2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup

In November 2021, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that the 2024 Men's T20 World Cup would be played in the West Indies and the United States.[3] A joint bid was submitted by Cricket West Indies and USA Cricket following two years of preparation, forming part of a strategic partnership between the two associations.[4] The ICC's hope is that hosting the World Cup for the first time will put the USA on the global cricketing map."[5]

In October 2022, it was reported that the ICC had stripped USA Cricket of its role as administrative co-host of the World Cup due to continued non-compliance with the ICC's financial protocols and concerns being raised over USA Cricket's financial position, including debts of approximately $650,000. This was not expected to impact the playing of matches in the country.[6] By June 2023, there were reports that the World Cup may shift to England; however, these rumors were dismissed by USA Cricket, which stated that the World Cup would still be held in the US, and that a successful staging of the inaugural Major League Cricket season would "ward off a lot of concerns".[7][8]

The 20 qualifying teams will be divided into four groups of five, from which the top two teams in each group advance to the Super 8 round.[9] In this stage, the qualifying teams will be split in to two groups of four; the top two teams from each group will qualify for the knockout stage, which will consist of two semi-finals and a final.[10]

The top eight teams from the 2022 tournament and the two hosts (as ICC has allowed 2 teams to directly qualify as hosts whether the host nation is a Full member or Associate member), the West Indies and the United States, qualified automatically for the tournament. The remaining automatic qualification places (to give 12 teams in total) were taken by the best-ranked teams in the ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings, as of 14 November 2022, who had not already secured a place in the finals.[11]

As the United States and West Indies did not finish in the top eight of the 2022 tournament, this meant the two highest-ranked unqualified teams from the ICC rankings advanced to the 2024 edition; had either host finished in the top eight, their slot would have been passed down to the next best-ranked unqualified teams as required.[12] The eight remaining places will be filled via the ICC's regional qualifiers, comprising the top two teams from Africa, Asia, and Europe, along with one team each from the Americas and the East Asia-Pacific groups.[13] In May 2022, the ICC confirmed the sub-regional qualification pathways for Europe, East Asia-Pacific, and Africa.[14]

Means of qualification	Date	Venues	Berths	Qualified
Hosts	November 2021	—	2	United States  West Indies
2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup (Top 8 teams from the previous tournament)	November 2022	Australia	8	Australia  England  India  Netherlands  New Zealand  Pakistan  South Africa  Sri Lanka
ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings (Next 2 teams from the rankings)	14 November 2022	Various	2	Afghanistan  Bangladesh
Europe Qualifier	20–28 July 2023	Scotland	2	Ireland  Scotland
East Asia-Pacific Qualifier	22–29 July 2023	Papua New Guinea	1	Papua New Guinea
Americas Qualifier	30 September–7 October 2023	Bermuda	1	Canada
Asia Qualifier	30 October–5 November 2023	Nepal	2
Africa Qualifier	20 November–1 December 2023	Namibia	2
Total			20

In April 2023, CWI began a thorough bidding process for countries in the Caribbean region and the United States willing to host the matches of the World Cup.[15]

In July 2023, ICC shortlisted four venues in United States which included Fort Lauderdale (Central Broward Park), Morrisville (Church Street Park), Dallas (Grand Prairie Stadium) and New York (Van Cortlandt Park).[16] There were protests by the people and officials of the Bronx community against building a cricket stadium at Van Cortlandt Park, after which ICC decided to make a cricket stadium at Eisenhower Park instead.[17][18]

On 20 September 2023, ICC confirmed three venues in United States which included Lauderhill (Central Broward Park), Dallas (Grand Prairie Stadium) and New York (Eisenhower Park) for the World Cup.[19] A decision was taken by ICC to build a temporary modular stadium with a capacity of 34,000 at Eisenhower Park of Nassau County in New York and simultaneously increase the capacities by double for the existing stadiums in Fort Lauderdale and Dallas by modular stadium solutions to expand seating, media, and premium hospitality areas.[20][21][22]

On 22 September 2023, ICC confirmed seven venues in the Caribbean Islands of Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Guyana, St Lucia, St Vincent & The Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago that will host matches.[23]

Antigua and Barbuda	Barbados	Dominica	Guyana	St. Lucia
North Sound	Bridgetown	Roseau	Providence	Gros Islet
Sir Vivian Richards Stadium	Kensington Oval	Windsor Park	Providence Stadium	Darren Sammy Cricket Ground
Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 28,000	Capacity: 12,000	Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 15,000
Matches:	Matches:	Matches:	Matches:	Matches:
Gros Islet Bridgetown Providence North Sound Roseau Port of Spain Kingstown Location of the Venues in the West Indies for the World Cup Grand Prairie Lauderhill East Meadow Location of the Venues in the US for the World Cup
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	Trinidad and Tobago	United States of America
Kingstown	Port of Spain	Grand Prairie	Lauderhill	East Meadow
Arnos Vale Stadium	Queen's Park Oval	Grand Prairie Stadium	Central Broward Park	Eisenhower Park Stadium
Capacity: 18,000	Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 7,000 Expandable to: 15,000	Capacity: 20,000 Expandable to: 40,000	Capacity: 34,000
Matches:	Matches:	Matches:	Matches:	Matches:

This stage consists of four groups of five teams, played as a single round-robin. The top two teams in each group will progress to the Super 8 stage.[24][25]

The allocation of seeded teams to the two Super 8 groups will be determined prior to the start of the tournament and does not depend on Group stage placings. That is, teams will be allocated to Super 8 groups regardless of whether they finish first or second in the initial stage. In the case that a seeded team finishes outside the top-two positions in their initial group, the non-seeded team that advances in their place will inherit the position the seeded team would have had.

This stage will be played as a single round-robin with the top two teams in each group advancing to the semi-finals.