India to host 2021 T20 World Cup while Australia will be doing so in 2022

India will continue as hosts of the T20 World Cup in 2021 whereas Australia is all set to host the T20 World Cup in 2022. Earlier Australia was supposed to host the men T20 World Cup this year in November but the tournament was canceled due to rising concerns of COVID-19 pandemic.

Meanwhile, the Women's 50-over World Cup which was supposed to held in New Zealand in February-March 2021, is been postponed to Feb-March 2022.  ICC announced in a press conference on Friday, the decision came after a meeting with the International Business Corporation

"We now have absolute clarity on the future of ICC events enabling all of our Members to focus on the rescheduling of lost international and domestic cricket. We will now proceed as planned with the Men's T20 World Cup 2021 in India and host the 2022 edition in Australia," ICC Chief Executive Manu Sawhney said.

For the 50-over Women's World Cup, until now five teams had qualified for the tournament which is scheduled to be held in 2021. The final three teams will be decided on basis of the qualifier tournament which was supposed to be played in Sri Lanka in July 2020 but now it’s been postponed due the COVID-19 pandemic. That qualification tournament will now be held in 2021. ICC still left to decide the dates of that tournament.

"We have taken the decision to move the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup to give players from every competing nation, the best opportunity to be ready for the world's biggest stage and there is still a global qualifier to complete to decide the final three teams," Sawhney said.

"There has been no women's international cricket played since the conclusion of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup earlier this year and due to the varying impact of COVID-19 globally that is likely to remain the situation for a number of the teams. Moving the event by 12 months gives all competing teams the chance to play a sufficient level of cricket ahead of both the qualification event and leading into a Cricket World Cup so the integrity of the tournament is maintained," he added.