What a proud moment for the Pakistan Team which was underrated before the start of the tournament trouncing the Sri Lankans by 8 wickets and winning the T20 World Cup championship held in London , Pakistanis displayed their excellent bowling and batting in turn entertained the crowd and elevated their country’s name to dizzy heights.
It was Shahid Afridis heroics again which earned him the Man of the Match for his brilliant 54 and a wicket , he had been the match winner on numerous times , removing Lance Gibbs with a viscious turner and cleaning up DVilliers turned the match in favour of Pakistanis in the Semi final played against South Africa, his four wickets with sharp turning deliveries shunted out the Ireland batsmen in the decider to scramp home to the semi finals.
In the final played at Lords, London between Sri Lanka and Pakistan, Lanka won the toss and decided to bat but disaster struck wherein the young Amir opening the bowling had Dilshan caught brilliantly by Hassan in the first over itself, Mubarak was promoted to No.1 slot never stayed and was again gulped by Hassan at Mid of of Razzack and left Lankans totering at 2-2 but Jayasuriya tried looking dangerous belting two fours of Razack who finally got the reward by having him clean bowled , even Jayawardene joined the dressing room and there after wickets kept tumbling every interval due to the consistent and accurate bowling by the Pakistanis , the saving grace of Lankan innings was the 68 runs partnership for the 7 wicket between Skipper Sangakkara who scored unbeaten 64 with 7 hits to the fence and Angelo Mathews who remained unbeaten on 35 with three fours and a six and set a defendable total of 138 thanks to the sixteen runs given by Amir in the penutimilate over , Lankans who were reeling at 70-6 looked satisfied scoring 138 runs. Razack was the succesful bowler claiming 3 wickets for 20 runs in his 3 overs while Afridi, Ameer , Umar gul claimed a wicket each
THE DANGER LOOKING JAYASURIYA IS BOWLED BY RAZZAQ
Chasing the moderate 138 set by Lankans Pakistan were of to a flier with Kamran Akmal playing some good shots assisted by Shahzaib Hasan who put on 48 runs for the first wicket,but going for a slog Kamran Akmal was stumped easily of Muralidharan for 37 runs ,even Shahzaib Hasan never lasted long there after the Boom Boom Afridi and Shaoib Mallick joined and played a spoil sport for the Lankans with their 76 runs partnership for the fourth wicket with both the players never looked in a hurry but Afridi after getting the ryhthym played some fantastic shots and remained unbeaten on 54 in 40balls with 2 fours and 2 sixers ably assisted by Shoaib Mallick who remained unbeaten on 24 and sealed victory for the Pakistanis.
Lankan bowlers were easily dealt by the Pakistani batsmen , even Mendis, Murali, Mallinga never had the venom to sting the opponents and were easily outclassed .
Pakistan became the new World Champion of the 20-20 ending their drought of losses.
Shahid Afridi was named the Man of the Match while Dilshan was nominated as the Player of the Series for his 317 runs in 7 innings.
HIGHLIGHTS
ICC World Twenty20 – final
Pakistan won by 8 wickets (with 8 balls remaining)
- T20I no. 116 | 2009 season
- Played at Lord’s, London (neutral venue)
- 21 June 2009 (20-over match)
| Sri Lanka innings (20 overs maximum) |
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TM Dilshan | c Shahzaib Hasan b Mohammad Aamer | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 0.5 goddim! He’s out! Dilshan departs for a duck as he goes for that flicky pull-cum-scoop but mistimes it for once, and short fine-leg scurries to his left to take a fine catch 0/1 | ||||||||
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ST Jayasuriya | b Abdul Razzaq | 17 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 170.00 |
| 3.5 bowled him! And Razzaq slips and is on the floor! On the off stump, Jayasuriya went for another shovel-pull but dragged it on to the delight of Pakistan. They have three! 26/3 | ||||||||
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J Mubarak | c Shahzaib Hasan b Abdul Razzaq | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 1.3 got him! Pakistan have two! He came skipping down the wicket and tried to whip it through midwicket but the bounce did for him, and he got a leading edge to mid-off who steadied himself to take an easy catch 2/2 | ||||||||
| KC Sangakkara*† | not out | 64 | 79 | 52 | 7 | 0 | 123.07 | |
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DPMD Jayawardene | c Misbah-ul-Haq b Abdul Razzaq | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 |
| 5.3 gone! Fourth wicket falls as Jayawardene attempts a cute back-cut but guides it straight into the gleeful hands of slip, who swallows it to his right with ease. Pakistan on fire! 32/4 | ||||||||
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LPC Silva | c Saeed Ajmal b Umar Gul | 14 | 22 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 73.68 |
| 11.3 got him! Gul makes the breakthrough, whacking it in short and Silva tried to pull but completely mistimed it, the ball looping meekly to midwicket 67/5 | ||||||||
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I Udana | b Shahid Afridi | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 |
| 12.6 bowled him! Brilliant delivery drifting back sharply, beating his drive and the wrong’un skittles him. Outstanding from Afridi! 70/6 | ||||||||
| AD Mathews | not out | 35 | 32 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 145.83 | |
| Extras | (lb 3, w 2, nb 1) | 6 | ||||||
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| Total | (6 wickets; 20 overs) | 138 | (6.90 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat SL Malinga, M Muralitharan, BAW Mendis |
| Fall of wickets1-0 (Dilshan, 0.5 ov), 2-2 (Mubarak, 1.3 ov), 3-26 (Jayasuriya, 3.5 ov), 4-32 (Jayawardene, 5.3 ov), 5-67 (Silva, 11.3 ov), 6-70 (Udana, 12.6 ov) |
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Mohammad Aamer | 4 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 7.50 | ||
| 0.5 to Dilshan, goddim! He’s out! Dilshan departs for a duck as he goes for that flicky pull-cum-scoop but mistimes it for once, and short fine-leg scurries to his left to take a fine catch 0/1 | ||||||||
| Abdul Razzaq | 3 | 0 | 20 | 3 | 6.66 | |||
| 1.3 to Mubarak, got him! Pakistan have two! He came skipping down the wicket and tried to whip it through midwicket but the bounce did for him, and he got a leading edge to mid-off who steadied himself to take an easy catch 2/2
3.5 to Jayasuriya, bowled him! And Razzaq slips and is on the floor! On the off stump, Jayasuriya went for another shovel-pull but dragged it on to the delight of Pakistan. They have three! 26/3 5.3 to Jayawardene, gone! Fourth wicket falls as Jayawardene attempts a cute back-cut but guides it straight into the gleeful hands of slip, who swallows it to his right with ease. Pakistan on fire! 32/4 |
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| Shahid Afridi | 4 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 5.00 | |||
| 12.6 to Udana, bowled him! Brilliant delivery drifting back sharply, beating his drive and the wrong’un skittles him. Outstanding from Afridi! 70/6 | ||||||||
| Saeed Ajmal | 4 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 7.00 | |||
| Shoaib Malik | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8.00 | |||
| Umar Gul | 4 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 7.25 | (1nb, 2w) | ||
| 11.3 to Silva, got him! Gul makes the breakthrough, whacking it in short and Silva tried to pull but completely mistimed it, the ball looping meekly to midwicket 67/5 | ||||||||
| Pakistan innings (target: 139 runs from 20 overs) |
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6s |
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| Kamran Akmal† | st †Sangakkara b Jayasuriya | 37 | 33 | 28 | 2 | 2 | 132.14 | |
| 7.1 and he strikes first ball! Akmal charges him straightaway and tries to hit down the ground, Jayasuriya follows him with a full ball, cramping the batsman for room, Akmal swings and misses, he’s so far out of his ground that he barely tries to get back before Sangakkara whips off the bails 48/1 | ||||||||
| Shahzaib Hasan | c Jayasuriya b Muralitharan | 19 | 43 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 82.60 | |
| 9.1 Shahzaib’s gone! He tried to attack Murali too, aiming for the slog sweep, the ball hit the top edge and went straight up in the air before falling into Jayasuriya’s hands at short fine leg 63/2 | ||||||||
| Shahid Afridi | not out | 54 | 52 | 40 | 2 | 2 | 135.00 | |
| Shoaib Malik | not out | 24 | 43 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 109.09 | |
| Extras | (lb 2, w 2, nb 1) | 5 | ||||||
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| Total | (2 wickets; 18.4 overs) | 139 | (7.44 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat Abdul Razzaq, Younis Khan*, Misbah-ul-Haq, Fawad Alam, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Mohammad Aamer |
| Fall of wickets1-48 (Kamran Akmal, 7.1 ov), 2-63 (Shahzaib Hasan, 9.1 ov) |
| Bowling |
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| AD Mathews | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 8.50 | |||
| I Udana | 4 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 11.00 | (1nb, 2w) | ||
| SL Malinga | 3.4 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 3.81 | |||
| M Muralitharan | 3 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 6.66 | |||
| 9.1 to Shahzaib Hasan, Shahzaib’s gone! He tried to attack Murali too, aiming for the slog sweep, the ball hit the top edge and went straight up in the air before falling into Jayasuriya’s hands at short fine leg 63/2 | ||||||||
| BAW Mendis | 4 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 8.50 | |||
| ST Jayasuriya | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 4.00 | |||
| 7.1 to Kamran Akmal, and he strikes first ball! Akmal charges him straightaway and tries to hit down the ground, Jayasuriya follows him with a full ball, cramping the batsman for room, Akmal swings and misses, he’s so far out of his ground that he barely tries to get back before Sangakkara whips off the bails 48/1 | ||||||||
| Match details |
| Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat Series Pakistan won the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 |
| Player of the match Shahid Afridi (Pakistan) Player of the series TM Dilshan (Sri Lanka) |
| Umpires DJ Harper (Australia) and SJA Taufel (Australia) TV umpire SJ Davis (Australia) Match referee BC Broad Reserve umpire BF Bowden (New Zealand) |
| Match notes |
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