ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – With the ICC Men’s Crick­et World Cup In­dia 2023 now con­clud­ed, the fo­cus turns square­ly to the West In­dies and the USA, hosts of the ninth edi­tion of the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) Men’s T20 World Cup.

Dur­ing the pe­ri­od No­vem­ber 30 to De­cem­ber 15, a del­e­ga­tion con­sist­ing of rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the ICC and Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) are con­duct­ing its sec­ond in­spec­tion of the con­firmed World Cup host coun­tries from the Caribbean and host cities in the USA, to be used for the pin­na­cle event in T20 crick­et which will take place in June 2024. The in­spec­tion will be a com­pre­hen­sive as­sess­ment of all the host coun­tries and venues for both World Cup and warm-up match­es.

This will be the first ICC World Cup to be host­ed in the USA and a record 20 teams will be di­vid­ed in­to four groups, with 55 match­es be­ing played across the com­pe­ti­tion.

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Tour­na­ment Di­rec­tor Fawwaz Baksh said: “The main goal of the as­sess­ment is to thor­ough­ly re­view each host coun­try and work along­side each one to as­sist them in de­liv­er­ing the best ex­pe­ri­ence for the play­ers and thou­sands of fans who are ex­pect­ed to at­tend the tour­na­ment. This forms part of our over­ar­ch­ing vi­sion to host the biggest Crick­et Car­ni­val the world has ever seen and will help to re­in­force the re­gion’s sta­tus as a pre­mier venue for the stag­ing of world-class sport­ing events.”

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Head of Op­er­a­tions, Khushiyal Singh added: “Ar­eas that will be as­sessed in­clude pitch and out­field prepa­ra­tions, prac­tice fa­cil­i­ties, play­ers dress­ing rooms, broad­cast and me­dia fa­cil­i­ties, IT and se­cu­ri­ty ca­pa­bil­i­ties, ho­tels and guest hous­es, ar­eas for fan parks, and oth­er key com­po­nents that are fun­da­men­tal to the suc­cess­ful stag­ing of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup."

Once the in­spec­tions and as­sess­ments are com­plet­ed, the ICC will com­pile their find­ings and com­mu­ni­cate any nec­es­sary rec­om­men­da­tions to CWI and by ex­ten­sion the host coun­tries and match venues. The valu­able feed­back from these vis­its will be in­stru­men­tal in guid­ing each coun­try and venue on the nec­es­sary steps need­ed to be tak­en to de­liv­er an ex­cep­tion­al ex­pe­ri­ence for play­ers, spec­ta­tors and all oth­er stake­hold­ers through­out the du­ra­tion of the tour­na­ment.