T20 World Cup 2022 Summary

 

The T20 world cup is always a extremely anticipated event, globe had been waiting for this event as the pandemic was there no such events were hosted by any countries. ICC men’s T20 world cup was hosted by Australia being the defender of 2018 world cup, the world cup was held from 16 October till 13 November 2022. Due to Covid-19 this word cup was postponed from 2020 to 2022.

There was a total of 16 teams participating in this world cup which included Australia being the Host, these 11 teams were the top team from the previous 2021 ICC men’s T20 world cup, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, England, India, Namibia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies and the 4 other teams were from the Global Qualifier A and B, Ireland and United Arab Emirates were from Qualifier A which was held from 18 to 24 February 2022 in Oman, Netherlands and Zimbabwe were from Qualifier B which was held from 11 to 17 July 2022 in Zimbabwe.

ICC revealed the names of empires and referees on 3^rd October 2022 for the group matches who were from 8 different countries, Referees and empires for the Semi-finals were revealed on 7^th November 2022.

Venues: This tournament was held in 7 different grounds of Australia which were in different cities. Adelaide Oval ground which is in Adelaide city has a capacity of 55,317 people.

The Gabba ground in Brisbane city which has a capacity of 42,000 people.

Kardinia Park gorund which is in Geelong city that has a capacity of 26,000 people.

Bellerive Oval ground which is located in Hobart and has a capacity of 20,000 people.

Perth stadium in Perth having 61,266 peoples capacity.

Melbourne Cricket ground in Melbourne city having the highest capacity of people which consists of 100,024.

Sydney cricket ground which is in Sydney having capacity of 48,601 people.

The prize money for this tournament winner is massive $1.6 million. Runners-up are also having half the amount of the winners which is $800,000. Total amount to be distributed among the teams will be $5.6 million.

 

First Round Group A had 4 teams Namibia, Sri Lanka, Netherlands, and United Arab Emirates from which Sri Lanka having NRR 0.677 and Netherlands having NRR -0.162 qualified to super 12.

Group B of first round also had 4 teams Scotland, West Indies, Ireland and Zimbabwe from which Zimbabwe having NRR 0.200 and Ireland having NRR 0.105 qualified to super 12.

Group 1 including Afghanistan, Australia, England, New Zealand, Ireland and Sri Lanka. Group 2 consisting Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Netherlands and Zimbabwe.

From Group 1 New Zealand was on top of the table and on second was England which qualified to knockout stage.

From Group 2 India was on the top of the table and Pakistan on second which also qualified to knockout stage.

At the last of this tournament the semi-finals were held between New Zealand and Pakistan, New Zealand giving a target of 152 which was chased by Pakistan with only 3 wickets.

Second semi-final was held between India and England, India gave target of 168 but it was chased easily by England with their openers in 16 over’s.

The Final has held on 13^th November 2022 in Melbourne Cricket ground between Pakistan and England. There were a total of 80,462 audiences in the ground. The match was very engaging as it was giving 1992 world cup feelings having the same teams in final and the same ground but at the England Won the Final by 5 wickets.