T20 World Cup 2014 Warm-up Matches Schedule Live Scores

T20 World Cup 2014 Warm-up Matches Schedule Live Scores.hosts Bangladesh and Zimbabwe won their individual warm-up matches in front of the approaching ICC World T20 with Hong Kong demolishing four-time World Cup members The Netherlands.bangladesh beat Ireland by 44 runs in an uneven experience in which captain Mushfiqur Rahim and Shakib al Hasan impacted unbeaten half-hundreds of years. Bangladesh scored 179 for three and afterward limited Ireland to 135 for eight.
Rahim scored 59 off 30 balls with eight fours and two sixes while Shakib crushed seven limits and a six in a 32-ball 58. The team included 116 runs in 9.5 overs for the third wicket.in an alternate match, opener Hamilton Masakadza struck seven sixes in transit his 52-ball 93 to stay an effective run-pursue against Afghanistan. The Afghans scored 168 for six in 20 overs while Zimbabwe scored the runs with three balls to spare.pacer Mashrafe, who recuperated from a side strain to be incorporated in the group, and Shakib packed away two wickets each. Shohag Gazi, Al-Amin Hossain, Abdur Razzak and Mahmudullah grabbed a wicket each for the hosts. Bangladesh head into the T20 World Cup with triumphs in both warm-up matches. They beat the United Arab Emirates by four wickets on Wednesday.bangladesh will confront Afghanistan in the World T20 opener on Sunday.

Date And TimeDate and Time	Venue
Wed Mar 12  15:30 local | 09:30 GMT	Warm-up : T20 - Bangladesh vs United Arab Emirates Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah
Wed Mar 12  15:30 local | 09:30 GMT	Warm-up : T20 - Afghanistan vs Netherlands Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong
Wed Mar 12  19:30 local | 13:30 GMT	Warm-up : T20 - Ireland vs Nepal Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah
Wed Mar 12  19:30 local | 13:30 GMT	Warm-up : T20 - Hong Kong vs Zimbabwe Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong
Fri Mar 14 09:30 local | 03:30 GMT	Warm-up : T20 - Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe MA Aziz Stadium, Chittagong
Fri Mar 14 13:30 local | 07:30 GMT	Warm-up : T20 - Hong Kong vs Netherlands MA Aziz Stadium, Chittagong
Fri Mar 14  15:30 local | 09:30 GMT	Warm-up : T20 - Nepal vs United Arab Emirates Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah
Fri Mar 14  19:30 local | 13:30 GMT	Warm-up : T20 - Bangladesh vs Ireland Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah
Mon Mar 17  15:30 local | 09:30 GMT	Warm-up : T20 - New Zealand vs Pakistan Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
Mon Mar 17  19:30 local | 13:30 GMT	Warm-up : T20 - India vs Sri Lanka Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
Tue Mar 18  15:30 local | 09:30 GMT	Warm-up : T20 - England vs West Indies Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah
Tue Mar 18  19:30 local | 13:30 GMT	Warm-up : T20 - Bangladesh A vs South Africa Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah
Wed Mar 19  15:30 local | 09:30 GMT	Warm-up : T20 - Australia vs New Zealand Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah
Wed Mar 19  15:30 local | 09:30 GMT	Warm-up : T20 - Sri Lanka vs West Indies Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
Wed Mar 19  19:30 local | 13:30 GMT	Warm-up : T20 - South Africa vs Pakistan Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah
Wed Mar 19  19:30 local | 13:30 GMT	Warm-up : T20 - England vs India Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur

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T20 WorldCup Rahul Dravid not keen in coaching India now

Rahul Dravid not sharp in preparing India now.how charming it could be to have Rahul Dravid as the Indian assembly's tutor. Perhaps, he is best suited for the part for his cricketing brains and moreover the profound respect he obtains in the cricketing club. Moreover, he is only 41, just two years since leaving from widespread cricket, and a year from playing his last IPL match. It was consequently that Sunil Gavaskar proposed that Dravid be made India guide while calling for Duncan Fletcher's sacking.

Be that as it may, Dravid is not prepared for the unmistakable part yet. He said here on Friday: "Firstly, I am glad that he (Gavaskar) assumes I am gifted. It is a charming thing for him to say. At this moment of time, with the time goals and the time required to do the training occupation that is 11 months in a year, and I as of late finished the methodology of playing cricket, it is amazingly troublesome to give that kind of time. Who knows some time or an alternate later on, what is in store. Starting now, I am incorporated with Rajasthan Royals in a substitute part for two months. Time permitting, I may look at an India "An" or India U-19 part. Not by any methods the Indian penetrating business at this moment of time."
One of the senior players instrumental in India utilizing their first remote coach in 2000 end when New Zealander John Wright proceeded board, Dravid might not have jumped at the chance to go into the nationalities of a guide. "We live in a master world today and the nationality of a tutor is superfluous. In the unlikely event that he can give what the gathering needs, it doesn't have any kind of effect where a coach is from. We've had Indian tutors with distinctive parts (Robin Singh and Venkatesh Prasad) included with the assembly formerly. From totally one on one, basically to pick an Indian tutor, they should pick the best man paying little respect to the nationality. Likewise in the unlikely event that he is an Indian, so be it."
The past India head furthermore felt that changing the boring staff with the 2015 World Cup short of what a year away is not an impeccable thing. "You have got to give an assembly four years. With two gigantic tours of England and Australia heading up, and the World Cup after that, it is fantastical that India will change the directing staff or the help staff, or any some bit of the power group," he said.cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar needs Rahul Dravid to devour the exceedingly testing work of India coach however The Wall is not ready 'in the not too distant past to acknowledge the mantle from under-fire officeholder Duncan Fletcher because of "time goals". Dravid, regardless, finished not totally rebate the probability of expending the livelihood in future. Dravid foreseen that the BCCI will continue with the current help staff including Zimbabwean Fletcher, shaking the bowling back road and fielding guides Joe Dawes and Trevor Penney, independently, at any rate work the end of the accompanying World Cup in March 2015.
"I am going to perform an interchange part (manage) for Rajasthan Royals not long from now in IPL. Who grasps what lies in store later on," said the 41-year-old past batsman who amassed in abundance of 24,000 runs from 164 Tests and 344 Odis before leaving a year prior.
Dravid foreseen that the Cricket Board will move ahead with the current help staff encapsulating Zimbabwean Fletcher, shaking the bowling back street and fielding guides Joe Dawes and Trevor Penney, separately, in any occasion work the end of the accompanying World Cup in March 2015.
"With the World Cup short of what a year away I don't think there could be any movements in the help staff of the aggregation. Possibly, they should be given a four-year period to change things. There is no point of changing the organization before the World Cup," said Dravid.

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ICC World Twenty20 Bangladesh 2014 set to break broadcast records

ICC World Twenty20 Bangladesh 2014 set to break broadcast records.supersport has denoted a sub-license simultaneousness with the SABC, enabling the all inclusive community supporter to show seven matches of the 2014 ICC World Twenty20, starting in Bangladesh this weekend.the assention acknowledges the broadcast by the SABC of the opening diversion (Bangladesh versus Afghanistan), the four South African pool matches (starting with SA against Sri Lanka on March 22), one end round and the keep going, on April 6.that degree, handled and scattered by the ICC's overall media rights assistant and host broadcaster, Star Sports, will have a potential compass of more than 1.8 billion viewers with live pictures demonstrated by 29 supporters – both figures the most lifted ever for an ICC event. 

Also it will be showed in more than 20 lingos with pictures going transversely over Europe by method for Eurosport and as far abroad as Norway, Nepal, Afghanistan and the Pacific Islands.the era will be around the most advanced ever too, with 28 Polaroids, including seven ultra-development Polaroids, Spidercam and furthermore outlines with key examination, all of which will take the viewer right to the heart of the action. Each one of the 35 matches in the men's rival, notwithstanding each of the four of the warm-up matches in Mirpur, will be secured, and both semi-finals and the final one of the women's event.
Furthermore a collection of legends of the redirection and experienced supporters will be accessible, with Ravi Shastri, Sanjay Manjrekar, Shaun Pollock, Ian Bishop, Sourav Ganguly, Shane Warne, Rameez Raja, Wasim Akram, Russel Arnold, Nick Knight, Nasser Hussain, Harsha Bhogle, Jonty Rhodes, Pommie Mbangwa, Athar Ali Khan, Danny Morrison, Alan Wilkins, Brian Murgatroyd, Isa Guha, Alison Mitchell and Melanie Jones close by to dismember every moment.
ICC Chief Executive David Richardson said: "We are satisfied that more than a quarter of the world's masses will have section to live extension from the World Twenty20 2014, by virtue of ICC's broadcast partners."in development to the expanded show foot formed impression, an enhanced taking care of degree and a world-class study gathering will oblige a superb overview experience for fans over the world."
Nitin Kukreja of Star Sports, said: "We are anxious to bring to overall cricket fans the fifth variant of the ICC World Twenty20. We remain concentrated on  ceaselessly improving the overview experience. This current year's discharge will consolidate headways like LED stumps, extended watch examination and intelligent representations. The broadcast will go to 223 spaces over the globe and will moreover be available on starsports.com in particular countrie

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Revamped World Twenty20 searches for identity

Fixed up World Twenty20 sweeps for identity.new DELHI: International T20 cricket, fighting to build a firm adjust disregarding the creating pervasiveness of neighborhood aggregations, will break new ground when the fifth World Twenty20 opens in Bangladesh on Sunday. Tests and one-dayers eclipse T20 internationals even as productive competitions like the Indian Premier League (IPL) and Australia's Big Bash mushroom around the world.india, cricket's financial superpower, whose triumph in the inaugural World T20 in 2007 began the IPL turmoil, has played stand out worldwide in the briefest structure in the process of the latest 15 months. 

World cricket heads, needing to spread the redirection to all the more cutting-edge pastures through Twenty20, have stretched out the approaching rivalry to 16 gatherings from 12 two years back and introduced an alternate configuration. Six qualifiers - Ireland, Afghanistan, Nepal, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates and the Netherlands - will join Zimbabwe and has Bangladesh in a preparatory gathering of two congregations from March 16 to 21.chris Gayle, a champion around the most ruinous batsmen in the bleeding edge delight, advised it won't be basic for his West Indies side to protect the title despite a game plan win over England this week. "It could be conventional if history could reiterate itself yet its going to be serious," the left-given opener said. "We will take it one match pronto. The important target is to make the semi-finals."
Sri Lanka, the top-positioned T20 side, have enhanced their status as one of the top decisions by utilizing more than six weeks within Bangladesh since late January, beat by their Asia Cup triumph a weekend back.
Regardless sandwiched between a hot general timetable, the nonappearance of different heading players and an apathetic structure up by aggregations, the opposition will lose some sheen.australia, South Africa, England and the West Indies will arrive in Dhaka hardly a former week the Super-10 round starts, deserting them little time to acclimatise.absent stars.the rivalry will be remarkable for its nonattendances, for instance, Australian Test commander Michael Clarke and his English accomplice Alastair Cook.
England's star batsman Kevin Pietersen will also be missing after his sketchy sacking a month back, close by New Zealand's gigantic hitting Jesse Ryder who was dropped for late-night drinking.south Africa then will be entering an alternate time after the late retirements of Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis.
India can in any occasion welcome back skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni after he missed the Asia Cup through injury.australia, looking to win their woman World T20 title, have uncovered the speculation that T20 is a young man's preoccupation by including focus demand batsman Brad Hodge, 39, and 43-year-old spinner Brad Hogg in their squad.the rivalry, which runs until April 6, will be played under overpowering security after choice violence at the turn of the year raised purposes behind caution that Bangladesh's most awesome wearing event could be moved some place else.
Bangladesh, which co-encouraged the 2011 50-over World Cup with India and Sri Lanka, will orchestrate matches in the capital Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet. In any case arrangements to have amusements in the event resort of Cox's Bazaar were blocked in the wake of building take a shot at an alternate stadium fell behind schedule.tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lankaanother dasher at the most elevated purpose of the solicitation, the right-hander was the most shocking run-getter in the 2009 World Twenty20 in England, where Sri Lanka finished runner-up to Pakistan.
His prevalent "Dilscoop", a shot he plays to send the ball cruising over the wicketkeeper's head, underlines his ability to improvise and makes him a batsman hard to contain.dilshan can moreover cut the field with his streaming off-drives and is an advantageous off-spinner with the ball in the middle overs.

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