2012 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World T20: Top ten batsmen – Part II
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Prolific top-order batsman Mahela Jayawardene, who skippered the home side in an impressive way during the 12-team mega event, was the fourth best batsman in the marquee tournament.
The 35-year-old Colombo-born top-order batsman ended the tournament as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Watson-c2558 (249 from six innings) on the tournament runs-chart.
Jayawardene, who relinquished the T20 International captaincy after the mega event, was the most consistent performer of Sri Lanka in the T20 showdown, scoring runs at an average of 40.50 and a strike 116.26, smashing 29 muscular boundaries and five sixes in the tournament.
His best performance came during comprehensive nine-wicket win over http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 in a Super Eights fixture, where the Sri Lankan opener hit a 49-ball 65 to help his side chase down a mediocre 130-run target quite comfortably in just 15.2 overs. Jayawardene was named as the Man of the Match for his calculated knock.
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Virat Kohli, who was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755.
Kohli, a veteran of 116 international matches across all formats, scored the runs at an impressive strike rate of 122.51, plundering 24 boundaries – twenty fours and four sixes – during the tournament.
The highlight of Kohli’s 2012 World T20 campaign was a 78 not out in a Super Eights clash against arch rivals Pakistan, which the Men in Blue won by eight wickets with three overs to spare. The 23-year-old Delhi lad had also picked up opposition skipper Mohammad Hafeez’ crucial wicket in that match, and was adjudged as the Man on the Match.
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http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747, scored at a startling strike rate of 212.06.
The 31-year-old Otago-born cricketer got the attention of the cricketing fraternity after smashing a whirlwind 123 off just 58 deliveries against the Bengali Tigers in their World Cup opener, at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, in Kandy, on September 21, 2012. McCullum’s pugnacious knock, studded with 11 muscular boundaries and 7 towering sixes, has been rated as one of the all-time best performances in the history of the biennial tournament, by a number of cricket websites.
After smashing the whirlwind ton against Bangladesh, the Kiwi gloveman, who is the highest run-getter in Twenty20 internationals, became the first batsman to score two centuries in the history of T20 International cricket. He was the unanimous choice of the jury for the Player of the Match award.
Overall, the Otago-born cricketer scored 212 runs in five innings, at an impressive average of 42.40, and a stunning strike rate of 159.39. He was the fifth highest run getter of the tournament, and the leading run scorer from the Black Caps ranks.
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