A computer-generated rendering of New York's cricket ground in Nassau County StadiumSupplied

New York will be the focus of the cricket world in June when the T20 World Cup - headlined by the money-spinning India and Pakistan blockbuster - is played at the 34,000-seat modular stadium in Eisenhower Park.

The first glimpse of Nassau County Stadium has been revealed by the International Cricket Council with the venue to host eight matches in cricket's marquee event of the year.

Globally renowned Populous is the architectural design firm tasked with developing this much-hyped stadium as the ICC have released the first computer generated renderings of the Nassau County Stadium.

The grandstands, previously used for the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, will be repurposed, while all the matches will be played during the day with no floodlights installed. The ambitious project has raised eyebrows given the short timeframe, but it is expected to be built in three months.

The venue, 30 miles east of Manhattan, will boast a drop-in pitch currently being built in Florida under the guidance of a curator based in Adelaide, Australia.

A rendering of the stadium in New York Supplied

There is set to be just one warm-up game in late May before the ground's first match on June 3 between South Africa and Sri Lanka. New York's slate of games will end when U.S. - competing in their first World Cup of any format - faces mighty India on June 12 before the tournament is exclusively played in the Caribbean.

All eyes will be focused on the New York matches in a significant moment for the sport's determined efforts in building up cricket in the U.S. There is no surprise that India and Pakistan, cricket's fiercest and most lucrative contest, will be played in New York in what will be the marquee fixture of the tournament.

Previous contests over the past decade have been watched by a viewership of between 300 million to 500 million.

The match will be the biggest moment for American cricket history and hopes to turn a chapter after years of turbulence in a country where the popular British Commonwealth sport is mostly irrelevant.

American cricket has often been sabotaged by internal politicking, but there has been in recent years a determined push to build a foundation and concentrate on the country's burgeoning cricket-mad South Asian communities.

The U.S. has been deemed a target market by the sport's power brokers and a tag that has often riled up smaller cricket nations. It has led to significant, potentially game-changing developments hoped to finally put U.S. on the cricket map.

The sport's administrators have also tapped into the deep pockets of South Asian businessmen in Silicon Valley, who have enthusiastically backed the lucrative Major League Cricket tournament.

Launched in July, the professional T20 tournament lured many top players in the world and was deemed a financial success - with a profit of $8 million as I first reported in September.

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Just a few months after the MLC's first edition, cricket was included in the Los Angeles 2028 Games to end the sport's over 100-year absence at the Olympics. Ahead of schedule, the U.S. landed the co-hosting duties of the T20 World Cup and there just had to be matches in New York to showcase cricket's genuine emergence into the bright lights of the world's biggest sports market.

Anticipation is building with the tournament starting on June 1 as U.S. and Canada - cricket's oldest rivalry - lock horns in Dallas.