The 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier was a tournament that was played as part of qualification process for the

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in October 2021. In April 2018, the

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(ICC) granted full international status to

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men's matches played between member sides from 1 January 2019 onwards. Therefore, all the matches in the Regional Qualifiers were played as

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s (T20Is). The Asia Qualifier consisted of two sub-regional groups, A and B, with the groups being played in Qatar and Malaysia respectively. The winners of each sub-regional group progressed to one of two global qualifiers. On 2 September 2021, the ICC announced that Group A had been moved from Kuwait to Qatar. Originally, the qualifiers were scheduled to be played between March and September 2020. However, on 24 March 2020, the

(ICC) confirmed that all ICC qualifying events scheduled to take place before 30 June 2020 had been postponed due to the

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. In December 2020, the ICC updated the qualification pathway following the disruption from the pandemic. In March 2021, the Group A qualifier was postponed again, and was moved back to October 2021. In May 2021, the Group B qualifier was postponed to November 2021 due to the pandemic. However, in October 2021, the ICC cancelled the Group B tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with

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progressing to the next stage as the highest-ranked team.

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won Group A to progress to the Global Qualifiers, finishing just ahead of

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Group A

Squads

The following teams and squads were named for the tournament:

Points table

advanced to the global qualifier

Fixtures

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Group B

For the original schedule,

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were placed in Group B. However, when the revised schedule was published by the ICC, Singapore had been promoted to the Global Qualifier at the expense of

, due to a recalculation of the T20I team rankings. On 11 October 2021, the ICC cancelled the Group B tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with Hong Kong progressing to the next stage as the highest-ranked team. The following teams were scheduled to compete in Group B: * * * * * *

References

External links

Series home at ESPN Cricinfo (Group A Qualifiers)
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