The 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup East Asia-Pacific Qualifier was scheduled to be a tournament played as part of qualification process for the

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. It was scheduled to take place from 11 to 16 October 2021 in Japan, with the top team progressing to one of two global qualifiers. 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 would have been played as

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s (T20Is). Originally the qualifier was scheduled to take place between March and September 2020, but was postponed due to the

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. In December 2020, the ICC updated the qualification pathway following the disruption from the pandemic. In August 2021, the ICC confirmed that the tournament had been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, the

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advanced to the Global Qualifiers as the highest-ranked team in the EAP region.

Regional Final

Participating teams

The following teams were scheduled to take part: * * * * * * * *

References

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