ICC postpones T20 World Cup to 2022; decks cleared for IPL
The HinduThe T20 World Cup, scheduled to be played in Australia in October-November this year, has formally been postponed to 2022. Besides deferring the T20 World Cup to October-November, 2022, the ICC Board also decided to push the 2023 ODI World Cup in India to October-November that year from February-March. “This additional time will be used to reschedule games that might be lost because of the pandemic, ensuring qualification can be decided on the field of play.” No venues specified Interestingly, the ICC statement didn’t specify the venues for the T20 World Cups in 2021 and 2022. India would want to keep the 2021 edition, given it’s the host of the 2023 ODI World Cup; it would rather space the big events out than stage them in successive years. “Now that the T20 World Cup has been postponed, something that should have happened much earlier, we can try and explore whether the IPL can be staged,” IPL governing council chairman Brijesh Patel told The Hindu.