{"id":89928,"date":"2019-01-29T07:10:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T07:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/schedule-announced-for-the-t20-world-cup-australia\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:00:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:00:37","slug":"schedule-announced-for-the-t20-world-cup-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/schedule-announced-for-the-t20-world-cup-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Schedule announced for the T20 World Cup Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"563\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/January\/29\/sport (2).jpg\" width=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The International Cricket Council (ICC)&nbsp;has released the fixtures for its the T20 World Cup Australia 2020 in&nbsp;Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan would face its initial two matches at the mega event on October 26 and 28 against teams from a set of six nations competing in the group stages.<\/p>\n<p>In ICC Men&rsquo;s T20 World Cup 2020,&nbsp;hosts Australia will play the opening match of the Super 12 stage of&nbsp;the tournament on Saturday, October 24 under lights at the SCG in a&nbsp;blockbuster match-up against the world&rsquo;s top-ranked team, Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Men&rsquo;s defending champions the Windies will start their title defence when they clash with New Zealand on Sunday, November 25 at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, the women&rsquo;s and&nbsp;men&rsquo;s T20 World Cups will be held as standalone events in the same&nbsp;year and in the same country.Both women&rsquo;s and men&rsquo;s finals will&nbsp;be held at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), the biggest cricket&nbsp;stadium in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Both tournaments will be held right&nbsp;across Australia in eight Host Cities and 13 venues.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The International Cricket Council (ICC) has released the fixtures for its the T20 World Cup Australia 2020 in Sydney. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-89928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}