The 2012 ICC World Twenty20 was the fourth edition of the Men's T20 World Cup, formerly known as the ICC World Twenty20, an international Twenty20 cricket tournament that took place in Sri Lanka from 18 September to 7 October 2012 which was won by the West Indies. This was the first World Twenty20 tournament held in an Asian country, the last three having been held in South Africa, England and the West Indies. Sri Lankan pacer Lasith Malinga had been chosen as the event ambassador of the tournament by ICC. The format had four groups of three teams in a preliminary round. It was the last edition with 12 teams format before it was expanded to 16 teams.
Match fixtures were announced on 21 September 2011 by ICC. On the same date, the ICC also unveiled the logo of the tournament, named "Modern Spin".
Background The 2012 World Twenty20 is the fourth edition of the Twenty20 tournament. The first was hosted by South Africa in 2007, where India beat Pakistan in a thriller to become Twenty20 champions. Pakistan, the losing finalists in 2007, defeated Sri Lanka in 2009 tournament to become World T20 Champions, held in England. In 2010 England became the third World Twenty20 champions by beating Australia in the West Indies.
Format The format is the same as the 2010 edition. The format has four groups of three in a preliminary round, groups A-D. In addition to the ten test cricket playing nations, there are two associate/affiliate teams who qualified from the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier staged in the United Arab Emirates on 13–14 March 2012.
The top two teams from each group A-D proceed to the Super Eight stage of the tournament. The Super Eights consist of two groups 1 & 2. The top two teams from the Super Eight groups play the semi-finals, and the semi-final winners contest the final to determine the world champions in Twenty20 cricket. England are the defending champions, having won the 2010 edition in the West Indies.
The Super Eight stage consists of the top two teams from each group of the group stage. The teams are split into two groups, Groups 1 and 2. Group 1 will consist of the top seed from Groups A and C, and the second seed of groups B and D. Group 2 will consist of the top seed from Groups B and D, and the second seed of groups A and C. The seedings used are those allocated at the start of the tournament and are not affected by group stage results, with the exception of if a non-seeded team knocks out a seeded team, the non-seeded team inherits the seed of the knocked-out team.
During the group stage and Super Eight, points are awarded to the teams as follows: Results PointsWin2 pointsNo result1 pointLoss0 point In case of a tie (i.e. both teams score exactly the same number of runs at the end of their respective innings), a Super Over decides the winner. This is applicable in all stages of the tournament.Playing conditions, from ICC World Twenty20 homepage, retrieved 12 September 2007
Within each group (both group stage & Super Eight stage), teams are ranked against each other based on the following criteria:Final WorldTwenty20 Playing conditions, from ICC World Twenty20 homepage, retrieved 12 September 2007 Higher number of points If equal, higher number of wins If still equal, higher Net run rate If still equal, lower bowling strike rate If still equal, result of head-to-head meeting.
Qualification
Teams from every ICC Region :
Africa (2)
Americas (1)
Asia (5)
(host) East Asia-Pacific (2)
Europe (2)
Earlier, the ICC development committee had expanded the global qualification system for the World Twenty20, to give the Associate and Affiliate members of the governing body a chance to feature in the tournament. The qualification tournament, which was contested by eight teams in February 2010, featured 16 sides when it was held in early 2012 ahead of the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka, later that year.
Venues All matches were played at the following three grounds in Pallekele, Colombo and Hambantota:
Pallekele Colombo Hambantota Pallekele Cricket Stadium R. Premadasa Stadium Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium Capacity: 35,000 Capacity: 35,000 Capacity: 35,000
Match officials
Source:ICC announces umpires' panels for 2012–13 season and ICC WT20 2012 International Cricket Council. Retrieved 15 May 2012
Umpires UmpireCountryPanelBilly BowdenEliteAleem DarEliteSteve DavisEliteKumar DharmasenaEliteMarais ErasmusEliteIan GouldEliteTony HillEliteRichard KettleboroughEliteNigel LlongEliteAsad RaufEliteSimon TaufelEliteRod TuckerEliteBruce OxenfordInternational
Referees
RefereeCountryRanjan MadugalleJeff CroweJavagal SrinathGraeme Labrooy (women's event)
Squads
Groups The groups were announced on 21 September 2011.
Group A A1 A2 Q2
Group B B1 B2 Q1
Group C C1 C2
Group D D1 D2
Warm-up matches
12 warm-up matches were played between 12 and 19 September featuring all 12 teams.
Group stage There were 27 matches played during the 2012 ICC World Twenty20, 12 in group stages, 12 in Super Eights, two Semi-finals and a final.
All times given are Sri Lanka Standard Time (UTC+05:30)
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Super 8s
Seedings for this stage were allocated at the start of the tournament and were not affected by group stage results, with the exception that if a non-seeded team knocked out a seeded team, it would inherit that team's seeding.
QualificationSuper 8s Group E Group F Advanced from Group Stage
Group E
Group F
Knockout stage
Semi-finals
Final
Statistics
Most Runs
Player Runs 6 249 49.80 150.00 0 3 19 15 7 243 40.50 116.26 * 0 1 29 5 6 230 38.33 132.94 78 0 3 14 15 6 222 44.40 150.00 * 0 3 19 16 5 212 42.40 159.39 * 1 1 20 10
Most Wickets
Player 6 15 9.80 6.12 6/8 9.6 1 1 6 11 16.00 7.33 3/26 13.0 0 0 6 10 16.40 6.83 3/20 14.4 0 0 4 9 9.77 7.33 3/19 8.0 0 0 6 9 18.11 6.79 4/30 16.0 1 0
Team of the tournament
PlayerRole Chris Gayle Batsman Shane Watson All-rounder Virat Kohli Batsman Mahela Jayawardene Batsman / Captain Luke Wright Batsman Brendon McCullum Batsman / Wicket-keeper Marlon Samuels Batsman Lasith Malinga Bowler Mitchell Starc Bowler Saeed Ajmal Bowler Ajantha Mendis Bowler Suresh Raina Batsman / 12th man
Media coverage Country/TerritoryBroadcasters iccworldtwenty20.com. Retrieved on 13 Sept, 2012. TV Radio Internet Lemar TV Salaam Wantadar Fox Sports Nine Network (Australia matches & finals only) foxsports.com.au , Astro Bangladesh Television Bangladesh Betar espnstar.com, , , , ESPNStar SportsStar Cricket espnstar.com Sportsnet Sportsnet World Online Caribbean, Central America and South America ESPN CMC ESPN3 excluding the United Kingdom and Ireland Eurosport 2 ESPN STAR Cricket Doordarshan (India matches only) All India Radio www.espnstar.com , Sky Sports BBC Test Match Sofa (via The Cricketer) skysports.com Middle East and North Africa CricOne 89.1 Radio4 Sky TV Radio Sport Pacific Islands Fiji TV PTV Home (Terrestrial) PTV Sports (Cable)TEN Sports (Cable and IP TV) PBC Hum FM Hot FM (Pakistan matches) espnstar.com Telkom TV CSN SLBC SABC SuperSport SABC supersport.com Sub Saharan Africa SuperSport supersport.com Tonga TV , , , , and ESPN2 (Final only) ESPN3
See also 2012 ICC Women's World Twenty20
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