Format [edit]
The tournament features a qualifying stage and group stage. The qualifying stage consists of four teams playing a
round-robin tournament from which the top two teams qualify for the group stage. These two teams join the eight teams that received direct entry in the group stage. The group stage has the teams divided into two groups of five teams and each group plays a round-robin tournament. The top two teams of each group advances to the knockout stage. The knockout stage consists of two semi-finals, with the top team of one group facing the second from the other. The winners of the semi-finals play the grand final to determine the winners of the competition. Matches ending with the scores level are decided by a
Super Over, where the winners of the Super Over are declared winners of the match.
Points awarded in the qualifying and group stages:
| Result | Points |
|---|
| Win | 4 points |
| No result | 2 points |
| Loss | 0 points |
Prize money [edit]
Same as previous editions, the total prize money for the competition is
US$6 million. In addition to the prize money, each team receives a participation fee of $500,000. The prize money will be distributed as follows:
- $200,000 – Each team eliminated in the group stage
- $500,000 – Each semi-finalist
- $1.3 million – Runners-up
- $2.5 million – Winners
Qualification [edit]
England teams have indefinitely refused participation in the tournament starting with this edition due to its dates clashing with the end of the
County Championship.
[3] England teams had previously missed the
2010 edition due to similar scheduling problems.
[4] Contrary to the previous two seasons,
Trinidad and Tobago received direct qualification on account of their good past performances.
[2] This edition will be the second to feature a team from Pakistan and the first for editions held in India. The
hostility between India and Pakistan since the
2008 Mumbai attacks had been the reason for Pakistan's exclusion before 2012.
[5] Due to the tournament format restricting player contracts from the 2011–12 (first) season to only be for that season, all teams of the
Big Bash League underwent many changes to their squads. New contracts, however, could be multi-year agreements.
[6] The
Sydney Sixers, winners of the
2012 edition, failed to qualify.
Fixtures [edit]
Group A [edit]
| Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
|---|
 Winner of IPL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 |
| Runners-up of IPL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 |
 Highveld Lions | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 |
 Perth Scorchers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 |
| TBD (qualifying stage winners) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 |
Group B [edit]
West Indies
New Zealand
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Trinidad and Tobago
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