2014 ICC World Twenty20
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| Dates | 16 March – 6 April 2014 |
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| Administrator(s) | International Cricket Council |
| Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
| Tournament format(s) | Group stage and Knockout |
| Host(s) |
 Bangladesh
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| Champions |
 Sri Lanka (1st title) |
| Runner Up |
 India
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| Participants | 16 |
| Matches played | 35 |
| Player of the series |
Virat Kohli
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| Most runs |
Virat Kohli (319) |
| Most wickets |
 Imran Tahir (12) Ahsan Malik (12) |
| Official website | www.icc-cricket.com |
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.
During Group Stage points were awarded to the teams as follows:
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.
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 (also a full member) and associate nation The Netherlands who toped their first round group by net run rate ahead of Test playing nation Zimbabwe and Ireland.
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