England gamers have fun successful the ICC males’s Twenty20 World Cup 2022 Final between Pakistan and England at Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on November 13, 2022.
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Dallas, Florida and New York will host matches at subsequent yr’s males’s T20 World Cup, the governing physique of cricket introduced Wednesday.
The United States will probably be staging a worldwide cricket occasion for the primary time as the game seems to be to broaden into new territory and get Olympic standing for the 2028 Los Angeles Games. The nation will co-host the June 4-30 event with the West Indies.
The International Cricket Council mentioned an settlement has been reached for the development of a 34,000-seat stadium in Eisenhower Park, a purpose-built sports activities and occasions park in Nassau County, New York, pending the awarding of a required allow subsequent month.
Venues in Grand Prairie outdoors Dallas and Broward County in Florida will probably be elevated in dimension to broaden seating, media and premium hospitality areas to allow them to host matches within the 20-team event, which makes it the most important T20 World Cup but.
“The USA is a strategically important market,” ICC chief govt Geoff Allardice mentioned, “and these venues give us an excellent opportunity to make a statement in the world’s biggest sport market.”
The inaugural Major League Cricket competitors was held this yr within the United States, with groups from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Dallas, New York and Washington — 4 of that are owned by franchises within the Indian Premier League — participating. Grand Prairie staged lots of the video games.
Florida additionally hosted current T20s between India and the West Indies at Central Broward Stadium in Lauderhill.
The T20 cricket format is favored to be one of many sports activities added to this system for the 2028 Los Angeles Games, with selections by the International Olympic Committee scheduled at conferences subsequent month in Mumbai, India.
Problems in talks between the IOC and the Los Angeles organizing committee on business points have stalled the method.
Cricket is seen as a key driver in India of economic curiosity within the Olympics and in addition is anticipated to be requested by organizers in Australia for the 2032 Brisbane Games.
Source: www.thehindu.com
