WT20 2016 Raised Hopes on Associates

              The world T20 2016 as been more successful enough when compared it with previous editions, although the previous editions have the same structure but failed to attract around the globe. The major transformation for this change is due to the rise of associate nations performance through out the tournament.
              The initial phase of the tournament hasn't caught much eyes with lack of promotion for associates in the qualifiers and the delayed start sale of tickets also played it's part. But gradually the tournament got momentum with Oman registering their maiden win in WT20  against Ireland.
             Qualifiers started to produce some close finishes between Netherlands and Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and Scotland. The seeds laid in the qualifiers transformed in to plants in super 10, where the associates Bangladesh and Afghanistan threatened top ranked teams.
              Bangladesh haven't registered a win in super10, but produced some close and thrilling finishes ever had in WT20. The last ball loss against India may hunt Bangla, but the thrill and excitement it produced will last more in the hearts of Cricket fans around the globe.
             Earlier the match against Australia, Bangla almost dragged to the end by picking up wickets at Church situations and lot thanks to Mustafizur Rahaman for his exceptional talent in deceiving the batsmen with his various slower cutters under his sleeve.
            WT20 as to be the biggest story for Afghan Cricket, where they won all their qualifying matches with ease and dominance. They progressed with every game in super10 stage against srilanka it was a tough fight after loss of early wickets. But they showed lot of character in rebuilding and came hard with the ball.
           In the next encounter aginst Proteas they threated to chase 209 at a stage it looked like it slipping away from the Proteas. Then against England they almost won with picking 7 wickets for 50 odd runs, but fallen short to chase later on.
              After that it was the big match against Windes, where they beaten the T20 stars in some style with registering a win in Super10. At end it was only the Afghan who won against the mighty Windes through out the tournament.
             While the other associates feel unlucky with the way results have been drawn, due to uneven rains. There are also pretty close finishes in qualifiers where the table would have turned the points in favour of others.
             At the end a lot of disappointment shown by them in the way the structure of the qualifying phase been handled. But Bangladesh and Afghan showed with their performance on the field, with rise in the standards of the performance in associate nations. Those performance raised hopes on Associates even more and it may begin altogether a new way in the future.