Ireland will open its ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 against the Netherlands in Abu Dhabi on October 18th. They will then play Sri Lanka in the same venue on October 20th before moving to Sharjah to face Namibia two days later.
Each of the games in T20 cricket lasts around 90 minutes and these will start at 2 PM local time in the Emirates, 11 AM Dublin time. All the matches will be covered live on Sky Sports.
Those first three games will form the Group Stage with two teams from our four, and two from Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Scotland and Oman going on to the Super 12 stage of the tournament against the big guns of World Cricket.
Sri Lanka is the seeded team in our group. They won the tournament as recently as 2014. It will come down then, most likely to one of the three others.
The complete schedule, announced yesterday by the International Cricket Council, confirms the highly anticipated match between former champions India and Pakistan will take place on 24 October at the Dubai International Stadium while Ashes rivals England and Australia play at the same venue six days later.
The tournament is being hosted by India but staged in the Emirates due to uncertainty over Covid-19. It was originally scheduled to have been held in 2020.
“The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup is going to be brilliant,” said Irish born England Captain, Eoin Morgan. “The standard of T20 cricket around the world is improving exponentially and every nation has a chance of becoming World Champions.”
“It should be one of the closest and most competitive world tournaments to date and we can’t wait to get started.”
The tournament will run through to the final taking place at 6 PM local time, 3 PM Dublin on November 14th.
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