2014 ICC World Twenty20
The 2014 ICC World Twenty20 was the fifth ICC World Twenty20 competition, an international Twenty20 cricket tournament, that took place in Bangladesh from 16 March to 6 April 2014. It was played in three cities — Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet. The International Cricket Council announced Bangladesh as host in 2010. It was the second consecutive time that an Asian country is hosting this event, as Sri Lanka hosted the previous tournament in 2012. Sri Lanka won the tournament, beating India by 6 wickets in the final at Mirpur.
Format
During Group Stage points were awarded to the teams as follows:| Results | Points |
| Win | 4 points |
| No result/Tie | 2 point |
| Loss | 0 points |
In the event of teams finishing on equal points in their group, the following tie-breakers were applied to determine their order in the table in the following order of priority: most wins, higher net run rate, head to head record in matches involving the tied teams.
Teams
For the first time, the tournament featured 16 teams. All ten full members qualified automatically, joined by the six associate members that qualified through the 2013 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier. The qualifying teams are Ireland, Afghanistan, Netherlands and making their World Twenty20 debut the UAE, Nepal and Hong Kong.The first round consisted of 8 teams and 2 teams moved to next round. Second round was the [|Super 10] stage which consisted of 2 groups of 5 teams each. The top eight Full Member nations in the ICC T20I Championship rankings as of 8 October 2012 automatically progressed to the Super 10 stage of 2014 ICC World Twenty20.
Joining the eight full members in the super 10 stage was host nation Bangladesh and associate nation The Netherlands who topped their first round group by net run rate ahead of Test playing nation Zimbabwe and Ireland.
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Match officials
The match referees’ responsibilities throughout the tournament were shared between four members of the Elite Panel of ICC Referees:The on-field responsibilities for officiating the tournament were shared by all 11 of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires and 3 umpires from the International Panel of Umpires and Referees:
;Australia
;England
;India
;New Zealand
;Pakistan
;South Africa
;Sri Lanka
Venues
Thirty-one matches were played at three different venues in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet.| Chittagong | Dhaka | Sylhet |
| Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium | Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium | Sylhet International Cricket Stadium |
| Capacity: 20,000 | Capacity: 26,000 | Capacity: 18,500 |
| Matches: 15 | Matches: 14, & | Matches: 6 |
Warm-up matches
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First stage
Group A
Advanced to Super 10Group B
Advanced to Super 10Super 10
Group 1
Advanced to [|Knockout stage].Group 2
Advanced to Knockout stage.Knockout stage
Semi-finals
Final
Statistics
Most runs
Source: Cricinfo| Player | Matches | Innings | Runs | Average | SR | HS | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s |
 Virat Kohli | 6 | 6 | 319 | 106.33 | 129.14 | 76* | 0 | 4 | 24 | 10 |
 Tom Cooper | 7 | 7 | 231 | 57.75 | 137.50 | 72* | 0 | 1 | 22 | 10 |
| Stephan Myburgh | 7 | 7 | 224 | 32.00 | 154.48 | 63 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 13 |
| Rohit Sharma | 6 | 6 | 200 | 40.00 | 123.45 | 62* | 0 | 2 | 19 | 6 |
 JP Duminy | 5 | 5 | 187 | 62.33 | 140.60 | 86* | 0 | 1 | 14 | 8 |
Most wickets
Source: Cricinfo| Player | Matches | Innings | Wickets | Econ. | Ave. | BBI | S/R | 4WI | 5WI |
| Imran Tahir | 5 | 5 | 12 | 6.55 | 10.91 | 4/21 | 10.0 | 1 | 0 |
| Ahsan Malik | 7 | 7 | 12 | 6.68 | 13.83 | 5/19 | 12.4 | 0 | 1 |
 Samuel Badree | 5 | 5 | 11 | 5.65 | 10.27 | 4/21 | 10.9 | 1 | 0 |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | 6 | 6 | 11 | 5.35 | 11.27 | 4/11 | 12.6 | 1 | 0 |
| Amit Mishra | 6 | 6 | 10 | 6.68 | 14.70 | 3/21 | 15.3 | 0 | 0 |