The 2014 ICC World Twenty20 was the fifth edition of the Men's T20 World Cup, formerly known as the ICC World Twenty20, an international

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tournament, that took place in

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from 16 March to 6 April 2014. It was played in three cities —

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and

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. The

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announced Bangladesh as host in 2010. This was the first Men's T20 World Cup where the use of

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(DRS) was implemented. It was the second consecutive time that an Asian country hosted the event, with

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hosting the previous tournament in 2012. Sri Lanka won the 2014 tournament, beating India by 6 wickets in the

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at Mirpur.

Format

During the group stage, points were awarded to the teams as follows: In the event of teams finishing on equal points in their group, the following tie-breakers were applied to determine their order in the table in the following order of priority: most wins, higher net run rate, head-to-head record in matches involving the tied teams.

Teams

For the first time, the tournament featured 16 teams. All ten full members of the ICC qualified automatically, joined by the six associate members that qualified through the 2013 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier. The qualifying teams were Ireland, Afghanistan, Netherlands and making their World Twenty20 debut the UAE, Nepal and Hong Kong. The first round consisted of 8 teams and 2 teams moved to next round. The second round was the Super 10 stage which consisted of 2 groups of 5 teams each. The top eight full member nations in the ICC T20I Championship rankings as of 8 October 2012 automatically progressed to the Super 10 stage of 2014 ICC World Twenty20. Joining the eight full members in the super 10 stage was host nation Bangladesh (also a full member) and associate nation The Netherlands who topped their first round group by net run rate ahead of Test playing nation Zimbabwe and Ireland.

Match officials

The match referees' responsibilities throughout the tournament were shared between four members of the Elite Panel of ICC Referees: * David Boon * Ranjan Madugalle * Roshan Mahanama * Javagal Srinath The on-field responsibilities for officiating the tournament were shared by all 11 of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires and 3 umpires from the International Panel of Umpires and Referees: * Billy Bowden * Aleem Dar *

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* Kumar Dharmasena * Marais Erasmus * Ian Gould * Richard Illingworth *

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* Nigel Llong * Ranmore Martinesz * Bruce Oxenford * Sundaram Ravi * Paul Reiffel * Rod Tucker

Squads

Venues

Thirty-one matches were played at three venues in

and

Warm-up matches

16 warm-up matches were played between 12 and 19 March featuring all 16 teams. ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----

First stage

Group A

Advanced to Super 10

Group B

Advanced to Super 10

Super 10

Group 1

Advanced to

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Group 2

Advanced to

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Final

Statistics

Most runs

Source: ''ESPNCricinfo''

Most wickets

Source: ''ESPNCricinfo''

Team of the tournament

Media

Logo

On 6 April 2013, ICC unveiled the logo of the tournament at a gala event in

. The overall look of the logo design is primarily inspired by the unique Bangladesh decoration art style. The logo uses the colours of the Bangladeshi flag with splashes of blue representing the country's rivers (also as being the ICC's own colour). The logo is also inspired by the rickshaws. The T is made up of cricket stumps and the '0' in the T20 represents the

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complete with a green seam.

Theme song

The official theme song for the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 ''Char Chokka Hoi Hoi'' was released on 20 February 2014. It was composed by Fuad al Muqtadir and sung by Dilshad Nahar Kona, Dilshad Karim Elita, Pantha Konai, Johan Alamgir, Sanvir Huda, Badhon Sarkar Puja and Kaushik Hossain Taposh. The song received widespread popularity among the Bangladeshi youth as well as the Bangladeshi diaspora abroad and gave birth to a new trend of flashmobs in the major cities of Bangladesh.

Broadcasting

Notes

References

External links

ICC World Twenty20 - Official website

ICC World T20 2014 coverage on Wisden India

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