West Indies crowned ICC World Twenty20 champions

By Fathima Zanaida

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (TheSportsNEXT) October 7, 2012: West Indies stunned hosts Sri Lanka by 36 runs to win the ICC World Twenty20 2012 at R Premadasa Stadium Sunday.

ICC World T20 Super Eights Preview

By Adrian Meredith

VICTORIA, Australia (TheSportsNEXT) September 28, 2012: A quirk of the scheduling system is that it is based on rankings from a year ago, not on who finishes 1st or 2nd in each group and hence we have a situation where all of the unbeaten sides (Australia, India, Pakistan and South Africa) are in the same super 8 group, with only 2 of them going to make the quarter finals, while the other group features the 4 sides that have all lost a match (England, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and West Indies).

ICCWT20: India tame charged-up Afghanistan by 23 runs

By Fathima Zanaida

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (TheSportsNEXT) September 19, 2012: India avoided an early scare at the ICC World Twenty20 2012 (ICCWT20) on Wednesday when they used their spin wizardry to tame a spirited Afghanistan side by 23 runs in their opening Group A match played at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.

ICCWT20: Australia vs Ireland Scorecard

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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (TheSportsNEXT) September 19, 2012: Australia defeated Ireland by seven wickets in their opening match of the ICC World Twenty20 2012 (ICCWT20) on Wednesday as Shane Watson did the job with both and ball to demolish the Irish opponents.

ICCWT20: Hot Shane Watson guides Australia to easy win over Ireland

By Fathima Zanaida

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (TheSportsNEXT) September 19, 2012: A clinical and professional all-round performance by Shane Watson helped Australia breeze to 7 wickets victory over Ireland in their opening Group B match of the ICC World Twenty20 2012 (ICCWT20) played at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Wednesday.

ICCWT20: Ireland win toss, ask Aussies to bowl first

By Fathima Zanaida

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (TheSportsNext) September 19, 2012: Ireland captain William Porterfield has won the toss and decided to bat first in their first match of the ICC World Twenty20 2012 (ICCWT20) against Australia at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.

ICCWT20: Mahela Jayawardene misses out on 1,000 T20I runs

By Fathima Zanaida

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (TheSportsNext) September 18, 2012: Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene missed out on an opportunity to bring up 1,000 runs in his Twenty20 International career when he was run out during inaugural match of the ICC World Twenty20 2012 (ICCWT20) at Hambantota on Tuesday.

ICCWT20: Explosive Dale Steyn saves the day for Proteas in warm-up

By Fathima Zanaida

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (TheSportsNext) September 17, 2012: An impressive spell of fast bowling by Dale Steyn and a captain’s knock by AB de Villiers helped South Africa defeat a high-flying New Zealand side by only nine runs in their ICC World Twenty20 Warm-Up match played at Colts Cricket Club Ground in Colombo on Monday.

ICCWT20: How Teams Can Win the T20 title?

By Adrian Meredith

VICTORIA, Australia (TheSportsNext) September 16, 2012: The ICC World Twenty20 2012 (ICCWT20) is just a couple of days away and teams are currently busy flexing their muscles in the World T20 warm-up matches and since this is the most open tournament of all times, this is how Adrian Meredith sees the participants achieving the glory.

India, Australia win warm-ups ahead of ICC World T20

By Fathima Zanaida

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (TheSportsNext) September 15, 2012: Australia, India, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan won their respective warm-up matches on Saturday ahead of the ICC World Twenty20 tournament which is formally starting from Tuesday.

ICC World Twenty20 2012 Preview

By Adrian Meredith

VICTORIA, Australia (TheSportsNext) September 9, 2012: The fourth edition of the ICC World Twenty20 is translating into serious action from September 18, 2012 in Sri Lanka as the battle to conquer the title in the shortest but the most famous format will achieve new highs with all the participating teams having inducted the T20 specialists in their squads. The game is now known as ICCWT20 as ICC mentioned.

Adrian Meredith previews the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 group-wise.

PCB appoints Javed Miandad as batting consultant

By Ubaid Awan

KARACHI (TheSportsNext) September 8, 2012: Former Pakistani captain and ex-head coach Javed Miandad has been appointed as batting consultant of the national cricket team for the upcoming 2012 ICC World Twenty20, sources told TheSportsNext.com on Saturday.

Pakistan selection blunders and ICC World Twenty20 2012

By Shahzad Firdous

KARACHI (TheSportsNext) September 5, 2012: As the One Day International series between Pakistan and Australia ended on Aussie victory I would like to point out Pakistan’s selection blunders which were responsible for the defeats.

England rest injured Jonathan Trott for final ODI

By Ashley Williams

LONDON (TheSportsNext) September 5, 2012: England top-order batsman Jonathan Trott, who had injured his hand during the fourth match, was ruled out of the fifth and the final One Day International against South Africa, to be played in Nottingham on Wednesday.

2012 ICC World Twenty20 Analytical Predictions

By Adrian Meredith

VICTORIA, Australia (TheSportsNext) August 23, 2012: The group stages have been announced so now it is time to play predictor, match by match and hence the whole tournament.

Group A: England, India, Afghanistan

Group B: Australia, West Indies, Ireland

Group C: Sri Lanka, South Africa, Zimbabwe

Group D: Pakistan, New Zealand, Bangladesh

ICC World Twenty20 2012: Who Will Rise?

By Adrian Meredith

VICTORIA, Australia (TheSportsNext) August 14, 2012: The 2012 ICC World Twenty20 is coming up in just a month, starting on September 18th. So who will win? Let's look at some early team profiles.

2012 ICC World T20 Final Sold Out

By Fathima Zanaida

COLOMBO (TheSportsNext) August 4, 2012: Cricket fans who are planning to tour Sri Lanka to watch final of the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 cricket tournament this year should review their plans as all the tickets of the final have already been sold.

The International Cricket Council said Saturday that while the tickets for final have been sold out, the ones for other matches in the tournament are still available.