Preview: India vs Ireland – ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Group A match

India and Ireland begin their T20 World Cup campaign at New York’s mysterious new cricket stadium.

Who: India vs Ireland
What: ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Group A match
When: Wednesday, June 5, 10:30am local time (14:30 GMT)
Where: Nassau County International Cricket Stadium, New York, US

Nearly six months after the heartbreaking home loss in the ICC Cricket World Cup final to Australia, India begin their ICC T20 World Cup 2024 campaign with almost the same star-studded lineup but in a brand new stadium.

The winners of the inaugural 2007 edition of the T20 World Cup face a strong Ireland side in their opening match in Group A at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York on Wednesday.

India’s captain Rohit Sharma believes it is important that his team move on from the pain of the defeat in the Ahmedabad final, “stay in the present” and not worry about how they are going to end the tournament.

“I think it’s important not to look too far ahead – just think about what we need to do tomorrow,” Rohit said in his pre-match media address on Tuesday.

India are not alien to the new stadium, having played their pretournament warm-up match against Bangladesh at the same venue. India won the match by 60 runs as their pace bowlers took eight wickets. However, their captain insisted the conditions remain “quite unknown”.

“A lot of things are very uncertain in terms of the outfield and the pitch – there is a square of four pitches and I don’t know which wicket we will play on.”

Rohit, who was part of India’s squad in their title-winning campaign in 2007, said the shortest format of the game has evolved in 17 years.

“The average score is a lot more than what it used to be in 2007 and that’s because of the innovation –