ICC Men’s T20 World Cup – Schedule (Pakistani Time), Groups, Teams & Venues

ICC Cricket T20 World Cup is recognized as the Most Popular Cricket tournament after ICC One-Day World Cup. T20 World Cup held with the gap of 2 years but last scheduled T20 World Cup was in 2020 in India, which was postponed due to Emengrance of worldwide CoVID-19 Pandemic.  The tournament is then shifted to United Arab Emirates and Sultanate of Oman due to the alarming CoVID situation in India. 

T20 Cricket World Cup 2021 Venues

Following are Venues for ICC T20 World Cup:

• Oman Cricket Academy Ground, Oman
• Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Dubai International Cricekt Stadium, Dubai, UAE
• Sharjah Cricet Stadium, Sharjah, UAE

T20 World Cup Teams

Sixteen teams are contesting for ICC Men’s T20 world cup at 4 venues, 8 teams will play qualifying round, top four form them will contest in super 12 rounnd.

Teams in Super 12s:

Following teams are already qualified and categoriezed as top 8 teams. 

• India (Host)
• Afghanistan
• Australia
• England
• New Zealand
• Pakistan
• South Africa
• West Indies

Top 4 teams from this Qualifying Round will contest with these eight teams. 

Qualifying Round Teams

Following 8 teams will contest for Super 12 Round. Top two teams from each group will qualify.

Group A:

• Ireland 
• Namibia
• Netherlands
• Sri Lanka

Top 2 teams(A1 & A2) will qualify.

Group B:

• Bangladesh
• Papua New Guinea
• Oman
• Scotland 

Top 2 teams(B1 & B2) will qualify.

Gorups in Super 12:

There will be 2 Groups in Super 12 round, as given;

Group A:

• Australia
• England
• South Africa
• West Indies
• A1
• B2

Group B:

• Afghanistan
• India
• Pakistan
• New Zealand
• A2
• B1

Paksitan vs. India – Pakistan’s Opening in World T20 Tournament

Pakistani Cricket team will debut in the T20 world cup by facing India. The match of Pakistan vs. India will be on 24th October at 07:00 PM. Rivalry Pakistan vs. India is the most awaited match, and people are eagerly waiting for the contest. 

Schedule of 2021 T20 World Cup

Qualifying Round

Super 12 Round

Semis & Final

Past Winners & Defending Champions of ICC T20 World Cups

Defending Champions of ICC T20 Cricket World are West Indies. Windies outplayed England in ICC T20 World Cup 2016 by a sensational last-over win. 

Year wise ICC T20 World Cup Winners

2007 India

2009 Pakistan

2010 England

2012 West Indies

2014 Sri Lanka

2016 West Indies