GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Cricket West Indies president Dr. Kishore Shallow has described subsequent 12 months’s arrival of the ICC Twenty20 World Cup as “thrilling instances.” It anticipates constructive financial spin-offs for the area.
The Caribbean is poised to host the worldwide showpiece from June 4-30, with matches being performed throughout seven host venues in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, St Vincent and the Grenadines and St Lucia.
The upcoming version would be the largest ever, with the Worldwide Cricket Council increasing the complement of groups to twenty.
“[These are] thrilling instances. It’s an amazing alternative for the area,” Shallow mentioned.
“Simply to place this into perspective: the final World Cup in Australia, you had like 1500 jobs being created, over US$365 million when it comes to financial influence. That is what this implies to the area.
“This would be the greatest World Cup ever – 20 groups. And, in fact, hundreds of followers are coming to the Caribbean to witness this – nice.”
West Indies will co-host the match with the USA, which marks the primary time an ICC World Cup will probably be performed on American soil.
The ICC introduced this week that the Texas cities of Dallas, Fort Lauderdale in Florida, and Nassau County in New York would function match venues.
Shallow mentioned the transfer to include the USA was important in cricket growth in that area and globally.
“We have to take the sport to North America,” he identified.
“We’ve got been adopting the USA as slightly brother over the past years, and we should assist to develop the sport in North America, which is our area.
He added: “There are 106 international locations that at present play cricket [and] one billion cricket lovers worldwide, and that’s what the World Cup is subsequent 12 months as properly as a result of we’re speaking about thousands and thousands viewing this World Cup.
“We’re going to be placing on a spectacle for the whole world, and once more, it’s an amazing alternative for all of the stakeholders in not solely West Indies cricket however world cricket as properly. I can solely see the game rising after this World Cup subsequent 12 months.”
West Indies didn’t qualify for the final T20 World Cup staged within the earlier 12 months in Australia however can have an automated spot at subsequent 12 months’s showpiece by being hosts.
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