2007 ICC World Twenty20

2007 ICC T20 world cup
Logo of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20
Dates	11 September – 24 September
Administrator(s)	International Cricket Council
Cricket format	Twenty20 International
Tournament format(s)	Group stage and Knockout
Host(s)	South Africa
Champions	India (1st title)
Participants	12 (from 16 entrants)
Matches played	27
Man of the Series	Shahid Afridi
Most runs	Matthew Hayden (265)
Most wickets	Umar Gul (13)
Official website	2007 ICC World Twenty20
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The 2007 ICC World Twenty20 was the inaugural Twenty20 cricket World Championship and it took place in South Africa from 11 to 24 September 2007. Twelve teams took part in the thirteen-day tournament, comprising the ten Test playing nations as well as the finalists of the 2007 WCL Division One tournament - Kenya and Scotland. India won the tournament beating Pakistan in the final.

Rules and regulations

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During the group stage and Super Eight, points were awarded to the teams as follows:

Results	Points
Win	2 points
No Result	1 point
Loss	0 points

In case of a tie (i.e. both teams score exactly the same number of runs at the end of their respective innings), a bowl-out decided the winner. This was applicable in all stages of the tournament. The bowl-out was used to determine the result of only 1 game in this tournament - the Group D game between India and Pakistan on 14 September (scorecard).

Within each group (both group stage & Super Eight stage), teams were ranked against each other based on the following criteria:

1. Higher number of points
2. If equal, higher number of wins
3. If still equal, higher net run rate
4. If still equal, lower bowling strike rate
5. If still equal, result of head to head meeting.

Squads

Main article: 2007 ICC World Twenty20 squads

Group Stages

The 12 participant teams were divided into four groups of three teams each. The groups were determined based on the rankings of the teams in Twenty20 as of 1 March 2007. The top two teams from each group went through to the second stage of the tournament.

All times given are South African Standard Time (UTC+02:00)

Group A

Team	Seed	Pts	Pld	W	L	NR	NRR
South Africa	A1	4	2	2	0	0	+0.974
Bangladesh	A3	2	2	1	1	0	+0.149
West Indies	A2	0	2	0	2	0	−1.233

Group A saw the only exit of a seeded team when the West Indies were eliminated after losing both their matches. Their first loss came after Chris Gayle's record 117 runs was not enough to prevent South Africa from winning.

11 September 18:00 (scorecard)	West Indies 205/6 (20 overs)	v	South Africa 208/2 (17.4 overs)	South Africa won by 8 wickets Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Umpires: Mark Benson (Eng) and Daryl Harper (Aus) Player of the match: Chris Gayle (WI)
	Chris Gayle 117 (57) Johan van der Wath 2/33 (4)		Herschelle Gibbs 90 (55) Fidel Edwards 1/21 (3)
Chris Gayle became the first person to hit a century in an official Twenty20 International. He also scored the most sixes in one innings of Twenty20 with 10. The West Indian first-wicket partnership of 145 between Chris Gayle and Devon Smith was the highest in Twenty20 international cricket. The West Indies beat their own record of giving away the most extras in a Twenty20 match, with 28 (4 leg-byes, 23 wides and a no-ball).

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13 September 10:00 (scorecard)	West Indies 164/8 (20 overs)	v	Bangladesh 165/4 (18 overs)	Bangladesh won by 6 wickets Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Umpires: Mark Benson (Eng) and Nigel Llong (Eng) Player of the match: Mohammad Ashraful (Ban)
	Devon Smith 51 (52) Shakib Al Hasan 4/34 (4)		Aftab Ahmed 62* (49) Ramnaresh Sarwan 2/10 (2)
South Africa and Bangladesh qualified for the Super 8s as a result of this match.

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15 September 18:00 (scorecard)	Bangladesh 144 all out (19.3 overs)	v	South Africa 146/3 (18.5 overs)	South Africa won by 7 wickets Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pak) and Tony Hill (NZ) Player of the match: Morné Morkel (SA)
	Aftab Ahmed 36 (14) Shaun Pollock 3/40 (3.3)		Graeme Smith 41 (34) Abdur Razzak 2/26 (4)

Group B

Team	Seed	Pts	Pld	W	L	NR	NRR
Australia	B1	2	2	1	1	0	+0.987
England	B2	2	2	1	1	0	+0.209
Zimbabwe	B3	2	2	1	1	0	−1.196

Group B started with World Champions Australia being defeated by Zimbabwe, Brendan Taylor scored 64 (not out) and saw the Africans home with one ball to spare.

12 September 18:00 (scorecard)	Australia 138/9 (20 overs)	v	Zimbabwe 139/5 (19.5 overs)	Zimbabwe won by 5 wickets Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pak) and Tony Hill (NZ) Player of the match: Brendan Taylor (Zim)
	Brad Hodge 35 (22) Elton Chigumbura 3/20 (3)		Brendan Taylor 64* (46) Stuart Clark 2/22 (4)

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13 September 14:00 (scorecard)	England 188/9 (20 overs)	v	Zimbabwe 138/7 (20 overs)	England won by 50 runs Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pak) and Ian Howell (SA) Player of the match: Kevin Pietersen (Eng)
	Kevin Pietersen 79 (37) Elton Chigumbura 4/31 (4)		Brendan Taylor 47 (39) Dimitri Mascarenhas 3/18 (4)

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14 September 14:00 (scorecard)	England 135 all out (20 overs)	v	Australia 136/2 (14.5 overs)	Australia won by 8 wickets Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pak) and Ian Howell (SA) Player of the match: Nathan Bracken (Aus)
	Andrew Flintoff 31 (19) Nathan Bracken 3/16 (4)		Matthew Hayden 67* (43) Andrew Flintoff 1/25 (4)
Australia and England qualified for the Super 8s as a result of this match.

Group C

Team	Seed	Pts	Pld	W	L	NR	NRR
Sri Lanka	C2	4	2	2	0	0	+4.721
New Zealand	C1	2	2	1	1	0	+2.396
Kenya	C3	0	2	0	2	0	−8.047

In the first match Kenya scored the lowest Twenty20 International total of 73 against New Zealand and went on to lose with 12.2 overs and 9 wickets to spare. Kenya's fate was sealed when they allowed Sri Lanka to post a Twenty20 world record of 260 in the group's second match. Kenya were then bowled out for 88 and lost by a record 172 runs.

12 September 10:00 (scorecard)	Kenya 73 (16.5 overs)	v	New Zealand 74/1 (7.4 overs)	New Zealand won by 9 wickets Kingsmead, Durban Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Mark Gillespie (NZ)
	Collins Obuya 18 (25) Mark Gillespie 4/7 (2.5)		Lou Vincent 27 (20) Thomas Odoyo 1/22 (3)
Kenya's score of 73 all out was the lowest ever score in a Twenty20 International.

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14 September 10:00 (scorecard)	Sri Lanka 260/6 (20 overs)	v	Kenya 88 all out (19.3 overs)	Sri Lanka won by 172 runs Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Umpires: Daryl Harper (Aus) and Nigel Llong (Eng) Player of the match: Sanath Jayasuriya (SL)
	Sanath Jayasuriya 88 (44) Jimmy Kamande 3/48 (4)		Alex Obanda 21 (25) Tillakaratne Dilshan 2/4 (1.3)
Sri Lanka's score of 260 for six was the highest recorded in any top-level Twenty20 match. They also recorded the largest margin of victory in Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka and New Zealand qualified for the Super 8s as a result of this match.

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15 September 14:00 (scorecard)	New Zealand 164/7 (20 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 168/3 (18.5 overs)	Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Umpires: Mark Benson (Eng) Daryl Harper (Aus) Player of the match: Sanath Jayasuriya (SL)
	Ross Taylor 62 (42) Dilhara Fernando 2/31 (4)		Sanath Jayasuriya 61 (44) Daniel Vettori 2/23 (4)

Group D

Team	Seed	Pts	Pld	W	L	NR	NRR
India	D2	3	2	1	0	1	0.000
Pakistan	D1	2	2	1	1	0	+1.275
Scotland	D3	1	2	0	1	1	−2.550

India and Pakistan played in the first ever World Twenty20 bowl-out. India's bowlers defeated Pakistan 3-0.

12 September 14:00 (scorecard)	Pakistan 171/9 (20 overs)	v	Scotland 120 (19.5 overs)	Pakistan won by 51 runs Kingsmead, Durban Umpires: Steve Davis (Aus) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Shahid Afridi
	Younis Khan 41 (29) Craig Wright 3/29 (4)		Fraser Watts 46 (35) Shahid Afridi 4/19 (4)

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13 September 18:00 (scorecard)	India	v	Scotland	Match Abandoned - No Result Kingsmead, Durban Umpires: Steve Davis (Aus) and Simon Taufel (Aus)
Pakistan qualified for the Super 8s as a result of this match.

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14 September 18:00 (scorecard)	India 141/9 (20 overs)	v	Pakistan 141/7 (20 overs)	Match tied, India won bowl-out (3–0, Ind X X X, Pak O O O) Kingsmead, Durban Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Mohammad Asif
	Robin Uthappa 50 (39) Mohammad Asif 4/18 (4)		Misbah-ul-Haq 53 (35) Irfan Pathan 2/20 (4)
After the match ended in a tie, the winner was decided out of a bowl out. India won the bowl out and qualified for the Super 8s as a result of this match.

Super 8s

This tournament's Super Eight format was designed such that the top 2 seeds from each group was pre-decided at the start of the tournament. The actual performance of the team in the Group Stage played no role in determining if the team qualified into Super Eight Group E or F. For example, in Group C, though Sri Lanka finished with more points than New Zealand, for the purpose of the Super Eight groupings, New Zealand retained the group's top seed position (C1) while Sri Lanka retained the group's second seed position (C2).

In case a third-seeded team qualified ahead of the two top-seeded teams, it took on the seed of the eliminated team. This only happened in Group A, where Bangladesh (original seed A3) qualified ahead of West Indies (original seed A2) and therefore took on the A2 spot in Group F. The other seven top seeds qualified.

The eight teams were divided into two groups of four teams each. The two top teams from each Super Eight group qualified for the semi-finals.

Group E

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	NR	NRR
India	4	3	2	1	0	+0.750
New Zealand	4	3	2	1	0	+0.050
South Africa	4	3	2	1	0	−0.116
England	0	3	0	3	0	−0.700

16 September 10:00 (scorecard)	New Zealand 190 all out (20 overs)	v	India 180/9 (20 overs)	New Zealand won by 10 runs Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Umpires: Mark Benson (Eng) and Nigel Llong (Eng) Player of the match: Daniel Vettori (NZ)
	Brendon McCullum 45 (31) Harbhajan Singh 2/24 (4)		Gautam Gambhir 51 (33) Daniel Vettori 4/20 (4)

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16 September 18:00 (scorecard)	South Africa 154/8 (20 overs)	v	England 135/7 (20 overs)	South Africa won by 19 runs Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pak) and Tony Hill (NZ) Player of the match: Albie Morkel (SA)
	Albie Morkel 43 (20) Stuart Broad 3/37 (4)		Owais Shah 36 (31) Albie Morkel 2/12 (2)

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18 September 10:00 (scorecard)	New Zealand 164/9 (20 overs)	v	England 159/8 (20 overs)	New Zealand won by 5 runs Kingsmead, Durban Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Craig McMillan (NZ)
	Craig McMillan 57 (31) James Anderson 2/24 (4)		Darren Maddy 50 (31) Shane Bond 2/20 (4)

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19 September 14:00 (scorecard)	New Zealand 153/8 (20 overs)	v	South Africa 158/4 (19.1 overs)	South Africa won by 6 wickets Kingsmead, Durban Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Justin Kemp (SA)
	Craig McMillan 48 (25) Morné Morkel 4/16 (4)		Justin Kemp 89* (56) Mark Gillespie 2/11 (3.1)
England eliminated and lost the chance to play the semis as a result of this match.

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19 September 18:00 (scorecard)	India 218/4 (20 overs)	v	England 200/6 (20 overs)	India won by 18 runs Kingsmead, Durban Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Yuvraj Singh (Ind)
	Virender Sehwag 68 (42) Chris Tremlett 2/45 (4)		Vikram Solanki 43 (31) Irfan Pathan 3/37 (4)
Yuvraj Singh scored the fastest fifty in an official Twenty20 International from just 12 deliveries faced (previous best was 20 balls by Mohammed Ashraful in the same tournament) and also became the fourth cricketer in all official forms of cricket and the first in Twenty20 to hit 6 sixes in an over. Stuart Broad was the bowler. This was the highest score against a Test team during the tournament.

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20 September 18:00 (scorecard)	India 153/5 (20 overs)	v	South Africa 116/9 (20 overs)	India won by 37 runs Kingsmead, Durban Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Rohit Sharma (Ind)
	Rohit Sharma 50 (40) Shaun Pollock 2/17 (4)		Albie Morkel 36 (37) R. P. Singh 4/13 (4)
After three teams finished on equal points New Zealand and India advanced to the semi-finals by having higher net run rates. The hosts, South Africa, were eliminated as a result of this match.

Group F

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	NR	NRR
Pakistan	6	3	3	0	0	+0.843
Australia	4	3	2	1	0	+2.256
Sri Lanka	2	3	1	2	0	-0.697
Bangladesh	0	3	0	3	0	-2.031

16 September 14:00 (scorecard)	Bangladesh 123/8 (20 overs)	v	Australia 124/1 (13.5 overs)	Australia won by 9 wickets Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pak) and Ian Howell (SA) Player of the match: Brett Lee (Aus)
	Tamim Iqbal 32 (40) Brett Lee 3/27 (4)		Matthew Hayden 73* (48) Mashrafe Mortaza 0/27 (3.5)
Brett Lee took the first ever hat-trick in Twenty20 International cricket.

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17 September 18:00 (scorecard)	Pakistan 189/6 (20 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 156/9 (20 overs)	Pakistan won by 33 runs Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Umpires: Daryl Harper (Aus) and Nigel Llong (Eng) Player of the match: Younis Khan (Pak)
	Shoaib Malik 57 (31) Lasith Malinga 3/43 (4)		Chamara Silva 38 (27) Shahid Afridi 3/18 (4)

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18 September 14:00 (scorecard)	Australia 164/7 (20 overs)	v	Pakistan 165/4 (19.1 overs)	Pakistan won by 6 wickets Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Umpires: Mark Benson (Eng) and Nigel Llong (Eng) Player of the match: Misbah-ul-Haq (Pak)
	Michael Hussey 37 (25) Sohail Tanvir 3/31 (4)		Misbah-ul-Haq 66 (42) Stuart Clark 3/27 (4)

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18 September 18:00 (scorecard)	Sri Lanka 147/5 (20 overs)	v	Bangladesh 83 all out (15.5 overs)	Sri Lanka won by 64 runs Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Umpires: Mark Benson (Eng) and Daryl Harper (Aus) Player of the match: Dilhara Fernando (Sri)
	Jehan Mubarak 31* (19) Mahmudullah 1/19 (4)		Aftab Ahmed 18 (11) Sanath Jayasuriya 2/4 (1.5)
Pakistan qualified for the semi-finals as a result of this match. Bangladesh was eliminated from the tournament.

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20 September 10:00 (scorecard)	Sri Lanka 101 all out (19.3 overs)	v	Australia 102/0 (10.2 overs)	Australia won by 10 wickets Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pak) and Ian Howell (SA) Player of the match: Stuart Clark (Aus)
	Jehan Mubarak 28 (26) Stuart Clark 4/20 (4)		Matthew Hayden 58* (38)
Australia qualified for the semi-finals as a result of this match. Sri Lanka was eliminated from the tournament. This was the first time a team chased a total in the tournament with all 10 wickets intact, making it the biggest margin of victory in terms of wickets.

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20 September 14:00 (scorecard)	Bangladesh 140 all out (19.4 overs)	v	Pakistan 141/6 (19 overs)	Pakistan won by 4 wickets Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Umpires: Ian Howell (SA) and Tony Hill (NZ) Player of the match: Junaid Siddique (Ban)
	Junaid Siddique 71 (49) Shoaib Malik 2/15 (2)		Shahid Afridi 39 (15) Abdur Razzak 2/16 (4)

Knockout Stages

	Semi-finals				Final
	22 September - Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town
	New Zealand	143/8
	Pakistan	147/4
					24 September - Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
					Pakistan	152/10
					India	157/5
	22 September - Kingsmead, Durban
	India	188/5
	Australia	173/7

Semi-Finals

22 September 13:00 (scorecard)	New Zealand 143/8 (20 overs)	v	Pakistan 147/4 (18.5 overs)	Pakistan won by 6 wickets Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Umpires: Daryl Harper (AUS) and Simon Taufel (AUS) Player of the match: Umar Gul (Pak)
	Ross Taylor 37* (23) Umar Gul 3/15 (4)		Imran Nazir 59 (41) Scott Styris 1/14 (3)

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22 September 18:00 (scorecard)	India 188/5 (20 overs)	v	Australia 173/7 (20 overs)	India won by 15 runs Kingsmead, Durban Umpires: Asad Rauf (PAK), Mark Benson (ENG) Player of the match: Yuvraj Singh (Ind)
	Yuvraj Singh 70 (30) Mitchell Johnson 2/31 (4)		Matthew Hayden 62 (47) S Sreesanth 2/12 (4)
Yuvraj Singh (India) hit the longest six of the tournament (119 m).

Final

24 September 14:00 (scorecard)	India 157/5 (20 overs)	v	Pakistan 152 all out (19.3 overs)	India won by 5 runs Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Umpires: Mark Benson (ENG), Simon Taufel (AUS) Player of the match: Irfan Pathan (Ind)
	Gautam Gambhir 75 (54) Umar Gul 3/28 (4)		Misbah-ul-Haq 43 (38) Irfan Pathan 3/16 (4)

India won the toss and chose to bat on what was considered to be a traditionally batsman-friendly pitch at the Bullring. Umar Gul took the wickets of both Yuvraj Singh and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, leaving India with 157/5 in 20 overs; only Gautam Gambhir (75 from 54 balls) produced a notable innings. A 21-run over from Sreesanth swung the game towards Pakistan. However, Irfan Pathan and Joginder Sharma slowed the scoring dramatically. With Pakistan needing 54 from 24 balls, Misbah-ul-Haq hit 3 sixes off Harbhajan Singh in one over. Sreesanth was also dispatched for 2 sixes but took the wicket of Sohail Tanvir, as Pakistan went into the last over needing 13 runs to win, with only 1 wicket remaining. Joginder Sharma bowled a wide first ball, followed by a dot ball. Misbah followed by taking six off a full-toss; Pakistan needed just 6 runs to win from the last four balls. Misbah attempted to hit the next ball with a paddle-scoop over fine leg, but he only managed to sky the ball, and it was caught at short fine-leg by Sreesanth, leaving Pakistan all out for 152 runs. Irfan Pathan was awarded the Man of the Match for his spell, which included 3 wickets for 16 runs, including that of Man of the Series, Shahid Afridi.

Records and statistics

Main article: 2007 ICC World Twenty20 statistics

Venues

All matches were played at the following three grounds:

• Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town
• Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, Durban
• Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Match Officials

Main article: 2007 ICC World Twenty20 officials

The umpires were selected from the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires and the ICC International umpire panel and the referees from the Panel of ICC Referees.

Media coverage

Coverage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 was as follows:

Television networks

• Africa — Supersport (Live)
• Australia — Fox Sports (Live)
• Australia — Nine Network
• Bangladesh — Bangladesh Television(In group stage 2 Bangladesh match only) (Live)
• Canada — Asian Television Network (Live)
• Caribbean - Caribbean Media Corporation (Live)
• India — ESPN (Live) - English
• India — STAR Cricket (Live) - Hindi
• Jamaica - Television Jamaica (Live)
• Middle East - Ten Sports (Live)
• New Zealand — SKY Network Television (Live)
• Pakistan — GEO Super (Live)
• Sri Lanka — Sirasa Network (Live)
• United Kingdom — Sky Sports (Live)
• United States — DirecTV CricketTicket (Live)

References

External links

• Recent rule changes for Twenty20 Cricket. Follow the link to download a .pdf file of ALL the rules

• Official Website
• 2007 World Twenty20 Championship Latest News
• CricketEurope article on ICC World Twenty20
• Cricinfo article on ground allocation
• Sky Sports News
• BBC Sport article on fixture announcement
• Official fixture list, from Cricket South Africa
• Match Statistics & Results on ESPNcricinfo