DALLAS (USA) : June 2 ,2024 : The opening ceremony of the ICCT20 World Cup was held in New York, the first match of the short-format tournament was played between the teams of USA and Canada in Dallas. In the opening match, the host USA defeated Canada by 7 wickets and started the event victoriously. In the first match of the ICCT20 World Cup played in the American city of Dallas, Canada batted first and lost 5 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs. Scored 194 runs in response to which the host team achieved the desired target in 17.4 overs at the loss of 3 wickets. Earlier, the captain of the American cricket team, Monanik Patel, won the toss and invited Canada to bat first. Canada’s Aaron Johnson and Navneet Dhaliwal gave the team a 43-run start, both getting out with 23 and 61 respectively. Pargat Singh 5, Shreyas Mowa 32, Dilpreet Bajwa 11 runs, while Nicholas Curtin played an aggressive innings of 51 runs. Ali Khan, Harmeet Singh and Corey Anderson took one wicket each for USA. Steven Taylor was bowled out for the hosts and skipper Monanik Patel returned to the pavilion after scoring 16 runs, but Andrew Goss and Aaron Jones contributed 131 runs to the team’s win. Andrew Goss scored 65 runs, while Aaron Jones played an electrifying innings of 96 runs off 40 balls which included 10 sixes and 4 fours. Dutta took one wicket each. It should be noted that in the second match of the event, the teams of West Indies and Papua New Guinea were competing in Guyana. The third match of the T20 World Cup will be played between Namibia and Oman in Barbados. On June 3, 2 matches will be played. has reached Dallas, where they will play their opening match against the host USA on June 6, while Pakistan’s second match and the biggest Pakistan-India clash of the mega event will be held in New York on June 9.
The ninth edition of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup will continue from June 1 to June 29, jointly hosted by the United States and the West Indies, in which 20 teams are participating for the first time. Divided into 4 groups, while each team will play 4.4 matches in the preliminary group stage, the top two teams from each group will advance to the playoffs. After that, the remaining 8 teams are further divided into two groups in the Sprite stage, where all teams have to play 3-3 matches to reach the semi-finals and the top two teams of each group play a semi-final. will go, after which the two teams will battle for the trophy on June 29 in Barbados.
