{"id":411589,"date":"2026-02-06T18:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411589\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:50:17","slug":"star-studded-opening-ceremony-announced-for-t20-world-cup-2026-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411589\/","title":{"rendered":"Star-studded opening ceremony announced for T20 World Cup 2026 | ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/mens-t20-world-cup-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026<\/a> will burst into life with Rishab Sharma, Shivamani, Badshah and Nora Fatehi taking the centrestage at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai ahead of the tournament opener between co-hosts India and USA.<\/p>\n<p>Starting at 6 pm IST, a powerful musical medley from Rishab Sharma and Shivamani will set the pulse racing, before the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup Trophy makes a spectacular arrival, carried into the stadium by a jetpack performer.<\/p>\n<p>The gleaming ICC T20 World Cup Trophy will touch down to a hero&#8217;s welcome from ICC Chairman Jay Shah and former India skipper Rohit Sharma, joined by 20 young ambassadors representing every competing nation, who together officially launch the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026 will burst into life with Rishab Sharma, Shivamani, Badshah and Nora&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,67813,67811,16326,67828,103095,67833,67814,6518,67832,103093,67815,67810,103098,101,103094,103096,67812,56,54,55,103097],"class_list":["post-411589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-headlines","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-news","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-icc-announcements","tag-sports","tag-t20-world-cup-news-updates","tag-today-cricket-match-news","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-cup-cricket-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}