ICC Women’s T20 World Cup: The rumors have come true and the hard-earned hosting rights of ICC Women’s T20 World 2024 have been a missed opportunity for Bangladesh now as the International Cricket Board have announced a new host for ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024.
The ICC have recently updated that the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024, set to be played in October, have been moved out of Bangladesh. The ongoing political crises in Bangladesh could be the main reason for the steps taken by the ICC.
Amid the outrage and instability of the crowd due to political reasons, the security and well-being of the players would never be assured and hence, ICC have decided to move the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
In the recent past, UAE has been one of the most significant countries in hosting cricket for the ICC. The country has hosted the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 and many other qualifier tournaments in the past couple of years.
ICC Announcement of Shifting the Host of Women’s T20 World Cup 2024
Announcing the big update, ICC Chief Executive Geoff Allardice said in a statement: “It is a shame not to be hosting the Women’s T20 World Cup in Bangladesh as we know the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) would have staged a memorable event.”
Now, while making this announcement, he also ensured the hosting right of Bangladesh for the Women’s tournament. He said “I would like to thank the team at the BCB for exploring all avenues to try and enable the event to be hosted in Bangladesh, but travel advisories from the governments of a number of the participating teams meant that wasn’t feasible. However, they will retain hosting rights. We look forward to taking an ICC global event to Bangladesh in the near future.”
“I’d also like to thank the Emirates Cricket Board for stepping in to host on behalf of the BCB and Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe for their generous offers of support, and we look forward to seeing ICC global events in both of those countries in 2026,” he added.
So, the big news from the ICC is that Bangladesh will not host the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 and ICC have decided UAE to host the T20 World Cup 2024.
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SOURCE: ICC OFFICIAL