ICC T20 WC: Tournament to begin on February 7, final on March 8 - Check full schedule

NEW DELHI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) connected Tuesday released the docket for the 2026 T20 World Cup. The tourney volition commencement connected February 7 successful Colombo with the lucifer betwixt Pakistan and the Netherlands, followed by the crippled betwixt West Indies and Bangladesh.India volition statesman their rubric defence aboriginal the aforesaid time against USA successful Mumbai. India volition past look Namibia successful Delhi connected February 12.The India-Pakistan lucifer is scheduled for February 15 successful Colombo. India volition play their last radical lucifer against the Netherlands successful Ahmedabad connected February 18.There volition beryllium 3 matches each time during the radical stage.

Eight venues confirmed

The tourney volition tally from February 7 to March 8 crossed 8 venues — 5 successful India and 3 successful Sri Lanka.

The 20-team lawsuit volition beryllium jointly hosted by the 2 countries implicit 29 days.The venues are: Narendra Modi Stadium (Ahmedabad), MA Chidambaram Stadium (Chennai), Arun Jaitley Stadium (New Delhi), Wankhede Stadium (Mumbai), Eden Gardens (Kolkata), R. Premadasa Stadium (Colombo), Sinhalese Sports Club Cricket Ground (Colombo) and Pallekele International Cricket Stadium (Kandy).Under an statement finalised earlier this twelvemonth for multi-nation events hosted by India oregon Pakistan, the ICC has kept alternate knockout venues. If Pakistan scope the semifinal oregon final, those matches volition beryllium held successful Colombo. If Pakistan bash not suffice for the final, the rubric lucifer volition beryllium played astatine the Narendra Modi Stadium successful Ahmedabad connected March 8. Mumbai and Kolkata volition big the 2 semifinals if Pakistan are not successful the knockout stage.

T20 World Cup Groups

Group A: India, USA, Namibia, Netherlands, PakistanGroup B: Australia, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Ireland, OmanGroup C: England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Italy, NepalGroup D: South Africa, New Zealand, Afghanistan, Canada, UAE

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