Twenty20 World Cup Championship 2007: Ponting to back for T20

At the last moment of leaving the home aim to T20 in South Africa, Australian Captain Ricky Ponting fails to join with their crew for his wife’s unexpected illness. After reaching South Africa, Australia took part in some practices matches. They beat New Zealand but lost along with South Africa. Ponting declared that he might join the T20 world cup in South Africa if his wife will come round.

THE AUSTRALIAN reported "Fortunately Rianna's health has improved over the last few days and I'm hoping travel plans can be finalised as soon as possible," Ponting said in the statement.

"I'm grateful for the support we've both had from Cricket Australia and my team-mates and in particular I'd like to thank (vice-captain) Adam Gilchrist and (coach) Tim Nielsen for their leadership roles in the early days of the Australian squad's first-ever Twenty20 international tour.

"It made things easier here knowing the team was in such good hands.

"With things on improve; Rianna and I are both keen that I now focus on the job at hand with the Australian team."

There is no doubt that Ponting is an important person of the Australian Cricket. Without him Austalia will be a boat with a rudder in South Africa on T20 world cup championship 2007.

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Twenty20 World Cup Championship 2007: Pakistan has called Sohail Tanvir as Replacement for Shoaib Akter

After being misbehave with the teammate Mohammad Asif during preparations for the inaugural World Twenty20 in South Africa and sent back home. Now another left arm Sohail Tanvir has been confirmed as the replacement for Pakistan's Shoaib Akhtar for T20. The International Cricket Council's (ICC) Technical Committee has permitted Sohail Tanvir for T20.

A report was published on World Cricket that Player replacements are usually allowed if players are injured or unavailable due to personal issue, but the ICC confirmed that the exceptional circumstances surrounding Shoiab's unavailability would not mean a replacement was disallowed.

"In this case, the Technical Committee approved Shoaib's replacement on the basis of exceptional circumstances, for the following reasons: the incident and disciplinary action taken by the PCB is not related to the matches in the event; the tournament has not commenced; and there is a precedent to support the replacement," an ICC statement explained.

The incident that happened just nearly one week ago, I think it will be a big misunderstanding with the cricketers who will play on the T20 because Sohail Tanvir is most probably not experienced about Twenty20 Match. It is my opinion but the authority will think more.

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Twenty20 World Cup Championship 2007: The 1st Match South Africa vs West Indies

Host country South Africa will play the first match of the inaugural T20 World Cup 2007 with West Indies and Johannesburg on 11 September 2007 at GMT 16:00 (Local-18:00, Pakistan 21:00, India -21:30 Bangladesh and Sri Lanka 22:00). Both the team took part in so much practices matches. For the 1^st match, South Africa and West Indies is confidence to play well.

Host country South Africa has beat the world champion Australia in the practices session which makes them more confidence too. Anyway, All fans are waiting to witness the first match between south Africa and West Indies.

I have collected this paragraph form Cricket Word, “South Africa swept to a rousing eight-wicket win over Australia while Pakistan and West Indies also tasted victory in Sunday's final round of warm-up matches before the Twenty20 World Cup. Captain Graeme Smith led South Africa to their triumph, smashing an unbeaten 89 from 61 deliveries to steer the host nation past Australia's impressive total of 179-8.“

West Indies also played some practices matches with different country. They played a match with Pakistan and did well. So no one can think that West Indies will play less good than South Africa in the first match of the inaugural ceremony of T20 World Cup Championship.

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ICC Twenty20 World Championship 2007: Match Schedule with local Time

Now I am giving theTwenty20 cricket tournament Schedule according the countries of Indian sub-continent Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. The Twenty20 cricket tournaments take place in South Africa from September 11 to September 24, 2007. Twenty20 World Championship is the inaugural tournament. In the ten-day tournament twelve teams are going to take part. I gave the time schedule below. Here Sri Lanka Standard time is similar to Bangladesh Standard time.

Group A

Date	Match	Local	GMT	PST	IST	BST
Tue 11	South Africa vs West Indies at Johannesburg	18:00	16:00	21:00	21:30	22:00
Thu 13	West Indies vs Bangladesh at Johannesburg	10:00	08:00	13:00	13:30	14:00
Sat 15	South Africa vs Bangladesh at Cape Town	18:00	16:00	21:00	21:30	22:00

Group B

Date	Match	Local	GMT	PST	IST	BST
Wed 12	Australia vs Zimbabwe at Cape Town	18:00	16:00	21:00	21:30	22:00
Thu 13	Zimbabwe vs England at Cape Town	14:00	12:00	17:00	17:30	18:00
Fri 14	Australia vs England at Cape Town	14:00	12:00	17:00	17:30	18:00

Group C

Date	Match	Local	GMT	PST	IST	BST
Wed 12	New Zealand vs Kenya at Durban	10:00	08:00	13:00	13:30	14:00
Fri 14	Sri Lanka vs Kenya at Johannesburg	10:00	08:00	13:00	13:30	14:00
Sat 15	Sri Lanka vs New Zealand at Johannesburg	14:00	12:00	17:00	17:30	18:00

Group D

Date	Match	Local	GMT	PST	IST	BST
Wed 12	Pakistan vs Scotland at Durban	14:00	12:00	17:00	17:30	18:00
Thu 13	India vs Scotland at Durban	18:00	16:00	21:00	21:30	22:00
Fri 14	India vs Pakistan at Durban	18:00	16:00	21:00	21:30	22:00

Super Eight

Date	Match	Local	GMT	PST	IST	BST
Sun 16	C1 vs D2 at Johannesburg	10:00	08:00	13:00	13:30	14:00
Sun 16	B1 vs A2 at Cape Town	14:00	12:00	17:00	17:30	18:00
Sun 16	A1 vs B2 at Cape Town	18:00	16:00	21:00	21:30	22:00
Mon 17	D1 vs C2 at Johannesburg	18:00	16:00	21:00	21:30	22:00
Tue 18	C1 vs B2 at Durban	10:00	08:00	13:00	13:30	14:00
Tue 18	B1 vs D1 at Johannesburg	14:00	12:00	17:00	17:30	18:00
Tue 18	A2 vs C2 at Johannesburg	18:00	16:00	21:00	21:30	22:00
Wed 19	A1 vs C1 at Durban	14:00	12:00	17:00	17:30	18:00
Wed 19	B2 vs D2 at Durban	18:00	16:00	21:00	21:30	22:00
Thu 20	B1 vs C2 at Cape Town	10:00	08:00	13:00	13:30	14:00
Thu 20	A2 vs D1 at Cape Town	14:00	12:00	17:00	17:30	18:00
Thu 20	A1 vs D2 at Durban	18:00	16:00	21:00	21:30	22:00

Semi Finals

Date	Match	Local	GMT	PST	IST	BST
Sat 22	First Semi Final (E2 vs F1) at Cape Town	13:00	11:00	16:00	16:30	17:00
Sat 22	Second Semi Final (E1 vs F2) at Durban	18:00	16:00	21:00	21:30	22:00

Final

Date	Match	Local	GMT	PST	IST	BST
Mon 24	Final at Johannesburg	14:00	12:00	17:00	17:30	18:00

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Twenty20 World Cup Championship 2007: Inaugural ceremony & South Africa vs West Indies

Twenty20 World Cup Championship 2007 is going to start on 11 September in South Africa at Johannesburg. In the first match host country South Africa and West Indies. The match will start at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg and live action starts from: 16:00 GMT (21:30 IST). Millions of cricket fans are waiting for the new formatted Twenty20 World Cup Championship.

The Hindu reported that the formal launch of the inaugural championship took place at The Dome on Thursday, where ICC president Ray Mali, ICC cricket manager Dave Richardson, tournament director Steve Elworthy, Cricket South Africa president Norman Arendse and South African cricket team members including captain Graeme Smith spoke on the tournament.

The colourful ceremony, hosted by former Zimbabwe cricketer Pommie Mbangwa highlighted the growing audience of Twenty20 cricket, the importance of a successful championship for cricket and South Africa, and the role it could play in luring non-traditional cricket watchers into watching Tests and ODIs.

“The format is such that it gives an opportunity for cricketers to show people how good they are. They will be able to play with more freedom and less inhibitions, and express themselves better,” said Richardson.

The total prize money for the tournament will be $1.9 million.

The cricket fans will take pleasure in the new formatted Twenty20 World Cup Championship.

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Twenty20 World Cup Championship 2007: India vs Pakistan match

In the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup Championship India and Pakistan is allocated on the Gorup-D. So, in the first round the most famous team of the Indian sub-continent will going to meet at 14 Sep 2007 at Kingsmead, Durban. The match will start at 16:00 GMT (21:30 IST). The match will telecast Live on the popular satellite TV channel ESPN, Star Cricket, DD-1, PTv, and BTv. For this all the supporters of Indian sub-continent will able to watch the match.

The players of Indian squad

Mahendra Dhoni (captain), Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Ajit Agarkar, Dinesh Karthik, Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa, Joginder Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Piyush Chawla, Shantha Sreesanth, Irfan Pathan, Rudra Pratap Singh, Rohit Sharma.

Indian team just has finished their tour of England. After finishing a long match matches series they will attend the Twenty20 World Cup Championship 2007. So their mentality is completely strong too.

The players of Pakistan squad

Shoaib Malik (captain), Younis Khan, Imran Nazir, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif, Shoaib Akthar, Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Hafeez, Umar Gul, Shahid Afridi, Iftikhar Anjum, Fawad Alam, Abdur Rehman, Yasir Arafat, Misbah-ul-Haq.

Although they joined the practices under a new coach lately and the pacer Shoeb Akter has sent back to home but their practice matcher are well on the African country is satisfactory.

The match of the Twenty20 World Cup Championship 2007, between these popular countries of the sub-continent will be like a final match between the fans of the two countries.

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Twenty20 World Cup Championship 2007: Inaugural Ceremony and the first Match

After one day the Inaugural Ceremony and the first Match Twenty20 World Cup Championship 2007 will be placed at Johannesburg, In the in augural ceremony many cricket starts and fans will come to take part and to wittiness that ceremony. As a host country South Africa has finished all kinds of preparations. In the Twenty20 World Cup Championship 2007 12 nation will place. It has divided in four groups. They will play totally 27 matches.

In the site of the NDTV you can find in details. ICC President Ray Mali and the South African cricket stars assembled at the dome in Johannesburg to add glamour to the inauguration ceremony and witness the launch of the second World Cup this year.

Catchy Music is nothing new to the dome at Johannesburg, which has played host to the likes of Bryan Adams and Westlife, in the past.

The Groups

Australia are in Group B along with England and Zimbabe, while hosts South Africa have been teamed up with West Indies and Bangladesh in Group A. India and traditional rivals have been put in Group D along with Scotland. New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Kenya constitute Group C.

The firs match will play between the host country South Africa and West Indies at 11 September 2007 at Johannesburg of Group A, New Wanderers Stadium and the Live action starts from: 16:00 GMT (21:30 IST)

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