Twenty Twenty Cricket Matches Twenty20 is the newest form of cricket in which each team bats for a maximum of only 20 overs a side, with each innings lasting for 80 minuites.Twenty20 cricket was first introduced at county level by the England and Wales Cricket Board in 2003 and such was the success of this format of the sport, the game quickly spread around the world with the first full men''s Twenty20 international taking place in February 2005 between New Zealand and Australia.
Thus ,The ICC Board agreed to the inclusion of an ICC World Twenty20 competition at a meeting in April 2006. It was agreed that the inaugural event would take place in South Africa in September 2007, with the second event scheduled for England and Wales during the ICC''s Centenary Year in 2009. The remaining period up to 2015 will be taken up either by one or two further ICC World Twenty20 competition, depending on the success of those first two events.
Twenty20 cricket has infused excitement and entertainment of football matches in cricket. The inaugural ICC Twenty20 world cup, played in South Africa (2007) is testimony to the fact that this form of cricket is huge hit and more entertaining than a 50-50 overs one day international. Twenty20 cricket has certainly redefined the game of cricket. Twenty20 is a form of limited overs cricket, which was originally started in the United Kingdom for county competition by the England and Wales Cricket Board (EWCB), in the year 2003. The most exciting part of the Twenty20 cricket is that a game is completed in about three hours, which brings the game closer to other popular team sports like football. This form of Cricket was introduced to make the game more lively and attractive to spectators at the ground and viewers on television and that has been very successful.
Laws of Twenty20 Cricket The name "Twenty20" implies that each team in a Twenty 20 cricket match will have a maximum of 20 overs
A bowler can bowl a maximum of four overs.
Free Hit: If the bowler bowls a no-ball as a result of overstepping, the next ball shall be a Free Hit. For this ball, the
batsman is not given out by any way in the cricket rules apart from being run-out. The captain cannot change field setting and it will be the same as the previous ball.
A maximum of two fielders can be outside the 30 yard circle in the first 6 overs. These overs are known as Power Play.
For the remaining 14 overs not more than five players can be outside the 30 yard circle.
Only 5 fielders can field on the leg side at any point of time.
A new batsman has to come to the crease within 90 seconds after the dismissal of the previous batsman.
The teams do not sit in the pavilion. Instead, they sit in the dug-outs, next to each other, just behind the boundary line.
If a Twenty 20 match ends in a tie, the outcome is decided by a novel concept called bowl-out. According to this (Bowl Out) Twenty 20 cricket rule, five bowlers from either team are allowed to a ma bowl each at the wicket with no batsman at the crease. The Twenty 20 rule states that the maximum time the wicket is castled by either team decides the outcome of the Twenty 20 match. If the match is still undecided the five bowlers are again required to bowl at the wicket.