Girls’s T20 World Cup 2024 moved from Bangladesh to UAE: ICC© X (previously Twitter)
The highly-anticipated ninth version of the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup will now happen within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) persevering with to host the occasion. The ICC confirmed that the event will now be held by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) in UAE as a result of many international locations have expressed concern over safety due to journey advisories by their respective governments following political turmoil within the nation. “It’s a disgrace to not be internet hosting the Girls’s T20 World Cup in Bangladesh as we all know the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) would have staged a memorable occasion,” ICC Chief Govt Geoff Allardice stated in an announcement.
The explanation behind the late change in plans by the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) is the state of unrest in Bangladesh with violence and circumstances of fatalities rising day-after-day after the takeover by a brand new authorities within the nation.
The event will now happen throughout the 2 venues within the UAE – Dubai and Sharjah – from October 3 to twenty this 12 months.
“I wish to thank the crew on the BCB for exploring all avenues to try to allow the occasion to be hosted in Bangladesh, however journey advisories from the governments of a lot of the collaborating groups meant that wasn’t possible. Nonetheless, they’ll retain internet hosting rights. We look ahead to taking an ICC international occasion to Bangladesh within the close to future,” it additional added.
The UAE, dwelling to the ICC headquarters, has develop into a major hub for cricket in recent times, internet hosting quite a few qualifier tournaments in addition to the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup in 2021 alongside Oman.
With its world-class amenities and infrastructure, the UAE is well-equipped to stage the Girls’s T20 World Cup. The nation’s rising prominence within the sport is mirrored within the rise of each its males’s and girls’s groups, every at present ranked sixteenth within the ICC T20I Crew Rankings.
“I would additionally prefer to thank the Emirates Cricket Board for stepping in to host on behalf of the BCB and Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe for his or her beneficiant affords of assist, and we look ahead to seeing ICC international occasions in each of these international locations in 2026,” concluded the assertion.
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