Sri Lanka Vs West Indies 2nd Semifinal Live Scores, 20 20 World Cup, SRL v WIN Squads & Timings

In the 2nd semi final of T20 World Cup 2009, the two strong teams Sri Lanka and West Indies will play today at Kennington Oval, London starting from 17:30 local , 16:30 GMT , 21:30 Pakistan, 22:00 India, 20:30 UAE.

Sri Lanka has good spin attack with experienced Muttiah Muralitharan and mystery man Ajantha Mendis who is bowling very well in this tournament so far and disturbing opposition batsmen. Both are bowling with a good economy rate which is really impressive in T20 cricket matches. Lasith Malinga and young Isuru Udana are handling pace attack for Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka team is a balanced team with experienced batsmen Dilshan, Jayasuria, Sangakkara and Jayawardene as well as young Chamara Silva and Mathews.

West Indies has a great batting lineup with some big hitters like opener Andre Fletcher, all rounder Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Lendl Simmons and wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin. West Indies must need a massive inning from Skipper Chris Gayle who fired on Australian bowlers. The strong point of West Indies is their pace attack with Bravo, Simmons, Jerome Taylor and Pollard. Tall left arm spinner Sulieman Benn can disturb Sri Lanka players who are very good to play spin.

Sri Lanka Playing 11 for Today Match

Sanath Jayasuriya, T Dilshan, Kumara Sangakkara (C/WK), Mahela Jayawardene, Chamara Silva, Jehan Mubarak, Angelo Mathews, T Udana, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis, Lasith Malinga.

West Indies Playing 11 for Today Match

Chris Gayle (C), Andre Fletcher, Lendl Simmons, Shivanrine Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Dwayne Bravo, Denesh Ramdin (WK), Kieron Pollard, Suleiman Benn, Darren Sammy, Jerome Taylor.

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Pakistan Vs South Africa 1st Semifinal Live Scores, 20 20 World Cup, PAK v SA Squads & Timings

In the first semi final of T20 World Cup 2009, the two strong teams Pakistan and South Africa will face each other today at Trent Bridge, Nottingham starting from 17:30 local , 16:30 GMT , 21:30 Pakistan, 22:00 India, 20:30 UAE.

Pakistan struggled a lot to qualify for the Semi final from the start of tournament. Pakistan was the runner up in previous T20 world cup so this time they want to grab this T20 world Champion Title. Since Abdul Razzaq joined Pakistan team, Pakistan got boost up in batting, bowling and fielding. Umar Gul and Saeed Ajmal both are the leading wicket take in T20 world cup 2009 impressed with bowling attack. Shahzaib Hasan and Kamran Akmal are providing a good start while Misbah-ul-Haq, Shoaib Malik and Afridi got their form from last two matches.

South Africa is the only semi finalists who have not lost any game so far in the tournament so they just need to continue the current momentum. The strong point of South Africa is that they have got a number of quality all-rounder players like J P Duminy, Roelof van der Merwe, Johan Botha, Albie Morkel and experienced Jacques Kallis. South Africa have some good clean hitter of ball like Skipper Greame Smith, AB de Villiers and J P Duminy while in bowling also they have some quality fast bowlers like Dale Steyn, Jacques Kallis with young Wayne Parnell who bowled very well against West indies 4 wickets for 13 runs in 4 overs.

Pakistan Playing 11 for Today Match

Younis Khan (C), Misbah-ul-haq, Kamran Akmal (W), Shoaib Mallik, Shahid Afridi, Salman Butt, Shahzaib Hasan , Sohail Tanvir, Abdul Razzaq, Umar Gul, Iftikar Anzum, Fawad Alam, Mohammad Aamir

South Africa Playing 11 for Today Match

GC Smith(C), J Botha, YA Abdulla, MV Boucher(W), AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, HH Gibbs, JH Kallis, JA Morkel, M Morkel, JL Ontong, WD Parnell, RJ Peterson, DW Steyn, RE van der Merwe

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