The full fixture list for the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup has been annouced and host South Africa will take on the West Indies in the opening game at the Wanderers.
On Wednesday September 12th, a day after the opening match, the Kingsmead Stadium in Durban will host the first double-header of the Championship when New Zealand and Kenya square-up in the morning fixture. Following the conclusion of that match Pakistan and Scotland will play each other at 14h00. Later that night Australia takes on Zimbabwe at Newlands in Cape Town.
The Aussies made easy work of England at the SCG in January
Earlier thismonth Roweda Kandan, the Cricket South Africa official tasked with overseeing the Twenty20 World Cup confirmed the groups for the tournament which will see the 12 qualifying nations split into four groups of three, each venue will host a sum of nine games.
Once the group stage is completed the two top teams from each group will go through to the Super 8's which start on Sunday, September 16th. The top four teams after the Super 8's will go through the the semi finals on Saturday, September 22nd.
The Final of the Twenty20 World Cup will be played at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg on Heritage Day, Monday, September 23rd 2007.
In announcing the fixtures, Steve Elworthy, Tournament Director of the Twenty20 World Cup, said: “The finalisation of the fixtures programme for this inaugural ICC Twenty/20 World Championship 2007 is a result of a successful process of consultation between the International Cricket Council, Cricket South Africa and the host stadiums.
“We are certainly pleased with the materialisation of this important development, as this means that the Local Organising Committee can now channel more of its energy on other awaiting programmes of action.
We are certainly pleased with the materialisation of this important development
Steve Elworthy Tournament Director “Further, the fixtures programme has also been designed in a way that; even though there is going to be more than one game being played on each day, none of those games have been scheduled at the same time and it, therefore, becomes possible for viewers and spectators to watch all the games as the start times do not clash.”
Warm-up matches are slated for Saturday, September 8th and Sunday, September 9th, normally this is to allow the teams to acclimatise to the local conditions but for most nations these warm up games will be their only taste of Twenty20 cricket this year.
For England and India their preparations for the tournament will be far from ideal as they have to play the final game of the Natwest Series on Saturday, September 8th at Lords before heading to South Africa the next day missing their only opportunity to play any part in the warm up games.
Twenty20 World Cup Fixtures (all times local GMT +1)
Tuesday, September 11th 2007 South Africa v West Indies 1800 Johannesburg
Wednesday, September 12th 2007 New Zealand v Kenya 1000 Durban Pakistan v Scotland 1400 Durban Australia v Zimbabwe 1800 Cape Town
Thursday, September 13th 2007 West Indies v Bangladesh 1000 Johannesburg Zimbabwe v England 1400 Cape Town India v Scotland 1800 Durban
Friday, September 14th 2007 Sri Lanka v Kenya 1000 Johannesburg Australia v England 1400 Cape Town India v Pakistan 1800 Durban
Saturday, September 15th 2007 Sri Lanka v New Zealand 1400 Johannesburg South Africa v Bangladesh 1800 Cape Town
Sunday, September 16th 2007 Winner Group C v Runner Up Group D 1000 Johannesburg Winner Group B v Runner Up Group A 1400 Cape Town Winner Group A v Runner Up Group B 1800 Cape Town
Monday, September 17th 2007 Winner Group D v Runner Up Group C 1800 Johannesburg
Tuesday, September 18th 2007 Winner Group C v Runner Up Group B 1000 Durban Winner Group B v Winner Group D 1400 Johannesburg Runner Up Group A v Runner Up Group C 1800 Johannesburg
Wednesday, September 19th 2007 Winner Group A v Winner Group C 1400 Durban Runner Up Group B v Runner Up Group D 1800 Durban
Thursday, September 20th 2007 Winner Group B v Runner Up Group C 1000 Cape Town Runner Up Group A v Winner Group D 1400 Cape Town Winner Group A v Runner Up Group D 1800 Durban
Saturday, September 22nd 2007 E2 v F1 1400 Cape Town E1 v F2 1800 Durban
Monday, September 24th 2007 Final TBA Johannesburg
THE FORMAT
FIRST GROUP STAGE
POOL A South Africa West Indies Bangladesh
POOL B Australia England Zimbabwe
POOL C New Zealand Sri Lanka Kenya
POOL D Pakistan India Scotland
Before I start I do like like the format of this. 4 groups of 3 teams where 2 out of the 3 teams go through. Whats the point of that? JUST WRONG!
i think this 20-20 format is good ..as eventually it well help cricket turn into base ball..which i think would be a good think atleast for me as thn i dont have to come across all these american columns critcising ,dissing,making fun of the gave called cricket,ever since this so-called "world cup" of cricket has started!
and the funny thing is tht most of these columns are written by english turned american!..
no when even the inventors are also making fun of this game,y the hell we asians are getting for this good 4 nothing game!
Originally posted by tetrapack: i think this 20-20 format is good ..as eventually it well help cricket turn into base ball..which i think would be a good think atleast for me as thn i dont have to come across all these american columns critcising ,dissing,making fun of the gave called cricket,ever since this so-called "world cup" of cricket has started!
and the funny thing is tht most of these columns are written by english turned american!..
no when even the inventors are also making fun of this game,y the hell we asians are getting for this good 4 nothing game!
42 columns against cricket...mostly american!
I agree. I think while we should preserve test cricket, 20-20 is a great game that will halep gloablise and popuklarize the game in countries like the UK where young children are more into playstations and their Xboxes.
Americans will also realise its a game quite similar to baseball in that batters like to hit out nearly every ball (pitch) except in 20-20 they connect but in baseball they rarely do.
The ICC can a learn a thing or two from this world cup. The 20-20 can easily sell out given affordable ticket prices. They could also encourage blacks to get to the game as well.
I can see a t20 world cup helping cricket go full circle.
It won't take long - in the grand scheme of things - for the predictability of the ubershort version of the game to become evident to even spectators with a millimudge of intelligence.
Sniff. Boo hoo. It will ruin the game because cricket is that weak. **cries**...
Can't wait myself, anyone can beat anyone pretty much. From an England perspective I'm appreciating the fact that Michael Vaughan said that they'll be picking a proper T20 team, unlike the garbage that turned out for Aus in Jan. So that's probably Lewis, Nixon(?), Flintoff and Pietersen from the current team. The likes of Tresco(probably), Sales, Benning, Broad, Maddy and one or two others will break into the side hopefully.
Originally posted by -please-: I think 20/20 would be best served by having a world club/state/county chamionship that way we don't over burden the top players.
Aye, I like the idea of that...the top 2 rubbish teams from each Test nation play off once every 2 years.
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Originally posted by Comical Smoking Monkey: Sniff. Boo hoo. It will ruin the game because cricket is that weak. **cries**...
I don't think anyone on this thread is saying that. Odd thing to say.
The likes of Tresco(probably), Sales, Benning, Broad, Maddy and one or two others will break into the side hopefully.
Joyce and Dalrymple for sure!
T20 world championships - yeah - bring 'em on. There's nowt like watching a serious bing bang bosh over 3 hours on a balmy summer evening whilst nursing a few pints of Bombadier, chewing on seasoned Wiltshire pork sausage butties and being deafened by crud 1980's 'rock' music during a 15 second blast in between wickets falling.
Originally posted by Comical Smoking Monkey: Sniff. Boo hoo. It will ruin the game because cricket is that weak. **cries**...
Can't wait myself, anyone can beat anyone pretty much. From an England perspective I'm appreciating the fact that Michael Vaughan said that they'll be picking a proper T20 team, unlike the garbage that turned out for Aus in Jan. So that's probably Lewis, Nixon(?), Flintoff and Pietersen from the current team. The likes of Tresco(probably), Sales, Benning, Broad, Maddy and one or two others will break into the side hopefully.
I've got no problems with a 20/20 championship -bring it on I say. But Darren Maddy? oh please!
i think this 20-20 format is good ..as eventually it well help cricket turn into base ball..which i think would be a good think atleast for me as thn i dont have to come across all these american columns critcising ,dissing,making fun of the gave called cricket,ever since this so-called "world cup" of cricket has started!
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20-20 is a great game that will halep gloablise and popuklarize the game in countries like the UK
There certainly is a section of the world population that would appreciate 20-20 more than any other form of the game.
The likes of Tresco(probably), Sales, Benning, Broad, Maddy and one or two others will break into the side hopefully.
Joyce and Dalrymple for sure!
T20 world championships - yeah - bring 'em on. There's nowt like watching a serious bing bang bosh over 3 hours on a balmy summer evening whilst nursing a few pints of Bombadier, chewing on seasoned Wiltshire pork sausage butties and being deafened by crud 1980's 'rock' music during a 15 second blast in between wickets falling.
Get IN there!
Have you got shares in Charles Wells by any chance?
Originally posted by Comical Smoking Monkey: You're right, I mean he's won it twice or thrice, got over 1000 runs @ 36 and S/R of 140. Terrible player to open the innings.
And I wonder why some think it's a rubbish version of the great game? Maddy...FFS.
