T 20 world cup is back and with a great bang that it promises, to be much more seriously exciting affair, than its inaugural one. In this article we will shuttle you through some interesting and engaging facts regarding T 20 world cup, which is going, to bang our eyes from this June.
Even though IPL in South Africa has overshadowed T 20 world cup craze, one could not deny the fact, that IPL has increased twenty 20 craze, which would surely increase the interest in T 20 world cup. Already companies like Pepsi have started with promotional campaign like ‘bowl the first ball’ in world cup contest, focussing on England T 20 world cup.
Yahoo has entered into a three year deal with ICC as an official online partner, would hoard all official ICC released videos, pictures and news in online for this T 20 world cup in England.
World cup would commence in June fifth and finals would finish by June twenty first featuring twelve teams in four different groups.
Other than regular test playing nations, countries like Ireland, Holland, Scotland has earned their coveted spots, for playing T 20 world cup, where Zimbabwe is notable exception which featured in last year world cup.
Twelve teams are assorted into four different groups, where the first two in group would qualify, to the next round, which means four teams will be eliminated, in the end of the first round.
This year group of death would be group C , which features test playing nations like West Indies, Srilanka and Australia, whereas rest of groups have at least one none test playing nation in it.
The tournament would be conducted only in three venues namely Lords, Trent Bridge and The oval.
In respect to players featuring in world cup T 20, there were wide spread speculations about the participation of South African Johan Botha and also Bangladesh’s Abdur Razzaq, who both have been reported for suspect action but has been inducted into their respective national team squads eradicating any doubts about their participation.
There were also rumours doing the circles, that Michael Clarke would lead Australian hunt in T 20 world cup in England in place of Ricky Pointing, which has been squashed by selectors saying that he would lead the Australian team in all formats of the game.
So with exactly a month for start of tournament, certainly World cup promises to be a exciting fare, which may ring alarm bells, for popularity of other sports, in England.
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