It’s believed that the Twenty20 World Cup will add the much needed zing to cricket as a whole. Many fans find the long duration of the game taxing. Now, with the Twenty20 World Cup getting underway; it’s expected that cricket fans will definitely find themselves hooked to the game—where majority of players will try to smash sixes and fours instead of stealing quick runs.
Twenty20 was started by England at county level in 2003. The reasoning behind it was - women and children would only watch IF it was in a shorter version and started late in the afternoon.
ICC accepted this new form of play and the first Twenty20 international match was played between Australia and their arch rival-cum-neighbor New Zealand in Feb 2005.
Most of the teams are new to this format of the game. England cricket team is the only team with the maximum experience of six Twenty20 international games followed by Australia cricket team, New Zealand cricket team, South Africa cricket team that have played five international Twenty20 games.
However, teams like Indian cricket team, Zimbabwe cricket team and Bangladesh cricket team have played just one international Twenty20 cricket match.
The next Twenty20 Cricket World Cup will be hosted by England in 2009.
Salient features of Twenty20 cricket that will make it more entertaining and enticing than the ODI cricket:
- A team will bat for 20 overs.
- A minimum of five overs need to be played by each team to get it counted as a match.
- A match shall be of 3 hours duration with 20 minutes break
- New batsman will get only 90 sec after the fall of wicket to be in position to take guard OR his partner to be ready to face the ball.
- To save time for reaching the ground, the batting team will sit near the boundary instead of pavilion.
- A bowler can bowl a maximum of four overs.
- In a reduced overs match, no bowler can bowl more than one-fifth of the total overs.
- Only one fast short-pitched delivery allowed per over. Additional such ball bowled in the over will be called - no-ball.
- A ball that passes above the batsman head (facing the delivery - standing upright) shall be called a wide ball.
- A full pitched ball passing or that would have passed above the waist height of the batsman standing upright will be called a no-ball.
- The next delivery after a no-ball will be a free hit ball (chance for batsmen to hit; the batsman can’t be bowled out in that delivery. Only way the batsmen can be out in free hit delivery is by being run out).
- Fielding team can’t alter the positions of fieldsmen during free hit delivery.
- Umpire will signal the free hit by raising one arm and rotating it in a circular manner.
- Only two fieldsmen will stand outside the 30-yard circle in the first six overs. And for the remaining overs; not more than five players can stand outside the circle.
- Not more than five fieldsmen to stand on the leg side.
- Time wasting by fielding side will be penalised by the batting side being awarded 5 penalty runs.
Matches tied-up in the semi-finals and in the finals
- To decide the winners in draw matches in semi-finals and in final, each team will pick five bowlers who will try to strike the wickets with no batsman present to save the wickets. The team, which will hit the wickets maximum time will be declared winner
Twenty20 World Cup teams:
Australia: Ricky Ponting (Capt.), Nathan Bracken, Stuart Clark, Michael Clarke, Adam Gilchrist, Brad Haddin, Matthew Hayden, Brad Hodge, Bradley Hogg, Michael Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee, Andrew Symonds, Ben Hilfenhaus, Shane Watson.
England: Paul Collingwood (Capt.), Ravi Bopara, Stuart Broad, Andrew Flintoff, James Kirtley, Darren Maddy, Kevin Pietersen, Matt Prior, Chris Schofield, Owais Shah, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Jeremy Snape, Vikram Solanki, Chris Tremlett, Luke Wright.
New Zealand: Daniel Vettori (Capt.), Shane Bond, Peter Fulton, Mark Gillespie, Gareth Hopkins, Chris Martin, Craig McMillan, Brendon McCullum, Nathan McCullum, Jacob Oram, Jeetan Patel, Bradley Scott, Scott Styris, Ross Taylor, Lou Vincent.
South Africa: Graeme Smith (Capt.), Gulam Bodi, Loots Bosman, Mark Boucher, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Herschelle Gibbs, Justin Kemp, Albie Morkel, Morne Morkel, Makhaya Ntini, Vernon Philander, Shaun Pollock, Thandi Tshabalala, Johan van der Wath.
Sri Lanka: Mahela Jayawardena (Capt.), Dilhara Fernando, Hasantha Fernando, Kaushal Lokuarachchi, Sanath Jayasuriya, Farveez Maharoof, Lasith Malinga, Jehan Mubarak, Dilruwan Perera, Kumara Sangakkara, Chamara Silva, Upul Tharanga, Dilshan Tilakarathne, Chaminda Vaas, Gayan Wijekoon.
India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Capt.), Ajit Agarkar, Piyush Chawla, Gautam Gambhir, Dinesh Karthik, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Virender Sehwag, Joginder Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Rohit Sharma, RP Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Robin Uthappa.
Pakistan: Shoaib Malik (Capt.), Shahid Afridi, Sohail Tanvir, Kamran Akmal, Fawad Alam, Yasir Arafat, Mohammad Asif, Salman Butt, Umar Gul, Mohammad Hafeez, Misbahul Haq, Rao Iftikhar, Younis Khan, Imran Nazir, Abdul Rehman.
West Indies: Ramnaresh Sarwan (Capt.), Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Pedro Collins, Narsingh Deonarine, Fidel Edwards, Chris Gayle, Runako Morton, Daren Powell, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Darren Sammy, Marlon Samuels, Devon Smith, Dwayne Smith.
Bangladesh: Mohammad Ashraful (Capt.), Aftab Ahmed, Nadif Chowdhury, Shakib Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Alok Kopali, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mushfiqur Rahim, Ziaur Rahman, Syed Rasel, Abdur Razzak, Farhad Reza, Zunaed Siddique, Nazim Uddin, Mahmud Ullah.
Kenya: Steve Tikolo (Capt.), Rajesh Bhudiya, Jimmy Kamande, Tanmay Mishra, Lameck Ngoche, Nehemiah Ngoche, Alex Obanda, Collins Obuya, David Obuya, Thomas Odoyo, Peter Ongondo, Elijah Otieno, Morris Ouma, Ondik Suji, Hiren Varaiya.
Zimbabwe: Prosper Utseya (Capt.), Gary Brent, Chamunorwa Chibhabha, Elton Chigumbura, Keith Dabengwa, Tymsen Maruma, Hamilton Masakadza, Stuart Matsikinyeri, Johnson Marumisa, Christopher Mpofu, Tawanda Mupariwa, Vusimusi Sibanda, Tatenda Taibu, Brendon Taylor, Shaun Williams.
Scotland: Ryan Watson (Capt.), Fraser Watts, Dougie Brown, John Blain, Gavin Hamilton, Navdeep Poonia, Gregor Maiden, Neil McCallum, Qasim Sheikh, Colin Smith, Craig Wright, Dewald Nel, Gordon Drummond, Ross Lyons, Majid Haq.
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Groups:
Group A: South Africa (A1), West Indies (A2), Bangladesh
Group B: Australia (B1), England (B2), Zimbabwe
Group C: New Zealand (C1), Sri Lanka (C2), Kenya
Group D: Pakistan (D1), India (D2), Scotland
(If any seeded team couldn’t qualify for the super eight stage, then their place will be taken by the qualified unseeded team of that group for the super eight round.)
The match starting time shown in the table below is GMT.
South Africa local time is two hours ahead of GMT.
Match Schedules:
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