No ICC World T20 in 2018, next one in 2020

The World Twenty20 Championship’s seventh edition next year is all set to be scrapped and pushed to 2020 as the top member nations will be busy with bilateral commitments in 2018.

According to highlyplaced sources in the International Cricket Council, the next edition of ICC World T2O will only be held in 2020. However, the venue is yet to be decided.

“Yes, it is true that we are skipping with World T20 edition in 2018. Look, no venue was decided. The primary reason is there are too many bilateral series happening between member nations. It was not possible to schedule the tournament in 2018,” an ICC source told PTI about the development. However, in all likelihood, the tournament will be returning in 2020.

“Yes, the tournament will return in 2020. It could be South Africa or Australia. The other reason, apart from the bilateral series, was that with too many ICC events on the anvil, the member nations were also of the view that it needed to be spaced out,” the source said.

The previous ICC World T20s have been held in South Africa (2007), England (2009), West Indies (2010), Sri Lanka (2012), Bangladesh (2014), India (2016).

It was also clear that with almost all the member boards having their own franchisebased T20 leagues, the World T20 despite its popularity, won’t lose out on anything.