ICC Men's T20 World Cup

And I think the way to reduce the amount of cricket is, you know, we have more ODIs, for example, in the two years leading into an ODI World Cup.

And then more T20 games leading into a T20 World Cup.

We think that makes sense.

Cricket has gone through a period over the last 20, 30 years where I think the public see a lot of the white ball cricket as just meaningless and they're voting with their feet.

He initially brings him into the T20 setup and has a lot of success there.

I, to be honest, had assumed at the end of the T20 World Cup, he won over in that semi-final against India, where most England bowlers got taken to the cleaners, but I think he was none for 19.

And I sort of assumed, well, maybe that's the opportunity where they go and actually we'll have a look at Coles and Ahmed and whoever else for...

the next cycle instead he's seen it the other way and brought him into the 50 over team and he's become sort of increasingly valuable and looks more and more likely to go to South Africa in the World Cup and I suppose the question now shifts to can you pick and will they pick Dawson and Rashid in the same team which I think There's an obvious temptation to.

So all these times that I've watched, and I'm not like the greatest soothsayer or anything of that sort.

There was the India-Pakistan game where we were in a very bad condition in the World T20.

And I said, listen, Kohli and Hardik Pandya are batting.

Why are you sweating? You can get out and then you sweat.

Yes.

Never won a T20 World Cup? No.

We've won the Champions Trophy, but what is that? What is that? And we've won the Test Championship.

Yeah, so it's all the test-playing nations, of which I think, what are they, eight, ten, something like that? And how long is the period and when's the

But I think there's a few points.

New Zealand, this is a rematch of the T20 World Cup earlier this year, which India won.

I think New Zealand have shown in this series that they're right there.

They're right there next to the Indians.

There's effectively three key things we need to consider when we're selecting the host cities.

First and foremost, the non-negotiable from the ICC is it's got to be a world-class event.

So our host cities and the stadia need to deliver on that expectation.

Clearly, there's a commercial imperative because the more money that is made through the World Cup means there is a financial return to New Zealand cricket and Cricket Australia to get more girls and boys playing cricket.

But it's a co-hosted event and it's really important to us that this looks and feels like a co-hosted World Cup.

So even if we don't end up with an equal split of games and venues, it'll go very close because equity is really important between the two partners.

So how many venues are you looking at? Have you got a definite number of venues?

Again, ultimately, the financial imperative around that investment going towards getting more girls and boys playing cricket in New Zealand and Australia is key.

And the 2028...

I know we're looking a bit far ahead here, but the 2028 ICC Men's T20 World Cup is to be co-hosted by ourselves and Australia.

Going to chat to tournament CEO Joel Morrison a bit later on about, among other things, venue selection.

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