Melbourne to host final of men’s, women’s 2020 World T20

MELBOURNE: Melbourne Cricket Ground will have the last of both the men's and ladies' World Twenty20 when the competitions come to Australia in 2020, coordinators declared on Tuesday.

The ladies' competition, comprised of 10 groups, will be held from Feb. 21 to March 8 preceding 16 men's groups play from Oct. 18 to Nov. 15. It will check the first run through the competitions are held as independent occasions around the same time in a similar nation.

The ladies' last will concur with International Women's Day, with the world representing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), seeking after a record participation at a ladies' wearing occasion.

The biggest group to go to a ladies' donning occasion was 90,185 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena for the 1999 Women's World Cup soccer last between the United States and China.

"It's exceptionally energizing to consider … to possibly play before more than 90,000 individuals," Australia ladies' skipper Meg Lanning told journalists.

"I think it just shows where the ladies' amusement is at. It's continually developing and it's energizing to see where it is in 2020."

The ICC and Cricket Australia divulged the settings for the two competitions on Tuesday, with ladies' pool matches to be played at a few littler scenes in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra.

Both the ladies' semi-finals will be at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Hobart and Geelong will have six pool organize coordinates in the men's competition before the nation's six principle cricket scenes, including the new Perth Stadium, have matches.

The men's semi-finals will be in Sydney and Adelaide before the last in Melbourne, where Steve Smith's side will hope to end a poor keep running in worldwide competitions for the most limited type of the amusement.

Australia's men have made only one past last, in 2010 in the West Indies, and have been thumped out in the second round of the last two competitions.

"At the point when T20 cricket began, it was only a raving success and-get kind of amusement," Smith said. "The amusement has changed so much and the technique behind the diversion is extremely critical.

"Ideally we can get that trophy that is escaped us for so long."

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