The eagerly awaited 2024 T20 world cup, which will be jointly hosted by the USA and the West Indies, will have one or more venues at the 34000-seater pop-up complex located 30 miles east of New York City. The building will be built in the 930-acre Eisenhower Park, which is located in the hamlet of East Meadow on Long Island, roughly 30 miles east of Manhattan. It is believed that the location will also host the highly anticipated match between India and Pakistan.
The announcement is expected to be made soon after serious negotiations between the International Chamber of Commerce and New York City officials to build a comparable pop arena in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx Borough failed. Following strong opposition from some of the citizens living around the park and one of the cricket leagues that is based out of the same park, the city officials were forced to abandon the plans for Bronx.Because the ICC was fast to begin negotiations with Nassau county officials and the Eisenhower Park superintendent, Bronx’s loss was once again Nassau county’s..
The ICC has heard a lot of clamor for cricket to gain traction in the USA. The nation offers a two-pronged appeal as the largest media market in the world as well as the fastest-growing cricket market globally. According to cash value, the USA is regarded as one of the top 4 countries for media rights for ICC events. One such affirmative step from the ICC was the selection of the United States as co-hosts for the T20 world cup.
The US cricketing infrastructure, or lack thereof, has, however, long been a source of intense conjecture and worry for the ICC. Apart from that stadium and Central Broward Park outside Miami, which was unveiled by MLC for its debut season, there isn’t another permanent floodlit state-of-the-art cricket stadium in the nation.
The Eisenhower park arrangement ought to solve a lot of the issues the ICC had with American venues. About 20 games were allocated to the USA by the ICC, and it currently appears that they will be split across their three facilities. Church Street Park in Morrisville, North Carolina, a different MLC location, is also thought to be a candidate to host a few world cup games. However, there are no practice facilities or permanent structures at the location.
The 20 team world cup will start on June 4 and end on June 30, according to an earlier announcement by the ICC. Given that the second MLC is anticipated to take place in July, there is a strong potential that the MLC will use the recently installed infrastructure in Eisenhower Park to become the park the MI New York’s new temporary home.