T20 World Cup Will Spread Awareness on Cricket: USA Cricket Chairman

T20 World Cup 2024 is about to start just in a month on June 1 in the West Indies and USA. Everyone is eagerly waiting for that match. USA is co-hosting the event along with West Indies and the USA also making their debut and going to face Canada on June 1.

The USA cricket chairman feels that the upcoming T20 World Cup will spread cricket awareness in the USA. T20 World Cup 2024 will be played across three venues in the USA.

USA Cricket Chairman Pisike Feels That This T20 World Cup 2024 Will Spread Awareness in America

We all know, the event of the T20 World Cup is going to start on June 1 in the West Indies and the USA. But many of you may not know that the USA is starting its debut in cricket with neighbors in Canada.

But all of them are Semi-professional cricketers of South Asian Heritage with former New Zealand star Corey Anderson also switching allegiance to his adopted homeland of the USA.

Speaking to PTI, Pisike agreed it is a major challenge to take cricket to the masses in the USA.

“So far, cricket is predominantly an expats’ game, but with the marketing and promotion activities during the World Cup, there is some momentum and the World Cup will boost the opportunities to expand the game in the USA.”

“The World Cup is bringing a lot of awareness and then the opportunity for cricket to be in the Olympics, which will attract the community because the US is a huge sports country.

“The Olympics is the prime area where all the sports bodies are focusing since cricket is going to the Olympics. That will give more opportunities to expand the sport between the World Cup and the Olympics.”

“So, the new stadium that is being built in New York will be unveiled in a week. It will become a wonder of cricketing infrastructure in a very short time.”

“The pitches were recently brought in and dropped into the stadium. So, we expect decent pitches in striking a balance between the bat and ball.”

“Yes definitely (we are talking to BCCI). In the past, we have sent our men’s team to Karnataka before they participated in the CWC qualifiers in 2022.

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And there was some alliance with the associations, Tamil Nadu Cricket Association and Andhra Cricket Association to send our under-19 boys before the World Cup to be held in Sri Lanka.

“Several discussions are happening with the various cricket associations and we will want to partner and use the available resources. And that is something we look into for the future.”

“The governance will be streamlined with the opportunity to become an Olympic National Governing Body because the US Olympics requires certain guidelines to be followed and certain policies to be adopted.

“In terms of financial management and other related activities, we are fully in compliance compared to the previous regime,” he added.