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| | Does India need Twenty20 cricket? : Cricket COLUMNS : CricketZone.Com |
 | | Niranjan Shah, secretary of the board, said India was the only nation that did not support the Twenty-20 World Cup’s proposal in a recent meeting of ICC officials, but after a meeting of the high-powered working panel of ICC, India were outvoted 10-1 and hence had no option but to give-in. |
 | | Of course Indian skipper Rahul Dravid has lend his support to Twenty20 cricket and swashbuckling batsmen like Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Kevin Pietersen, Adam Gilchrist, Shahid Khan Afridi would lick their lips but it was Harbhajan Singh who reiterated that the format would be nothing but a massacre for bowlers. |
 | | It is a type of single innings cricket in which each team bats for a maximum of only 20 overs and closely resembles a form of the game, which has been popular in English amateur cricket since at least the 1960s. |
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