T20 World Cup 2024: India-Pakistan to clash on June 9 in New York as ICC announces groups and schedule

The T20 World Cup 2024 to begin on June 1 in West Indies and the USA.

By Jatin Sharma - 05 Jan, 2024

The schedule and the groups for the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup 2024 have been announced by the governing body on January 5, 2024. The tournament will be hosted in the West Indies and the USA from June 1.

The tournament will be a 29-day affair with 16 contests to be held in Lauderhill, Dallas, and New York. The blockbuster India v Pakistan match will be played at the new Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in Long Island on 9 June.

Forty-one matches will be played in the Caribbean across six different islands, with the semi-finals in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana and the title decider scheduled to be played in Barbados on 29 June.

The ninth edition of the T20 World Cup features 20 nations, who are divided into four groups of five. 

The tournament will commence on 1 June with co-hosts USA taking on arch-rival Canada, while fellow hosts the West Indies will play Papua New Guinea in Guyana on the second day of group play.

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The top two teams from each group will proceed to the Super Eight stage. The Super Eight draw will be determined by pre-tournament seedings, regardless of whether teams finish first or second in their groups.

Here are the 4 groups:

Group A- India, Pakistan, Ireland, Canada, and USA 

Group B- England, Australia, Namibia, Scotland and Oman

Group C- West Indies, New Zealand, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea and Uganda

Group D- South Africa, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Netherlands and Nepal

Here is the Team India schedule for the T20 World Cup 2024:

June 5- India v Ireland, New York

June 9- India v Pakistan, New York

June 12- India v USA, New York

June 15- India v Canada, Florida

Here is the schedule announcement by ICC:

By Jatin Sharma - 05 Jan, 2024

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