Mahendra Singh Dhoni captain of Twitter’s Twenty20 dream team

Kolkata, Mumbai: Can the likes of Virat Kohli and Dale Steyn play for the same team in the World Twenty 20? Twitter on Monday came up with a dream XI for the tournament featuring the duo.

The team is composed of the most mentioned World T20 players on the social networking site over the past 12 months. The dream XI also boasts of five Indian cricketers with Mahendra Singh Dhoni as the captain and wicketkeeper of the team. Kohli, Suresh Raina, Ravichandran Ashwin and Harbhajan Singh are the other Indian players.

“This dream team is composed of the most-mentioned #WT20 players on Twitter over the past 12 months, forming a first XI that would be the envy of any coach,” Twitter said in a release.

The team also features Australia skipper Steve Smith, his Pakistan counterpart Shahid Afridi, Wahab Riaz, Steyn, West Indies batsman Chris Gayle and Mohammad Hafeez of Pakistan.

England win warm-up

Mumbai’s talented batsman Jay Bista scored an impressive 37-ball 51, but his side Mumbai Cricket Association XI (MCA XI) went down by 14 runs against England in a World Twenty20 warm-up match at the Brabourne Stadium here on Monday.

Batting first, England posted 177/8 in 20 overs, thanks to Joe Root’s 48.

In reply, despite 20-year-old Bista smashing five fours and two sixes in his half-century knock, MCA XI fell short of the target thus scoring 163/6 in 20 overs.

Chasing a target of challenging target of 178, the local side’s openers Bista and skipper Shreyas Iyer (16) got the team off to a flying start scoring 45 runs in the first five overs.

But in the final ball of sixth over, pacer Liam Plunkett brought the first breakthrough as he got the better off Iyer to leave Mumbai at 57/1 in the first powerplay.

Incoming English batsman James Vince (45), who decided to play for MCA XI in the match, gave good support to Bista to take the team past the 90-run mark. But the young Mumbai batsman had to head back to the pavilion after being caught by Reece Topley off the bowling of Moeen Ali.

Another England batsmen Jos Buttler (25) along with Vince held on, but both their innings were cut short by pacer Chris Jordan.

From there on, Akhil Herwadkar (7) and England spinner Adil Rashid (5) fell cheaply. Nikhil Patel (4 not out) and England pacer David Willey (0 not out) failed to take team past the victory line.