The main draw of Asia Cup 2016 will begin on 24th February and for the first time in the history of the tournament, it will be a 20 over affair instead of the traditional 50 over clashes. The Asia Cup will be played in Bangladesh from 19th February to 6th March 2016. It will be the 13th edition of Asia cup and the 5th one to be hosted by Bangladesh. Sri Lanka will be playing the tournament as defending champions, while India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh and the associate United Arab Emirates, who qualified from the qualifying round.
The qualifying round which was played from 19th Feb to 22nd Feb consisted of the UAE, Oman, Hong Kong and Afghanistan and UAE qualified by winning all of its three matches.
Which Channels showing the Asia Cup 2016 Live on Tv:
Asia Cup being the premier tournament of Asia is supposed to have millions of viewers watching the matches from their homes in India, Pakistan, UAE and worldwide. The tournament will precede the ICC World T20 2016 and hence the organizers of the tournament decided to have the tournament in the T20 format, in order to all the participating teams practice for the World T20.
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The Indian fans can watch the matches live on Star Sports 3 in Hindi, Star Sports 1 in English and DD National (Only India Matches). Cricket fans in Pakistan can watch the matches live on Ten Sports, PTV (Only Pakistan matches) and Star Sports network. The Sri Lankan fans will watch the matches live on Sri Lanka national channel. The host nation Bangladesh and its fans can watch Bangladesh matches on Bangladesh TV and all the matches on Channel 9.
Tv Coverage UK: Sky Sports is Channel which most probably broadcast the Asia Cup matches. As this is prime cricket tv channel in Uk and South Asian people live there.
Tv broadcast in India: Star Sports the prime sports tv channel in India will provide tv coverage on Star Sports 1, 2, 3, and 4 with Live online on Starsports.com. They will also provide tv coverage in Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Asia Cup 2016 TV Channels Broadcast Rights:
Country Free-To-Air Channels
European Countries Yupptv.com will have live streams of Asia Cup in every European country plus
viewers in Australia, New Zealand, USA and Canada can also watch Asia Cup live on Yupptv.com website.
Australia FoxSports (no confirmed yet) also available on yupptv.com website via live stream
England SkySports 2 (TBA), yupptv.com (live streaming website)
United States WillowTV ($14.99 a month subscription and watch matches live on TV and website/mobile)
India Star Sports 3 (Hindi commentary), Star Sports 1 (English coverage), DD (only Indian matches)
Pakistan PTV Sports (only Pakistan matches), TenSports (All matches live in Pakistan). StarSports coverage is also available through cable
Bangladesh: Bangladesh TV (only Bangladesh matches). Channel 9 (all matches)
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka national channel to broadcast live Sri Lankan games.
Afghanistan Ariana TV, StarSports coverage through cable
