For the this KFC T20I series, Steven Smith will be the captain of the team. So now he will be the skipper of the team in all format of cricket. Earlier Arron Finch was given this job for T20I. Three new faces joining the Australian team squad Peter Nevill, Ashton Agar and Adam Zampa.

Wicket-keeper Nevill has already made his Test debut ,Left-arm spinner Ashton have played two Tests & ODI matches, where Adam played two ODI against New Zealand recently. So all the three players have played international cricket matches earlier but how they will handle the pressure of T20 cricket will see in this upcoming series. In the bowling squad of Australia James Faulkner leading with Josh Hazlewood ,John Hastings, Shane Watson & Nathan Coulter-Nile.

As always Faf du Plessis will be the skipper of South African team. Kagiso Rabada & Dale Steyn return will bring back the strength in the pace attack of the team. The wicket-Keeper batsman Quinton de Kock also making his comback into the squad strengthening batting line up along with AB. It doesn’t matter which country you belongs but If you love cricket you will be definitely fan of AB De-Villiers. Lets see how AB will handle Aussies bowling attack in this series.

Two of the three matches will be played in night and one will be under the sun shine. Three different venues Durban, Johannesburg & Cape Town are selected for the series.

So it will be definitely a power pack cricket entertainment series where both the teams have that ability to change the game with in an over. So are you ready for the entertainment ?? It will be raining sixes from both the ends in South Africa for sure.

Here is the schedule of South Africa vs Australia T20 series 2016 and time-table with the venues:-

• Country to host the Series : South Africa
• Start  : 4th March 2016
• Ends : 9th March 2016
• Series : Australia in South Africa T20I

Date				Match	Venue	Time (local)
4th March		VS		SA vs Aus 1st T20	Kingsmead, Durban	18:00
6th March		VS		SA vs Aus 2nd T20	The Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	14:30
9th March		VS		SA vs Aus 3rd T20	Newlands, Cape Town	18:00

So mark your dates according to the above given Schedule of South Africa vs Australia T20 matches starting from 4th March 2016.

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1. Sharjah international cricket ground
2. Dubai international cricket ground

Total 5 teams are there in the PSL 2016 named on Pakistan’s major cities and they are :-

1. Lahore Qalandars
2. Islamabad United
3. Peshawar Zalmi
4. Quetta Gladiators
5. Karachi kings

Each team having combination of Pakistani and overseas cricketers. Shane Watson, Kevin Pieterson, Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo and many more big players are the part of tournament. Shahid Afridi, Misbah Ul Haq, Shoaib Malik,Wahab Riaz are some of the big and popular Pakistani cricketer which will be part of the Pakistan Cricket League 2016. The PSL 2016 schedule is out now, you can check all the fixtures of your favorite T20 match as given below.

Update : Quetta Gladiators vs Islamabad United entered into PSL T20 Finale

Pakistan Super League Schedule 2016 :-

Total 20 league matches will be played between 5 teams and the top 4 teams in the points table will qualify to the playoffs. Full schedule of PSL 2016 is given below :

Also Check : Masters Champions League 2016

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This year ICC brings Asia Cup in T20 format as T20 World Cup 2016 is standing ahead which will start from 8 March 2016. ICC announced that Asia cup will be played in both formats in ODI and T20 but according to the upcoming world cup tournament. It means that in 2016, It will be played in T20 format and in 2018 it will be a ODI format tournament since in 2019 ODI world cup is scheduled. So Asia cup will be organised on rotation basis.

Teams Which are Participating in the Asia Cup 2016 :

1. India
2. Sri Lanka
3. Pakistan
4. Bangladesh
5. UAE (Qualifying team)

Update :United Arab Emirates won the qualifier round and became the 5th team of Asia cup 2016. Check Qualifier Points table here.

Teams which will play Qualifier round :-

1.  Afghanistan
2. Hong Kong
3. Oman
4. United Arab Emirates (Won)

Qualifier Schedule :

Here is the schedule for the qualifier rounds –

The team who top the points table of Qualifiers will be the fifth team of the tournament,

Asia Cup 2016 Schedule :–

Also Check : India vs Sri Lanka T20 2016 Schedule

The two teams which will be on the top of the Asia cup 2016 points table will play the finals on 6 March 2016.

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The first T20 Match was played in 2005 between Australia & New Zealand. From there, T20 format popularity is increasing day by day. So the idea behind MCL T20 tournament is that most of the big players who was retired from international cricket and didn’t played or played a few T20 matches will have a chance to get into T20 matches once again along with the players of their generation .

MS Dhoni is the official promoter of MCL .

There will be 6 teams is the tournament :-

1. Capricorn Commanders
2. Gemini Arabians
3. Leo Lions
4. Sagittarius Strikers
5. Libra Legends
6. Virgo Super Kings

MCL T20 Schedule 2016 :-

Masters Champions League will be played in U.A.E and is scheduled from 28 January 2016 to 13 February 2016. In MCL T20 there will be six teams, each will play 5 matches and the top four teams in the MCL T20 points table will make to the semi-finals of the Masters Champions League. On February 13, 2016 the Final match will be played at Dubai.

MCL T20 Schedule 2016 & Fixture :-

 Also Check :- ICC T20 World Cup 2016 Schedule

So this will be the MCL T20 Schedule for 2016 and the official broadcast partner of Masters Champions League will be Sony Six. So don’t forget to support your favorite cricket hero from stadium or home.

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Australia vs India 2016 Cricket Series :

Earlier in October 2013 Team Australia visited India for ODI and T20 Series and now Team India going to give it back. Team India squad has been announced ,MS Dhoni will lead India in both the format that is ODI as well as rapid fire T20 Game.

Team India is already playing warm-up matches in Australia and performing well there. Key players of both the team will decide the results of both the series .

India vs Australia cricket matches always an entertaining and nail-biting game , hope same for this year series too .

Australia vs India 2016 Schedule :

• Aus vs India 2016 ODI Schedule :

Total 5 matches to be played

• Australia vs India 2016 T20 Schedule :-

Total of 3 T20 Matches to be played.

So on 31 January India’s tour of Australia will comes to end and then ICC T20 Cricket World Cup 2016. So a tight schedule for both the teams.

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Before all that I will tell you about the Super 10 stage of the tournament ,Top 8 teams of ICC T20 rankings need not to play qualify round, they are directly selected for the initial stage of World Cup which are divided in two Groups, each Group having 4 teams. Other than these 8 teams there are 8 more teams which play the qualifier round in which they also divided into two groups, the winner of both the Group will qualify for ICC T20 World Cup 2016 super 10 Stage making total 10 teams in the Stage .

ICC T20 World Cup 2016 Qualifiers :

Group A –

• Bangladesh
• Netherlands
• Ireland
• Oman

Group B –

• Zimbabwe
• Hong Kong
• Scotland
• Afghanistan

Update : Bangladesh and Afghanistan qualified for the tournament by winning qualifying round.

The team which top their group will Qualify for the World Cup Super 10 Stage of 2016.

ICC T20 World Cup 2016 SUPER 10 Teams:-

Group 1 –

• South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• England
• West Indies
• Afghanistan

Group 2 –

• India
• Pakistan
• Australia
• New Zealand
• Bangladesh

ICC T20 World Cup 2016 Prize Money :

Prize money of winning team is increased upto 86% from 2014 t20 tournament organised in Bangladesh, so this time ICC T20 world cup 2016 prize money will  be 5.6 million dollar.

ICC T20 World Cup 2016 Schedule, Time Table & Venue :

Total 35 matches will be played in India from 8^th march to 3rd April 2016 at eight different Venues and they are :

•  Bengaluru,
• Chennai,
• Dharamsala
• Kolkata
• Mohali
• Mumbai
• Nagpur
• New Delhi

T20 cricket World Cup 2016 Semi Finals will be played in Delhi and Mumbai, whereas Finale will be at Kolkata.

Schedule of ICC T20 World Cup 2016 :

The Cricket Schedule of T20 World Cup 2016 is out now and if you want to download ICC T20 World Cup 2016 Schedule then just click on the PDF and dowload T20 World Cup 2016 Schedule ,Time Table for Free .

 
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ICC T20 World Cup Results-

• In year 2007 Twenty 20 World cup was played first time, hosted by South Africa in which India won the finale  by 5 Runs against Pakistan
• In Year 2009 England was the host for second T20 World Cup, in this tournament Pakistan won by 8 wickets.
• In Year 2010 host was West Indies where England won by 7 wickets.
• In Year 2012 West Indies won by 36 runs in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka.
• In Year 2014 at Bangladesh, Sri Lanka won by 6 Wickets.

Year 2016 soon find their winner and name to add in the list of history, this year prediction for the winner seems very difficult because each team have that capability and even no country won the ICC T20 World Cup two times which is quite interesting.

Which team will be the winner of ICC T20 World Cup 2016 ? Share your views with us in comments.

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ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 is scheduled for the 11th Cricket World Cup, Australia and New Zealand hosting ICC World Cup together from 14th February to 29th March 2015. Total 14 teams going to participate in this tournament at 14 Venues what a coincidence, the venues are located in Australia and New Zealand i.e Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Napier, Nelson and Wellington. The teams are categorised in two category i.e

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