Inaugural Twenty20 World Cup is going to start in a couple of hour’s time. South Africa, the host, would like to make this event a huge success. Only three venues (Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg) are to be used for this event. ICC badly want this inaugural tournament of Twenty20 to be a huge success in the backdrop of flopped One-day World Cup held in Caribbean Islands few months back.
Many feel that ICC is rushing to stage this Twenty 20 World Cup. Most teams are very new to this format. Only England and South Africa have regular domestic Twenty20 tournaments. Ideally this tournament should have been staged few years later, after all the top cricketing nations had proper domestic structure for Twenty20.
Rules of Twenty20
Full text of Twenty20 Rules
Administrators believe that Twenty20 format would bring more crowds to cricket. But experts feel that it will ruin Test cricket. It is a format totally loaded in favor of batsmen. Actually this format was introduced in England to bring back the crowd, who were gradually neglecting cricket and turning to other sports like football. This format of cricket is the most suited for inclusion in Olympic games.
The Twenty20 format needs different set of skills. Let us appreciates these new skills and enjoy this new format.
T20 WC 2007 Schedule
Group A : South Africa (A1), West Indies (A2), Bangladesh
Group B : Australia (B1), England (B2), Zimbabwe
Group C : NewZealand (C1), Srilanka (C2), Kenya
Group D : Pakistan (D1), India (D2), Scotland
Group Stage
Sep 11 – SA vs WI
Sep 12 – KEN vs NZ
Sep 12 – PAK vs SCO
Sep 12 – AUS vs ZIM
Sep 13 – BAN vs WI
Sep 13 – ENG vs ZIM
Sep 13 – IND vs SCO
Sep 14 – KEN vs SL
Sep 14 – AUS vs ENG
Sep 14 - IND vs PAK
Sep 15 – NZ vs SL
Sep 15 – SA vs BAN
Super Eight Group E: A1, B2, C1, D2 Group F: A2, B1, C2, D1
Sep 16 – NZ vs IND
Sep 16 – AUS vs WI
Sep 16 – SA vs ENG
Sep 17 – PAK vs SL
Sep 18 – NEW vs ENG
Sep 18 – AUS vs PAK
Sep 18 – WI vs SL
Sep 19 – SA vs NZ
Sep 19 – ENG vs IND
Sep 20 – AUS vs SL
Sep 20 – WI vs PAK
Sep 20 – SA – IND
Semifinals - Sep 22
1st SF – E2 vs F1
2nd SF – E1 vs F2
Finals – Sep 24
Indian Squad
1. MS Dhoni (Captain)
2. Yuvraj
3. Sehwag
4. Harbhajan
5. Agarkar
6. Irfan Pathan
7. Uthappa
8. Gambhir
9. Dinesh Karthik
10. RP Singh
11. Sreesanth
12. Piyush Chawla
13. Rohit Sharma
14. Joginder Sharma
15. Yusuf Pathan
1 comment:
The matches in Super Eight of Twenty20 World Cup described as involving West Indies in the schedule should read Bangladesh, since West Indies had been eliminated.
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