Launched at London, the revolutionary form of Twenty 20 Cricket was embraced by the Cricket world within a shot period of time. Encouraged by the immense success of 20 20 Cricket, the International Cricket Council (ICC) orgnised the inaugural World Cup of Twenty Twenty in September 2007 at South Africa.

Here is the list of teams and their Captains who took part in the first Twenty20 World tournament.

Australia	New Zealand	England
Ricky Ponting (c) Nathan Bracken Stuart Clark Michael Clarke Adam Gilchrist (wk) Brad Haddin Matthew Hayden Ben Hilfenhaus Brad Hodge Bradley Hogg Michael Hussey Mitchell Johnson Brett Lee Andrew Symonds Shane Watson	Daniel Vettori (c) Shane Bond Peter Fulton Mark Gillespie Gareth Hopkins (wk) Chris Martin Craig McMillan Brendon McCullum Nathan McCullum Jacob Oram Jeetan Patel Bradley Scott Scott Styris Ross Taylor Lou Vincent	Paul Collingwood (c) James Anderson Stuart Broad Andrew Flintoff James Kirtley Darren Maddy Kevin Pietersen Matt Prior (wk) Chris Schofield Owais Shah Dimitri Mascarenhas Jeremy Snape Vikram Solanki Chris Tremlett Luke Wright

South Africa	West Indies	Sri Lanka
Graeme Smith (c) Gulam Bodi Andre Nel Mark Boucher (wk) AB de Villiers JP Duminy Herschelle Gibbs Justin Kemp Albie Morkel Morne Morkel Makhaya Ntini Vernon Philander Shaun Pollock Thandi Tshabalala Johan van der Wat	Ramnaresh Sarwan (c) Dwayne Bravo Shivnarine Chanderpaul Pedro Collins Narsingh Deonarine Fidel Edwards Chris Gayle Runako Morton Daren Powell Denesh Ramdin (wk) Ravi Rampaul Darren Sammy Marlon Samuels Devon Smith Dwayne Smith	Mahela Jayawardena (c) Randi Dilhara Fernando Hasantha Fernando Kaushal Lokuarachchi Sanath Jayasuriya Farveez Maharoof Lasith Malinga Jehan Mubarak Dilruwan Perera Kumar Sangakkara (wk) Chamara Silva Upul Tharanga Tillakaratne Dilshan Chaminda Vaas Gayan Wijekoon

Pakistan	Bangladesh	Zimbabwe
Shoaib Malik (c) Shahid Afridi Sohail Tanvir Kamran Akmal (wk) Fawad Alam Yasir Arafat Mohammad Asif Salman Butt Umar Gul Mohammad Hafeez Rao Iftikhar Anjum Younus Khan Imran Nazir Abdur Rehman Misbah-ul-Haq	Mohammad Ashraful (c) Aftab Ahmed Nadif Chowdhury Shakib Al Hasan Tamim Iqbal Alok Kapali Mashrafe Mortaza Mushfiqur Rahim (wk) Ziaur Rahman Syed Rasel Abdur Razzak Farhad Reza Zunaed Siddique Nazim Uddin Mahmud Ullah	Prosper Utseya (c) Gary Brent Chamunorwa Chibhabha Elton Chigumbura Keith Dabengwa Tymsen Maruma Johnson Marumisa Hamilton Masakadza Stuart Matsikinyeri Christopher Mpofu Tawanda Mupariwa Vusimusi Sibanda Tatenda Taibu (wk) Brendon Taylor Sean Williams

India	Kenya	Scotland
M.S. Dhoni (c)(wk) Yuvraj Singh Piyush Chawla Gautam Gambhir Dinesh Karthik Irfan Pathan Yusuf Pathan Virender Sehwag Joginder Sharma Harbhajan Singh Rohit Sharma RP Singh Ajit Agarkar Sreesanth Robin Uthappa	Steve Tikolo (c) Rajesh Bhudiya Jimmy Kamande Tanmay Mishra Lameck Ngoche Alex Obanda Collins Obuya David Obuya Nehemiah Odhiambo Thomas Odoyo Peter Ongondo Elijah Otieno Maurice Ouma (wk) Ondik Suji Hiren Varaiya	Ryan Watson (c) Fraser Watts Dougie Brown John Blain Gavin Hamilton Navdeep Poonia Gregor Maiden Neil McCallum Qasim Sheikh Colin Smith (wk) Craig Wright Dewald Nel Gordon Drummond Ross Lyons Majid Haq