Super 12 stage begins today

The T20 World Cup's Super 12 stage will begin today (Saturday) and the top cricketing nations will fight to become the world champions of cricket's shortest format, report agencies.

It has been five years since the last tournament was played and fans are ready to witness some cracking duels in a format that has loads of thrills in it.

The tournament's first round has already ended where teams like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Ireland battled it out with Associate nations for 4 spots in the Super 12 stage where the cricketing elite are waiting.

India will take on arch-rivals Pakistan in a blockbuster clash tomorrow (Sunday) and everyone is eagerly waiting to see the two teams fight it out.

Ahead of the start of the tournament, India registered two comfortable wins in the warm-up matches against England and Australia.

Former Australian fast bowling great Brett Lee believes sub-continental teams will hold an edge in these conditions but the IPL experience will help players from other countries.