2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup


The 2022 Men's ICC T20 World Cup is scheduled to be the eighth ICC Men's T20 World Cup tournament, scheduled to be played in October and November 2022. Originally, the tournament was to be held in India during October and November 2021, however, in July 2020, the International Cricket Council confirmed that the tournament had been postponed until 2022, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Either Australia or India, the hosts for the tournaments originally scheduled to take place in 2020 and 2021 respectively, will host the tournament.

Background

In April 2018, the ICC announced that the tournament would replace the scheduled 2021 ICC Champions Trophy. This was after the ICC granted full international status to Twenty20 matches played between member sides from 1 January 2019 onwards.
In October 2019, it was reported that the ICC could scrap the T20 World Cup Qualifier, which would have been used as a pathway for qualification to the T20 World Cup. Therefore, twelve teams from the 2020 ICC T20 World Cup and four teams from qualification events would advance to the T20 World Cup. On 23 January 2020, the ICC confirmed the full details of qualification for the tournament. In May 2020, the ICC told the Board of Control for Cricket in India that they reserve the rights to take away hosting rights from India, after the BCCI did not secure a tax exemption from the Indian government for the tournament.
In July 2020, when the previous edition of the tournament was being reviewed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Earl Eddings, the chairman of Cricket Australia suggested that Australia could host that tournament in October 2021, and India stage this tournament a year later in 2022.

Teams and qualifications

The twelve teams that reach the Super 12 phase of the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup will automatically qualify for the 2022 tournament. They will be joined by the top two teams from each of the two Global Qualifiers. The Global Qualifiers will have a total of sixteen teams; the bottom four teams from the 2020 ICC Men's T20 World Cup, the next four highest ranked T20I sides as of 1 January 2020, and the eight teams that progress from the Regional Finals.
Means of qualificationDateVenueBerthsQualified
Host nation1 or
2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup
November 2021Various11
or
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
Global Qualifier Group AMarch – July 20212
Global Qualifier Group BMarch – July 20212
Total16

Global Qualifiers

The Global Qualifiers will consist of the four lowest ranked teams from the 2021 ICC T20 World Cup, the four best ranked teams not already qualified for the World Cup or qualifiers; and eight teams from Regional Qualifiers. On 24 March 2020, the International Cricket Council confirmed that all ICC qualifying events scheduled to take place before 30 June 2020 had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.