DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – ICC Men’s Twen­ty20 World Cup or­gan­is­ers have un­veiled the sched­ule for the of­fi­cial warm-up match­es lead­ing in­to the tour­na­ment – and on­ly venues in Trinidad and the Unit­ed States will stage them.

The 16-match sched­ule an­nounced on Wednes­day by the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC), the world or­gan­is­ing body for the sport, showed the match­es will be split equal­ly be­tween venues in Trinidad and To­ba­go and in the Unit­ed States.

Queen’s Park Oval and Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Trinidad and To­ba­go will stage match­es, and the three ap­proved in­ter­na­tion­al venues in the Unit­ed States, Cen­tral Broward Re­gion­al Park in Lauder­hill in the state of Flori­da, Grand Prairie Sta­di­um in Dal­las in the state of Texas, and Nas­sau Coun­ty In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Sta­di­um east of Man­hat­tan in the state of New York have been card­ed to host match­es.

Co-hosts West In­dies will play on­ly one warm-up match against Test and One-day In­ter­na­tion­al world cham­pi­ons Aus­tralia, a night-time con­test start­ing at 7 p.m. on Thurs­day, May 30, at the Queen’s Park Oval.

Glam­our team, In­dia has on­ly one warm-up match sched­uled against fel­low Asian side, Bangladesh in the Unit­ed States, but the start time and match venue are yet to be con­firmed while de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Eng­land has no warm-up match­es sched­uled, nei­ther New Zealand nor Pak­istan.

The warm-up match­es will be 20 overs a side, but they will not car­ry of­fi­cial T20I sta­tus as teams will be al­lowed to field all mem­bers of their 15-play­er squad.

Ac­cord­ing to the ICC news re­lease an­nounc­ing the sched­ule, teams will have the op­tion of play­ing up to two warm-up match­es de­pend­ing on their ar­rival time at the event in a change from pre­vi­ous tour­na­ments.

MATCH SCHED­ULE

Mon­day, May 27

Cana­da vs Nepal, Grand Prairie Crick­et Sta­di­um, Grand Prairie, Texas, 10:30 a.m. start

Oman vs Papua New Guinea, Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my, Trinidad, 3 p.m.

Namib­ia vs Ugan­da, Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my, Trinidad, 7 p.m.

Tues­day, May 28

Sri Lan­ka vs Nether­lands, Broward Coun­ty Sta­di­um, Broward Coun­ty, Flori­da, 10:30 a.m.

Bangladesh vs USA, Grand Prairie Crick­et Sta­di­um, Grand Prairie, Texas, 10:30 a.m.

Aus­tralia vs Namib­ia, Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad, 7 p.m.

Wednes­day, May 29

South Africa in­tra-squad, Broward Coun­ty Sta­di­um, Broward Coun­ty, Flori­da, 10:30 a.m.

Afghanistan vs Oman, Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad, 1 p.m.

Thurs­day, May 30

Nepal vs USA, Grand Prairie Crick­et Sta­di­um, Grand Prairie, Texas, 10:30 a.m.

Scot­land vs Ugan­da, Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my, Trinidad, 10:30 a.m.

Nether­lands vs Cana­da, Grand Prairie Crick­et Sta­di­um, Grand Prairie, Texas, 3 p.m.

Namib­ia vs Papua New Guinea, Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my, Trinidad, 3 p.m.

West In­dies vs Aus­tralia, Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad, 7 p.m.

Fri­day, May 31

Ire­land vs Sri Lan­ka, Broward Coun­ty Sta­di­um, Broward Coun­ty, Flori­da, 10:30 a.m.

Scot­land vs Afghanistan, Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad, 10:30 a.m.

Sat­ur­day, June 1

Bangladesh vs In­dia, Venue TBC USA

(CMC)