The biggest cricket tournament of 2016 year, ICC World Twenty20 Championship is beginning from 8 March whose final will be played on 3 April in Kolkata. 16 cricket playing nations are participating in the 6th edition of T20 world cup in which Sri Lanka cricket team is the title reigning champion.
First Stage Groups
Group A: Bangladesh, Ireland, Netherlands, Oman
Group B: Zimbabwe, Hong Kong, Afghanistan, Scotland
Super-10 Groups
Group 1: Sri Lanka, West Indies, England, South Africa, TBC
Group 2: India, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, TBC
Related: ICC World T20 Group Stage full info
Schedule
8th March 2016, Tuesday
Zimbabwe VS Hong Kong- Nagpur [15:00 IST (09:30 GMT)]
Scotland Vs Afganisthan – Nagpur [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
9th March 2016, Wednesday
Bangladesh VS Netherlands [15:00 IST (09:30 GMT)]
Ireland VS Oman: Dharamsala [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
10th March 2016, Thursday
Scotland VS Zimbabwe – Nagpur [15:00 IST (09:30 GMT)]
Hong Kong VS Afganisthan – Nagpur [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
11th March 2016, Friday
Netherlands VS Oman- Dharamsala [15:00 IST (09:30 GMT)]
Bangladesh VS Ireland- Dharamsala [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
12th March 2016, Saturday
Zimbabwe VS Afganisthan- Nagpur [15:00 IST (09:30 GMT)]
Scotland VS Hong Kong- Nagpur [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
13th March 2016, Sunday
Ireland VS Netherlands – Dharamsala [15:00 IST (09:30 GMT)]
Bangladesh VS Oman – Dharamsala [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
15th March 2016, Tuesday
New Zealand VS India- Nagpur [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
16th March 2016, Wednesday
West Indies VS England- Mumbai [15:00 IST (09:30 GMT)]
Pakistan VS Q1A- Kolkata [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
17th March 2016, Thursday
Sri Lanka VS Q1B- Kolkata [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
18th March 2016, Friday
Australia VS New Zealand- Dharamsala [15:00 IST (09:30 GMT)]
South Africa VS England- Mumbai [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
19th March 2016, Saturday
India VS Pakistan- Dharamsala [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
20th March 2016, Sunday
South Africa VS Q1B- Mumbai [15:00 IST (09:30 GMT)]
Sri Lanka VS West Indies- Bengaluru [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
21th March 2016, Monday
Australia VS Q1A- Bengaluru [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
22th March 2016, Tuesday
New Zealand VS Pakistan- Mohali [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
23th March 2016, Wednesday
England VS Q1B- New Delhi [15:00 IST (09:30 GMT)]
India VS Q1A- Bengaluru [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
25th March 2016, Friday
Pakistan VS Australia- Mohali [15:00 IST (09:30 GMT)]
South Africa VS West Indies- Nagpur [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
26th March 2016, Saturday
Q1A Vs New Zealand- Kolkata [15:00 IST (09:30 GMT)]
England VS Srilanka- New Delhi [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
27th March 2016, Sunday
India VS Australia- Mohali [15:00 IST (09:30 GMT)]
Q1B VS West Indies- Nagpur [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
28th March 2016, Monday
South Africa VS Srilanka- New Delhi [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
30th March 2016, Wednesday
Semi Final 1- New Delhi [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
31st March 2016, Thursday
Semi Final 2- Mumbai [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
3rd April 2016, Sunday
Final- Kolkata [19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)]
Squads
Australia
Steve Smith (c), David Warner, Shane Watson, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Faulkner, Ashton Agar, John Hastings, Josh Hazlewood, Usman Khawaja, Aaron Finch, Glenn Maxwell, Peter Nevill, Andrew Tye, Mitchell Marsh, Adam Zampa.
Sri Lanka
Lasith Malinga (c), Angelo Mathews, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Niroshan Dickwella, Nuwan Kulasekara, Shehan Jayasuriya, Milinda Siriwardana, Dasun Shanaka, Chamara Kapugedera, Dinesh Chandimal, Thisara Perera, Sachithra Senanayake, Dushmantha Chameera, Rangana Herath, Jeffrey Vandersay.
Pakistan
Shahid Afridi (c), Mohammed Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Khalid Latif, Sarfraz Ahmed, Imad Wasim, Anwar Ali, Sharjeel Khan, Mohammad Irfan, Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Nawaz, Khurram Manzoor, Mohammad Sami.
Bangladesh
Mashrafe Mortaza (c), Tamim Iqbal, Shakib Al Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Mohammad Mithun, Mushfiqur Rahim, Nurul Hasan, Sabbir Rahman, Mahmudullah Riyad, Mustafizur Rahman, Arafat Sunny, Al-Amin Hossain, Nasir Hossain, Taskin Ahmed and Abu Hider.
India
MS Dhoni (c), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Ashish Nehra, Ajinkya Rahane, Harbhajan Singh, Mohammed Shami, Pawan Negi.
South Africa
Faf Du Plessis (c), AB de Villiers, Kyle Abbott, JP Duminy, Farhaan Behardien, Dale Steyn, Quinton de Kock, Imran Tahir, David Miller, Hashim Amla, Aaron Phangiso, Kagiso Rabada, Rilee Rossouw, Chris Morris, David Wiese.
New Zealand
Kane Williamson (c), Grant Elliott, Trent Boult, Martin Guptill, Adam Milne, Mitchell McClenaghan, Corey Anderson, Nathan McCullum, Henry Nicholls, Colin Munro, Luke Ronchi, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor.
West Indies
Darren Sammy (c), Chris Gayle, Sulieman Benn, Dwayne Bravo, Andre Fletcher, Jerome Taylor, Samuel Badree, Johnson Charles, Andre Russell, Marlon Samuels, Denesh Ramdin, Jason Holder, Ashley Nurse and Carlos Brathwaite.
England
Eoin Morgan (c), Alex Hales, Joe Root, Jos Buttler, Reece Topley, James Vince, Ben Stokes, Moeen Ali, Adil Rashid, David Willey, Liam Plunkett, Jason Roy, Chris Jordan, Sam Billings, Liam Dawson.
Zimbabwe
Hamilton Masakadza (c), Sean Williams, Tendai Chatara, Wellington Masakadza, Chamu Chibhabha, Tinashe Panyangara, Donald Tiripano, Peter Moor, Elton Chigumbura, Sikandar Raza, Richmond Mutumbami, Tendai Chisoro, Tawanda Mupariwa, Malcolm Waller and Vusi Sibanda.
Netherlands
Peter Borren (c), 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, Tom Cooper.
Scotland
Preston Mommsen (c), Kyle Coetzer, Matt Machan, Gavin Main, Alasdair Evans, Con de Lange, Michael Leask, Mark Watt, George Munsey, Josh Davey, Calum MacLeod, Richie Berrington, Matthew Cross, Safyaan Sharif and Rob Taylor.
Afghanistan
Asghar Stanikzai (c), Noor Ali Zadran, Shahzad Mohammadi, Usman Ghani, Mohammad Nabi, Karim Sadiq, Shafiqullah Shafaq, Rashid Arman, Hamza Hotak, Dawlat Zadran, Shapoor Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Samiullah Shenwari, Najibullah Zadran, Hamid Hassan, Mirwais Ashraf, Rokhan Barakzai, Najib Taraki, and Yamin Ahmadzai.
Ireland
William Porterfield (c), Andrew Balbirnie, Tim Murtagh, George Dockrell, Andy McBrine, Kevin O’Brien, Niall O’Brien, Andrew Poynter, Stuart Poynter, Max Sorensen, Boyd Rankin, Gary Wilson, Paul Stirling, Stuart Thompson, Craig Young.
Oman
Sultan Ahmed (c), 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.
Hong Kong
Tanwir Afzal (c), Mark Chapman, Nadeem Ahmed, Aizaz Khan, James Atkinson, Waqas Barkat, Christopher Carter, Haseeb Amjad, Nizakat Khan, Kinchit Shah, Waqas Khan, Tanwir Ahmed, Ryan Campbell, Anshuman Rath, Babar Hayat.