CRICKET MAJOR EVENTS

ICC Cricket World Cup:

The Cricket World cup is the premiere event in the sport. It takes place every four years and it utilises a 50 overs per side formula.

The next world cup is in 2019 and this ICC Cricket World Cup and will be the 12th ICC Cricket World Cup.

The location of the games will be evenly split between the two countries.

The 2015 Winners were Australia beating New Zealand by 7 wickets.

ICC Champions Trophy:

This event takes place every two years, this series also utilises a 50 overs per side formula.

The ICC Champions Trophy is a One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC), second in importance only to the Cricket World Cup.

It was inaugurated as the ICC Knock Out Tournament in 1998 and has been played approximately every two years since, its name changing to the Champions Trophy in 2002.

The number of teams competing has varied over the years; originally all the ICC's full members took part, and from 2000 to 2004 associate members were also involved.

Since 2009, the tournament has only involved the eight highest-ranked ODI teams as of six months prior to the tournament.

The ICC intends that the 2013 Champions Trophy will be the last, with its place in the cricketing calendar taken by a new ICC World Test Championship.

The ICC World Test Championship was intended to become the premier championship for Test cricket run by the International Cricket Council (ICC) with the play-offs scheduled to be held for the first time in 2017. The original plans to hold the competition in 2013 were abandoned due to financial problems. It was going to replace the one-day international competition, the ICC Champions Trophy.

The ICC has also announced plans to stage the second Test championship in India in Feb-March 2021. The top four ranked teams as at December 31, 2016 – the cut-off date set by the International Cricket Council (ICC) - would have played the three-match Test championship between the first and third weeks of June 2017.

There would have been two semi-finals and the winners play the final. During January 2014 the ICC World Test Championship was cancelled and the ICC Champions Trophy will be reinstated for 2017.

ICC World Twenty20:

This two-week event is the championship of the Twenty20 Cricket.

India is all set to host the next Twenty20 World Cup, scheduled to be held from March 11 to April 3 in 2016, after the ICC Board made it's decision at its first meeting of 2015 at the ICC Headquarters.

The ICC World Twenty20 (also referred to as the ICC World T20 or the T20 World Cup) is the international championship of Twenty20 cricket.

Organised by cricket's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), the tournament consists of 12 teams, comprising all ten ICC full members and two other ICC members chosen through the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier.

The event is generally held every two years, and all matches are accorded Twenty20 International status.

The ICC Board took some important decisions early in 2015 as they also reinstated the use of a Super Over in the event of a tie in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 final.

The ICC Board reinstated the use of a Super Over in the event of a tie in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 final. This now replicates the arrangements for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 final and other recent ICC events where a winner will be determined on the day of the final (weather permitting), and a Super Over was the most credible way to separate the two sides.

ICC Women's World Cup:

This is the female version of the World Cup.

 The last World Cup took place in 2013 in India.

England will host the next ICC Women's World Cup in 2017

The ICC 2013 Champions Trophy will be was the last, with its place in the cricketing calendar having been taken by the ICC World Test Championship.

The ICC Cricket World Cup is the showpiece event of the cricket calendar and takes place with the men's and women's tournament running alongside each other.