Thursday, September 13, 2007
Australia Vs Zimbabwe
Minnows Zimbabwe upset tournament favourites Australia in the first shock of the World Twenty20 championships at Newlands on Wednesday.
Opening batsman Brendan Taylor guided Zimbabwe to a five-wicket win after Australia limped to 138 for nine in
their 20 overs after choosing to bat on a slow pitch.Vusi Sibanda opened Zimbabwe's reply with a blaze of strokes and when rain started to fall after seven overs Zimbabwe were ahead on the Duckworth/Lewis method.
Tight bowling by Stuart Clark and Mitchell Johnson pulled Australia back and Zimbabwe lost crucial wickets before rain stopped play with Zimbabwe on 74 for four after 11.5 overs.
At that stage Australia were five runs ahead on the
calculations.Pakistan Vs Soctland
Shahid Afridi and Umar Gul wreaked havoc with the ball as Pakistan kicked off their Twenty20 World Cup campaign with a thumping 51-run win against lowly Scotland in a Group D match at Kingsmead on Wednesday.
Setting the minnows a stiff winning target of 172 runs, Pakistan never had any real problem as Afridi (4-19) and Gul (4-25) ran through the Scotland batting order to bundle them out for 120 with one ball to spare.
For Scotland, Fraser Watts provided the only resistance with a 36-ball knock of 46 before Mohammad Hafiz removed him.
Afridi, currently under the scanner back home for his role in the much-publicised Shoaib Akhtar-Mohammad Asif brawl, was adjudged the Man of the Match.
New zealand Vs Kenya
Mark Gillespie returned the best ever figures in Twenty20 cricket as New Zealand 
demolished Kenya by nine wickets in the world championships on Wednesday.
Gillespie picked up 4-7 in 2.5 overs to send Kenya crashing for 73 all out, the lowest Twenty20 international total, which the Kiwis surpassed easily in the eighth over to begin their campaign on a rousing note.
Peter Fulton ended the one-sided match with two consecutive sixes off Rajesh Bhudia.
In Tuesday's opening match in Johannesburg, West Indian Chris Gayle scored the first century in the shortest version of the game but could not prevent an eight-wicket win by hosts South Africa.
demolished Kenya by nine wickets in the world championships on Wednesday.Gillespie picked up 4-7 in 2.5 overs to send Kenya crashing for 73 all out, the lowest Twenty20 international total, which the Kiwis surpassed easily in the eighth over to begin their campaign on a rousing note.
Peter Fulton ended the one-sided match with two consecutive sixes off Rajesh Bhudia.
In Tuesday's opening match in Johannesburg, West Indian Chris Gayle scored the first century in the shortest version of the game but could not prevent an eight-wicket win by hosts South Africa.
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September 13, 2007 at 4:00 AM
did't know aus too can loose in this passion
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