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The United States is co-hosting the T20 World Cup and it all starts on Saturday. Where? How? And why? Let’s chop it up

So the US is hosting a World Cup of cricket? The game that takes five days to play, where they stop for sandwiches and cups of tea, and sometimes don’t even have a winner? Well, sort of. But you’re talking about Test cricket, which doesn’t have a World Cup, but sort of does in the form of the World Test Championship.

Got it. So this is the game that takes an entire day to play although, mercifully, you do usually get a winner? Well, sort of. But you’re talking about one-day cricket, which is played over the course of, appropriately, a day. That has its own World Cup, which takes place every four years, and next takes place in 2027.