Cricket World Cup in West Indies 2007

World Cup Cricket - West Indies 2007



Main article: 2007 Cricket World Cup

* 16 teams will contest the next Cricket World Cup finals to be held in the West Indies in Spring 2007.
* These teams are the 10 Test cricket playing countries plus Kenya and the five qualifiers from the ICC Trophy held in Ireland in 2005: Scotland, Ireland, Bermuda, Canada, Netherlands.
* The teams have been split into the following groups for the first round:

Pool I: Australia, South Africa, Netherlands, Scotland

Pool II: Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Bermuda

Pool III: New Zealand, England, Kenya, Canada

Pool IV: West Indies, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Ireland

* The two top teams in each group will progress to a round robin second stage ("Super Eight") which is followed by knockout semi-finals and final.
* The venues are as follows:

Preliminary Round

VENUE 1 (hosts Pakistan, West Indies's matches, plus Opening Ceremony and Opening Match): Jamaica

VENUE 2 (hosts England's matches): St. Lucia

VENUE 3 (hosts India's matches): Trinidad and Tobago

VENUE 4 (hosts Australia's matches): St. Kitts and Nevis

Quarter-finals

VENUE 5 (hosts three of the biggest Super Eight matches): Antigua and Barbuda

VENUE 6 Grenada

VENUE 7 Guyana

VENUE 8 (hosts three of the biggest Super Eight matches): Barbados

Semi-finals

Same as VENUE 1: Jamaica

Same as VENUE 2: St. Lucia

Final

Same as VENUE 8: Barbados

* The mascot of the 2007 Cricket World Cup is an orange raccoon-like creature called Mello wearing a blue short-sleeved shirt over a white vest and blue sneakers leaning on a cricket bat. According to the organisers "he's fun and friendly, he's on the go, he's cool as they come ... he's Mello".

cricket world cup in west indies 2007