Twenty Twenty Cricket
What is Twenty Twenty Cricket
The Twenty Twenty cricket, which is often referred to as the T20 cricket, is a type of cricket game having 2 innings consisting of twenty overs each. It is played like an ODI(the fifty over game), the only difference being of overs. The power-play overs and maximum overs limit per bowler are also limited accordingly.
T20 World Cup
The T20 world cup is held once in every two years. Till now two T20 world cups have been conducted; the first one was won by India with Pakistan being the runners up in 2007, Pakistan won the second one beating Sri Lanka comprehensively in the final match in 2009.
Criticism
Although this format has been proved successful, it has been argued that since Twenty20 encourages far-from-technical cricket, youngsters will be misguided into believing that cricket is all about trying to hit fours and sixes and getting out in the process.
Twenty 20 playing nations and the dates of their debut
Country
| Debut
|
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Australia
| 17 February 2005
|
New Zealand
| 17 February 2005
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England
| 13 June 2005
|
South Africa
| 21 October 2005
|
West Indies
| 16 February 2006
|
Sri Lanka
| 15 June 2006
|
Pakistan
| 28 August 2006
|
Bangladesh
| 28 November 2006
|
Zimbabwe
| 28 November 2006
|
India
| 1 December 2006
|
Kenya
| 1 September 2007
|
Scotland
| 12 September 2007
|
Holland
| 2 August 2008
|
Ireland
| 2 August 2008
|
Canada
| 2 August 2008
|
Bermuda
| 3 August 2008
|
Uganda
| 30 January 2010
|
Afghanistan
| 2 February 2010
|
United Arab Emirites(UAE)
| 9 February 2010
|
USA
| 9 February 2010
|