Warm-up matches are a golden chance for all competing teams to evaluate opposition before the big show starts but India, whose almost all players are involved in gruelling 14 match per side Indian premier league, have opted not to play any warmup game before T20 world cup 2010. Sri Lanka are another team who've chosen to skip first of their two warmup games. Barbados XI will take place of Sri Lanka against Bangladesh at Barbados before Lankans meet South Africa at the venue on 28th April.  On Tuesday, there were four warm-up matches held as follow.  Pakistan vs Windward XI: Pak won by 68 runs  Bangladesh vs Barbados XI: Bangladesh won by 36 runs  Australia vs Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe won by 1 run  New Zealand vs Ireland: New Zealand won by 40 runs  Warmup Matches Review:  Pakistan vs Windward XI: Pakistan were to play India in warm-up World T20 but since arch rivals decided to skip all their practice games, Windward islands were called up for this first practice game to T20 World cup 2010. Windward elected to field first in this morning Twenty20 match and Mohammad Hafeez's careful half century guided visitors to a solid total.Windward islands surprised everyone by not going after the target but decided for the main batters to play out all the quota of overs. Windward lost 4 wickets, making only 92 runs. Note that Pakistan don't play any more practice game but go straight into World T20 tournament with their first match against Bangladesh on 1st May followed by Australia the next day.Scorecard: Pakistan 160/7 (Hafeez 57 (40 Ball), Fawad 24( 25 balls), Mervin Matthew 22/2) Windward 92/4 (Keddy Lesporis 24 (33 balls), Shahid Afridi 11/1) Bangladesh vs Barbados XI:  But today in first warm up match, team management had to find a make shift opener and they decided on Mohammad Ashraful, the tiny but dynamic shotmaker, making a comeback after being dropped from England series.Ashraful, in company with left hander Imrul Kayes, added 64 quick runs for the first wicket and 35 of them came off his bat after Barbados inserted visitors in to bat first. Kayes continued … [Read more...]