A brief idea about the third ICC T20 World Cup

ICC T20 World Cup has become one of the most popular events in whole world. West Indies is hosting the 3^rd ICC T20 (Twenty 20) tournament. It is organized by International Cricket Council,which is the the governing body of international cricket .The tournament is scheduled to start from 30^th April, 2010 and end on 16^th May, 2010.

Tournament schedule

Twelve teams (representing 12 countries) will be participating in third ICC T20 World Cup. These 12 teams have been divided into 4 groups. The first match will be played between New Zealand and Sri Lanka on April 30, 2010. There will be a total of 27 matches played at Guyana, Barbados and St. Lucia. The semi final matches will be played on 13^th and 14^th May, 2010 at Beausejour Stadium and the final match will be played at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown on 16^th May, 2010.

Rules and regulations

During the group and the Super Eight stage, the teams will get 2 points for winning a match; the losing team will get 0 point. 1 point will be awarded to each of the 2 teams if there is no result of that specific match. This happens in case of a tie that is, both the teams scoring same number of runs at the end of their respective innings and a super over. Super over will be played in all stages of the cricket tournament in care of a tie.

Ranking of teams

In ICC T20 World Cup, the teams (within each group and Super Eight stage) will be ranked on higher number of points. If 2 or more teams get same points, then the team winning more matches will be preferred. The next deciding factor will be higher net run rate if the number of games they win are also equal. If it is also same, then the lower bowling strike rate will be the deciding factor. There's another step if it also cannot decide who'll secure the higher position. A head to head meeting will decide the ranking of the teams in the 5^th and last step.

The ICC T20 World Cup usually takes place after every 2 years. However, the third T20 World Cup is taking place 10 months after the previous tournament.The International cricket Council has taken this decision in order to avoid the staging of two major events in 2011, as the 50-over World Cup is taking place at South Africa in 2011.