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World Twenty20 on this website (47)

• Paul Grunill - Sport Interactive cricket editor
• 9 Sep 07, 12:42 PM

One of the things I hear regularly at TV Centre is the need for the 大象传媒 to provide content to attract users from the 16-24 age group. In line with that policy, I am going to start this blog entry by mentioning the singer (who had his first hit record in 1956).

It was Tommy who gave voice to the words "Hold it, flash, bang, wallop". Ok, he was singing about photography, but those words could equally well apply to the type of cricket we can expect to see during the inaugural in South Africa.

Blades will flash, spectators will either duck or try to impress their mates by taking a catch and umpires will raise their hands to the heavens.

The faces of bowlers, meanwhile, will take on the sort of look you see from someone who has spent ages arranging crockery in a box prior to moving house, only for the bottom to fall out as they step outside onto the front path.

Elsewhere on this blog, Test match Special producer Adam Mountford has set out details of the 大象传媒's radio coverage of the 13-day tournament and what follows from me is a summary of what you can expect to see on this website.

We will be providing full scorecards for every game, which will update at frequent intervals while play is going on, detailed match reports and post-match reaction.

There will also be over by over text commentaries on selected games during the first round phase:
11 September - South Africa v West Indies (starts 1700 BST)
12 September - Pakistan v Scotland (starts 1300 BST)
13 September - England v Zimbabwe (starts 1300 BST)
13 September - India v Scotland (starts 1700 BST)
14 September - Australia v England (starts 1300 BST)
14 September - India v Pakistan (starts 1700 BST)

Once the first round is out of the way, however, we will be offering text commentaries on every game for the remainder of the tournament - the Super 8s, semi-finals and final.

You can, as usual, offer your thoughts via text or e-mail and even though Messrs Ben Dirs and Tom Fordyce have temporarily abandoned cricket for life on the road at the Rugby World Cup, Sam Lyon, Mark Mitchener and Pranav Soneji and others will strive to provide a similar mix of information and irreverence.

All we need now then, is some spectacular cricket to describe - and I'm certain we're going to get plenty of it, even without Messrs, Tendulkar, Lara, Ganguly and Fleming.

Because this is a new competition, it's very difficult to make a confident prediction as to who will win it. Australia will play with the same ruthless approach which has served them so well over the last few years, but I think this format will help other teams close the gap.

Earlier this year, I tipped India to win the World Cup based on "guesswork, pure and simple" and they were eliminated in the first round. Apologies, therefore, to New Zealand for saddling them with the Grunill curse this time.

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