2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup

The 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup will be the 9th edition of the T20 World Cup, a biennial Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament contested by men’s national teams and organised by International Cricket Council (ICC). It is scheduled to be hosted by the West Indies and the United States from 4 June to 30 June 2024. It will be the first ICC World Cup tournament to feature matches played in the United States.

20 teams will contest the tournament; England are the defending champion, having won the previous edition in 2022.

In November 2021, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that the 2024 Men’s T20 World Cup would be played in the West Indies and the United States. A joint bid was submitted by Cricket West Indies and USA Cricket following two years of preparation, forming part of a strategic partnership between the two associations. The ICC’s hope is by hosting the World Cup for the first time will put the USA on the global cricketing map.”

In October 2022, it was reported that the ICC had stripped USA Cricket of its role as administrative co-host of the World Cup due to continued non-compliance with the ICC’s financial protocols and concerns being raised over USA Cricket’s financial position, including debts of approximately $650,000. This was not expected to impact the playing of matches in the country. By June 2023, there were reports that the World Cup may shift to England; however, these rumors were dismissed by USA Cricket, which stated that the World Cup would still be held in the US and that a successful staging of the inaugural Major League Cricket would “ward off a lot of concerns”.

Format

The 20 qualifying teams will be divided into four groups of five, from which the top two teams in each group advance to the Super 8 round. In this stage, the qualifying teams will be split in two groups of four; the top two teams from each group will qualify for the knockout stage, which will consist of two semi-finals and a final.

Teams and qualification

The top eight teams from the 2022 tournament, along with the two hosts, the West Indies and the United States, qualified automatically for the tournament. The remaining automatic qualification places (to give 12 teams in total) were taken by the best-ranked teams in the ICC Men’s T20I Team Rankings, as of 14 November 2022, who had not already secured a place in the finals.

As the United States and West Indies did not finish in the top eight of the 2022 tournament, this meant the two highest-ranked unqualified teams from the ICC rankings advanced to the 2024 edition; had either host finished in the top eight, their slot would have been passed down to the next best-ranked unqualified teams as required. The eight remaining places will be filled via the ICC’s regional qualifiers, comprising the top two teams from Africa, Asia, and Europe, along with one team each from the Americas and the East Asia-Pacific groups. In May 2022, the ICC confirmed the sub-regional qualification pathways for Europe, East Asia-Pacific, and Africa.

Super 8

The allocation of seeded teams to the two Super 8 groups will be determined prior to the start of the tournament and does not depend on Group stage placings. That is, teams will be allocated to Super 8 groups regardless of whether they finish first or second in the initial stage. In the case that a seeded team finishes outside the top-two positions in their initial group, the non-seeded team that advances in their place will inherit the position the seeded team would have had.

This stage will be played as a single round-robin with the top two teams in each group advancing to the semi-finals.

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