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{{Infobox cricket tournament
| name = Twenty20 World Cricket Classic
| image =
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| caption = 
| administrator = 
| cricket format = [[Twenty20]]
| tournament format = 
| host = [[Bermuda]]
| champions = {{cr|RSA}}
| count =
| participants = [[Australian cricket team|Australia]], [[Bermudian cricket team|Bermuda]], [[English cricket team|England]], [[Indian cricket team|India]] <br/> [[New Zealand cricket team|New Zealand]], [[South African cricket team|South Africa]], <br/> [[Sri Lankan cricket team|Sri Lanka]], [[West Indian cricket team|West Indies]]
| matches =
| attendance =
| player of the series = 
| most runs = {{flagicon|RSA}} [[Gary Kirsten]] (255)
| most wickets =[[Pieter Strydom]], [[Derek Crookes]] (7)
}}

The '''World Cricket Classic''' was a [[Twenty20]] cricket tournament which took place in [[Bermuda]] during April 2006. The participating players were all ex-cricketers with the exception of Bermuda who fielded their current squad. Four centuries were made in the tournament, one from Australian [[Ryan Campbell (cricketer)|Ryan Campbell]] and South African [[Steven Jack]], while Jack's opening partner [[Gary Kirsten]] passed 100 twice.

==Squads==
{| 
|- bgcolor="#efefef"
! Australia {{flagicon|Australia}}
! Bermuda {{flagicon|Bermuda}}
! England {{flagicon|England}}
! India {{flagicon|India}}
! New Zealand {{flagicon|New Zealand}}
|- valign="top"
||
* [[Ian Healy]] ([[Captain (cricket)|c]])
* [[Greg Blewett]]
* [[Ray Bright]]
* [[Ryan Campbell (cricketer)|Ryan Campbell]] 
* [[Rick Darling]]
* [[Damien Fleming]]
* [[Shaun Graf]] 
* [[Rodney Hogg]] 
* [[Wayne B. Phillips|Wayne Phillips]]
||
* [[Clay Smith (cricketer)|Clay Smith]] ([[Captain (cricket)|c]])
* [[Delyone Borden]]
* [[Lionel Cann]]
* [[Hasan Durham]]
* [[Kevin Hurdle]]
* [[Dwayne Leverock]]
* [[Dean Minors]]
* [[Daniel Morgan (cricketer)|Daniel Morgan]] 
* [[Saleem Mukuddem]]
* [[Oliver Pitcher]]
* [[Irving Romaine]]
* [[Ryan Steede]]
* [[Janeiro Tucker]]
||
* [[Robin Smith (cricketer)|Robin Smith]] ([[Captain (cricket)|c]])
* [[Bill Athey]]
* [[Ian Austin (cricketer)|Ian Austin]] 
* [[David Capel]]
* [[Phil Defreitas]] 
* [[Paul Jarvis]] 
* [[Chris Lewis (cricketer)|Chris Lewis]] 
* [[Graham Lloyd]]
* [[Neal Radford]]
* [[David Smith (Surrey, Sussex and Worcestershire cricketer)|David Smith]]
* [[Peter Such]]
* [[Alan Wells]] 
||
* [[Atul Bedade]] 
* [[Venkatesh Prasad]]
* [[Salil Ankola]] 
* [[Subroto Banerjee]] 
* [[Rajesh Chauhan]]
* [[Narendra Hirwani]]
* [[Abey Kuruvilla]] 
* [[Prashant Vaidya]]
* [[Atul Wassan]]
* [[Chandrakant Pandit]] 
||
* [[Geoff Allott]] 
* [[Mark Bailey (cricketer)|Mark Bailey]]
* [[Tony Blain]]
* [[Grant Bradburn]] 
* [[Mark Douglas (cricketer)|Mark Douglas]] 
* [[Simon Doull]]
* [[Trevor Franklin (cricketer)|Trevor Franklin]]
* [[Chris Harris (cricketer)|Chris Harris]] 
* [[Mark Haslam]]
* [[Phil Horne]]
* [[Gavin Larsen]]
* [[Danny Morrison (cricketer)|Danny Morrison]]
* [[Murphy Su'a]] 
|}

[[Image:Peter Such.jpg|150px|right|thumb|England squad member Peter Such]]
{| 
|- bgcolor="#efefef"
! South Africa {{flagicon|South Africa}}
! Sri Lanka {{flagicon|Sri Lanka}}
! West Indies {{flagicon|West Indies}}
|- valign="top"
||
* [[Derek Crookes]] 
* [[Faiek Davids]]
* [[Fanie de Villiers]] 
* [[Ismail Ebrahim]]
* [[Steven Jack]] 
* [[Gary Kirsten]] 
* [[Adrian Kuiper]] 
* [[Hugh Page]]
* [[Meyrick Pringle]]
* [[Mark Rushmere]]
* [[Eric Simons]]
* [[Pieter Strydom]] 
||
* [[Aravinda de Silva]] ([[Captain (cricket)|c]])
* [[Saliya Ahangama]]
* [[Asanka Gurusinha]] 
* [[Chandika Hathurusingha]] 
* [[Rumesh Ratnayake]]
* [[Ruwan Kalpage]]
* [[Roshan Mahanama]] 
* [[Champaka Ramanayake]]
* [[Keerthi Ranasinghe]]
* [[Arjuna Ranatunga]]
* [[Sanjeeva Ranatunga]]
* [[Saliya Ahangama]] 
* [[Rumesh Ratnayake]]
* [[Athula Samarasekera]]
* [[Sidath Wettimuny]] 
||
* [[Joel Garner]] ([[Captain (cricket)|c]])
* [[Kenny Benjamin]]
* [[Carlisle Best]] 
* [[Hendy Bryan]] 
* [[Sherwin Campbell]]
* [[Colin Croft]]
* [[Roland Holder]] 
* [[Robert Haynes (cricketer)|Robert Haynes]]
* [[Collis King]]
* [[Thelston Payne]]
* [[Nehemiah Perry]]
* [[Richie Richardson]]
* [[Phil Simmons]] 
* [[Stuart Williams (cricketer)|Stuart Williams]]
|}

==Qualifying games==

{| class="wikitable" width=80%
|- bgcolor=#87cefa
! Game !! Date !! Batting 1st !! Batting 2nd !! Result  
|-
| 1 || 23 April|| [[Bermudian cricket team|Bermuda]] 5/174 || [[West Indian cricket team|West Indies]] 8/116 (20) || {{flagicon|Bermuda}} Bermuda by 58 runs 
|-
| 2 || 23 April|| [[Indian cricket team|India]] 6/112 || [[English cricket team|England]] 5/113 (19) || {{flagicon|England}} England by 5 wickets
|-
| 3 || 24 April|| [[South African cricket team|South Africa]] 5/220 || [[Australian cricket team|Australia]] 137 (19.4) || {{flagicon|South Africa}} South Africa by 83 runs
|-
| 4 || 24 April|| [[Sri Lankan cricket team|Sri Lanka]] 6/132 || [[New Zealand cricket team|New Zealand]] 6/133 (18) || {{flagicon|New Zealand}} New Zealand by 4 wickets
|-
| 5 || 26 April|| [[Bermudian cricket team|Bermuda]] 5/143 || [[English cricket team|England]] 6/138 (20) || {{flagicon|Bermuda}} Bermuda by 5 runs
|-
| 6 || 26 April|| [[Indian cricket team|India]] 9/135 || [[West Indian cricket team|West Indies]] 3/136 (20) || {{flagicon|West Indies}} West Indies by 7 wickets
|-
| 7 || 27 April|| [[South African cricket team|South Africa]] 3/249 || [[New Zealand cricket team|New Zealand]] 9/169 (20) || {{flagicon|South Africa}} South Africa by 80 runs
|-
| 8 || 27 April|| [[Australian cricket team|Australia]] 3/218 || [[Sri Lankan cricket team|Sri Lanka]] 6/217 (20) || {{flagicon|Australia}} Australia by 1 run
|-
|}

==Plate Final==

 {{Limited overs international
 | date = April 29, 2006
 | team1 = {{cr-rt|AUS}}
 | score1 = 116 
 | score2 = 3/120 (12.5)
 | team2 = {{cr|West Indies}}
 | runs1 = [[Ian Healy]] 33
 | wickets1 = [[Joel Garner]] 3/9 
 | runs2 = [[Stuart Williams (cricketer)|Stuart Williams]] 73 n.o
 | wickets2 = [[Rodney Hogg]] 1/10
 | result = {{cr|West Indies}} won by 7 wickets
 | report =  
 | venue = National Sports Centre
 | umpires = G Francis and C Mitchley
 | motm = 
}}

==World Cricket Classic Final==

 {{Limited overs international
 | date = April 29, 2006
 | team1 = {{cr-rt|RSA}}
 | score1 = 5/266 
 | score2 = 169
 | team2 = {{cr|BER}}
 | runs1 = [[Steven Jack]] 109 <br/> [[Gary Kirsten]] 103
 | wickets1 = [[Saleem Mukuddem]] 2/39 
 | runs2 = [[Janeiro Tucker]] 63
 | wickets2 = [[Derek Crookes]] 3/29
 | result = {{cr|RSA}} won by 97 runs
 | report =  
 | venue = National Sports Centre
 | umpires = R Julian and S Asani
 | motm = 
}}

==External links==
*[http://aus.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2006/OTHERS/WORLD-20-20/ Cricinfo]

[[Category:2006 in cricket]]
[[Category:International cricket competitions in 2006]]
[[Category:2006 in Bermudian sport]]
[[Category:April 2006 sports events in North America]]