The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruption to cricket around the world, mirroring its impact across all sports. Around the world and to varying degrees, leagues and competitions have been cancelled or postponed. International Tournaments In July 2020, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that both the 2020 and 2021 editions of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup had each been postponed by one year due to the pandemic. Therefore, the 2020 tournament was moved to November 2021, and the 2021 tournament was moved to October 2022. Due to the disruption of qualification, the 2023 Cricket World Cup was also rescheduled from February–March 2023 to October–November 2023. Australia and India retained the rights to host the Men's T20 World Cup, with the ICC announcing on 8 August that India will host the 2021 tournament, and Australia will host the 2022 tournament. The ICC also confirmed that the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup and the tournament's qualifier had each been postponed by one year due to the pandemic. Due to concerns over the COVID-19 situation in India, in June 2021 the ICC announced that the 2021 Men's T20 World Cup would be re-located to sites in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman. India remained the formal host nation of the tournament. Rankings In May 2021, five teams dropped off the ICC T20I Championship rankings due to failing to play enough fixtures to qualify in the relevant period. Africa The 2020 ACA Africa T20 Cup Finals was scheduled to take place in Kenya in March 2020, before it was postponed in line with the Kenyan government's 30-day ban on international gatherings. On 13 March 2020, the Netherlands tour to Namibia was cancelled due to the pandemic. Three days later, Ireland's tour to Zimbabwe also got cancelled. On 24 March, Namibia tri-series was postponed. On 11 June 2020, the ICC confirmed that the Cricket World Cup Challenge League (B) has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The following month, the ICC also confirmed that the Namibia Tri-Nation Series, scheduled to take place in September 2020, had also been postponed. In August 2020, Afghanistan's tour to Zimbabwe was called off, following an increase of COVID-19 cases in Zimbabwe. Later the same month, the Netherlands' tour to Zimbabwe was also called off, along with Pakistan's planned tour to South Africa. In December 2020, England's ODI matches against South Africa were postponed following a COVID-19