Consistent India lost the World T20 finals to inconsistent ICC tournament finalist Sri Lanka

Remember what Darren Sammy the West Indian skipper said a few days back, after losing the semi-finals to Sri Lanka. He had said “We are a praying team, we know god normally answers our prayers but I guess the almighty wants them (Sanga and Mahela) to leave on a high”. That is exactly what happened last night. Totally out of form Sangakkara and Jayawardene helped Sri Lanka won their first ICC World T20 trophy. Both of them were playing their final T20 international match yesterday. This is the first time Sri Lanka won an ICC event after appearing five finals post 1996.

Man in form and man of the tournament Virat Kohli yet again played a brilliant innings of 77 runs from just 58 balls. Some brilliant overs towards the end of the Indian innings by the Sri Lankan bowlers helped India to restrict only for a total score of 130 runs. Unlike Virat, Yuvraj Singh the hero of the 2007 World T20 and 2011 ODI World Cup had one of the worst day in the office. Yuvraj scored only 11 runs off 21 balls.

Chasing 131, Sri Lanka did not had a great start to their innings. But thanks to a brilliant performance by man of the match Kumar Sangakkara  (who scored unbeaten 51 runs off 35 balls) Sri Lanka chased the target quite comfortably with 6 wickets in hand and 14 balls to spare.

Now the match is over and everyone who followed the match last night still thinking if the decision to send Yuvraj Singh instead of in form Suresh Raina or skipper Dhoni himself was a good one or not. Because of Yuvraj’s innings India totally lost control of the game and never able to bounce back despite a decent start. And to validate that we tried our hands at the Zip Factor. Castrol has come up with an exciting new way to follow T20 cricket which is called the Castrol Activ Scooter Zip Factor!

The Zip Factor is a Facebook app that measures a player's impact on the game by measuring various aspects such as strike rates, economy rates, run outs, dot balls etc. It then assigns a zip factor score to the player. One can check out his/her favorite players’ Zip Factor scores by clicking here: bit.ly/ZFapp.

Now we at Webumpire truly believe the power of analyzing player’s impact through the Zip Factor app and are surely going to update you with lots of stats in the upcoming Indian Premier League going to start soon.

Brief Score:

India                      130/4 in 20 overs (Kohli 77, R. Sharma 29, Yuvraj 11)

Sri Lanka              134/4 in 17.5 overs (Sangakkara 51*, Jayawardene 23, N Perera 23*)

Result:                     Sri Lanka won by 6 wickets

Man of the Match:          Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)

Man of the Series:           Virat Kohli (India)

 

The above data from the Zip Factor app shows the impact Virat Kohli and Kumar Sangakkara had in the whole tournament and yesterday's match respectively.

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