Dallas, Florida and New York to host T20 World Cup matches subsequent yr | Cricket Information – Instances of India

NEW DELHI: The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) introduced on Wednesday that Dallas, Florida, and New York will function the host cities for matches within the upcoming T20 World Cup, which might be collectively hosted by the US and West Indies. This version of the World Cup would be the largest ever, that includes 20 groups.
As a part of the preparations for the match, a brand new modular stadium with a capability of 34,000 seats might be constructed in Eisenhower Park, New York, as confirmed by the ICC.
Along with the brand new stadium in New York, the present venues in Grand Prairie, Dallas, and Broward County, Florida, will bear expansions.
These expansions are aimed toward tapping into what may very well be a major marketplace for the game, additional enhancing the T20 World Cup expertise for cricket lovers.
“The USA is a strategically vital market and these venues give us a wonderful alternative to make an announcement on the planet’s largest sport market,” ICC Chief Govt Geoff Allardice stated.
“We explored quite a lot of potential venue choices within the nation, and we have been vastly inspired by the keenness the occasion generated amongst potential hosts…”
The launch of the Main League Cricket (MLC) earlier this yr fuelled hopes that the sport would break new floor within the US.
Cricket can also be within the reckoning to return to Olympics on the 2028 Los Angeles Video games.
(With Reuters Inputs)