History of T-20 Cricket

When you are taking about Football, you can say it's a worldwide game. Like football Hockey is also a worldwide game. Unfortunately others games are not so popular like two of them. You can say, “OH! Ragbi, Baseball, Galf are also popular”. Or you can ask me, “Why you forget about cricket?” Yes they are also popular but these games are not playing worldwide like football.

If you ask with one is the most popular game in Asia? Obviously cricket is the most popular game in Asia specially South Asia.

Cricket has a long history. England is the father of this game. It's 1^st version was Test Cricket. After many stage it's become 5 days Cricket game. A sudden reson 5 days cricket game become One Day Cricket and it's the 2^nd virson of the game. Till now the last version of this game is t20 which is also populared by England.

A Twenty20 game is completed in about three hours, with each innings lasting around 75–90 minutes (with a 10–20-minute interval), thus bringing the game closer to the timespan of other popular team sports. It was introduced to create a lively form of the game which would be attractive to spectators at the ground and viewers on television and as such it has been very successful. The ECB did not intend that Twenty20 would replace other forms of cricket and these have continued alongside it.

When the Benson & Hedges Cup ended in 2002, the ECB needed another one day competition to fill its place. Cricketing authorities were looking to boost the game's popularity with the younger generation in response to dwindling crowds and reduced sponsorship. It was intended to deliver fast paced, exciting cricket accessible to thousands of fans who were put off by the longer versions of the game. Stuart Robertson, the marketing manager of the ECB, proposed a 20 over per innings game to county chairmen in 2001 and they voted 11–7 in favour of adopting the new format.

The first official Twenty20 matches were played on 13 June 2003 between the English counties in the Twenty20 Cup. The first season of Twenty20 in England was a relative success, with the Surrey Lions defeating the Warwickshire Bears by 9 wickets in the final to claim the title. The first Twenty20 match held at Lord's, on 15 July 2004 between Middlesex and Surrey, attracted a crowd of 27,509, the largest attendance for any county cricket game at the ground other than a one-day final since 1953.

This one is 5^th competition. 1^St champion is Inida, then Pakistan, England and West Indis.

We are waiting for 5^th champion. Who can say, may be Bangladesh is the 5^th champion!a