The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday confirmed the 14 host countries of the ICC men's white-ball events from 2024-2031. The Champions Trophy is back and Pakistan will host the tournament in 2025.
As many as 11 full members and three associate members have been selected to host two ICC Men's Cricket World Cups, four ICC Men's T20 World Cups and two ICC Men's Champions Trophy events.
Meanwhile, India will host the 2026 T20 World Cup along with Sri Lanka, the 2029 Champions Trophy and the 2031 50-over World Cup along with Bangladesh in the upcoming cycle.
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The USA and Namibia will host an ICC World Cup event for the first time. Whilst Australia, Bangladesh, England, Ireland, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe have previously staged major events and will do so again over the next decade.
The hosts were selected via a competitive bidding process overseen by a board sub-committee chaired by Martin Snedden along with Sourav Ganguly and Ricky Skerritt. The ICC Board accepted the recommendations of the committee, which conducted a thorough review of each bid along with International Cricket Council management.
A similar process to identify the hosts for ICC Women's and U19s events for the next cycle will be undertaken early next year.
ICC Chair Greg Barclay said: "We are delighted to have concluded this competitive bidding process for the first time for ICC events. To have 14 members hosting eight events is a reflection of the truly global nature of our sport and I'd like to thank every member who submitted a bid and offer our congratulations to the successful bidders."
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Martin Snedden, Chair of the ICC Hosting Sub-Committee said: "We received a range of excellent bids to host the ICC Men's events in the next cycle. We were committed to ensuring a broad spread of hosts to align with the ICC strategic objective of global growth and have ended up with 14 countries who will support that long term aim."
-PTC News
