ICC T20 WORLD CUP 2014 VENUES

As a cricket fan, the recent turns of events have been more of bafflement rather than disappointment to me. The Bangladesh Cricket Board  (BCB) is dealing with issues like election and Dhaka Premier League in a naive way. There are some unresolved issues regarding T20 venues. We already have some world class venues in Chittagong, Khulna and Fatullah

ICC wants two more dressing rooms for t20 world cup 2014

International Cricket council (ICC) has demanded two more dressing rooms in Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium ahead of the Icc T20 World Cup 2014.

An International Cricket council (ICC) delegation comprising its events manager Chris Tetley, tournament co-ordinator Dhiraj Malhotra, stadium consultant Van Vuuren Eugene and pitch expert Andy Atkinson arrived at Dhaka on Friday for a final inspection of the country’s World Cup venues.

This delegation, headed by Tetley, inspected the national cricket ground in Mirpur on Saturday.

There will be two matches each day in this stadium  So 2 dressing rooms won’t be sufficient for that. So, we need 2 more, Tetley said after the inspection.

ICC Declares T20 World Cup 2014 Qualifiers Schedule

International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced the schedule for T20 world cup 2014 qualifiers. There will be sixteen teams to play against each other to get their place in remaining 6 slots for next year’s icc world t20 tournament in Bangladesh. World T20 qualifiers round will be held from 15th November to 30th November 2013 in UAE.

This is 3rd occasion when United Arab Emirates are organizing this event. Last time UAE hosted world t20 qualifiers in 2012 where Ire Land and Afghanistan secured their position for twenty20 world cup 2012 in Sri Lanka. In 2010 UAE also organized this tournament successfully.

ICC likely to deliberate on venues for T20 World Cup 2014

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is likely to deliberate on the venues for next year's Twenty20 World Cup, scheduled to be held in Bangladesh, during the governing body's annual conference.

This tournament is scheduled to be organised between March 16 and April 6 in Bangladesh.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has recently raised concerns over the delay in setting up proper infrastructure to meet the original deadline set by the ICC.

Bangladesh Cricket Bord (BCB) President Nazmul Hasan has already expressed his displeasure over the slow work at two of the four venues, and is likely to address the ICC board on this matter.

India offers to host Icc T20 World Cup 2014 if Bangladesh fails deadline

According to the Hindustan Times published that they India offered to host the Icc T20 World Cup 2014 Tournament if the hosts Bangladesh fail to get the venues ready before the timeframe set by the ICC.

Jagmohan Dalmiya said that the interim president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India
(BCCI) has said to have given the offer to the ICC.

Dalmiya, who returned after attending the International Cricket Council (ICC) annual conference in London on Wednesday, said, “We have given a guarantee that if need be, we will help them by having stand-by venues”.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) will do the inspection of the pitches in September 2013.

Dalmiya said that in a statement, Four venues — Cox’s Bazar, Chittagong, Mirpur and Sylhet — are doubtful for next year’s T20 World Cup.

ICC T20 World Cup 2014 Schedule

Cricket have evolved so much in the last decade and with the introduction of T20 cricket fans get to watch fast paced matches of highest standards more frequently than the past. The next edition of the T20 World Cup will held in Bangladesh and there are some major changes in the formate of the most exciting cricket event in this world, we will discuss at length of next world cup which will held in and around March – April in 2014.

International Cricket Council confirms Bangladesh to host T20 World Cup 2014

There have been a lot of confusions regarding whether Bangladesh will be the hosts of T20 world Cup 2014 or not. This misunderstandings are finally over and it is now confirm that that Bangladesh will be the sole host for this tournament. The decision was made certain during the Annual General meeting for ICC last week  where the BCB president Nazmul Hasan was present. In this meeting, the president was able to convince ICC that the venues will be fully ready before the start of the World Cup.

History of T20 World Cup

ICC T20  World Cup 2014 can be described as the international championship of Twenty20 cricket, which is commonly abridged as ICC T20 cricket. As the name suggests, the game is organized by ICC (International Cricket Council), this governing body of cricket in this world. The inaugural tournament of the ICC T20 World Cup was held in the year of 2007, in South Africa.

Twenty20 Cricket World Cup 2007 stretched on from 11th September to 24th September, with India

ICC T20 World Cup 2014 to feature 16 teams from

The ICC Executive Board today decided to increase the number of teams in the biennial World T20 Championships from 12 to 16 for the editions commencing 2014.

During a weekend meeting here, this ICC Board received a report of the strategic discussions held at the Chief Executive’s Committee (CEC) in March and confirmed the “increase, from 2014 onwards, the number of teams participating in the ICC World T20 from 12 to 16 men’s teams.

Nepal’s Road to ICC T20 World Cup 2014 in Bangladesh

The ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier is a gate way for Nepalese Team to qualify for the T20 World Cup which will be held in Bangladesh in 2014 where 16 teams will play each other for the championship. Out of this 16 teams in Twenty20 World Cup, 10 teams will be full ICC Member and other six teams from ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier.

These country to play T20 World Cup 2014 in Bangladesh is:
1.     Australia
2.     Bangladesh
3.     England
4.     Pakistan

Bangladesh Hosting Oficc T20 World Cup 2014 in Doubt

The World T20 tournament could be moved from Bangladesh due to concerns at the country's lack of adequate facilities. Icc understands that Sri Lanka and South Africa are potential alternative venues although discussions have yet to reach the official stage.

An ICC official inspected the stadiums recently and is understood to have been underwhelmed by the results. This situation is now scheduled to be discussed at the ICC's annual conference in London later this week with insiders suggesting that concerns are such that a decision to move the tournament is one of the options to be discussed.

ICC to expand to 16 teams for Icc T20 World Cup 2014

The International Cricket Council (ICC) executive board has decided to expand the number of teams in the 2014 Twenty20 World Cup in Bangladesh from 12 to 16 to give more opportunities to the non-test playing nations. What excites me is this decision to extend the World T20 event, which takes place in 2014 in Bangladesh, International Cricket Council (ICC) Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat told reporters in Dubai on Monday.

From then onwards the board has decided to expand the event to 16 cricket teams. I’m sure that is very comforting to all associates and affiliates…it provides them with a greater chance of competing on the global stage. The Twenty20 World Cup will be played this year in Sri Lanka from Sept 18-Oct 7 between 12 cricket teams. The current 10 full members will be joined by six qualifiers in the next version from 2014.

BNS among Icc T20 World Cup 2014 venues

BCB proposes seven venues for 2014 event in Bogra dropped

BCB has chalked out a plan to host the ICC World Twenty20 in 2014 with eight venues including the coveted Bangabandhu National Stadium primarily earmarked for the tournament.
The Bangladesh Cricket Bord held a meeting with the sports ministry and National Sports Council on Wednesday where the renovation of the venues was discussed in details.

ICC T20 WORLD CUP 2014

The most exciting cricket format is T20 that has extended the excitement and flavor of the game cricket. According to International Cricket Council decision the fifth T20 world cup tournament 2014 will held at Bangladesh. Bangladesh already has proved themselves that they can arrange Icc T20 World Cup 2014 tournament.

BCB promises stellar Icc T20 World Cup 2014

THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS: Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim (2nd from L) and Bangladesh women’s team’s former vice-captain Sathira Zakir Jesy (2nd from R) hold the ICC T20 World 2014 trophies at the BCB headquarters in Mirpur yesterday, exactly one year before the finals of the glitzy tournament which will be played across Bangladesh from March 16 to April 6 next year. Also seen in the picture are International Cricket Council (ICC) vice-president AHM Mustafa Kamal (R) and BCB president Nazmul Hasan Papon. a Photo: Star

BCB Optimistic About Icc T20 World Cup-2014 Preparation

The Icc T20 World Cup 2014 will begin on March sixteen, but the organizers are confident that the prevailing political tension in Bangladesh will not hamper its preparations. That the final has been slated for April six next year, and a press conference was held in Dhaka on Saturday to mark the one-year run-up to the tournament.

But the press conference in bangladesh was held during a general strike while the logo-launching ceremony to be held in the evening will begin at the end of the strike.

Bangladesh to Host Icc T20 World Cup 2014

The ICC have awarded the next two Icc T20 World Cup 2014 tournaments in 2012 and 2014 to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh respectively, when England will host the Champions Trophy in 2013. The 2015 ICC World Cup will be held by Australia and New Zealand and the 2013 Women's World Cup will be played in India. The decisions will announced after a meeting of the ICC board in Singapore.

The Chief Executives Committee (CEC) and Governance Review Committee (GRC) working groups met jointly to discuss the ICC events programme post 2015, the frequency and format for global events and

Icc T20 World Cup-2014 Venues

2014 ICC World Twenty20

The ICC T20 World Cup-2014 will be the fifth ICC World T20 competition, an international T20 cricket tournament that will take place in Bangladesh from 16 March to 6 April on 2014 and is scheduled to be played in four cities in Bangladesh Mirpur, Cox s Bazar , Chittagong and Sylhet. Bangladesh will host the tournament as announced by the International Cricket Council in 2010. It will be the second and consecutive time that an Asian country will host this event (previous - Sri Lanka).

Icc T20 World Cup-2014

Icc T20 World Cup-2014 Bangladesh will be the fourth International Cricket Council World T20 Competition, International Cricket Council T20 World Cup cricket 2014 is an international Twenty20 Cricket tournament that will be held in between September and October 2014. B.C.B was expected to be the host as announced by the International Cricket Council in 2006. This will be second and consecutive time that an Asian country will host this event (previous - Sri Lanka). It will be expanded from twelve to sixteen teams, giving a boost to associate members who want more involvement in the shortest format of the games, the expanded tournament means the 10 full members will be joined by six qualifiers from the 95 remaining cricketing nations. The cricket board also approved three additional Twenty20 internationals to be played in the years in which the World Twenty20 is scheduled. Current rules are limiting the number of T20 internationals to a maximum of 12 per team.

Salman Butt Want To Play Icc T20 World Cup-2014

Salman Butt, the former of Pakistan captain, has accepted that he will now have to serve the rest of his ICC ban after his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was rejected although he remains determined to resume his career in little more than two years.

Logo for ICC T20 World Cup-2014 Bangladesh in Dhaka

At a glittering gala this presence  of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Vice President AHM Mustafa Kamal and Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) President Nazmul Hassan   the logo for the tournament was launched exactly one year ahead of the tournament finals.