West Indies’ Chris Gayle catches a ball throughout a crew coaching session in Chennai, India, Wednesday, March 16, 2011.
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Celebrity Chris Gayle pulled the lever to light up New York’s iconic Empire State Constructing, because the Twenty20 World Cup trophy tour was launched for the June showpiece.
The 2-time T20 World Cup winner, 44-year-old Gayle, was joined by United States fast-bowling star Ali Khan on the opening ceremony, with each gamers representing the host groups West Indies and USA. The Empire State Constructing was remodeled into navy and pink, the official colours for the June 1-29 match that can showcase a report 20 groups competing for the primary time.
“The beginning of the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup trophy tour is an emphatic sign to followers worldwide that the World Cup is coming,” stated match director, Fawwaz Baksh. “All through its Caribbean leg of the tour, followers can stay up for a plethora of partaking actions, together with meet-and-greets with cricket stars and legends, Caribbean infused cultural leisure, and the chance to see and take photos of the trophy in particular person at a number of the area’s most iconic places.”
“Along with fan-facing engagements, the trophy tour may also function a platform to leverage the continued progress of cricket globally and to drive optimistic change and go away a long-lasting influence on communities.”It is going to be the primary time the US can be internet hosting an ICC World Cup, with eight matches scheduled for the state-of-the-art modular 34,000 capability stadium in Nassau County, New York, whereas the Grand Prairie Cricket Stadium in Dallas and Broward County Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, will stage 4 matches every. Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago may also host video games within the Caribbean.
The trophy tour, entitled “Out of This World,” will go to 15 nations throughout 4 continents, together with Argentina, Brazil and Canada.“With lower than three months to go till the primary ball of the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2024, there may be big anticipation for what can be a historic occasion for cricket within the Americas,” stated the Worldwide Cricket Council’s Common Supervisor for Advertising and Communications, Claire Furlong.
“As we depend right down to the World Cup, the Trophy Tour offers followers with the chance to be a part of the occasion in places throughout the globe. The tour will journey extensively throughout the Americas, igniting the fervour of each new and present followers to share within the pleasure of T20 cricket’s pinnacle world occasion coming to the area and what higher strategy to kick it off than by lighting up one of many world’s most iconic buildings in one of many world’s most iconic cities,” stated Furlong.
