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ICC TWENTY20 WORLD CUP, 2010

Cricket lovers are anxiously waiting to knew who will be the winners of the third edition of ‘World Twenty20 cricket’ series.  This amazing cricket tournament was started on 30th April in West Indies and it will end on 16th May 2010. Twelve teams are participated in this tournament. All Test playing nations and two teams who were qualified in the Qualifier match are playing in this tournament. India, Pakistan, Australia, England, West Indies, Sree Lanka, South Africa, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Ireland and Afghanistan are the teams and they were divided into four groups. Barbados, Guyana and Saint Lucia are the playing ground of this tournament. In the first edition of the ‘ICC World Twenty20′, India became the first World T20 Champions by defeating Pakistan by 5 runs in the final. Previous runners-up Pakistan was the winner in the second edition of ‘ICC World Twenty20′ by defeating Sri Lanka by 8 wickets in the final. Every teams are presenting their biggest team in this tournament. The first World T20 Champion, India is already out from this tournament. They were defeated by Australia and West Indies in Super eight matches. Previous champion Pakistan and England were entered in the semi final of the tournament. So get ready for watching this amazing cricket bonanza in coming days.

ICC TWENTY20 WORLD CUP, 2010 TEAM GROUPS

Group A - Pakistan, Bangladesh and Australia
Group B - Sri Lanka, New Zealand and Zimbabwe
Group C - South Africa, India and Afghanistan
Group D - West Indies, England and Ireland

ICC TWENTY20 WORLD CUP, 2010 SQUADS

India Squad : Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c),    Yuvraj Singh, Piyush Chawla, Gautam Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Dinesh Karthik, Zaheer Khan, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Yusuf Pathan, Suresh Raina, Murali Vijay, Rohit Sharma, Vinay Kumar

Pakistan Squad : Shahid Afridi (c), Abdul Razzaq, Fawad Alam, Hammad Azam, Kamran Akmal, Khalid Latif, Misbah-ul-Haq, Mohammad Aamer, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Hafeez, Saeed Ajmal, Salman Butt, Umar Akmal, Mohammad Sami, Abdur Rehman

Afghanistan Squad : Nowroz Mangal (c), Asghar Stanikzai, Dawlat Ahmadzai, Hameed Hasan, Karim Sadiq,     Mirwais Ashraf,  Mohammad Nabi, Mohammad Shahzad, Nasratullah Nasrat, Noor Ali, Raees Ahmadzai, Samiullah Shinwari, Shabir Noori, Shafiqullah Shafaq, Shapoor Zadran

Australia Squad : Michael Clarke (c), Daniel Christian, Brad Haddin, Nathan Hauritz, David Hussey, Michael Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee, Dirk Nannes, Tim Paine, Steven Smith, Shaun Tait, David Warner, Shane Watson, Cameron White

Bangladesh Squad : Shakib Al Hasan (c), Abdur Razzak, Aftab Ahmed, Imrul Kayes, Jahurul Islam,     Mahmudullah, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mohammad Ashraful, Mushfiqur Rahim, Naeem Islam, Rubel Hossain, Shafiul Islam, Suhrawadi Shuvo, Syed Rasel, Tamim Iqbal

England Squad : Paul Collingwood (c), James Anderson, Ravinder Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Craig Kieswetter, Michael Lumb, Eoin Morgan, Kevin Pietersen, Ajmal Shahzad, Ryan Sidebottom, Graeme Swann, James Tredwell, Luke Wright, Michael Yardy

Ireland Squad : William Porterfield (c), Andre Botha, Peter Connell, Alex Cusack, George Dockrell, Trent Johnsto, Nigel Jones, Gary Kidd, John Mooney, Kevin O’Brien, Niall O’Brien, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Andrew White, Gary Wilson

New Zealand Squad : Daniel Vettori (c), Shane Bond, Ian Butler, Martin Guptill,Gareth Hopkins, Brendon McCullum, Nathan McCullum, Kyle Mills, Rob Nicol, Jacob Oram, Aaron Redmond, Jesse Ryder, Tim Southee, Scott Styris, Ross Taylor

South Africa Squad : Graeme Smith (c), Loots Bosman, Johan Botha, Mark Boucher, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, Rory Kleinveld, Charl Langeveldt, Albie Morkel, Morne Morke, Dale Steyn, Juan Theron, Roelof van der Merwe

Sri Lanka Squad : Kumar Sangakkara (c), Dinesh Chandimal, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chinthaka Jayasinghe, Sanath Jayasuriya, Mahela Jayawardene, Chamara Kapugedera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Angelo Mathews, Ajantha Mendis, Muttiah Muralitharan, Thissara Perera, Suraj Randiv, Chanaka Welegedara

West Indies Squad : Chris Gayle (c), Sulieman Benn, Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Narsingh Deonarine, Andre Fletcher,  Wavell Hinds, Nikita Miller, Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach, Darren Sammy, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Jerome Taylor

Zimbabwe Squad : Prosper Utseya (c), Andy Blignaut, Chamu Chibhabha, Elton Chigumbura, Charles Coventry, Graeme Cremer, Craig Ervine, Greg Lamb, Timycen Maruma, Hamilton Masakadza, Christopher Mpofu, Ray Price, Vusi Sibanda, Tatenda Taibu, Brendan Taylor

ICC TWENTY20 WORLD CUP, 2010 SCHEDULE

Fri 30
17:00 GMT, 13:00 local      1st Match, Group B – Sri Lanka v New Zealand
Providence Stadium, Guyana
Fri 30
21:00 GMT, 17:00 local      2nd Match, Group D – West Indies v Ireland
Providence Stadium, Guyana
May-2010

Sat 01
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local      3rd Match, Group C – India v Afghanistan
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
Sat 01
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local      4th Match, Group A – Pakistan v Bangladesh
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
Sun 02
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local      5th Match, Group C – India v South Africa
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
Sun 02
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local      6th Match, Group A – Pakistan v Australia
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
Mon 03
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local      7th Match, Group B – Zimbabwe v Sri Lanka
Providence Stadium, Guyana
Mon 03
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local      8th Match, Group D – West Indies v England
Providence Stadium, Guyana
Tue 04
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local      9th Match, Group B – New Zealand v Zimbabwe
Providence Stadium, Guyana
Tue 04
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local      10th Match, Group D – England v Ireland
Providence Stadium, Guyana
Wed 05
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local      11th Match, Group A – Australia v Bangladesh
Kensington Oval, Barbados
Wed 05
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local      11th Match, Group C – South Africa v Afghanistan
Kensington Oval, Barbados
Thu 06
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local      13th Match – A1 v D2
Kensington Oval, Barbados
Thu 06
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local      14th Match – C1 v B2
Kensington Oval, Barbados
Fri 07
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local      15th Match – A2 v C2
Kensington Oval, Barbados
Fri 07
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local      16th Match – B1 v D1
Kensington Oval, Barbados
Sat 08
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local      17th Match – C1 v D2
Kensington Oval, Barbados
Sat 08
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local      18th Match – A1 v B2
Kensington Oval, Barbados
Sun 09
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local      19th Match – C2 v D1
Kensington Oval, Barbados
Sun 09
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local      20th Match – B1 v A2
Kensington Oval, Barbados
Mon 10
13:30 GMT, 09:30 local      21st Match – B2 v D2
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
Mon 10
17:30 GMT, 13:30 local      22nd Match – A1 v C1
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
Tue 11
17:00 GMT, 13:00 local      23rd Match – B1 v C2
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
Tue 11
21:00 GMT, 17:00 local      24th Match – D1 v A2
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
Thu 13
15:30 GMT, 11:30 local      1st Semi-Final – TBC v TBC
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
Fri 14
15:30 GMT, 11:30 local      2nd Semi-Final – TBC v TBC
Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia
Sun 16
15:30 GMT, 11:30 local      The Final – TBC v TBC
Kensington Oval, Barbados

ANDY RODDICK

Former World No. 1 American tennis player Andy Roddick reached in the quarter final of the ‘Sony Ericsson Open tournament’ by defeating Germany’s Benjamin Becker with the score 7-6 (4), 6-3. Roddick is the winner of the U.S Open Championship in 2003.

BIOGRAPHY

Andy Roddick was born on 30th August 30, 1982 in Omaha, Nebraska as the son of a businessman Jerry and a school teacher Blanche Roddick. His two older brothers are also tennis players. He gained his school education from ‘Boca Prep International School’ and graduation from ‘Highlands Christian Academy’. In school days, he was interested in basketball and then turned into tennis. He showed wonderful performance in junior level tennis. He won six world junior singles and seven doubles titles and also won the ‘US Open’ and ‘Australian Open’ junior singles titles. The year 2003 was the breakthrough year of him. In that year, he reached in the quarter final of the ‘Australian Open’ and also reached in the semi final of the ‘Wimbledon’. He gained ‘US open’ of that year by defeating world no 3 Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final and he was ranked no 1 tennis player in the end of that year. Thus he became the youngest American to hold this rank since computer rankings were started in 1973. In 2004, he was defeated by Roger Federer in his first Wimbledon final and he finished that year with ranked as the world no 2. He started the year 2010 with the victory at ‘Brisbane International’ tournament. In ‘2010 Australian Open’, he failed in the quarter final. He is currently playing in the ‘2010 Sony Ericsson Open’ in which he reached in the quarter final by defeating Igor Andreev, Sergiy Stakhovsky and Benjamin Becker in straight sets. Roddick is also a player of United States Davis Cup team and he helped US to gain a victory in ‘2007 Davis Cup’. He is well known for his powerful first serve and he is the holder of the fastest serve measured at 155 mph. In addition to the tennis, Roddick appeared as the host of many television shows like “Friday Night with Jonathan Ross”. He also appeared in the music video “Speed Feels Better” for singer/songwriter Michael Tolcher. He started ‘Andy Roddick Foundation’ which is a non-profit organization that aims to provide children in need with quality education and other necessary resources. He gained many awards including ‘Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award’ for his charity works for the for the survivors of the tsunami. Roddick is married to a fashion model Brooklyn Decker. Overall, Roddick is an extra ordinary tennis player and his hard serves and vicous forehand have made him one of the top ranked tennis players in the world. .