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World T20, 2nd Semi-Final

India vs West Indies

at Mumbai, Mar 31, 2016
West Indies 196/3 beat India 192/2 by 7 wickets



2016 ICC World Twenty20, India

ICC WT20 2016 in India

2016 world twenty20 cricketThe 2016 ICC World Twenty20 will be the sixth ICC World Twenty20 competition, an international Twenty20 cricket tournament that will take place in India in 2016.
India is placed in Group 2 with Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand and the qualifier from Group A.
Latest News from the ICC World Twenty20 2016: WT20 2016 Cup Index | Championship Schedule | Groups & Points | Teams | WT20 Warm-up Matches

India T20 world cup 2016

Schedule/Time Table for India

Date Match Venue
March 10, 2016India vs West IndiesEden Gardens, Kolkata
March 13, 2016India vs South AfricaWankhede Stadium, Mumbai
March 15, 2016India vs New ZealandVidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur
March 19, 2016India vs PakistanHimachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala
March 23, 2016India vs BangladeshM. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
March 27, 2016India vs AustraliaPunjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

India's 15-man squad announced for T20 World Cup

Dhoni to lead, Shami back in the squad

The Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) selection committee, headed by Sandeep Patil, announced the 15-man Indian squad for the ICC World Twenty20 2016 to be held in India from March 8 to April 3. The same team will also play in Asia Cup T20, which will be hosted by Bangladesh from February 24 to March 6.

Under Dhoni's leadership, India won the inaugural World T20 in South Africa in 2007. In the last tournament in 2014, they lost to Sri Lanka in the final. Dhoni has so far led in 28 World T20 matches winning 18 (Lost 9, 1 No Result).

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

Asia Cup Cricket 2016

Asia Cup Cricket 2016 in Bangladesh

Asia Cup 2016 LogoAsia Cup 2016 is scheduled to begin in Bangladesh from February 24 and will run up to March 6. It will be the 13th edition of the Asia Cup, the fifth to be held in Bangladesh, and the first to be played using the T20I format. The much-awaited India-Pakistan match is on Feb 27 in Mirpur. The one ICC associate member will be determined through a qualifier scheduled to be played from 19 to 22 February 2016.
Asia Cup Cricket 2016

Asia Cup 2016 Schedule

Date Match Venue
24 February : 19:00 IST (D/N) | 13:30 GMT | 08:30 EST Bangladesh vs India Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka
25 February : 19:00 IST (D/N) | 13:30 GMT | 08:30 EST Sri Lanka vs United Arab Emirates Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka
26 February : 19:00 IST (D/N) | 13:30 GMT | 08:30 EST Bangladesh vs United Arab Emirates Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka
27 February : 19:00 IST (D/N) | 13:30 GMT | 08:30 EST India vs Pakistan Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka
28 February : 19:00 IST (D/N) | 13:30 GMT | 08:30 EST Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka
29 February : 19:00 IST (D/N) | 13:30 GMT | 08:30 EST Pakistan vs United Arab Emirates Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka
1 March : 19:00 IST (D/N) | 13:30 GMT | 08:30 EST India vs Sri Lanka Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka
2 March : 19:00 IST (D/N) | 13:30 GMT | 08:30 EST Bangladesh vs Pakistan Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka
3 March : 19:00 IST (D/N) | 13:30 GMT | 08:30 EST India vs United Arab Emirates Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka
4 March : 19:00 IST (D/N) | 13:30 GMT | 08:30 EST Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka
6 March : 19:00 IST (D/N) | 13:30 GMT | 08:30 EST Final: India vs Bangladesh Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka
Winners in BOLD.

Sri Lanka in India T20I Cricket Series 2016

Feb 9, 12, 14, 2016

Sri Lanka to play 3 T20Is before WT20

three Twenty20 internationals.

Results: T20I, India won 2-1.
India vs Sri Lanka T20I Cricket Series 2016

Schedule

Tuesday, Feb 9, 2016
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT
1st T20I: India vs Sri LankaPune
Friday, Feb 12, 2016
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT
2nd T20I: India vs Sri LankaRanchi
Sunday, Feb 14, 2016
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT
3rd T20I: India vs Sri LankaVisakhapatnam

India vs Sri Lanka first ever T20I series

India start their second leg of preparation for the ICC World Twenty20 from Tuesday, Feb 9th, with a three-match T20 series against neighbours Sri Lanka. It is the first-ever T20 series between the two teams. In six years since they started playing T20 matches, there have only been 6 matches between the teams with India and Sri Lanka winning three each. The last encounter was in the 2014 World T20 Final in Mirpur, Bangladesh in which Sri Lanka beat India to lift their maiden WT20 final.

T20I Squads

India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Ashish Nehra, Harbhajan Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Pawan Negi.

Sri Lanka: Dinesh Chandimal (Captain), Seekuge Prasanna, Milinda Siriwardana, Danushka Gunathilaka, Thisara Perera, Dasun Shanaka, Asela Gunaratne, Chamara Kapugedera, Dushmantha Chameera, Dilhara Fernando, Kasun Rajitha, Binura Fernando, Sachithra Senanayake, Jeffrey Vandersay, Niroshan Dickwella.

India in Australia Cricket Series 2016

Jan 8 to Jan 31, 2016

India to play ODIs and T20Is on Australian tour

Five ODIs and three Twenty20 internationals.
India vs Australia Cricket Series 2016

Schedule

Tue Jan 12
11:20 local (03:20 GMT | 22:20 EST -1d)
1st ODI - Australia vs India Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth
Fri Jan 15
13:20 local (03:20 GMT | 22:20 EST -1d)
2nd ODI - Australia vs India Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane
Sun Jan 17
14:20 local (03:20 GMT | 22:20 EST -1d)
3rd ODI - Australia vs India Melbourne Cricket Ground
Wed Jan 20
14:20 local (03:20 GMT | 22:20 EST -1d)
4th ODI - Australia vs India Manuka Oval, Canberra
Sat Jan 23
14:20 local (03:20 GMT | 22:20 EST -1d)
5th ODI - Australia vs India Sydney Cricket Ground
Tue Jan 26
18:08 local (07:38 GMT | 02:38 EST)
1st T20I - Australia vs India Adelaide Oval
Fri Jan 29
19:38 local (08:38 GMT | 03:38 EST)
2nd T20I - Australia vs India Melbourne Cricket Ground
Sun Jan 31
19:38 local (08:38 GMT | 03:38 EST)
3rd T20I - Australia vs India Sydney Cricket Ground

India tour Australia

India will play 5 One Day Internationals and 3 Twenty20 Internationals against Australia in their 2015-16 home season opener. The five-match Victoria Bitter Series of One-Day Internationals and three KFC T20 Internationals will be played between January 12 and 31, 2016. India had travelled to Australia in November 2014 for 4 Tests and had also played in a tri-series involving hosts and England before the ICC World Cup 2015 last year. India lost the Test series and failed to make the final of tri-series. They did not win a single match during the tour, for the first time in 47 years.

India vs South Africa Cricket Series 2015

Sep 29 to Dec 7, 2015

South Africa to play four Tests on 72-day India tour

Three Twenty20 internationals, five ODIs and four Tests.
India vs South Africa Cricket Series 2015

Schedule

October 21st T20I
India vs South Africa
Dharamsala (D/N)
October 52nd T20I
India vs South Africa
Cuttack (D/N)
October 83rd T20I
India vs South Africa
Kolkata (D/N)
October 111st ODI
India vs South Africa
Kanpur
October 142nd ODI
India vs South Africa
Indore (D/N)
October 183rd ODI
India vs South Africa
Rajkot (D/N)
October224th ODI
India vs South Africa
Chennai (D/N)
October 255th ODI
India vs South Africa
Mumbai (D/N)
November 5-91st Test
India vs South Africa
Mohali
November 14-182nd Test
India vs South Africa
Bangalore
November 25-293rd Test
India vs South Africa
Nagpur
December 3-74th Test
India vs South Africa
Delhi

SA to play four Tests on 72-day India tour

South Africa will play three Twenty20 internationals, five ODIs and four Tests on a 72-day tour of India, which runs from September to December, this year.

India vs Sri Lanka Test Series 2015

Aug 6 to Sep 1, 2015

India to play a tour match and three Test matches

Three Tests.

Results: Tests, India won 2-1 (3).
India vs Sri Lanka Cricket Series 2015

Schedule

August 12–16 1st Test
India vs Sri Lanka
Galle International Stadium, Galle
August 20-242nd Test
India vs Sri Lanka
P Sara Oval, Colombo
August 28-September 13rd Test
India vs Sri Lanka
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo

Indian Team announced, Virat to lead

Batsman Virat Kohli will lead the tourists in the three tests in Sri Lanka. Former Baroda opener Rakesh Parikh has been nominated by the Cricket Board as administrative manager of the Indian team.

India Test Squad: Virat Kohli (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Harbhajan Singh, R Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Amit Mishra, Varun Aaron.


India to play three Tests in Lanka

India will play three test matches in Sri Lanka during the tour that begins on August 3rd. The Test matches will be played at Galle, Tamil Union Oval, and SSC Colombo. Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara will retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series.
The only practice game will be played from August 6-8 against Sri Lanka Chairman's XI at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.

ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 in Australia, New Zealand

Feb 14 - Mar 29 2015

The 11th edition of the World Cup

The 2015 Cricket World Cup will be jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand. The location of the games will be evenly split, with the day-night final match to be held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on March 29.
ICC Cricket World Cup 2015

2015 Cricket World Cup

India vs Pakistan at Adelaide

India vs Pakistan Cricket World Cup 2015

India make it 6-0 in front of raucous Adelaide Oval crowd

India comfortably won its opening World Cup clash, beating rivals Pakistan by 76 runs at the Adelaide Oval. Man-of-the-Match Virat Kohli (107) helped the reigning champions to a defendable total of 7 for 300 with a vital century. Mohammed Shami (4 for 35) and Umesh Yadav (2 for 50), skittled Pakistan for 224 despite some fightback by Skipper Misbah-ul-Haq (76) and opener Ahmed Shehzad (46).

Reported Earlier: More than a billion people are expected to watch Sunday'€™s cricket match between the traditional rivals India and Pakistan. India have an overwhelming 5-0 record in the 50-over World Cup since the two teams were first pitted against each other at the ICC event in the 1992 edition in Sydney. The last such contest, the semi-final of 2011, was watched by around 150 million people worldwide, the biggest audience for any sporting event that year. On Friday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif to wish Pakistan luck in the World Cup.

India Playing XI: RG Sharma, S Dhawan, V Kohli, AM Rahane, SK Raina, MS Dhoni*†, RA Jadeja, R Ashwin,UT Yadav, MM Sharma, Mohammed Shami
Pakistan Playing XI: Ahmed Shehzad, Younis Khan, Haris Sohail, Misbah-ul-Haq*, Sohaib Maqsood, Umar Akmal†, Shahid Afridi, Wahab Riaz, Yasir Shah, Sohail Khan, Mohammad Irfan
India 300/7 (Kohli 107, Dhawan 73, Raina 74, Sohail Khan 5-55) beat Pakistan 224 in 47.0 ov (Misbah-ul-Haq 76, Shami 4-35) by 76 runs

Indian Cricket Team

The defending champions

After 23 years, the ICC Cricket World Cup returns to Australia (and New Zeland), and India - who won the 2011 edition at home - seem to have no chances of regaining the cup. Unlike the flat pitches in India, on the bouncy and seaming tracks in Australia and New Zealand they will have to make several technical adjustments if they have to do well. The MS Dhoni led-team has only four members - Dhoni, Kohli, Raina and Ashwin - from the victorious 2011 campaign, and there are concerns that a lack of experience especially in the bowling department - with not a single pace bowler of merit - will hurt India’s chances of retaining the Cup. The nucleus of the squad is the same which helped India win the Champions Trophy one-day tournament in England in 2013, and India under Dhoni is famous for raising its performance in big games where the stakes are high. India has every chance of qualifying for the quarterfinals as there are relatively weaker teams in the two groups. The likely opponents for India in the quarterfinal stage are either New Zealand or Sri Lanka.
India 1983 2011 world cup teams
The 1983 and 2011 Indian World Cup winning teams side-by-side.

India Squad for 2015 World Cup: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain, wicketkeeper), Virat Kohli (vice-captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Stuart Binny, Ambati Rayudu, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma Mohit Sharma.

India's World Cup record 1975: First round; 1979: First round; 1983: Champions; 1987: Semifinals; 1992: First round; 1996: Semifinals; 1999: Super Sixes; 2003: Runners-up; 2007: First round; 2011: Champions.

2015 Cricket World Cup Groups

ICC ODI Championship rankings as of 31 January 2015 in brackets

Group A

Australia (1)
Sri Lanka (4)
England (5)
New Zealand (6)
Bangladesh (9)
Afghanistan (11)
Scotland (QUA)

Group B

India (2)
South Africa (3)
Pakistan (7)
West Indies (8)
Zimbabwe (10)
Ireland (12)
UAE (QUA)

Tri-series in Australia 2014-15

Jan 16 to Feb 1, 2015

India vs Australia vs England

The Carlton Mid ODI Tri Series involving Australia, England And India will start at the end of the four-test series between India and Australia.
India vs Australia vs England Tri-Series 2015

Schedule

Fri Jan 16- 03:20 GMT | 14:20 local
22:20 EST -1d
1st match
Australia vs England
SCG, Sydney
Sun Jan 18- 03:20 GMT | 14:20 local
22:20 EST -1d
2nd match
Australia vs India
MCG, Melbourne
Tue Jan 20- 03:20 GMT | 14:20 local
22:20 EST -1d
3rd match
India vs England
Gabba, Brisbane
Fri Jan 23- 03:20 GMT | 14:20 local
22:20 EST -1d
4th match
England vs Australia
Blundstone Arena, Hobart
Mon Jan 26- 03:20 GMT | 14:20 local
22:20 EST -1d
5th match
India vs Australia
SCG, Sydney
Fri Jan 30- 03:20 GMT | 14:20 local
22:20 EST -1d
6th match
India vs England
WACA, Perth
Sun Feb 1- 03:20 GMT | 14:20 local
22:20 EST -1d
Final match
Australia vs England
WACA, Perth

India vs Australia Test Series 2014-15

Dec 12, 2014 to Jan 7, 2015

Commonwealth Bank Test Series

India will play three Tests against Australia.

Results: Tests, Australia won 2-0 (4).
India vs Australia Test Cricket Series 2014-15

Revised Schedule

9 to 13 December 20141st Test
India vs Australia
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide
17 to 21 December 20142nd Test
India vs Australia
Gabba, Brisbane
26 to 30 December 20143rd Test
India vs Australia
MCG, Melbourne
6 to 10 January 20154th Test
India vs Australia
SCG, Sydney

First Test rescheduled for December 9

The first Test between India and Australia was rescheduled for December 9 at Adelaide, the adopted home ground of late batsman Phillip Hughes, whose tragic death left the cricketing world devastated. The revised schedule allows for a three-day break leading into the Brisbane Test and a four-day break ahead of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne for players to adequately prepare.

Old Schedule

Thursday 4-8 December 20141st Test
India vs Australia
Gabba, Brisbane
Friday 12-16 December 20142nd Test
India vs Australia
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide
Friday 26-30 December 20143rd Test
India vs Australia
MCG, Melbourne
Saturday 3-7 January 20154th Test
India vs Australia
SCG, Sydney

Teams announced, Dhoni to miss first test

Batsman Virat Kohli will lead the tourists in the first Test in Brisbane from December 4, as captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was ruled out of the opening match due to injury. The Indian selectors named a 19-man squad that comprises eight specialist batsmen and five seamers along with two wicket-keepers excluding Dhoni for the four match Test series. The two new faces in the squad are right-hand batsman Lokesh Rahul (22) and leg-spinner Karn Sharma (27). Rahul is the third opener behind Shikhar Dhawan and Murali Vijay.

Ishant Sharma leads the new-ball attack that includes Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammad Shami, Umesh Yadav and Varun Aaron. The three spinners in the side are Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Karn Sharma.

India Test Squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, Wriddhiman Saha, Naman Ojha, Ravichandran Ashwin, Karn Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron.
Australia Test Squad: (First Test only) Chris Rogers, David Warner, Shane Watson, Michael Clarke (capt), Steven Smith, Mitchell Marsh, Brad Haddin (vice-capt, wk), Mitchell Johnson, Ryan Harris, Peter Siddle, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood.

Editor: Nishanth Gopinathan.