World Championship for Twenty20 Cricket
The ICC World Twenty20 is an international championship of Twenty20 cricket. The event is disposed by the sport's prevailing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC). This tournament, having 12 teams and is contested by all Test-playing nations and qualifiers. This championship will be held for every two years.
- 2007 ICC World Twenty20 (South Africa) Champions: India
- 2009 ICC World Twenty20 (England)
- 2010 ICC World Twenty20 (West Indies)
Twenty20 Related Cricket News
- Twenty20 Internationals
- Indian Cricket League or Zee's ICL (Rebel Twenty20)
- Indian Premier League or IPL: 2008 and 2009 seasons
- Champions Twenty20 League
- Domestic Twenty20 Leagues: Inter-Provincial Twenty20, Twenty20 Big Bash, Pakistan Super League etc
- Professional Twenty20 League Teams & News
The organizers announced that the world leading champions, Australia have been ranked below Bangladesh for next year’s ICC world Twenty 20. They are positioned in Group A, along with Bangladesh and Pakistan.
The top two teams from each of four groups will be drawn through second round of Super Eights and Semi finals. The semi-finals and final of the eight-team women’s tournament will be played on the same days as well as at the same venues as the corresponding men’s matches, just as in 2009.
Group A: Pakistan (A1), Bangladesh (A2), Australia
Group B: Sri Lanka (B1), New Zealand (B2), Zimbabwe
Group C: South Africa (C1), India (C2), Qualifier One
Group D: West Indies (D1), England (D2), Qualifier Two
- ICC World Twenty20 Championship 2010 in West Indies
- ICC World Twenty20 Championship 2010 Schedules / Fixtures
The International Cricket Council has announced that the Caribbeans (West Indies) will host the ICC World Twenty20 in 2010. The event will be held in place of the Champions Trophy that was to be hosted by West Indies in 2010, Haroon Lorgat, ICC chief executive said that “With the Champions Trophy set to be hosted by Pakistan in 2009 after its cancellation this year; we decided to have a Twenty20 World Championship instead in April-May 2010 in West Indies,"
"Although World Twenty20 is to be held every second year, we decided to hold it on the trot to set the calendar right and ensure a better spread of tournaments." The event, slated to be held from April 23 to May 9, will be staged at three venues to be chosen by the ICC Board in January 2009 following nominations from the West Indies Cricket Board.
"With the ICC Champions Trophy being the final major ICC event of 2009, and the ICC Cricket World Cup being the 50 over event in 2011, it makes perfect sense to have a tournament of a different format in between," Lorgat said. "It means we will avoid staging the ICC Champions Trophy and the ICC Cricket World Cup close together, as happened in 2002-03 and 2006-07.
"We will aim to make both those events special to ensure we have a great blend of the ICC's three majors, with two ICC World Twenty20s (2009 in England and 2010 in the West Indies) as well as an the ICC Champions Trophy (in 2009) and an ICC Cricket World Cup (in 2011) over the next three years." India won the inaugural World Twenty20 Championship in South Africa in 2007.
