The Asia Cup T20 2021 has been postponed due to the non-availability of two major teams, India and Pakistan. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced this in an official statement.
PCB Chairman, Ehsan Mani, briefed the BoG on matters relating to the International Cricket Council and this year’s ICC T20 World Cup, and the ACC Asia Cup, which has now been postponed to 2022.
India has qualified for the ICC Test Championship final scheduled for June 18-22 in England, and therefore, was unavailable for the regional tournament, scheduled for mid-June as well. Though India partially agreed to play the tournament with second-string players, Pakistan didn’t fancy the idea.
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Pakistan has also decided to host the remaining matches PSL 6, postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak, in June, with the tournament resuming on June 1.
With a packed international schedule this year, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) failed to reach a consensus to reschedule the tournament later this year.
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Note that the Asia Cup was originally scheduled for August-September 2020. However, the tournament was pushed ahead due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The event was originally scheduled to be played in Pakistan but PCB swapped the hosting rights with Sri Lanka, after which the tournament was to be hosted in Sri Lanka in June this year, with Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh to participate.
