Soon, the 15th Asia Cup will get underway. So, in that year, the United Arab Emirates will host Twenty20 Internationals in the months of August and September. So, the competition, which had been planned for September 2020, was postponed because to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event, however, has been pushed back until July of 2020. The Asia Cup will be held in Sri Lanka in 2022. The UAE will host the tournament in 2020. Because of this, in 2022 there will be 13 games in the Asia Cup. Therefore, on September 11, the final will be held at Dubai International Cricket Stadium.
Asia T20 Cup 2022 | A look back at Asia Cup’s history ahead of its 15th edition
At the T20 Asia Cup 2022, which starts today, cricket fans from all over Asia can watch fast-paced, exciting white-ball cricket. Before the next ACC Asia Cup tournament starts, this article will give a quick look back at the previous ones. Since its start in 1984, the ACC Asia Cup has been the only cricket competition on a continental level. When the Asia Cup started in 1984, it was held in the United Arab Emirates.
The goal of the tournament was to keep the Asian teams from falling apart when they went to big international competitions. India has always been the best at international competitions, and they won the first Asia Cup by a wide margin. The first time they won the World Cup was in 1983. At that event, only three games were played. The Asia Cup would then happen every two years.
More and more teams signed up to compete each year. India didn’t play in the second Asia Cup in 1986. Because they didn’t get along well with Sri Lanka, which was hosting the event. The 50-over format was used for thirteen of the fourteen tournaments in Asia. In 2015, the Asian competition was set up like the T20 World Cup. So that teams from around the world could get ready for it.
The Asia Cup is a T20 cricket tournament that Asian countries can use to get ready for the next T20 World Cup in 2022. Australia will host the T20 World Cup in October and November of this year. In the meantime, the T20 Asia Cup will be held in the United Arab Emirates from August 27 to September 11 of 2022.
