The 2024 edition of ICC men's T20 World Cup in West Indies and USA will be played in a new format as compared to the previous two tournaments, with 20 participating teams being divided into four groups of five side each. Show As per ESPNCricinfo, with this, the first round that used to take before the Super 12 stage in 2021 and 2022 editions will now be done away with. The top two teams from each group will advance to the Super Eight stage, where all the teams will get divided into two groups of four each. The top two teams of these two groups will qualify for semifinal. Following this, the final will take place. In the previous two editions of tournament in 2021 and 2022, the first round featured eight teams that came into the tournament through qualification and teams that finished between ninth and 12th position in previous T20 WC. These eight teams were divided into two groups of four each. Top two teams from these two groups joined other teams in the Super 12 phase. 12 teams have qualified for the 2024 T20 World Cup. USA and West Indies attained automatically qualification as the hosts of the tournament. Reigning champions England, runners-up Pakistan, India, New Zealand, Australia, Sri Lanka, South Africa and Netherlands have also qualified after finishing within the top eight of the 2022 edition. Afghanistan and Bangladesh are the other two teams who have qualified as they were the next-best teams in the ICC T20I rankings on the cut-off date of November 14. Eight spots are still up for grabs and will be taken through the qualifiers. England are the current T20 World Cup champions, having beaten Pakistan in the final in Melbourne on November 13. With this, they won their 2nd ICC T20 World Cup title. Rwanda Cricket Association (RCA) have been given the hosting rights for the sub-regional qualification tournament for the African region for the 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in USA and the West Indies. The tournament structure has been changed by ICC for this edition, as all the competing nations in the sub-regional qualifiers will play against each other in single round-robin group stage format, instead of the two (2) groups of four (4) teams structure, that was being followed across all the ICC regions. The two (2) sub-regional qualifier tournaments will take place from November 15th – 24th, 2022 (Qualifier A) and November 30th – December 06th, 2022 (Qualifier B). Men’s teams from Botswana, Rwanda, Mali, Kenya, St. Helena, Seychelles, Lesotho and Malawi are part of Qualifier A event, while Men’s teams from Cameroon, Mozambique, Nigeria, Eswatini, Ghana, The Gambia, Sierra Leone and Tanzania are part of Qualifier B. The top two (2) teams from both the Qualifier events will advance to the Africa Finals in 2023, where Uganda are already placed after they could not advance from the 2022 T20 World Cup Global qualifier B tournament held in Zimbabwe in July, and are now joined by Namibia, who were eliminated in the first round of 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia. Rwanda Cricket had previously hosted the Africa sub-regional qualifiers and Africa Finals for the 2022 T20 World Cup during September – November 2021. Their successful hosting of those multi-nation events with good safety protocols/procedures in place during the pandemic situation helped them get the hosting rights again to stage the events in Kigali this year. Seven (7) teams in the sub-regional qualifiers have had competitive cricket leading into these events in Kigali, during the ACA T20 Africa Cup tournament held in South Africa. ICC Africa Sub-Regional Qualifier A Schedule 17th November 2022: Botswana vs Rwanda (Scorecard) ; Lesotho vs Mali (Scorecard) ; St Helena vs Kenya (Scorecard) ; Seychelles vs Botswana (Scorecard) 18th November 2022: Rwanda vs St Helena (Scorecard) ; Botswana vs Lesotho (Scorecard) ; Kenya vs Malawi (Scorecard) ; Mali vs Seychelles (Scorecard) 20th November 2022: Malawi vs Botswana (Scorecard) ; Kenya vs Mali (Scorecard) ; Rwanda vs Kenya (Scorecard) ; Seychelles vs Lesotho (Scorecard) 21st November 2022: Mali vs Malawi (Scorecard) ; Lesotho vs Kenya (Scorecard) ; Rwanda vs Malawi (Scorecard) ; St Helena vs Seychelles (Scorecard) 22nd November 2022: Botswana vs Mali (Scorecard) ; Lesotho vs St Helena (Scorecard) ; Malawi vs Seychelles (Scorecard) ; St Helena vs Mali (Scorecard) 24th November 2022: Malawi vs St Helena (Scorecard) ; Rwanda vs Seychelles (Scorecard) ; Kenya vs Botswana (Scorecard) ; Mali vs Rwanda (Scorecard) 25th November 2022: Seychelles vs Kenya (Scorecard) ; Lesotho vs Malawi (Scorecard) ; Botswana vs St Helena (Scorecard) ; Lesotho vs Rwanda (Scorecard) ICC Africa Sub-Regional Qualifier B Squads Nigeria: Sylvester Okpe (Captain), Chimezie Onwuzulike, Taiwo Mohammed, Ashmit Shresta, Ademola Onikoyi, Ridwan Kareem, Adedeji Sesan, Isaac Okpe, Joshua Asia, Sulaimon Rensewe, Akhere Isesele, Chiemelie Udekwe, Peter Aho and Prosper Useni Eswatini: Melusi Magagula (Captain), Tarun Sandeep, Loyiso Dlamini, Tiaan Forbes, Dinesh Polpitiya, Eric Phiri, Haris Rashid, Mancoba Jele, Mohemmed Alamgir, Naeem Gul, Phumlani Sibiya, Umair Qasim, Wandile Dlamini and Adil Butt ICC Africa Sub-Regional Qualifier B Schedule 01st December 2022: Tanzania vs Sierra Leone (Scorecard) ; Ghana vs Eswatini (Scorecard) ; Nigeria vs Mozambique (Scorecard) ; Eswatini vs Gambia (Scorecard) 02nd December 2022: Sierra Leone vs Nigeria (Scorecard) ; Mozambique vs Ghana (Scorecard) ; Cameroon vs Sierra Leone (Scorecard) ; Eswatini vs Mozambique (Scorecard) 04th December 2022: Mozambique vs Cameroon (Scorecard) ; Nigeria vs Eswatini (Scorecard) ; Ghana vs Tanzania (Scorecard) ; Gambia vs Nigeria (Scorecard) 05th December 2022: Mozambique vs Tanzania (Scorecard) ; Sierra Leone vs Eswatini (Scorecard) ; Nigeria vs Cameroon (Scorecard) ; Ghana vs Sierra Leone (Scorecard) 06th December 2022: Eswatini vs Tanzania (Scorecard) ; Gambia vs Sierra Leone (Scorecard) ; Tanzania vs Gambia (Scorecard) ; Cameroon vs Ghana (Scorecard) 08th December 2022: Ghana vs Gambia (Scorecard) ; Eswatini vs Cameroon (Scorecard) ; Nigeria vs Tanzania (Scorecard) ; Gambia vs Mozambique (Scorecard) 09th December 2022: Mozambique vs Sierra Leone (Scorecard) ; Cameroon vs Gambia (Scorecard) ; Nigeria vs Ghana (Scorecard) ; Tanzania vs Cameroon (Scorecard) How many teams will play T20 World Cup 2024?The 2024 edition of ICC men's T20 World Cup in West Indies and USA will be played in a new format as compared to the previous two tournaments, with 20 participating teams being divided into four groups of five side each.
Is there any T20 World Cup in 2024?There will be 14 teams for the 50-over World Cup in 2027 and 20 for the 2024 T20 World Cup. Scrapping the first round window dressing and subsequent Super 12 stage, the next T20 World Cup will be divided into four groups of five teams each and the top two teams from those groups will progress to a Super Eight phase.
Who will host 2024 T20 World Cup?T20 World Cup 2024
With more teams and a new format, the 2024 edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup is certain to throw up fresh match-ups and historic moments. Qualifying as hosts alongside the West Indies, the tournament will be ground-breaking for the USA, hosting their first global event.
Who will host the 2023 World Cup?The ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023, to be hosted by India, will be the 13th edition of the 50-over World Cup. India will be hosting the quadrennial tournament for the fourth time in its history, and the tournament is set to take place in 2023.
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