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Five points to know about the 2014 World T20 preliminary stage

Mirpur: ICC 2014 World T20 is about to start from 16th March with its preliminary rounds in which 8 minnows will be competing each other. Top two teams will qualify to super-10 stage of the



ZIMBABWE'S CAMPAIGN:  Zimbabwe is in Group B of the preliminary league along with Ireland, the United Arab Emirates and Netherlands, and will have to hit the ground running because it hasn't played international cricket since hosting Pakistan in September. There was also a players' strike that disrupted its domestic competition. Zimbabwe pulled off an upset in the inaugural 2007 tournament when they defeated the world champions Australia, but has failed to win a match in the subsequent three editions of the competition.