ICC Announces Review of 2024 T20 World Cup Conduct
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has confirmed that the 2024 T20 World Cup would be thoroughly reviewed.
This decision was made in response to complaints about how the competition was run, namely with relation to the cost and setup of the US and Caribbean legs.
Additionally, it declared that starting in 2030, there would be 16 teams competing in the Women’s T20 World Cup.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced that an investigation into the 2024 T20 World Cup will take place. The investigation will be overseen by a panel consisting of three ICC board directors: Roger Twose, Lawson Naidoo, and Imran Khawaja. The group will present its findings later in the year.
Prior to this, ESPNcricinfo had reported that the amount of money spent on the US part of the tournament and the Caribbean leg’s organization were under investigation. All 108 members of the ICC attended the annual conference in Colombo from July 19 to 22, where the decision to form a review panel was made. The three-person panel will hire a separate consulting firm to conduct the review, and then they will report back to the board.
The Women’s T20 World Cup’s 2030 extension to 16 teams was also approved by the ICC. There were eight teams that competed in the tournament’s first year in 2009, and by 2016, there were ten. The October 2024 Women’s T20 World Cup in Bangladesh will similarly include ten teams. Twelve teams will compete in the 2026 edition; the qualification deadline is October 31, 2024, with a potential increase to sixteen teams in 2030.
The ICC announced that the eight regional qualifying berths for the next Men’s T20 World Cup in 2026 will be distributed as follows: two teams from each of Africa and Europe, one from the Americas, and three teams from Asia and East Asia Pacific (EAP) combined. Asia had two seats and EAP had one previously.
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Additionally, the ICC declared that USA Cricket and Cricket Chile had been “formally put on notice” for failing to comply with ICC membership requirements. They have a year to make the necessary corrections.
“Neither member is considered to have in place a fit for purpose detailed governance and administrative structure and systems,” the International Criminal Court stated in a release. “Cricket Chile will receive assistance from the ICC Americas headquarters in addressing their non-compliance.
The ICC board has the authority to suspend or expel a member for persistent non-compliance, and the board decided to establish a normalization committee with representation from the board and management to supervise and track USA Cricket’s compliance plan.”
