ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2024: Full schedule, venues and complete squads
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ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2024: ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2024 will be contested by a record 20 teams. Watch this space to look out for ICC Twenty20 World Cup’s full schedule, dates and venues.
The ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2024 will be the ninth edition. This year edition will be co-hosted by West Indies and the United States starting from June 1 and the final will be on June 29. Incidentally, this will be the first ICC World Cup tournament to be held in the United States. The current champion is England.
England and West Indies have won the title two times while Australia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India have lifted the title once each.
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ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2024 will be contested by a record 20 teams, an expansion from 16 teams in the 2022 tournament. Canada and Uganda qualified for the first time while the United States will be playing for the first time by virtue of being co-hosts.
The teams participating in the tournament are India, Pakistan, Australia, England, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, United States (hosts), West Indies (hosts), Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ireland, Scotland, Papua New Guinea, Canada, Nepal, Oman, Namibia and Uganda.
The ICC has shortlisted four venues in the United States and six in West Indies.
Group A: India (A1), Pakistan (A2), Canada, Ireland, United States
