According to rumors, the USA chance to host the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 has been lost. The nation was slated to host the T20 spectacular in 2024 alongside the West Indies.
The USA and the West Indies directly qualified for the T20 World Cup 2024 as joint hosts, according to an ICC announcement from April 2022. The nation, which was the first to receive associate membership in the ICC status decades ago, was viewed as having accomplished a great deal at the time.
“With 12 teams qualifying automatically for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024, the qualification process was verified. The two host Members, West Indies and USA, together with the following highest-ranked teams on the MRF ICC Men’s T20 rankings table as of November 14, 2022, will join the top eight teams from the 2022 competition, according to a previous ICC release.
Sources within the International Cricket Council (ICC) have revealed that West Indies will be the only nation to host the T20 World Cup in 2024, as neither the USA nor its first-class cricket system have an elected cricketing body in place.
West Indies Cricket has a deal to host the World Cup.
“For jointly hosted World Cups, we frequently enter into agreements with the Full Member (FM), who serves as the host and is solely in charge of executing the Event. In order to guarantee the effective staging of World Cup matches in other nations, the FM would then have a staging agreement with the pertinent Members. In this instance, Cricket West Indies has a contract to host the World Cup “News18 cited ICC sources while reporting these facts.
The source was further perplexed by the ICC’s choice to award the USA hosting rights and questioned why Nepal and African countries couldn’t be taken into account when awarding hosting rights.
What puzzles me is why the ICC is so focused on “growing “a sport in a nation that leads the first world and has the resources to fend for itself? Also, the US lacks a functional elected government and a respectable First Class culture. Why then is the World Cup being brought there? Why is it that the ICC is unable to place such a high priority on developing cricket in Nepal or any other African country where the sport is actually practiced and played? The source continued, “One must inquire into the ICC’s “passion” for America.
According to the article, Oman’s Pankaj Khimji will now take Ricky Skerritt’s place on the ICC nominations committee. Skerritt was instrumental in the USA’s candidacy as co-host of the 2024 T20 World Cup. In the governing body, Khimji also serves as a member director of the Associate Nations.
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