Brian Lara Cricket Academy
Capacity: 15,000The Brian Lara Cricket Academy is a multi-purpose stadium in Tarouba, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, that was completed and inaugurated in 2017. It will be used mostly for cricket matches. It is located in southern Trinidad, just outside the heart of the city of San Fernando, beside the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway, about two kilometres southeast of Trinidad and Tobago's former cricket ground at Guaracara Park, Pointe-a-Pierre.
Built to hold 15,000 people in a mix of fixed seating and grass banks it is named after former West Indies cricket captain Brian Lara, who until 17 October 2008 was the all-time leading run scorer in Test cricket.
T20 World Cup
T20 World Cup 2024 will be the ninth T20 World Cup, a biennial Twenty20 International tournament contested by men's national teams and organized by the ICC. It is scheduled to be hosted by the West Indies and the United States from June 1 to June 29, 2024. This will be the first ICC World Cup tournament to have matches played in the United States. England are the defending champions, having defeated Pakistan in the final of the previous edition.
The tournament will feature 20 teams, up from 16 teams at the 2022 tournament. Apart from the two hosts, the top eight teams from the previous tournament as well as the next two teams in the ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings automatically qualified. The remaining eight teams were determined during regional qualifications. This is the first time Canada; Uganda and the USA have qualified for the T20 World Cup.