T20 World Cup 2012 Sri Lanka will be the fourth ICC World T20 Competition; ICC T20 World Cup 2012 is an international Twenty20 Cricket tournament that will be held in between September 18 and October 7, 2012. The schedule has been posted by ICC. The schedule of World Twenty20 would be revealed once, Qualifier round of ICC World Twenty20 2012 gets over. Tournament is likely to be mix of Robin Round and Knockout. This will be the first T20 cricket World Cup tournament held in an Asian country, the last three being held in South Africa, England and the West Indies respectively.

The format will see four groups of three in a preliminary round. India and England are in the same group and will be joined by one of the Associate or Affiliate teams that qualify. The other qualifying team will be in a group with West Indies and Australia. Sri Lanka, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and Pakistan, New Zealand and Bangladesh are the other two groups. The first T20 cricket World Cup was hosted by South Africa in 2007, where India beat Pakistan in a thriller to become Twenty20 champions. Pakistan, the losing finalists in t20 world cup cricket 2007, defeated Sri Lanka in the T20 World Cup 2009 tournament to become World t20 Champions, held in England. England became the third World Twenty20 champions by beating Australia in the West Indies. The ICC World Twenty20 2014 is to be held in Bangladesh.

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The format will see four groups of three in a preliminary round. Apart from the ten test cricket playing nations, there will be a further two associate/affiliate teams who would qualify from the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier to be staged in the United Arab Emirates in 2012. The top two teams from each group will proceed to the Super Eight stage of the tournament. The Super Eight will consist of two groups. The top two teams from the two Super Eight groups would play the semi-finals, and the semi-final winners would contest the final, to be played at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium. The winner of this final shall be crowned world champions in Twenty20 cricket. England is the defending champions, having won the 2010 edition in the West Indies.