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Event Notes: ICC World Twenty20 Final To Be Held At Kolkata's Eden Gardens

Next year's ICC World Twenty20 final "will be held at Kolkata's Eden Gardens." The Board of Control for Cricket in India "announced eight venues for the tournament," which will run from March 11-April 3. Kolkata "will host the final and other fixtures in the three-week event, for the world's best teams in men's and women's short-format cricket" (PA, 7/21). ... The Netherlands will host a mini-tournament also involving Norway, Sweden and Switzerland in March to decide UEFA's third qualifier for the 2016 women's Olympic competition in Brazil. UEFA has three slots in the event, which were decided by performances at the FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada. Fourth-placed Germany and quarterfinalist France booked their Brazil campaigns but the best World Cup performers, bronze-medallists England, do not enter Olympic football (UEFA). ... The NBA and Anschutz Entertainment Group announced that the Orlando Magic will return to London to play a regular-season game against the Toronto Raptors at the O2 on Jan. 14 as part of NBA Global Games '15-16. It will be the league's sixth regular-season game in London (NBA).

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