Mumbai's Dabbawalas (lunchbox carriers) will add a flavour of cricketing love to their daily delivery of lunchboxes for their respective clientele during ICC World Twenty20 India 2016. All Dabbawalas will, for a period of 2 weeks wear ICC WT20 branded T-shirts as they go about delivering approximately 50,000 lunchboxes. A handout of the complete tournament schedule will be provided along with each. Once the tournament enters the Super 10 stage, a contingent of 25 Dabbawalas wearing branded ICC WT20 topis (traditional Indian caps) and waistcoats will add to the crowd strength for three of the matches scheduled to be played in Mumbai. The activity was lauded and set underway by former Indian cricketers Sameer Dighe and Diana Edulji, who met with Yamanji S. Ghule, President of Mumbai Dabbawala Association at the Wankhede Stadium.
Photos from the World Twenty20 final between Sri Lanka and West Indies being played in Colombo
West Indies on Friday suffered a dramatic collapse to lose to Sri Lanka by five runs via the Duckworth-Lewis method in the Women's World Twenty20 in Galle.
Pakistan's Afridi to be fit for World Cup opener, says Raja
Australia Test skipper Michael Clarke's will captain the Melbourne Stars in Australia's Big Bash League for the next two seasons after not playing Twenty20 for three years.
Statistical highlights of the World Twenty20 match between India and England in Colombo.
The SLC said in a statement on Tuesday that an independent committee had recommended a full lifting of the ban on Gunathilaka with "due consideration to his cricketing career and its impact on the cricketing ambitions of the nation".
The Indian cricket team will square off against South Africa and the West Indies in the warm-up matches before the World Twenty20 Championships to be held in India from March 8.
Root was England's top scorer in the 2016 World Cup final when they lost to West Indies but has not played a Twenty20 International since May 2019.
Former captain Kane Williamson, batsman Tom Blundell and quick Kyle Jamieson, who all have hamstring issues, were selected despite doubts over their fitness.
Will Australia become the first team to win back-to-back T20 World Cups?
SKY hit an assured knock of 80 as the hosts chased down 208 in Visakhapatnam
Pakistan captain Misbah-ul Haq tells Chandresh Narayanan that his team will break the jinx that has haunted them in five of the last six editions when they take on India in their World Cup opener on February 15.
New Zealand were ahead of the DLS par score of 78 at that stage before the game was eventually called off.
Craig Kieswetter scored a cracking half-century as England thrashed Australia by seven wickets to win the ICC World Twenty20 in Barbados, on Sunday. The wicketkeeper-batsman, later named man of the match, smashed 63 from 49 balls, with the help of seven boundaries and two sixes, and added 111 runs in 68 balls for the second wicket with Pietersen, who scored 47 from 31 balls, to help England secure their first global trophy.
Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez expects Shahid Afridi to recover from injury in time to play a decisive role in his country's attempt to win another ICC World Twenty20.
Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten half-century to steer India to a six-wicket victory against Pakistan in the World Twenty20 in Kolkata, on Saturday. Rajneesh Gupta presents the interesting numbers from the match.
In sublime form throughout the tournament, India will be aiming to become the first team to win the World Twenty20 Championship title for a second time but they will have to fight a gutsy Sri Lanka in what promises to be an exciting summit clash between the sub-continental rivals in Mirpur, Dhaka on Sunday.
Veteran South African opener Hashim Amla has said that his batting strategy will be guided by 'what the team needs' in their World Twenty20 semi-final against India in Dhaka on Friday.
India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said it was important for him to bat up the order as he was not getting any opportunity to spend time in the middle since the top-order was performing consistently well for them.
Cricket's world governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), said on Monday that its anti-corruption unit was probing the Hong Kong team but ruled out any match-fixing angle to its investigation.
At least nine people have been killed and 77 people trapped across Taiwan after a powerful earthquake struck the island's eastern coast, CNN reported, citing the National Fire Agency (NFA).
South Africa left-arm spinner Aaron Phangiso will miss the first two Twenty20 Internationals against Australia this week after his action was found to be illegal by the International Cricket Council's testing laboratory.
Indian Premier League side Delhi Daredevils signed West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels to replace injured South African wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock for the remainder of the tournament.
Thirty years after Imran Khan's Pakistan claimed the 1992 World Cup, Babar Azam's team may feel it is their destiny to deliver trophy.
Pakistan head coach Waqar Younis has offered to resign after his team were knocked out of the World Twenty20 at the Super 10 stage, the BBC reported on Tuesday. Pakistan exited the tournament after winning just one of their four games in Group Two. The team, captained by Shahid Afridi, beat Bangladesh, but lost to New Zealand, Australia and arch-rivals India. "I place my hands together and beg forgiveness from the nation. If my leaving makes things better, then I would do it without delay," Younis told a news conference.
Vice-captain Virender Sehwag is likely to miss India's opening encounter of the ICC World Twenty20 against Bangladesh at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, on Saturday. Coach Gary Kirsten indicated that he is yet to fully recover from a Grade 1 tear in his shoulder.
India's most successful captain Sourav Ganguly will start a new innings post-retirement. It will be behind the microphone, as expert analyst for the ICC World Twenty20, commencing in England on Saturday. As per a deal with ESPN-STAR Sports, Ganguly will be part of a commentary panel that includes Ian Chappell, Ian Bishop, Wasim Akram, Sanjay Manjrekar, Harsha Bhogle and Nasser Hussain.
Temba Bavuma has recovered from injury and will take charge
With only five matches in the group and just the top two progressing to the semi-finals, Australia will need to hit their stride in their tournament opener against the Proteas in Abu Dhabi next Saturday, Starc added.
Twenty20 cricket came home with England's impressive World Cup win on Sunday and the game, which began as a crowd-pleasing thrash, really came of age over the past three weeks in the Caribbean.
Jolted by the shock loss to New Zealand in the opening game, India will be fighting a survival battle quite early in the tournament when they take on arch foes Pakistan in what is being seen as the marquee clash of the ICC World Twenty20 in Kolkata on Saturday. The hosts, who started clear title-favourites, were in for a blow in the first match itself when New Zealand's spinners bamboozled their famed batting line-up on a turning Nagpur track. As a result, the world No.1 side is staring at an early elimination should it lose to Pakistan in the high-voltage game at the Eden Gardens. As is the case with most India-Pakistan contests, this game too has been preceded by its share of drama. The match was originally scheduled to be held in Dharamsala but was shifted here after the Himachal Pradesh government expressed inability to provide security to the Pakistan team owing to protests by ex-servicemen and their families.
New Zealand opener Martin Guptill has credited his side's unbeaten run in the ongoing World Twenty20 to the fun-loving approach which they have been following in the shortest format of the game.
The former India captain heaped rich praise on Yuvraj Singh, saying, "Players like him are good in any form of cricket."
While Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his band of men journey towards Dhaka, on Friday, with an eye the World Twenty20 Championship title, a question that will rankle Indian supporters is can the former champions bring home the title again?
Factbox on the World Twenty20 in India from March 8-April 3.
Mithali Raj will lead a 14-member Indian team in the ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament to be held in Sri Lanka from September 26 to October 7.
'I am not sure about another two (tournaments). Obviously, results determine how well you do and how often you are kept on. But certainly, my hunger and determination are as strong as ever.'
Shoaib Malik will lead Pakistan for the first time in a Test match on Monday with a spin friendly pitch expected at the National Stadium for the start of a two-Test series against South Africa.
Pakistan once again rose to the occasion in style when they outplayed Sri Lanka by eight wickets to win the ICC World Twenty20 at Lord's in London, on Sunday.
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