T20 World Cup 2024: “Never thought that we would be playing cricket…”- Virat Kohli’s massive statement on playing in USA

India batter Virat Kohli talked about playing cricket in the United States of America (USA) during the upcoming T20 World Cup 2024. He admitted that he never thought of playing country in the nation and hoped that it would grow there and people would become aware of it.

The United States of America is all set to co-host one of the biggest cricketing events in the world. The T20 World Cup will be played there along with the Caribbean from 1st to 30th June and as many as 20 teams will be taking part in it.

In the T20 World Cup 2024 a total of 55 matches will be played out of which 16 games will be played in the United States of America. New York, Florida, and Texas will be three cities where the tournament will be played and it’s a huge step by the ICC to promote cricket there.

Cricket hasn’t been that much popular in the USA. But since the last few years, ICC has been reaping seeds in the country. Apart from this franchise cricket too is making the big step as Major League Cricket has been getting great response from the country.

With now T20 World Cup is all set to take place there, the cricket is likely to attract huge viewers. Global icons like Virat Kohli will be too playing and it’s fair to say that it will create a massive difference as the batter enjoys a huge fan following all across the globe.

Virat Kohli is one of the most popular athletes in the world and it’s fair to say that even ICC is using his name as a brand to promote the event in the USA. The tickets for the T20 World Cup 2024 have been sold out too, which will be a massive boost for the teams.

I never thought that we would be playing cricket in any form in the States - Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli talked about playing in the USA, saying that the sport is growing in the right direction and he hopes the impact to stay for a long. He also hoped that people from his region promote cricket in the States. He added that the country has great potential. Speaking about the same, he added:

“Honestly I never thought that we would be playing cricket in any form in the States. But now it’s a reality. And that tells you about the growing impact of the sport in the world and the United States more than willing to accept the change and be probably the first ones on a global scale to accept it in the way with the World Cup which is I think is a great start.

“It’s the ideal way to begin. So I think it’s going to have a huge impact and in starting off a kind of a domino effect and I hope that it carries on for a long period of time. And we have enough people from our regions to keep the game up and alive in the States and make the others more aware about what it feels like to play cricket and watch cricket.

“And I think it’s got great potential with the MLC as well. There’s already you know franchise cricket happening there. So I think it’s moving on in the right direction.”

Virat Kohli will be keen to make an impact in the T20 World Cup 2024. The batter has been the backbone of Team India in events like World Cups and would be eager to take his team to glory win the title and leave an impact in a country, where cricket isn’t popular.