In A Bid To Globalize Cricket, ICC Introduces A 20 Team T20 Cricket World Cup

"The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup will be expanded to a 20 team, 55 match event in 2024, 2026, 2028 and 2030," read an ICC release.

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Dubai: International Cricket Council (ICC) has decided to expand the number of participating teams in the ICC Cricket World Cup. From the 2024 edition of the T20 cricket World Cup, 20 teams will participate in a 55-match tournament. It is being said that this move will aim at encouraging participation from the associate nations that will globalise the game, further. 

The ICC informed about it in a press release. 

The release read, "the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup will be expanded to a 20 team, 55 match event in 2024, 2026, 2028 and 2030. An eight team Champions Trophy will be hosted in 2025 and 2029. ICC World Test Championship Finals will be hosted in 2025, 2027, 2029 and 2031."

ICC also informed about the format in which the T20 World Cup would be played.

"The format of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup will consist of four groups of five, with the top two from each group going through to a Super Eights stage, followed by the knockout stages of semi-finals and a final. The Champions Trophy will follow previous editions with two groups of four, semi-finals and final," read the release. 

It was also reported that ICC has come up with a changed set of rules for the Cricket World Cup as well (50 over). The World Cup of 2027 will be played under the 'Super-Six' format. It is learned that England was not in favor of having only 10 teams in the cricket World Cup and thus, from the 2027 edition, 14 teams will participate in the tournament. This was reported by Telegraph UK.