The 20/20 World Cup

So this Friday, England and Netherlands meet at Lords to open the World Twenty/20 and with the loveliest of weather that we have been having lately and the warm up games that have been going on lately the countries cricket fans are turning towards this tournament featuring the World's best and greatest teams.

Between the 5th and 21st June 16 teams will battle it out, firstly to win their group and then to move on to face the other group winners for a place in the final and hopefully the term "World Champions".

Group A: India, Bangladesh, Ireland
Group B: Pakistan, England, Netherlands
Group C: Australia, Sri Lanka, West Indies
Group D: New Zealand, South Africa, Scotland

With the groups looking like they do (above) we can see that India should have the easiest passage out of their groups whereas "New Zealand vs South Africa" and "Australia vs Sri Lanka" are going to be fascinating group stage games with the winners going a step closer to the Super Eights stage and the losers maybe not making them.

After the last World Twenty/20 where India beat Pakistan in the final to become World Champions i'm sure that we can all lookg forward to a brilliant tournament and lets hope that the home team England can progress further than they were able to go last time now they are on their own soil.