England wins the T20 world cup by defeating Australia
What a finish to a thrilling run in west indies for the England cricket team; a dream come true. Craig Kieswetter and Kevin Peter Pietersen took the game away from Australia. England wins its first major ICC tournament and does so with a style. Pakistan took way too much away from the Australians in the semi final and England sealed it at the end. The tag for never over until it is over for Australia can be taken off, its over and England has won. The stories after Australia defeated Pakistan in the semi final were all about Australia never giving up but today it was all over, England made sure they came out on top.
Craig Kieswetter is the man of the match who scored 63 runs at strike rate of 128%.
Craig Kieswetter says, "I wouldn't say it was easy, but its nice to get runs in a final. KP took the pressure off, allowed me to play quite freely. A lot of work still needs to be done on my keeping, and I'll be putting in some hard yards in at Taunton."
Kevin Pietersen gets the Player of the Tournament award, with 248 runs in the competition. "A pretty interesting week for me, a little kid on Monday and this trophy today. This is for the whole team. Winning is a habit you create, and this team is hungry for success. What a great, great tournament, good for the boys. It's never easy playing Australia, but our bowlers did a great job this morning and 150 wasn't enough."
Paul Collingwood, victorious captain who gets the first major ICC win: "It's right up there, its got to be, this is the first world cup we've ever won. We've got some good players in the side, and with the work ethic we've had this year I think we're starting to see the results on the pitch. We're getting there, and we have today."
"When you want to be the best you've got to beat the best. When we got them three wickets down early doors, we gave ourselves a great opportunity. We want to kick on from this. This is the first trophy we've ever won, we're going to enjoy it, we'r going to savour it."
Aiming to break their duck in ICC world championships, the masters of the game England have put in a special effort to restrict favourites Australia to a gettable total, after opting to field first in the final of the T-20 world championship at the Kensington Oval in Barbados.
The Australians totalled 147 for 6 in the allotted 20 overs, setting an asking rate 7.4 runs per over for England.
The POMS got off to a perfect start dismissing the dangerous opening duo of Shane Watson and David Warner inside the first two overs. Both of the openers failed in the crunch of the game despite the fact they that had dismantled opposition through out the championships with their aggressive batting at the top of the innings.
The Australians were in deep trouble at 8 for 3, after the departure of Haddin who was dismissed by Side Bottom.
Skipper Michael Clarke finally contributed to the cause of his team with a 27 run knock of 27 balls, to resurrect the situation for his team, however he fell with the total on 45 in the tenth over, and before his departure wicket-keeper Brad Haddin fell for 1.
Cameron White, who played a belligerent knock in the stunning win over Pakistan in the semi-final, struck 30 off only 19 balls, before being taken by Broad, after the lanky bowler had dropped David Hussey a few balls ago.
The younger Hussey, David who scored a fighting half-century making 59 off 54 balls before falling in the final over attempting a quick run, held the innings together.
Mike Hussey the semi-final winning man, scored 17 unbeaten runs, to ensure that the total goes beyond 140.
English bowlers maintained a tight leash on their bitter rivals, with left armed Ryan Sidebottom claiming two wickets, while spinners Yardy and Swann claimed a wicket apiece.
England finally brings home the becan and wins the championship, welldone.
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