Twenty20 World Cup Grand Final - Pakistan vs India at Johannesburg
Who could have asked for a batter Grand Final? Pakistan and India, the arch rivals, do battle to determine who will be the first ever Twenty20 World Cup champions.
Pakistan and India have been the real surprise packets of this tournament. Both teams have had little Twenty20 experience but have made it to the Grand Final beating out specialist sides such as England and South Africa and also overcoming the number one test and ODI nation Australia.
This shapes up to be a fantastic game though as the two arch rivals do battle with rather inexperienced sides. However, the younger players have performed quite well and have aided each side's progression to this final game.
Pakistan have been rather consistent and have played well thus far. Both the batters and bowlers have performed evenly with some excellent batting and some very good seam bowling.
India started off sluggishly but have fought back, lately through the sheer brilliance of Yuvraj Singh and they now find themselves in the final.
This will be a good game no doubt and one of the most anticpated games of the tournament, expect some fireworks here.
Pakistan XI (probable): Imran Nazir, Mohammad Hafeez, Younis Khan, Shoaib Malik*, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi, Fawad Alam, Kamran Akmal+, Umar Gul, Mohammad Asif, Sohail Tanvir
India XV: MS Dhoni*+, Yuvraj Singh, AB Agarkar, G Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, Joginder Sharma, KD Karthik, IK Pathan, YK Pathan, Piyush Chawla, V Sehwag, RP Sharma, RP Singh, S Sreesanth, RV Uthappa
Umpires: Mark Benson and Simon Taufel
3rd Umpire: Daryl Harper
Weather:
(All Temperatures in Degrees Celcius)
Sunny, 24.
Game starts at 8pm AWST (2pm local time, 12pm GMT).
Who could have asked for a batter Grand Final? Pakistan and India, the arch rivals, do battle to determine who will be the first ever Twenty20 World Cup champions.
Pakistan and India have been the real surprise packets of this tournament. Both teams have had little Twenty20 experience but have made it to the Grand Final beating out specialist sides such as England and South Africa and also overcoming the number one test and ODI nation Australia.
This shapes up to be a fantastic game though as the two arch rivals do battle with rather inexperienced sides. However, the younger players have performed quite well and have aided each side's progression to this final game.
Pakistan have been rather consistent and have played well thus far. Both the batters and bowlers have performed evenly with some excellent batting and some very good seam bowling.
India started off sluggishly but have fought back, lately through the sheer brilliance of Yuvraj Singh and they now find themselves in the final.
This will be a good game no doubt and one of the most anticpated games of the tournament, expect some fireworks here.
Pakistan XI (probable): Imran Nazir, Mohammad Hafeez, Younis Khan, Shoaib Malik*, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi, Fawad Alam, Kamran Akmal+, Umar Gul, Mohammad Asif, Sohail Tanvir
India XV: MS Dhoni*+, Yuvraj Singh, AB Agarkar, G Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, Joginder Sharma, KD Karthik, IK Pathan, YK Pathan, Piyush Chawla, V Sehwag, RP Sharma, RP Singh, S Sreesanth, RV Uthappa
Umpires: Mark Benson and Simon Taufel
3rd Umpire: Daryl Harper
Weather:
(All Temperatures in Degrees Celcius)
Sunny, 24.
Game starts at 8pm AWST (2pm local time, 12pm GMT).
