West Indies, USA will co-host T20 World Cup in 2024
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced that the West Indies and the USA will co-host the Men’s T20 World Cup in June 2024.
The West Indies last hosted the tournament in 2010, while the USA will be hosting its first-ever global cricket tournament.
The ICC confirmed the host nations for every major ICC mens’ limited-overs event between 2024 and 2031 on Tuesday.
A total of eight new tournaments were announced, with 14 different host nations confirmed.
In addition, the Champions Trophy, which was abandoned in 2017, is set to return and will be staged in Pakistan in February 2025.
This will be the first major global cricket tournament in Pakistan since 1996 when the country co-hosted the Cricket World Cup with India and Sri Lanka.
Namibia is also set to host a major cricket tournament for the first time in its history.
The African nation will co-host the Men’s Cricket World Cup with Zimbabwe and South Africa in October/November 2027.
South Africa and Zimbabwe last staged the event in 2003.
Here are the details of the ICC’s announcement:
T20 World Cup
2024: U.S. and West Indies
2026: India and Sri Lanka
2028: Australia and New Zealand
2030: England, Ireland, and Scotland
ODI World Cup
2027: South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Namibia
2031: India and Bangladesh
Champions Trophy
2025: Pakistan
2029: India
Photo: West Indies players celebrate after defeating Bangladesh by three runs in their Cricket Twenty20 World Cup match in Sharjah, UAE, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)