Key Facts

• The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup will be held in India and Sri Lanka from February 7 to March 8, 2026.
• Twenty teams will compete in 55 matches during the tournament.
• Cricket is played with two teams, each having 11 players.
• The game consists of two parts called innings, where one team bats and the other bowls and fields.
• T20 is one of the cricket formats that lasts three to four hours, with each team having 20 overs (120 balls) to score runs.
• A cricket field is oval-shaped and about 150 meters in diameter, with a central pitch.
• Runs are scored by hitting the ball and running between two ends of the pitch or by hitting the ball to the boundary.
• In cricket, a four is scored when the ball hits the boundary after touching the ground, and a six is when the ball crosses the boundary without touching the ground.