History Of Cricket (21th Century)

21st Century Cricket

                                        Losing World T20 Cup 2007 Short of Misbul Haq

  The 21st century has seen a number of the foremost rapid changes within the history of the sport, with arguably none bigger than the creation of a replacement format of the game, the shortest version that's the three-hour spectacle of Twenty20 cricket.

The advent of Twenty20 cricket, played first in county cricket in England in 2003, has led to great innovation within the game. To counter free-scoring batsmen with big hitters and strokes played through all 360 degrees, bowlers began to perfect an excellent sort of different deliveries and there has been a pointy increase within the quality of fielding. In 2004, the primary Women’s Twenty20 International was played and therefore the following year saw the primary Men’s Twenty20 International with the format being adopted because the third official format of the game .

Winning the  First World T20 Cup 2007

In September 2007, India's victory over Pakistan within the final of the primary ever ICC World Twenty20, played in Johannesburg, drew a worldwide viewing audience of quite 400 million. This was the catalyst for the creation of the Indian Premier League the subsequent year. With further Twenty20 leagues launched round the world, modern cricketers within the 21st century are faced with playing cricket year-round.

The new century also saw the ICC announcing a (Test Championship Table) in 2001. The subsequent year, a “One-day International Championship Table” was introduced. These have evolved into what are now the official MRF Tyres ICC Team Rankings across all three formats of the sport with the leaders of the Test rankings holding the ICC Test Championship Mace.

Women's Cricket has developed significantly

     The ICC also expanded its development programme, getting to produce more national teams capable of competing at the varied formats. In 2004, the ICC Intercontinental Cup brought first-class cricket to 12 nations, mostly for the primary time, whilst the planet Cricket League structure brought competitive limited overs-cricket to several new countries and there was memorable successes for a few associate nations on the worldwide stage with Kenya, Ireland, Afghanistan and therefore the Netherlands all producing famous victories at ICC Global Events.

 Afghanistan and Ireland were rewarded for his or her consistent performances both off and on the sector leading to the many development and growth of cricket in their respective countries with Full-Member status in June 2017, taking the amount to 12.

 There are revolutions on the pitch too, with the starter in Limited Overs cricket including Power-plays affecting the fielding limitations, using two new balls in at some point Internationals and even dug-outs for the incoming batsmen in Twenty20 cricket. There was an enormous development in match game cricket too because the Adelaide Oval played host to the primary ever day-night match game between Australia and New Zealand employing a specially developed pink ball.

Associate nation success in 21st Century

There have also been many new technological progresses within the game like ball tracking, broken stumps and bails for ensuring precise run out decisions, infra-red cameras and edge detection technology are often wont to see whether the bat has hit the ball and therefore the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method wont to calculate targets and leads to the event of unfavourable weather in limited-overs matches. 

Associate nation Qualifiers for the 2019 World Cup 

In 2008, a replacement referral system, during which players were allowed to refer some on-field decisions to the third umpire, made its international debut during a series between India and Sri Lanka. This has changed to develop the official Decision (DRS) Review System.

India v Pakistan Twenty 20 world cup 2007 final Last Over India wins