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  • ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 to be held from June 4 to June 30

    ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 to be held from June 4 to June 30

    The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced the date’s for the next year’s Men’s T20 World Cup. The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 will be held from June 4 to 30, 2024.

    According to ESPNcricinfo, a total of twenty team will play in the T20 world cup across the 10 venues in the Caribbean and United States Of America (USA). The list of 10 venues that will host the T20 World Cup next year include Lauderhill in Florida, Morrisville, Dallas and New York.

    ICC along with Cricket West Indies and USA Cricket will likely take a final decision of the venues in the next couple of months as the venues in Dallas, Morrisville and New York have not got international status from ICC yet.

    Meanwhile, fans were currently eagerly waiting for the schedule of the 2023 T20 World Cup. This year world cup will be played by twenty teams including Australia, England, India, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa and Sri Lanka. Afghanistan and Bangladesh have qualified by finishing in the top eight of the T20I rankings. The remaining 12 teams will be decided by the virtue of the qualifiers.

    Not to forget, next year, the format of the World Cup will be different too.

    ICC aims to grow the sport in North America by hosting the game in USA and secondly it also wants cricket to be included in the Olympics Games of 2024 which is to be hosted by Los Angeles.

  • ICC releases schedule for Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier playoffs to be held in Namibia

    ICC releases schedule for Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier playoffs to be held in Namibia

    Dubai, (IANS) | Namibia will face the United States as six teams play in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier playoff from March 26 to April 5, a step away from the mega event scheduled to be held in October-November 2023. The playoff stage is to be played in a round-robin format with the top two teams in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier in June and July. The schedule for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier Playoff has been released after all six teams were confirmed to feature in the event to be held in Namibia from March 26 to April 5.

    The playoffs are two steps away from the World Cup, featuring the bottom four places in the men’s CWC League 2 and the top-placed teams in the CWC Challenge League A and B, respectively, after four years of tough competition. Last chance to book a place in the Zimbabwe qualifiers.

    The event will be held at two venues, the Wanderers Cricket Ground and the United Cricket Club Ground, both in Windhoek, with all matches starting at 09.30 local time.

    The UAE and PNG will clash in their first tie on March 27, while two teams promoted from the Challenge League, Canada and Jersey, will begin their campaigns on the same day.

    All matches will be live-streamed on Fancode.com in the Indian subcontinent and on icc.tv in the rest of the world.

    Match :

    March 26: Namibia vs USA, Wander’s Cricket Ground

    March 27: UAE v PNG, Wander’s Cricket Ground; Jersey v Canada, United Cricket Club Ground

    March 29: Canada v USA, Wander’s Cricket Ground; PNG v Namibia, United Cricket Club Ground

    March 30: Namibia v Jersey, Wanders Cricket Ground; USA vs UAE, United Cricket Club Ground

    April 1: UAE v Canada, Wanders Cricket Ground; PNG vs Jersey, United Cricket Club Ground

    April 2: PNG v USA, Wander’s Cricket Ground; Namibia v UAE, United Cricket Club Ground

    4 April: Canada v Namibia, Wanders Cricket Ground; USA vs Jersey, United Cricket Club Ground

    April 5: Jersey vs UAE, Wander’s Cricket Ground; Canada v PNG, United Cricket Club Ground.

    –IANS