Asia Cup 2016 Full List of Squads in Bangladesh:

For the first time history Asia Cup Twenty20 2016 the format has been changed from 50 overs to T20. Srilanka is depending champions of this tournament.All squads of this tournament have been announced. Here is the teams who will play in this tournament along there Squads.

Pakistan: Shahid Afridi (Captain), Mohammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Sarfraz Ahmed (wicketkeeper), Immad Wasim, Anwer Ali, Babar Azam, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Aamir, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Irfan, Rumman Raees, Wahab Riaz, Khurram Manzoor.

Bangladesh: Mashrafe Mortaza (Captain), Shakib Al Hasan, Imrul Kayes, Mohammad Mithun, Mahmudullah, Mushfiqur Rahim (wicketkeeper), Soumya Sarkar, Sabbir Rahman, Nasir Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Al-Amin Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Arafat Sunny, Abu Hider, Nurul Hasan.

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



Sri Lanka: Lasith Malinga (Captain), Angelo Mathews (vice-capt), 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.


United Arab Emirates: Amjad Javed (Captain), Mohammad Kaleem, Rohan Mustafa, Shaiman Anwar, Mohammad Shahzad, Swapnil Patil (vice-captain and wicketkeeper), Usman Mushtaq, Ahmed Raza, Zaheer Maqsood, Mohammad Naveed, Farhan Ahmed, Qadeer Ahmed, Mohammad Usman, Fahad Tariq, Saqlain Haider.


Afghanistan: Asghar Stanikzai (Captain), Noor Ali Zadran, Mohammad Shahzad (wicketkeeper), Usman Ghani, Mohammad Nabi, Karim Sadiq, Shafiqullah, Rashid Khan, Amir Hamza, Dawlat Zadran, Shapoor Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Samiullah Shenwari, Najibullah Zadran, Yamin Ahmadzai.

Hong Kong: Tanwir Afzal (Captain), Aizaz Khan, Anshy Rath, Babar Hayat, Christopher Carter (wicketkeeper), Mark Chapman, Haseeb Amjad, Adil Mehmood, Nadeem Ahmed, Nizakat Khan, Kinchit Shah, Ninad Shah, Tanveer Ahmed, Waqas Barkat, Waqas Khan.

Oman: Sultan Ahmed (Captain & wk), Aamir Kaleem (vice-captain), Aaqib Sulehri, Adnan Ilyas, Amir Ali, Munis Ansari, Bilal Khan, Jatinder Singh, Ajay Lalcheta, Mehran Khan, Rajeshkumar Ranpura, Sufyan Mehmood, Vaibhav Wategaonkar, Zeeshan Maqsood, Zeeshan Siddiqui.

Asia Cup 2016 Cricket Schedule, t20 Format, Venues Announced

Asia Cup  2016 Cricket will be hosted in Bangladesh in t20 format. Full Match List is described below. Asia Cup is going to play in t20 format for the first time. The tournament will be played from 24 Feb 2016 to 6 March 2016. This is the 13th Asia Cup Cricket and 5th time it will be hosted by Bangladesh. Teams who are playing in this T20 Competition are India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Host.

Along these 4 regular teams, there is 1 Associate member which will be found by playing a qualifier to be played from 19th to 22nd Feb 2016.  From Next year, Asia Cup Cricket will be played in the alternate format. ICC announced that it will be played in rotation basis of 50 over competition or in T20 format. Next Asia cup Cricket is played in 2018. First Asia cup is played in 1984 in UAE and India is the 1st Champion. Sri Lanka and India both have won this cup 5 times. Pakistan has won it 2 times in 2000 and 2012 both are hosted in Bangladesh.

UAE won all the 3 matches played in qualifier round. They joined the regular 4 teams by beating Oman by 71 runs in final Qualifier. They finished 1st in the table and now they start the main draw against Sri Lanka on 25th Feb.

Asia Cup will alternate between ODI and T20 formats:

Asia cup is switched to t20 format due to the t20 world cup 2016 just after 7 days of it. In 2018, it will again be played in 50 over format as in 2019 Cricket world cup to be played in England and revert to T20 format as in 2020 Australia will host the T20 World Cup.

Asia Cup T20 2016 – Schedule & Dates:

2016 Twenty20 Asia Cup Cricket will be hosted by Bangladesh for the 3rd time in a row from 24th February 2016 to 06 march 2016.

Asia Cup 2016 Schedule:

Dates: 24 Feb 2016 to 6th March 2016
Host- Bangladesh
Teams: Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, UAE

ICC World Twenty20 2016

 The ICC World Twenty20 2016 will be the sixth ICC World Twenty20 tournament and is scheduled to be held in India from 8th March and will continue till 3rd April. India will host ICC World Twenty20 2016 for the first  time.There are total 16 teams who will take part in this tournament. Sri Lanka will play as depending champions. The total 16 cricket teams are participating in this Twenty20 tournament and total 35 matches will be played.As at the previous 2014 edition, the 2016 World Twenty20 will feature sixteen teams. Ten teams qualified automatically through their status as full members of the International Cricket Council named India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, West Indies, Pakistan, Bangladesh, England, New Zealand, Australia, Zimbabwe, while another six qualified through the 2015 World Twenty20 Qualifier.The qualifying teams are Scotland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Afghanistan, Hong Kong and Oman. Oman is playing the tournament for the first time.
The Indian cricket board announced the name of the cities which will be hosting the matches. Seven Indian cities will host matches at the tournament, Bengaluru , Chennai, Mumbai, Nagpur , New Delhi, Mohali, Dharamshala and Kolkata. Kolkata will also host the final of the even at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
International Cricket Council(ICC) has announced the official sale of tickets for ICC World T20 2016 India beginning from 8th March. Tickets for wt20 can be purchased online from 24 February onwards and this is the first phase of tickets sale in which fans can buy tickets for all group matches of women’s and men’s fixtures.You can buy tickets only from bookmyshow.

Asia Cup 2016 Cricket T20

Asia cup 2016 is starting from today and the Final match will be played on March 6, 2016. This tournament is shifted from ODI format to T20 format for the first time since 1984 taking in account World Cup T20.
Sri Lanka is the defending champions. They won 2014 Asia Cup against Pakistan by 5 wickets in Bangladesh. Again 2018 Asia cup will be reverted back to ODI format to prepare for 2019 World Cup. For 2020 T20 World Cup this will again switch back to T20 format.
In the opening Match of the Asia Cup 2016, India will face Bangladesh in the Sher e Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka.
This opening match gives the perfect platform for the both teams to prepare themselves for Upcoming Matches.

Asia Cup

Asia is a continent where there is enough number of international teams to organize a tournament.

Asia Cup was first start in 1983 by Asian Cricket Council (ACC) to promote Cricket.They decided to organize this tournament after every two years. 

The very first tournament was held in 1984 in Sharjah.Three teams( India , Pakistan and Sri Lanka) took part in this tournament. All previous Asia cups was of ODI formats except the two cups held in 1998 and 2001 which were test match.

Now for the first time Asia Cup 2016 is Scheduled in Twenty 20 format.