{"id":6479,"date":"2012-10-09T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T11:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=6479"},"modified":"2012-10-09T11:45:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T11:45:33","slug":"west-indies-win-world-twenty-20-title-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=6479","title":{"rendered":"West Indies Win World Twenty 20 Title 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"West Indies Win World Twenty 20 Title\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsandviewsonline.com\/google\/news_images\/large\/12101349679395West_Indies_dem9223.jpg\" alt=\"West Indies Win World Twenty 20 Title, newsandviewsonline.com\" width=\"472\" height=\"319\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>West Indies have been crowned World Twenty20 champions after a 36-run victory over hosts Sri Lanka in a dramatic final in Colombo. Sri Lanka restricted West Indies to 137 for six wickets. Marlon Samuels produced a brilliant all-round performance, guiding the West Indies to victory . It is the West Indies&#8217; first world title after a gap of 33 years having won the ODI World Cup back in 1979. They did triumph in the Champions Trophy in 2004.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sri Lanka have now lost two successive 50-over World Cup finals in 2007 and 2011 and two World Twenty20 finals in 2009 and 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Australia\u2019s Shane Watson, who had four straight man-of-the- match awards and struck 249 runs to top the run-scoring list, was named player of the tournament<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre><strong>Marlon Samuels won the Man of the match Award.<\/strong><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Australia retains women Twenty-20 World Cup title<\/h3>\n<p>Australia successfully defended their women\u2019s World Twenty20 title following an exciting four run win over arch-rivals England in the final on Sunday. Australia beat England on the final ball to retain the Women&#8217;s World Twenty20 title in Colombo. Jess Cameron hit the highest score of 45 in any World Twenty20 final to help Australia to 142-4 in their 20 overs before the champions restricted England to 138-9 at Premadasa stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Indies have been crowned World Twenty20 champions after a 36-run victory over hosts Sri Lanka in a dramatic final in Colombo. Sri Lanka restricted West Indies to 137 for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=6479\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2836,1430,2837,2838,2839,2840],"class_list":["post-6479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-club","tag-ancient-scripts","tag-cricket-news","tag-west-indies","tag-west-indies-win-world-twenty-20-title","tag-women-twenty-20-world-cup-title","tag-world-twenty-20-title","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}