2014 World Twenty20
The 2014 ICC World Twenty20 was the fifth edition of the Men's T20 World Cup, formerly known as the ICC World Twenty20, an international Twenty20 cricket tournament, that took place in Bangladesh from 16 March to 6 April 2014. It was played in three cities — Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet. The International Cricket Council announced Bangladesh as host in 2010. This was the first Men's T20 World Cup where the use of Decision Review System was implemented. It was the second consecutive time that an Asian country hosted the event, with Sri Lanka hosting the previous tournament in 2012. Sri Lanka won the 2014 tournament, beating India by 6 wickets in the final at Mirpur, in the last Twenty20 match that Sri Lankan greats Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara played for their country.
Format
During the group stage, points were awarded to the teams as follows:| Results | Points |
| Win | 2 points |
| No result/Tie | 1 point |
| Loss | 0 points |
In the event of teams finishing on equal points in their group, the following tie-breakers were applied to determine their order in the table in the following order of priority: most wins, higher NRR, head-to-head record in matches involving the tied teams.
Teams
For the first time, the tournament featured 16 teams. All ten full members of the ICC qualified automatically, joined by the six associate members that qualified through the 2013 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier. The qualifying teams were Ireland, Afghanistan, Netherlands and making their World Twenty20 debut the UAE, Nepal and Hong Kong.The first round consisted of 8 teams and 2 teams moved to next round. The second round was the [|Super 10] stage which consisted of 2 groups of 5 teams each. The top eight full member nations in the ICC T20I Championship rankings as of 8 October 2012 automatically progressed to the Super 10 stage of 2014 ICC World Twenty20.
Joining the eight full members in the super 10 stage was host nation Bangladesh and associate nation The Netherlands who topped their first round group by net run rate ahead of Test playing nation Zimbabwe and Ireland.
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Match officials
The match referees' responsibilities throughout the tournament were shared between four members of the Elite Panel of ICC Referees:The on-field responsibilities for officiating the tournament were shared by all 11 of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires and 3 umpires from the International Panel of Umpires and Referees:
- Billy Bowden
- Aleem Dar
- Steve Davis
- Kumar Dharmasena
- Marais Erasmus
- Ian Gould
- Richard Illingworth
- Richard Kettleborough
- Nigel Llong
- Ranmore Martinesz
- Bruce Oxenford
- Sundaram Ravi
- Paul Reiffel
- Rod Tucker
Squads
Venues
Thirty-one matches were played at three venues in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet.| Chittagong | Dhaka | Sylhet |
| Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium | Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium | Sylhet International Cricket Stadium |
| Capacity: 20,000 | Capacity: 26,000 | Capacity: 18,500 |
| Matches: 15 | Matches: 14, & | Matches: 6 |
Warm-up matches
16 warm-up matches were played between 12 and 19 March featuring all 16 teams.----
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First stage
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Group A
Advanced to Super 10Group B
Advanced to Super 10Super 10
Group 1
Advanced to [|Knockout stage].Group 2
Advanced to Knockout stage.Knockout stage
Semi-finals
Final
Statistics
Most runs
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