India & Pakistan placed in same group in T20 World Cup

The International Cricket Council has announced the groups for the Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 to be hosted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) at Oman and the United Arab Emirates from 17 October to 14 November.The groups, selected on the basis of team rankings as of 20 March 2021. Defending champions West Indies are a part of Group one with former champions England, Australia, South Africa, and two qualifiers from Round 1 joining them.
India and Pakistan have been placed in Group 2. It will comprise former champions India and Pakistan, New Zealand, Afghanistan and the other two qualifiers from Round 1.Eight teams will contest the first round including automatic qualifiers Sri Lanka and Bangladesh with the remaining six who booked their spot through the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019.The tournament schedule will be announced in due course.

Acting ICC CEO George Allardice said-

“We are delighted to announce the groups for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021. There are some great match ups offered by the groups and it starts to bring the event to life for our fans as our first multi-team event since the onset of the global pandemic draws closer. “Given the disruption caused by COVID-19, we selected the cutoff date as close as possible to the event to ensure we were able to include the maximum amount of cricket in the rankings which determine the groups. There is no doubt we will witness some highly competitive cricket when the event gets underway in just three months,” he said.