Men's T20 World Cup 2022 schedule set for January release

Forty-five matches are due to take place in Adelaide, Brisbane, Geelong, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney between October 16 and November 13, 2022

The schedule for the 2022 Men's T20 World Cup will be announced on January 21.

The event, which is to be staged in Australia, was originally due to take place in 2021 but was postponed because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

As with the 2021 event, hosted by the BCCI but staged in the UAE, a total of 16 teams will take part across the preliminary round and Super 12.

Forty-five matches are due to take place in Adelaide, Brisbane, Geelong, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney between October 16 and November 13, 2022.

^{Australia are men's T20 world champions (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)}

Following the release of the fixture list in mid-January, tickets to the tournament will go on public sale from February 7.

World champions Australia, as well as New Zealand, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, England, India, Pakistan and South Africa have already secured their place in the Super 12s as the highest ranked sides in the ICC T20 standings.

Namibia, Scotland, Sri Lanka and West Indies will be involved in the preliminary round, alongside four further qualifiers.

Those four nations will come out of qualifying competitions in Oman in February 2022, and in Zimbabwe in July 2022.

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