2007 ICC World Twenty20 squads

Last updated March 17, 2024

This page lists the squads picked for the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 . This is the first World Twenty20 tournament which had been organised by the ICC. The championship was run from 11 to 24 September 2007 in South Africa. 12 teams took part in the championship, and the teams were sorted by their groups in the preliminary group stage. The first-class team listed for each player is the domestic team he plays for in his home country and any English county he has played for in the 2007 season, which was running concurrently to the World Twenty20 tournament. The winner of the Final was India. Second place went to Pakistan.

Group A

Bangladesh

Bangladesh announced their squad on 9 August 2007.^[1]

No.	Player	Date of birth	T20s^[2]	Batting	Bowling style	First class team
98	Mohammad Ashraful (c)	9 September 1984	2	Right	Right arm leg break	Dhaka Division
2	Mashrafe Mortaza (vc)	5 October 1983	3	Right	Right arm fast medium	Khulna Division
41	Abdur Razzak	15 June 1982	3	Right	Slow left arm orthodox	Khulna Division
97	Aftab Ahmed	10 November 1985	3	Right	Right-arm medium	Chittagong Division
14	Alok Kapali	1 January 1984	2	Right	Right arm leg break	Sylhet Division
76	Farhad Reza	16 June 1986	3	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Rajshahi Division
31	Junaid Siddique	30 October 1987	0	Left	Right arm off break	Rajshahi Division
30	Mohammad Mahmudullah	4 February 1986	2	Right	Right arm off break	Dhaka Division
15	Mushfiqur Rahim	1 September 1988	3	Right	Wicket-keeper	Rajshahi Division
83	Nadif Chowdhury	21 April 1987	1	Right	Slow left arm orthodox	Barisal Division
40	Nazimuddin	1 October 1985	2	Right		Chittagong Division
75	Shakib Al Hasan	24 March 1987	1	Left	Slow left arm orthodox	Khulna Division
47	Syed Rasel	3 July 1984	2	Left	Left-arm medium fast	Khulna Division
29	Tamim Iqbal	20 March 1989	2	Left		Chittagong Division
50	Ziaur Rahman	2 December 1986	0	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Khulna Division

South Africa

South Africa announced their squad on 11 August 2007.^[3] Loots Bosman was ruled out of the competition with a lower back injury.^[4]

No.	Player	Date of birth	T20s^[2]	Batting	Bowling style	First class team
15	Graeme Smith (c)	1 February 1981	5	Left	Right arm off break	Cape Cobras
9	Mark Boucher	3 December 1976	2	Right	Wicket-keeper	Cape Cobras
17	AB de Villiers	17 February 1984	3	Right	Right-arm medium	Nashua Titans
7	Shaun Pollock	16 July 1973	4	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Nashua Dolphins
16	Makhaya Ntini	6 July 1977	2	Right	Right-arm fast	Fidentia Warriors
89	Andre Nel	15 July 1977	1	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Nashua Titans
0	Thandi Tshabalala	19 November 1984	0	Right	Right arm off break	Gestetner Diamond-Eagles
65	Morne Morkel	6 October 1984	0	Left	Right-arm fast	Nashua Titans
81	Albie Morkel	10 June 1981	0	Left	Right-arm medium fast	Nashua Titans
6	Justin Kemp	2 October 1977	3	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Cape Cobras Kent Spitfires
29	Johan van der Wath	10 January 1978	3	Right	Right-arm medium fast	Gestetner Diamond-Eagles Northamptonshire Steelbacks
24	Vernon Philander	24 June 1985	0	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Cape Cobras
07	Herschelle Gibbs	23 February 1974	4	Right		Cape Cobras
21	Jean-Paul Duminy	14 April 1984	0	Left	Right arm off break	Cape Cobras
69	Gulam Bodi	4 January 1979	0	Left	Slow left-arm wrist-spin	Nashua Titans

West Indies

No.	Player	Date of birth	T20s^[2]	Batting	Bowling style	First class team
53	Ramnaresh Sarwan	23 June 1980	0	Right	Right arm leg break	Guyana
47	Dwayne Bravo	7 October 1983	3	Right	Right-arm medium fast	Trinidad and Tobago
6	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	18 August 1974	2	Left	Right arm leg break	Guyana Durham Dynamos
17	Pedro Collins	12 August 1976	0	Right	Left-arm fast medium	Barbados
66	Narsingh Deonarine	16 August 1983	0	Left	Right arm off break	Guyana
20	Fidel Edwards	6 February 1982	0	Right	Right-arm fast	Barbados
45	Chris Gayle	21 September 1979	3	Left	Right arm off break	Jamaica
37	Runako Morton	22 July 1978	3	Right	Right-arm medium or off break	Leeward Islands
39	Daren Powell	15 April 1978	2	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Jamaica Hampshire Hawks
80	Denesh Ramdin	13 March 1985	3	Right	Wicket-keeper	Trinidad and Tobago
14	Ravi Rampaul	15 October 1984	2	Left	Right-arm fast medium	Trinidad and Tobago
88	Darren Sammy	20 December 1983	2	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Windward Islands
52	Marlon Samuels	5 February 1981	2	Right	Right arm off break	Jamaica
28	Devon Smith	21 October 1981	1	Left	Right arm off break	Windward Islands
50	Dwayne Smith	12 April 1983	3	Right	Right-arm medium	Barbados

Group B

Australia

Australia's T20 squad was announced on 20 July 2007.^[5] Shaun Tait was named in the original squad but was later ruled out after elbow surgery; he was replaced by Ben Hilfenhaus.^[6] The squad was generally the same as that which won the ICC Cricket World Cup earlier in the year.

No.	Player	Date of birth	T20s^[2]	Batting	Bowling style	First class team
14	Ricky Ponting (c)	19 December 1974	5	Right	Right arm medium	Tasmanian Tigers
18	Adam Gilchrist (vc)	14 November 1971	4	Left	Wicket-keeper	Western Warriors
59	Nathan Bracken	12 September 1977	3	Right	Left arm fast medium	New South Wales Blues
8	Stuart Clark	28 September 1975	2	Right	Right arm fast medium	New South Wales Blues Hampshire County Cricket Club
23	Michael Clarke	2 April 1981	5	Right	Slow left arm orthodox	New South Wales Blues
57	Brad Haddin	23 October 1977	1	Right	Wicket-keeper	New South Wales Blues
28	Matthew Hayden	29 October 1971	2	Left	Right arm medium	Queensland Bulls
29	Ben Hilfenhaus	15 March 1983	1	Right	Right arm fast medium	Tasmanian Tigers
17	Brad Hodge	29 December 1974	0	Right	Right arm off break	Victorian Bushrangers Lancashire Lightning
31	Brad Hogg	6 February 1971	2	Left	Slow left-arm wrist-spin	Western Warriors
48	Michael Hussey	27 May 1975	4	Left	Right arm medium	Western Warriors
25	Mitchell Johnson	2 November 1981	0	Left	Left arm fast	Queensland Bulls
58	Brett Lee	8 November 1976	3	Right	Right arm fast	New South Wales Blues
63	Andrew Symonds	9 June 1975	4	Right	Right arm off break Right arm medium	Queensland Bulls
33	Shane Watson	17 June 1981	1	Right	Right arm fast medium	Queensland Bulls

England

England announced their squad on 6 August 2007.^[7] Ravi Bopara pulled out from the tournament on 4 September, after dislocating his thumb during a bowling spell in the ODI series against India.^[8] Three days later, James Anderson was announced to replace him.^[9] Ryan Sidebottom also withdrew after failing to recover from a side injury sustained during the third Test against India in early August: Dimitri Mascarenhas was called up as his replacement.^[10]

No.	Player	Date of birth	T20s^[2]	Batting	Bowling style	First class team
5	Paul Collingwood (c)	26 May 1976	6	Right	Right-arm medium	Durham Dynamos
9	James Anderson	30 July 1982	3	Left	Right-arm fast medium	Lancashire Lightning
39	Stuart Broad	24 June 1986	3	Left	Right-arm fast medium	Leicestershire Foxes
11	Andrew Flintoff	6 December 1977	2	Right	Right-arm fast	Lancashire Lightning
16	James Kirtley	10 January 1975	0	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Sussex Sharks
6	Darren Maddy	23 May 1974	0	Right	Right-arm medium	Warwickshire Bears
32	Dimitri Mascarenhas	30 October 1977	2	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Hampshire Hawks
24	Kevin Pietersen	27 June 1980	6	Right	Right arm off break	Hampshire Hawks
13	Matt Prior	26 February 1982	2	Right	Wicket-keeper	Sussex Sharks
28	Chris Schofield	6 October 1978	0	Left	Right arm leg break	Surrey Brown Caps
3	Owais Shah	22 October 1978	2	Right	Right arm off break	Middlesex Crusaders
29	Jeremy Snape	27 April 1973	0	Right	Right arm off break	Leicestershire Foxes
38	Vikram Solanki	1 April 1976	1	Right	Right arm off break	Worcestershire Royals
33	Chris Tremlett	2 September 1981	0	Right	Right-arm medium fast	Hampshire Hawks
45	Luke Wright	7 March 1985	0	Right	Right-arm medium	Sussex Sharks

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe announced their squad on 14 August 2007.^[11] Tatenda Taibu returned to the team for the first time in two years.

No.	Player	Date of birth	T20s^[2]	Batting	Bowling style	First class team
52	Prosper Utseya (c)	26 March 1985	1	Right	Right arm off break	Easterns
12	Gary Brent	13 January 1976	1	Right	Right-arm medium fast	Southerns
33	Justice Chibhabha	6 September 1986	1	Right	Right-arm medium	Southerns
47	Elton Chigumbura	14 March 1986	1	Right	Right-arm medium	Northerns
17	Keith Dabengwa	17 August 1980	1	Left	Slow left arm orthodox	Westerns
65	Timycen Maruma	19 April 1988	0	Right	Right arm leg break	Easterns
58	Johnson Marumisa	1 March 1983	0	Right	Right arm leg break	Easterns
3	Hamilton Masakadza	9 August 1983	1	Right	Right arm leg break	Easterns
45	Stuart Matsikenyeri	3 May 1983	1	Right	Right arm off break	Easterns
28	Christopher Mpofu	27 November 1985	0	Right	Right-arm medium	Westerns
53	Tawanda Mupariwa	16 April 1985	0	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Westerns
26	Vusi Sibanda	10 October 1983	0	Right	Right-arm medium	Midlands
44	Tatenda Taibu	14 May 1983	0	Right	Wicket-keeper	Mashonaland
1	Brendan Taylor	6 February 1986	1	Right	Wicket-keeper	Mashonaland
14	Sean Williams	26 September 1986	1	Left	Slow left arm orthodox	Westerns

Group C

Kenya

Kenya announced their squad on 14 August 2007.^[12]

No.	Player	Date of birth	T20s^[2]	Batting	Bowling style	Domestic team
5	Steve Tikolo (c)	25 June 1971	1	Right	Right-arm medium	Swamibapa
07	Rajesh Bhudia	22 November 1984	2	Right	Right-arm medium	Kanbis
11	Jimmy Kamande	12 December 1978	1	Right	Right arm off break	Parklands
89	Tanmay Mishra	22 December 1986	2	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Aga Khan
91	Alex Obanda	25 December 1987	1	Right	Right-arm medium fast	Swamibapa
13	Collins Obuya	27 July 1981	2	Right	Right arm leg break	Stray Lions
21	David Obuya	14 August 1979	2	Right	Wicket-keeper	Stray Lions
35	Nehemiah Odhiambo	7 August 1983	0	Right	Right-arm medium fast	Swamibapa
00	Thomas Odoyo	12 May 1978	2	Right	Right-arm medium fast	Kanbis
77	Peter Ongondo	10 February 1977	2	Right	Right-arm medium	Swamibapa
75	Lameck Onyango	22 September 1973	2	Right	Right-arm medium	Swamibapa
	Elijah Otieno	3 January 1988	0	Right	Right-arm medium fast	Swamibapa
17	Morris Ouma	8 November 1982	0	Right	Wicket-keeper	Swamibapa
09	Tony Suji	5 February 1976	1	Right	Right-arm medium	Swamibapa
84	Hiren Varaiya	9 April 1984	2	Right	Slow left arm orthodox	Nairobi Gymkhana

New Zealand

New Zealand announced their squad on 9 August 2007.^[13] Long-time captain Stephen Fleming, who stepped down from the One-day International captaincy after the 2007 World Cup, was not included, and Daniel Vettori was given the captaincy. Scott Styris could be replaced, as he has struggled with injury problems playing for Durham in England in 2007.

No.	Player	Date of birth	T20s^[2]	Batting	Bowling style	First class team
11	Daniel Vettori (c)	27 January 1979	0	Left	Slow left arm orthodox	Northern Districts Knights
27	Shane Bond	7 June 1975	3	Right	Right-arm fast	Canterbury Wizards
50	Peter Fulton	1 February 1979	2	Right	Right-arm medium	Canterbury Wizards
17	Mark Gillespie	17 October 1979	2	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Wellington Firebirds
	Gareth Hopkins	24 November 1976	0	Right	Wicket-keeper	Otago Volts
42	Brendon McCullum	27 September 1981	5	Right	Wicket-keeper	Canterbury Wizards
	Nathan McCullum	1 September 1980	0	Right	Right arm off break	Otago Volts
10	Craig McMillan	13 September 1976	2	Right	Right-arm medium	Canterbury Wizards
32	Chris Martin	10 December 1979	0	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Auckland Aces
24	Jacob Oram	28 July 1978	1	Left	Right-arm medium	Central Districts Stags
39	Jeetan Patel	7 May 1980	4	Right	Right arm off break	Wellington Firebirds
	Bradley Scott	16 September 1979	0	Left	Left-arm fast medium	Otago Volts
56	Scott Styris	10 July 1975	3	Right	Right-arm medium	Auckland Aces Durham Dynamos
3	Ross Taylor	8 March 1984	2	Right	Right arm off break	Central Districts Stags
40	Lou Vincent	11 November 1978	1	Right	Right-arm medium	Auckland Aces

Sri Lanka

Muttiah Muralitharan was originally selected in the squad, but was withdrawn on 31 August 2007 after straining a biceps.^[14] Dilruwan Perera replaced him.

No.	Player	Date of birth	T20s^[2]	Batting	Bowling style	First class team
27	Mahela Jayawardene (c)	27 May 1977	3	Right	Right-arm medium	Sinhalese SC
18	Tillakaratne Dilshan	14 October 1976	2	Right	Right arm off break	Bloomfield C&AC
26	Dilhara Fernando	19 July 1979	3	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Sinhalese SC
	Hasantha Fernando	14 October 1979	0	Right	Right-arm medium	Chilaw Marians CC
07	Sanath Jayasuriya	30 June 1969	2	Left	Slow left arm orthodox	Bloomfield C&AC Lancashire Lightning
77	Kaushal Lokuarachchi	20 May 1982	0	Right	Right arm leg break	Sinhalese SC
28	Farveez Maharoof	7 September 1984	2	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Bloomfield C&AC
99	Lasith Malinga	4 September 1983	2	Right	Right-arm fast	Nondescripts CC Kent Spitfires
42	Jehan Mubarak	10 January 1981	0	Left	Right arm off break	Colombo CC
	Dilruwan Perera	22 July 1982	0	Right	Right arm off break	Panadura CC
11	Kumar Sangakkara	27 October 1977	3	Left	Wicket-keeper	Nondescripts CC Warwickshire Bears
05	Chamara Silva	14 December 1979	2	Right	Right arm leg break	Sebastianites C&AC
14	Upul Tharanga	2 February 1985	3	Left		Nondescripts CC
22	Chaminda Vaas	27 January 1974	1	Left	Left-arm fast medium	Colts CC Middlesex Crusaders
47	Gayan Wijekoon	21 December 1976	0	Left	Left-arm medium	Chilaw Marians CC

Group D

India

India's squad was announced on 8 August 2007

No.	Player	Date of birth	T20's	Batting	Bowling style	First class team(s)
7	Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c)	7 July 1981	1	Right	Wicket-keeper	Jharkhand
12	Yuvraj Singh (vc)	12 December 1981	0	Left	Left-arm orthodox spin	Punjab
-	Virender Sehwag	20 October 1978	6	Right	Right arm off break	Delhi
68	Ajit Agarkar	4 December 1977	1	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Mumbai
5	Gautam Gambhir	14 October 1981	0	Left	Right arm leg break	Delhi
35	Harbhajan Singh	3 July 1980	1	Right	Right arm off break	Punjab
23	Joginder Sharma	23 October 1983	0	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Haryana
1	Dinesh Karthik	1 June 1985	1	Right	Wicket-keeper	Tamil Nadu
63	Irfan Pathan	27 October 1984	1	Left	Left-arm fast medium	Baroda
27	Yusuf Pathan	17 November 1982	0	Right	Right arm off break	Baroda
11	Piyush Chawla	24 December 1988	0	Left	Right arm leg break	Uttar Pradesh
45	Rohit Sharma	30 April 1987	0	Right	Right arm off break	Mumbai
9	R. P. Singh	6 December 1985	0	Right	Left-arm fast medium	Uttar Pradesh
36	S. Sreesanth	6 February 1983	1	Right	Right-arm fast	Kerala
77	Robin Uthappa	11 November 1985	0	Right	Right-arm medium	Karnataka

Pakistan

After a dressing room incident on 6 September 2007, in which Shoaib Akhtar was alleged to have hit Mohammad Asif with a bat, Akhtar was handed an indefinite ban by the Pakistan Cricket Board and sent home from the tournament before it even began.^[15] Sohail Tanvir, an uncapped allrounder, replaced him. Misbah-ul-haq was a controversial selection ahead of Mohammed Yousuf. Yet Misbah ended up being the 2nd highest run scorer in the competition.

No.	Player	Date of birth	T20s^[2]	Batting	Bowling style	First class team(s)
18	Shoaib Malik (c)	1 February 1982	4	Right	Right arm off break	PIA/Sialkot Stallions
36	Abdur Rehman	1 March 1980	2	Left	Slow left arm orthodox	HBL/Sialkot Stallions
25	Fawad Alam	8 October 1985	1	Left	Slow left arm orthodox	NBP/Karachi Dolphins
21	Iftikhar Anjum	1 December 1980	1	Right	Right-arm medium	ZTBL/Islamabad Leopards
23	Kamran Akmal	13 January 1982	4	Right	Wicket-keeper	NBP/Lahore Lions
22	Misbah-ul-Haq	28 May 1974	2	Right	Right arm leg break	SNGPL/Faisalabad Wolves
26	Mohammad Asif	20 December 1982	2	Left	Right-arm fast medium	NBP/Sialkot Stallions
88	Mohammad Hafeez	17 October 1980	3	Right	Right arm off break	SNGPL/Faisalabad Wolves
1	Salman Butt	7 October 1984	2	Left	Right-arm off spin	NBP/Lahore Eagles
10	Shahid Afridi	1 March 1980	3	Right	Right arm leg break	HBL/Karachi Dolphins
33	Sohail Tanvir	12 December 1984	0	Left	Left-arm medium fast	Attock/Rawalpindi Rams
55	Umar Gul	14 April 1984	1	Right	Right-arm fast medium	HBL/Peshawar Panthers
27	Yasir Arafat	12 March 1982	1	Right	Right-arm medium	KRL/Rawalpindi Rams Sussex Sharks
75	Younis Khan	29 November 1977	4	Right	Right arm leg break	HBL/Peshawar Panthers Yorkshire Phoenix

Scotland

No.	Player	Date of birth	Batting	Bowling style	Domestic team
27	Ryan Watson (c)	12 November 1976	Right	Right-arm medium fast	Forfarshire
4	John Blain	4 January 1979	Left	Right-arm fast medium	Rotherham Town
23	Dougie Brown	29 October 1969	Right	Right-arm fast medium	Warwickshire Bears
24	Gordon Drummond	21 April 1980	Right	Right-arm medium fast	Watsonians
37	Gavin Hamilton	16 September 1974	Left	Right-arm medium fast	East Brierley
10	Majid Haq	11 February 1983	Left	Right arm off break	Ferguslie
8	Ross Lyons	8 December 1984	Left	Slow left arm orthodox	Clydesdale
25	Neil McCallum	22 November 1977	Right		Grange
5	Gregor Maiden	22 July 1979	Right	Right arm off break	Grange
17	Dewald Nel	6 June 1980	Right	Right-arm medium fast	Greenock
28	Navdeep Poonia	11 May 1986	Right	Right-arm medium fast	Warwickshire Bears
22	Qasim Sheikh	30 October 1984	Left	Left-arm medium	Clydesdale
55	Colin Smith	27 September 1972	Right	Wicket-keeper	Aberdeenshire
12	Fraser Watts	5 June 1979	Right		Greenock
99	Craig Wright	28 April 1974	Right	Right-arm medium	Greenock

Notes

↑ "Bangladesh Squad". Cricinfo. 9 August 2007. Retrieved 21 August 2007.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Number of Twenty20 Internationals played up until the start of the Twenty20 World Championship on 11 September 2007.
↑ "South Africa Squad". Cricinfo. 11 August 2007. Retrieved 28 August 2007.
↑ "Bosman to miss ICC World Twenty20". Cricinfo. 4 September 2007. Retrieved 4 September 2007.
↑ "Australia Squad". Cricinfo. 20 July 2007. Retrieved 21 August 2007.
↑ "Hilfenhaus wins Twenty20 promotion". 20 August 2007. Retrieved 21 August 2007.
↑ "England Squad". Cricinfo. 6 August 2007. Retrieved 21 August 2007.
↑ "Bopara ruled out of Twenty20". Cricinfo. 4 September 2007. Retrieved 4 September 2007.
↑ "Anderson replaces Bopara for Twenty20". Cricinfo. 7 September 2007. Retrieved 8 September 2007.
↑ "Twenty20 call-up for Mascarenhas". BBC. 8 September 2007. Retrieved 8 September 2007.
↑ Taibu comes back in from the cold, from Cricinfo, 14 August 2007
↑ Kenya rely on the tried and trusted, from Cricinfo, retrieved 1 September 2007
↑ Vettori handed Twenty20 captaincy, from Cricinfo, retrieved 1 September 2007
↑ Muralitharan ruled out of Twenty20 Championship, Cricinfo, retrieved 1 September 2007
↑ Osman Samiuddin (7 September 2007). "Shoaib to be sent home after incident". Cricinfo. Archived from the original on 21 October 2007. Retrieved 8 September 2007.

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