T20 World Cup 2024 in Westindies and USA

T20 World Cup 2024

The 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup will be the ninth edition of the T20 World Cup, a biennial Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament contested by men's national teams and organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It will scheduled to be co-hosted by the West Indies and the United States from 1 June to 29 June 2024. It will be the first ICC World Cup tournament to feature matches played in the United States. England are the defending champions, having defeated Pakistan in the final of the 2022 edition.

Addition of More Teams

The tournament will be contested by 20 teams, an expansion from 16 teams at the 2022 tournament. In addition to the two hosts, the top eight teams from the previous tournament automatically qualified, as did the next two teams in the ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings. The remaining eight teams were decided via a regional qualification process. This is the first time that Canada, Uganda, and the United States have qualified for the T20 World Cup.

Format

The 20 qualifying teams will divided into four groups of five; the top two teams in each group will advance to the Super 8 round. In this stage, the qualifying teams will split into two groups of four; the top two teams from each group will qualify for the knockout stage, will consist of two semi-finals and a final.

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Venues

On 20 September 2023, ICC confirmed three venues in the United States which included Lauderhill (Central Broward Park), Dallas (Grand Prairie Stadium), and New York (Nassau County Stadium) for the World Cup. A decision was taken by ICC to build a temporary modular stadium with a capacity of 34,000. At Eisenhower Park of Nassau County in New York. simultaneously increase the capacities by double for the existing stadiums in Fort Lauderdale and Dallas by modular stadium solutions to expand seating, media, and premium hospitality areas.

On 22 September 2023, ICC confirmed seven venues in the Caribbean Islands of Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Guyana, St Lucia, St Vincent & The Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago that will host matches. Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, and Grenada did not submit bids to host the World Cup, with Jamaican sports minister Olivia Grange ruling out a bid on cost grounds.

In November 2023, it is reported that Trinidad's Queen's Park Oval, the country's most considerable cricket ground, would not be hosting any World Cup matches and that fixtures would moved to the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in San Fernando. Nigel Camacho, the president of the Queen's Park Cricket Club, stated that the venue would instead most likely host warm-up matches before the start of the main tournament. Also, the Government of Dominica decided to withdraw its venue, Windsor Park, from hosting any matches of the World Cup citing their inability to complete the infrastructural development of the venue before the tournament commences.