Twenty20 World Cricket Classic

Cricket format	Twenty20
Host(s)	Bermuda
Champions	South Africa
Participants	Australia, Bermuda, England, India New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies
Most runs	Gary Kirsten (255)
Most wickets	Pieter Strydom, Derek Crookes (7)

The World Cricket Classic was a Twenty20 cricket tournament which took place in Bermuda during April 2006. The participating players were all ex-cricketers with the exception of Bermuda who fielded their current squad. Four centuries were made in the tournament, one from Australian Ryan Campbell and South African Steven Jack, while Jack's opening partner Gary Kirsten passed 100 twice.

Squads

Australia	Bermuda	England	India	New Zealand
Ian Healy ( c) Greg Blewett Ray Bright Ryan Campbell Rick Darling Damien Fleming Shaun Graf Rodney Hogg Wayne Phillips	Clay Smith ( c) Delyone Borden Lionel Cann Hasan Durham Kevin Hurdle Dwayne Leverock Dean Minors Daniel Morgan Saleem Mukuddem Oliver Pitcher Irving Romaine Ryan Steede Janeiro Tucker	Robin Smith ( c) Bill Athey Ian Austin David Capel Phil Defreitas Paul Jarvis Chris Lewis Graham Lloyd Neal Radford David Smith Peter Such Alan Wells	Atul Bedade Venkatesh Prasad Salil Ankola Subroto Banerjee Rajesh Chauhan Narendra Hirwani Abey Kuruvilla Prashant Vaidya Atul Wassan Chandrakant Pandit	Geoff Allott Mark Bailey Tony Blain Grant Bradburn Mark Douglas Simon Doull Trevor Franklin Chris Harris Mark Haslam Phil Horne Gavin Larsen Danny Morrison Murphy Su'a

South Africa	Sri Lanka	West Indies
Derek Crookes Faiek Davids Fanie de Villiers Ismail Ebrahim Steven Jack Gary Kirsten Adrian Kuiper Hugh Page Meyrick Pringle Mark Rushmere Eric Simons Pieter Strydom	Aravinda de Silva ( c) Saliya Ahangama Asanka Gurusinha Chandika Hathurusingha Rumesh Ratnayake Ruwan Kalpage Roshan Mahanama Champaka Ramanayake Keerthi Ranasinghe Arjuna Ranatunga Sanjeeva Ranatunga Saliya Ahangama Rumesh Ratnayake Athula Samarasekera Sidath Wettimuny	Joel Garner ( c) Kenny Benjamin Carlisle Best Hendy Bryan Sherwin Campbell Colin Croft Roland Holder Robert Haynes Collis King Thelston Payne Nehemiah Perry Richie Richardson Phil Simmons Stuart Williams

Qualifying games

Game	Date	Batting 1st	Batting 2nd	Result
1	23 April	Bermuda 5/174	West Indies 8/116 (20)	Bermuda by 58 runs
2	23 April	India 6/112	England 5/113 (19)	England by 5 wickets
3	24 April	South Africa 5/220	Australia 137 (19.4)	South Africa by 83 runs
4	24 April	Sri Lanka 6/132	New Zealand 6/133 (18)	New Zealand by 4 wickets
5	26 April	Bermuda 5/143	England 6/138 (20)	Bermuda by 5 runs
6	26 April	India 9/135	West Indies 3/136 (20)	West Indies by 7 wickets
7	27 April	South Africa 3/249	New Zealand 9/169 (20)	South Africa by 80 runs
8	27 April	Australia 3/218	Sri Lanka 6/217 (20)	Australia by 1 run

Plate Final

April 29, 2006

Australia  116	v	West Indies 3/120 (12.5)
Ian Healy 33 Joel Garner 3/9		Stuart Williams 73 n.o Rodney Hogg 1/10

West Indies won by 7 wickets National Sports Centre Umpires: G Francis and C Mitchley

World Cricket Classic Final

April 29, 2006

South Africa  5/266	v	Bermuda 169
Steven Jack 109 Gary Kirsten 103 Saleem Mukuddem 2/39		Janeiro Tucker 63 Derek Crookes 3/29

South Africa won by 97 runs National Sports Centre Umpires: R Julian and S Asani

External links

• Cricinfo