PREDICT OPUS MATCHES
1st Semi Final SIR WIN by 16 ran. WELCOME to sir LANKA.
2nd semi final WED win by 74 ran. CONGRATULATION to WEST INDIES
Sir lanka is flying.pakistan good by.
sir lanka is nice PLAYER in t20 world cup 2012. t20 world cup 2012 final in 7oct.
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World T20 cricket: Australia and Pakistan reach semi-finals
Pakistan meet Sri Lanka in the first semi-final in Colombo on Thursday, and Australia face West Indies the following day.
Although Australia - beaten finalists in 2010 - will be pleased to reach the final four, they will need to work out a way of playing spin more successfully on turning wickets.
"Pakistan outplayed us," captain George Bailey admitted. "The ball turned a lot more than before and they used spin against us very well."
The fact that Australia go into the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 as one of the favourites to lift the trophy is largely down to one man: Shane Watson.
Mahela Jaya
wardena and Kumar Sangakkara took Sri Lanka to a comfortable win over the West Indies in a match that calmed the somewhat jangled nerves of the 35,000-plus spectators at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in Kandy. After the tie against New Zealand, which Sri Lanka won in the Super Over, the game against the West Indies was a veritable walk in the park.
Darren Sammy got it right at the toss and chose to bat, perhaps expecting the wicket, on which England had just beaten New Zealand, to be a touch tired. By the end of the game, though, it was the shoulders of West Indies’ players that were drooping.
While Jayawardena helped himself to some invaluable time out in the middle, it was Sri Lanka’s bowlers who set up the win. Ajantha Mendis, who had struggled with a side strain earlier in the tournament, was fit to go and snaffled the first wicket when Johnson Charles charged down the pitch without a good idea of which way the ball would turn.
If Mendis accounted for the form player, it was Nuwan Kulasekara, who often goes uncelebrated, who knocked the big man over. Chris Gayle had an airy waft at a slower leg-cutter and the thick edge was well caught by Sangakkara diving to his left. At 16 for two, West Indies was in trouble, and Marlon Samuels was forced to consolidate in the company of Dwayne Bravo.
Sri Lanka’s bowlers sensed a chance to slip in some quiet overs, and only two overs resulted in 10 runs or more in the first 14. While the pitch did not grip exceptionally, it was on the slow side and this played into the hands of Sri Lanka’s bowlers. Sri Lanka was patient, anticipating the opportunities that would come its way when the batsmen tried to force the pace.
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