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Melbourne Cricket Ground to Host World T20 Final

Melbourne (January 31, 2018): Organizers of the Cricket World Cup has announced on Tuesday that the final of the Men’s and Women’s World T20 2020 will be hosted by Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

The Men’s tournament will be started from Oct 18 to Nov 15, Whereas the Women T20 World Cup will be held from Feb 21 to March 8.

It will mark the first time the tournaments are held as stand-alone events in the same year in the same country.The women’s final will coincide with International Women’s Day, with the world governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), hoping for a record attendance at a women’s sporting event.

Both the women’s semi-finals will be at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The men’s semi-finals will be in Sydney and Adelaide before the final in Melbourne.

A great number of the crowd is expected to attend Women’s Final. Earlier a women’s sporting event was 90,185 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena for the 1999 Women’s World Cup football final between the US and China.

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