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Oman To Host Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier A From February 18

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The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier will take place on February 18th in Oman. Oman will take on Nepal in the opening match of the ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier.

There are going to be 8 participants in the league and a total of 20 matches will be played in the tournament. The eight teams participating in the tournament are Oman, Bahrain, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Nepal, Philippines, and United Arab Emirates (UAE). 
However, Nepal and UAE have qualified for the tournament through their ICC rankings while other teams have qualified through regional qualifying tournaments held through last year.

“70 teams started the qualification process for this event, and we’ve now reached the final stages with four spots at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 set to be decided in two global qualifiers starting with this one in Oman,” Chris Tetley said as per an official ICC release.

The teams in Qualifier are divided into two groups of four. Group A will include Canada, Nepal, Oman and Philippines while Group B will feature Bahrain, Germany, Ireland, and UAE. Each team will play all the other teams once in its group, followed by position classification matches. The two teams that reach the final will advance to the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia later this year.

T20 World Cup 2022 Full Schedule: Match List, Start Date & Time, Teams Groups, Venues

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The schedule for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 has been revealed. The fixture list for the 2022 T20 World Cup that was announced on Friday. The tournament begins on October 16, with Sri Lanka facing Namibia in Geelong before the Super 12 gets underway on October 22 in Sydney.

India will take on Pakistan at the MCG on October 23. And defending champion Australia will begin their campaign against New Zealand on October 22. total of 12 teams will be participating in the finals (Super 12s) of the tournament, divided into two groups of 6 each. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and South Africa are part of Group 2, and they will be joined by two more teams from the qualifiers.

The Group 1 consists of teams like Australia, New Zealand, Afghanistan and England, while two more teams from the qualifiers will join them later too. The semi-finals of the tournament will take place on November 09 and November 10. And the final of the T20 World Cup 2022 will be held in Melbourne on November 13.

Group 1: Australia, New Zealand, England, Afghanistan, A1, B2

Group 2: India, Pakistan, South Africa, Bangladesh, B1, A2

India’s debacle in T20 World Cup had put him under pressure: Atul Wassan on Virat Kohli

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Former Indian all-rounder Atul Wassan has said that he is not one bit surprised about the fact that Virat Kohli gave up the test captaincy of India after losing the test series against South Africa.

In the span of four months, Kohli has relieved himself from leading the Indian team from all formats. First, he stepped down from T20I captaincy in November last year. Ahead of the South Africa tour, the national selectors decided to hand over the complete white-ball captaincy duties to Rohit Sharma and a day after India lost the Test series to South Africa 1-2, Kohli took to his official Twitter handle to announce his decision to quit the red-ball captaincy.

Considering Kohli’s decision, former fast bowler Atul Wassan said that the development does not surprise him at all because after India’s bad show at the T20 World Cup.
“Nothing shocks me. What shocked me was MS Dhoni quitting Test captaincy in the middle of the series in Australia. I think the way things have been going by the last couple of months India’s debacle in the T20 WC there was pressure on him,” Wassan told.

“He is not getting runs. At times he is pointing fingers at other players and as a captain he must do that to egg them on and I totally support him for that but the problem was that earlier he was leading by example but lately the thing is that his batsmanship has come down. “, he added.

Wassan further said that things could have been different had India won the three-match Test series in South Africa. “Every batsman, every player goes through that and it could accentuate that he was captaining all three formats. He also started the conundrum when he said he doesn’t want to do T20 captaincy which was the right decision but I think the board actually took it in a skewed manner and he never expected that he would lose his 50 over captaincy because his goal was to win the World Cup. This is what was missing from his cupboard,” .