Asia Cup 2022 officially moved to UAE

The 2022 version of the Asia Cup has been authoritatively moved out of Sri Lanka and to the UAE. Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will act as the hosts of the marquee multi-country competition, which will be played in center east Asia in its initially chalked out days between August 27 and September 11.

As detailed by Cricket on July 17, the choice to move the competition out of Sri Lanka was started because of the continuous political disturbance in the country.

"Taking into account what is happening in Sri Lanka, the ACC after broad thought has consistently reasoned that it would be suitable to migrate the competition from Sri Lanka to UAE," a delivery from the Asian Cricket Council read.

Sri Lanka as of late facilitated Australia for a bi-horizontal task and are at present drawn in with Pakistan for a Test series. Be that as it may, things changed radically over the last fortnight, with the President of the nation having escaped and another President introduced. The nation has been on an overflow with fights the political foundation.

"We were truly anticipating facilitating our Asian neighbors in Sri Lanka for the eagerly awaited Asia Cup," SLC President Shammi Silva said. "While I completely stand by the ACC's choice to move the Asia Cup to UAE considering the ongoing setting and greatness of the occasion, Sri Lanka cricket will work intimately with the ACC and the Emirates Cricket Board to guarantee that we actually have an astonishing version of the Asia Cup"

The six-group Asia Cup will be played in the T20 design this year as a forerunner to the T20 World Cup in Australia. The UAE additionally facilitated the past version of the competition, in the ODI design in 2018, an occasion that was won by India.