2007 World Twenty20 squads

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Group A

Bangladesh

Bangladesh announced their squad on August 9 2007.[1]

No. Player Date of Birth T20s[2] Batting Bowling style First class team
98 Mohammad Ashraful (c) September 9 1984 2 Right Right arm leg break   Dhaka Division
2 Mashrafe Mortaza (vc) October 5 1983 3 Right Right arm fast medium   Khulna Division
41 Abdur Razzak June 15 1982 3 Right Slow left arm orthodox   Khulna Division
97 Aftab Ahmed November 10 1985 3 Right Right arm medium   Chittagong Division
14 Alok Kapali January 1 1984 2 Right Right arm leg break   Sylhet Division
76 Farhad Reza June 16 1986 3 Right Right arm fast medium   Rajshahi Division
?[3] Junaid Siddique October 30 1987 0 Left Right arm off break   Rajshahi Division
?[3] Mohammad Mahmudullah February 4 1986 2 Right Right arm off break   Dhaka Division
15 Mushfiqur Rahim September 1 1988 3 Right Wicket-keeper   Rajshahi Division
?[3] Nadif Chowdhury April 21 1987 1 Right Slow left arm orthodox   Barisal Division
30 Nazimuddin October 1 1985 2 Right   Chittagong Division
75 Shakib Al Hasan March 24 1987 1 Left Slow left arm orthodox   Khulna Division
47 Syed Rasel July 3 1984 2 Left Left arm medium fast   Khulna Division
29 Tamim Iqbal March 20 1989 2 Left   Chittagong Division
19 Ziaur Rahman December 2 1986 0 Right Right arm fast medium   Khulna Division

South Africa

South Africa announced their squad on August 11 2007.[4] Loots Bosman was ruled out of the competition with a lower back injury.[5]

No. Player Date of Birth T20s[2] Batting Bowling style First class team
15 Graeme Smith (c) February 1 1981 5 Left Right arm off break   Cape Cobras
9 Mark Boucher December 3 1976 2 Right Wicket-keeper   Cape Cobras
17 AB de Villiers February 17 1984 3 Right Right arm medium   Nashua Titans
7 Shaun Pollock July 16 1973 4 Right Right arm fast medium   Nashua Dolphins
16 Makhaya Ntini July 6 1977 2 Right Right arm fast   Fidentia Warriors
89 Andre Nel July 15 1977 1 Right Right arm fast medium   Nashua Titans
0 Thandi Tshabalala November 19 1984 0 Right Right arm off break   Gestetner Diamond-Eagles
?[3] Morne Morkel October 6 1984 0 Left Right arm fast   Nashua Titans
?[3] Albie Morkel June 10 1981 0 Left Right arm medium fast   Nashua Titans
6 Justin Kemp October 2 1977 3 Right Right arm fast medium   Cape Cobras
  Kent Spitfires
29 Johan van der Wath January 10 1978 3 Right Right arm medium fast   Gestetner Diamond-Eagles
  Northamptonshire Steelbacks
24 Vernon Philander June 24 1985 0 Right Right arm fast medium   Cape Cobras
06 Herschelle Gibbs February 23 1974 4 Right   Cape Cobras
21 Jean-Paul Duminy April 14 1984 0 Left Right arm off break   Cape Cobras
?[3] Gulam Bodi January 4 1979 0 Left Slow left arm chinaman   Nashua Titans

West Indies

No. Player Date of Birth T20s[2] Batting Bowling style First class team
53 Ramnaresh Sarwan 23 June 1980 0 Right Right arm leg break   Guyana
47 Dwayne Bravo 7 October 1983 3 Right Right arm medium fast   Trinidad and Tobago
6 Shivnarine Chanderpaul 18 August 1974 2 Left Right arm leg break   Guyana
  Durham Dynamos
17 Pedro Collins 12 August 1976 0 Right Left arm fast medium   Barbados
Narsingh Deonarine 16 August 1983 0 Left Right arm off break   Guyana
20 Fidel Edwards 6 February 1982 0 Right Right arm fast   Barbados
45 Chris Gayle 21 September 1979 3 Left Right arm off break   Jamaica
37 Runako Morton 22 July 1978 3 Right Right arm medium or off break File:Leewards.PNG Leeward Islands
39 Daren Powell 15 April 1978 2 Right Right arm fast medium   Jamaica
  Hampshire Hawks
80 Denesh Ramdin 13 March 1985 3 Right Wicket-keeper   Trinidad and Tobago
14 Ravi Rampaul 15 October 1984 2 Left Right arm fast medium   Trinidad and Tobago
88 Darren Sammy 20 December 1983 2 Right Right arm fast medium   Windward Islands
52 Marlon Samuels 5 February 1981 2 Right Right arm off break   Jamaica
28 Devon Smith 21 October 1981 1 Left Right arm off break   Windward Islands
50 Dwayne Smith 12 April 1983 3 Right Right arm medium   Barbados

Group B

Australia

Australia's squad was announced on July 20 2007.[6] Shaun Tait was named in the original squad but was later ruled out after elbow surgery; he was replaced by Ben Hilfenhaus.[7]

No. Player Date of Birth T20s[2] Batting Bowling style First class team
14 Ricky Ponting (c) December 19 1974 5 Right Right arm medium   Tasmanian Tigers
18 Adam Gilchrist (vc) November 14 1971 4 Left Wicket-keeper   Western Warriors
59 Nathan Bracken September 12 1977 3 Right Left arm fast medium   New South Wales Blues
8 Stuart Clark September 28 1975 2 Right Right arm fast medium   New South Wales Blues
23 Michael Clarke April 2 1981 5 Right Slow left arm orthodox   New South Wales Blues
57 Brad Haddin October 23 1977 1 Right Wicket-keeper   New South Wales Blues
28 Matthew Hayden October 29 1971 2 Left Right arm medium   Queensland Bulls
29 Ben Hilfenhaus March 15 1983 1 Right Right arm fast medium   Tasmanian Tigers
17 Brad Hodge December 29 1974 0 Right Right arm off break   Victorian Bushrangers
  Lancashire Lightning
31 Brad Hogg February 6 1971 2 Left Slow left arm chinaman   Western Warriors
48 Michael Hussey May 27 1975 4 Left Right arm medium   Western Warriors
25 Mitchell Johnson November 2 1981 0 Left Left arm fast medium   Queensland Bulls
58 Brett Lee November 8 1976 3 Right Right arm fast   New South Wales Blues
63 Andrew Symonds June 9 1975 4 Right Right arm off break
Right arm medium
  Queensland Bulls
33 Shane Watson June 17 1981 1 Right Right arm fast medium   Queensland Bulls

England

England announced their squad on August 6 2007.[8] Ravi Bopara pulled out from the tournament on September 4, after dislocating his thumb during a bowling spell in the ODI series against India.[9] Three days later, James Anderson was announced to replace him.[10] Ryan Sidebottom also withdrew after failing to recover from a side injury sustained during the third Test against India in early August: Dimitri Mascarenhas was called up as his replacement.[11]

No. Player Date of Birth T20s[2] Batting Bowling style First class team
5 Paul Collingwood (c) May 26 1976 6 Right Right arm medium   Durham Dynamos
9 James Anderson July 30 1982 3 Left Right arm fast medium   Lancashire Lightning
39 Stuart Broad June 24 1986 3 Left Right arm fast medium   Leicestershire Foxes
11 Andrew Flintoff December 6 1977 2 Right Right arm fast   Lancashire Lightning
16 James Kirtley January 10 1975 0 Right Right arm fast medium   Sussex Sharks
?[3] Darren Maddy May 23 1974 0 Right Right arm medium   Warwickshire Bears
?[3] Dimitri Mascarenhas October 30 1977 2 Right Right arm fast medium   Hampshire Hawks
24 Kevin Pietersen June 27 1980 6 Right Right arm off break   Hampshire Hawks
13 Matt Prior February 26 1982 2 Right Wicket-keeper   Sussex Sharks
?[12] Chris Schofield October 6 1978 0 Left Right arm leg break   Surrey Brown Caps
3 Owais Shah October 22 1978 2 Right Right arm off break   Middlesex Crusaders
?[12] Jeremy Snape April 27 1973 0 Right Right arm off break   Leicestershire Foxes
38 Vikram Solanki April 1 1976 1 Right Right arm off break   Worcestershire Royals
33 Chris Tremlett September 2 1981 0 Right Right arm medium fast   Hampshire Hawks
45 Luke Wright March 7 1985 0 Right Right arm medium   Sussex Brown Caps

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe announced their squad on 14 August.[13] Tatenda Taibu returned to the team for the first time in two years.

No. Player Date of Birth T20s[2] Batting Bowling style First class team
52 Prosper Utseya (c) 26 March 1985 1 Right Right arm off break   Easterns
12 Gary Brent 13 January 1976 1 Right Right arm medium fast   Southerns
33 Justice Chibhabha 6 September 1986 1 Right Right arm medium   Southerns
47 Elton Chigumbura 14 March 1986 1 Right Right arm medium   Northerns
12 Keith Dabengwa 17 August 1980 1 Left Slow left arm orthodox   Westerns
Timycen Maruma 19 April 1988 0 Right Right arm leg break   Easterns
Johnson Marumisa 1 March 1983 0 Right Right arm leg break   Easterns
3 Hamilton Masakadza 9 August 1983 1 Right Right arm leg break   Easterns
45 Stuart Matsikenyeri 3 May 1983 1 Right Right arm off break   Easterns
28 Christopher Mpofu 27 November 1985 0 Right Right arm medium   Westerns
53 Tawanda Mupariwa 16 April 1985 0 Right Right arm fast medium   Westerns
26 Vusi Sibanda 10 October 1983 0 Right Right arm medium   Midlands
44 Tatenda Taibu 14 May 1983 0 Right Wicket-keeper   Mashonaland
1 Brendan Taylor 6 February 1986 1 Right Wicket-keeper   Mashonaland
14 Sean Williams 26 September 1986 1 Left Slow left arm orthodox   Westerns

Group C

Kenya

Kenya announced their squad on 14 August.[14]

No. Player Date of Birth T20s[2] Batting Bowling style Domestic team
5 Steve Tikolo (c) 25 June 1971 1 Right Right arm medium   Swamibapa
07 Rajesh Bhudia 22 November 1984 2 Right Right arm medium   Kanbis
11 Jimmy Kamande 12 December 1978 1 Right Right arm off break   Parklands
89 Tanmay Mishra 22 December 1986 2 Right Right arm fast medium   Aga Khan
Alex Obanda 25 December 1987 1 Right Right arm medium fast   Swamibapa
13 Collins Obuya 27 July 1981 2 Right Right arm leg break   Stray Lions
21 David Obuya 14 August 1979 2 Right Wicket-keeper   Stray Lions
35 Nehemiah Odhiambo 7 August 1983 0 Right Right arm medium fast   Swamibapa
00 Thomas Odoyo 12 May 1978 2 Right Right arm medium fast   Kanbis
77 Peter Ongondo 10 February 1977 2 Right Right arm medium   Swamibapa
75 Lameck Onyango 22 September 1973 2 Right Right arm medium   Swamibapa
Elijah Otieno 3 January 1988 0 Right Right arm medium fast   Swamibapa
17 Maurice Ouma 8 November 1982 0 Right Wicket-keeper   Swamibapa
09 Tony Suji 5 February 1976 1 Right Right arm medium   Swamibapa
84 Hiren Varaiya 9 April 1984 2 Right Slow left arm orthodox   Nairobi Gymkhana

New Zealand

New Zealand announced their squad on 9 August.[15] Long-time captain Stephen Fleming, who stepped down from the One-day International captaincy after the 2007 World Cup, was not included, and Daniel Vettori was given the captaincy. Scott Styris could be replaced, as he has struggled with injury problems playing for Durham in England in 2007.

No. Player Date of Birth T20s[2] Batting Bowling style First class team
11 Daniel Vettori (c) 27 January 1979 0 Left Slow left arm orthodox   Northern Districts Knights
27 Shane Bond 7 June 1975 3 Right Right arm fast   Canterbury Wizards
50 Peter Fulton 1 February 1979 2 Right Right arm medium   Canterbury Wizards
17 Mark Gillespie 17 October 1979 2 Right Right arm fast medium   Wellington Firebirds
Gareth Hopkins 24 November 1976 0 Right Wicket-keeper   Otago Volts
42 Brendon McCullum 27 September 1981 5 Right Wicket-keeper   Canterbury Wizards
Nathan McCullum 1 September 1980 0 Right Right arm off break   Otago Volts
10 Craig McMillan 13 September 1976 2 Right Right arm medium   Canterbury Wizards
32 Chris Martin 10 December 1979 0 Right Right arm fast medium   Auckland Aces
24 Jacob Oram 28 July 1978 1 Left Right arm medium   Central Districts Stags
39 Jeetan Patel 7 May 1980 4 Right Right arm off break   Wellington Firebirds
Bradley Scott 16 September 1979 0 Left Left arm fast medium   Otago Volts
56 Scott Styris 10 July 1975 3 Right Right arm fast medium   Auckland Aces
  Durham Dynamos
3 Ross Taylor 8 March 1984 2 Right Right arm off break   Central Districts Stags
40 Lou Vincent 11 November 1978 1 Right Right arm medium   Auckland Aces

Sri Lanka

Muttiah Muralitharan was originally selected in the squad, but was withdrawn on 31 August after straining a bicep.[16] Dilruwan Perera replaced him.

No. Player Date of Birth T20s[2] Batting Bowling style First class team
27 Mahela Jayawardene (c) 27 May 1977 3 Right Right arm medium   Sinhalese SC
18 Tillakaratne Dilshan 14 October 1976 2 Right Right arm off break   Bloomfield C&AC
26 Dilhara Fernando 19 July 1979 3 Right Right arm fast medium   Sinhalese SC
Hasantha Fernando 14 October 1979 0 Right Right arm medium   Chilaw Marians CC
07 Sanath Jayasuriya 30 June 1969 2 Left Slow left arm orthodox   Bloomfield C&AC
  Lancashire Lightning
77 Kaushal Lokuarachchi 20 May 1982 0 Right Right arm leg break   Sinhalese SC
28 Farveez Maharoof 7 September 1984 2 Right Right arm fast medium   Bloomfield C&AC
99 Lasith Malinga 4 September 1983 2 Right Right arm fast   Nondescripts CC
  Kent Spitfires
Jehan Mubarak 10 January 1981 0 Left Right arm off break   Colombo CC
Dilruwan Perera 22 July 1982 0 Right Right arm off break   Panadura CC
11 Kumar Sangakkara 27 October 1977 3 Left Wicket-keeper   Nondescripts CC
  Warwickshire Bears
05 Chamara Silva 14 December 1979 2 Right Right arm leg break   Sebastianites C&AC
14 Upul Tharanga 2 February 1985 3 Left   Nondescripts CC
22 Chaminda Vaas 27 January 1974 1 Left Left arm fast medium   Colts CC
  Middlesex Crusaders
Gayan Wijekoon 21 December 1976 0 Left Left arm medium   Chilaw Marians CC

Group D

India

India's squad was announced on August 8 2007.[17]

No. Player Date of Birth T20s[2] Batting Bowling style First class team
7 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c) July 7 1981 1 Right Wicket-keeper   Jharkhand
12 Yuvraj Singh (vc) December 12 1981 0 Left Slow left arm orthodox   Punjab
68 Ajit Agarkar December 4 1977 1 Right Right arm fast medium   Mumbai
5 Gautam Gambhir October 14 1981 0 Left Right arm leg break   Delhi
3 Harbhajan Singh July 3 1980 1 Right Right arm off break   Punjab
  Surrey Brown Caps
Joginder Sharma October 23 1983 0 Right Right arm fast medium   Haryana
1 Dinesh Karthik June 1 1985 1 Right Wicket-keeper   Tamil Nadu
56 Irfan Pathan October 27 1984 1 Left Left arm medium fast   Baroda
Yusuf Pathan November 17 1982 0 Right Right arm off break   Baroda
11 Piyush Chawla December 24 1988 0 Left Right arm leg break   Uttar Pradesh
Virender Sehwag October 20 1978 1 Right Right arm off break   Delhi
45 Rohit Sharma April 30 1987 0 Right Right arm off break   Mumbai
9 Rudra Pratap Singh December 6 1985 0 Right Left arm fast medium   Uttar Pradesh
36 Shanthakumaran Sreesanth February 6 1983 1 Right Right arm fast medium   Kerala
77 Robin Uthappa November 11 1985 0 Right Right arm medium   Karnataka

Pakistan

After a dressing room incident on 6 September, in which Shoaib Akhtar was alleged to have hit Mohammad Asif with a bat, Akhtar was handed an indefinite ban by the Pakistan Cricket Board and sent home from the tournament before it even began.[18] Sohail Tanvir, an uncapped allrounder, replaced him.

No. Player Date of Birth T20s[2] Batting Bowling style First class team(s)
18 Shoaib Malik (c) 1 February 1982 4 Right Right arm off break   PIA/Sialkot Stallions
36 Abdur Rahman 1 March 1980 2 Left Slow left arm orthodox   HBL/Sialkot Stallions
Fawad Alam 8 October 1985 1 Left Slow left arm orthodox   NBP/Karachi Dolphins
21 Iftikhar Anjum 1 December 1980 1 Right Right arm medium   ZTBL/Islamabad Leopards
16 Imran Nazir 31 December 1981 3 Right Right arm leg break   NBP/Sialkot Stallions
23 Kamran Akmal 13 January 1982 4 Right Wicket-keeper   NBP/Lahore Lions
Misbah-ul-Haq 28 May 1974 2 Right Right arm leg break   SNGPL/Faisalabad Wolves
26 Mohammad Asif 20 December 1982 2 Left Right arm fast medium   NBP/Sialkot Stallions
88 Mohammad Hafeez 17 October 1980 3 Right Right arm off break   SNGPL/Faisalabad Wolves
1 Salman Butt 7 October 1984 2 Left Right arm off spin   NBP/Lahore Eagles
10 Shahid Afridi 1 March 1980 3 Right Right arm leg break   HBL/Karachi Dolphins
Sohail Tanvir 12 December 1984 0 Left Left arm medium fast   Attock/Rawalpindi Rams
55 Umar Gul 14 April 1984 1 Right Right arm fast medium   HBL/Peshawar Panthers
27 Yasir Arafat 12 March 1982 1 Right Right arm medium   KRL/Rawalpindi Rams
  Sussex Sharks
75 Younis Khan 29 November 1977 4 Right Right arm leg break   HBL/Peshawar Panthers
  Yorkshire Phoenix

Scotland

No. Player Date of Birth T20s[2] Batting Bowling style Domestic team
27 Ryan Watson (c) 12 November 1976 0 Right Right arm medium fast   Forfarshire
4 John Blain 4 January 1979 0 Left Right arm fast medium   Rotherham Town
23 Dougie Brown 29 October 1969 0 Right Right arm fast medium   Warwickshire Bears
Gordon Drummond 21 April 1980 0 Right Right arm medium fast   Watsonians
37 Gavin Hamilton 16 September 1974 0 Left Right arm medium fast   East Brierley
10 Majid Haq 11 February 1983 0 Left Right arm off break   Ferguslie
8 Ross Lyons 8 December 1984 0 Left Slow left arm orthodox   Clydesdale
25 Neil McCallum 22 November 1977 0 Right   Grange
Gregor Maiden 22 July 1979 0 Right Right arm off break   Grange
17 Dewald Nel 6 June 1980 0 Right Right arm medium fast   Greenock
28 Navdeep Poonia 11 May 1986 0 Right Right arm medium fast   Warwickshire Bears
Qasim Sheikh 30 October 1984 0 Left Left arm medium   Clydesdale
55 Colin Smith 27 September 1972 0 Right Wicket-keeper   Aberdeenshire
12 Fraser Watts 5 June 1979 0 Right   Greenock
99 Craig Wright 28 April 1974 0 Right Right arm medium   Greenock

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Bangladesh Squad". Cricinfo. 2007-08-09. Retrieved 2007-08-21. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Number of Twenty20 Internationals played up until the start of the Twenty20 World Championship on September 11 2007.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Shirt number unknown.
  4. ^ "South Africa Squad". Cricinfo. 2007-08-11. Retrieved 2007-08-28. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ "Bosman to miss ICC World Twenty20". Cricinfo. 2007-09-04. Retrieved 2007-09-04. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ "Australia Squad". Cricinfo. 2007-07-20. Retrieved 2007-08-21. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ "Hilfenhaus wins Twenty20 promotion". 2007-08-20. Retrieved 2007-08-21. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ "England Squad". Cricinfo. 2007-08-06. Retrieved 2007-08-21. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ "Bopara ruled out of Twenty20". Cricinfo. 2007-09-04. Retrieved 2007-09-04. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ "Anderson replaces Bopara for Twenty20". Cricinfo. 2007-09-07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ "Twenty20 call-up for Mascarenhas". BBC. 2007-09-08. Retrieved 2007-09-08. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Allocated was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  13. ^ Taibu comes back in from the cold, from Cricinfo, 14 August 2007
  14. ^ Kenya rely on the tried and trusted, from Cricinfo, retrieved 1 September 2007
  15. ^ Vettori handed Twenty20 captaincy, from Cricinfo, retrieved 1 September 2007
  16. ^ Muralitharan ruled out of Twenty20 Championship, Cricinfo, retrieved 1 September 2007
  17. ^ "India Squad". Cricinfo. 2007-08-08. Retrieved 2007-08-21. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  18. ^ Osman Samiuddin (2007-09-07). "Shoaib to be sent home after incident". Cricinfo. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)