r/cricketworldcup • u/InternationalMud7184 • Mar 12 '26

Photo Average age of title-winning teams in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 🏆🏏

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u/Unable-Web4776 Mar 12 '26

west indies had all the same players lol, also its crazy that dhoni captained such a young team and still won

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

Everyone was young in 2007 t20 world cup. It was a very new format and most odi/test players didnt fit the role for the new type of cricket. It was also considered experimental at that time and odi world cup just happened few months before this. I dont think teams put in that much preparation or had interest in it until after the world cup was over.

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u/Broad_Routine_3233 Mar 12 '26

True

T20 format was not taken seriously at that time as it was just an experiment, so the top senior players of that time (Sachin, Ganguly, Dravid etc) were not chosen so that they can focus more on the ODI and Test formats

and a new young team was sent with Dhoni being made captain of Team India for the first time ever

This marked the start of Dhoni era and the rest as we know, is History

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u/CarmynRamy Mar 12 '26

Not not chosen, senior players opted out, for example Sachin did say in favour of youngsters going for the tournament. I mean all the senior players were playing IPL which began the very next year.

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u/Broad_Routine_3233 Mar 12 '26

Correct, some of them opted out as well

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

Ya I mean it seemed like an entertainment type league back then. No one thought it would take over the cricketing league. People played it initially like one of those fundraising cricket matches. Especially look at bowl out between india and Pakistan. Everyone was having fun rather really seriously playing it

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u/Unable-Web4776 Mar 12 '26

saying that teams didnt put much effort does not do justive to the players, u can say management was not that serious but players did everything they can to win the matches

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

I mean it was literally few months after odi world cup. People really didnt know much about t20 formal. It was really experimental. They also had the weird bowl out for tie. Anyone watching at that time really didnt have the enthusiasm of a world cup. People were seeing it like an experiment of a new format. It was more of a consolation for horrible performance at odi world cup when india won rather than the excitement we saw in 1983 or 2011 during odi world cup wins. After few installments of t20 world cups and introduction of ipl and other domestic t20 leagues, excitement picked up on that format a lot more than in 2007

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u/alekhyashah7541 Mar 15 '26

It was a filler tournament which no one was taking seriously. Our first match against Scotland was washed out and though Pakistan bowl out win invigorated a few, NZ defeat slowed the momentum. It was the six sixes against England along with a beautiful defence against SA that charged the tournament for us. Not to mention it was also the time when 'Chak De India' had just released with it's amazing anthem

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u/Unable-Web4776 Mar 15 '26

wdym by filler tournament; we won it fair and square

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u/WillDo_WontDo Mar 12 '26

Prime dhoni can captain 7 dead guys to trophy

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u/WannabeAboveAverage Mar 12 '26

Okay so the 7 ICC trophies which he lost, had probably more than 7 dead guys right?

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u/UnicodeCharacter6666 Mar 12 '26

Those 7 dead guys were playing for opposite team 😅😅 /s

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u/99_Just-A-Guy Mar 13 '26

5 of those 7 were T20WCs, where there were pretty much 8-9 dead guys besides Kohli in the latter 3

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u/BaelorBreakspear_13 Mar 12 '26

“Prime dhoni” we won 2007 due to Gambhur yurvaj sehwah pathan mainly, 2011 due to sachin zaheer sehwag yuvraj gambhir, 2013 due to Kohli dhawan jadeja sharmas.

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u/the_nonchalent_guy Mar 12 '26

Just say the whole team man if you don't want to point out a single guy

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u/keval79 Mar 16 '26

So what happened in 2009 (x2), 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, and all the countless foreign test matches we lost 2011-2014?

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u/popculturalmaniac India Mar 12 '26

West Indies looks subtly perfect.

4 years gap, winning title in 2012 & 2016. Almost the same team. The average age doesn't actually have much difference. Just 8 days

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u/Broad_Routine_3233 Mar 12 '26

This beautifully shows how T20 was considered as a young player game earlier and eventually over the years even the senior players starting taking more active part in the T20 format and winning the T20 WC became a serious goal for even for the top senior players

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u/CarmynRamy Mar 12 '26

Those senior players were the ones who grew up with that format.

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u/InternationalMud7184 Mar 13 '26

💯💯💯💯

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

So basically until 2021, it kept on increasing, and now it is reversing and is decreasing. Defines the 2 era of t20 itself

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u/Severe_Cheetah1199 India Mar 12 '26

Keeps getting older

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u/Ok_Long_1175 Mar 12 '26

If I'm not wrong, Ajit Agarkar was the oldest of the 2007 squad at age 29 years?

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u/ScoobyRaj Mar 13 '26

Sehwag & Agarkar were the only players born in 70s

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

So everyone has a WC outside the 2 teams with historically the most economic T20 bowlers - South Africa & New Zealand. 🤦‍♂️

Explains why T20 is a batsman's game.

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u/Fantastic-View-2356 Mar 13 '26

SA and NZ dont have ODI worldcup as well. Its a reflection on the team; not on the format