2016 ICC World Twenty 20 in India - Qualifier Games March 8 to 13,2016

 The 2016 ICC World Twenty20 will be the sixth ICC World Twenty20 tournament and is scheduled to be held in India from March 8 to April 3, 2016.

The ICC, after its first meeting in Dubai on January 28, 2015, awarded India the rights to host the World Twenty20 championship in 2016. Sri Lanka are the defending champions.

Previous Winners

ICC introduced the championship in 2007. India became the first champion followed by Pakistan (2009), England (2010), West Indies (2012) and Sri Lanka (2014)

Eight teams, including two Test nations, are set to sweat from March 8 to 13,2016 for two Super-10 spots in the sixth T20 World Cup

Top eight teams in the ICC T20I Rankings as of the cut-off date April 30, 2014, get direct entry to the Super-10 stage

Two teams from the Qualifiers – winners of Group A and winners of Group B

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

Since Bangladesh (10th) and Zimbabwe (13th) did not feature in that bracket at that stage, they are required to go through the qualifying stage.  

Bangladesh and Zimbabwe entered as Full ICC Members, while the other six (Associate Nations) were selected from the 14-team ICC Qualifiers held in 2015, which saw Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands, Afghanistan, Hong Kong and Oman making it to the qualifiers for the 2016 WT20.

FIXTURES

March 8: Zimbabwe vs Hong Kong, Nagpur - 3 p.m.; Scotland vs Afghanistan, Nagpur - 7:30 p.m.
March 9: Bangladesh vs Netherlands, Dharamsala - 3 p.m.; Ireland vs Oman, Dharamsala - 7:30 p.m.
March 10: Scotland vs Zimbabwe, Nagpur - 3 p.m.; Hong Kong vs Afghanistan, Nagpur - 7:30 p.m.
March 11: Netherlands vs Oman, Dharamsala - 3 p.m.; Bangladesh vs Ireland, Dharamsala - 7:30 p.m.
March 12: Zimbabwe vs Afghanistan, Nagpur - 3 p.m.; Scotland vs Hong Kong, Nagpur - 7:30 p.m.
March 13: Netherlands vs Ireland, Dharamsala - 3 p.m.; Bangladesh vs Oman, Dharamsala - 7:30

Squads

Afghanistan

Asghar Stanikzai (c), Mohammad Shahzad (vc), Noor Ali Zadran, Usman Ghani, Mohammad Nabi, Karim Sadiq, Shafiqullah, Rashid Khan, Amir Hamza, Dawlat Zadran, Shapoor Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Samiullah Shenwari, Najibullah Zadran, Hamid Hassan

Bangladesh

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

Hong Kong

Tanwir Afzal (c), Mark Chapman (vc), Haseeb Amjad, Nadeem Ahmed, James Atkinson, Tanwir Ahmed, Ryan Campbell, Waqas Barkat, Babar Hayat, Christopher Carter, Aizaz Khan, Nizakat Khan, Anshuman Rath, Waqas Khan, Kinchit Shah

Ireland

William Porterfield (c), Andy Balbirnie, Gary Wilson, George Dockrell, Andy McBrine, Tim Murtagh, Kevin O'Brien, Niall O'Brien, Andrew Poynter, Stuart Poynter, Boyd Rankin, Max Sorensen, Paul Stirling, Stuart Thompson, Craig Young

Netherlands

Peter Borren (c), Wesley Barresi, Logan van Beek, Mudassar Bukhari, Ben Cooper, Tom 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

Oman

Sultan Ahmed (c), Aamir Kaleem (vc), 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

Scotland

Preston Mommsen (c), Kyle Coetzer (vc), 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

Zimbabwe

Hamilton Masakadza (c), Sean Williams, Tendai Chatara, Wellington Masakadza, Tinashe Panyangara, Peter Moor, Elton Chigumbura, Sikandar Raza Butt, Richmond Mutumbami, Chamu Chibhabha, Tendai Chisoro, Tawanda Mupariwa, Malcolm Waller, Vusumuzi Sibanda, Donald Tiripano