The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) next T20 World Cup will be held in June 2024 and will be jointly hosted by the West Indies and the United States of America. This will be the ninth edition of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup that takes place in the span of every two years.
The 2024 T20 World Cup will be the second instance for the West Indies to host the Twenty20 global tournament after 2010. However, this will be the first time for the USA to host the matches of a ICC event.
On November 16, 2021, the International Cricket Council announced USA to host the biennial event alongside the West Indies. This will be the fourth occasion the West Indies will be hosting a World Cup event on behalf of the ICC, and the first time ever that a major ICC event comes to the United States.
In October 2022, the ICC had temporarily suspended USA Cricket from hosting the 2024 Men’s T20 World Cup as the board had continued non-compliance with the global governing body’s financial protocols and issues were highlighted by USA Cricket’s financial position. The funding to USA Cricket was also temporarily stopped. However, the ban does not hold any impact on conducting matches in the country.
How many teams will play in the Next T20 World Cup in 2024
The 2024 edition will be the first instance where 20 teams will feature in the T20 World Cup. The ICC intends to expand the global event and the 20 countries will be divided into four groups with five teams in each group. The top two teams will advance to the Super 8 stage followed by the semi-finals and final.
A total of 55 matches will be scheduled, including the three knockout games.
Format of Next T20 World Cup in 2024
A total of 12 teams will earn an automatic qualification in the tournament. The two host nations - USA and the West Indies - along with the top eight teams from the 2022 T20 World Cup played in Australia will directly qualify for the next edition. England, Pakistan, India, New Zealand, Australia, Sri Lanka, South Africa and the Netherlands are the eight teams that will secure a place in the 2024 T20 World Cup.
The top teams in the rankings table on the cut-off date will make the mark. Bangladesh and Afghanistan have qualified based on their ICC rankings despite failing to finish in top eight of the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia. The remaining eight teams will qualify through ICC’s regional qualifiers comprising top two teams from Africa, Asia and Europe, there will be one team each from America and the East Asia Pacific regions.
Teams that have qualified for the Next T20 World Cup 2024
Afghanistan
Australia
Bangladesh
England
India
Netherlands
New Zealand
Pakistan
South Africa
Sri Lanka
United States of America
West Indies
