T20 World Cup
\n New York
\nRivals Pakistan and India will play their Twenty20 World Cup 2024 group game in New York on June 9 while co-hosts United States will take on Canada in the opening match, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Friday.
\nThe ninth edition of the T20 World Cup runs from June 1-29. The expanded 20-team tournament is being jointly held by the United States and the West Indies and will get under way on June 1 at the Grand Prairie Cricket Stadium in Dallas, Texas, when the US take on Canada, both teams making their first appearances at a T20 World Cup.
\nA new venue 30 miles east of downtown Manhattan will host the big clash between India and Pakistan on Sunday, June 9 \u2014 one of eight games to be held at the 34,000-seat modular stadium being built in Nassau County.
\nA total of 16 games will be held in the United States \u2014 the first time that a major international cricket tournament is held in the country.
\nLauderhill in South Florida, the most established cricket venue in the US, will host games featuring India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
\nWhile cricket is a niche sport in the United States it does enjoy significant support from the South Asian and Caribbean communities in the country.
\n\u201cThe US is already one of cricket\u2019s biggest audiences for ICC events and bringing the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup to New York City, Dallas and Florida is a massive opportunity to exponentially grow the sport,\u201d said Peter Hutton, chair of T20 World Cup Incorporated, the entity established in the US to deliver the event.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve got three fantastic venues to host \u2026 a unique cricket spectacle featuring the best players in the world,\u201d he added.
\nICC chief executive Geoff Allardice said the games in the US represented a \u201cnew frontier\u201d in the expansion of the sport.
\n\u201cIt allows us to make a statement in the world\u2019s biggest sports market,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cIt will also be great to have an ICC event back in the West Indies, which has such a rich history of the game. It has hosted World Cups with great success in the past and this tournament will certainly provide a boost to the game there, especially with the final being played in Barbados,\u201d he added.
\nThe West Indies hosted the 2010 T20 World Cup, three years after they held the 50-over version.
\nDefending champions England will begin their title defence on June 4 in Barbados against Scotland and 2022 finalists, Pakistan, will get underway when they play the US in Dallas.
\nEngland will go up against traditional rivals Australia in Barbados on June 8. The 20 teams have been divided into four groups of five, with the top two teams progressing to the \u2018Super Eights\u2019.
\nThe Super Eight games will all be held in the Caribbean \u2014 in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
\nThe two top teams from each group in the Super Eight will progress to the semi-finals, which will be held in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago on Jun 26\/27.
\nThe final will be held in Barbados on June 29.
\nGroup stage:
\nGroup A: India, Pakistan, Ireland, Canada, US
\nGroup B: England, Australia, Namibia, Scotland, Oman
\nGroup C: New Zealand, West Indies, Afghanistan, Uganda, Papua New Guinea
\nGroup D: South Africa, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Netherlands, Nepal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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