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2016 Asia Cup Cricket will host by Bangladesh

In a mitting of Asian Cricket Council at Singapore, it is decided the 2016 Asia Cup cricket will held in Bangladesh and that will be 3^rd consecutive time this tournament will host by Bangladesh. The Tournament will began from 24^th February after participating 5 teams The Host, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and an associate member which comes through a qualification round. ACC have decided the upcoming Asia Cup will be in T20 format which will be the first edition of T20 of this tournament, for the reason of upcoming T20 World Cup.

In the earliest of Singapore meeting, Asia Cup T20’s host team was India but BCCI did not agree to host this tournament because they have a big upcoming tournament, T20 World Cup which will start from March 1^st.

On the other hand BCB Chairman Nazmul Hasab Papon says “PCB first shown the point that next year’s scheduled Asia Cup Cricket tournament should host by Bangladesh and everyone agreed with his opinion”

4 test Playing nation from Asia will get direct entire and a qualification round will host among 4 associate member like Oman, Afghanistan, Hong Kong and UAE in the earlier of December this year. ACC point out “We also concede the weather condition and a lot of U-19 level cricket held in Dhaka this year among Asian Countries.”

All over this will be the 5^th edition host by Dhaka of this tournament where most previous 2 edition were held Bangladesh following 2012 and 2014. And Bangladesh where host this tournament at 1998 and 2000 as well.

Bangladesh to host Asia Cup for third straight time

Bangladesh Cricket Board President Nazmul Hassan confirmed on his return from the meeting on Wednesday night that the country will organise the competition for the third successive time.

The BCB chief said it was an unanimous decision.

All the countries agreed when Pakistan proposed Bangladesh as hosts for the competition, which is likely to be held in February-March next year.

India was ahead in the race for arranging the 13th edition of the competition. But Hassan had earlier hinted that the 2016 Asia Cup would be held in Bangladesh if India decided otherwise.

Bangladesh, who also hosted the 2012 and 2014 editions, will organise the tournament for a record fifth time ahead of Sri Lanka, who hosted it four times.

The competition was held twice in the United Arab Emirates while India and Pakistan hosted it once each.

In April, the ACC announced that the Asia Cup would be held in T20 and one-day formats alternatively in accordance with World Twenty20s and World Cups.

With India hosting the World T20 later in 2016, next year's tournament will be in the shorter format for the first time while the 2018 edition will be played in one-day format with the World Cup in 2019.

The competition will comprise five teams like the 2014 edition, with one playing qualifiers to earn the right to join the four Test-playing nations.

Hosts UAE, Afghanistan, Hong Kong and Oman will play the qualifiers next month.

Cricket news: Asia Cup 2016 to be held in Bangladesh; India will host in 2018

Ever since the Asia Cup was introduced in 1984, the tournament has always been played in a fifty over format. However, the 2016 edition will be the first time when the giants of Asian cricket will battle it out in the shortest format of the game – T20.

The thirteenth edition of the Asia Cup is scheduled to be played in Bangladesh, which also marks the nation hosting the competition for the third straight time. Overall, Bangladesh have hosted the tournament in 1988, 2000, 2012 and 2014 in the past. India has been chosen as the next Asia Cup hosts for the 2018 edition.

The organisers did not have an alternative venue for the 2016 edition as India will be hosting the T20 World Cup next year and other countries were also overlooked for different reasons.

"Since India would host World T20 next year, the Asia Cup T20 will serve as an ideal preparatory tournament for Asian nations. With international cricket not possible in Pakistan and Sri Lanka will be in midst of monsoon, Bangladesh was the unanimous choice of the members," PTI quoted BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur as saying.

Thakur, who was present during the Asian Cricket Council meeting in Singapore, also confirmed India as the venue for the fourteenth edition of the tournament.

"The 2018 edition in India will be ODI format keeping 2019 World Cup in mind," Thakur stated.

Apart from the venues for the tournament being discussed, a number of important things came up in the meet such as strengthening Asian cricket. The members present in the meeting also agreed to help the associate nations in the sub continent for better exposure at the international level.

"The Asian Test nations like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh will send their A sides with three players mandatory from the senior side. The associate nations like Nepal, Afghanistan and Oman will play their first teams. This is an endeavour to make Asian bloc in cricket stronger. The more they will play against Test nations, they will become far more competitive," Thakur said.