Only sightscreen issues obstruct England as they satiate 35-year hunger for World T20 title.

There could not have been a more fitting venue than the Kensington Oval for the final of the World T20.  On the basis of conditions, each team could have been granted a home advantage. Australia could easily have imagined themselves at Perth’s WACA such was the pace and bounce of the Barbadian wicket.  For England the support was not too dissimilar from those seen at the English test match grounds, in that it was made of Britishers with rosy red skin, as equally from the flow of alcohol as the effect of the sun’s rays.

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Pakistan must be sick of Michael Hussey and his superhero abilities. In the infamous Sydney test at the beginning of the year it was Hussey who swung a seemingly lost cause back for to Australia with a masterful hundred, admittedly aided and abetted by Kamran Akmal’s butter fingers and an inevitable Pakistani batting collapse.

Yesterday when Hussey came in at 105 for 5 in the 13th over, with Australia still needing 87 for victory, his quest seemed hopeless. This was despite the best intentions of Cameron White who was trying to repair the damage left by his skipper Michael Clarke. Clarke had inexplicably come in at number four ahead of White and the Hussey brothers and had proceeded to score 17 off 19 balls – hardly what was required when the asking rate was over nine runs per over. In T20 cricket, Clarke is nothing more than a passenger.

When White went down with all guns blazing in the seventeenth over, 53 runs were required from the final 21 balls and at last Pakistan looked like they were going to beat a foe that has spent the last year royally thrashing it every time they met. Yesterday it looked like the slave was going to become the master.

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The World Cricket Watch homepage has changed very slightly. . .

But Can You Spot the Difference?

Clue: The cricketing acronym TMS stands for what?

Answer: We now provide you with the most entertaining and irreverent cricket commentary you’ll ever come across.

Please visit the right sidebar to start listening to this new, exciting brand of commentary from people like you and me – passionate cricket fans. As you can see, we’re not laying claim to creating this service.  But we are very jealous of the guys who did. If you still haven’t twigged, I’m talking about the Test Match Sofa team. Here’s what’s coming up…

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