{"id":442882,"date":"2026-02-24T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/442882\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:22:10","slug":"if-sri-lanka-playing-semifinal-new-icc-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/442882\/","title":{"rendered":"If Sri Lanka playing Semifinal : New ICC decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Fwm2y\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Twitter\" class=\"heateor_sss_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=If%20Sri%20Lanka%20playing%20Semifinal%20%3A%20New%20ICC%20decision&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Fwm2y\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Whatsapp\" class=\"heateor_sss_whatsapp\" href=\"https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=If%20Sri%20Lanka%20playing%20Semifinal%20%3A%20New%20ICC%20decision%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Fwm2y\" title=\"Whatsapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.lk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/newswire-icon.jpg\" style=\"width:108px; height:20px; margin-top:10px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-224330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-20260223-WA0063.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka could play a T20 World Cup semi-final at home in Colombo if they qualify for the last four and Pakistan fail to advance, according to a report by ESPNcricinfo.<\/p>\n<p>In what appears to be a tweak to the International Cricket Council\u2019s original schedule announcement and tournament playing conditions, the venue allocation for the semi-finals hinges on the qualification scenarios involving Sri Lanka and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Under the revised arrangement, Pakistan will play in semi-final 1 in Colombo on March 4 if they qualify for the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p>However, if Pakistan do not reach the semi-finals but Sri Lanka qualify \u2014 and are not drawn to face India \u2014 Sri Lanka will play semi-final 1 in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>If neither Pakistan nor Sri Lanka qualify, semi-final 1 will instead be staged in Kolkata, with semi-final 2 taking place in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>India are set to play semi-final 2 in Mumbai unless they are drawn against Pakistan, in which case venue arrangements could differ, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The ICC has not yet issued a formal clarification on the reported adjustments. (Newswire)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka could play a T20 World Cup semi-final at home in Colombo if they qualify for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-442882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442882","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=442882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}