Results For The Twenty20 Warm Up Matches
The Twenty20 World Cup begins on Tuesday with South Africa against West Indies in Johannesburg in Group A. Twenty 20 world cup is about to start. Every cricket fan, lover is very eagerly waiting for the start of world cup. Preparation is going on by all the teams. Teams are playing warm up matches against each other. Yesterday some warm up matches played between teams like South Africa vs Australia, Kenya vs Bangladesh, Pakistan vs Sri Lanka. South Africa swept to a rousing eight-wicket win over Australia while Pakistan, West Indies and Kenya also tasted victory in Sunday’s final round of warm-up matches before the Twenty20 World Cup.
AB de Villiers partnered Smith in a second wicket stand of 116 in just 12 overs which effectively ended the game, played in Centurion.
In the morning game played at the same venue, Pakistan soundly beat Sri Lanka by five wickets with seven balls to spare after an opening stand of 94 between Salman Butt (51) and Mohammad Hafeez (45).
Jehan Mubarak (42) top scored for Sri Lanka in a modest total of 162-7 but off-spinner Hafeez claimed figures of 2-18 in four overs to prove the worth of clever slow bowling in the shortest version of the game. Kenya produced the first raised eyebrows of the warm-up weekend with a convincing six-wicket triumph over Test nation Bangladesh after bowling the senior team out for a miserable 116 with 21 balls left of their 20 overs.
BLUSHES SPARED
Opener Tamim Iqbal spared some of Bangladesh’s blushes with 56 from 41 balls but veteran Steve Tikolo’s carefully paced 36 from 28 deliveries saw the African nation win with a ball to spare.
