SYDNEY: A Report on Tuesday has revealed that Cricket Chiefs are planning to stage a World T20 event with in a decade at American soil.
According to details, The International Cricket Council’s head of global development Tim Anderson said the world governing body have goals to further the cricket in a country more used to baseball, basketball and gridiron.
“If we continue to make good progress, we would (hope to) see a World Twenty20 in the USA in the next rights cycle,” Anderson told the Sydney Daily Telegraph, with the newspaper pointing to 2024 as the likely date.
“We think that’d be a great concept. Other sports have done that, not just football, but rugby are doing that with major events as well so we see that as a medium-term goal.”
It is to be kept in mind that India are scheduled to hold the next Twenty20 World Cup in 2016 with Australia hosting the event in 2020.
Cricket greats Shane Warne and Sachin Tendulkar recently took a number of former international stars to the US for a three-match ICC-sanctioned T20 series, attracting large crowds.
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