International Cricket Council’s sixth edition of World Twenty20 champions is starting today on Tuesday and will conclude on 3rd April with a final match at Kolkata. 16 countries are participating in the competition and the timings of matches vary according to the region. Hence here we have brought the schedule of ICC World T20 2016 matches in IST (Indian Standard Timings), GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) and BST (British Summer Time) time format.
16 teams are divided into 4 groups and two rounds will be played in the tournament. In he first round of WT20, 8 teams will compete against each other and two of them will go to the second stage of championship which is Super-10.
First round groups
Group A: Bangladesh, Oman, Ireland, Netherlands
Group B: Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Scotland
Super-10 round groups
Group 1: Sri Lanka, South Africa, West Indies, England, TBC
Group 2: India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Australia, TBC
Related: ICC World Twenty20 2016 TV channels
2016 world t20 schedule
| Date | Fixture | Venue | Timings | ||
| IST | GMT | BST | |||
| 8 March | Zimbabwe vs Hong Kong | Nagpur | 15:00 | 9:30 | 10:30 |
| Scotland vs Afghanistan | Nagpur | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 | |
| 9 March | Bangladesh vs Netherlands | Dharamsala | 15:00 | 9:30 | 10:30 |
| Ireland vs Oman | Dharamsala | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 | |
| 10 March | Scotland vs Zimbabwe | Nagpur | 15:00 | 9:30 | 10:30 |
| Hong Kong vs Afghanistan | Nagpur | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 | |
| 11 March | Netherlands vs Oman | Dharamsala | 15:00 | 9:30 | 10:30 |
| Bangladesh vs Ireland | Dharamsala | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 | |
| 12 March | Zimbabwe vs Afghanistan | Nagpur | 15:00 | 9:30 | 10:30 |
| Scotland vs Hong Kong | Nagpur | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 | |
| 13 March | Netherlands vs Ireland | Dharamsala | 15:00 | 9:30 | 10:30 |
| Bangladesh vs Oman | Dharamsala | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 | |
Super 10 Stage |
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| 15 March | India vs New Zealand | Nagpur | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 |
| 16 March | West Indies vs England | Mumbai | 15:00 | 9:30 | 10:30 |
| Pakistan vs Q1A | Kolkata | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 | |
| 17 March | Sri Lanka vs Q1B | Kolkata | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 |
| 18 March | Australia vs New Zealand | Dharamsala | 15:00 | 9:30 | 10:30 |
| South Africa vs England | Mumbai | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 | |
| 19 March | India vs Pakistan | Dharamsala | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 |
| 20 March | South Africa vs Q1B | Mumbai | 15:00 | 9:30 | 10:30 |
| Sri Lanka vs West Indies | Bengaluru | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 | |
| 21 March | Australia vs Q1A | Bengaluru | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 |
| 22 March | New Zealand vs Pakistan | Mohali | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 |
| 23 March | England vs Q1B | New Delhi | 15:00 | 9:30 | 10:30 |
| India vs Q1A | Bengaluru | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 | |
| 25 March | Pakistan vs Australia | Mohali | 15:00 | 9:30 | 10:30 |
| South Africa vs West Indies | Nagpur | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 | |
| 26 March | New Zealand vs Q1A | Kolkata | 15:00 | 9:30 | 10:30 |
| England vs Sri Lanka | New Delhi | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 | |
| 27 March | Q1B vs West Indies | Nagpur | 15:00 | 9:30 | 10:30 |
| India vs Australia | Mohali | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 | |
| 28 March | South Africa vs Sri Lanka | New Delhi | 19:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 |
| 30 March | Semi-Final 1st | New Delhi | 19:00 | 13:30 | 14:30 |
| 31 March | Semi-Final 2nd | Mumbai | 19:00 | 13:30 | 14:30 |
| 3 April | Final | Kolkata | 19:00 | 13:30 | 14:30 |