We witnessed a number of great individual performances at the ICC World Twenty20. Which ones were the best? The Castrol Index helps us figure out by measuring the value of each and every performance with bat and ball. Here are the star exploits from the tournament. Best Batting Scores S No Player Runs Strike Rate [...]

Team India is out of the 2009 Twenty20 World Championship after consecutive defeats against the West Indies and England. It was the first time the Men in Blue were really tested in the tournament and they didn’t look up to scratch. So what went wrong for the Indians in the Super 8 stage? For one, [...]

Eight teams are vying for four semi-final spots at the current stage of the 2009 Twenty20 World Championships. Theoretically, all teams should be in with an equal shot of making it, assuming all sides are more or less equal. But that is not the case and we now have one group more stacked than the [...]

West Indies is scoring most of their runs in boundaries while surprisingly Pakistan are running through the 22 yards the most during their matches in 2009 ICC T20 World Championship, according to Castrol Index. The strategy may be to have a right mix of boundaries and singles / two’s / three’s. Singles help rotating the [...]

Losing back-to-back matches and bowing out of a World Championship early in the first round is not something that Australian cricket is used to. Was it lack of match practice that led to their elimination? Since 2005, when Australia played its first T20 International, it has played 19 matches, including the two in the current [...]

Four days into the competition, we already know seven of the eight sides that will be a part of the Super Eight stage. We also know which group they will end up in thanks to the seeding system used at this year’s tournament. Here’s how the two groups for the Super Eight stage are shaping [...]

Lord’s was covered in a sea of Orange as the Netherlands pulled off a sensational upset against hosts England on account of better fielding on Day One of the T20 World Championships. A look at our match review will tell you England, despite losing, ended up with a higher Castrol Index for the match. The [...]

England batsmen Kevin Pietersen has been ruled out of today’s opening ICC World Twenty20 match against the Netherlands at Lord’s due to an Achilles injury. England chief medical officer, Nick Peirce, said: “Kevin had been making excellent progress with the management of his right Achilles injury and had shown substantial improvement. However today he has experienced a degree of [...]

Team India is all set to defend their crown as the World Twenty20 kicks off this Friday. The players have seen plenty of cricket action over the last few weeks, which give us a fair sense of who’s in good form and who isn’t. How exactly do we measure this form? Simple, we look at [...]

Cricket is very much a team sport and the way in which the team performs as a whole often determines how successful they are. However, behind every successful team there are a few key players that make the difference. In a tournament such as the World Twenty20, two or three bang in-form players can result [...]

Cricket Australia (CA) has recalled Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds from England and is organising for him to return to Australia. The decision follows a breach of team rules in the lead up to the ICC World Twenty20 being played in England this month. CA Chief Executive Officer James Sutherland said Symonds would return to Australia [...]