The proposed calendar gives men’s cricket six major tournaments in the four years after 2031, and none of it is final yet. The ICC board meets from 11 to 15 November, and the windows for men’s events between 2028 and 2035 are on its agenda for approval. A T20 World Cup in late 2032 opens the run. Nobody has been named as host for any of the six, so the dates are the only firm information so far, and even they await a vote.
Approval Still Pending at the Board
As of 13 November, the plan had not been approved. The board holds its meetings between 11 and 15 November, and the governing body is expected to pass six events, but no outcome had been published at the time of writing. Anyone building broadcast or bilateral plans around the dates is working from a proposal, not a decision, and boards will want an answer quickly so touring programmes can be built around it.
That matters because a proposal can still move. Host boards and bilateral calendars all react to the dates, so a shifted window would ripple outwards through several seasons. The 2028 to 2035 windows are being handled together at this meeting, which means one vote could settle a long stretch of the international calendar. Until then, the dates from 2032 to 2035 are plans, not fixtures.
ICC Draft 2032 to 2035 Event Schedule
The men’s list starts with a T20 World Cup in October and November 2032. The World Test Championship final follows in June 2033, and an eight-team Champions Trophy arrives that October. A second T20 World Cup is pencilled in for July 2034, and each of these dates is a window, not a set of fixtures. Spacing the white-ball events a year or more apart keeps each one from crowding the other.
The 2035 entries carry less detail. A Test championship final and an ODI World Cup are both listed for that year without specific windows. Even the July 2034 slot has appeared next to a note that the 2034 windows are unspecified, so it may shift. Formats for every tournament remain unconfirmed, and so does the shape of any women’s or Under-19 events inside the same four years, which leaves the 2035 pair as the most open part of the list.
Six Tournaments in Four Years
Set the new list against the current cycle. From 2024 to 2031, the men’s calendar holds eight events in eight years: T20 World Cups in 2024, 2026, 2028 and 2030, Champions Trophies in 2025 and 2029, and ODI World Cups in 2027 and 2031. Test championship finals sit separately in 2025, 2027, 2029 and 2031, one every second year. Women’s tournaments in those years already have homes: Bangladesh in 2024, India in 2025, England in 2026, Sri Lanka in 2027 and Pakistan for the 2028 T20 World Cup.
Six events in four years sounds like a squeeze, but two of the six are Test finals. Strip those out and four tournaments remain, one a year, the same rate as the 2024 to 2031 cycle. The pressure comes from the finals landing in the same stretch as the white-ball events. It does not come from extra World Cups, since the white-ball count holds at one a year.
Hosts, Franchise Leagues and Open Questions
No host has been designated for any 2032 to 2035 tournament. England is widely linked with the 2034 T20 World Cup, though nothing is confirmed and no hosting process has been reported as open. The current cycle shows what settled looks like: Australia and New Zealand have the 2028 T20 World Cup, and India and Bangladesh share the 2031 ODI World Cup. Nothing comparable exists yet for the next four years, while even the Under-19 hosts are known through 2027, with Malaysia in 2025 and Bangladesh and Nepal in 2027.
Shah said the meetings show the strength of the ICC as the governing body. Separately, a panel under Tamim Iqbal is studying franchise leagues and is due to give initial recommendations, yet no board member has addressed how franchise windows fit around the six slots. That fit is the next real test for the ICC draft 2032 to 2035 event schedule.
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