ICC World T20 2016

[Samid]

"The 2016 ICC World Twenty20 will be the sixth ICC World Twenty20 tournament and is scheduled to be held in India from 8 March to 3 April. The International Cricket Council, after its first meeting in Dubai on 28 January 2015, awarded India the rights to host the World Twenty20 championship in 2016. Sri Lanka are the defending champions.

Bengaluru, Chennai, Dharamshala, Mohali, Mumbai, Nagpur and New Delhi will be the venues along with Kolkata, which will also host the final of the event.

Chennai would not host a match due to legal issues regarding the construction of 3 stands at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium. VCA Stadium, Nagpur will host all Group B games whereas, HPCA Stadium, Dharamsala will host all Group A matches."

Group A: Bangladesh, Netherlands, Ireland, Oman
Group B: Scotland, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Hong Kong

Group 1: Sri Lanka, South Africa, West Indies, England, Winner Group B
Group 2: India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Australia, Winner Group A

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[Samid]

Confirmed squads

Afghanistan: Asghar Stanikzai (capt), Amir Hamza, Dawlat Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Hamid Hassan, Karim Sadiq, Mohammad Nabi, Mohammad Shahzad (wk), Najibullah Zadran, Noor Ali Zadran, Rashid Khan, Samiullah Shenwari, Shafiqullah, Shapoor Zadran, Usman Ghani, Mirwais Ashraf, Najeeb Tarakai, Rokhan Barakzai, Yamin Ahmadzai

Australia: Steve Smith (capt), David Warner, Ashton Agar, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Aaron Finch, John Hastings, Josh Hazlewood, James Faulkner, Usman Khawaja, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Peter Nevill (wk), Andrew Tye, Shane Watson, Adam Zampa

Bangladesh: Mashrafe Mortaza (capt), Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Mohammad Mithun, Mahmudullah, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Soumya Sarkar, Sabbir Rahman, Nasir Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Al-Amin Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Arafat Sunny, Abu Hider, Nurul Hasan

England: Eoin Morgan (capt), Moeen Ali, Sam Billings (wk), Jos Buttler (wk), Liam Dawson, Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, James Vince, David Willey

Hong Kong: Tanwir Afzal (capt), Aizaz Khan, Anshy Rath, Jamie Atkinson (wk), Babar Hayat, Ryan Campbell, Christopher Carter (wk), Mark Chapman, Haseeb Amjad, Nadeem Ahmed, Nizakat Khan, Kinchit Shah, Tanveer Ahmed, Waqas Barkat, Waqas Khan

India: MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Ashish Nehra, Harbhajan Singh, Mohammed Shami, Pawan Negi

Ireland: Will Porterfield (capt), Andrew Balbirnie (wk), George Dockrell, Andy McBrine, Tim Murtagh, Kevin O’Brien, Niall O’Brien, Andrew Poynter, Stuart Poynter, Boyd Rankin, Max Sorensen, Paul Stirling, Stuart Thompson, Gary Wilson, Craig Young.

Netherlands: Wesley Barresi (capt), Logan van Beek, Peter Borren, 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, Sikander Zulfiqar

New Zealand: Kane Williamson (capt), Martin Guptill, Ross Taylor, Henry Nicholls, Grant Elliott, Corey Anderson, Colin Munro, Luke Ronchi (wk), Mitchell Santner, Nathan McCullum, Tim Southee, Trent Boult, Mitchell McClenaghan, Adam Milne, Ish Sodhi

Oman: Sultan Ahmed (Capt & wk), Aamir Kaleem, Syed Amir Ali, Munis Ansari, Jatinder Singh, Ajay Lalcheta, Mehran Khan, Rajesh Ranpura, Sufyan Mehmood, Vaibhav Wategaonkar, Zeeshan Ahmad Siddiqui, Zeeshan Maqsood, Bilal Khan, Adnan Ilyas, Aaqib Ilyas

Pakistan: Shahid Afridi (capt), Mohammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Babar Azam, Iftikhar Ahmed, Imad Wasim, Anwar Ali, Mohammad Irfan, Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Nawaz, Khurram Manzoor, Rumman Raees

Scotland: Preston Mommsen (capt), Kyle Coetzer, Alasdair Evans, Calum MacLeod, Con de Lange, Gavin Main, George Munsey, Josh Davey, Mark Watt, Matt Machan, Matthew Cross, Michael Leask, Richie Berrington, Rob Taylor, Safyaan Sharif

South Africa: Faf du Plessis (capt), Kyle Abbott, Hashim Amla, Farhaan Behardien, Quinton de Kock (wk), AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Imran Tahir, David Miller, Chris Morris, Aaron Phangiso, Kagiso Rabada, Rilee Rossouw, Dale Steyn, David Wiese

Sri Lanka: Lasith Malinga (capt), Angelo Mathews, Dinesh Chandimal, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Niroshan Dickwella, Shehan Jayasuriya, Milinda Siriwardana, Dasun Shanaka, Chamara Kapugedera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Dushmantha Chameera, Thisara Perera, Sachithra Senanayake, Rangana Herath, Jeffrey Vandersay

West Indies: Darren Sammy (capt), Samuel Badree, Sulieman Benn, Darren Bravo, Dwayne Bravo, Andre Fletcher, Chris Gayle, Jason Holder, Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Andre Russell, Marlon Samuels, Lendl Simmons, Jerome Taylor

Zimbabwe: Hamilton Masakadza (capt), Sean Williams, Tendai Chatara, Wellington Masakadza, Tinashe Panyangara, Peter Moor, Elton Chigumbura, Sikandar Raza, Richmond Mutumbami (wk), Luke Jongwe, Tendai Chisoro, Neville Madziva, Malcolm Waller, Vusi Sibanda, Graeme Cremer; Donald Tiripano (stand-by)

 

[Skills]

Best thing to have ever happened to cricket. Great tournament.

 

[Norris]

Unusual format. Was this the same way for the previous edition ?

 

[Xaviesta]

Bloody hell, Australia are in India's group. That's one loss for AUS already.

 

[Skills]

Unusual format. Was this the same way for the previous edition ?

Last one was.

 

[Skills]

India or New Zealand win this one.

 

[Samid]

Deadline for submitting final squads is today. Gives PCB a bit of a headache because PSL has just got started.

 

[Samid]

India big favourites. Oman are at better odds than Leicester at the start of the season.

 

[Norris]

Probably will be MSDs last tourney in International T20

 

[ha_rooney]

India or NZ to win this IMO. England could be fun to watch the way they've been playing recently.

What date is the India-Pak game?

Deadline for submitting final squads is today. Gives PCB a bit of a headache because PSL has just got started.

Seen a few PSL games, it hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be. Some of the bowlers have performed well to date & hopefully will take some form with them into this.

 

[The Man Himself]

Too early to have thread for a tournament which is a more than month away for proper rounds

I like WT20 though, especially compared to IPL. Group 2 is very tough and last team it will have from qualifying will be from group A, so most likely Bangladesh

 

[Samid]

Seen a few PSL games, it hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be. Some of the bowlers have performed well to date & hopefully will take some form with them into this.

I would've preferred it if pitches were flatter and the batsmen got a proper chance to set big scores and chase big scores. Pakistan's biggest weakness is lacking the firepower and penetration in the top and middle order. At the moment the batsmen are only thinking about surviving and putting 140 on the board which kind of reflects the national team. We aren't seeing any batting talent because of the pitches being so bowling friendly, it's a real shame.

 

[Xaviesta]

Aaron Finch probably won't play in this competition. He would have been Australia's captain had he been fit, that honour will go Steve Smith.

 

[Samid]

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England will be fun to watch for once in a world event. Well technically they've always been comedy gold but this time I think they mean business. They've started taking limited overs cricket seriously since the WC. Got rid of the daft test players and built a team well suited for white ball cricket.

 

[Samid]

Australia: Steve Smith (capt), David Warner, Ashton Agar, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Aaron Finch, John Hastings, Josh Hazlewood, James Faulkner, Usman Khawaja, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Peter Nevill (wk), Andrew Tye, Shane Watson, Adam Zampa

Australia haven't won it before and I doubt they will do it here either. No Starc, no experienced spinner, don't fancy their bowling. Strong batting though.

 

[Xaviesta]

Can't see AUS winning this competition. Not getting excuses in early, but they've only played 7 twenty20 games since the last world twenty20 in 2014. India were mightily impressive in the hit and giggle series in Australia recently.

 

[Ayush_reddevil]

I have no idea how Aus came up with the squad, seems like the series loss to India caused some panic. Having said that I think it's impossible to rule any team with so much quality out in a format like t20.

 

[Norris]

@Samid, didn't you say the deadline was yesterday? How come PCB have yet to name their squad ? I just read they shortlisted 18 players.

 

[RedTiger]

India big favourites. Oman are at better odds than Leicester at the start of the season.

At least the bangers have a better chance than Zimbabwe

 

[Samid]

@Samid, didn't you say the deadline was yesterday? How come, PCB have yet to name their squad ? I just read they shortlisted 18 players.

I think they've sent in the squad to the ICC but have requested them not to reveal it just yet because it might affect player performances in the Pakistan Super League.

 

[Ayush_reddevil]

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Pakistan squad

 

[Samid]

Pakistan squad (same as tweeted above): Shahid Afridi (capt), Mohammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Babar Azam, Iftikhar Ahmed, Imad Wasim, Anwar Ali, Mohammad Irfan, Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Nawaz, Khurram Manzoor, Rumman Raees

England squad: Eoin Morgan (capt), Moeen Ali, Sam Billings (wk), Jos Buttler (wk), Liam Dawson, Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, James Vince, David Willey

 

[Akshay]

Sucks about the West Indies contract dispute, this being one of the few tournaments they have good showings in recently. Their administration is a shambles.

 

[Ayush_reddevil]

England have a really solid team, I would have put them as one of the favourites if they had picked KP.

 

[Samid]

England have a really solid team, I would have put them as one of the favourites if they had picked KP.

KP has ridiculous numbers in T20s and even more so in T20Is. Would've walked into any other international team.

They are probably lacking a bowler as well. Jordan is a nothing cricketer.

 

[prath92]

Dharamshala is a brilliant ground. High scoring for sure. Small ground and brilliant batting surface.

@zing will probably be glad Pawan Negi is in the squad

 

[Xaviesta]

What the hell happened to India yesterday? They played so well vs AUS in Australia (albeit a weakened AUS team) yet were dreadful vs Sri Lanka. Kholi can't be that important to India or is he?

 

[Skills]

Kholi can't be that important to India or is he?

See world t20 2014.

 

[Samid]

What the hell happened to India yesterday? They played so well vs AUS in Australia (albeit a weakened AUS team) yet were dreadful vs Sri Lanka. Kholi can't be that important to India or is he?

They played on a greener top than those we saw in the previous Ashes. Unfortunately we won't be seeing pitches like that in the WT20.

 

[NinjaFletch]

I was pretty confident before that squad announcement but theres a couple of really weird selections.

The battings ok, you could make a case for Luke Wright, but he's had a lot of chances in T20i's and never really sparkled. If Finn's actually going to be fit then thats fine, but if Jordan gets a game we're fecked. Really not sure about Dawson either, weird selection. I know he finished the season strong, but he's a real average cricketer and has no right being in an international team.

Roy, Hales, Root, Buttler, Morgan, Stokes, Ali, Rashid, Willey, Finn, Topley I'd guess, we're fecked with an injury to any bowler though.

 

[Xaviesta]

See world t20 2014.

Jeez. Highest run scorer in that tournament and player of the tournament in 2014, something i think he'll replicate in this years world twenty20.

 

[DOTA]

England will be fun to watch for once in a world event. Well technically they've always been comedy gold but this time I think they mean business. They've started taking limited overs cricket seriously since the WC. Got rid of the daft test players and built a team well suited for white ball cricket.

Not quite always! We have won this thing before, I'll have you know.

 

[Akshay]

Well the previous tournament's host has won the last three times, so is it finally Bangladesh's time to shine?

 

[Krovv]

Well the previous tournament's host has won the last three times, so is it finally Bangladesh's time to shine?

But... the World Cup is in India?

 

[Akshay]

But... the World Cup is in India?

No, as in, England won the tournament that followed the one they hosted, as did West Indies, as did Sri Lanka. Bangladesh were the host last time around.

 

[Norris]

Might I ask why Usman Khawaja is being very highly considered by many of the ex players ? Is there something about him that I am missing ?

 

[Skills]

Jeez. Highest run scorer in that tournament and player of the tournament in 2014, something i think he'll replicate in this years world twenty20.

Big ask to match that tbh. He scored a half century in all but the first game and even there he top scored for India. Singlehandedly chased the South African score in the semi final, and would've won the final for India too if Yuvraj didn't feck it up and keep him off strike for the last 4 overs.

 

[DOTA]

Might I ask why Usman Khawaja is being very highly considered by many of the ex players ? Is there something about him that I am missing ?

Was very good in the Big Bash.

 

[Krovv]

No, as in, England won the tournament that followed the one they hosted, as did West Indies, as did Sri Lanka. Bangladesh were the host last time around.

Ah like that. If it was a better team I'd give them a chance. But Bangladesh will need too much luck to win the whole thing.