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The modifications in ODI rules, as proposed by the ICC in June 2007, could be implemented early if the Indian and Australian captains and boards agree. The rules are supposed to come in force on October 1 but the seven-ODI series between India and Australia starts on the September 29.
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From no-hopers to world champions - all it took was two weeks for India to traverse the journey. A new captain, a young team, and lack of experience in this format were all touted as reasons why India could not win, but these were weaknesses only on paper; out on the field, each of these turned out to be strengths: Mahendra Singh Dhoni was vibrant and positive in the field, backing his hunches at key moments; the young team added oodles of energy to fielding, while the lack of experience in playing this game freed them of excess baggage and allowed them to learn quickly and formulate customised strategies which they believed would work for them: a prime example was the decision to bat first, even as most experts suggested chasing was the way to go.
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After they had dominated vast tracts of the match, darkness suddenly appeared to be setting on India's World Twenty20 dream. Matthew Hayden and Andrew Symonds, two of the hardest hitters of a cricket ball ever to swagger on to a field, were making mincemeat of the bowling, and Australia needed just 60 from six overs with wickets in hand. For Mahendra Singh Dhoni it was time to take a call, one that would decide the outcome of the game either way.
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After the disastrous, 50-over World Cup in the West Indies where the death of a coach, an absurdly stretched-out schedule, exorbitantly priced tickets, and the early exit of India and Pakistan meant that everything that could go wrong, did go wrong, the ICC Twenty20 World Cup has been an administrator's dream.
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Give Dhoni captaincy in all forms: Kapil

- A TELEGRAPH SPECIAL
- India’s World Cup-winning captain on the Twenty20 triumph LOKENDRA PRATAP SAHI
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The morning after they lifted the inaugural ICC World Twenty20, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni told his ecstatic teammates that they should not get carried away by success.
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The game now has something for everyone Nandita Sridhar
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New Delhi: India’s triumph in the final of the Twenty20 World Cup may have created a hysteria but the Cricket Board had almost scuttled it when they voted against this slam-bang format in an ICC meeting.
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Twenty20 triumph has revitalised world game By Simon Briggs
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`I'm converted to Twenty20 Peter Roebuck
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ICC has Twenty20 vision for America David Hopps
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Snobbery, and Pole-Dancing Lawrence Booth
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Youth, in conventional wisdom, is seen to be impetuous. But youth is also the fount of energy; it is the sign of the future. Ignoring youth is to embrace obsolescence. It is a welcome sign, therefore, that the new icon of Indian cricket is the youthful Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who, in his debut as India’s captain, won the first Twenty20 trophy
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Young Indians show the way Luke Alfred
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Nothing succeeds like success. Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led young brigade of Indian cricketers have become the 'darling' of not only cricket crazy fans but also of the institutions they represent.
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It was a road rage of sorts and that too at midnight when Champagnes jizzed out, all in the open, on the busiest of Delhi routes. There were hundreds of the gangs of boys and groups of girls all mounted on their motors parading around the city and marching through the India Gate where people, old and young were all set to welcome and cheer to share that rare moment of achievement which the boys in the blue got for cricked fed India.
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Minutes after Shoaib Malik’s team lost the Twenty20 World Cup final to India in Johannesburg, Pakistan’s angry cricket lovers burnt effigies of Younis Khan and Shahid Afridi to vent their anger.
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A quick fix? How the cricket world was turned upside down

In the first of two major pieces marking the end of the cricket season, Stephen Brenkley argues that the huge success of World Twenty20 is not necessarily good news for the sport in the long term
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The first of a four-part series looking at the World Twenty20 tournament and how it has changed the face of cricket for ever
Richard Hobson, One-Day Cricket Correspondent in Johannesburg
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A cricket final for the ages (COLUMN) Alex Parker