Group A consists of Namibia, Netherlands, Sri Lanka, and United Arab Emirates in the first phase. Group B has Scotland, Ireland, West Indies, and Zimbabwe. England, Australia, New Zealand, and Afghanistan are in Group 1 of the Super 12. Group 2 has Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and South Africa.
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 squads : All you need to know about the Men’s T20 World Cup 2022. ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 is starting from tomorrow. All 16 teams have announced their squads for the upcoming World Cup in Australia. Let’s take a look at how the teams have lined up for this global tournament.
This year’s World Cup will also be in two phases. First, a total of eight teams divided into two groups of four will play the first phase. From there, the top two teams in each group will advance to the Super 12. The top eight teams in the rankings are already there waiting to confirm the Super 12.
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 squads : All you need to know about the Men’s T20 World Cup 2022
Group A consists of Namibia, Netherlands, Sri Lanka, and United Arab Emirates in the first phase. Group B has Scotland, Ireland, West Indies, and Zimbabwe. England, Australia, New Zealand, and Afghanistan are in Group 1 of the Super 12. Group 2 has Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and South Africa.
All the squads of ICC T20 World Cup 2022:
First Round:
Group A
Namibia: Gerhard Erasmus (c), Stephan Baard, Divan la Cock, Nicol Loftie Eaton, Jan Frylinck, JJ Smit, David Wiese, Ruben Trumpelmann, Zane Green, Bernard Scholtz, Michael van Lingen, Ben Shikongo, Karl Birkenstock, Tangeni Lungameni, Lohan Louwrens, Helao Ya France.
Netherlands: Scott Edwards (c, wk), Max O’Dowd, Stephan Myburgh, Tom Cooper, Bas de Leede, Colin Ackermann, Roelof van der Merwe, Shariz Ahmad, Logan van Beek, Brandon Glover, Timm van der Gugten, Fred Klaassen, Paul van Meekeren, Teja Nidamanuru, Tim Pringle, Vikram Singh.
Sri Lanka: Dasun Shanaka (c), Danushka Gunathilaka, Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis, Charith Asalanka, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Dhananjaya de Silva, Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Jeffrey Vandersay, Chamika Karunaratne, Dushmantha Chameera (Subject to fitness), Lahiru Kumara (Subject to fitness), Dilshan Madushanka, Pramod Madushan. Reserves: Ashen Bandara, Praveen Jayawickrema, Dinesh Chandimal, Binura Fernando, Nuwanidu Fernando.
United Arab Emirates: CP Rizwan (c), Vriitya Aravind (vc), Chirag Suri, Muhammad Waseem, Basil Hameed, Aryan Lakra, Zawar Farid, Kashif Daud, Karthik Meiyappan, Ahmed Raza, Zahoor Khan, Junaid Siddique, Sabir Ali, Alishan Sharafu, and Aayan Khan. Reserves: Sultan Ahmed, Fahad Nawaz, Vishnu Sukumaran, Adithya Shetty, Sanchit Sharma.
Ireland: Andrew Balbirnie (c), Paul Stirling, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Curtis Campher, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Mark Adair, Stephen Doheny, Fionn Hand, Josh Little, Barry McCarthy, Conor Olphert, Simi Singh, Craig Young.
Scotland: Richard Berrington (c), George Munsey, Matthew Cross, Calum MacLeod, Brandon McMullen, Michael Leask, Bradley Wheal, Chris Sole, Chris Greaves, Hamza Tahir, Mark Watt, Safyaan Sharif, Josh Davey, Michael Jones, Craig Wallace.
West Indies: Nicholas Pooran (c), Evin Lewis, Brandon King, Kyle Mayers, Rovman Powell, Shamarh Brooks, Johnson Charles, Sheldon Cottrell, Jason Holder, Odean Smith, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Yannic Cariah, Obed Mccoy, Raymon Reifer.
Zimbabwe: Craig Ervine (c), Ryan Burl, Regis Chakabva, Wessly Madhevere, Sean Williams, Sikandar Raza, Milton Shumba, Clive Madande, Wellington Masakadza, Tony Munyonga, Blessing Muzarabani, Tendai Chatara, Bradley Evans, Luke Jongwe, Richard Ngarava. Reserves: Innocent Kaia, Tadiwanashe Marumani, Tanaka Chivanga, Kevin Kasuza, Victor Nyauchi.
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 squads : All you need to know about the Men’s T20 World Cup 2022
Super 12:
Group 1
Afghanistan: Mohammad Nabi (c), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Hazratullah Zazai, Ibrahim Zadran, Usman Ghani, Najibullah Zadran, Azmatullah Omarzai, Darwish Rasooli, Fareed Ahmad Malik, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Naveen ul Haq, Qais Ahmad, Rashid Khan, Salim Safi. Reserves: Rahmat Shah, Afsar Zazai, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Gulbadin Naib.
Australia: Aaron Finch (c), David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Steven Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Josh Inglis, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade, Ashton Agar, Pat Cummins, Tim David, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Kane Richardson.
England: Jos Buttler (c), Phil Salt, Alex Hales, Dawid Malan, Moeen Ali, Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Ben Stokes, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid, Reece Topley, David Willey, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood. Reserves: Liam Dawson, Richard Gleeson, Tymal Mills.
New Zealand: Kane Williamson (c), Finn Allen, Martin Guptill, Glenn Phillips, Devon Conway, Mark Chapman, Jimmy Neesham, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi, Adam Milne, Lockie Ferguson, Michael Bracewell, Trent Boult.
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 squads : All you need to know about the Men’s T20 World Cup 2022
Group 2
Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan (c), Litton Das, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Soumya Sarkar, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Afif Hossain, Mossadek Hossain, Yasir Ali, Nurul Hasan Sohan, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Shoriful Islam, Ebadot Hossain, Hasan Mahmud, Nasum Ahmed. Reserves: Mahedi Hasan, Sabbir Rahman, Mohammad Saifuddin, Rishad Hossain.
India: Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh. Reserves: Shreyas Iyer, Shardul Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohammed Siraj.
Pakistan: Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan, Fakhar Zaman, Haider Ali, Shan Masood, Asif Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Wasim, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi. Reserves: Usam Qadir, Mohammad Haris, Shahnawaz Dahani.
South Africa: Temba Bavuma (c), Quinton de Kock, Rilee Rossouw, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, Reeza Hendricks, Keshav Maharaj, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Anrich Nortje, Wayne Parnell, Marco Jansen, Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi, Tristan Stubbs. Reserves: Andile Phehlukwayo, Bjorn Fortuin, Lizaad Williams.
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 squads : All you need to know about the Men’s T20 World Cup 2022
So, another T20 tournament, eh?
Yes, but this is the big one. Sure, the BBL-IPL-PSL-CPL-BPL-Hundred (we must be forgetting a couple) are big deals too (some bigger than others, admittedly), and soon there will be at least two more – the SAT20 and the ILT20 – to add to the list. Don’t forget the Asia Cup as well. But this is the cup that counts for more than all the others.
Okay, I’m hooked – tell me more …
It’s the eighth edition of the T20 World Cup. The first one was back in 2007 in South Africa, and it was India’s victory there that gave birth to today’s franchise cricket phenomenon. A few players from that tournament – Dinesh Karthik, Rohit Sharma, Shakib Al Hasan and Sean Williams – are part of this one too, 15 years later. India haven’t got their hands on the trophy since 2007, and it’s been passed on from Pakistan (2009) to England (2010), West Indies (2012 and 2016), Sri Lanka (2014), and now the current champions Australia (2021).
Has the T20 World Cup been held in Australia before?
No, the ODI World Cup has been held in Australia in 1992 and 2015, but this is the first time they are hosting the T20 World Cup. It was supposed to be held there in 2020, but then the Covid-19 pandemic happened. So it’s happening two years later and Australia have the chance to defend their title at home.
Dates and venue details, please?
It starts on October 16 in Geelong in the state of Victoria, with the final in Melbourne on November 13. The other host cities are Hobart, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide – the who’s who of Australian venues.
Okay, what’s the format?
It’s the same as last year. The meaty part of the T20 World Cup is called the Super 12, comprising 12 teams – like it says on the tin. Eight of the 12 have qualified directly for this round – Australia, England, New Zealand and Afghanistan in Group 1; and Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and South Africa in Group 2. The Super 12 stage begins on October 22, with last year’s finalists Australia and New Zealand squaring off in Sydney.
That’s eight of the Super 12 spoken for, what about the other four?
Before the Super 12 begins, there’s a first round that starts on October 16 and runs until the 21st. Netherlands, Sri Lanka, UAE and Namibia comprise Group A of round one, while Ireland, West Indies, Scotland and Zimbabwe form Group B. The top two teams from each group progress to the Super 12 stage.
The two teams walk out for the national anthems, Australia vs New Zealand, T20 World Cup final, Dubai, November 14, 2021
Last year’s finalists kick off the Super 12 stage on October 22•ICC via Getty
There was one last year? Aren’t World Cups usually played a few years apart?
A fair question. The T20 World Cup has been happening every two years since 2010, but then there was a five year gap after the 2016 tournament …
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 squads : All you need to know about the Men’s T20 World Cup 2022
Why?!
The ICC gave it a miss in 2018 because the calendar was just too crowded with bilateral cricket. There was a thought of conducting it in South Africa that year, but the government had banned Cricket South Africa from hosting any major events for not meeting transformation targets.
Okay, go on …
There was an ODI World Cup in 2019, and so the plan was to stage the 2020 T20 World Cup in Australia and the 2021 Champions Trophy in India. But then the Champions Trophy was scrapped and replaced by another T20 World Cup – so there were T20 World Cups scheduled back to back for 2020 and 2021. But then the pandemic ensured the 2020 edition didn’t happen, and because India wanted to keep their 2021 T20 World Cup (which ended up happening in the UAE), Australia’s tournament moved to 2022.
So Australia’s reign as T20 champs could be the shortest?
Umm, this has happened before. Pakistan won the 2009 T20 World Cup in England, and England won the 2010 T20 World Cup in the Caribbean. So Pakistan’s joy was pretty short-lived. Again, it was held in consecutive years because of some issues around the Champions Trophy … but shall we get back to the present?
A general view of the MCG, Australia v India, 3rd ODI, Melbourne, January 18, 2019
The MCG is the arena for the match between India and Pakistan on October 23•Darrian Traynor/Cricket
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 squads : All you need to know about the Men’s T20 World Cup 2022
Okay, regale us with some tales of the past World Cups …
Let’s start with Chris Gayle and the first match of the first T20 World Cup. He gave the tournament the perfect start by smashing the first hundred in T20 internationals. And then Yuvraj Singh went 6,6,6,6,6,6 in one over from Stuart Broad in Durban 2007. Nine years later, Carlos Brathwaite went 6, 6, 6, 6 in the final over of the 2016 T20 World Cup final, to leave Ben Stokes and England shellshocked. There’s lots more … but shall we talk about the big one?
You mean India …
… versus Pakistan, yes. They are playing each other on October 23 in what should be a full house – more than 90,000 fans – at the MCG. It will be quite the spectacle. It’s the opening game of their campaigns, just like last year. Back then, it was Pakistan who ended decades of pain by beating India for the first time in any World Cup, and pushed them towards a group-stage exit from the tournament.
So, what’s new at this World Cup?
There are some rules. This is the first tournament that will implement the new playing conditions that came into effect on October 1 this year. The most significant among them is that teams will be slapped with a fielding penalty if they are slow with their over rate.
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 squads : All you need to know about the Men’s T20 World Cup 2022
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 squads : All you need to know about the Men’s T20 World Cup 2022
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 squads : All you need to know about the Men’s T20 World Cup 2022
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 squads : All you need to know about the Men’s T20 World Cup 2022
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 squads : All you need to know about the Men’s T20 World Cup 2022
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 squads : All you need to know about the Men’s T20 World Cup 2022
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 squads : All you need to know about the Men’s T20 World Cup 2022
