T-20 Cricket World Cup : England 2009

In the inaugural T-20 Cricket World Cup which was held in South Africa in the year 2007 and no body rated India to win inaugural T-20 World Cup as they performed badly despite having all the top ranked players in the side in the One day International World Cup held in West Indies which was finished just before two months back before start of T-20 Cricket World Cup and all the senior players either avoid to play T-20 or on the name of rest they were not selected to play T-20 Cricket World Cup but as the tournament progressed and India with every match played rating it’s chances upwards to do wonder in the inaugural world cup of T-20 and in the end in final India played against it’s arch rival Pakistan and in nail biting finish India beat Pakistan by five runs and lift the inaugural T-20 Cricket World Cup.
This Year from 05th June, 2009 onwards till 21st June, 2009 in England second T-20 Cricket World Cup is going to held and Cricket Crazy Country India which is still under the hang over of IPL-Edition 2 recently finished on 24th May, 2009 in South Africa and less then two weeks time they are now going to have one more Super treat of Cricket. This year’s T-20 Cricket world Cup twelve teams are going to participate and they are divided into four groups and teams which are going to play and groups are below coded –
Group A
• Bangladesh
• India
• Ireland
Group B
• England
• Pakistan
• Netherlands
Group C
• Australia
• Sri Lanka
• West Indies
Group D
• New Zealand
• Scotland
• South Africa

format of the tournament is that first there will be group games from 05th June,2009 to 10th June,2009 and every team of different groups have to play with both other teams in there group once, whose schedule of matches are below mentioned and for the benefits of Indian audience England is five hours and thirty Minutes behind from Indian Standard Time –

All mentioned times are England time

1. 05 June 17.30 P.M. to 20.30 P.M. Lord’s England v/s Netherlands
2. 06 June 10.00A.M. to 13.00 P.M. Oval New Zealand V/s Scotland
3 06 June 14.00P.M. to 17.00 P.M. Oval Australia v/s West Indies
4 06 June 18.00 P.M. to 21.00 P.M. Trent Bridge India v/s Bangladesh
5. 07 June 13.30 P.M. to 16.30 P.M. Oval South Africa v/s Scotland
6. 07 June 17.30 P.M. to 20.30 P.M. Oval England v/s Pakistan
7. 08 June 13.30 P.M. to 16.30 P.M. Trent Bridge Ireland v/s Bangladesh
8. 08 June 17.30 P.M. to 20.30 P.M. Trent Bridge Australia v/s Scotland
9. 09 June 13.30 P.M. to 16.30 P.M. Lord’s Pakistan v/s Netherlands
10. 09 June 17.30 P.M. to 20.30 P.M. Lord’s New Zealand v/s South Africa
11. 10 June 13.30 P.M. to 16.30 P.M. Trent Bridge Sri Lanka v/s West Indies
12. 10 June 17.30 P.M. to 20.30 P.M. Trent Bridge India v/s Ireland

Then next round will be of Super Eight and from all the four groups top two team will qualify for this round and where they are grouped as per seedings –
Group E : A1, B2, C1, D2
Group F : A2, B1, C2, D1
and Super eight Fixture will play like this –

SUPER EIGHT MATCHES

DATE TIME VENUE MATCH
June 11 13:30-16:30 Trent Bridge D1 vs A2
June 11 17:30-20:30 Trent Bridge B2 vs D2
June 12 13:30-16:30 Lord's B1 vs C2
June 12 17:30-20:30 Lord's A1 vs C1
June 13 13:30-16:30 Oval C1 vs D2
June 13 17:30-20:30 Oval D1 vs B1
June 14 13:30-16:30 Lord's A2 vs C2
June 14 17:30-20:30 Lord's A1 vs B2
June 15 13:30-16:30 Oval B1 vs A2
June 15 17:30-20:30 Oval B2 vs C1
June 16 13:30-16:30 Trent Bridge D1 vs C2
June 16 17:30-20:30 Trent Bridge D2 vs A1

The top four teams from the Super Eight qualify for the semifinals:

Semi Final 1 - 18th June, Trent Bridge, E1 vs. F2
Semi Final 2 - 19th June, Oval, E2 vs. F1

Final - 21st June at Lord's

Despite being in the facility zone to watch all the matches on television and ESS (ESPN Star Sports ) has right to telecast T-20 Cricket World Cup matches which are going to broadcast on ESS groups Star Cricket but for Indian viewers results will be out of almost seventeen matches between 1.00a.m. to 1.30 a.m. which can be enjoy only die heart fan of cricket otherwise lot of categories of viewers will skip to watch fully as person who have to go to office, private business persons, students all have liabilities towards their profession or study, but despite all this fact perhaps June has store for Indian audience to cheer once again just like when Kapil’s team lifted 1984 World Cup.