England shaded Sri Lanka in all departments of the game to emerge winners by seven wickets in the first semifinal of the ICC World T20 Championship here on Thursday with 24 balls to spare.

India’s exit from the World Twenty20 championships is being taken with utmost seriousness, and according to media reports, coach Gary Kirsten is expected to a file a incriminating report for the cricket control board, listing the reasons behind it.

Big teams and early title favourites India and South Africa have fallen by the wayside. It is quite natural that a lot of talk is now focussed on the reasons for their debacle.

The Indian cricket team’s troubles haven’t ended with their crashing out of the Twenty20 World Cup, with some reports suggesting that a few of the players were involved in a pub brawl here, even though Yuvraj Singh dismissed these claims.

Australia captain Michael Clarke believes his side have proved their critics back home wrong by reaching the semifinals of the tournament. But the batsman insisted reaching the last-four would not satisfy either him or his teammates.

Overs 19 and 20 of the Sri Lankan innings in their critical Super Eights match summed up Team India’s apathy towards the World T20 Championships in the Caribbean this year. As Chamara Kapugedara’s six sailed over

For Ravichandran Ashwin the wait is almost over. After his selection as the first choice off-spinner in the Indian team to Zimbabwe, Ashwin should realise his dream of representing the country.

Tirumalsetti Suman has reason to be peeved. A fruitful season for the Deccan Chargers in the Indian Premier League was not enough to gain a berth in the India ‘A’ team to tour England next month. Suman does not

India were humiliatingly knocked out of the World Twenty20 championships on Tuesday when a last-ball six from Sri Lanka’s Chamara Kapugedera condemned them to their third straight defeat in the Super Eight stage.
Sri Lanka, who have two victories in Group F, won by five wickets and go through to play England in Thursday’s semifinal.

India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni insisted it was wrong to blame the Indian Premier League for his side’s failure to reach the semifinals of the World Twenty20 championships.