ICC World Twenty20 2014

The ICC World Twenty20 2014 was the fifth world championship in men's Twenty20 cricket and took place from March 16 to April 6, 2014 in Bangladesh . In the final, Sri Lanka was able to prevail against India with 6 wickets .

Attendees

On April 16, 2012, the Executive Board of the International Cricket Council decided that from 2014 the World Twenty20 tournaments will be held with 16 instead of 12 teams. This means that in addition to the ten test nations, six affiliate / associate members of the ICC will take part in the tournament. As in the previous edition, the qualification process will be carried out in several stages and regions. The first tournament for this took place in April 2012 in Johannesburg. The final qualifying tournament then took place in 2013 in the United Arab Emirates . The qualified test nations are:

Australia Bangladesh England India New Zealand

Pakistan South Africa Zimbabwe Sri Lanka West Indies

The teams that qualified for the 2013 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier are:

Afghanistan  Hong Kong Ireland

Netherlands  Nepal Ver. Arab. Emirates

format

The two worst-placed test nations and the qualifiers initially carry out the preliminary round, divided into two groups of four, in which everyone plays against each other. The two group winners qualify for the Super 10, where the remaining eight test nations also enter the tournament. There the ten teams play in two groups of five, each against each other. The two best in the group then qualify for the semi-finals, the winners of which then carry out the final.

Venues

Chittagong Dhaka Sylhet

The venues for the ICC World Twenty 2014 in Bangladesh

Three stadiums in Bangladesh were selected for the tournament.

city	Stadion	capacity
Chittagong	Chittagong Divisional Stadium	20,000
Dhaka	Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium	26,000
Sylhet	Sylhet Divisional Stadium	22,000

Preliminary round

Group A

table

Group A	Sp.	S.	N	NO	P	NRR
Bangladesh	3	2	1	0	4th	+1,466
Nepal	3	2	1	0	4th	+0.933
Afghanistan	3	1	2	0	2	−0.981
Hong Kong	3	1	2	0	2	−1,455

March 16 scorecard	Mirpur	Afghanistan 72 (17.1)	-	Bangladesh 78-1 (12)
		Bangladesh wins with 9 wickets

March 16 scorecard	Chittagong	Nepal 149-8 (20)	-	Hong Kong 69 (17)
		Nepal wins with 80 runs

March 18 scorecard	Chittagong	Hong Kong 153-8 (20)	-	Afghanistan 154-3 (18)
		Afghanistan wins with 7 wickets

March 18 scorecard	Chittagong	Nepal 126-5 (20)	-	Bangladesh 132-2 (15.3)
		Bangladesh wins with 8 wickets

March 20 scorecard	Chittagong	Nepal 141-5 (20)	-	Afghanistan 132-8 (20)
		Nepal wins with 9 runs

March 20 scorecard	Chittagong	Bangladesh 108 (16.3)	-	Hong Kong 114-8 (19.4)
		Hong Kong wins with 2 wickets

Group B

table

Group B	Sp.	S.	N	NO	P	NRR
Netherlands	3	2	1	0	4th	+1,109
Zimbabwe	3	2	1	0	4th	+0.957
Ireland	3	2	1	0	4th	−0.701
Ver. Arab. Emirates	3	0	3	0	0	−1,541

March 17th Scorecard	Sylhet	Zimbabwe 163-5 (20)	-	Ireland 164-7 (20)
		Ireland wins with 3 wickets

March 17th Scorecard	Sylhet	Ver. Arab. Emirates 151 (19.5)	-	Netherlands 152-4 (18.5)
		Netherlands wins with 6 wickets

March 19 scorecard	Sylhet	Netherlands 140-5 (20)	-	Zimbabwe 146-5 (20)
		Zimbabwe wins with 5 wickets

March 19 scorecard	Sylhet	Ver. Arab. Emirates 123-6 (20)	-	Ireland 103-3 (14.2 / 14.2)
		Ireland wins with 21 runs ( D / L method )

March 21 scorecard	Sylhet	Ver. Arab. Emirates 116-9 (20)	-	Zimbabwe 118-5 (13.4)
		Zimbabwe wins with 5 wickets

March 21 scorecard	Sylhet	Ireland 189-4 (20)	-	Netherlands 193-4 (13.5)
		Netherlands wins with 6 wickets

Super 10

Group 1

table

Group 1	Sp.	S.	N	NO	P	NRR
Sri Lanka	4th	3	1	0	6th	+2,233
South Africa	4th	3	1	0	6th	+0.075
New Zealand	4th	2	2	0	4th	−0.678
England	4th	1	3	0	2	−0.776
Netherlands	4th	1	3	0	2	−0.866

March 22nd scorecard	Chittagong	Sri Lanka 165-7 (20)	-	South Africa 160-8 (20)
		Sri Lanka wins with 5 runs

March 22nd scorecard	Chittagong	England 172-6 (20)	-	New Zealand 52-1 (5.2 / 5.2)
		New Zealand wins with 9 runs ( D / L method )

March 24th scorecard	Chittagong	South Africa 170-6 (20)	-	New Zealand 168-8 (20)
		South Africa wins with 2 runs

March 24th scorecard	Chittagong	Netherlands 39 (10.3)	-	Sri Lanka 40-1 (5)
		Sri Lanka wins with 9 wickets

March 27 scorecard	Chittagong	South Africa 145-9 (20)	-	Netherlands 139 (18.4)
		South Africa wins with 6 runs

March 27 scorecard	Chittagong	Sri Lanka 189-4 (20)	-	England 190-4 (19.2)
		England wins with 6 wickets

March 29 scorecard	Chittagong	Netherlands 151-4 (20)	-	New Zealand 152-4 (19)
		New Zealand wins with 6 wickets

March 29 scorecard	Chittagong	South Africa 196-5 (20)	-	England 193-7 (20)
		South Africa wins with 3 runs

March 31 scorecard	Chittagong	Netherlands 133-5 (20)	-	England 88 (17.4)
		Netherlands win with 45 runs

March 31 scorecard	Chittagong	Sri Lanka 119 (19.2)	-	New Zealand 60 (15.3)
		Sri Lanka wins with 59 runs

Group 2

table

Group 2	Sp.	S.	N	NO	P	NRR
India	4th	4th	0	0	8th	+1,280
West Indies	4th	3	1	0	6th	+1,971
Pakistan	4th	2	2	0	4th	−0.384
Australia	4th	1	3	0	2	−0.857
Bangladesh	4th	0	4th	0	0	−2.072

March 21 scorecard	Mirpur	Pakistan 130-7 (20)	-	India 131-3 (18.3)
		India wins with 7 wickets

March 23 scorecard	Mirpur	Pakistan 191-5 (20)	-	Australia 175 (20)
		Pakistan wins with 16 runs

March 23 scorecard	Mirpur	West Indies 129-7 (20)	-	India 130-3 (19.4)
		India wins with 7 wickets

March 25 scorecard	Mirpur	West Indies 171-7 (20)	-	Bangladesh 98 (19.1)
		West Indies win with 73 runs

March 28 scorecard	Mirpur	Australia 178-8 (20)	-	West Indies 179-4 (19.4)
		West Indies win with 6 wickets

March 28 scorecard	Mirpur	Bangladesh 138-7 (20)	-	India 141-2 (18.3)
		India wins with 8 wickets

March 30th scorecard	Mirpur	Pakistan 190-5 (20)	-	Bangladesh 140-7 (20)
		Pakistan wins with 50 runs

March 30th scorecard	Mirpur	India 159-7 (20)	-	Australia 86 (16.2)
		India wins with 73 runs

April 1st scorecard	Mirpur	Bangladesh 153-5 (20)	-	Australia 158-3 (17.3)
		Australia wins with 7 wickets

April 1st scorecard	Mirpur	West Indies 166-6 (20)	-	Pakistan 82 (17.5)
		West Indies win with 84 runs

Semifinals

April 3 scorecard	Mirpur	Sri Lanka 160-6 (20)	-	West Indies 80-4 (13.5 / 13.5)
		Sri Lanka wins with 27 runs ( D / L method )

April 4th scorecard	Mirpur	South Africa 172-4 (20)	-	India 176-4 (19.1)
		India wins with 6 wickets

final

April 6th scorecard	Mirpur	India 130-4 (20)	-	Sri Lanka 134-4 (17.5)
		Sri Lanka wins with 6 wickets

statistics

Most successful run scorer

The five players with the most runs were:

player	team	Games	Runs	Average
Virat Kohli	India	6th	319	106.33
Tom Cooper	Netherlands	7th	231	57.75
Stephan Myburgh	Netherlands	7th	224	32.00
Rohit Sharma	India	6th	200	40.00
Jean-Paul Duminy	South Africa	5	187	62.33

Most successful wicket taker

The five players with the most wickets were:

player	team	Games	Wickets	Average
Imran Tahir	South Africa	5	12	10.91
Ahsan Malik	Netherlands	7th	12	13.83
Samuel Badree	West Indies	5	11	10.27
Ravichandran Ashwin	India	6th	11	11.27
Amit Mishra	India	6th	10	14.70

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bangladesh to host World Twenty20 2014. Cricinfo, July 1, 2010, accessed September 4, 2012 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Sharda Ugra: ICC presidency term to be cut to a year. Cricinfo, April 16, 2012, accessed September 4, 2012 . 
3. ↑ WT20 2014. (No longer available online.) ICC, formerly in the original ; accessed on September 4, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Explanation of the abbreviations: Col. = games; S = victories; N = defeats; U = tie; NR = No Result; P = points; NRR = Net Run Rate
5. ↑ World T20, 2013/14 / Records / Most runs. Cricinfo, April 6, 2014, accessed April 6, 2014 . 
6. ↑ World T20, 2013/14 / Records / Most wickets. Cricinfo, April 6, 2014, accessed April 6, 2014 .