A
Twenty20

Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of cricket, played between
two of the top members of the International
Cricket

Cricket Council (ICC), in
which each team faces 20 overs. The matches have top-class status and
are the highest T20 standard. The game is played under the rules of
Twenty20

Twenty20 cricket. ICC decided to use DRS in
Twenty20

Twenty20 internationals
from October 2017.[1][2]
Umpire Decision Review System (DRS) was used
for the first time in
Twenty20

Twenty20 International in India-Australia T20I
series in October 2017.[3]
The shortened format was initially introduced to bolster crowds for
the domestic game, and was not intended to be played internationally,
but the first
Twenty20

Twenty20 International took place on 17 February 2005
when Australia defeated New Zealand, and the first tournament was
played two years later, with the introduction of the ICC World
Twenty20. In 2016, for the first time in a calendar year, more
Twenty20

Twenty20 International matches (100) were played than ODI matches
(99).[4] There remain limits on how many
Twenty20

Twenty20 Internationals a
team can play each year, in order to protect
Test cricket

Test cricket and One Day
Internationals. As of 2016, there are 18 nations that feature in ICC
T20I team rankings.[5]
In
Twenty20

Twenty20 format there will be one powerplay from 1–6 overs and
middle overs are from 10–15 overs. Final death overs are considered
from 16–20 overs. The shorter format of the game makes reaching the
traditional milestones of scoring a century or taking five wickets in
an innings more difficult, and few players have achieved these. The
highest individual score in a
Twenty20

Twenty20 International is 156, made by
Australia's
Aaron Finch

Aaron Finch against England in 2013, while Sri Lanka's
Ajantha Mendis

Ajantha Mendis is the only bowler to have taken two six wickets in an
innings, and fewer than twenty players have taken five wickets in an
innings.
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Contents
1 Origins
2 History
3 Current international rankings
4 Teams with T20I status
5
Cricket

Cricket at international multi-sport events
6 Statistics
7 See also
8 References
Origins[edit]
Cricket

Cricket itself was probably first played in England in the Late Middle
Ages, but it did not rise to prominence until the eighteenth century.
A set of laws were drawn up in 1744, and the game achieved a level of
relative standardisation by the late nineteenth century.[6] One-day
cricket was trialled in 1962, and the first domestic tournament played
the following year,[7] and in 1971, England and Australia contested
the first One Day International. The match consisted of one innings
for each side, with 40 eight-ball overs.[8]
In the 1990s, a number of countries were exploring the possibility of
a shorter game still: in New Zealand,
Martin Crowe

Martin Crowe developed Cricket
Max, in which each team bats for 10 eight-ball overs,[9] while in
Australia they considered an eight-a-side contest they dubbed "Super
8s". At the same time, the England and Wales
Cricket

Cricket Board (ECB)
conducted consumer research, and proposed the idea of a 20
overs-per-side contest, which would last for about three hours.[10]
The first match was played in 2003 between Hampshire and Sussex.[11]
History[edit]
The first
Twenty20

Twenty20 International match between two men's sides was
played on 17 February 2005, involving Australia and New Zealand.
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack reported that "neither side took the game
especially seriously",[12] and it was noted by
ESPNcricinfo

ESPNcricinfo that but
for a large score for Ricky Ponting, "the concept would have
shuddered".[13] However, Ponting himself said "if it does become an
international game then I'm sure the novelty won't be there all the
time".[14]
Two further matches were played that year; England beat Australia in
June, and South Africa were defeated by New Zealand in October.[15]
Early the following year, a contest between New Zealand and the West
Indies finished as the first tied match, and a tiebreak was played for
the first time in men's international cricket: the two sides took part
in a bowl-out to determine a winner; New Zealand won 3–0.[16]
The game had initially been developed to boost the interest in
domestic cricket, and to aid this the international teams were only
allowed to host three T20Is each year. The cricket manager for the
ICC, David Richardson, also commented that "Part of the success of
Twenty20

Twenty20 cricket is making sure it can coexist with
Test cricket

Test cricket and
one-dayers."[17] Despite this, the first international tournament was
held in 2007 in South Africa; the 2007 ICC World Twenty20.[17] That
tournament was won by India, who defeated their close rivals Pakistan
in the final. Writing for The Guardian, Dilip Premachandran suggested
that the competition's success meant that "the format is here to
stay".[18] The next tournament was scheduled for 2009, and it was
decided that they would take place biannually (more frequently than
the 50 over
Cricket

Cricket World Cup, which occurs once every four
years).[19] In the opening match of the 2007 World Twenty20, Chris
Gayle scored the first century in a T20I, the achievement being
reached in the twentieth match of the format.[20]
The 500th T20I match was contested between Ireland and the United Arab
Emirates at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium,
Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi on 16 February
2016.[21]
Current international rankings[edit]
ICC T20I Championship
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Rank
Team
Matches
Points
Rating
1
Pakistan
29
3,763
130
2
Australia
20
2,513
126
3
India
36
4,341
121
4
New Zealand
26
3,013
116
5
England
21
2,402
114
6
South Africa
23
2,551
111
7
West Indies
25
2,770
111
8
Sri Lanka
33
2,921
89
9
Afghanistan
27
2,385
88
10
Bangladesh
24
1,846
77
11
Scotland
11
737
67
12
Zimbabwe
15
915
61
13
United Arab Emirates
16
827
52
14
Netherlands
9
441
49
15
Hong Kong
13
599
46
16
Papua New Guinea
6
235
39
17
Oman
9
345
38
18
Ireland
15
534
36
Reference: ICC rankings for Tests, ODIs,
Twenty20

Twenty20 & Women, 03
April 2018
"Matches" is the number of matches played in the 12-24 months since
the May before last, plus half the number in the 24 months before
that.
Teams with T20I status[edit]
The 12 Test-playing nations (which are also the 12 full members of the
ICC) have permanent T20I status. The nations are listed below with the
date of each nation's T20I debut after gaining permanent T20I status
shown in brackets:
New Zealand (17 February 2005)
Australia (17 February 2005)
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)
Afghanistan (5 February 2018)
Ireland (27 June 2018)
Since 2005, the ICC has granted temporary ODI and T20I status to six
other teams (known as Associate members). Teams earn this temporary
status for a period of four years based on their performance in the
quadrennial ICC World
Cricket

Cricket League – or, more specifically, based
on the top six finishing positions at the ICC World Cup Qualifier,
which is the final event of the World
Cricket

Cricket League. On 28 June 2014,
the ICC granted T20I status to Nepal and Netherlands, both of whom
qualified for and took part in the 2014 ICC World Twenty20, but had
both failed to gain/retain ODI status.[22] The following six teams
currently have this status (the dates listed in brackets are of their
first T20I match after gaining temporary ODI or T20I status):
Scotland (from 12 September 2007, until the 2022
Cricket

Cricket World
Cup Qualifier)
Netherlands (from 2 August 2008, until the 2022
Cricket

Cricket World
Cup Qualifier)
Hong Kong (from 16 March 2014, until the 2020 ICC World Twenty20
Qualifier)
United Arab Emirates (from 17 March 2014, until the 2022 Cricket
World Cup Qualifier)
Oman (from 25 July 2015, until the 2020 ICC World Twenty20
Qualifier)[23]
Nepal (from 16 March 2014, until the 2022 Cricket
World Cup Qualifier)
So far, six other nations have held this temporary T20I status before
being promoted to Test Status or relegated after underperforming at
the World Cup Qualifier or World
Twenty20

Twenty20 Qualifier:
Kenya (from 1 September 2007, until 30 January 2014)
Ireland (from 2 August 2008, until 12 March 2017)
Canada (from 2 August 2008, until 28 January 2014)
Bermuda (from 3 August 2008, until 8 April 2009)
Afghanistan (from 1 February 2010, until 5 June 2017)
Papua New Guinea (from 13 July 2015, until the 25 March 2018)
Cricket

Cricket at international multi-sport events[edit]
Ajantha Mendis

Ajantha Mendis was the first player to take six wickets in a T20I
Cricket

Cricket was played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, when England
and France contested a two-day match.[24] In 1998, cricket was played
as part of the Commonwealth Games, on this occasion in the 50-over
format. There was some talk about
Twenty20

Twenty20 cricket being part of the
2010 Commonwealth Games, which were held in Delhi, but at the time the
Board of Control for
Cricket

Cricket in India (BCCI), were not in favour of
the short format of the game, and it was not included.[25]
Cricket

Cricket was played in 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China[26] and
2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.[27] India skipped both
times.[28] There was further calls for subsequent Commonwealth Games
and Olympic Games. The
Commonwealth Games Federation

Commonwealth Games Federation asked the ICC to
participate in the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games, but the ICC
turned down the invitation.[29] In 2010, the International Olympic
Committee recognised cricket as a sport which could apply to be
included in the Olympic Games,[30] but in 2013 the ICC announced that
it had no intentions to make such an application, primarily due to
opposition from the BCCI.
ESPNcricinfo

ESPNcricinfo suggested that the opposition
might be based on the possible loss of income.[31] In April 2016, ICC
chief executive David Richardson said that
Twenty20

Twenty20 cricket can have a
chance of getting in for the 2024 Summer Games, but there must be
collective support shown by the ICC's membership base, in particular
from BCCI, in order for there to be a chance of inclusion.[32]
Statistics[edit]
Main article: List of
Twenty20

Twenty20 International records
Main article: List of centuries in
Twenty20

Twenty20 International cricket
The highest team total in a T20I was made by Australia in September
2016, against Sri Lanka. Australia scored 263 runs for the loss of
three wickets (263/3).[33][34] The lowest total also came in a match
involving Sri Lanka: in 2014, the Netherlands were bowled out for just
39 runs against them.[35] The highest successful chase was made in
February 2018, when Australia scored 245 runs to overhaul New
Zealand's target and win the match.[36]
Martin Guptill
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Martin Guptill has accrued the most runs in the format, and is the
only batsman to have scored more than 2,200 runs.[37] He is one of
less than twenty players to have scored a century in T20Is, and as of
March 2018. The highest total in a T20I though, was scored by Aaron
Finch, who totalled 156 runs in a match against England in 2013.[38]
Three Pakistani bowlers lead the records for the most wickets; each
having taken over 80 in T20Is: Saeed Ajmal,
Umar Gul

Umar Gul and Shahid
Afridi.[39] Similarly, Sri Lanka's
Ajantha Mendis

Ajantha Mendis has recorded the
best two set of bowling figures in T20Is, and is the only bowler to
have taken six wickets in a match, doing so against both Zimbabwe in
2012, and Australia in 2011.[40]
Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli is the fastest cricketer
to score 1000 runs in
Twenty20

Twenty20 Internationals in 27 innings.[41][42]
See also[edit]
List of International
Cricket

Cricket Council members
List of
Twenty20

Twenty20
International cricket
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International cricket hat-tricks
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