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Five Tigers to play in all WT20s

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Five Tigers to play in all WT20s
Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza (L) celebrates after the dismissal of Indian batsman Virat Kohli (R) during their Twenty20 match of Asia Cup T20 tournament at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in the capital yesterday. AFP PHOTO

The 27-day ICC World Twenty20 India 2016 begins in Nagpur on  March 8 with 19 men’s players set to feature in their sixth straight event, while 29 women’s cricketers will make their fifth successive appearance.
This was confirmed after all the 16 men’s squads and 10 women’s squads were submitted for the tournament, which will be played at eight venues across India with Eden Gardens in Kolkata to host the finals on April 3, according to an ICC press release. In the men’s event, Bangladesh will field a team, which boasts five players who have played in all the previous five events. They are: Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Mahmudullah and Mushfiqur Rahim.
The India and West Indies sides include three players each who have participated in the previous events, which were staged in South Africa, England, West Indies, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. These players are: MS Dhoni, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh (all India), and Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle and Denesh Ramdin (all West Indies).
Nathan McCullum, Ross Taylor (both New Zealand), AB de Villiers, JP Duminy (both South Africa), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Lasith Malinga (both Sri Lanka), Shahid Afridi (Pakistan) and Shane Watson (Australia) are the other players to attend their sixth straight ICC World Twenty20.
In the women’s event, which has been staged alongside the men’s event since 2009, the West Indies will enter the competition with six players having played in all tournaments to date.

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