At the start of ICC Twenty20 world cup, people around the world did not know really how this event would turn out. Some were very confident, some were annoyed and looked down upon this shortened version of the game, others were nonchalant (what the heck, lets see what it is?) but come Saturday everyone in world over was looking at this event with India defeating Australia and setting up a final with arch rivals Pakistan. Now, people in South Africa and Australia are officially bitching about the format of game, England want the world to know they invented this format of the game, Srilanka accepts they need to get better at it, Canada and Netherlands probably want to play the game ... In any case everyone is talking about it.
Lets take a look at the teams playing tomorrow gutsy India and sensational Pakistan. They are going to drive half the world to watch tomorrows game and remember every moment of it for a long time to come. Yes, it is going to be one Heck of a game. I am gonna compare these two teams head to head and see if we can find a deciding difference in them.
Top Three - Gambhir, Sehwag and Uthappa vs Hafeez, Nazir and Malik : I think India has an advantage here. On his day Sehwag can take the opposition to cleaners, more importantly its been the consistent starts he has been giving India with Gambhir. Pakistan has chopped and changed their opening pair twice. They don't really know what their best combination is.
Middle Order: Yuvraj, Dhoni and Rohit vs Younis, Kamran and Misbah-ul not much of a difference here. They have similar skills but Indians have again been dependable compared to patchy Pakistan (Misbah being an exception).
Lower Order: Pathan and Joginder vs Shahid Afridi ... Boy! this is tricky, but I will go with Afridi here (he has had a great series with ball too, confidence is high).
Top Three - Gambhir, Sehwag and Uthappa vs Hafeez, Nazir and Malik : I think India has an advantage here. On his day Sehwag can take the opposition to cleaners, more importantly its been the consistent starts he has been giving India with Gambhir. Pakistan has chopped and changed their opening pair twice. They don't really know what their best combination is.
Middle Order: Yuvraj, Dhoni and Rohit vs Younis, Kamran and Misbah-ul not much of a difference here. They have similar skills but Indians have again been dependable compared to patchy Pakistan (Misbah being an exception).Lower Order: Pathan and Joginder vs Shahid Afridi ... Boy! this is tricky, but I will go with Afridi here (he has had a great series with ball too, confidence is high).
Bowling: RP Singh, Harbhajan and Shreesanth vs Asif, Suhail and Umar gul - very fine line of difference but India has an edge here with some kickass bowling against Australia.I think this game is going down to the wire and no matter who wins the biggest winner will be Twenty20 world cricket. Being and Indian though you know whom I am cheering for :)
Cricspeak winds up with fingers crossed .... Chak de India !!!
