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 2016Host- Bangladesh
Teams: Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, UAE
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