Grand Prairie Cricket Stadium
Capacity: 14,999Grand Prairie Stadium is a cricket ground and former ballpark in Grand Prairie, Texas. Opened in May 2008, it served as the home stadium of the Texas AirHogs of the American Association of Professional Baseball from 2008 through 2019, and of the USL League Two soccer team Texas United from 2017 to 2019.
After the AirHogs folded in October 2020, it was announced that American Cricket Enterprises had acquired the lease to AirHogs Stadium, and planned to redevelop the ballpark as a cricket ground. The $20 million redevelopment began in April 2022, after which the stadium hosted the Texas Super Kings in the domestic Twenty20 league Major League Cricket. The stadium also serves as a home and training facility for the United States national team.
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.