Defending world champion West Indies announce ICC World T20 squad
Team management unit:
Ottis Gibson (Head Coach)
Richie Richardson (Team Operations Manager)
Stuart Williams (Assistant Coach)
Andre Coley (Assistant Coach)
Saqlain Mushtaq (Assistant Coach)
C.J. Clark (Physiotherapist)
Hector Martinez Charles (Strength & Conditioning Coordinator)
Richard Berridge (Video & Statistical Analyst)
Virgil Browne (Massage Therapist)
Philip Spooner (Media Relations Manager)
Neither Kieron Pollard nor Kemar Roach were considered for selection due to continued rehabilitation from injury.
Pollard continues to recover from a knee injury sustained late last year, and Roach is still trying to get over a shoulder injury that forced him to return home from the tour of India without playing and required surgery.
West Indies, under the leadership of Sammy and the guidance of Gibson, won the ICC World T20 two years ago, when they toppled hosts Sri Lanka by 36 runs in a thrilling Final at the Premadasa Stadium in the Sri Lanka capital of Colombo.
Twenty20 World Cup International Championship
ICC World Twenty20 can be described as the international championship of Twenty20 cricket, which is commonly abridged as T20 cricket. As the name suggests, the game is organized by ICC (International Cricket Council), the governing body of cricket in the world. The inaugural tournament of the ICC T20 World Cup was held in the year 2007, in South Africa.
Twenty20 Cricket World Cup 2007 stretched on from 11th September to 24th September, with India winning the championship, after defeating Pakistan by 5 runs (in Johannesburg). Just like the inaugural event had, all the tournaments of the Twenty20 Cricket World Cup will comprise of 12 teams, which will include all the Test-playing nations. Right now, it is expected that the world cup will held around every two years.
Qualification
Talking about the qualification for playing the ICC Twenty20 World Cup, all the Test-playing nations receive the same automatically. As for the rest of the places in the 12-teams championship, they are filled by ICC associate member nations, also known as qualifiers, on the basis of a qualification tournament. In 2007, there were two qualifiers - Scotland and Kenya. In the 2009 tournament, there are three qualifiers - Ireland, the Netherlands and Scotland.
Hosts
The hosts of ICC T20 Cricket World Cup are decided on the basis of the bids made by the nations interested in holding the championship.
It is the executive committee of International Cricket Council (ICC) that votes on the bids, selecting the host country. It had been decided that the first two tournaments will be held in South Africa and England, since they had opted the T20 format in the earliest stages only. The hosts of ICC Twenty20 World Cup, till 2014, have and will be:
2007 - South Africa
2009 - England
2010 - West Indies
2012 - Sri Lanka
2014 - Bangladesh
2016 - India
Main Twenty20 World Cup Records (Individual & Team)
Batting
Most Runs: Mahela Jayawardene - 858 (25 matches) (2007-2012)
Highest Average: Rohit Sharma - 55.00 (17 matches) (2007-2012)
Highest strike rate: Chris Gayle - 152.29 (18 matches) (2007-2012)
Highest Score: Brendon McCullum v Bangladesh - 123 (58 balls) (2012)
Highest Partnership: Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara v West Indies - 166 (100 balls) (second wicket) (2010)
Most Runs in a Tournament: Tillakaratne Dilshan - 317 (7 matches) (2009)
Most runs in an over: Yuvraj Singh against Stuard Broad - 36 (2007)
Bowling
Most wickets: Lasith Malinga - 33 (25 matches) (2007-2012)
Best Figures: Ajantha Mendis v Zimbabwe - 6/8 (4 overs) (18 Sep 2012)
Most Wickets in a Tournament: Ajantha Mendis - 15 (6 matches) (2012)
Fielding
Most Dismissals (wicket-keeper): by Kamran Akmal - 24 (8 + 16) in 26 matches (2007-2012)
Most Catches (fielder): AB de Villiers 16 (21 matches) (2007-2012)
Team
Highest Score: 260/6, by Sri Lanka vs Kenya (2007)
Lowest Score: 68 all out, by Ireland vs West Indies (2010)
Kieron Pollard and Kemar Roach not considered for selection due to continued rehabilitation from injury
Defending world champion West Indies announce ICC World T20 squad - Cricket News West Indies names squad for World Twenty20 2014.
The West Indies Cricket Board advised on Tuesday that its Selection Panel has named a 15-member squad to defend the ICC World Twenty20 title from 16 March to 6 April in Bangladesh.
Team management unit:
Ottis Gibson (Head Coach)
Richie Richardson (Team Operations Manager)
Stuart Williams (Assistant Coach)
Andre Coley (Assistant Coach)
Saqlain Mushtaq (Assistant Coach)
C.J. Clark (Physiotherapist)
Hector Martinez Charles (Strength & Conditioning Coordinator)
Richard Berridge (Video & Statistical Analyst)
Virgil Browne (Massage Therapist)
Philip Spooner (Media Relations Manager)
Neither Kieron Pollard nor Kemar Roach were considered for selection due to continued rehabilitation from injury.
Pollard continues to recover from a knee injury sustained late last year, and Roach is still trying to get over a shoulder injury that forced him to return home from the tour of India without playing and required surgery.
West Indies, under the leadership of Sammy and the guidance of Gibson, won the ICC World T20 two years ago, when they toppled hosts Sri Lanka by 36 runs in a thrilling Final at the Premadasa Stadium in the Sri Lanka capital of Colombo.
ICC World Twenty20 can be described as the international championship of Twenty20 cricket, which is commonly abridged as T20 cricket. As the name suggests, the game is organized by ICC (International Cricket Council), the governing body of cricket in the world. The inaugural tournament of the ICC T20 World Cup was held in the year 2007, in South Africa.
Twenty20 Cricket World Cup 2007 stretched on from 11th September to 24th September, with India winning the championship, after defeating Pakistan by 5 runs (in Johannesburg). Just like the inaugural event had, all the tournaments of the Twenty20 Cricket World Cup will comprise of 12 teams, which will include all the Test-playing nations. Right now, it is expected that the world cup will held around every two years.
Talking about the qualification for playing the ICC Twenty20 World Cup, all the Test-playing nations receive the same automatically. As for the rest of the places in the 12-teams championship, they are filled by ICC associate member nations, also known as qualifiers, on the basis of a qualification tournament. In 2007, there were two qualifiers - Scotland and Kenya. In the 2009 tournament, there are three qualifiers - Ireland, the Netherlands and Scotland.
The hosts of ICC T20 Cricket World Cup are decided on the basis of the bids made by the nations interested in holding the championship.
It is the executive committee of International Cricket Council (ICC) that votes on the bids, selecting the host country. It had been decided that the first two tournaments will be held in South Africa and England, since they had opted the T20 format in the earliest stages only. The hosts of ICC Twenty20 World Cup, till 2014, have and will be:
2007 - South Africa
2009 - England
2010 - West Indies
2012 - Sri Lanka
2014 - Bangladesh
2016 - India
Main Twenty20 World Cup Records (Individual & Team)
Batting
Most Runs: Mahela Jayawardene - 858 (25 matches) (2007-2012)
Highest Average: Rohit Sharma - 55.00 (17 matches) (2007-2012)
Highest strike rate: Chris Gayle - 152.29 (18 matches) (2007-2012)
Highest Score: Brendon McCullum v Bangladesh - 123 (58 balls) (2012)
Highest Partnership: Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara v West Indies - 166 (100 balls) (second wicket) (2010)
Most Runs in a Tournament: Tillakaratne Dilshan - 317 (7 matches) (2009)
Most runs in an over: Yuvraj Singh against Stuard Broad - 36 (2007)
Bowling
Most wickets: Lasith Malinga - 33 (25 matches) (2007-2012)
Best Figures: Ajantha Mendis v Zimbabwe - 6/8 (4 overs) (18 Sep 2012)
Most Wickets in a Tournament: Ajantha Mendis - 15 (6 matches) (2012)
Fielding
Most Dismissals (wicket-keeper): by Kamran Akmal - 24 (8 + 16) in 26 matches (2007-2012)
Most Catches (fielder): AB de Villiers 16 (21 matches) (2007-2012)
Team
Highest Score: 260/6, by Sri Lanka vs Kenya (2007)
Lowest Score: 68 all out, by Ireland vs West Indies (2010)
