Gold and silver honours are up for grabs in the T20 World Cup \u2013 but what about bronze? <\/p>
I bring good news: There isn\u2019t one<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Fortunately for fans and players alike, everyone\u2019s least favorite fixture in sport is not part of the T20 World Cup in 2024.<\/p>\n Unlike in football or rugby, the cricket World Cup has never required the losing semi-finalists to stick around and play an extra game for the glory of coming third in a competition where only coming first matters.<\/p>\n It is unclear why cricket has never opted for a third-place play-off, but it is likely to do with the World Cup originating with the 50 over format, where a match takes an entire day rather than the three hours a T20 takes, as well as the the preparation that is required to ready a pitch.<\/p>\n Cricket has never had a problem with playing pointless fixtures, with the relentless international and franchise schedule proof of that, but for whatever reason, a third-place play-off is not one of them.<\/p>\n Read more: T20 World Cup TV coverage<\/a> | T20 World Cup radio coverage<\/a> | T20 World Cup highlights<\/a> | T20 World Cup most titles<\/a> | England\u2019s next match<\/a><\/strong><\/p> Check out more of our\u00a0Sport<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/b><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Gold and silver honours are up for grabs in the T20 World Cup \u2013 but what about bronze? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":52695,"template":"","categories":[1,7,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/is-there-a-third-place-play-off-at-t20-world-cup-2024-scaled.jpg",2560,1732,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/is-there-a-third-place-play-off-at-t20-world-cup-2024-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/is-there-a-third-place-play-off-at-t20-world-cup-2024-300x203.jpg",300,203,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/is-there-a-third-place-play-off-at-t20-world-cup-2024-768x519.jpg",768,519,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/is-there-a-third-place-play-off-at-t20-world-cup-2024-1024x693.jpg",800,541,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/is-there-a-third-place-play-off-at-t20-world-cup-2024-1536x1039.jpg",1536,1039,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/is-there-a-third-place-play-off-at-t20-world-cup-2024-2048x1385.jpg",2048,1385,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Gold and silver honours are up for grabs in the T20 World Cup \u2013 but what about bronze?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/52694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"