ICC World Twenty20 World Cup Fixtures and venues

IPL is celebrating the season 3. At the same time, the entire top nations are taking preparation for the Twenty20 World Championship 2010. You all the venue have been selected as the Caribbean country. This is the season 3 the world will be celebrate the very short formatted cricket competitions. It is a two-year competition by turn but due to change the Mini-World Cup schedule, it is taking place after one year. India achieved the prestigious trophy in the inaugural ceremony that was held in South Africa and Pakistan earns the trophy in the second season in England.

According to the FTP & ICC cricket schedule, West Indies will organize the season’s ceremony. Twelve teams will be the competitors. Among the two teams achieves the qualification by playing the pre –selection match that was held in Dubai.

The new comer, Afghanistan has showed a magical performance in the Qualifying round. They have beaten the experienced nation Ireland in the final in February. So, beside the 10 Test playing countries the audience will get to watch the extra performances.

The twelve teams will play a Robin-Round match by dividing 4 groups and two teams from each group will play super-eight matches in two groups. Top two will be qualified for the first Knock-out round in semifinals.

The cover Twenty20 Championship 2010 will be opened on Friday, April 30th 2010 and Super-eight from May 6th 2010. Two matches will be held in same stadium each day and all the match will be played in three cricket grounds.

2010 Twenty20 World Cup Fixtures

Group Stages

Friday, April 30th 2010 New Zealand vs Sri Lanka 13:00 local | 17:00 GMT | 18:00 BST Providence Stadium, Guyana West Indies vs Ireland 17:00 local | 21:00 GMT | 22:00 BST Providence Stadium, Guyana Saturday, May 1st 2010 Afghanistan vs India 09:30 local | 13:30 GMT | 14:30 BST Beaysejour Stadium, St Lucia Bangladesh vs Pakistan 13:30 local | 17:30 GMT | 18:30 BST Beaysejour Stadium, St Lucia Sunday, May 2nd 2010 India vs South Africa 09:30 local | 13:30 GMT | 14:30 BST Beaysejour Stadium, St Lucia Australia vs Pakistan 13:30 local | 17:30 GMT | 18:30 BST Beaysejour Stadium, St Lucia Monday, May 3rd 2010 Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe 09:30 local | 13:30 GMT | 14:30 BST Providence Stadium, Guyana West Indies vs England 13:30 local | 17:30 GMT | 18:30 BST Providence Stadium, Guyana Tuesday, May 4th 2010 New Zealand vs Zimbabwe 09:30 local | 13:30 GMT | 14:30 BST Providence Stadium, Guyana England vs Ireland 13:30 local | 17:30 GMT | 18:30 BST Providence Stadium, Guyana Wednesday, May 5th 2010 Australia vs Bangladesh 09:30 local | 13:30 GMT | 14:30 BST Kensington Oval, Barbados Afghanistan vs South Africa 13:30 local | 17:30 GMT | 18:30 BST Kensington Oval, Barbados

Four new venues and one match added for IPL's third season 2010

IPL third season has been scheduled from March 12 to April 25 in 2010. In this season, the fans of the short formatted Indian club cricket tournament will see some new features that stack in recent meeting. More that five new points have been added here. It will be played 60 matches instead of 59 because of 3^rd and 4^th place that was not held in the previous two seasons. The authority has been selected four new venues.

Cricinfo

Nagpur, Visakhapatnam, Ahmedabad and Dharamsala are the new venues, hosting some games of the Mumbai Indians, Deccan Chargers, Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab, respectively.

Some players who attended in the unauthorized Indian Cricket League will allowed to play on the side of any teams from the next third season. 'Strategic timeout' will be reduced this year which was increased in the second season that was held in South Africa in 2009 and will be two breaks during the match time. Two clubs will be attended in the season four and the matches will be 94 instead of 60 in 2011.

Sri Lanka vs. Pakistan Twenty20 Time and venue

Pakistan cricket team has proved that they are the most powerful team in Twenty20 formatted cricket at this moment. Both the teams Sri Lanka and Pakistan last meet in this short formatted tournament in England, the second season of T20 World Champ. That time Pakistan washed out and achieves the trophy. The visitors already have been lost the Test and One-Day series, now eyes on to win the single Twenty20 tournament. It hopes that the R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo will celebrate the match with full of crowd because it is time to take a hand over visitors of World Twenty20 defeat.

12 Aug 2009 Sri Lanka vs. Pakistan

Only Twenty20 International, R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Live action starts from: 13:30 GMT (19:00 IST)

Sri Lankan consecutive wins in the first three ODI powered and promoted for the series wins but last two was controlled by the visitors. Just before a week of the Tri-Nation Series R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo is going to celebrate 2^nd Twenty20 international. The first T20 match was held between India and Sri Lanka February this year when India visited Sri Lanka instead of visit Pakistan for Mumbai Terrorist attack.

According to GMT the match will be held at 13:30 and the Host time will be 19:30 but the visitors’ local time will be one hour less that the host time. According to Pakistan time the match will be held at 18:30.

IPL 2009 complete fixture and timetable and venues

South Africa is the host of 2nd season of IPL Twenty20 League. The opening match will be started on April 18, 2009 at Newlands stadium in Cape Town and final match will be held in Johannesburg.

South Africa’s 8 cities will be celebrated IPL 2009’s all matches. 59 matches will be kicked in 8 different cities. They are Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Pretoria, East London, Kimberly, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth and the opening match will be kicked off between Rajasthan Royals (the inaugural champions) vs Royal Challengers Bangalore.

 

Fist semifinal will be taken place at SuperSport Park, Centurion and the second semifinal and final will be kicked off at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.

 

Fixtures

Indian Premier League, 2009

April 2009
Sat 18 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	1st match - Rajasthan Royals v Bangalore Royal Challengers Newlands, Cape Town
Sat 18 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	2nd match - Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians Newlands, Cape Town
Sun 19 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	3rd match - Kolkata Knight Riders v Deccan Chargers Newlands, Cape Town
Sun 19 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	4th match - Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab Newlands, Cape Town
Mon 20 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	5th match - Bangalore Royal Challengers v Chennai Super Kings St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Tue 21 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	6th match - Rajasthan Royals v Mumbai Indians Kingsmead, Durban
Tue 21 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	7th match - Kolkata Knight Riders v Kings XI Punjab Kingsmead, Durban
Wed 22 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	8th match - Delhi Daredevils v Chennai Super Kings Kingsmead, Durban
Wed 22 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	9th match - Bangalore Royal Challengers v Deccan Chargers Kingsmead, Durban
Thu 23 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	10th match - Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Fri 24 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	11th match - Kings XI Punjab v Bangalore Royal Challengers New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Sat 25 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	12th match - Kolkata Knight Riders v Chennai Super Kings Newlands, Cape Town
Sat 25 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	13th match - Deccan Chargers v Mumbai Indians Kingsmead, Durban
Sun 26 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	14th match - Rajasthan Royals v Kings XI Punjab Newlands, Cape Town
Sun 26 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	15th match - Bangalore Royal Challengers v Delhi Daredevils St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Mon 27 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	16th match - Kolkata Knight Riders v Mumbai Indians Newlands, Cape Town
Mon 27 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	17th match - Chennai Super Kings v Deccan Chargers Kingsmead, Durban
Tue 28 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	19th match - Delhi Daredevils v Rajasthan Royals SuperSport Park, Centurion
Wed 29 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	18th match - Mumbai Indians v Kings XI Punjab Kingsmead, Durban
Wed 29 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	20th match - Kolkata Knight Riders v Bangalore Royal Challengers Kingsmead, Durban
Thu 30 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	21st match - Delhi Daredevils v Deccan Chargers SuperSport Park, Centurion
Thu 30 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	22nd match - Rajasthan Royals v Chennai Super Kings SuperSport Park, Centurion
May 2009
Fri 1 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	23rd match - Bangalore Royal Challengers v Kings XI Punjab Buffalo Park, East London
Fri 1 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	24th match - Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight Riders Kingsmead, Durban
Sat 2 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	25th match - Rajasthan Royals v Deccan Chargers New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Sat 2 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	26th match - Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Daredevils St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Sun 3 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	27th match - Mumbai Indians v Bangalore Royal Challengers Kingsmead, Durban
Sun 3 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	28th match - Kings XI Punjab v Kolkata Knight Riders Buffalo Park, East London
Mon 4 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	29th match - Deccan Chargers v Chennai Super Kings St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Tue 5 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	30th match - Delhi Daredevils v Kolkata Knight Riders Kingsmead, Durban
Tue 5 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	31st match - Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan Royals Kingsmead, Durban
Wed 6 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	32nd match - Mumbai Indians v Deccan Chargers SuperSport Park, Centurion
Thu 7 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	33rd match - Kings XI Punjab v Chennai Super Kings SuperSport Park, Centurion
Thu 7 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	34th match - Bangalore Royal Challengers v Rajasthan Royals SuperSport Park, Centurion
Fri 8 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	35th match - Delhi Daredevils v Mumbai Indians Buffalo Park, East London
Sat 9 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	36th match - Deccan Chargers v Kings XI Punjab OUTsurance Oval, Bloemfontein
Sat 9 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	37th match - Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Sun 10 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	38th match - Kolkata Knight Riders v Delhi Daredevils Buffalo Park, East London
Sun 10 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	39th match - Bangalore Royal Challengers v Mumbai Indians New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Mon 11 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	40th match - Deccan Chargers v Rajasthan Royals OUTsurance Oval, Bloemfontein
Tue 12 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	41st match - Bangalore Royal Challengers v Kolkata Knight Riders SuperSport Park, Centurion
Tue 12 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	42nd match - Kings XI Punjab v Mumbai Indians SuperSport Park, Centurion
Wed 13 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	43rd match - Deccan Chargers v Delhi Daredevils Kingsmead, Durban
Thu 14 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	44th match - Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals Kingsmead, Durban
Thu 14 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	45th match - Chennai Super Kings v Bangalore Royal Challengers Kingsmead, Durban
Fri 15 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	46th match - Kings XI Punjab v Deccan Chargers De Beers Diamond Oval, Kimberley
Sat 16 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	47th match - Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Sat 16 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	48th match - Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Sun 17 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	49th match - Rajasthan Royals v Delhi Daredevils De Beers Diamond Oval, Kimberley
Sun 17 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	50th match - Kings XI Punjab v Deccan Chargers New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Mon 18 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	51st match - Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders SuperSport Park, Centurion
Tue 19 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	52nd match - Delhi Daredevils v Bangalore Royal Challengers New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Wed 20 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	53rd match - Chennai Super Kings v Kings XI Punjab Kingsmead, Durban
Wed 20 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	54th match - Rajasthan Royals v Kolkata Knight Riders Kingsmead, Durban
Thu 21 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	55th match - Deccan Chargers v Bangalore Royal Challengers SuperSport Park, Centurion
Thu 21 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	56th match - Mumbai Indians v Delhi Daredevils SuperSport Park, Centurion
Fri 22 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	1st Semi-Final - TBC v TBC SuperSport Park, Centurion
Sat 23 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	2nd Semi-Final - TBC v TBC New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Sun 24 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	Final - TBC v TBC New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

 

There was some news in media that the two semi-final and final will be hold in Indian home ground but I now I can see that it will be held on South Africa. Any why, this is very good decision from IPL authority. 

India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI 2009: Weather, Venue, records and timing

Weather condition is the big fact of the ongoing ODI series between India and New Zealand. The first ODI was resulted with D/L methods. Even, the first innings was completed 50 overs. Similarly, the 2^nd ODI also did not take place and at last it was discarded. So, it the big facts rest of the tournaments. The 3^rd ODI will be taken place in Christchurch. The AMI Stadium is all set to bear the one-day tournament. India vs New Zealand match will be the 47^th ODI that is going to inaugurate on 8 March, 2009 at 14:00 local, 01:00 GMT and according to IST it will be placed on 7:00AM. 

According to the weather forecast that I have collected from the different weather forecast websites are below:

stuff.co.nz is showing that the weather will be a clear day at AMI Stadium in Christchurch. Sunday’s highest temperature will be highest 23 ^oC and lowest 10 ^oC. Similarly, metservice.co.nz is also forecasting find sunny day during the match time but Yahoo weather is showing that the day will be plenty cloudy.  

 

AMI Stadium is formerly known as Jade Stadium and Lancaster Park, It is sports stadium situated in Christchurch, New Zealand. Mainly two types of games organized here, Rugby and Cricket. First One-day international was placed between New Zealand and Pakistan where New Zealand won by 22 runs on Feb 11, 1973 and the last one-day international was held between New Zealand and West Indies when the host gets 5 wickets defeat at Jan 3, 2009. There is only one match when two foreign countries took parts in 1990. Among the 45 matches New Zealand has begged 25 wins. Before the last defeat New Zealand secured five victories in a row. 

Match Type: One-Day International

Tournament between: New Zealand vs India, 3rd ODI

Date: Sunday, 8 March 2009;

Timing 14:00 local, 01:00 GMT, IST 7:00 AM (Originally scheduled for March 20, 2009)

Venue: AMI Stadium, Christchurch

Weather condition: suppose to be good 

At AMI Stadium India played matches and did able to sack any wins and among them four matches was alongside the host New Zealand. On the other hand, New Zealand played 45 matches with and got 25 victories. I hope if the weather does not go against then both the fans will enjoy a competitive one-day tournament.