T20 World Cup 2024 Group A: Schedule, venues and complete squads

The teams will play one another in a single-round robin format, with the top two teams in each group moving on to the tournament's Super Eight stage

Written by FE News Desk

May 27, 2024 21:55 IST

The final match on June 29 will be played at the Kensington Oval in Barbados

The 20-team ICC Men’s T20 World Cup is scheduled to get off on June 1 and Group A consists of India, Pakistan, the hosts United States, Ireland, and Canada. On June 1, the United States and Canada will compete in the tournament’s opening match at Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas, Texas.

The teams will play one another in a single-round robin format, with the top two teams in each group moving on to the tournament’s Super Eight stage. The West Indies will co-host the major tournament alongside the United States of America (USA), where all group A matches will take place.

The Group A matches of the tournament are scheduled to be played at the Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas, Texas, Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York and the Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground in Lauderhill, Florida. However, the semifinals will be held at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy and Providence Stadium in Guyana on June 26 and 27, while the final match on June 29 will be played at the Kensington Oval in Barbados.

Who will play?

Let’s have a look at the players from each team:

India – Rohit Sharma (c), Hardik Pandya, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Siraj. Reserves: Shubman Gill, Rinku Singh, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan

Pakistan – Babar Azam, Abrar Ahmed, Azam Khan, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Imad Wasim, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Rizwan, Naseem Shah, Saim Ayub, Shadab Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Usman Khan

United States – Monank Patel, Aaron Jones, Andries Gous, Corey Anderson, Ali Khan, Harmeet Singh, Jessy Singh, Milind Kumar, Nisarg Patel, Nitish Kumar, Noshtush Kenjige, Saurabh Nethralvakar, Shadley Van Schalkwyk, Steven Taylor, Shayan Jahangir.

Notedly, Gajanand Singh, Juanoy Drysdale, Yasir Mohammad will be reserve players.

Ireland – Paul Stirling, Mark Adair, Ross Adair, Andrew Balbirnie, Curtis Campher, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Graham Hume, Josh Little, Barry McCarthy, Neil Rock, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Ben White, Craig Young

Canada – Saad Bin Zafar, Aaron Johnson, Ravinderpal Singh, Navneet Dhaliwal, Kaleem Sana, Dilon Heyliger, Jeremy Gordon, Nikhil Dutta, Pargat Singh, Nicholas Kirton, Rayyankhan Pathan, Junaid Siddiqui, Dilpreet Bajwa, Shreyas Movva, Rishiv Joshi

Notedly, Tajinder Singh, Aaditya Varadharajan, Ammar Khalid, Jatinder Matharu, Parveen Kumar will be reserve players.