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The 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup was the ninth edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup. It was co-hosted by the West Indies and the United States from 1 to 29 June 2024; the tournament being hosted by the West Indies for the second time, while this was also the first major ICC tournament to feature matches played in the... |
The tournament field expanded from 16 to 20 teams, including the two hosts, the top eight teams from the 2022 edition, the best placed two teams in the ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings not already qualified, and eight other teams determined by regional qualifiers. Canada and Uganda qualified for the men's T20 World Cup for... |
England were the defending champions and were beaten by India in the semi-finals, who went on to win their second T20 World Cup title, defeating South Africa by 7 runs and equalling England and West Indies with the most titles in T20 World Cup. |
Background |
The ICC Men's T20 World Cup is a professional T20I tournament held between men's national cricket teams, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The tournament, now being held every two years, was first played in 2007 in South Africa. The last tournament held in 2022 in Australia was contested by 16 teams... |
Host selection |
In November 2021, the ICC announced that the 2024 Men's T20 World Cup would be played in the United States and the West Indies. A joint bid was submitted by Cricket West Indies and USA Cricket following two years of preparation, forming part of a strategic partnership between the two associations. |
USA Cricket's co-hosting was part of efforts to help develop and promote cricket in the United States, where the sport's fanbase is primarily made up of South Asian Americans. Prior to this World Cup, the United States had occasionally hosted West Indies home matches at Central Broward Park in Florida, while a T20 fran... |
Despite cricket having never become mainstream in the country, the United States is associated with several notable developments in the early history of the game, including having hosted Canada in the first international cricket match, and American cricketer Bart King having been credited with developing the technique ... |
Format |
The 20 qualifying teams were divided into four groups of five teams; the top two teams in each group advanced to the Super 8 stage. The advanced 8 teams were divided into two groups of four teams based on pre-tournament seedings; the top two teams in each group will advance to a four-team knockout stage. Prior to the t... |
Schedule |
On 28 July 2023, ICC announced that the tournament will be played from 4 to 30 June 2024. The revised schedule was announced on 5 January 2024, with the tournament scheduled to take place from 1 to 29 June. The teams would play 55 matches with three cities in the United States hosting 12 matches and the rest of the mat... |
Prize money |
The ICC allocated a pool of US$11.25 million in prize money for the tournament. The winners will earn at least $2.45 million, the highest prize money in the history of the tournament. In addition, each team will receive an additional $31,154 for each match they win excluding the semi-finals and final. |
Marketing |
The ICC hosted a "trophy tour" before the tournament which began on 19 March in New York and the trophy was taken to various locations around the world. Former cricketers Yuvraj Singh, Chris Gayle, and Shahid Afridi as well as Olympian athlete Usain Bolt were named as the ambassadors of the tournament. |
Qualification |
The two hosts West Indies and the United States along with the top eight teams from the 2022 tournament qualified automatically for the tournament. The remaining two automatic qualification places were taken by the best-ranked teams in the ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings which had not already qualified, as of 14 November ... |
In July 2023, Ireland and Scotland qualified from the Europe Qualifier, followed by Papua New Guinea from the East Asia-Pacific. Canada secured its qualification in October 2023 after winning the Americas Qualifier. The following month, Nepal and Oman qualified after reaching the final of the Asia Qualifier in Nepal. N... |
Venues |
In May 2023, Cricket West Indies (CWI) began a bidding process for countries in the Caribbean region willing to host the matches of the World Cup. In July 2023, the ICC shortlisted four venues in the United States, Central Broward Park in Lauderhill, Florida, Church Street Park in Morrisville, North Carolina, Grand Pra... |
On 22 September 2023, ICC announced that venues in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago would serve as the hosts in the West Indies. Grenada, Jamaica, and Saint Kitts and Nevis did not submit bids to host the World Cup, with Jamaican sports minist... |
In December 2023, a delegation of representatives from the ICC undertook an inspection of the confirmed host venues in the Caribbean and the United States, so as to finalize the fixtures for the tournament. The Long Island stadium was slated to host the India–Pakistan group stage match, considered one of the largest ri... |
Squads |
Each team was allowed to have a squad of 15 players with the provisional squad required to be submitted to the ICC by 1 May 2024. The teams were allowed to make changes to their squads till 25 May 2024. |
On 29 April 2024, New Zealand was the first team to announce its squad for the tournament. The following day, Afghanistan, |
England, India, Oman, and South Africa announced their squads. On 1 May, Australia, and Nepal also announced their squads. Canada announced its squad on 2 May 2024. Hosts West Indies and the United States announced their squads on 3 May 2024. Scotland and Uganda announced their squads on 6 May 2024. Ireland and Papua ... |
Match officials |
On 3 May 2024, ICC released the list of match referees and umpires for the tournament. |
Warm-up matches |
The Warm-up matches were played from 27 May to 1 June 2024, involving most of the tournament. England, New Zealand, Pakistan, and South Africa didn't play any warm-up matches. |
Group stage |
ICC announced the groups and its fixtures on 5 January 2024, with the group stage matches being played from 1 to 17 June 2024. The 20 teams were divided into four groups of five with each team facing the other teams in the group for a total of 40 matches. The opening match was played with co-hosts United States facing ... |
Teams are placed in alphabetical order. |
Group stage summary |
Week 1 |
The tournament commenced on 1 June between the hosts United States and Canada, the two debutants at Grand Prairie Stadium, which also hosted its first T20I match. Canada, batting first put up a score of 194/5 in reply, USA chased down the target in 17.4 overs with Aaron Jones scoring 94* from 40 deliveries and putting ... |
On 2 June 2024, the second match saw the other host, West Indies taking on Papua New Guinea at Providence Stadium and emerging victorious by 5 wickets, despite PNG's valiant efforts. The third match saw Namibia defeating Oman in the Super Over after a low scoring tied game at Kensington Oval. |
On 3 June 2024, South Africa defeated Sri Lanka by six wickets after bundling out them for just 77, which was also their lowest total in T20Is. The other match saw Afghanistan thrashing Uganda by mammoth 125 runs. Batting first, Afghanistan scored 183/5 and then restricted their opposition to just 58 thanks to Fazalhaq... |
The sixth match at Kensington Oval, between Scotland and England had a delayed start and again was interrupted by rain when Scotland was 51/0 (6.2 overs) thus reducing it to 10 overs per side. Scotland made a score of 90/0 in 10 overs. But after the first innings rain returned and the match was washed out In the next... |
On 5 June 2024, three matches were played. In the first match, India defeated Ireland by bowling out Ireland for 96 runs and chasing it down with 8 wickets and 46 balls to spare. In the match, Rohit Sharma scored his 4,000th run in T20Is, 1,000th run in the T20 World Cups, 600 sixes in international cricket, 100 sixes ... |
On 6 June 2024, hosts USA and former World Cup champions Pakistan faced each other in T20Is for the first time at Grand Prairie Stadium. Pakistan, put into bat first, made 159/7 with Babar Azam becoming the highest run-scorer in T20Is, surpassing Virat Kohli; in reply USA, riding on Monank Patel's and contributions fro... |
On 7 June 2024, Canada earned their first T20 World Cup victory by beating Ireland by 12 runs. While Afghanistan earned their first win against New Zealand in T20Is with Rahmanullah Gurbaz scoring 80 from 56 balls to ensure Afghanistan reach 159/6. In the second innings, Rashid Khan and Fazalhaq Farooqi picked up 4 wic... |
Week 2 |
The second week began with South Africa taking on Netherlands at Nassau County Stadium. In their last two meetings at ICC tournaments Netherlands had got the better of South Africa. Netherlands batting first made 103/9 with Sybrand Engelbrecht scoring 40 (45) and at one stage reduced South Africa to 12/4 before David M... |
On 9 June 2024, the second biggest rivalry in international cricket–India vs Pakistan had its turn at Nassau County with the occasion of Mohammad Rizwan of Pakistan playing in his 100th T20I. Put into bat first, India were all out for 119 with Rishabh Pant being the highest scorer with 42 (31) while Naseem Shah and Har... |
In the next match, South Africa batting first made 113/6 after struggling at 23/4 with Heinrich Klaasen being the top scorer with 46 runs and defended it by 4 runs against Bangladesh, who scored 109/7. The next match saw, Pakistan beat Canada by 7 wickets. Aaron Johnson made 52 which helped Canada set a target of 107 w... |
On 12 June 2024, India and United States faced each other for the first time in T20Is with India restricting USA to 110/8 thanks to Arshdeep Singh's 4/9 and defeating them by 7 wickets with Suryakumar Yadav unbeaten half century as a result India qualified to the Super 8's. On the same day, West Indies defeated New Zea... |
In the next match, Bangladesh set a target of 160 runs but Netherlands fell short by 25 runs as a result Sri Lanka was eliminated from the tournament. While, England chased down Oman's target of 48 runs in just 3.1 overs. Afghanistan beat Papua New Guinea by 7 wickets and paving their to the Super 8 stage while elimina... |
Week 3 |
Match 33 between Canada and India on 15 June 2024 was abandoned due to rain. Later the same day, England defeated Namibia by 41 runs (DLS) in a rain affected 10-over match. Namibia's Niko Davin became the first batter to be dismissed retired out in a T20 World Cup match during the match against England, he announced th... |
On 16 June 2024, three matches were played, in the first Pakistan chased down Ireland's target of 107 with 3 wickets and 7 balls to spare. |
The second match, Bangladesh beat Nepal by 21 runs. Bangladesh batting first were bowled out for 106 and then restricted Nepal to 85, which became the lowest score defended in men's T20 World Cups. Also, Sandeep Lamichhane took his 100th T20I wicket in the match. In the last match of the day Sri Lanka, batting first ma... |
On the last day of group stage, New Zealand defeated Papua New Guinea by 7 wickets. Batting first, PNG was restricted to 78 with Lockie Ferguson bowling all four maiden overs that he bowled and also picking three wickets (figures reading 4–4–0–3) and then chasing down the target in 12.2 overs with 7 wickets left. This ... |
Super 8 |
The top two teams from each group in the group stage were placed into two groups of four teams in the Super 8 stage. In the Super 8 stage, each team will play the others in the group as a round-robin, with the top two teams from each group advancing to the knockout stage. No points were carried over from the group stag... |
Super 8 summary |
In the first match of Super 8 stage South Africa took on hosts United States for the first time in T20Is with South Africa emerging victorious by 18 runs. South Africa scored 194/4 with a quick fire 74 from 40 balls by Quinton de Kock. In return, Andries Gous scored an unbeaten 80 of 47 balls, but in vain as USA manage... |
In the next round of fixtures, South Africa took on England. South Africa, batting first, made 163/6 due to brilliant batting by Quinton de Kock and David Miller but England fell short by 7 runs despite the valiant efforts of Harry Brook and Liam Livingstone. The next match was a clash of hosts, West Indies taking on U... |
In the 9th Match of the Super 8s, England bowled out USA for 115 with Chris Jordan picking a hat-trick and then chased down the target in 9.4 overs, with Jos Buttler hitting five consecutive sixes against Harmeet Singh in the 9th over. In the next match Roston Chase's half century helped West Indies to set up a total o... |
On the last day of the Super 8s, India took on Australia in St. Lucia. India put into bat made 205/5, with the captain Rohit Sharma scoring 92 of 41 balls. In reply Australia scored 181/7 and fell short of the target by 24 runs. With this win, India qualified to the Semi-finals. Later that day, Afghanistan beat Banglad... |
Knockout stage |
The knockout stage consists of two semi-finals, played at Brian Lara Cricket Academy in San Fernando on 26 June and Providence Stadium in Guyana on 27 June, and the final, at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown on 29 June. The ICC had stated that if India qualified for the semi-finals, they would play at the Providence Stadi... |
On 23 June 2024, England became the first team to qualify for the semi-finals after defeating United States at Kensington Oval. Later on the same day, South Africa became the second team to qualify for the semi-final after defeating West Indies at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium. On 24 June 2024, India became the third tea... |
Bracket |
The knockout stage bracket is shown below, with bold denoting the winners of each match. |
Semi-finals |
In the first semi-final, Afghanistan won the toss and chose to bat. Afghanistan scored just 56 runs in 11.5 overs before being bowled out. South Africa would go on to score 60 runs in 8.5 overs winning the match. This was the first time that South Africa has reached the finals of an ICC Mens T20 World Cup. It was also ... |
In the second semi-final, India managed to score 171 for the loss of 7 wickets throughout a rain-affected innings. Indian captain Rohit Sharma scored 57 out of 39 balls while England's Chris Jordan took 3/37 in 3 overs. In the second innings with the highest score being 25 off of 19 balls by Harry Brook England were bo... |
Final |
South Africa, after losing the toss, took three early Indian wickets of skipper Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, and Suryakumar Yadav. However, Virat Kohli and Axar Patel put on a 72-run partnership, with Patel contributing 47 runs. Kohli's 76-run innings and a late contribution of 27 by Shivam Dube helped India reach a tot... |
South Africa's chase began with the loss of two early wickets, but Quinton de Kock and Tristan Stubbs took the total to 106. After they were both dismissed, Heinrich Klaasen made the fastest fifty in a World Cup final, including scoring 24 runs off the 15th over bowled by Axar Patel. At this point, South Africa require... |
This victory marked India's first ICC title since the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, their first world cup title since the 2011 ODI World Cup, and their second T20 World Cup crown (the first being the 2007 title). Kohli's knock earned him the Player of the Match award, while Jasprit Bumrah received the Player of the Tourna... |
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