The Worldwide Cricket Council is hoping to seize the vibrancy and pleasure of the Twenty20 cricket format with a brand new visible model id for his or her T20 World Cup tournaments.
The ICC unveiled the brand new model id on Thursday, December 7, and it will likely be used for the primary time on the 2024 ICC Males’s T20 World Cup, which will likely be held within the West Indies and the USA.
The makeover captures the inherent drama in each ball bowled in T20 cricket, famend for its fast-paced motion and high-octane moments. The brand new visible id captures the format’s relentless power.
The primary a part of the brand new World Cup emblem is the characters “T20” organized to kind a cricket bat. A zigzag sample across the bat, plus the ICC initials on the backside, roughly kind the form of a cricket ball.
The emblem, a inventive fusion of bat, ball, and power, symbolises the core components of T20I cricket. The T20 lettering dynamically transforms right into a swinging bat, encapsulated inside a dynamic ball.
The strike graphic throughout the ball mirrors the distinctive ambiance and electrical power skilled in T20Is, with the zig-zag sample alluding to rising pleasure and heart-pounding moments.
The emblem will likely be modified for every match in order that it “incorporates textures and patterns inspired by the host country for each World Cup edition.” The 2024 model pays homage to “to both the palm trees of the West Indies and the ‘stripes’ of the USA,” although the tournament-specific emblem was not launched on Thursday.
“The ICC Men’s and Women’s T20 World Cups promise to deliver an electrifying and edge-of-your-seat experience to cricket fans globally, and we hope the new visual identity reflects that vision and energy,” stated Claire Furlong, the ICC’s normal supervisor of promoting and communications.
Twenty20 cricket is a shortened type of the sport, designed to be performed in about two and a half hours. Every workforce bats as soon as, making an attempt to attain as many runs as they’ll in 20 overs; every over is comprised of six balls, so that they face a most of 120 balls. A batting workforce’s inning can even finish if the fielding workforce accumulates 10 wickets, although that’s uncommon in T20.
England defeated Pakistan to win the final ICC Males’s T20 World Cup, which was held in Australia in 2022.
The 2024 ICC Males’s T20 World Cup will happen from June 4 to 30 in seven venues across the West Indies and United States:
| STADIUM | CAPACITY | CITY |
|---|---|---|
| Kensington Oval | 28,000 | 🇧🇧 Bridgetown, Barbados |
| Daren Sammy Cricket Floor | 15,000 | 🇱🇨 Gros Islet, Saint Lucia |
| Amos Vale Stadium | 18,000 | 🇻🇨 Kingstown, Saint Vincent |
| Brian Lara Cricket Academy | 15,000 | 🇹🇹 San Fernando, Trinidad |
| Central Broward Park | 40,000 | 🇺🇸 Lauderhill, Florida, USA |
| Eisenhower Park | 34,000 | 🇺🇸 East Meadow, New York, USA |
| Grand Prairie Stadium | 15,000 | 🇺🇸 Grand Prairie, Texas, USA |
In whole, 20 groups will take part within the T20 World Cup. The group stage may have 4 teams of 5 groups every taking part in a single round-robin, with the highest two groups in every group advancing to the Tremendous 8s. There, two teams of 4 will once more play a single round-robin, with the highest two from every group advancing to the knockout stage.
The primary-place workforce from the Tremendous 8s Group 1 will play the second-place workforce from Group 2 in a single semifinal, whereas second place from Group 1 performs first place from Group 2 within the different. The winners of these matches will meet within the ultimate.
Groups which have certified for the 2024 ICC Males’s T20 World Cup embody:
| 🇺🇸 United States |  West Indies |
🇦🇺 Australia |  England |
| 🇮🇳 India | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | 🇳🇿 New Zealand | 🇵🇰 Pakistan |
| 🇿🇦 South Africa | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | 🇦🇫 Afghanistan | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh |
 Eire* |
 Scotland |
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| 🇳🇵 Nepal | 🇴🇲 Oman | 🇳🇦 Namibia | 🇺🇬 Uganda |
