Sydney, November 14, : According to reports, the ICC T20 World Cup could be on American shores by 2024.The game’s global governing body is expected to award a joint bid to USA Cricket (CWI) for the lucrative tournament. “Cricket’s governors may choose the United States as a venue for the first Twenty20 World Cup in the next events cycle as a springboard to help the game’s bid for inclusion in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics,” said a report in smh.com.au on Sunday.According to a report in smh.com.au, “Cricket’s governors might choose the United States for the Twenty20 World Cup’s first events cycle as a springboard for helping the game’s bid to be included in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.”
The report said that the decision to award the T20 World Cup to venues, hitherto uncharted, was imminent in the next cycle, “and that an outward, global focus would mean they (tournaments) were more widely distributed than in the recent past”.According to the report, the decision to award T20 World Cup venues to previously uncharted venues was imminent for the next cycle.”And that an outward-focused global focus would mean that they (tournaments were) more widely distributed than in recent years.”
“This would be the first global tournament not hosted by either India, England or Australia since the 2014 T20 World Cup in Bangladesh.”This will be the first time that a global tournament has not been hosted by Australia, England, or India since the 2014 T20 World Cup.Under changes that same year wrought by the ‘Big Three’ — the Board of Control for Cricket in India, the England and Wales Cricket Board and Cricket Australia — every event between 2015 and 2023 was awarded to one of the game’s richest three countries,” said the report.According to the report, every event from 2015 to 2023 was given to one of three richest countries in cricket under the same changes made by the “Big Three” — the Board of Control for Cricket in India (ECB), the England and Wales Cricket Board (Cricket Australia) and Cricket Australia.
The report said that taking the T20 World Cup to the US would also serve “as a launch pad for cricket’s long-awaited inclusion in the Olympic Games, starting with LA in 2028 and following up with Brisbane in 2032”.
According to the report, the T20 World Cup’s trip to the USA would serve as a “launch pad” for cricket’s long-awaited inclusion at the Olympic Games.It will be held in Los Angeles in 2028, followed by Brisbane in 2032.
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