2020–21 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier

The 2020–21 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier is scheduled to be a tournament played as part of qualification process for the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup, in April and July 2021.[1] In April 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) granted full international status to Twenty20 men's matches played between member sides from 1 January 2019 onwards. Therefore, all the matches in the Regional Qualifiers will be played as Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is).[2] The Asia Qualifier will consist of two sub-regional groups, A and B, with the groups being played in Kuwait and Malaysia respectively. The winners of each sub-regional group will progress to one of two global qualifiers.[3]

Originally, the qualifiers were scheduled to be played between March and September 2020.[4] However, on 24 March 2020, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that all ICC qualifying events scheduled to take place before 30 June 2020 had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[5] In December 2020, the ICC updated the qualification pathway following the disruption from the pandemic.[6]

Group A
2021 ICC T20 World Cup Asian Western Sub-Regional Qualifier
Dates3 – 9 April 2021
Administrator(s)Asian Cricket Council
Cricket formatT20I
Host(s) Kuwait
Participants5

The following teams were placed into Group A:

Group B
2021 ICC T20 World Cup Asian Eastern Sub-Regional Qualifier
Dates3 – 9 July 2021
Administrator(s)Asian Cricket Council
Cricket formatT20I
Host(s) Malaysia
Participants6

For the original schedule, Singapore were placed in Group B. However, when the revised schedule was published by the ICC, Singapore had been promoted to the Global Qualifier at the expense of Hong Kong, due to a recalculation of the T20I team rankings.[7]

The following teams were placed into Group B:

References
  1. "Qualification to Men's T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia confirmed". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  2. "All T20I matches to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  3. "ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2021 qualification process confirmed". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  4. "ICC expands qualifiers for 2021 T20 World Cup to 16 teams". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  5. "COVID-19 update – ICC qualifying events". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  6. "2022 T20 World Cup qualification pathway". Cricket Europe. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  7. "Singapore promoted to global qualifier for 2022 T20 World Cup". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
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