India Vs West Indies– Live Cricket Scores of IND v WIND - Super 8 Group E T20 World Cup

In the 16th match of Super 8 Group E T20 World Cup 2009, Champions, India is going to have a real challenge against West Indies today at Lord's, London starting from 4:30 GMT, 10.00 PM IST in their super eight league

The defending champions India did not have much of a difficulty till now in the tournament. So it wont be a easy walk in the park for India beating tough competitors like West Indies who have earlier defeated Australia in the opening game before losing out to Sri Lanka by 15 runs in their last match. The strength of Indian batting lineup is their middle order including Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina and Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni as well as two all rounders Yousuf Pathan and Irfan Pathan. Pragyan Ojha who is the leading wicket taker is doing a pretty good job in the spin department.

West Indies got an excellent opener in Andre Fletcher. The hard hitter Captain Chris Gayle is the only batsman who has a century in twenty20 international played a terrific inning against Australia. All-rounder Dwayne Bravo played very well against Sri Lanka. West Indies has a balanced team with hard hitting batsmen and quality pacers like Jerome Taylor, Fidel Edwards and Lendl Simmons who took four wickets against Sri Lanka giving only 19 runs in 3 overs.

India Playing 11 for Today Match

MS Dhoni(C/W), G Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, RA Jadeja, Z Khan, P Kumar, PP Ojha, IK Pathan, YK Pathan, SK Raina, V Sehwag, I Sharma, RG Sharma, RP Singh, Yuvraj Singh

West Indies Playing 11 for Today Match

Chris Gayle (C), Ramnaresh Sarwan, David Bernard, Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Fidel Edwards, Xavier Marshall, Denesh Ramdin (W), Lionel Baker, Sulieman Benn, Jerome Taylor

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Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Vs Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) - IPL 2009 54th Match

In the 54th match of 2009 Indian Premier League, Chennai Super Kings and Kings XI Punjab will play an important match to qualify for the semifinals on Wednesday, 20th May, 2009 at Durban starting from 16.30 local time (SA), [14.30 GMT, 8.00PM IST.]

Chennai Super Kings was defeated by Kolkata Knight Riders who are already out of the race to the semifinals. Mathew Hayden will most likely comeback into squad in this match. The bowling is point of concern for Chennai Super Kings because none of their bowlers are performing consistently.

Kings XI Punjab caught good form by defeating two top teams Delhi Daredevils and Deccan Chargers in last consecutive matches. Kumar Sangakkara and Irfan Pathan are in great touch through the IPL. Piyush Chawla and Ramesh Powar have been impressive in the middle overs while Yuvraj who already has two hat tricks in this IPL 2009 is a black horse.

Chennai Super Kings Playing 11 for Today Match

Parthiv Patel, Matthew Hayden, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (C/WK), Albie Morkel, Jacob Oram, S Badrinath, Shadab Jakati, L Balaji, Sudeep Tyagi, Muttiah Muralitharan.

Kings XI Punjab Playing 11 for Today Match

Sunny Sohal, Simon Katich, Irfan Pathan, Kumar Sangakkara(WK), Yuvraj Singh(C), Wilkin Mota, Karan Goel, Mahela Jayawardene, Brett Lee, Piyush Chawla, S Sreesanth

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Yuraj Singh's hat-trick gives hope for semis and win for Punjab

Yuraj Singh took 2nd hat-trick of the 2009 IPL and set a last ball 1 run win for Kings XI Punjab against Deccan Chargers in the 49th match on Sunday at Johannesburg.

Kumara Sangakkara continues to rescue Punjab hit 56 runs off 43 ball to take the total to fighting score of 134 runs on a hard to bat pitch. RP Singh took 3 wickets.

Yuraj Singh then took another hat-trick and Irfan Pathan bowled good last over to clinched a thrilling win for Punjab as Rohit Sharma almost clinched anothr blinder for Deccan Chargers.

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