T20 World Cup: The T20 World Cup 2024 is not far away, and within a couple of days, the ICC mega event will be played in USA and Carribbean .
The first T20 World Cup was played in South Africa, and Team India was crowned as the inaugural champions of that tournament of the shortest format.
But despite being the organizers of the best T20 and Franchise league, the men in blue have won just one edition of this T20I competition.
West Indies was the first side to win two T20 World Cup tournaments. The Windies won the event in Sri Lanka in 2012 and in 2016 in India.
England is the second team to win this crown twice. But so far, no host country has won this tournament even once.
Now West Indies will be eyeing to script history by winning the T20 World Cup for the 3rd and also be the first host country to win this ICC mega event as the co host of this tournament.
Today we shall make a list of all the winners of the T20 World Cup events. This list will start from the first-ever edition in 2007, and it will go on until the last edition of 2022 –
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1. 2007 – India became the first champions of the T20 World Cup in 2007. The young side under MS Dhoni proved the critics wrong and won the tournament by defeating the arch-rivals Pakistan by five wickets at the Wanders Stadium in Johannesburg in South Africa. It has been a wait of 17 long years that the men in blue haven’t clinched this title again.
2. 2009 – England hosted this tournament for the first time, and Pakistan became the second champion of the T20 World Cup. The 2009 T20 World Cup final was played at the iconic stadium of Lords Cricket Ground in London, and the men in green beat Sri Lanka by eight wickets to clinch their first-ever title of the shortest format.
3. 2010 – The third edition of the T20 World Cup was held in the Caribbean. Under the leadership of Paul Collingwood, England won their first title of the shortest format. England won their final against Australia by seven wickets at Kensington Oval in Bridge Town.
4. 2012 – The Lankan Tigers hosted this edition of the T20 World Cup in their island country, and they also reached the final, hoping to be the first host country to win this ICC mega event.
But the Windies were a better team that night, and West Indies won the final match of that edition by 36 runs. The 2012 edition final was played at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.
5. 2014 – Sri Lanka made it to the finals again in the 2014 edition of the T20 World Cup, which was held in Bangladesh. After losing in the final against West Indies in 2012, the Lankan Tigers under Lasith Malinga defeated India by six wickets. The final of that edition was played in Sher –e- Bangla Stadium in Dhaka.
6. 2016 – India hosted this edition of the T20 World Cup. West Indies became the first team in the history of this tournament to win the T20 World Cup twice. The Windies defeated England at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Carlos Brathwaite smashed Ben Stokes for four back-to-back sixes to win the finals.
7. 2021 – The T20 World Cup was scheduled to be played every two years. But because of the COVID-19 Virus, the tournament wasn’t played in 2020, and India also lost the hosting rights of this T20 event. United Arab Emirates hosted this ICC mega event, and Australia, under the captaincy of Aaron Finch, clinched their maiden title. The Aussies defeated the Kiwis in Dubai International Stadium by eight wickets.
8. 2022 – Australia hosted the right edition of the T20 World Cup. But the Aussies failed to defend their crown and they also lost the golden opportunity of being the first ever team to win the title as the host country and also defend their crown. England became TT he second team to have two T20 World Cup trophies along with West Indies. Buttler and his men de defeated Pakistan to win the finals.
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