Graeme Smith to kick off ICC World Twenty20 media activities

South Africa captain Graeme Smith will kick off a series of official media activities in a build-up to the ICC World Twenty20 when he holds a media conference in Johannesburg on 3 September.

The Proteas' captain will be available at 0930 at the Sandton Sun. Then on 5 September at the same venue, the Proteas will attend an open media session from 1100 to 1200 in which five players will be available for the media.

From 3 to 7 September, 10 out of the 12 teams in the tournament are expected to make their captains available for arrival media conferences and each team has also committed to putting forward its players for open media sessions. All these activities will take place in Johannesburg.

India and England, which arrive on 10 September, will hold their arrival press conferences on 10 September at 1300 and 1330 respectively, at The Towers Hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg.

India's open media session is scheduled for the Elangeni Hotel, Durban from 1800 to 1900 on 11 September while England will have its open media session at the Newlands Sun Hotel, Cape Town on the same day from 1430 to 1515.

The exact schedule of arrival press conferences and open media sessions will be announced in due course.

The inaugural ICC World Twenty20, which runs from 11 to 24 September, will open in Johannesburg with a game between host South Africa and the West Indies and concludes with the final at the same ground two weeks later. Three venues are being used, with Durban and Cape Town also staging matches.