Crick­et fans will get a glimpse of reign­ing cham­pi­on Eng­land and cur­rent One Day win­ner Aus­tralia in T&T ahead of the ICC T20 Crick­et World Cup, which will start in 60 days in the West In­dies and the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca.

Aus­tralia is one of the ten teams con­firmed to play warm-up match­es in T&T. New Zealand and hosts West In­dies will al­so play match­es in T&T at ei­ther of the fol­low­ing venues - the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain, Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do, the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies Sport and Phys­i­cal Ed­u­ca­tion Cen­tre in St Au­gus­tine and Diego Mar­tin Sports Com­plex, Diego Mar­tin.

The oth­er ten teams that are par­tic­i­pat­ing in the 20-team World Cup will play their warm-up match­es in Fort Laud­erdale, USA.

In­dia, Pak­istan, South Africa, USA, Cana­da, Nether­lands, Nepal, Ire­land, Sri Lan­ka, and Bangladesh will play their match­es in Flori­da.

This was re­vealed on Tues­day, as the Lo­cal Or­gan­is­ing Com­mit­tee held a me­dia con­fer­ence at the Queen’s Park Oval to up­date the pub­lic on the readi­ness and the plans for the World Cup.

Mas­ter of Cer­e­monies for the me­dia con­fer­ence, for­mer West In­dies man­ag­er Omar Khan said the teams will be­gin ar­riv­ing for the world event on May 23.

“The of­fi­cial warm-up pe­ri­od is from the 25th to the 31st of May,” the for­mer Red Force man­ag­er said.

Khan ad­mit­ted it will be a huge un­der­tak­ing to host ten teams in the coun­try, say­ing: “We have the prac­tice sched­ule in place that we’ll share lat­er on. We have every­thing in place for host­ing those ten teams.”

Ugan­da, Papua New Guinea, Afghanistan, Namib­ia, Oman, and Scot­land are the oth­er teams that will be play­ing warm-up match­es in T&T.

Head of pub­lic re­la­tions, ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, Da­mon Leon, en­cour­aged the pub­lic to go on­line for tick­ets and not sim­ply wait un­til the box of­fices are opened.

“If you wait, the chances are that when the box of­fices open, they will not be avail­able for sup­ply,” said Leon as he en­cour­aged all to get their tick­ets ear­ly on­line.

Leon al­so said it is not quite clear if match­es will be tele­vised in the ter­ri­to­ry where match­es are be­ing played as it will be “up to the broad­cast­ers” who are ES­PN.

This may al­so ap­ply to ‘fan parks’ that will be set up as al­ter­na­tive venues where fans get mem­o­ra­bil­ia and oth­er sou­venirs of the World Cup. Match­es may be shown live at the fan parks if there are sold-out crowds, but that is yet to be de­ter­mined.

Venues and fa­cil­i­ties man­ag­er, Haresh Ra­goonath says the venues are pro­gress­ing well and will be hand­ed over in time.

“We have the three prac­tice venues you ex­pect, so those three venues are pro­gress­ing quite nice­ly, pret­ty much every­thing is in place,” said Ra­goonath.