Rwanda to host Africa qualifiers for Men’s T20 World Cup in October/November 2021

International Cricket Council (ICC) have announced that Rwanda Cricket Association (RCA) will be hosting the Sub-regional and Regional finals for African region qualification pathway events towards 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia. The matches in the two sub-regional tournaments and the Africa regional finals will be played at Gahanga International Cricket Stadium and IPRC (Integrated Polytechnic Regional College) Kicukiro Ground in October/November 2021.

Rwanda will host team’s from Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Seychelles, Swaziland and Uganda in Sub Regional Africa A Qualifier scheduled to take place from October 14th – 23rd and team’s from Botswana, Cameroon, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Tanzania in Sub Regional Africa B Qualifier from October 31st – November 08th, 2021. The top team from both the groups will advance to Africa regional finals, where they will compete with Nigeria and Kenya for the lone qualification spot in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier in 2022.

The Regional Finals will take place from November 15th – 21st, 2021. ICC Africa regional development manager Patricia Kambarami notified the host nation and the participating nations about the decision in a written email sent on 07th July 2021. Nigeria and Kenya qualified for 2019 global qualifiers along with Namibia from the 2019 edition of the Africa regional finals. However, the 2021 edition will see only the winner of the regional final advance to the global qualifiers. Even the number of sub-regional qualifiers that took place in the previous edition of the Africa region have reduced by one.