The United States of America and Canada will face off in the opening game for 2024’s ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup, to be held on June 2, a Sunday. The tournament will be played along the coasts between the United States and the West Indies. Team Pakistan, the finalist in the 2022 edition, was once more among the top contenders to win the event.
Since arriving in Mumbai, The premier bunch of Indian players, including players like captain Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, and many others, are preparing to travel to the United States of America in preparation for the Twenty20 World Cup 2024, which begins on June 1. In addition, Rahul Dravid, the head coach, was in attendance when the team set off towards their departure to the United States of America and the West Indies to claim the second Twenty20 World Cup title. Support staff members were as well.
It was previously reported that Rohit and Kohli were among the first Indian cricketers set to leave to participate in the Twenty20 World Cup in 2024. The cricketers are scheduled to go at a time that is convenient for them. They will depart from Mumbai and arrive in Dubai around ten o’clock at midnight. They are expected to board a plane to New York. Several other prominent names, including Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant, Suryakumar Yadav, and Kuldeep Yadav, will leave the country on Saturday. You can watch the whole video below:
A second set of Indian cricketers will be leaving, comprising Sanju Samson, Yuzvendra Chahal, Avesh Khan, and Yashasvi Jaiswal. Due to the loss of RR to SRH at 36 runs in the 2nd Qualifier game, which was played on May 24 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, Chahal, Jaiswal, Avesh and Samson have recently ceased their participation in Indian Premier League (IPL) for the 2024 season.
After the club’s inability to make it to playoffs, Hardik Pandya, a captain in the vice capacity of the Indian squad that played at the Twenty20 World Cup, traveled to London. Hardik took a couple of days in London to attend training, and there’s a chance he can join the Indian national team from that place.
India’s squad is set for the Twenty20 World Cup.
Virat Kohli, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav, and Rohit Sharma, the squad leader, are the batsmen.
Each Rishabh Pant, as well as Sanju Samson, are the wicketkeepers.
Four players are all-rounders: Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, and Ravindra Jadeja.
The bowlers who were picked are Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal, and Kuldeep Yadav.
The opening game of the Indian game against Ireland is on June 4, and three days prior, India will be playing a warming-up match against Bangladesh.
The opening game in the Indian Twenty20 World Cup campaign will be played on June 5 against Ireland at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York, which they recently completed. The game that will be played between India and Pakistan is scheduled for June 9. Then, they’ll end their Group A games with a match against the tournament’s co-hosts, The United States of America (on June 12) and Canada (on June 15).
In 2013, India first won the ICC Champions Trophy. Hence, they will participate in this tournament to break their record of never winning the ICC trophy. Since then, India has made it to the final of the 50-over World Cup in 2023, as well as the semifinals in 2015 and the year 2019 as well as the title game in the ICC World Test Championship in 2021 and 2023, the last match in the Twenty20 World Cup in 2014 and the semifinals in 2022 and 2016 but they haven’t won the prestigious ICC trophy.
Since winning the first Twenty20 World Cup tournament, held in South Africa in 2007, India is determined to complete their first win in this tournament. In Australia’s latest edition in 2022, England defeated India in the semifinals with ten wickets.
Between June 2 and 29 between June 2 and June 29, the United States of America and the West Indies will host the Twenty20 World Cup together.
