ICC T20 Cricket World Cup 2016: Full schedule, timings, squads

Everything you need to know about the World T20

 

New Delhi: The ICC World T20 Championships — biggest cricket event of the year -- has begun. The 27-day event, starting from March 8 with qualifiers, will end on April 3 when the Final will be played at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. In all, the World T20 will be played across 7 venues in India with 16 teams taking part in the tournament. Here is everything you need to know about the World T20.

 

FORMAT

The 2016 ICC World Twenty20, will have a group stage to be competed by the qualified Associate teams — Ireland, Netherlands, Oman, Afghanistan, Hong Kong and Scotland —  along with the two lowest-ranked Full Member sides — Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. One team from each group will qualify for the main group and join the top eight Full Members on the ICC T20I Team Rankings in the second round — Super 10.

 

QUALIFIERS

Group A: Bangladesh, Netherlands, Ireland and Oman.

Group B: Zimbabwe, Scotland, Hong Kong and Afghanistan.

 

SUPER 10

Group 1: Sri Lanka, South Africa, West Indies, England and Afghanistan

Group 2: India, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand and Bangladesh

 

VENUES

Dharamsala, Mohali, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Nagpur, Bengaluru

 

SQUADS

AFGHANISTAN – Asghar Stanikzai (capt.); Dawlat Zadran; Gulbadin Naib; Hamid Hassan; Hamza Hotak; Karim Sadiq; Mohammad Nabi; Mohammad Shahzad; Najibullah Zadran; Noor Ali Zadran; Rashid Khan; Samiullah Shenwari; Shafiqullah Shafaq; Shahpoor Zadran and Usman Ghani.

Coach – Inzamam-ul-Haq

AUSTRALIA – Steve Smith (capt.); Ashton Agar; Nathan Coulter-Nile; James Faulkner; Aaron Finch; John Hastings; Josh Hazlewood; Usman Khawaja; Mitchell Marsh; Glenn Maxwell; Peter Nevill; Andrew Tye; David Warner; Shane Watson and Adam Zampa.

Coach – Darren Lehmann

BANGLADESH – Mashrafe Bin Mortaza (capt.); Abu Hider; Al-Amin Hossain, Arafat Sunny, Mahmudullah, Mohammad Mithun; Mushfiqur Rahim; Mustafizur Rahman; Nasir Hossain, Nurul Hasan; Sabbir Rahman; Shakib Al Hasan; Soumya Sarkar; Tamim Iqbal and Taskin Ahmed.

Coach – Chandika Hathurushinghe

ENGLAND – Eoin Morgan (capt.); Moeen Ali; Sam Billings; Jos Buttler; Liam Dawson; Steven Finn; Alex Hales; Chris Jordan; Adil Rashid; Joe Root; Jason Roy; Ben Stokes; Reece Topley; James Vince and David Willey.

Coach – Trevor Bayliss

HONG KONG – Tanwir Afzal (capt.); Nadeem Ahmed; Haseeb Amjad; Jamie Atkinson; Waqas Barkat; Ryan Campbell; Chris Carter; Mark Chapman; Babar Hayat; Aizaz Khan; Nizakat Khan; Waqas Khan; Adil Mehmood; Anshuman Rath and Kinchit Shah.

Coach – Simon Cook

INDIA – Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt.); Ravichandran Ashwin; Jasprit Bumrah; Shikhar Dhawan; Ravindra Jadeja; Virat Kohli; Pawan Negi; Ashish Nehra; Hardik Pandya; Ajinkya Rahane; Suresh Raina; Mohammed Shami; Rohit Sharma; Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh.

Team Director – Ravi Shastri

IRELAND – William Porterfield (capt.); Andrew Balbirnie; George Dockrell; Andrew McBrine; Tim Murtagh; Kevin O’Brien; Niall O’Brien; Andrew Poynter; Stuart Poynter; Boyd Rankin; Max Sorensen; Paul Stirling; Stuart Thompson; Gary Wilson and Craig Young.

Coach – John Bracewell

NETHERLANDS – Peter Borren (capt.); Wesley Barresi; Logan van Beek; Mudassar Bukhari; Ben Cooper; Timm van der Gugten; Vivian Kingma; Ahsan Malik; Paul van Meekeren; Roelof van der Merwe; Stephan Myburgh; Max O’Dowd; Michael Rippon; Pieter Seelaar and Sikander Zulfiqar.

Coach – Anton Roux

NEW ZEALAND – Kane Williamson (capt.), Corey Anderson, Trent Boult, Grant Elliott, Martin Guptill, Adam Milne, Mitchell McClenaghan, Nathan McCullum, Colin Munro, Henry Nicholls, Luke Ronchi, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee and Ross Taylor.

Coach – Mike Hesson

OMAN – Sultan Ahmed (capt.); Aamir Kaleem; Aaqib Sulehri; Adnan Ilyas; Ajay Lalcheta; Amir Ali; Bilal Khan; Jatinder Singh; Mehran Khan; Munis Ansari; Rajeshkumar Ranpura; Sufyan Mehmood;; Vaibhav Wategaonkar; Zeeshan Maqsood and Zeeshan Siddiqui.

Coach – Duleep Mendis

PAKISTAN – Shahid Afridi (c), Ahmed Shehzad, Anwar Ali, Imad Wasim, Khalid Latif, Mohammad Amir, Mohammed Hafeez, Mohammad Irfan, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Sami, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Shoaib Malik, Sharjeel Khan, Umar Akmal, Wahab Riaz.

Coach – Waqar Younis

SCOTLAND – Preston Mommsen (capt.); Richie Berrington; Kyle Coetzer; Matt Cross; Josh Davey; Ali Evans; Con de Lange; Michael Leask; Matt Machan; Calum MacLeod; Gavin Main; George Munsey; Safyaan Sharif; Rob Taylor and Mark Watt.

Coach – Grant Bradburn

SOUTH AFRICA – Faf du Plessis (capt.); Kyle Abbott; Hashim Amla; Farhaan Behardien; Quniton de Kock; AB de Villiers; JP Duminy; David Miller; Chris Morris; Aaron Phangiso; Kagiso Rabada; Rilee Rossouw; Dale Steyn; Imran Tahir and David Wiese.

Coach – Russell Domingo

SRI LANKA – Lasith Malinga (capt.); Dushmantha Chameera; Dinesh Chandimal; Niroshan Dickwella; Tillakaratne Dilshan; Rangana Herath; Shehan Jayasuriya; Chamara Kapugedera; Nuwan Kulasekara; Angelo Mathews; Thisara Perera; Sachithra Senanayake; Dasun Shanaka; Milinda Siriwardana and Jeffrey Vandersay.

Coach – Graham Ford

WEST INDIES – Darren Sammy (capt.); Samuel Badree; Sulieman Benn; Carlos Brathwaite; Dwayne Bravo; Johnson Charles; Andre Fletcher; Chris Gayle; Jason Holder; Ashley Nurse; Denesh Ramdin; Andre Russell; Marlon Samuels; Evin Lewis, and Jerome Taylor.

Coach – Phil Simmons

ZIMBABWE – Hamilton Masakadza (capt.); Tendai Chatara; Elton Chigumbura; Tendai Chisoro; Graeme Cremer; Luke Jongwe; Neville Madziva; Wellington Masakadza; PJ Moor; Richmond Mutumbami; Tinashe Panyangara; Sikandar Raza; Vusimuzi Sibanda; Malcolm Waller and Sean Williams.

Coach – Dav Whatmore

 

MATCH SCHEDULE — DATE, VENUE, TIMINGS

Group Stage

 

8th March 2016, Tuesday

Zimbabwe vs Hong Kong (3:00 PM)

Scotland vs Afghanistan (7:30 PM)

Venue: Nagpur

9th March 2016, Wednesday

Bangladesh vs Netherlands (3:00 PM)

Ireland vs Oman (7:30 PM)

Venue: Dharamsala

 

10th March 2016, Thursday

Scotland vs Zimbabwe (3:00 PM)

Hong Kong vs Afghanistan (7:30 PM)

Venue: Nagpur

 

11th March 2016, Friday

Netherlands vs Oman (3:00 PM)

Bangladesh vs Ireland (7:30 PM)

Venue: Dharamsala

 

12th March 2016, Saturday

Zimbabwe vs Afghanistan (3:00 PM)

Scotland vs Hong Kong (7:30 PM)

Venue: Nagpur

13th March 2016, Sunday

Ireland vs Netherlands (3:00 PM)

Bangladesh VS Oman (7:30 PM)

Venue: Dharamsala

Super 10

15th March 2016, Tuesday

New Zealand vs India (7:30 PM)

Venue: Nagpur

 

16th March 2016, Wednesday

West Indies vs England (3:00 PM)

Venue: Mumbai

Pakistan vs Bangladesh (7:30 PM)

Venue: Kolkata

17th March 2016, Thursday

Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan (19:30 PM)

Venue: Kolkata

 

18th March 2016, Friday

Australia vs New Zealand (3:00 PM)

Venue: Dharamsala

South Africa vs England (7:30 PM)

Venue: Mumbai

19th March 2016, Saturday

India vs Pakistan (7:30 PM)

Venue: Kolkata

20th March 2016, Sunday

South Africa vs Afghanistan (3:00 PM)

Venue: Mumbai

Sri Lanka vs West Indies (7:30 PM)

Venue: Bengaluru

 

21st March 2016, Monday

Australia VS Bangladesh (7:30 PM)

Venue: Bengaluru

22nd March 2016, Tuesday

New Zealand vs Pakistan (7:30 PM)

Venue: Mohali

23rd March 2016, Wednesday

England vs Afghanistan (3:00 PM)

Venue: New Delhi

India vs Bangladesh (7:30 PM)

Venue: Bengaluru

25th March 2016, Friday

Pakistan vs Australia (3:00 PM)

Venue: Mohali

South Africa vs West Indies (7:30 PM)

Venue: Nagpur

26th March 2016, Saturday

Bangladesh vs New Zealand (3:00 PM)

Venue: Kolkata

England vs Sri Lanka (7:30 PM)

Venue: New Delhi

27th March 2016, Sunday

India vs Australia (3:00 PM)

Venue: Mohali

Afghanistan vs West Indies (7:30 PM)

Venue: Nagpur

28th March 2016, Monday

South Africa vs Sri Lanka (7:30 PM)

Venue: New Delhi

 

30th March 2016, Wednesday

Semi Final 1 (7:30 PM)

Venue: New Delhi

31st March 2016, Thursday

Semi Final 2 (7:30 PM)

Venue: Mumbai

3rd April 2016, Sunday

Final

7:30 PM

Venue: Kolkata