The Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 is scheduled to take place for the ninth time.
The ICC has confirmed that one of the venues for the much awaited T20 World Cup 2024, which will be co-hosted by the USA and the West Indies, will be a 34,000-seater temporary stadium located around 30 miles east of New York City. The building will be built in East Meadow, a hamlet on Long Island, some 30 miles east of Manhattan, in the 930-acre Eisenhower Park. It is believed that the location will also host the highly anticipated match between Indi vs pak.
The announcement comes shortly after serious negotiations between ICC and New York City representatives for the development of a comparable pop arena in Van Cortlandt Park in the borough of Bronx broke down. Following strong opposition from some of the citizens living around the park and one of the cricket leagues that is based out of the same park, the city officials were forced to abandon the plans for Bronx. Nassau County gained as a result of the Bronx’s loss because the ICC demonstrated its ability to move quickly to arrange talks with Nassau County representatives, who are in charge of running Eisenhower Park.
There has been a lot of clamor within the ICC for cricket to gain traction in the USA. The nation has a two-pronged draw because it has the largest media market in the world and the fastest-growing cricket market globally. According to cash value, the USA is thought to be among the top 4 countries for media rights for ICC events. One such affirmative step from the ICC was the selection of the United States as co-hosts for the T20 World Cup.
US cricket infrastructure for T20 World Cup 2024
The US cricket infrastructure, or lack thereof, has, however, long been a source of intense conjecture and worry for the ICC. For their debut season, MLC did open their 15,000-seat flagship stadium in Dallas, but aside from that venue and Central Broward Park in Miami, the nation does not yet have any other permanent floodlit state-of-the-art cricket facilities.
The Eisenhower Park arrangement should significantly reduce the ICC’s issues with US venues. The USA received roughly 20 games from the ICC for the T20 World Cup 2024, which will presumably be split among the three venues.
T20 World Cup 2024 starts
The T20 World Cup 2024 will begin on June 4 and end on June 30, according to an earlier announcement from the ICC. There is a good chance that the MLC, which has its second edition tentatively slated for July, would use Eisenhower Park’s freshly installed infrastructure to create the park the MI New York’s new temporary home.
the ICC later announced that New York would serve as the location for the T20 World Cup 2024. Broward County, Florida, and Grand Prairie, Dallas, are the two more locations that have been disclosed.
Geoff Allardice, Chief Executive Officer of the International Cricket Council, said, “We’re delighted to announce the three USA venues that will host part of the biggest ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 ever staged, with 20 teams competing for the trophy.” These venues give us a great chance to stand out in the biggest sport market in the world. The USA is a strategically significant market.
“We looked into a number of potential locations across the nation, and we were quite heartened by the enthusiasm the event produced among potential hosts, confirming the growing understanding of cricket’s enormous fan base and its capacity to bring together disparate communities.
“We are very excited about the chance to present world-class cricket in a venue that hasn’t previously hosted an ICC global event using modular stadium technology, giving USA cricket fans the chance to watch the best in the world right on their doorstep,” the company said. This technology is frequently used in other major sports around the world and has been employed at prior ICC championships to improve venue capacity. In the United States, it will allow us to expand the venues in Dallas and Florida and build what is sure to be a beautiful arena in New York.
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