Dallas, Florida, New York, Bat-Ball Le Aao
ICC confirming on Wednesday that Dallas, Florida and New York will host the 2024 T20 Men's World Cup matches.
In November 2021, ICC had chosen the West Indies and the US as hosts. While the Windies are no longer contenders in world cricket — it failed to qualify for the 50-over World Cup starting in India next month — US ranks 22nd, sandwiched between Papua New Guinea and Uganda, in the ICC rankings.
(The Windies are 7th on this 87-country list.) By dint of being hosts, though, both countries will play in June 2024.
But the US will certainly draw the eyeballs and the headlines for the world's best cricket being on display in the New World. Indian Americans — and probably NRIs from Canada — should be delighted for the proverbial mountain coming to Mohammad.
A cricket World Cup being played in the US means getting the sport to that country for an overwhelming South Asian spectatorship, something that the sport invented by the English couldn't manage even courtesy their Anglo-American common heritage. It doesn't matter that the US sucks at the game.
What matters is that it will open a big branch of the HQ from where we still watch it from. We can now jolly well move and watch cricket from there.
