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Mohammad Amir sets up a wonderful plan to dismiss TM DIlshan in the T20 Final World Cup between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in 2009.

Dashing batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan today (Januaru 23) stepped down as Sri Lanka captain following his side’s dismal performance in South Africa where they lost both the Test and ODI series. Veteran batsman Mahela Jayawardene is likely to replace him as captain but Sri Lanka Cricket is yet to make any formal announcement.

It was a second hat-trick of sixes in the Indian innings in this Match, this time by Yusuf Pathan. He got down on one knee and slogged Nathan McCullum’s first three deliveries over long-on but was caught while going for the fourth. The ball travelled flatter towards Oram at long-on who took the catch, pedalled backwards, quickly lobbed the ball in the air before going over the rope and caught it once again after coming back into play. It was reminiscent of Adam Voges’ catch at the same position in Sydney recently.

Cricket TV: Jim White, John Pennington and Alastair Symondson look back at 2009, continuing their review by focussing on the Twenty20 highlights of the year. If you think we missed something out, then email us – info@cricketworld.com

Subscribe ow.ly | Facebook ow.ly | Twitter ow.ly “We probably fell a few runs short if we are fair with ourselves. It possibly comes because we were in such a good position. Uz played an unbelievable knock to get us into that position. And we probably looked at getting too many, it wasn’t a 160 wicket and sometimes when you do that, you fall well short and that happened to us. But hopefully we will learn from that but it was a fantastic effort from the bowlers to restrict like that. We knew the new ball was going to be crucial and from there on in, it’s always difficult to score in that middle period, especially with our spinners operating. And we are used to those types of conditions as we get them in Kolkata.”

IPL 2009 Fastest-50,-Dilshan of sri lanka

It took a former Knight to slay the Knight Riders’ hopes of getting back to winning ways. RCB’s Chris Gayle made a comeback to the Eden Gardens in grand style by smashing a century and winning the game for the Challengers. The innings must have been a difficult pill to swallow for KKR co-owner Shah Rukh Khan, but he was magnanimous in defeat and praised Gayle’s brilliant batting.