The International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed on Friday that the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2020, that was postponed due to COVID-19, will be held in Australia in 2022 while hosts India will go ahead with the 2021 edition as planned. Meanwhile, the Women’s Cricket World Cup, due to take place in New Zeland next year, has been postponed until 2022.
The decisions were taken by the IBC (the commercial subsidiary of the ICC) after taking into account the health, cricket and commercial impact of COVID-19 around the world.
ICC Acting Chairman Imran Khwaja said: “Over the last few months as we have considered how we return to staging global events, our number one priority has been to protect the health and safety of everyone involved in ICC events.
The format of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 will remain as it was for 2020 and all teams that qualified for that event will now participate in India in 2021. A new qualification process will be run for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022.