History of ICC Twenty20 World Cups

This is human nature that he always remains in search of or keep trying to see some thing new or some change in life. This can be business, study, household or any thing else. Similarly in sports and specially in cricket this was started with Test cricket which was a long game concluted in five days.
After test cricket there was introduced one day cricket, which was concluted in one day. This achieve its high stages in success and populatity. A time came when another type of cricket which was more speedy and quick resulting was introduced. 40-overs cricket was introduced and started playing in England localy and than after that this started in internationaly. England, South Africa, West Indies and Australia started playing twenty20 cricket with each others. This achieve very success in all around the world. Soon this Twenty20 cricket was so much popular and demanding that ICC organise it's first World Cup competition within all cricket playing countries in 2007. The first World Cup in 2007 was played in South Africa and India won this first twenty20 world cup beating Pakistan in final. following is the detail of all world cups held ever for the interest of cricket fans.

ICC Twenty20 World Cups

S. No	Year	Host	Winner	Runner Up	Remarks
4	2012	Sri Lanka	-	-	Will be held in September-October
3	2010	West Indies	England	Australia	England won by 7 wickets
2	2009	England	Pakistan	Sri Lanka	Pakistan won by eight wickets
1	2007	South Africa	India	Pakistan	India won by 5 runs

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Team GB at the end of Day-9

After golden saturday once again a very good day for Team GB. Today Team GB got two more Gold medals.
Today Ben Ainslie win the first Gold medal in men's sailing final competition. After this competition an other amazing and tough match between World number 1 Tennis player Roger Federer from Switzerland (Who is going to celebrate his 31st birthday on this Wednesday) and World number 4 Andy Murray from Great Britain was played and after a very tough match Andy Murray defeat Roger Federer and Win the Gold Medal.
So at the end of Day-9 on medal table Great Britain is at number 3 with 16 Gold medals. USA is at number 2 with 60 medals and China is at number 1 with 61 medals.


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ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2012: Groups

The fourth ICC Twenty20 World cup 2012 has twelve teams and are divided into four groups. There are 10 Test teams and two qualifiers (Ireland & Afghanistan)in these groups.This cricket tournament will be played in Sri Lanka in september-october this year. Groups detail is as under.

Group A:
A1. England
A2. India
A3. Afghanistan

Group B:
B1. Australia (B1),
B2. West Indies (B2),
B3. Ireland

Group C:
C1. South Africa (C1),
C2. Sri Lanka (C2),
C3. Zimbabwe

Group D:
D1. New Zealand (D1),
D2. Pakistan (D2) ,
D3. Bangladesh


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FIFA/Coca-Cola World Football Ranking

For Football fans Top 20 FIFA/Coca-Cola World Football Ranking is listed below. This ranking is as on 4th July, 2012.

Ranking	Country	Points
1	Spain	1691
2	Germany	1502
3	Uruguay	1297
4	England	1294
5	Portugal	1213
6	Italy	1192
7	Argentina	1095
8	Netherlands	1079
9	Croatia	1050
10	Denmark	1017
11	Brazil	1012
12	Greece	1003
13	Russia	981
14	France	980
15	Chile	961
16	Côte d'Ivoire	939
17	Sweden	909
18	Czech Republic	854
19	Mexico	832
20	Japan	829

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ICC Ranking for Twenty20 Championship

ICC Ranking for Twenty20 Championship as on 26th July, 2012 is listed below.

Ranking	Team	Rating
1	England	130
2	South Africa	122
3	Sri Lanka	115
4	Pakistan	108
5	Australia	107
6	New Zealand	105
7	West Indies	103
8	India	103
9	Bangladesh	90
10	Ireland	83
11	Afghanistan	83
12	Netherlands	74
13	Scotland	55
14	Zimbabwe	51
15	Canada	16
16	Kenya	13

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ICC Ranking for ODI Championship

ICC Ranking for ODI Championship as on 8th August, 2012 is listed below.

Ranking	Team	Rating
1	England	121
2	South Africa	121
3	India	120
4	Australia	112
5	Sri Lanka	108
6	Pakistan	105
7	West Indies	94
8	New Zealand	74
9	Bangladesh	71
10	Zambabwe	50
11	Ireland	35
12	Netherlands	16
13	Kenya	11

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ICC Ranking for Test Championship

ICC Ranking for Test Championship as on 1st August, 2012 is listed below.

Ranking	Team	Rating
1	England	122
2	Australia	116
3	South Africa	113
4	Pakistan	109
5	India	104
6	Sri Lanka	98
7	New Zealand	87
8	West Indies	84

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