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2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Preview
The 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup will be a co-hosted tournament with the West Indies and the USA sharing hosting, it will be the first-ever ICC World Cup to have matches placed in the United States.
The group stages will kick off in June of 2024 and the tournament is expected to run through until the final sometime in either late July or early August, will England retain their trophy and make it three wins to make them the outright most successful?
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The top eight teams from the 2022 tournament all receive an automatic berth for this tournament meaning the following teams will appear at the 2024 T20 World Cup:
Australia, England (Champions), India, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa and Sri Lanka.
The two hosting countries, the United States and the West Indies get automatic places in the tournament and the top two teams (excluding those already in) also get automatic berths, those are Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
The remaining eight placed will be made up of the qualifiers, two from each of the African, Asia & European qualifications and then one from each of the Americas and East Asia-Pacific qualifications.
| T20 World Cup 2024 11 Apr @ 03:02 - Outright Winner | ||
|---|---|---|
| India | 4.20 | |
| Australia | 5.00 | |
| England | 5.50 | |
| South Africa | 8.00 | |
| New Zealand | 9.00 | |
| Pakistan | 9.50 | |
| West Indies | 13.00 | |
| Afghanistan | 36.00 | |
| Sri Lanka | 41.00 | |
| Bangladesh | 67.00 | |
ICC Men's T20 World Cup Betting Tips
There are some great cricket tipsters on OLBG and they will have you covered with their 2024 T20 World Cup Betting Tips throughout the tournament with predictions on who will win outright and each match.
The first option is to head over to the Best Cricket Tipsters page, here we display the best cricket tipsters on OLBG, by best we mean tipsters who have shown a profit over the past year for all of their cricket predictions, the page will only show tipsters who have open tips.
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If you want to see more in-depth options then head over to the Cricket Betting Predictions page, on this page you will be able to see which outcomes are being most supported by the expert cricket tipsters for each game and the tournament outcome market too.
In addition, you can click on each match to see much more, each market and outcome available will be shown along with the number of tips on each outcome and you can read the expert tipsters' thoughts on the games, and their reasoning for why they have backed their prediction.
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2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Group A
The games from Group A will take place between the 1st of June and the 16th of June, the top two will advance to the Super 8 with the winners going into Group 1 and the runners-up into Group 2.
- India
- Pakistan
- Ireland
- Canada
- United State
The matches will be played in Texas (Grand Prairie Stadium), New York (Nassau County International Cricket Stadium) and Florida (Central Broward Regional Park Stadium).
| T20 World Cup 2024 Group A 11 Apr @ 03:02 - Group Betting | ||
|---|---|---|
| India | 1.40 | |
| Pakistan | 3.25 | |
| Ireland | 17.00 | |
| USA | 51.00 | |
| Canada | 101.00 | |
2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Group B
The games from Group C will take place between the 2nd of June and the 17th of June, the top two will advance to the Super 8 with the winners going into Group 2 and the runners-up into Group 1.
- England
- Australia
- Namibia
- Scotland
- Oman
The matches will be played in Barbados (Kensington Oval), Antigua (Sir Vivian Richards Stadium) and Saint Lucia (Daren Sammy Cricket Ground).
| T20 World Cup 2024 Group B 11 Apr @ 03:02 - Group Betting | ||
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1.91 | |
| England | 1.91 | |
| Namibia | 51.00 | |
| Scotland | 81.00 | |
| Oman | 101.00 | |
2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Group C
The games from Group C will take place between the 2nd of June and the 17th of June, the top two will advance to the Super 8 with the winners going into Group 1 and the runners-up into Group 2.
- New Zealand
- West Indies
- Afghanistan
- Uganda
- Papua New Guinea
The matches will be played in Guyana (Providence Stadium), Trinidad (Brian Lara Cricket Academy) and Saint Lucia (Daren Sammy Cricket Ground).
| T20 World Cup 2024 Group C 11 Apr @ 03:02 - Group Betting | ||
|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | 2.10 | |
| West Indies | 2.63 | |
| Afghanistan | 4.33 | |
| Papua New Guinea | 51.00 | |
| Uganda | 101.00 | |
2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Group D
The games from Group D will take place between the 3rd of June and the 16th of June, the top two will advance to the Super 8 with the winners going into Group 2 and the runners-up into Group 1.
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Bangladesh
- Netherlands
- Nepal
The matches will be played in New York (Nassau County International Cricket Stadium), Texas (Grand Prairie Stadium), Florida (Central Broward Regional Park Stadium), Saint Vincent (Arnos Vale Stadium) and Saint Lucia (Daren Sammy Cricket Ground).
| T20 World Cup 2024 Group D 11 Apr @ 03:02 - Group Betting | ||
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 1.62 | |
| Sri Lanka | 4.50 | |
| Bangladesh | 5.50 | |
| Netherlands | 11.00 | |
| Nepal | 101.00 | |
ICC Men's T20 World Cup Past Winners
There have only been eight previous winners of the T20 World Cup, eight teams have appeared in all eight previous tournaments and only two countries have won more than once with the West Indies winning in both 2012 & 2016 and then England in 2010 & 2022. The first-ever winners were India in 2007, Pakistan then won the 2009 tournament and in between the two wins by the West Indies, Sri Lanka won it in 2014, they were also runner-up in both 2009 & 2012 and along with England (Runner-up in 2016) Pakistan (Runner-up in both 2007 & 2022) have made the most finals (3).
| Year (Host) | Winner | Runner-Up | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 (Australia) | England | Pakistan | 5 wickets |
| 2021 (UAE & Oman) | Australia | New Zealand | 8 wickets |
| 2016 (India) | West Indies | England | 4 wickets |
| 2014 (Bangladesh) | Sri Lanka | India | 6 wickets |
| 2012 (Sri Lanka) | West Indies | Sri Lanka | 36 runs |
| 2010 (West Indies) | England | Australia | 7 wickets |
| 2009 (England) | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 8 wickets |
| 2007 (South Africa) | India | Pakistan | 5 runs |
ICC Men's T20 World Cup Country Performances
When looking at the performances of the countries in the tournament, only focusing on those who have played at least ten matches then it is India who has the best strike rate winning 63.95% of the matches with twenty-seven victories from their forty-four games, there are four other countries which also find themselves in the sixty percentage range, Australia with 62.50%, Sri Lanka with 61.76%, South Africa with 61.53% and finally Pakistan with 60.63%.
Of course, winning when it matters is also important, England for example only has a 55.81% success rate, however, they are the joint most successful country in the tournament being two-time winners.
| Team | Played | Won | Lost | Tie | NR | Win% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| India | 44 | 27 | 15 | 1(1) | 1 | 63.95% |
| Australia | 40 | 25 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 62.50% |
| Sri Lanka | 51 | 31 | 19 | 1(1) | 0 | 61.76% |
| South Africa | 40 | 24 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 61.53% |
| Pakistan | 47 | 28 | 18 | 1(0) | 0 | 60.63% |
| New Zealand | 42 | 23 | 17 | 2(0) | 0 | 57.14% |
| England | 44 | 24 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 55.81% |
| West Indies | 39 | 19 | 18 | 1(1) | 1 | 51.31% |
| Zimbabwe | 20 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 42.10% |
| Netherlands | 23 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 40.90% |
| Namibia | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 36.36% |
| Ireland | 25 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 31.81% |
| Afghanistan | 22 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 31.81% |
| Scotland | 18 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 29.41% |
| Bangladesh | 38 | 9 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 24.32% |
ICC Men's T20 World Cup Records
Highest Win Margin
Sri Lanka beat Kenya by 172 runs after setting them a target of 261 and then bowling them out for a total of 88 during the 2007 tournament.
Highest Innings Total
The 260-6 set by Sri Lanka in the previously mentioned record is also the highest-scoring innings, some thirty runs more than the next best which England (230-8) set in 2016.
Highest Match Aggregate
At the Wankhede Stadium in 2016, the match between England and South Africa set the highest aggregate score with England with 230 and South Africa with 229 for a total of 459 runs!
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Lowest Innings Total
The two lowest-scoring innings have both come across Sri Lanka, the lowest was 39 set by the Netherlands in 2014 and seven days later Sri Lanka bowled New Zealand out for 60!
Lowest Match Aggregate
Given the Netherlands batted first in the above record when only scoring 39, it's no surprise that the match is also the lowest-scoring aggregate with Sri Lanka hitting the needed 40 runs for a match total of 79 runs, the only match in this tournament ever to have under 100 runs.
The match played statistics and the ICC World Cup statistics are sourced from ESPNcricinfo and are correct as of the 2022 ICC World Cup Final.
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