Launch of the ICC World T20 Challenge
The inaugural season tournament will be played at England.
But ICC also announced that even Ireland, and Scotland will host with England and Wales.
It will start on 28 October 2010.
FORMAT
It will have 8 teams, each one from the countries which originally participated in CT.
There will be a qualifiers for another 8 teams of 8 full/associate members who have both ODI and T20 status.
ICC WT20C QUALIFIERS
The Qualifiers will be a knockout cup. The fixtures draw is random.
The nation ZIMBABWE will be hosting it. Venues to be updated at the front page.
The winner and runner up will qualify for the original tournament.
THE ORIGINAL TOURNAMENT
Totally 10 teams will play in total
After end of group stage matches, the top five placed teams will qualify.
Like this
These five teams will play in the playoffs.
PLAYOFFS
In the first round the lowest two ranked teams play to eliminate one team and the second and third ranked teams determine which match they will play in the second round.
The highest ranked team has a bye to the second round.
In this case, if all teams have an even chance of winning each match, the highest ranked team has a 37.5% chance, ranks two and three have a 25% chance and the lowest two ranked teams have a 6.25% chance of winning the competition.
To make it more clear you can look at the fixtures to be posted soon.
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