other less known cricket teams around the world to achieve 40.90% success rate.

Ireland Squad for Twenty20 World cup 2009
William Porterfield (Captain), Jeremy Bray, Peter Connell, Andre Botha, Alex Cusack, John Mooney, Trent Johnston, Kyle McCallan, Kevin O’Brien, Naill O’Brien (Wicketkeeper), Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Regan West, Andrew White, Gary Wilson.