ICC T20 World Cup 2016 Schedule, Time Table, Fixtures, Teams, ICC T20 WC Live Streaming Score

The Delhi High Court held on 18th December said that ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2016 matches cannot be played in Delhi unless the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) acquires completion certificate and requisite compliances. ICC Twenty20 World Cup is scheduled to be held in India from 8th march to 3rd April. 

A seat of judges B.D. Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva further said that it had in its past request permitted DDCA to hold India-South Africa Test arrangement match in New Delhi from December 3 to 7 on the terms that in future they won't lead any new competition without a fulfillment authentication. 

It additionally said that in its December 18 request it was made clear that DDCA was given "last risk" to get the essential clearances by 31st walk. Clearances from Archeological Survey of India and Delhi Urban Arts Commission alongside no-protest declaration from Land and Development Office and a fulfillment testament from South Delhi Municipal Corporation.

If Mahendra Singh Dhoni heads India's limited-overs teams then Virat Kohli is in charge of the Test side. But both the cricketers will be against each other on Sunday as FC Goa and Chennaiyin FC will lock horns in the summit clash of the Indian Super League (ISL).

Before the finale, IBNLive takes a look at few of the players who can be crucial for Chennaiyin FC on Sunday.

John Stiven Mendoza Valencia: With 12 goals in 15 matches, Colombian striker Stiven Mendoza has been in red-hot form in this season's ISL. Mendoza has been one of the main characters in Chennaiyin's remarkable turnaround and that has made this young striker undroppable. Mendoza is a comfortable favourite for the Golden Boot award this year as he is the leading goal scorer of the league. What makes him dangerous is his ability to make room in the penalty area. Mendoza is a threat to Goa's defence and is left unmarked, he will surely not miss a chance to punish Zico's men.

Edel Apoula: The Cameroon-born Edel was one of the best goalkeepers last season. Playing for Atletico de Kolkata in ISL 1, he recorded a save percentage of 86.3% . This year, Edel might have traded his colours but not his habbit. Edel has 10 clean sheets now in ISL. With 6 clean sheets under his belt this season, the former Paris Saint-Germain custodian is arguably one of the finest performers in the knock-out stages of ISL. In the last season's final, he pulled off arguably the best and most crucial save of ISL 2014 when he expertly saved a Michael Chopra close range effort. His experience of playing in big matches will definitely prove handy for Chennaiyin FC.

Jeje Lalpekhlua: One of the brightest young talents in the country and a winner the I-League in his first year with Mohun Bagan, Jeje had a brilliant first season of the ISL. He scored four goals in the league, the most by any Indian. And this year too, Jeje is at it again. The young forward has scored 6 goals and is one shy of equalling Sunil Chhetri's tally of 7 goals. Jeje is the highest goal scoring Indian in the history of ISL. Jeje's partnership with Mendoza has been one of the highlights this season for Chennaiyin FC.

Mailson Alves-Bernard Mendy Pairing: Mailson is Chennaiyin’s best centre back in terms of clearing the danger out from the box. They have been very flexible at the back, but it is quite evident that the partnership of Mailson and Mendy has been the most fruitful for the Super Machans.

Elano Blummer: The former Manchester City striker was the best performer for Chennaiyin FC last season. The Brazilian, who was last season's Golden Boot winner, has been a creative midfielder and netted 4 goals this season. The combination of Elano and Mendoza have done wonders for Chennai throughout the season and coach Marco Materazzi will depend a lot on Elano's antics in the final.

Indian teams for the tour of Australia were announced on Saturday by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) with Yuvraj Singh making a comeback. The selectors surprised everyone by picking the old guards like Harbhajan Singh and Ashish Nehra, and also by giving chances to youngsters who have performed well in domestic circuit like Brainder Sran and Hardik Pandya.

ODI: Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey, Mahendra Singh Dhoni(C), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd. Shami, Axar Patel, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Gurkeerat Maan, Rishi Dhawan, Brainder Sran

T20: Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni(C), Suresh Raina, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd. Shami, Harbhajan Singh, Umesh Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashish Nehra

The tour comprises five ODIs and three T20 Internationals to be played between January 12 and 31 at Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney (ODIs), Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney (T20Is).

The ICC World T20 Cup is officially on in full swing and already there are signs of it being a cracker of a tournament. What makes it even more special is that the teams this year are structured in such a way it is next to impossible to pick the winner in the current edition. Here’s looking at the top four teams that  stand a chance at winning the tourney on October 7.

India – The inaugural winners of the Cup, India certainly has an edge in T20s what with IPL being a huge sellout in the country over the past five years. The experience of players from the IPL will only help the team and the pitches in Sri Lanka, which is hosting the tournament, is not very different from Indian surfaces, except for a little less turn and bounce. That’s another advantage that India carries apart from a fairly robust team with the likes of Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Suresh Raina and Virat Kohli able to win matches on their own if they strike form. The bowling department is a little weak but comeback Singhs – Yuvraj and Harbhajan – will look to make the maximum gains for India. If we win, India will hold the enviable record of becoming the first nation to hold the ODI World Cup as well as World T20 Cup simultaneously.

Pakistan – Pakistan is to T20 what South Africa is to ODIs - the team that has always fallen just short. A misjudged scoop shot by Misbah-ul Haq sealed their fate in the first T20 World Cup.  But their consistency is beyond doubt. Pakistan has been in two finals, won once and reached the semi-finals last time around. The team, which is now led by Mohammed Hafeez, will see the return of players like Abdul Razzak, Mohammad Sami, Shoaib Malik and Sohail Tanvir, making this the most potent bowling attack in the tournament. And let’s not forget the ace in Pakistan’s armoury - Shahid Afridi - who will be keen to make a mark in this edition and continue his fine form in T20s.

West Indies – This is one team that is definitely on a high. West Indies were ruthless in their domination of New Zealand and beat the latter in all three formats of the game in their recently concluded series. This Darren Sammy led side can definitely go all the way given their mix of players and proven match winners. This IPL’s poster boy Chris Gayle is a part of the team, which means fireworks can definitely be expected. Apart from Gayle, other big hitters who found fame at the IPL such as Kieron Pollard, Marlon Samuels and Dwayne Smith are also part of the team along with Sunil Narine and Ravi Rampaul and Fidel Edwards who form a formidable pace attack among themselves. West Indies is the black horse of this tournament, no doubt about it.

Sri Lanka – This isn’t really difficult to guess. The team will look to make maximum use of their home crowd as they look for their elusive first T20 title. This is also the team that boasts of a mind-boggling array of world-class batsmen such as Kumar Sangakkara, Tillakaratne Dilshan and captain Mahela Jayawardene. All-rounder Angelo Matthews and pacer Lasith Malinga are other names the opposition will have to contend with. The team is ranked third in the ICC T20 rankings right now but without the presence of a ICC trophy, the team’s validation in this format will always be questioned. Sri Lanka will look to its power performers to change that equation in its favour.

We’re betting these four teams will make it to the semis but when the stakes get that high, it is almost impossible to predict who’ll win, especially in a tournament as unpredictable and mercurial as T20s. Who do you think will lift the Cup?

As the T20 cricket world cup kicks off today, here's a look back at the best showdowns in Twenty20's short history!

Chris Gayle is a true beast of a player when it comes to this form of cricket, having proved his capabilities time and again in IPL as well as international T20. This one held during the inaugural ICC World T20 in 2007 saw him scoring a 117 by hitting 10 sixes and seven boundaries, and taking the grand total to 205

Yet the Africans' strong batting line-up thwarted down the Indies' 205, making this one spectacular match to watch!

West Indies tour of Bangladesh saw the Indies thwarting the Bangladeshi team time and again, but this time around, the Bongs brought a cannon to a gun-fight.

The Indies set a target of 132 for the Bangladeshis to chase, which they thought the latter would be thoroughly incapable of doing, but they did and they did it with flair! It came to a point where they needed four runs off two balls to which Mushfiqur Rahim smashed a massive six to bag the match, and pride!

South Africans surely know how to put up a show when it comes to Twenty20. Making their third sighting on this list, the Proteans were pitted against the Kiwis who made an excellent target of 174 for the Africans to follow.

This is when the Proteans rolled out Richard Levi to play and he played the game of his life! Scoring a brilliant 117 by hitting 13 sixes and 5 fours, Levi levelled out the Kiwis' 174 with 24 balls to spare!

The India VS. Pakistan group match of 2007's ICC T20 World Cup was one breath-taking match to remember! India having scored 141, set the target for Pakistan to achieve. And Pakistan proved a point by chasing it till the end, only to falter at the last ball to tie the match down.Â

This moment boiled down to a nail-biting finish depending solely on the bowl out, which the Indians gracefully bagged. All thanks to Sehwag, Bajji, and Robin Uthappa's accurate bowling of course!

T20 World Cup Venues | India

No.	Venue	City	Country	Capacity
1	Eden Gardens	Kolkata	India	66,349
2	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium	Bangalore	India	40,000
3	Wankhede Stadium	Mumbai	India	32,000
4	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium	Chennai	India	38,000
5	HPCA Stadium	Dharamshala	India	23,000
6	Feroz Shah Kotla Ground	New Delhi	India	40,715
7	PCA-I.S Bindra Stadium	Mohali	India	26,950
8	VCA Stadium (Jamtha)	Nagpur	India	45,000

ICC World Cup 2016 Starting Soon on March 8 First Round and on March 23rd Regular Second Round Started.So, You have to book a ticket for particular matches you need like India vs Pakistan.

The 2016 ICC World Twenty 20 will be the 6th ICC World Twenty 20 tournament and is scheduled to be held in India from 11 March to 3 April. The International Cricket Council Board, after its first meeting in Dubai on Jan 28, 2015, has awarded India to host the World Twenty 20 championship in 2016. As we know Sri Lanka is the defending champions. You can book the tickets of all the matches of team India against the opponent teams on BookMyShow. This is the famous website in India providing the best service of online booking of various shows, leagues, concerts and tournaments. So, book the ticket of your favorite match and get your seat reserved fast. 

 Eight teams will participate in T20 world cup tournament. India is the first country who lifted the trophy for first T20 WC tournament in 2008. Pakistan was the second world cup T20 winner. England defeated Australia in the final match of T20 world cup 2010 tournament and owned their first international cricket trophy ever. West Indies beat Sri Lanka in the fourth T20 world cup tournament in 2011 to take the title. And Sri Lanka was the team which finally won the first world cup T20 trophy by defeating India. Let’s see which team picks up this year’s trophy on 3rd April 2016.

An ignominious defeat by the Netherlands and a limp exit from a tournament they had won four years earlier, the 2014 World Twenty20 marked one of the lowest points in England cricket history. Thanks to a stunning change of approach, Eoin Morgan's side can now be considered serious contenders for the 2016 competition in India starting on 8 March.

A historic 3-0 series whitewash of Pakistan in the UAE in November extended England's winning T20 run to six games - and they have lost only once since their Dutch humiliation.

After the draw for the World T20 was made on Friday, England batsman Joe Root and former spinner and 2010 winner Graeme Swann assess the reasons behind their resurgence and discuss whether they can become the first side to win the competition twice.

Andrew Strauss won only four T20 caps as a player, but the decision by England's director of cricket to concentrate more on limited-overs cricket this year was a vital factor in their T20 resurgence this year, according to Swann and Root.

"The greatest thing that's happened is Strauss getting in charge and completely separating the Test and one-day cricket formats, getting specialists in, people who have grown up playing the game," says Swann, who played 39 T20s between 2008 and 2012.

"In my time if you were a centrally contracted player you played ahead of guys that played a lot more T20 cricket.

"I don't think it's any surprise that the upturn in results is due to guys who are just better at the game playing for England."

Yet with separation has come a greater sense of unity between the ODI and T20 sides.

"The way we've approached one-day cricket recently has definitely helped the T20 team with more consistency in the overlap between the sides," says Root.

"You've got guys like Alex Hales and Jason Roy getting a lot more international experience.

"Having that opening partnership go across both formats and that understanding of batting with one another, that's very important."

Shahid Afridi said he hoped a tough ICC World T20 2016 draw would motivate his team to win the title for the first time in seven years and beat arch-rivals India.

Pakistan’s Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi on Thursday said he hoped a tough ICC World T20 2016 draw would motivate his team to win the title for the first time in seven years and beat arch-rivals India along the way. The 2009 champions are placed in Group 2 of the Super Ten round in the sixth edition of the World Twenty20 to be held from March 8 — April 3 2016, along with hosts India, Australia, New Zealand, and a yet to be decided qualifier. Their second match will be against India, a team they have never beaten in either a traditional one-day World Cup or the newer World Twenty20. Afridi told AFP: “We have a tough draw but I am hopeful that this challenge will pump-up my team to win the title and on the way beat India.” Pakistan lost to India in both the group round and final of the inaugural World Twenty20 in 2007 and then in two subsequent tournaments.

They have also lost to India every time they have faced them in six World Cups. But Afridi said it was time for a change. “I don’t want to live in history,” he said. “Whatever mistakes we usually make in the matches against India we have to overcome them.” Pakistan’s recent form does not augur well. Last month they lost to England 3-0 in a Twenty20 series in the United Arab Emirates, slipping to six in the rankings. “We made school boy errors and despite putting up good fights in all three matches we lost by narrow margins so we have to be on our toes and should not repeat those mistakes,” said Afridi, who is set to draw the curtain on his two-decade long career after the event. READ: India-Pakistan ICC World T20 2016 clash confirmed for March 19 at Dharamsala

Pakistan have three Twenty20 matches on their tour of New Zealand next month before featuring in the six-nation Asia Cup Twenty20 in Bangladesh in February. “We have enough matches before the World Twenty20 so we have to find a settled combination and I hope we do well in these matches and carry that form into the World Twenty20.”