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2026 Men's T20 World Cup
The 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup will be the 10th edition of the Men's T20 World Cup. It is scheduled to be hosted by Sri Lanka along with the defending champions India from February to March 2026. Background The ICC Men's T20 World Cup is a biennial world cup for cricket in Twenty20 International (T20I) format, organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The tournament, now being held every two years, was first played in 2007 in South Africa. India are the defending champions, having defeated South Africa in the final of the previous edition. Host selection In November 2021, as part of the 2024–2031 ICC men's hosts cycle, India and Sri Lanka were announced as co-hosts for the tournament. Initially the plan was for Sri Lanka to host the entire tournament but due to expansion of the tournament and lack of stadiums in Sri Lanka it was decided to co-host with India. Sri Lanka first hosted the T20 World Cup in 2012 and India hosted in 2016. In December 2024, follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Cricket Council
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the global Sports governing body, governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from Australia, England, and South Africa. In 1965, the body was renamed as the International Cricket Conference and adopted its current name in 1987. ICC has its headquarters in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The ICC currently has 108 member nations: 12 List of International Cricket Council members#Full members, full members that play Test cricket, Test matches, and 96 List of International Cricket Council members#Associate members, associate members. The ICC is responsible for the organisation and governance of cricket's major international tournaments, most notably the Cricket World Cup, T20 World Cup, and ICC World Test Championship. It also appoints the umpire (cricket), umpires and referees that officiate at all sanctioned Test matches, One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals. It promul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ESPNcricinfo
ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and ''StatsGuru'', a database of historical matches and players from the 18th century to the present. , Sambit Bal was the editor. The site, originally conceived in a pre-World Wide Web form in 1993 by Simon King, was acquired in 2002 by the Wisden Grouppublishers of several notable cricket magazines and the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. As part of an eventual break-up of the Wisden Group, it was sold to ESPN, jointly owned by The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Communications, in 2007. History CricInfo was launched on 15 March 1993 by Simon King, a British researcher at the University of Minnesota. It grew with help from students and researchers at universities around the world. Contrary to some reports, Badri Seshadri, who was very instrumental in CricInfo' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super 8
Super 8 or Super Eight may refer to: Film * Super 8 film, a motion picture film format released in 1965 * Super 8 film camera, a motion picture camera used to film Super 8mm motion picture format * ''Super 8'' (2011 film), a science-fiction film written and directed by J. J. Abrams * '' Super 8 Stories'', a 2001 documentary film Sport * Rugby League Super 8s, Great Britain * Super 8 (cricket round), at the Cricket World Cup * Super Eight (baseball), high school tournament hosted by Campanelli Stadium in Massachusetts, United States * Super 8 (hockey), high school ice hockey tournament, Massachusetts, United States * Super 8 Boxing Tournament, New Zealand * Super 8 (Handball League), England * All-Ireland Super 8s, Gaelic football Music * Super Eight (group), Japanese pop group, previously known as Kanjani Eight. * ''Super 8'' (album), 1999 album by Züri West * super8 (musical group), Danish music group * Super8, a DJ of the duo Super8 & Tab * Super 8 (band), an Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Men's T20 World Cup Asia–EAP Regional Final
The 2025 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Asia-Pacific Regional Final will be a cricket tournament that forms part of the qualification process for the 2026 Men's T20 World Cup. It will be held in Oman from 1 to 17 October 2025. The top three sides in the tournament will join Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the 2026 T20 World Cup who have already pre-qualified. India and Sri Lanka directly qualified for the T20 World Cup as co-hosts, while Afghanistan, Australia and Bangladesh qualified as by finishing among the top eight teams from the previous edition and New Zealand and Pakistan national cricket team qualified through the ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings. Teams and qualification In this cycle, a total of 14 teams participated in the Asian sub-regional phase and 8 teams were participating in the EAP sub-regional phase. The Asian sub-regional phase was divided into two events of seven teams and the EAP sub-regional phase was divided int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Men's T20 World Cup Africa Regional Final
The 2025 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Regional Final will be a cricket tournament that forms part of the qualification process for the 2026 Men's T20 World Cup. It will be held in Zimbabwe from 19 September to 4 October 2025. The top two sides in the tournament will join South Africa in the 2026 T20 World Cup who have already pre-qualified as one of the top eight teams from the previous edition. Teams and qualification In this cycle, a total of 18 teams participated in the African sub-regional phase, which was divided into three events with six teams competing in each event. The top two sides of each sub-regional qualifier advanced to the regional final, where they joined Namibia and Uganda who received a bye after participating in the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup The 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup was the ninth edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, co-hosted by Cricket West Indies and USA Cricket from 1 to 29 June 2024. It was the first major ICC tournament to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Men's T20 World Cup Europe Regional Final
The 2025 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Europe Regional Final is a cricket tournament that forms part of the qualification process for the 2026 Men's T20 World Cup. It is being held in the Netherlands in July 2025. The top two sides in the tournament will join England and Ireland in the 2026 T20 World Cup. England qualified directly for the T20 World Cup as a top eight team from the previous edition. Ireland qualified directly through ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings. Teams and qualification In this cycle, a total of 30 teams participated in the European sub-regional phase, which was divided into three events with ten teams competing in each event in two groups of five. The winners of each sub-regional qualifier advanced to the regional final, where they joined Scotland and Netherlands who received a bye after participating in the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. Italy advanced from Qualifier A, Jersey advanced from Qualifier B and Guernsey Guernsey ( ; Guernésiais: ''Guernési' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Men's T20 World Cup Americas Regional Final
The 2025 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Americas Regional Final was a cricket tournament that formed part of the qualification process for the 2026 Men's T20 World Cup. It was held from 15 to 22 June 2025. The winner of the tournament would qualify for the 2026 T20 World Cup, where they would join United States and West Indies from the Americas region, who had automatically qualified. Canada won the qualifier to secure a place at the 2026 T20 World Cup. Teams and qualification The top three sides from the Sub-regional Qualifier advanced to the regional final, where they will be joined by Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ... who were given a bye after having participated in the previous T20 World Cup. Squads No Frills T20I series The No Frills T20I ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings
The ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings is an international Twenty20 cricket rankings system of the International Cricket Council. After every Twenty20 International (T20I) match, the two teams involved receive points based on a mathematical formula. The total of each team's points total is divided by the total number of matches to give a rating, and all teams are ranked on a table in order of rating. Teams need to have played at least eight T20I matches in the previous three to four years to remain in the rankings table. World Champions India currently lead the ICC Men's T20I team rankings, a position they have held since 21 February 2022. Current rankings Points calculations Time period Find the points earned from a match Each time two teams play another match, the rankings table is updated as follows, based on the ratings of the teams immediately before they played. To determine the teams' new ratings after a particular match, first calculate the points earned from the match: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Men's T20 World Cup
The 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup was the ninth edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, co-hosted by Cricket West Indies and USA Cricket from 1 to 29 June 2024. It was the first major International Cricket Council, ICC tournament to include matches played in the United States. The West Indies had previously hosted the 2010 World Twenty20, 2010 competition. A total of twenty teams competed in 55 matches across six venues in the West Indies, and three in the United States. The number of participants was increased from sixteen to twenty teams, which included teams from the two hosts, the top eight teams from the 2022 edition, the two highest-ranked teams in the ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings not already qualified, and eight other teams determined through regional qualifiers. Canada national cricket team, Canada and Uganda national cricket team, Uganda qualified for the men's T20 World Cup for the first time; and the United States national cricket team, United States participated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Lanka National Cricket Team
The Sri Lanka men's national cricket team, (; ) nicknamed The Lions, represents Sri Lanka in men's international cricket. It is a full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test cricket, Test, One-Day International (ODI) and T20 International (T20I) status. The team first played first class cricket (as Ceylon) in 1926–27 and became an associate member of the ICC in 1965. They made their international debut in the 1975 Cricket World Cup and were later awarded the Test cricket, Test status in 1981, which made Sri Lanka the eighth Test cricket-playing nation. The team is administered by Sri Lanka Cricket. Sri Lanka's national cricket team achieved considerable success beginning in the 1990s, rising from underdog (competition), underdog status to winning the Cricket World Cup in 1996 Cricket World Cup, 1996, under the captaincy of Arjuna Ranatunga. Since then, the team has continued to be a force in international cricket. The Sri Lankan cricket team reached the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2026 Men's T20 World Cup Knockout Stage
The 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup will be the 10th edition of the Men's T20 World Cup. It is scheduled to be hosted by Sri Lanka along with the defending champions India from February to March 2026. Background The ICC Men's T20 World Cup is a biennial world cup for cricket in Twenty20 International (T20I) format, organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The tournament, now being held every two years, was first played in 2007 in South Africa. India are the defending champions, having defeated South Africa in the final of the previous edition. Host selection In November 2021, as part of the 2024–2031 ICC men's hosts cycle, India and Sri Lanka were announced as co-hosts for the tournament. Initially the plan was for Sri Lanka to host the entire tournament but due to expansion of the tournament and lack of stadiums in Sri Lanka it was decided to co-host with India. Sri Lanka first hosted the T20 World Cup in 2012 and India hosted in 2016. In December 2024, follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
