Hong Kong team squad  for 2016 Asia Cup & World T20 2016 :-

1. Tanwir Afzal (Captain)
2. Aizaz Khan
3. Anshy Rath
4. Babar Hayat
5. Christopher Carter
6. Mark Chapman
7. Haseeb Amjad
8. Adil Mehmood
9. Nadeem Ahmed
10. Nizakat Khan
11. Kinchit Shah
12. Ninad Shah
13. Tanveer Ahmed
14. Waqas Barkat
15. Waqas Khan

On 19th Feb Hong Kong Cricket team will be in action against Oman in 2nd Qualifier match, 1st will be between UAE vs Afghanistan at Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah.

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Oman Cricket Team For Asia Cup 2016 & T20 World Cup 2016:-

The Oman players list which is announced for the cup are :

1. Sultan Ahmed (Captain & wicketkeeper)
2. Aamir Kaleem (vice-captain)
3. Aaqib Sulehri
4. Adnan Ilyas
5. Amir Ali
6. Munis Ansari
7. Bilal Khan
8. Jatinder Singh
9. Ajay Lalcheta
10. Mehran Khan
11. Rajeshkumar Ranpura
12. Sufyan Mehmood
13. Vaibhav Wategaonkar
14. Zeeshan Maqsood
15. Zeeshan Siddiqui

Oman will play his first qualifier match against Hong Kong on 19th February 2016 at Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium.

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Asia cup 2016 scheduled in February – March of 2016 and just after the tournament, another grand event of T20 Cricket ICC World T20 will start from 08 March 2016. So there will be back to back T20 matches this summer.

Here is the UAE Cricket Team for T20 asia Cup 2016 :-

1. Amjad Javed (Captain)
2. Mohammad Kaleem
3. Swapnil Patil (Vice Captain)
4. Shaiman Anwar
5. Mohammad Shahzad
6. Rohan Mustafa
7. Usman Mushtaq
8. Ahmed Raza
9. Zaheer Maqsood
10. Mohammad Naveed
11. Farhan Ahmed
12. Qadeer Ahmed
13. Mohammad Usman
14. Fahad Tariq
15. Saqlain Haider

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Asia Cup is starting from 24th February 2016 which will be a T20 cricket tournament for the first time in the history. It will be played on alternate basis that is next season (in 2018) of this tournament will be played in ODI format and so on. This year Bangladesh is going to host all matches of Asia cup. Qualifying matches will be played on Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah and others on Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur. Here is the team squad of Afghanistan as provided by their respective officials.

Afghanistan Team for Asia Cup 2016 & T20 World Cup 2016

1. Asghar Stanikzai (Captain)
2. Noor Ali Zadran
3. Mohammad Shahzad
4. Usman Ghani
5. Mohammad Nabi
6. Karim Sadiq
7. Shafiqullah
8. Rashid Khan
9. Amir Hamza
10. Dawlat Zadran
11. Shapoor Zadran
12. Gulbadin Naib
13. Samiullah Shenwari
14. Najibullah Zadran
15. Yamin Ahmadzai

The team squads of the qualified teams for the tournament are :-

1. Indian Team Squad
2. Sri Lanka Team Squad
3. Bangladesh Team Squad
4. Pakistan Team Squad

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India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are the other teams which will be participating in Asia Cup 2016. The fifth team will be decided after the qualification round between Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Oman and United Arab Emirates, starting from 19th February 2016.

The best performance of Bangladesh Team in Asia Cup is in 2011 when they reached to the final, but lost by 2 runs against Pakistan. But last year 2015, has been a great year for the team which has surprised everyone with their performance. The team had shown a huge growth by wining series against India, South Africa and Pakistan. The players are very positive for tournament and seeking their first Asia Cup victory.

There are no major changes in the team combination except one that is opening batsman Imrul Kayes has been selected in place of Tamim Iqbal. Tamim Iqbal has opted out as he is expecting his first child soon.

1. Mashrafe Mortaza (captain)
2. Shakib Al Hasan
3. Imrul Kayes
4. Mohammad Mithun
5. Mahmudullah
6. Mushfiqur Rahim (wicketkeeper)
7. Soumya Sarkar
8. Sabbir Rahman
9. Nasir Hossain
10. Mustafizur Rahman
11. Al-Amin Hossain
12. Taskin Ahmed
13. Arafat Sunny
14. Abu Hider
15. Nurul Hasan

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Unlike earlier, this time Asia Cup will be played in T20 format instead on 50 overs format. This is a major change made by ICC from this year that tournament will be played in the same format as of next ICC world T20 event. The others team participating in 2016 Asia Cup are India, Pakistan, Bangladesh. One more team is yet be finalised after the qualification match starting from 19 to 22 February.

Angelo Mathews will captain the Sri Lanka Team. The team also includes T20 specialists like Tillakaratne Dilshan, Lahiru Thirimanne and Thisara Perrera.

Sri Lanka Team Squad for T20 Asia Cup 2016:

1. Angelo Mathews (captain)
2. Tillakaratne Dilshan
3. Dinesh Chandimal (wicket-keeper)
4. Kusal Perera
5. Lahiru Thirimanne
6. Dimuth Karunaratne
7. Kithruwan Vithanage
8. Lasith Malinga
9. Thisara Perrera
10. Nuwam Kulasekara
11. Dhammika Prasad
12. Rangana Herath
13. Suranga Lakmal
14. Jeevan Mendis

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It will be the first time when Asia Cup matches will be played in T20 format, as it has been announced by the ICC that Asia Cup will be played in the same format as of the next upcoming ICC World Events.

Pakistan Team will be led by Shahid Afridi. Considering the T20 World Cup 2016, Pakistan team has been announced with 4 changes. Ahmed Shehzad has been placed by Khurram Manzoor because of the poor performance of the former in T20 series against Newzealand last month. The other three which are axed from the selected 15 includes Sohaib Maqsood, Umar Gul and Mohammad Rizwan.

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Pakistan Team Squad for 2016 Asia Cup:

1. Shahid Afridi (C)
2. Mohammad Hafeez
3. Shoaib Malik
4. Umar Akmal
5. Sarfraz Ahmed (WK)
6. Babar Azam
7. Iftikhar Ahmed
8. Imad Wasim
9. Anwar Ali
10. Mohammad Irfan
11. Wahab Riaz
12. Mohammad Amir
13. Mohammad Nawaz
14. Khurram Manzoor
15. Rumman Raees

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In Indian Team squad young Pawan Negi will be the new face. He is also selected for Sri Lanka T20 series, hopefully he will made his debut against Sri Lanka. In IPL T20 2015, he played for Chennai Super Kings and performed extremely well with the bat and ball which made him to get ticket for Indian Team Squad for Asia Cup 2016 T20.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni will be the captain of the Men’s team for the tournament. Yuvraj Singh, Ashish Nehra and Harbhajan Singh is also included in the team squad along with Suresh Raina. Mithali Raj will be the captain of women team.

Here is the full team squad of Team India men for Asia Cup 2016 :

Men Team Squad :

1. MS Dhoni (Captain)
2. Shikhar Dhawan
3. Rohit Sharma
4. Virat Kohli
5. Suresh Raina
6. Yuvraj Singh
7. Ravindra Jadeja
8. Hardik Pandya
9. Ravichandran Ashwin
10. Jasprit Bumrah
11. Ashish Nehra
12. Ajinkya Rahane
13. Harbhajan Singh
14. Mohammed Shami
15. Pawan Negi

Women Team Squad : 

Here is the team squad for ICC T20 World Cup 2016 for women

1. Mithali Raj (Captain)
2. Jhulan Goswami,
3. Smriti Mandhana
4. Veda Krishnamurthy
5. Harmanpreet Kaur
6. Shikha Pandey
7. Rajeshwari Gayakwad
8. Sushma Verma
9. Poonam Yadav
10. VR Vanitha
11. Anuja Patil
12. Ekta Bisht
13. Thirushkamini MD
14. Deepti Sharma
15. Niranjana Nagarajan

So these players are selected for the upcoming Asia Cup 2016 T20 Tournament. Which team will won the tournament ? Share your views in comments.

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