T20 World Cup, 2010

After a terrible loss, against Australia in the first encounter in the T20 World Cup's Super8 section, India had a strong battle to win against the West Indies to ensure their presence in the rest of the game.. Though not an easy task to take it away from the homecountry, India made it all the more difficult by its poor team performance.
India's day started with poor fielding – lots of dropped catches, misfields and a comparitively poor bowling attack...

To add it on, India's batting order fell as the pack of cards.. Even the very much in form – Suresh Raina couldnt pull out all the stops..

The Kensington Oval Stadium at Bridgetown in Barbados thunderously defended the home team.. With a roaring capacity of 15,000 spectators, the stadium euphorically welcomed the T20 format of the game. With the spectacular crowd, and cheer and music all over the ground, the Commonwealth country holding its national sport as cricket, joined the party immediately after India lost its first 3 wickets..

The stadium is locally reffered to as 'the Mecca' of cricket. Home to great cricketing stars like Garfield Sobers, Sir Clyde Walcott, Frank Worrel, Joel Garner – Barbados, with its 118-year-old stadium has stayed witness to many regional, national and international games. This same ground was venue for the 2007 Cricket World Cup final between Australia and Sri Lanka, where Australia won its 4th world cup final.

Ichirouganaim is the original name of Barbados. It also means the country of the bearded ones. Barbados' economy, dominated by services and tourism would get a great relief (after being badly hit by recession last year) with the commencement of the T20 World Cup.

Now Dhoni's men in blue have to dig back their loss in the ground and have to desperately win the next game with Sri Lanka (that too with a huge margin) and miraculously wait for their arch rival – Australia to win their next two matches against Sri Lanka and West Indies.

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  1. VineethMay 11, 2010 at 12:38 AM

    Wish India win the match against Srilanka and everything else happen as expected.BTW Interesting job Buddy .......

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