Twenty 20 World Cup Cricket 2007 is the first Twenty20 cricket tournament, the venue being South Africa. The duration of Twenty 20 World Cup Cricket 2007 was from 11th of September to 24th of September. This is the inaugural of the Twenty 20 World Cup Cricket 2007 World Championship. The administrator of Twenty 20 World Cup Cricket 2007 is International Cricket Council or ICC.
In this thirteen day tournament of Twenty 20 World Cup Cricket 2007, the teams had to play qualifying matches against each other to qualify for the final 2007 ICC World Cricket league or WCL Division One tournament. There were 10 test playing nations too in this tournament. Scotland and Kenya also participated in this new World Cup cricket. All total there were 12 teams and they played 27 matches. India won the finals after an exciting match with Pakistan. Player of the series in Twenty 20 World Cup Cricket 2007 was won by Shahid Afridi from Pakistan. Most wickets were taken by Umar Gul from Pakistan, who took all total 13 wickets. Matthew Hayden scored the highest runs, which amounts to 265. he is from Australia.
There were some unique rules and regulations in Twenty 20 World Cup Cricket 2007, which are different from ICC World Cup. In the Group 8 Stage as well as in the Group Stage were awarded as follow: winning of the game were awarded 2 points, losing a game carried no points and if it was draw or undecided then it carried 1 point for each of the teams.
The ranking of the teams followed the below criteria:
- if equal points then the team with highest number of wins will be high in position
- highest points to get high rank
- if with equal points, the net run rate will be the decisive factor
- if the above id also equal, then the strike rate of bowling
- if it remains still same, then a meeting of head to head will finally decide
Another unique concept of bowl out in Twenty 20 World Cup Cricket 2007 was introduced to decide the winner from tie up, that is, if each if the team score same runs. Each of the team had to bowl a certain number of bowls and the team with highest number of bowls which can touch the wicket was decided the winner.
The teams of Twenty 20 World Cup Cricket 2007 are as follow:
Group A
1.Bangladesh
2.South Africa
3.West Indies
Group B
1.England
2.Australia
3.Zimbabwe
Group C
1.New Zealand
2.Sri Lanka
3.Kenya
Group D
1.India
2.Scotland
3.Pakistan
The semi final matches were played in between India and Australia on one hand and in between, Pakistan and New Zealand on the other. From here, India and Pakistan won and India became the champion of Twenty 20 World Cup Cricket 2007.
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