- Wednesday, February 05, 2025
The Men in Blue have been clubbed with co-hosts USA, Ireland and Canada besides Pakistan in Group A.
By: Shubham Ghosh
ARCHRIVALS India and Pakistan will lock horns in the T20 World Cup this year on June 9 at Eisenhower Park in New York, the schedule of the marquee tournament which was released on Friday (5), showed.
It will be the third time that the two Asian powerhouses will face each other inside three years in the World Cup in the shortest format. Both won a game each in their previous two meetings in the 2021 and 2022 editions held in the UAE and Australia, respectively.
India, who won the inaugural edition of the T20 World Cup in 2007, have been clubbed with co-hosts USA, Ireland and Canada besides Pakistan in Group A. They will play the first three matches of the group in New York and the fourth in Florida.
The tournament will be hosted jointly by the USA and the West Indies between June 1 and 29. The opening game will see North American neighbours USA and Canada locking horns, just like they had done in the first ever international cricket match way back in 1844 in New York.
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The final will be played in Barbados, West Indies. The two semi-finals will be held in Guyana on June 26 and Trinidad on June 27.
Group B consists of defending champions England, Australia, Namibia, Scotland and Oman. Group C features New Zealand, West Indies, Afghanistan, Uganda and Papua New Guinea. Group D has South Africa, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Netherlands and Nepal.
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Canada, USA and Uganda will be making their maiden appearance at a Men’s T20 World Cup.
In all, 55 games will be played during the tournament in six venues in the West Indies and three in the US. The West Indian venues are in Barbados, Trinidad, Guyana, Antigua, St Lucia and St Vincent while in the US, Texas is the third venue after New York and Florida.
India will play Ireland on June 5, USA on June 12 and Canada on June 15.
The top two teams from each group will reach the Super 8 round, where the teams will be again divided into two groups of four each: A1, B2, C1 and D2 in one group, and A2, B1, C2 and D1 in the other group.
The top two teams in each of the two Super 8 groups will then advance to the semi-finals.
