2014 ICC World T20 16th March official thread
Discussion
So, the T20 world cup is back. Will the West Indies be able to defend their trophy, they've won the recent T20 series against England.
England are without Joe Root, who has been ruled out with a broken thumb.
First game is with hosts Bangladesh facing the Afghans
Also in this T20 tournament, Honk Kong, UAE & Nepal will be taking part.
Lets see if the Sri Lankans lose FIVE finals in a row! (07 world cup, 09 T20 world cup, 2011 world cup and 2012 T20 world cup)
England are without Joe Root, who has been ruled out with a broken thumb.
First game is with hosts Bangladesh facing the Afghans
Also in this T20 tournament, Honk Kong, UAE & Nepal will be taking part.
Lets see if the Sri Lankans lose FIVE finals in a row! (07 world cup, 09 T20 world cup, 2011 world cup and 2012 T20 world cup)
Squads;
AFGHANISTAN:
Asghar Stanikzai, Dawlat Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Hamid Hassan, Hamza Hotak, Karim Sadiq, Mirwais Ashraf, Mohammad Nabi (capt), Mohammad Shahzad (wk), Najibullah Taraki, Najibullah Zadran, Nawroz Mangal, Samiullah Shenwari, Shafiqullah, Shapoor Zadran.
AUSTRALIA:
George Bailey (capt), Dan Christian, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Mitchell Johnson, Brad Haddin (wk), Brad Hodge, Brad Hogg, Glenn Maxwell, James Muirhead, Mitchell Starc, David Warner, Shane Watson, Cameron White.
BANGLADESH:
Abdur Razzak, Al-Amin Hossain, Anamul Haque (wk), Farhad Reza, Mahmudullah, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mominul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim (capt & wk), Nasir Hossain, Rubel Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Shakib Al Hasan, Shamsur Rahman, Sohag Gazi, Tamim Iqbal.
ENGLAND:
Moeen Ali, *Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad (captain), Jos Buttler (wk), Jade Dernbach, Alex Hales, Chris Jordan, Michael Lumb, Eoin Morgan (vice-capt), Stephen Parry, Ben Stokes, James Tredwell, Luke Wright.
Tanwir Afzal, Irfan Ahmed, Nadeem Ahmed, Najeeb Amar, Haseeb Amjad, Jamie Atkinson (capt & wk), Waqas Barkat (vice-capt), Mark Chapman, Munir Dar, Babar Hayat, Aizaz Khan, Nizakat Khan, Roy Lamsam, Ehsan Nawaz, Kinchit Shah.
INDIA:
Varun Aaron, Ravichandran Ashwin, Stuart Binny, Shikhar Dhawan, Mahendra Dhoni (capt & wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Virat Kohli, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Amit Mishra, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Mohammed Shami, Mohit Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh.
IRELAND:
Alex Cusack, George Dockrell, Ed Joyce, Andrew McBrine, Tim Murtagh, Kevin O'Brien, Niall O'Brien (wk), William Porterfield (capt), Andrew Poynter, James Shannon, Max Sorensen, Paul Stirling, Stuart Thompson, Gary Wilson (wk), Craig Young.
NEPAL:
Pradeep Airee, Prithu Baskota, Binod Bhandari, Naresh Budhaayer, Shakti Gauchan, Sompal Kami, Avinash Karn, Paras Khadka (capt), Subash Khakurel (wk), Gyanendra Malla, Jitendra Mukhiya, Sagar Pun, Basant Regmi, Sharad Vesawkar, Rahul Vishwakarma.
NETHERLANDS:
Wesley Barresi (wk), Peter Borren (capt), Mudassar Bukhari, Ben Cooper, Tim Gruijters, Tom Heggelman, Vivian Kingma, Ahsan Malik, Stephan Myburgh, Michael Rippon, Pieter Seelaar, Michael Swart, Eric Szwarczynski, Logan van Beek, Timm van der Gugten.
NEW ZEALAND:
Corey Anderson, Trent Boult, Anton Devcich, Martin Guptill, Ronnie Hira, Mitchell McClenaghan, Brendon McCullum (capt), Nathan McCullum, Adam Milne, Colin Munro, Jimmy Neesham, Luke Ronchi (wk), Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, Kane Williamson.
Pakistan:
Ahmed Shehzad, Bilawal Bhatti, Junaid Khan, Kamran Akmal (wk), Mohammad Hafeez (capt), Mohammad Talha, Saeed Ajmal, Shahid Afridi, Sharjeel Khan, Shoaib Malik, Sohaib Maqsood, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Akmal (wk), Umar Gul, Zulfiqar Babar.
SOUTH AFRICA:
Hashim Amla, Farhaan Behardien, Quinton de Kock (wk), AB de Villiers (wk), Faf du Plessis (capt), JP Duminy, Beuran Hendricks, David Miller, Albie Morkel, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Aaron Phangiso, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir, Lonwabo Tsotsobe.
SRI LANKA:
Dinesh Chandimal (capt & wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Rangana Herath, Mahela Jayawardene, Nuwan Kulasekara, Suranga Lakmal, Lasith Malinga (vice-capt), Angelo Mathews, Ajantha Mendis, Kusal Perera, Thisara Perera, Seekuge Prasanna, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Sachithra Senanayake, Lahiru Thirimanne.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES:
Ahmed Raza, Amjad Ali (wk), Amjad Javed, Asadullah Shareef, Faizan Asif, Kamran Shahzad, Khurram Khan (capt), Manjula Guruge, Moaaz Qazi, Rohan Mustafa, Rohit Singh, Shadeep Silva, Shaiman Anwar, Swapnil Patil, Vikrant Shetty.
WEST INDIES:
Samuel Badree, Dwayne Bravo, Johnson Charles (wk), Sheldon Cottrell, Andre Fletcher (wk), Chris Gayle, Sunil Narine, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Ravi Rampaul, Andre Russell, Darren Sammy (capt), Marlon Samuels, Krishmar Santokie, Lendl Simmons, Dwayne Smith.
ZIMBABWE:
Tendai Chatara, Elton Chigumbura, Tafadzwa Kamungozi, Timycen Maruma, Hamilton Masakadza, Shingi Masakadza, Natsai M'shangwe, Tinashe Panyangara, Sikandar Raza, Vusi Sibanda, Brendan Taylor (capt & wk)), Prosper Utseya, Brian Vitori, Malcolm Waller, Sean Williams.
AFGHANISTAN:
Asghar Stanikzai, Dawlat Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Hamid Hassan, Hamza Hotak, Karim Sadiq, Mirwais Ashraf, Mohammad Nabi (capt), Mohammad Shahzad (wk), Najibullah Taraki, Najibullah Zadran, Nawroz Mangal, Samiullah Shenwari, Shafiqullah, Shapoor Zadran.
AUSTRALIA:
George Bailey (capt), Dan Christian, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Mitchell Johnson, Brad Haddin (wk), Brad Hodge, Brad Hogg, Glenn Maxwell, James Muirhead, Mitchell Starc, David Warner, Shane Watson, Cameron White.
BANGLADESH:
Abdur Razzak, Al-Amin Hossain, Anamul Haque (wk), Farhad Reza, Mahmudullah, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mominul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim (capt & wk), Nasir Hossain, Rubel Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Shakib Al Hasan, Shamsur Rahman, Sohag Gazi, Tamim Iqbal.
ENGLAND:
Moeen Ali, *Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad (captain), Jos Buttler (wk), Jade Dernbach, Alex Hales, Chris Jordan, Michael Lumb, Eoin Morgan (vice-capt), Stephen Parry, Ben Stokes, James Tredwell, Luke Wright.
- replaced the injured Joe Root on 10 March
Tanwir Afzal, Irfan Ahmed, Nadeem Ahmed, Najeeb Amar, Haseeb Amjad, Jamie Atkinson (capt & wk), Waqas Barkat (vice-capt), Mark Chapman, Munir Dar, Babar Hayat, Aizaz Khan, Nizakat Khan, Roy Lamsam, Ehsan Nawaz, Kinchit Shah.
INDIA:
Varun Aaron, Ravichandran Ashwin, Stuart Binny, Shikhar Dhawan, Mahendra Dhoni (capt & wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Virat Kohli, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Amit Mishra, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Mohammed Shami, Mohit Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh.
IRELAND:
Alex Cusack, George Dockrell, Ed Joyce, Andrew McBrine, Tim Murtagh, Kevin O'Brien, Niall O'Brien (wk), William Porterfield (capt), Andrew Poynter, James Shannon, Max Sorensen, Paul Stirling, Stuart Thompson, Gary Wilson (wk), Craig Young.
NEPAL:
Pradeep Airee, Prithu Baskota, Binod Bhandari, Naresh Budhaayer, Shakti Gauchan, Sompal Kami, Avinash Karn, Paras Khadka (capt), Subash Khakurel (wk), Gyanendra Malla, Jitendra Mukhiya, Sagar Pun, Basant Regmi, Sharad Vesawkar, Rahul Vishwakarma.
NETHERLANDS:
Wesley Barresi (wk), Peter Borren (capt), Mudassar Bukhari, Ben Cooper, Tim Gruijters, Tom Heggelman, Vivian Kingma, Ahsan Malik, Stephan Myburgh, Michael Rippon, Pieter Seelaar, Michael Swart, Eric Szwarczynski, Logan van Beek, Timm van der Gugten.
NEW ZEALAND:
Corey Anderson, Trent Boult, Anton Devcich, Martin Guptill, Ronnie Hira, Mitchell McClenaghan, Brendon McCullum (capt), Nathan McCullum, Adam Milne, Colin Munro, Jimmy Neesham, Luke Ronchi (wk), Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, Kane Williamson.
Pakistan:
Ahmed Shehzad, Bilawal Bhatti, Junaid Khan, Kamran Akmal (wk), Mohammad Hafeez (capt), Mohammad Talha, Saeed Ajmal, Shahid Afridi, Sharjeel Khan, Shoaib Malik, Sohaib Maqsood, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Akmal (wk), Umar Gul, Zulfiqar Babar.
SOUTH AFRICA:
Hashim Amla, Farhaan Behardien, Quinton de Kock (wk), AB de Villiers (wk), Faf du Plessis (capt), JP Duminy, Beuran Hendricks, David Miller, Albie Morkel, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Aaron Phangiso, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir, Lonwabo Tsotsobe.
SRI LANKA:
Dinesh Chandimal (capt & wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Rangana Herath, Mahela Jayawardene, Nuwan Kulasekara, Suranga Lakmal, Lasith Malinga (vice-capt), Angelo Mathews, Ajantha Mendis, Kusal Perera, Thisara Perera, Seekuge Prasanna, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Sachithra Senanayake, Lahiru Thirimanne.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES:
Ahmed Raza, Amjad Ali (wk), Amjad Javed, Asadullah Shareef, Faizan Asif, Kamran Shahzad, Khurram Khan (capt), Manjula Guruge, Moaaz Qazi, Rohan Mustafa, Rohit Singh, Shadeep Silva, Shaiman Anwar, Swapnil Patil, Vikrant Shetty.
WEST INDIES:
Samuel Badree, Dwayne Bravo, Johnson Charles (wk), Sheldon Cottrell, Andre Fletcher (wk), Chris Gayle, Sunil Narine, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Ravi Rampaul, Andre Russell, Darren Sammy (capt), Marlon Samuels, Krishmar Santokie, Lendl Simmons, Dwayne Smith.
ZIMBABWE:
Tendai Chatara, Elton Chigumbura, Tafadzwa Kamungozi, Timycen Maruma, Hamilton Masakadza, Shingi Masakadza, Natsai M'shangwe, Tinashe Panyangara, Sikandar Raza, Vusi Sibanda, Brendan Taylor (capt & wk)), Prosper Utseya, Brian Vitori, Malcolm Waller, Sean Williams.
Warm up games have had the flashing stumps but the qualifying games haven't. So I assume they won't be used when the tournament properly starts.
I don't think WI will be able to defend their title. Their batting hasn't been great of late (Gayle's form and fitness has been iffy and no Pollard due to injury).
If I had to pick the semi finalists (don't know if this is even possible due to teams being in the same group etc) but it would be Pakistan, New Zealand, Australia and Sri Lanka. The two asian sides here are always there and thereabouts at these tournaments and Australia and NZ are in great form just now.
India will struggle because of their pathetic bowling imo, don't have high hopes for England and South Africa lack a quality spinner (still not sure about Tahir).
I don't think WI will be able to defend their title. Their batting hasn't been great of late (Gayle's form and fitness has been iffy and no Pollard due to injury).
If I had to pick the semi finalists (don't know if this is even possible due to teams being in the same group etc) but it would be Pakistan, New Zealand, Australia and Sri Lanka. The two asian sides here are always there and thereabouts at these tournaments and Australia and NZ are in great form just now.
India will struggle because of their pathetic bowling imo, don't have high hopes for England and South Africa lack a quality spinner (still not sure about Tahir).
king hell. Pakistan just flopped today, and we're playing the Aussies on Sunday......BlackLabel said:
Holland did well today - chased down 193 in 13.5 overs against a very good Irish side and in doing so Holland make the main draw.
Just watched quick highlights of the Dutch chase, sixes galore! It was like something out of stick cricket, 189 was a very good score by Ireland, and basically Holland laughed at it and flipping had a practice session!Still think that Ireland are a good side, like to see them play ODI series's against the bigger teams in the future, beats watching Bangladesh...
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