DELHI (Staff Report) – New Zealand will Wednesday (today) face off England in the World T20 2016’s first semifinal game at Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium, Delhi.
The match will begin at 7:00pm (Indian Standard Time) and 6:30pm (Pakistan Standard Time).
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New Zealand Squad:
Kane Williamson (captain), Corey Anderson, Trent Boult, Martin Guptill, Grant Elliott, Colin Munro, Mitchell McClenaghan, Nathan McCullum, Adam Milne, Henry Nicholls, Luke Ronchi (wicketkeeper), Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor.
England Squad:
Jason Roy, James Vince, Alex Hales, Joe Root, Moeen Ali, Eoin Morgan (captain), Jos Buttler (wicketkeeper), Ben Stokes, Sam Billings, David Willey, Liam Plunkett, Reece Topley, Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid, Liam Dawson.
The second semifinal will be played between India and West Indies on Thursday at Mumbai’s Wekhende Stadium.
The winners of two semifinals will face off each other in the final game on April 3 at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens Stadium. There is a reserve day for the finals.
Ten teams fought each other in SUper 10 round to reach semifinals, followed by a qualifying round where Bangladesh and Afghanistan remained the top teams.
The men’s event will carry a total prize money of $5.6million, which is an 86 per cent increase from the 2014 tournament, while the total prize money for the women’s event is $400,000, which is a 122 per cent increase from the Bangladesh event.