{"id":277274,"date":"2025-07-20T11:54:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T11:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277274\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T11:54:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T11:54:18","slug":"icc-development-awards-2024-usa-nepal-bhutan-shine-on-global-stage-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277274\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC Development awards 2024: USA, Nepal, Bhutan shine on global stage | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/122796238.jpg\" alt=\"ICC Development awards 2024: USA, Nepal, Bhutan shine on global stage\" title=\"The ICC Logo (Image via ICC)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>The ICC Logo (Image via ICC) USA, Nepal and Bhutan were among eight countries honoured at the 2024 ICC Development Awards, announced during the annual board meeting of the International Cricket Council on Sunday. USA Cricket received the ICC Associate Member Men&#8217;s Team Performance of the Year award for their strong showings last year, which included qualifying for the Super Eight stage of the T20 World Cup. Co-hosting the tournament with the West Indies, the US side defeated Canada and pulled off a stunning win over Pakistan \u2014 knocking Babar Azam\u2019s team out of the competition and drawing huge attention.<a href=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\"\/> Bhutan and Nepal also made the winners\u2019 list, along with Indonesia, Namibia, Scotland, Tanzania and Vanuatu. In total, 15 Associate Member countries had been shortlisted for the awards.<\/p>\n<p>Sachin Tendulkar&#8217;s first international hundred: The Farokh Engineer connection, bbq and a swing!<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the awards, ICC chairman Jay Shah said, \u201cIt is a pleasure to announce the global winners of the ICC Development Awards. This is a celebration of global exceptionalism, with all winners worthy of the accolades they have received in their mission to grow the game in emerging nations,\u201d as quoted by PTI. Namibia won the ICC Development Initiative of the Year award for its Ashburton Kwata Mini-Cricket Programme, a grassroots cricket project that has become a key part of the country\u2019s development strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Poll<\/p>\n<p>Which country do you think will be the next big contender in international cricket?<\/p>\n<p> For the first time, the ICC Female Cricket Initiative of the Year award was shared by two organisations \u2014 the Bhutan Cricket Council Board and the Vanuatu Cricket Association. Nepal\u2019s governing body, the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN), won the ICC Digital Fan Engagement of the Year award. Their expansion across digital platforms \u2014 including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X, and their new CAN Domestic Facebook pages \u2014 helped them reach around 117 million people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ICC Logo (Image via ICC) USA, Nepal and Bhutan were among eight countries honoured at the 2024&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[11096,104625,102880,2192,104623,104624,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-277274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-cricket-news","9":"tag-cricket-news-awards","10":"tag-cricket-stories","11":"tag-icc","12":"tag-icc-awards","13":"tag-icc-news","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114885431312418442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}