Twenty20 World Cup fixtures announced

[DesiChap]

Twenty20 World Cup fixtures announced The full fixture list for the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup has been annouced and host South Africa will take on the West Indies in the opening game at the Wanderers. A day after the opening match is played on Tuesday, September 11th 2007 , Durban, Kingsmead Stadium, will host the first double-header of the Championship when New Zealand and Kenya square-up in the morning fixture (10h00 ? 13h00). Following the conclusion of that match Pakistan and Scotland will play each other at 14h00. On the same day Newlands, Cape Town, will host its first match when Australia takes on Zimbabwe in the night match (18h00 ? 21h00). In total, each venue will host a sum of nine games and the 12 participating nations (the 10 ICC Member Counties and two the Associate Countries) will be split into four groups comprising three teams to play in a round-robin format. Once the round-robin stage is complete, the Championship will head into the Super Eight phase, with the top four positioned teams proceeding to the semi-finals which will culminate in the final. The final will be played on Heritage Day in Johannesburg on Monday 24. The teams are expected to arrive in the country five to seven days prior to the start of the Championship and two days have been reserved for warm-up matches (Saturday, 08 and Sunday, 09 September). In announcing the fixtures, Steve Elworthy, Tournament Director of the Twenty20 World Cup, said: ?The finalisation of the fixtures programme for this inaugural ICC Twenty/20 World Championship 2007 is a result of a successful process of consultation between the International Cricket Council, Cricket South Africa and the host stadiums. ?We are certainly pleased with the materialisation of this important development, as this means that the Local Organising Committee can now channel more of its energy on other awaiting programmes of action. ?Further, the fixtures programme has also been designed in a way that; even though there is going to be more than one game being played on each day, none of those games have been scheduled at the same time and it, therefore, becomes possible for viewers and spectators to watch all the games as the start times do not clash.? Tuesday, September 11th 2007 South Africa v West Indies 1800 Johannesburg Wednesday, September 12th 2007 New Zealand v Kenya 1000 Durban Pakistan v Scotland 1400 Durban Australia v Zimbabwe 1800 Cape Town Thursday, September 13th 2007 West Indies v Bangladesh 1000 Johannesburg Zimbabwe v England 1400 Cape Town India v Scotland 1800 Durban Friday, September 14th 2007 Sri Lanka v Kenya 1000 Johannesburg Australia v England 1400 Cape Town India v Pakistan 1800 Durban Saturday, September 15th 2007 Sri Lanka v New Zealand 1400 Johannesburg South Africa v Bangladesh 1800 Cape Town Sunday, September 16th - Thursday, September 20th 2007 Super 8's Saturday, September 22nd 2007 Semi Final 1 1400 Cape Town Semi Final 2 1800 Durban Monday, September 24th 2007 Final TBA Johannesburg

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Re: Twenty20 World Cup fixtures announced India Pakistan again on Friday Interesting

[Cricketics]

Re: Twenty20 World Cup fixtures announced lol atleast this time its sure that India and pak will play in icc trmnt..

[kabira]

Re: Twenty20 World Cup fixtures announced so whoever loses that game is out..

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Re: Twenty20 World Cup fixtures announced that only would have made it more interesting a virtual quarter final

[jf1gp_1]

Re: Twenty20 World Cup fixtures announced

that only would have made it more interesting a virtual quarter final

i dont believe its a virtual quarter final, top 2 teams from each group goto super 8 and then it follows the wc format.

[shailesh]

Re: Twenty20 World Cup fixtures announced they have a super 8s round :huh: :duh: