England, Australia, Srilanka along with West Indies registered victories in yesterdays warm – up, giving media no chance to write, about any upset stories. Even though there were few scares, but all the teams romped to the finish line and clinched a much needed impetus, before the start of the tournament.
England, which are host in this tournament had few tense moments, in their chase of Scotland paltry total, but was rescued by Kevin Pietersen and Morgan to see them through in the final over, which certainly delighted Collingwood, as he feels that winning in the end meant a lot to him.
Australia was clinical in their display over New Zealand, where they registered a eight wicket comprehensive victory against team, which had just defeated world champions in three consecutive matches. Ricky Pointing and Micheal Clarke sewed a nice partnership after their team has lost two wicket within power play and see their team through, with four balls spare.
In another match, Chris Gayle Tsunami struck Ireland badly, that they lost the match, with well over a four overs to spare and by nine wickets. Chris Gayle scored an unbeaten eight and he would be pivotal, if West Indies has to make any impact in this tournament.
India, which had worst possible stint in T 20 format losing its last three games consecutively against same opposition by name New Zealand, would like to amend its situation by defeating their arch rivals Pakistan in their last warm – up game today.
Indian Captain Mahindra Singh Dhoni has called in, to show some consistency, from his players, whereas there were still doubts prevailing on the fitness of Zaheer Khan and Virender Shewag, who would be most likely be rested for this game also.
Earlier there were speculations that there were feuds between Virender Shewag and Dhoni, as captain wanted to field him in playing eleven in the practise match but the former wanted to rest his troubled shoulder much more.
Dhoni’s interview suggested that he might even won’t mind to push vice – captain out of team, as he indicated of his wide opening options that he have with likes of Yusuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja and Rohit Sharma.
This warm – up game holds vital importance, as already estranged political relationships has seriously cut down matches against them and it would be crucial, to get back to the winning momentum before a huge tournament like this.
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