After the recently concluded Asia Cup, there is already a growing buzz about cricket at Bangladesh this season. With a total of 16 teams participating in this edition of the world cup and consisting of new entrants like Nepal and Hong Kong along with a completely new format, the ICC T20 World Cup 2014 is rearing to jump start. Following is the schedule of the tournament: 
Sri Lanka after convincingly wining the Asia Cup are firm favorites. West Indies will look to gain some momentum after the bumpy run that they have had in the past three series and retain the championship. After a bad run by India at the Asia cup, the return of skipper MS Dhoni would be a big boost as they try to find their winning ways. On the contrary, one can have no doubts about how menacing Australia can be considering the performances in the past few months having completely outclassed England at the Ashes.. They are definitely a big hurdle for the other teams. With the departure of Graeme Smith, South Africa has a huge hole to be plugged. But they can never be underestimated as they are known to be exquisite at this format of the game. New Zealand and England will be very confident coming into this tournament having beaten India and West Indies fair and square.
Bangladesh has also shown some gutsy performances in the Asia Cup and with home support they are likely to provide an upset. On the whole, we have a wonderfully set tournament with fairly bifurcated groups having equal potential with England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and South Africa in Group A and Australia, India, Pakistan and West Indies ready to battle it out in the other group with an additional team in both the groups from the initial groups. They consist of Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Nepal and Afghanistan in Group A and Zimbabwe, Ireland, Netherlands and UAE in Group B.
Let the cricket begin!
PS: The article is written by CricBol.com intern Aditya Sastry.