The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) hosts the ninth version of its males’s T20 World Cup from June 1 within the Caribbean and the US.
Cricket’s shortest format serves because the spine of probably the most profitable leagues worldwide and is chargeable for bringing new followers to the sport with its slap-bang nature.
Right here’s a take a look at the temporary historical past of the competitors and the moments that mattered probably the most:
2007
Host: South Africa
Closing: India vs Pakistan
Winner: India – by 5 runs
Groups: 12
Participant of the event: Shahid Afridi
Predictably, this was a event of many firsts. There have been 33 T20I participant debuts, a number of particular person and workforce data had been set, and the world had its first T20 champion.
Chris Gayle scored the primary T20I century along with his 57-ball 117 within the opening match towards South Africa.
Yuvraj Singh famously hit England quick bowler Stuart Broad for six sixes in an over and within the course of, broke the document for the quickest T20I half-century (50 off 12 balls).
India and Pakistan grabbed the headlines in two separate encounters. The rivals had been locked in a tied match within the Tremendous 8 stage, leading to a primary T20I bowl-out. Pakistan didn’t hit the stumps in three makes an attempt whereas India struck each time.
A closing for the ages then set alight the cricketing world: India vs Pakistan, last-over end.
Pakistan wanted 13 earlier than Misbah ul Haq introduced the equation down to 6 off 4. After which – Pakistan followers look away now – Misbah scooped Joginder Sharma to S Sreesanth at tremendous leg to set off wild celebrations. Misbah, shocked and heartbroken, remained on his haunches and India had been topped the primary T20 world champions.
2009
Host: England
Closing: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka
Winner: Pakistan – by eight wickets
Groups: 12
Participant of the event: Tillakaratne Dilshan
England’s residence T20 World Cup acquired off to the worst doable begin once they misplaced to the so-called minnows, the Netherlands, at Lord’s. The hosts nonetheless certified for the Tremendous 8s however that’s the place their marketing campaign ended together with that of holders India and Australia, following two heavy losses.
Pakistan recovered from a sometimes sluggish begin to discover themselves within the semifinals the place Shahid Afridi starred towards a South Africa left rueing one other last-four stutter.
Tillakaratne Dilshan’s unbeaten 96 off 57 helped Sri Lanka romp their semi with the West Indies by 57 runs.
The event was held just a few months after the horrific armed assault on the Sri Lankan cricket workforce’s bus whereas on tour in Lahore, Pakistan. The pre-final anthems had been particularly poignant.
Teenage quick bowler Mohammad Amir eliminated Dilshan for a duck to set off a batting collapse that even Kumar Sangakkara’s 52-ball 64 couldn’t resuscitate.
Afridi duly obliged within the chase with one other half-century earlier than posing on the finish in his trademark star-man celebration.
2010
Host: West Indies
Closing: Australia vs England
Winner: England – by seven wickets
Groups: 12
Participant of the event: Kevin Pietersen
Scheduling adjustments meant that the West Indies hosted the 2010 event lower than a yr after the earlier one.
Afghanistan made their mark with a formidable debut amidst the persevering with warfare at residence.
Australia discovered their sometimes unforgiving World Cup kind on their option to the ultimate. Needing 48 runs within the final three overs, Michael Hussey encapsulated the never-say-die Aussie angle by dispatching Pakistan’s bowlers – Saeed Ajmal specifically – for 4 sixes and two fours.
England’s explosive batting lineup powered its option to the nation’s first World Cup which Paul Collingwood, Pietersen and co lifted after a seven-wicket win in Barbados.
2012
Host: Sri Lanka
Closing: Sri Lanka vs West Indies
Winner: West Indies – by 36 runs
Groups: 12
Participant of the event: Shane Watson
When the T20 World Cup lastly arrived in South Asia, India – as soon as once more – fell brief, regardless of beating arch-rivals Pakistan by eight wickets within the Tremendous 8s.
As an alternative, Pakistan had been the workforce to progress on internet run charge to face Sri Lanka within the semis.
The hosts’ spin wizards Ajantha Mendis and Rangana Herath proved too wily for Pakistan because the Lankan lions roared into a house closing.
They had been joined by the big-hitting West Indies, who beat Australia by 74 runs after amassing 205 – the event’s joint-highest complete – due to Gayle’s 41-ball 75.
Within the closing, Marlon Samuels capped an unbelievable yr by scoring an unbeaten 78 runs whereas wickets fell throughout him. The below-par goal of 137 was sufficient as Sunil Narine spun an internet to dismiss the hosts for 101 in 18.4 overs.
The Caribbean aspect’s win was termed the rebirth of West Indian cricket as Gayle and co danced away to the Korean pop hit Gangnam Fashion.
2014
Host: Bangladesh
Closing: India vs Sri Lanka
Winner: Sri Lanka – by six wickets
Groups: 16
Participant of the event: Virat Kohli
Hong Kong, Nepal and the United Arab Emirates made their T20 World Cup debuts because the event was expanded to 16 groups.
The opening match noticed the Bengal Tigers bag to a nine-wicket win over the hapless Afghanistan, however the hosts then misplaced to Hong Kong in one of many event’s largest upsets.
Within the first semifinal, Sri Lanka undid two years of harm by dethroning the West Indies with a 27-run win. Just a few hours later, Kohli confirmed his supremacy with the bat as his 44-ball 72 overcame a powerful South African bowling line-up.
Kohli’s blistering kind helped India set a goal of 131 however Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene – the leaders of Sri Lanka’s golden era, who had been on the shedding finish of the 50-over World Cup closing towards India three years earlier – set issues proper.
Kohli’s 319 mixture runs stay a T20 World Cup document.
2016
Host: India
Closing: England vs West Indies
Winner: West Indies – by 4 wickets
Groups: 16
Participant of the event: Virat Kohli
India hosted the T20 World Cup for the primary time and with a squad full of IPL stars, they had been the outright favourites.
To the delight of a packed Eden Gardens stadium in Kolkata, Kohli powered India of their group to their eleventh consecutive win towards Pakistan in an ICC World Cup.
Kohli hit a 47-ball 89 to set a goal of 193, within the semifinals, however might do little as Lendl Simmons broke greater than a billion Indian hearts to ship the West Indies by way of.
The West Indies had been reeling late of their chase within the closing as England appeared to have finished sufficient, regardless of a sub-par rating of 155. Enter Carlos Brathwaite – a relative unknown – who was left going through the ultimate over from Stokes. Nineteen wanted off six balls. Six, six, six, six. Recreation over! The swashbuckling finish left Stokes in tears and prompted West Indies legend Ian Bishop to scream on tv: “Carlos Brathwaite, keep in mind the identify!”
2021
Host: United Arab Emirates and Oman
Closing: Australia vs New Zealand
Winner: Australia – by eight wickets
Groups: 16
Participant of the event: David Warner
The primary ICC World Cup within the post-pandemic period was moved to the Gulf area as a result of COVID-19-related restrictions within the unique host nation, India.
Pakistan captain Babar Azam and his deputy Mohammad Rizwan had been in scintillating kind in nation’s first victory towards India in an ICC World Cup in 13 makes an attempt. It was additionally India’s first 10-wicket loss within the T20Is.
Pakistan received all 5 Tremendous 12 matches to progress to the semis, whereas New Zealand beat India to seize the fourth semifinal spot.
The Kiwis one-upped England within the first semifinal due to Daryl Mitchell’s 47-ball 72.
Within the different semifinal, Rizwan had seemingly led Pakistan to a aggressive rating and Shadab Khan’s leg spin had Australia on the ropes however some poor fielding, mixed with harmful hitting by Marcus Stoinis and Matthew Wade, took the Aussies by way of.
Kane Williamson’s 48-ball 85 helped New Zealand set a goal of 173 within the closing, just for Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Marsh to blow it away with seven balls to spare.
2022
Host: Australia
Closing: England vs Pakistan
Winner: England – by 5 wickets
Groups: 16
Participant of the event: Sam Curran
Namibia beat Sri Lanka within the first group match to supply one of many event’s largest shocks. The second got here the following day, when Scotland beat two-time champions West Indies who additionally misplaced to Eire and had been eliminated within the first spherical.
Hosts and holders Australia had been successfully washed out of the Tremendous 12s by the climate. India did set issues proper by beating Pakistan in an epic chase, led by who else however Kohli, leaving the Pakistanis to scrape by way of to the semis by beating a gutsy Zimbabwe.
Pakistan romped a seven-wicket win towards New Zealand within the semifinal to attract comparisons with their triumphant run on the 1992 World Cup.
The following logical step could be to satisfy England within the closing, and the 2010 champions duly obliged by blowing away India. Returning prodigal son Alex Hales struck an unbeaten match-winning 56 in a 10-wicket victory.
The 1992 comparisons remained on track as Pakistan set a middling goal in entrance of a packed Melbourne Cricket Floor, earlier than Haris Rauf gave them a great begin with the ball. Stokes flipped the historical past books, nevertheless, to interrupt Pakistani hearts and take England to their second T20 title.
