Twenty Twenty Cricket
65What 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
|
|---|---|
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
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LOL, I heard you and so did many other hubbers. You see USA has started playing t20 officially since 9th February 2010. :)
Glad you liked my hub and thanks for commenting.
G'day mate, I just caught the news that the Kiwis beat Australia in extra time over the weekend. :-)
Yup they did. I was just switching channels and there was this match on one. Sadly, I started watching it when only one ball was remaining in the match. Australia were batting and they tied the match. Then super overs were played where Australia batted first and scored only 6 runs due to really amazing bowling of Southee, Kiwis chased the score easily.
G'day , we did not get these games on TV, very disappointing for us, I love the 20/20 format I think it will supersede the 50 over game, whadaya reckon :-)
Not completely but maybe the 50 over game will look like what test matches are these days.
Great Hub...
T20 is the best innovation that the cricket world has come up with for ages. It's incredibly exciting especially when the run chase is on...
We were fortunate to host the Indian T20 here in South Africa last year....brilliant!
Regards
Greg
Now the world cup is on its way. Lets c what happens. :)
Ahhh cricket.
It would be best if I do not comment.
Myself, I am a football person.
I too would like to forget about cricket. :(
Ann Nonymous 2 years ago
I don't know much about cricket despite most of my relatives do and have played it when young, but I do know that I'd rather watch this game than baseball!!! Oops, did I "say" that out loud? LOL
Great hub, Ultimate Hubber!