2007 ICC World Twenty20

2007 ICC World Twenty20

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 September 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.[1]

Contents

Rules and regulations

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.[2] 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:[3]

  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

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.[4] The top two teams from each group went through to the second stage of the tournament.[5]

All times given are Central Africa 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).

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.

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: Morne 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)

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)

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.

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 is 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.

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)

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.

14 September
18:00
(scorecard)
India 
141/9 (20 overs)
v  Pakistan
141/7 (20 overs)
Match tied,  India won bowl-out (3–0)
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)
  • India 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.[6]

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)

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)

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)

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)
Morne 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.

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.

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)

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)

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)

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.

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.

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)

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 (Ind) 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)

Man 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.[7] 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

Venues

All matches were played at the following three grounds:

Match 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

References

  1. ^ Soni, Paresh (2007-09-24). "ICC World Twenty20". BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/7009035.stm. Retrieved 2007-09-24. "India beat Pakistan in the World Twenty20 final by five runs to clinch their first major trophy since 1983." 
  2. ^ Playing conditions, from ICC World Twenty20 homepage, retrieved 12 September 2007
  3. ^ Final WorldTwenty20 Playing conditions, from ICC World Twenty20 homepage, retrieved 12 September 2007
  4. ^ "Twenty20 WC: India, Pak in same group". Rediff.com. 13 June 2007. Archived from the original on 2009-05-16. http://inhome.rediff.com/cricket/2007/jun/13ind.htm. Retrieved 2009-03-14. 
  5. ^ "Twenty20 World Championship Schedule announced". SportsAustralia.com. 15 May 2007. Archived from the original on 2009-05-16. http://www.sportsaustralia.com/articles/news.php?id=1310. Retrieved 2009-03-14. 
  6. ^ Tournament format, from ICC World Twenty20 homepage, retrieved 8 September 2007
  7. ^ "Arch rivals sight redemption in dream T20 final". AFP. 2007-09-23. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gdXpspIAJ3xqNuLwKF7boCk5SwXA. Retrieved 2007-09-25. "With fellow master-blasters Dhoni and Pakistan's Shahid Afridi both due to take the field at the batsman-friendly Wanderers here, a sell-out crowd on what is a bank holiday in South Africa can expect another run-fest." 

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