ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2022: Cricket’s climate change
Australia will have to get used to hosting October cricket World Cups, as global forces conspire to make it unlikely that the traditional February-March tournament window will ever be used again.
There may be some disbelief from spectators who have sat through three matches washed out entirely, one stopped short of a result and another truncated by rain, that October/November has already been slated for the 2028 men’s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
MCG curator Matt Page confers with umpires at the MCG on Friday night. Credit:Getty Images
But the fact of the matter is that the slot previously used for events additional to the regular international season is now arguably the most hotly contested patch of turf on the annual calendar.
As far back as 1985 and the ODI “World Championship of Cricket” hosted to mark the 150th anniversary of European settlement in Victoria, global tournaments in Australia have tended to be played at the back end of the season.
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