Men’s T20 World Cup in 2024 scheduled: Ten venues across the Caribbean islands and USA are likely to host the 2024 men’s T20 World Cup in a new format from June 4 to 30, says a report on the website ESPNcricinfo.com.

According to the report, Lauderhill in Florida, which will also host the fourth and fifth T20Is of India’s ongoing tour of the West Indies, is among the US venues shortlisted and inspected by the International Cricket Council (ICC) recently.
However, a joint decision on the final list of venues will be taken later by the ICC, USA Cricket and Cricket West Indies.

As of now, the Major League Cricket’s inaugural season is being hosted at two venues in Morrisville’s Church Street Park and the Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas. However, none of those yet enjoy the official status of an international venue.

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The report also suggests that the 2024 T20 World Cup will have 20 teams and divided into four groups. The teams finishing among the top two in each group will go through to the ‘Super 8’ stage, which will again have two groups of four each. The top two teams from those two groups will reach the semifinals.

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.