{"id":382726,"date":"2026-04-09T06:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/382726\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:40:11","slug":"icc-confirms-japan-to-host-t20-world-cup-qualifiers-at-new-asian-games-cricket-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/382726\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC confirms Japan to host T20 World Cup qualifiers at new Asian Games cricket stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Japan\u2019s new cricket venue, built for this year\u2019s Asian Games, will host men\u2019s T20 internationals for the first time next month, the International Cricket Council said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Baseball-mad Japan have constructed a cricket stadium for the Asian Games in Nagoya and the wider Aichi region from September 19 to October 4.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The new ground in Nisshin, outside Nagoya, will stage the East Asia-Pacific (EAP) qualifiers for the 2028 men\u2019s T20 World Cup from May 8-18.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The biggest EAP qualifying tournament ever will see nine teams battling to move a step closer to the T20 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Matches will also take place at the Japan Cricket Association (JCA)\u2019s headquarters in Sano, about 100km (60 miles) outside Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis is an extraordinary opportunity for Japan to show our capacity to host pathway events for the EAP region across multiple venues,\u201d JCA chief operations officer Alan Curr said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s new cricket venue, built for this year\u2019s Asian Games, will host men\u2019s T20 internationals for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[182824,182825,86429,972,52702,182822,47278,85,1445,140595,46,1437,182821,86428,1630,182823,71158,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-382726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aichi","9":"tag-alan-curr","10":"tag-asian-games","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-cook-islands","13":"tag-east-asia-pacific","14":"tag-fiji","15":"tag-il","16":"tag-indonesia","17":"tag-international-cricket-council","18":"tag-israel","19":"tag-japan","20":"tag-japan-cricket-association","21":"tag-nagoya","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-nisshin","24":"tag-papua-new-guinea","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}