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Follow UsAccording to multiple sources, the 2024 Men’s T20 World Cup, scheduled to be played in the West Indies and the United States of America, will begin on June 4, with the final being played on June 30 across ten venues.
USA showed the first glimpse of how cricket could be in the country, with the Major League Cricket (MLC) already taking off in the country. Lauderhill in Floria, already an international venue alongside Morrisville, Dallas and New York, are all shortlisted as venues for the warm-up and tournament fixtures.
Morrisville and Dallas are currently playing host to the inaugural edition of MLC, while Van Cortlandt Park in New York could be in contention too. As of now, none of these venues, according to ESPNCricinfo, have an international status. Ireland, Scotland and Papua New Guinea made it to next year’s showpiece event.
The 2024 tournament, unlike the previous editions of the T20 World Cup, will be a 20-team affair, split into groups of four, with five teams each. Further, the top eight teams that qualify for the Super 8s will then be split into two groups of four before the top two teams from each group make it to the semi-final.
Whilst it isn’t the first international event in the USA, it is the first ICC event in the country, with ICC aiming to boost the sport in the country, in a bid for cricket to be included in the Los Angeles Olympics later in this decade.
