Dominica won’t host any ICC T20 World Cup 2024 matches, the nation’s Ministry of Culture, Youth, Sports, and Community Development declared on Thursday.
Dominica introduced on Thursday that it might be unable to meet the completion deadline for stadium improvement, main to the choice to withdraw from internet hosting their assigned T20 World Cup matches subsequent 12 months. Among the seven Caribbean international locations thought of for internet hosting duties, Dominica, with Windsor Park because the venue, was chosen to host one group match and two Super Eight video games.
Despite tangible efforts to improve Windsor Park Sports Stadium and Benjamin’s Park, together with enhancing apply and match venues and creating extra pitches, the federal government revealed that the contractors’ timelines indicated an incapacity to full the required works earlier than the tournament’s graduation.
The authorities’s assertion acknowledged the difficult timelines proposed by the contractors, main to the prudent choice not to host any matches within the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024. Given Dominica’s esteemed monitor report in internet hosting worldwide cricket, this choice is deemed to be in the perfect curiosity of all stakeholders.
The authorities expressed gratitude to Cricket West Indies (CWI) for his or her partnership over time and prolonged finest needs to the tournament organizers for a profitable eve.nt in June 2024. As of now, the ICC has but to reply to this improvement.
The T20 World Cup shall be held within the West Indies and the United States in June 2024.
