T20 World Cup 2022: All you need to know

The T20 World Cup begins on Sunday. The tournament starts with the Group Stage and ends with Super 12s phase. Australia are the current champions. The format, dates, rules and who has the best shot of winning this year's tournament are explained below.

The T20 World Cup is an international championship of Twenty20 cricket organised by cricket's main governing body, the ICC. The tournament is scheduled to run every two years. There have been seven tournaments since its inception.

The 2022 T20 World Cup will be played across seven cities: Adelaide, Brisbane, Geelong, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. The semi-finals will take place at the Sydney Cricket Ground and the Adelaide Oval, with the 100,000-seater MCG hosting the final.

Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Pakistan, New Zealand and South Africa qualified directly for this year's Super 12 phase based on performances in the 2021 tournament and rankings as of November 2021. Afghanistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh were drawn into the following two groups:

The T20 World Cup 2022 is taking place in Australia. The Group Stage consists of eight unqualified nations vying for the final four group stage places. They are divided into two groups. Starting from Sunday 16th October, each team will play another group member once in a round robin format. Top two teams from each group make their way to the Super 12 phase. This phase will last six days and start with hosts Australia against New Zealand on Saturday 22nd October.

The tournament will conclude on 13th November with the final to be held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. 45 matches will be played.

There have been seven editions of the T20 World Cup since its introduction in 2007. India won the first edition of T 20 World cup in the year 2007 after beating Pakistan by 5 runs in South Africa. Pakistan won in 2009, England in 2010, Sri Lanka in 2014 and Australia in 2021.

Australia are the current champions and are playing in their home T20 World Cup in 2022. India were dealt a blow when star bowler Jasprit Bumrah was ruled out with a lower back stress fracture. England have had to deal with injuries to Jofra Archer and Jonny Bairstow, and their usual opener Jason Roy was dropped. Pakistan are 7/1 favourites to win the tournament. Sri Lanka are 18/3. They won the Asia Cup last month. They may find it harder to adapt to the Australian conditions. The opening batting partnership of Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam is arguably the world’s best.