What's new in ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2021
The 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup is the seventh ICC Men's T20 World Cup competition, with the matches occurring in the United Arab Emirates and Oman from 17 October to 14 November 2021. The West Indies are the reigning champs.
There was expected to be a first 2020 T20 World Cup held in Australia from 18 October to 15 November 2020, however, in July 2020, the International Cricket Council (ICC) affirmed that this competition had been delayed, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In August 2020, the ICC affirmed that India would have the 2021 competition as arranged, with Australia being named as the host for the succeeding 2022 competition. In any case, in June 2021, the ICC declared that the competition had been moved to the United Arab Emirates because of developing worries over the COVID-19 pandemic circumstance in India, and a potential third influx of the pandemic in the country. The competition started on 17 October 2021, with the competition's last booked to be played on 14 November 2021. The primer rounds of the competition were played in the UAE and Oman.
COVID-19 effect
In April 2020, the ICC affirmed that notwithstanding the
COVID-19 pandemic, the competition was as yet intended to go on as booked. In
any case, the next month a senior ICC official said that it would be "too
large a danger" to have the competition in 2020, The ICC likewise
expressed that reports of delaying the competition were erroneous, with
different alternate courses of action being checked out. A choice on the competition
was initially conceded until the ICC's gathering on 10 June 2020, with a
further declaration booked to be made in July 2020. In June 2020, Earl Eddings,
the administrator of Cricket Australia, said that it was "improbable"
and "ridiculous" that the competition would happen in Australia as
booked. Eddings likewise proposed that Australia could have the occasion in
October 2021, and India stage the competition a year after the fact in 2022.
The ICC likewise thought to be moving the competition to be played around the
following Women's ODI World Cup, which was initially planned to occur in New
Zealand for February 2021.
A month prior to the authority deferment, Australian
administrative the travel industry serve Simon Birmingham reported that the
Australian government expected that the nation's boundaries would be shut to
worldwide travel until 2021. The ICC likewise affirmed that either Australia or
India, the hosts for the competitions initially planned to happen in 2020 and
2021 separately, would have this competition. In August 2020, the ICC affirmed
that India relies on the 2021 competition, with Australia
expected to the 2022 competition. Around the same time, the ICC affirmed that
Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates were being considered backup scenes for the competition around the same time. In April 2021, the ICC's CEO Geoff Allardice affirmed that
backup plans were still set up if India couldn't compete because of the pandemic. Later that very month, Dhiraj Malhotra of the Board of
Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) affirmed that the UAE would be utilized as
a possibility if the pandemic in India kept on deteriorating. The BCCI was
additionally in converses with Oman as an expected co-host of the competition.
On 1 June 2021, the ICC provided the BCCI with the cutoff time of 28 June 2021
to settle on its choice on where the competition would be played. Despite the
genuine area of the competition, the ICC likewise affirmed that the BCCI would
stay as the host of the opposition. Afterward, the ICC affirmed that the
competition had been moved to the UAE and Oman. It was the initial time for
both the UAE and Oman to have a worldwide ICC occasion, and furthermore, the
primary event that a cricket World Cup was being held totally outside of the
Test-playing countries.
Under about fourteen days before the beginning of the competition, Oman was affected by Cyclone Shaheen which passed a couple of miles north of the competition setting in Al-Amerat. Pankaj Khimji, director of Oman Cricket, expressed that "we were so near being for all intents and purposes cleared out [...] had this had occurred here around here, I'd have bid farewell to the World Cup".
Teams and
qualification
Starting on 31 December 2018, the best nine positioned ICC
Full Members, close by has India, qualified straightforwardly for the 2021
competition. Of those ten groups, the best eight positioned sides are equipped for
the Super 12s phase of the competition. Sri Lanka and Bangladesh didn't meet
all requirements for the Super 12s, rather being set in the gathering phase of
the opposition. They were joined by the six groups who had been equipped for the
competition by means of the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier. Of the groups in
the ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings, the United Arab Emirates and Nepal could just
qualify through provincial contests. The best four groups from the gathering
stage will then, at that point, advance to the Super 12s.
Papua New Guinea was the main group to get their position
through the Qualifier, after they won Group An of the competition, completing
over the Netherlands on net run rate. It was the initial occasion when Papua
New Guinea had equipped for a World Cup in any organization. Ireland turned
into the subsequent group to qualify by means of this course after they won Group
B, additionally on net run rate.
In the first match in quite a while, the Netherlands
qualified for the T20 World Cup when they beat the United Arab Emirates by
eight wickets after the UAE just scored 80 runs in their innings. The
subsequent qualifier match saw Namibia advance to their first T20 World Cup in
the wake of beating Oman by 54 runs. Scotland beat competition has the United
Arab Emirates in the third qualifier by 90 hurries to get their position in the
T20 World Cup. Oman become the last group to fit the bill for the T20 World
Cup when they beat Hong Kong by 12 runs in the last season's finisher match.
In August 2021, concerns and questions were raised over the
investment of the Afghanistan cricket crew in the competition since the time
Afghanistan was brought heavily influenced by the Taliban. Afghanistan's group
media director Hikmat Hassan affirmed that Afghanistan would play in the T20
World Cup, regardless of the political strife in the country. On 6 October
2021, the Afghanistan group left Kabul, heading out to Doha, Qatar, for an
instructional course before the beginning of the competition.

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