ICC T20 World Cup 2024 continues to be a massive hurdle for both the hosts and the broadcasters. The International Cricket Council is now keen on hosting India vs Pakistan, i.e IND vs PAK clash in New York. But the problem is regarding the venue. There isn’t a proper venue to host the high-octane match in US Soil.
The T20 World Cup in 2024 will be hosted jointly by USA and West Indies. As per reports from News18, the ICC wants to host as many as 17 matches in the United States of America. Coming to the India vs Pakistan clash, the governing body of World Cricket wants to host the mega encounter in New York.
Just 9 months remain and there is no specified venue in USA to host the big encounter. Plans have been made to construct a 34,000-seater stadium in Bronx in January of 2024 and then take it down after the World Cup ends.
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“The Van Cortlandt Park plan is running into a lot of troubles and it wouldn’t make any sense to risk that big a match at a makeshift venue. A venue team is already inspecting more open fields in the area but nothing is certain yet as far as the venue in New York is concerned,” says an ICC official.
The Guardian’s report – ‘They’re big, bad bullies’: New York’s bitter fight over a 34,000-seat cricket stadium – on September 1 highlighted the various challenges in store for the ICC and why the modular venue plan in Van Cortlandt Park is “unrealistic and unprecedented”.
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Excerpt from the report: “Adrian Benepe, New York City’s parks commissioner under the former mayor Michael Bloomberg, calls the stadium proposal “completely unrealistic and unprecedented”. Even one-night concerts in places like Central Park have to pay rental fees of as much as $2m, Benepe says, and those events are free to the public. The World Cup would be a perversion of that: a major sporting event taking over a public park for free, to charge people hundreds of dollars a ticket. “That would never have been allowed before,” he says.
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