The T20 World Cup shall be held each two years throughout the subsequent eight-year Future Tours and Program (FTP) cycle, whereas the 50-over occasion shall be 14-team from the 2027 version, the sport’s governing physique ICC stated on Tuesday.
Also as per the earlier report of PTI, the World Test Championship may have 4 editions within the subsequent cycle other than two Champions Trophy.
The world physique stated in a launch, “The ICC Board today confirmed the schedule of ICC events until 2024-2031, which will include the extension of the Men’s Cricket World Cup and the Men’s T20 World Cup and the resumption of the Men’s Champions Trophy Will be done.” After the board assembly.
“The Men’s Cricket World Cup will become a 54-match 14-team event in 2027 and 2031, while the Men’s T20 World Cup will be expanded to a 20-team, 55-match event in 2024, 2026, 2028 and 2030.”
The 50-over format is at the moment a 10-team occasion whereas this version of the T20 World Cup shall be a 16-team occasion.
“An eight-team Champions Trophy will be hosted in 2025 and 2029. The World Test Championship finals will be hosted in 2025, 2027, 2029 and 2031. The ICC women’s event schedule is confirmed with the expansion of both the Cricket World Cup and T20. The World Cup is part of the ICC’s long-term commitment to advancing the women’s game.”
The males’s World Cup format may have two teams of seven, with the highest three in every group progressing to the Super Six stage, adopted by a semi-final and a last.
This is identical format that was used within the 2003 model. The T20 World Cup format will consist of 4 teams of 5, with the highest two from every group going by means of the Super Eight stage, adopted by the semi-final and knockout levels of the ultimate.
The Champions Trophy will comply with earlier editions with two teams of 4, the semi-finals and the ultimate.
The ICC Board additionally permitted the method of figuring out hosts for all males’s, girls’s and Under-19 occasions within the subsequent cycle.
The hosts for the boys’s occasions shall be determined in September following the choice course of which begins this month.
The means of internet hosting the ladies’s and under-19 occasions will start in November and there shall be a possibility to have interaction with a variety of members, together with first-time hosts.
“The ratification of the ICC program by 2031 is an important step for cricket and will form the basis of our growth strategy for the next decade,” stated ICC Acting Chief Executive Geoff Allardyce.
“The revised method to choosing hosts for our occasions will give us much more flexibility to develop the sport and add new followers. There is a small pool of nations with the required infrastructure to host our senior males’s occasions which eases the choice course of.
“In addition, many of our members expressed interest in hosting the Women’s and U19 events, which provides us with a great opportunity to stage events in established and emerging cricketing countries.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
