Five long years the groups and fans have needed to stand by yet the ICC men's T20 World Cup returns on Sunday with 16 sides hoping to copy the West Indies who lifted the prize in 2016.
Everything starts with the first round in which eight groups are parted into two pools, from whom the best two will fit the bill for the Super 12 where they will join the world's main eight sides.
Among the first-round sides are Sri Lanka, who have played and won more matches in ICC men's T20 World Cup history than some other group, and Bangladesh, the other ever-present among the eight.
Bangladesh will be in real life on the first day of the season against Scotland, however everything starts off with has Oman taking on debutants Papua New Guinea at the Al Amerat Cricket Stadium.
Those four sides are in Group B, while in Group A, Ireland and Netherlands go head to head in a conceivably vital match on Monday, with Sri Lanka going toward Namibia later in the day.
With 12 games across the initial six days, the activity will come thick and quick to choose which groups will endure to the Super 12 where Group 1 resembles a blockbuster with reigning champs, the West Indies, ruling one-day title holders England, and heavyweights Australia and South Africa.
They will be joined by the victors of Group An and the sprinters up in Group B.
In the mean time, in Group 2, debut champs India are joined by extraordinary adversaries Pakistan - who they will look in their initial game - just as New Zealand and Afghanistan, the arising power in T20 cricket, in addition to the victors of Group B and sprinters up from Group A.
The Super 12 activity starts off on October 23 with Australia against South Africa, one of the game's notable competitions, trailed by a day/night issue at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium among England and the West Indies - a rehash of 2016 last when Carlos Brathwaite reported himself to the world.
The accomplished Windies side incorporates three players who included in the primary T20 World Cup - the Universe Boss Chris Gayle, just as all-rounder Dwayne Bravo and quick bowler Ravi Rampaul.
They are three of the seven players who return having likewise showed up in the principal version. The other four are Bangladesh pair Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim, Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez and India opener Rohit Sharma.
Those players could all impact the ultimate result, however as Brathwaite displayed in 2016 with his 34 off 10 conveyances, novices can likewise turn into the legends.
Considering that, could one of Babar Azam, Rishabh Pant, Lockie Ferguson or Tabraiz Shamsi be the player to swing a urgent game this time around?
Shamsi, the main positioned bowler in the men's T20I Player Rankings, could be especially powerful on the turning wickets in the UAE and Oman as he attempts to help South Africa arrive at the semi-finals for the third time.
T20 cricket is about speed, and the Super 12 will likewise pass by instantly with 30 matches in only 17 days.
By November 10, it will be down to only four groups, with the Sheik Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi playing host to the primary semi-last, while the Dubai International Cricket Stadium has the second also the last on November 14.
Over the past six releases of the competition, a triplet of sides have come to the semi-finals on four events.
Pakistan did as such in the initial four releases, while Sri Lanka did it multiple times running somewhere in the range of 2009 and 2014. The opposite side to have overseen it are the West Indies, the main group to have won the competition more than once.
Australia have the best record of any group not to have won the opposition, with three semi-last debuts and one other participants finish in 2010, beaten by England in the last.
Under the administration of Aaron Finch, could this be the competition where they break their duck? Or then again perhaps Afghanistan will proceed with a noteworthy ascent, led by the world's main all-rounder Mohammad Nabi and the ICC Men's T20I Player of the Decade Rashid Khan.
At this stage it is difficult to tell, so one should follow each snapshot of what ought to be an exhilarating World Cup.
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