The International Cricket Council (ICC) is reportedly considering expanding the T20 World Cup to 20 teams from its present variety of 16.
While the 2021 event, which is at the moment scheduled to be held in India, will stay unchanged, the ICC is trying to add 4 extra teams to the event from the 2024 version, in accordance to ESPNCricinfo.
Additionally, there’s additionally hypothesis over the potential of the ICC expanding the variety of teams collaborating within the 50-over World Cup. The World Cup had been diminished to 10 teams from 14 in 2019 with the argument that broadcasters would like lesser participation in order to scale back one-sided matches.
However, there’s now discuss of getting the quantity again to 14 teams.
The T20 World Cup is scheduled to be held in October-November however there’s uncertainty over India internet hosting the event due to the lethal second wave of Covid-19 ravaging the nation.
The pandemic had led to the indefinite postponement of the Indian Premier League (IPL) final week. The United Arab Emirates has been saved as a standby venue for the event.