Now after the IPL international cricket has turned its focus on to the upcoming T20 World Cup to start next month in England. The subject matter of interest in the cricket news are the results of the warm up matches of the World Cup that is due to start in a matter of days.

For the West Indians, it was a faceoff with Scotland that resulted in a win starring Dwayne Bravo, who continued his good form from the DLF IPL 2009. Bravo made 52 off just 30 balls and set the stage for his team’s win over the Scottish team. Darren Sammy took 3 wickets in his three overs to squash any dreams that Scotland may have had of winning their warm up tie.

Meanwhile Bangladesh were victorious in their game against Netherlands after having earlier lost to New Zealand and would have been reassured by their win. Thanks to some match winning knocks of 69 from Mohammed Ashraful and Mahmudullah’s 54, Bangladesh managed a to get to a 206 for the loss of 6 wickets which proved to be too much for the Netherlands by far, who were all out for 142 with more than three overs to go. The fact that Bangladesh managed to get to such an impressive score would itself be a very encouraging factor for the team.

Meanwhile Ireland took on the PCA Master’s XI which is made up of former English cricket players such as Philip DeFreitas and Darren Gough. Keiron Pollard who is a current player of international cricket for the West Indies also is part of the PCA team and managed to make a good impact with bat as well as ball. He made 43 runs from 26 balls and took two wickets as well. Among the Irish it was John Mooney who impressed with his 57 off 43 balls.

All the international cricket playing nations are currently busy preparing for the upcoming T20 World Cup. A cheerful Indian team was seen posing for their squad photos today and the Australian team also arrived in England yesterday on a rather low key note considering that they will be in England for some considerable amount of time for the T20 World Cup as well as the subsequent Ashes series. 

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