ICC T20 Cricket WorldCup 2012 Groups

The ICC World Twenty20-2012 will be the fourth ICC World Twenty20 competition, an international Twenty20 cricket tournament that will be held in Sri Lanka between September 18 and October 7, 2012. The schedule has been posted by International Cricket Council (ICC). This will be the first World Twenty20 tournament held in an Asian country, the last three being held in South Africa, England and the West Indies, respectively. Sri Lankan pacer Lasith Malinga has been chosen as the event ambassador of the tournament by ICC. The format will see four groups of three teams in a preliminary round.

The groups were announced on 21 September 2011

Group A  England   India   Afghanistan

Group B

•  Australia 
•  West Indies 
•  Ireland

Group C

•  Sri Lanka 
•  South Africa 
•  Zimbabwe

Group D

•  Pakistan 
•  New Zealand 
•  Bangladesh