By Ravendra Madholall
The 2024 World T20 match is ready to bowl off on Thursday on the CAA facility in Brampton, Ontario. Vancouver Knight Riders will conflict with Toronto Nationals from 4pm and a eager contest is extremely anticipated.
Six franchised groups might be competing with Montreal Tigers, the defending champions, taking up Bangla Tigers Mississauga Friday at 11:am earlier than Brampton Wolves commerce punches with Surrey Jaguars, final 12 months’s finalist, at 4 pm.
The extravaganza was inaugurated in 2019 noticed the Vancouver Knight Riders topped champions however issues have been saved off-field for the subsequent three consecutive years understandably because of the World Pandemic.
On August 6 on the similar venue, Montreal Tigers clinched an exhilarating, 5-wicket win to carry the trophy with no balls to spare.
West Indian T20 middle-order batsman and Guyanese Sherfane Rutherford blasted an unbeaten 38 to paved the way whereas Jamaican and famend hard-hitting batter Andre Russell helped seal the cope with an enterprising 20 not out.
Each gamers are slated to return for this 12 months’s version which can also be increase with nice pleasure.
Aside from the Rutherford and Russell, a listing of Worldwide superstars on this format will even be on present.
Former West Indies limited-over Captain Carlos Brathwaite will once more be suiting up for Brampton Wolves. He can have Australian nice David Warner as his skipper.
In 2016, Brathwaite created historical past when he spurred West Indies to the World Cup T20 champions after hitting 4 mighty sixes within the ultimate over towards England.
Trinidadian Sunil Narine and Barbadian Kyle Mayers, each athletes with West Indies’ colors on the highest degree, might be in motion representing Bangla Tigers, Mississauga.
Pakistan’s high-profile batsman Babar Azam and countryman Shaheed Shah Afridi, a left-arm quickie, are additionally in North America for what’s promising to be one other spectacle.
The match might be a round-robin format with the highest 4 advancing to the Qualifiers (1&2) and Eliminator earlier than the curtains coming down August 11 with a grand finale.
In the meantime, followers can go to the World T20 web site to buy video games’ tickets. Notably, all matches might be performed on the abovementioned floor.
