Competition Format
The 16 teams were divided into two groups, one containing seven teams and one containing nine. Each teams played each other team in its group once in matches played between 16 June and 5 July, scoring four points for a win and two for a no-result (match started but not finished) or abandoned entirely without a ball being bowled. The top two teams in each group went forward to the semi-finals, the top team in each group playing team with the second-highest number of points in the other. Where teams finished with equal points totals, run rate was used to separate them.
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