ICC T20 World Cup 2024: All You Need To Know About The Tournament

The ICC T20 World Cup 2024 is about to start with a total of 20 teams taking part in the tournament for the first time. This prestigious event would be played in the United States of America and the West Indies starting from 2^nd June onwards.

There will be 4 groups with 5 teams each. The top two will qualify for the Super 8 stage with 4 teams into two groups. It promises to be an exciting battle with top teams and associate nations featuring for the first time.

Here we look at the Groups, schedules, and teams of ICC T20 World Cup 2024:

Group A

India

Pakistan

Ireland

Canada

USA

Schedule:

1. United States of America vs Canada (Grand Prairie Stadium, Dallas, Texas)- 2^nd June 2024.
2. India vs Ireland (Nassau County International Cricket Ground, New York)- 5^th June
3. USA vs Pakistan (Grand Prairie Stadium, Dallas, Texas)- 6^th June
4. Ireland vs Canada (Nassau County International Cricket Ground, New York)- 7^th June
5. India vs Pakistan (Nassau County International Cricket Ground, New York)- 9^th June
6. Pakistan vs Canada (Nassau County International Cricket Ground, New York)- 11^th June
7. India vs USA (Nassau County International Cricket Ground, New York)- 12^th June
8. USA vs Ireland (Central Broward Regional Park Stadium, Lauderhill)- 14^th June
9. India vs Canada (Central Broward Regional Park Stadium, Lauderhill)- 15^th June
10. Pakistan vs Ireland (Central Broward Regional Park Stadium, Lauderhill)- 16^th June

Teams:

India– Rohit Sharma (c), Hardik Pandya (vc), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Sanju Samson (wk), Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Siraj

Reserves– Shubman Gill, Rinku Singh, Khaleel Ahmed and Avesh Khan.

Ireland– Paul Stirling (Capt), Mark Adair, Ross Adair, Andrew Balbirnie, Curtis Campher, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Graham Hume, Josh Little, Barry McCarthy, Neil Rock, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Ben White, Craig Young.

Pakistan- Babar Azam (captain), Abrar Ahmed, Azam Khan, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Imad Wasim, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Rizwan, Naseem Shah, Saim Ayub, Shadab Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Usman Khan

USA– Monank Patel (captain), Aaron Jones (vice-Captain), Andries Gous, Corey Anderson, Ali Khan, Harmeet Singh, Jessy Singh, Milind Kumar, Nisarg Patel, Nitish Kumar, Nosthush Kenjige, Saurabh Nethravalkar, Shadley Van Schalkwyk, Steven Taylor, Shayan Jahangir.

Reserves– Gajanand Singh, Juandoy Drysdale, Yasir Mohammad.

Canada– Saad Bin Zafar (c), Aaron Johnson, Dilon Heyliger, Dilpreet Bajwa, Harsh Thaker, Jeremy Gordon, Junaid Siddiqui, Kaleem Sana, Kanwarpal Tathgur, Navneet Dhaliwal, Nicholas Kirton, Pargat Singh, Ravinderpal Singh, Rayyankhan Pathan, Shreyas Movva.

Reserves: Tajinder Singh, Aaditya Varadharajan, Ammar Khalid, Jatinder Matharu, Parveen Kumar.

Group B

England

Australia

Oman

Scotland

Namibia

Schedule:

1. Oman vs Namibia (Kennington Oval, Barbados)- 3^rd June
2. England vs Scotland (Kensington Oval, Barbados)- 4^th June
3. Oman vs Australia (Kensington Oval, Barbados)- 5^th June
4. Namibia vs Scotland (Kensington Oval, Barbados)- 6^th June
5. Australia vs England (Kensington Oval, Barbados)- 8^th June
6. Oman vs Scotland (Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua)- 9^th June
7. Namibia vs Australia (Sir Vivan Richards Stadium, Antigua)- 11^th June
8. Oman vs England (Sir Vivan Richards Stadium, Antigua)- 13^th June
9. Namibia vs England (Sir Vivan Richards Stadium, Antigua)- 15^th June
10. Scotland vs Australia (Darren Sammy Stadium, St Lucia)- 15^th June

Teams:

Australia– David Warner, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Tim David, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood, Josh Inglis, Ashton Agar, Cameron Green, and Nathan Ellis.

Reserves– Jake Fraser McGurk, Matthew Short

England– Jos Buttler (c), Moeen Ali, Jofra Archer, Jonathan Bairstow, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, Ben Duckett, Tom Hartley, Will Jacks, Chris Jordan, Liam Livingstone, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Reece Topley, Mark Wood.

Oman– Aqib Ilyas (c), Zeeshan Maqsood, Kashyap Prajapati, Pratik Athavale (wk), Ayaan Khan, Shoaib Khan, Mohammad Nadeem, Naseem Khushi (wk), Mehran Khan, Bilal Khan, Rafiullah, Kaleemullah, Fayyaz Butt, Shakeel Ahmad, Khalid Kail.

Reserves: Jatinder Singh, Samay Shrivastava, Sufyan Mehmood, Jay Odedra.

Scotland– Richie Berrington (c), Matthew Cross, Brad Currie, Chris Greaves, Oli Hairs, Jack Jarvis, Michael Jones, Michael Leask, Brandon McMullen, George Munsey, Safyaan Sharif, Chris Sole, Charlie Tear, Mark Watt, Brad Wheal.

Namibia– Gerhard Erasmus (c), Zane Green, Michael Van Lingen, Dylan Leicher, Ruben Trumpelmann, Jack Brassell, Ben Shikongo, Tangeni Lungameni, Niko Davin, JJ Smit, Jan Frylinck, JP Kotze, David Wiese, Bernard Scholtz, Malan Kruger, PD Blignaut.

Group C

New Zealand

West Indies

Afghanistan

Papua New Guinea

Uganda

Schedule:

1. West Indies vs PNG (Providence Stadium, Guyana)- 2^nd June
2. Afghanistan vs Uganda (Providence Stadium, Guyana)-4th June
3. Uganda vs PNG (Providence Stadium, Guyana)- 5^th June
4. Afghanistan vs New Zealand (Providence Stadium, Guyana)- 7^th June
5. West Indies vs Uganda (Providence Stadium, Guyana)- 8^th June
6. West Indies vs New Zealand (Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Trinidad)- 12^th June
7. Afghanistan vs PNG (Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Trinidad)- 13^th June
8. Uganda vs New Zealand (Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Trinidad)- 14^th June
9. PNG vs Uganda (Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Trinidad)- 17^th June
10. West Indies vs Afghanistan (Darren Sammy Stadium, St Lucia)- 17^th

Teams:

New Zealand– Kane Williamson (C), Finn Allen, Trent Boult, Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Daryl Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee.

Travelling Reserve: Ben Sears

West Indies– Rovman Powell (capt), Alzarri Joseph (vc), Johnson Charles, Roston Chase, Shimron Hetmyer, Shamar Joseph, Brandon King, Nicholas Pooran, Shai Hope, Andre Russell, Romario Shepherd, Obed McCoy, Akeal Hosein, Gudakesh Motie, Sherfane Rutherford

Travelling Reserves– Kyle Mayers, Matthew Forde, Fabien Allen, Hayden Walsh Junior, Andre Fletcher.

Afghanistan– Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ibrahim Zadran, Azmatullah Omarzai, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Ishaq, Mohammad Nabi, Gulbadin Naib, Karim Janat, Rashid Khan (c), Nangyal Kharoti, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Noor Ahmad, Naveen-ul-Haq, Fazallahq Farooqi, Fareed Ahmad Malik

Reserves: Sediq Atal, Hazratullah Zazai, Saleem Safi

Uganda– Brian Masaba (c), Simon Ssesazi, Roger Mukasa, Cosmas Kyewuta, Dinesh Nakrani, Fred Achelam, Kenneth Waiswa, Alpesh Ramjani, Frank Nsubuga, Henry Ssenyondo, Bilal Hassun, Robinson Obuya, Riazat Ali Shah (vc), Juma Miyaji, Ronak Patel.

Travelling Reserves: Innocent Mwebaze, Ronald Lutaaya

PNG– Assadollah Vala (c), CJ Amini (vc), Alei Nao, Chad Soper, Hila Vare, Hiri Hiri, Jack Gardner, John Kariko, Kabua Vagi Morea, Kipling Doriga, Lega Siaka, Norman Vanua, Sema Kamea, Sese Bau, Tony Ura.

Group D

South Africa

Sri Lanka

Bangladesh

Nepal

Netherlands

Schedule:

1. Sri Lanka vs South Africa (Nassau County International Cricket Ground, New York)- 3^rd June
2. Nepal vs Netherlands (Grand Prairie Stadium, Dallas, Texas)- 4^th June
3. Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh (Grand Prairie Stadium, Dallas, Texas)- 7^th June
4. Netherlands vs South Africa (Nassau County International Cricket Ground, New York)- 8^th June
5. South Africa vs Bangladesh (Nassau County International Cricket Ground, New York)- 10^th June
6. Nepal vs Sri Lanka (Central Broward Regional Park Stadium, Lauderhill)- 11^th June
7. Netherlands vs Bangladesh (Arnos Vale Stadium, St Vincent)- 13^th June
8. Nepal vs South Africa (Arnos Vale Stadium, St Vincent)- 14^th June
9. Nepal vs Bangladesh (Arnos Vale Stadium, St Vincent)- 15^th June
10. Netherlands vs Sri Lanka (Darren Sammy Stadium, St Lucia)- 16^th June

Teams:

South Africa– Aiden Markram (c), Othniel Baartman, Gerald Coetzee, Quinton de Kock, Bjorn Fortuin, Reeza Hendricks, Marco Jansen, Heinrich Klaasen, Keshav Maharaj, David Miller, Anrich Nortje, Kagiso Rabada, Ryan Rickleton, Tabriz Shamsi, Tristan Stubbs.

Traveling reserves: Nandre Burger and Lungi Ngidi.

Sri Lanka– Wanindu Hasranga (c), Charith Asalanaka (vc), Kusal Mendis, Pathum Nissanka, Kamindu Mendis, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Angelo Mathews, Dasun Shanaka, Dhananjaya De Silva, Maheesh Theekshana, Dunith Wellage, Dushamanta Chameera, Nuwan Thushara, Matheesha Pathirana, and Dilshan Madushanka

Traveling Reserves: Asitha Fernando, Vijayakanth Viiyaskanth, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, and Janith Liyanage.

Netherlands– Aryan Dutt, Bas de Leede, Kyle Klein, Logan van Beek, Max O’Dowd, Michael Levitt, Paul van Meekeren, Saqib Zulfiqar, Scott Edwards, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Teja Nidamanuru, Tim Pringle, Vikram Singh, Viv Kingma, Wesley Barresi.

Nepal– Rohit Paudel (c), Aasif Sheikh, Anil Kumar Sah, Kushal Bhurtel, Kushal Malla, Dipendra Singh Airee, Lalit Rajbanshi, Karan KC, Gulshan Jha, Sompal Kami, Pratis GC, Sundeep Jora, Abinash Bohara, Sagar Dhakal, Kamal Singh Airee

Bangladesh– Najmul Hossain Shanto (c), Taskin Ahmed, Litton Das, Soumya Sarkar, Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Shakib Al Hasan, Tawhid Hridoy, Mahmud Ullah Riyad, Jaker Ali Anik, Tanvir Islam, Shak Mahedi Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Shoriful Islam, Tanzim Hasan Sakib.

Traveling reserves: Afif Hossain, Hasan Mahmud

Schedule of Super 8 Stage:

Group 1

A1

B2

C1

D2

1.  C1 vs A1 (Kenigston Oval, Barbados )- 20th June
2.  B2 vs D2 (Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua)- 20th June
3.  A1 vs D2 (Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua)- 22nd June
4.  C1 vs b2 (Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua)- 22nd June
5.  B2 vs A1 ( Darren Sammy Stadium, St Lucia)- 24th June
6.  C1 vs D2 ( Arnos Vale Stadium, St Vincent)- 24th June

Group 2

A2

B1

C2

D1

1. A2 vs D1 ( Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua)- 19th June
2. B1 vs C2 ( Darren Sammy Stadium, St Lucia)- 19th June
3. B1 vs D1 ( Darren Sammy Stadium, St Lucia)- 21st June
4. A2 vs C2 ( Kenigston Oval, Barbados)- 21st June
5. A2 vs B1 ( Kenigston Oval, Barbados)- 23rd June
6. C2 vs D1 ( Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua)- 23rd June.

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