The 2012 ICC World Twenty20 will be the fourth ICC World Twenty20 competition, an international Twenty20 cricket tournament in Sri Lanka will be held between 18 September and 07 October 2012. The calendar is published by the ICC. This will be the first World Twenty20 tournament held in an Asian country, the last three prisoners in South Africa, England and West Indies respectively.
Sri Lankan pacer Lasith Malinga has been chosen as the event ambassador for the ICC tournament. The format sees four groups of three in a preliminary round. India and England are in the same group and will be joined by the second place in the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier, Afghanistan. Champions of ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier, Ireland is in a group with the West Indies and Australia. Sri Lanka, South Africa and Zimbabwe, Pakistan, New Zealand and Bangladesh are the other two groups.
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See the T20 World Cup 2012 Information:
Dates: 18 September – 7 October
Administrator(s): International Cricket Council
Cricket format: Twenty20 International
Tournament
format(s): Group stage and Knockout
Host(s): Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Participants: 12
Matches played: 27
Official Website: http://www.icc-cricket.com/events_and_awards/twenty20/index.php
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The first match will be played between Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka on September 18 as the opening match of the Cup Critics have already started the blame game too complain of Twenty20 Cricket Cricket especially as a basis for players fatigue and calendar World Cup T20 should be revised in order to save the cricket.
The 20-day tournament will conclude with the odd final at the Estadio Premdasa October 7. The matches of the World Cup T20 are the participating countries, such as Sri Lanka (the host), Zimbabwe, Australia, Ireland, Afghanistan, India, South Africa, New Zealand, Bangladesh, West Indies, Pakistan and England. Despite the IPL T20 cricket fever attract the world right now, the T20 World Cup is expected to be a lot of surprises to get rid of the shore.
Venues:
Pallekele Cricket Stadium
R. Premadasa Stadium
Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium
Groups:
The groups were announced on 21 September 2011.
Group A:
England
India
Afghanistan
Group B:
Australia
West Indies
Ireland
Group C: Sri Lanka
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Group D:
Pakistan
New Zealand
Bangladesh
Watch T20 World Cup 2012 Live will be available of PTV Sports. We wish the best for the game.
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