The ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup will become a 14 team, 54 match event in2027 and 2031, whilst the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup will be expanded to a 20team, 55 match event in 2024, 2026, 2028 and 2030.
The ICC Board Tuesday confirmed the schedule of ICC events from 2024- 2031with both the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup and ICC Men’s T20 World Cup to beexpanded and a Men’s Champions Trophy to be re-introduced.
An eight-team Champions Trophy will be hosted in 2025 and 2029. ICC WorldTest Championship Finals will be hosted in 2025, 2027, 2029 and 2031.
Pakistan had been the last winner of the ICC Champions Trophy in 2017before the event was scrapped when Pakistan defeated India in a memorablefinal in England.
The ICC Women’s event schedule has already been confirmed with theexpansion of both the Cricket World Cup and T20 World Cup forming part ofthe ICC’s long-term commitment to growing the women’s game.
The ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup format will have two groups of seven, withthe top three in each group progressing to a Super Six stage, followed bysemi-finals and final. This is the same format that was used in the ICCMen’s Cricket World Cup 2003.
The format of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup will consist of four groups offive, with the top two from each group going through to a Super Eightsstage, followed by the knockout stages of semi-finals and a final. TheChampions Trophy will follow previous editions with two groups of four,semi-finals and final.
The ICC Board also approved the process for determining the hosts for allMen’s, Women’s and U19 events in the next cycle. The hosts for the Men’sevents will be decided in September following a selection process that willget underway this month.
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The hosting process for Women’s and U19 events will commence in Novemberand will be an opportunity to engage with a wider range of Membersincluding first-time hosts.
The ICC Board has requested management focus its planning efforts for theICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 on the event being staged in the UAE with thepossibility of including another venue in the Middle East. A final decisionon the host country will be taken later this month.
The Board also confirmed that the BCCI will remain the hosts of the eventregardless of where the event is played.
ICC Acting Chief Executive Geoff Allardice said: “Having the ICC eventschedule confirmed through to 2031 is a significant step forward forcricket and will form the basis of our growth strategy for the next decade.The revised approach to selecting hosts for our events will give us muchmore flexibility to grow the game and engage new fans.
There is a smaller pool of countries with the infrastructure needed to hostour senior Men’s events which narrows the selection process. Additionally,many of our members expressed interest in hosting Women’s and U19 eventswhich gives us a great opportunity to stage events in established andemerging cricket nations.”
