ICC World Cup T20 2014 Fixture, Score, Live Streaming Online

ICC (International Cricket Council) World Cup Twenty20 2014 will be the 5th season of World Cup T20, which will be hosted by Bangladesh during 16th March to 6th April, 2014. This will be the first ever international cricket tournament which will be hosted by Bangladesh totally. Previously, Sri Lanka hosted this tournament on 2012. So, this is the second time that an Asian country will have the honour to host such a big tournament of cricket.
Cricket is being more and more exciting day by day. After the introduction of Twenty20 version of cricket, the popularity of this game has increased to a higher level among people of all age groups. Tournaments like BPL, IPL, SLPL etc have become popular and brought more and more people to the cricket ground. As World Cup is a battle of countries, this tournament will surely be a success. Bangladesh has a huge number of cricket loving people who will enjoy each and every match of this tournament and will make it a success.

TEAMS:

This tournament will consist of 10 teams. 8 of these teams has been confirmed according to the ICC Cricket Rating. Bangladesh & Zimbabwe have to play a pre-tournament qualifying round with another 6 teams. The 2 winners of this round will join the 8 teams in the main tournament.

There is another twist! These 6 teams will be confirmed by another qualifying round. 16 teams will fight for these 6 positions, starting from 15th November, 2013. So, ultimately this tournament will consist of 16+2+8=24 teams.

QUALIFIER GROUP A	QUALIFIER GROUP B
IRELAND	AFGHANISTAN
CANADA	BERMUDA
HONG KONG	DENMARK
ITALY	NETHERLANDS
NAMIBIA	NEPAL
UGANDA	KENYA
USA	PAPUA NEW GUINEA
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES	SCOTLAND

Meanwhile, 6 teams have been selected through the Qualifier Round. These teams will play a Pre-Tournament Series with Bangladesh & Zimbabwe according to the following groups:

PRE-TOURNAMENT GROUP A	PRE-TOURNAMENT GROUP B
BANGLADESH	ZIMBABWE
AFGHANISTAN	IRELAND
NEPAL	NETHERLANDS
HONG KONG	UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

2 Teams will be selected from the above table. Thus, the actual groups of ICC T20 World Cup will be the following:

GROUP 1	GROUP 2
ENGLAND	AUSTRALIA
NEW ZEALAND	INDIA
SOUTH AFRICA	PAKISTAN
SRI ALANKA	WEST INDIES
GROUP B WINNER	GROUP A WINNER

VENUES:

There will be 35 matches in total in this tournament. These matches will be hosted by three (3) venues: Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium [Dhaka], Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium [Chittagong] & Sylhet Divisional Stadium [Sylhet].

DHAKA	CHITTAGONG	SYLHET
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium	Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium	Sylhet Divisional Stadium
Capacity: 26,000	Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 22,000

The Qualifier Matches between 16 teams will be hosted by United Arab Emirates. Pre-Tournament Matches among 8 teams will be held in Sylhet & Chittagong. Then Group 1 matches will be held in Dhaka & Group 2 matches will be held in Chittagong.

FIXTURE/SCHEDULE:

PRE-TOURNAMENT GROUP MATCHES
MATCH	DATE	TIME [BST]	TEAM	TEAM	VENUE	WINNER
1	16/03/2014	11:00 A.M	BAN	AFG	DHAKA
2	16/03/2014	3:00 P.M	HK	NEP	CHITTAGONG
3	17/03/2014	11:00 A.M	IRE	ZIM	SYLHET
4	17/03/2014	3:00 P.M	NET	UAA	SYLHET
5	18/03/2014	11:00 A.M	AFG	HK	CHITTAGONG
6	18/03/2014	3:00 P.M	BAN	NEP	CHITTAGONG
7	19/03/2014	11:00 A.M	NET	ZIM	SYLHET
8	19/03/2014	3:00 P.M	IRE	UAA	SYLHET
9	20/03/2014	11:00 A.M	AFG	NEP	CHITTAGONG
10	20/03/2014	3:00 P.M	BAN	HK	CHITTAGONG
11	21/03/2014	7:00 A.M	UAA	ZIM	SYLHET
12	21/03/2014	11:00 A.M	IRE	NET	SYLHET

TOURNAMENT MATCHES
MATCH	DATE	TIME [BST]	TEAM	TEAM	VENUE	WINNER
13	21/03/2014	3:00 P.M	IND	PAK	DHAKA
14	22/03/2014	11:00 A.M	SL	SA	CHITTAGONG
15	22/03/2014	3:00 P.M	ENG	NZ	CHITTAGONG
16	23/03/2014	11:00 A.M	PAK	AUS	DHAKA
17	23/03/2014	3:00 P.M	WI	IND	DHAKA
18	24/03/2014	11:00 A.M	NZ	SA	CHITTAGONG
19	24/03/2014	3:00 P.M	SL	TBD	CHITTAGONG
20	25/03/2014	3:00 P.M	TBD	WI	DHAKA
21	27/03/2014	11:00 A.M	SA	TBD	CHITTAGONG
22	27/03/2014	3:00 P.M	ENG	SL	CHITTAGONG
23	28/03/2014	11:00 A.M	WI	AUS	DHAKA
24	28/03/2014	3:00 P.M	TBD	IND	DHAKA
25	29/03/2014	11:00 A.M	NZ	TBD	CHITTAGONG
26	29/03/2014	3:00 P.M	ENG	SA	CHITTAGONG
27	30/03/2014	12:00 P.M	PAK	TBD	DHAKA
28	30/03/2014	4:00 P.M	IND	AUS	DHAKA
29	31/03/2014	12:00 P.M	ENG	TBD	CHITTAGONG
30	31/03/2014	4:00 P.M	SL	NZ	CHITTAGONG
31	1/04/2014	12:00 P.M	TBD	AUS	DHAKA
32	1/04/2014	4:00 P.M	WI	PAK	DHAKA
SEMI-FINAL 1	3/04/2014	3:30 P.M	TBD	TBD	DHAKA
SEMI-FINAL 2	4/04/2014	3:30 P.M	TBD	TBD	DHAKA
FINAL	6/04/2014	3:30 P.M	TBD	TBD	DHAKA

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Great News! You can watch the Winter Olympics in Sochi…wherever you are in the world

The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia are upon us and will continue to 23 February.

Very few countries are broadcasting the games due to expensive broadcasting rights, but there is good news. Some of the main countries streaming the event live online include the US, UK, Australia, Canada and, unsurprisingly, most Nordic countries. If you live in the States you will need a subscription to the US network NBC, which has the broadcasting rights, and if you don’t live in the other countries streaming the games, regular access will be pretty much impossible.

Many winter sports fans based in countries without coverage may have given up on the idea of watching one of the many events such as curling, ice hockey, and snowboarding, but a VPN can easily make this possible.

We’re currently seeing a massive increase for our VPN service, particularly for our Norwegian servers, and we guess these are Norwegian expats wanting to watch the Olympics. For those of you who aren’t able to watch the games, you just need to purchase HMA! Pro VPN where our VPN will assign you a different IP address (choose from 68,000 IP addresses located in 132 locations, in 63 countries). If, for example, you want to watch the games shown by a UK channel,  simply connect to a UK based server and head to one of the channels who are broadcasting it and hey presto! You are now virtually residing in the UK; every online activity you perform is as if you are in the UK, therefore, you can watch the games.

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How to Watch the Winter Olympics Online

NBC has been showered with praise for its decision to stream every event from Sochi live online on NBCOlympics.com and its NBC Sports Live Extra apps for iOS and Android. It’s the first time that’s been done for the Winter Olympics, though NBC did the same for the London Games in 2012.

That’s great news for Olympics fans who want to watch everything as it happens, since the network’s primetime telecasts will obviously be tape-delayed. The big catch: You have to be a cable or satellite subscriber.

The online streams will include both the same live coverage you’d get on NBC’s cable channels and world feeds of individual events, NBC told me. The only thing that NBC won’t be streaming online are Friday’s opening ceremonies. “We want to put context to it, with the full pageantry it deserves,” NBC Sports Group chairman Mark Lazarus semi-explained to Variety. (As viewers learned in 2012, that’s NBC-speak for Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira chortling at their own ignorance.)

Cord-cutters, on the other hand, have nothing to cheer about, unless they live outside the United States. To access the coverage, you have to log in through your cable or satellite provider or try your luck with a live stream from overseas.

On one level, it’s understandable that NBC would prefer not to make its full suite of live coverage available to people who don’t pay for its cable channels. The network paid $4.3 billion for the exclusive U.S. broadcast rights to the Olympics through 2020, and it wants to maximize its return on that investment. It does feel a little insulting, though, that those who have Internet service but not a TV can’t even watch the same network telecast that’s available for free over the air. Fox, by contrast, made its live stream of the Super Bowl available to everyone.

For those determined to watch some of the Olympics live without signing up for cable, there are a handful of potential loopholes.

First, you can pick a few scraps of online coverage via a “temporary pass” that NBCOlympics.com will offer to unverified users. That’s good for 30 minutes of live streaming the first time you visit the site, but just five minutes a day thereafter, so you’ll have to plan carefully.

Second, you can of course watch NBC’s primetime coverage over the air if you have a digital antenna. The broadcast coverage starts Thursday at 8 p.m. eastern, and you can find a full listings of times and events here.

Third, perhaps you know someone who has a cable-TV username and password and would be willing to share. You’d probably be breaking the law to take advantage of this, but that doesn’t stop a lot of people from doing it—or even writing New York Times stories about it.

Finally, depending on your scruples, you can take advantage of the fact that the United Kingdom and Canada do not discriminate against cord-cutters. As Forbes’ Amadou Diallo explains in his excellent guide to watching the Sochi Olympics without a cable bill, both the BBC and the CBC will offer extensive free live coverage of the events to online viewers in their respective markets. The catch is that your access will be blocked if you try to watch from the United States. It’s possible to get around this restriction using a virtual private network, or VPN, which can be configured to replace your normal IP address with one based in a different country.

As with logging in via someone else’s account, this is clearly against the terms of service for both the BBC and the CBC. Forbes’ Diallo goes into a lot of detail about the legality/illegality of using a VPN to watch overseas coverage. The short version: It’s very unlikely you’ll be prosecuted. So I guess the question is, just how badly do you want to watch the Winter Olympics?

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How to Watch and Follow the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony

Considering that NBC will live stream every second of competition during the Sochi Winter Olympics to those with a pay-TV subscription, it came as a bit of a surprise when the network announced in early January that it will delay airing the opening ceremony for eight and a half hours.


NBC Universal executives explained that streaming the grandiose ceremony so early in the day (U.S. viewers on the East Coast would have seen it at 11 a.m.) would be both confusing and underwhelming.

See also: How to Watch and Follow the Sochi Winter Olympics Online

Of course, this poses a problem for Twitter users, as viewers in other countries without restrictions will spoil the event. U.S. viewers hoping to watch BBC or CBC coverage are also out of luck, as those stations are required to restrict streaming access to U.S. viewers due to broadcast rights.
For those keen on watching and following the opening ceremony, we've compiled the following guide.

On Television

Image: NBCOlympics.com

If you're a viewer in the U.S. who doesn't mind waiting eight and a half hours to watch the ceremony, you can always watch the event on NBC when it begins. Canadian and European viewers will be able to watch the ceremony without a tape delay, so check your providers' schedule to find out when the event will be broadcast.

On Twitter

For a behind-the-scenes look, you can follow the athletes, reporters and attendees who will be at the opening ceremony as it happens. The @Sochi2014 account will cover the event, as well as the major broadcasting corporations outside the U.S., such as the @CBCOlympics account or any number of BBC reporters who will be covering the ceremony from Sochi.



Twitter has already compiled a handy list of verified Olympians, and you can watch the stream update in real-time while the ceremony is underway.

On Instagram

If the days leading up to the big event are any indication, athletes and reporters will likely take to Instagram to share photos of the ceremony as it happens. The New York Times put together a list of 10 notable olympians who are active on the network and worth a follow leading up to the ceremony.

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How to watch the Winter Olympics online

Live streaming the Winter Olympics online has become as much of a tradition as the torch-lighting ceremony because TV networks haven't been willing to broadcast the games in real-time through normal channels. The 2014 Sochi Olympics in Russia are going to be no different as the host city is half-way around the world for many fans.
In the past, time-zone differences have meant watching tape-delayed events on TV, including some of the most popular sports: figure skating, alpine skiing, snowboarding and hockey. The internet, especially Twitter, has played spoiler to who won the gold medal in each.

But the web has also provided a solution through online streaming more Olympic events than any one network can handle. NBC for one plans to air more than 1,500 hours of Winter Games coverage through its TV networks, websites and apps.

It's a vast amount of content, but finding the more than 1,000 hours that are supposed to be streamed through the web has become an Olympic sport of its own and requires practice, practice, practice.

Watching from a much warmer vantage point

Watch the Games on the web

The Olympics are truly an international sporting event with NBC in the US, BBC in the UK, CBC in Canada, and Network Ten in Australia all promising snow-wall-to-snow-wall coverage on the web.
NBC is putting hard numbers behind that promise, saying it'll stream every single medal-winning performance of all 98 events in all 15 winter sport disciplines through NBCOlympics.com.

That's easier said than done. Users must first pass through NBC's strict authentication methods that require logging in via a cable or satellite account. This means cord cutters and over-the-air antenna watchers are locked out.

Sorry, cord cutters. A cable or satellite account is required in the US.

Once authenticated, it's up to NBC to make good on its promise to competently stream the Games. The #nbcfail hashtag was born two years ago out of users' frustration at buffering times during the Summer Olympic Games in London. It was impossible to faithfully watch a second of some of the most popular streams in real-time; the 100-meter dash consisted of a starting gun and an instant winner thanks to choppy video. This year will hopefully be different.

Canada, through the CBC, has restrictions in place so that non-Canadian geo-tagged IP addresses prevent them from tapping into the network's live Opening Ceremony feed. A VPN workaround is required to watch it in the morning vs its tape-delayed broadcast on NBC.

The BBC will attempt a similar feat in the UK through its BBC Sport website boasting six HD streams with a total of 650 hours of Winter Olympics coverage.

In Australia, the Ten Network has the rights to broadcast the Olympics and a streaming platform to go along with that via its Ten Play website.

Watch the Games on a mobile device

Live streaming through smartphones and tablets is more prevalent at the Sochi Winter Olympics compared to four years ago when the Vancouver Games were held. After all, the iPad hadn't even been announced at the time.
Networks are no longer turning a cold shoulder to tiny screens, with apps available on all three major platforms: iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8.

iOS, Android, Windows Phone: A triple appxel

In fact, NBC has two apps dedicated to its 1,000-plus hours of mobile streaming content. NBC Sports Live Extra and its second-screen NBC Olympics Highlights and Results. Live Extra is obviously the more desired app of the two due to its live streaming capabilities, but like the NBCOlympics.com website, it too requires account authentication.

The official CBC Sochi 2014 app is the best way for Canadian viewers to watch the games on the go from an iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8 device.
The BBC Sport app works on iOS and Android smartphones and tablets, and while we haven't found a way for Windows Phone 8 users to enjoy the games in the UK, the network is catering to owners of Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets.

Australia's Ten Network has live mobile feed has eight simultaneous streams available on both iOS and Android devices.

How to stream to a TV

Appreciating the frozen landscape of Sochi, Russia by watching the Winter Olympics on a normal-sized TV without a cable box or a satellite dish requires some extra gadgets.
The easiest way is to beam the streaming picture from an Apple computer, smartphone or tablet to an Apple TV via AirPlay mirroring. This wireless connection beats having to run wires from a device to the television, and Google's Chromecast doesn't have similar mirroring just yet.
This is as long as NBC doesn't disable AirPlay mirroring like Fox Sports Go did for the English version of its Super Bowl live streaming app earlier this week. For some reason, the Spanish-language feed worked just fine.

Apple TV or a regular old HDMI cord can do the trick

Alternatively, you can always run an HDMI or Mini DisplayPort cable from a computer or laptop to the TV for the hardwired method of porting the small-screen picture to an HDTV.
Finally, folks in Australia will be able to download the Xbox One and Xbox 360 Ten Play app to conveniently stream coverage of the Olympics to their HDTVs via Microsoft's consoles.

How to watch the Opening Ceremony

Online streaming of the Winter Olympics starts off with a whimper rather a starting pistol bang because several TV networks won't be streaming the elaborate Opening Ceremony. Most time zones would have to air the choreographed spectacle in the morning.

The Opening Ceremony will be tape-delayed to 7:30 p.m. EST in the United States, but America's neighbor to the north will be streaming it live.

The problem is that geo-tagged IP addresses are sure to turn away US viewers wanting to tap. Setting up a VPN ahead of time could give you a nine hour jump on the Opening Ceremony.
Seeing this four-hour live stream, including the seemingly endless parade of athletes, at 11:30 EST may come down to whether or not your IP address is turned away at the border.

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Winter Olympics Live Streaming — Where Can You Watch Online

With the 2014 Sochi Olympics finally kicking off on Feb. 6, many of you will be wondering where to watch the Games — live — 24/7. Get the scoop on where and when to watch your favorite events below!

NBC has finally embraced Olympic livestreaming, and we at HollywoodLife.com couldn’t be more thrilled.

Winter Olympics Live Stream — Where To Watch The 2014 Sochi Olympic Games Online

With 15 sports, 18 days, and 95 medal events to cover, NBC certainly has a lot of Sochi to cover! Luckily, the Peacock has decided to embrace the modern age and livestream everything directly online. Those who want to watch their favorite events — like figure skating and hockey — in primetime can still check in with Bob Costas and the gang, but those of us who need our 24/7 fix can get it at the link below, essentially eliminating that pesky nine-hour time difference (from Eastern Standard Time) that has made Olympics viewing so difficult in the past:

Click Here To Stream The 2014 Sochi Olympics

Beginning on Thursday, Feb. 6, with preliminary rounds of Snowboarding, Freestyle Skiing and Figure Skating, every phase of every competition from all 15 sports will be streamed on the site AND via mobile app.

Television coverage will also expand to 18 days for the first time in Winter Games history, with the addition of a Thursday night NBC Primetime show on Feb. 6, before the Opening Ceremonies on Friday, Feb. 7. Live daytime broadcasts begin Saturday, Feb. 8, on the NBC Sports Network.

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